This paper attempts to define the software compliance and transparency problem. This constitutes a high-level holistic view. Several visualizations of the problem are presented. The context is the changeover from a text culture to a machine culture in law. We note that equal access to e-procedures does not guarantee justice. The transparency of the law leads to the transparency of software and ...

A major step is required to integrate critical legal requirements into e-tendering system design. The current systems using ad-hoc security mechanisms do not meet the legal requirements for forming a complex electronic contract. This paper analyses the etendering process and its legal obligations. The mapping of these obligations to security policies has identified a set of essential security s...

One way to extract value from information products is to implement a digital rights management system. The aim of this article is to eliminate common confusions and direct future work among experts with different backgrounds. We introduce a framework to define concepts in this field. According to the framework, an entity may have legal rights in an information product in a certain jurisdiction ...

The paper makes two main contributions: (1) It presents experiences from using the CORAS language for security threat modelling to specify legal risk scenarios. These experiences are summarised in the form of requirements to a more expressive language providing specific support for the legal domain. (2) Its second main contribution is to present ideas towards the fulfilment of these requirement...

one of the non- judicial enforcements which is addressed by some legal systems in order to preserving rights of a contracting party against breach of obligation of other party, is the right for sale of goods in self-help type by the damaged party .this enforcements was predicted and addressed in both vienna convention for international sale of goods and iranian legal system. but it is still unk...