Recent developments and analysis do prove that any waste management system that does not consider the social aspect does not have a high chance of success. In such cases the decision making process focuses upon technical characteristics, economical aspects and legal compliance. However, public participation in all stages of waste management, from informal status until the acceptance, including ...

The legal and the economic literatures overwhelmingly support the notion that regulation compliance is always lower in the presence of corruption. This paper departs from those literatures and shows that an increase in corruption may actually foster regulation compliance. The conditions that make this possible are laid down in a theoretical model. The evidence that corroborates the theoretical ...

Following the crisis in 2008, the financial industry has faced growing numbers of laws and regulations globally. The number and complexity of these regulations is creating significant issues for governance, risk and compliance management in almost all industrial sectors; however some of these sectors are characterized by being heavily-regulated including the financial industry. This paper propo...

Business process compliance management has recently grabbed a lot of attention in both business and academia as it helps organizations not only to control and monitor their business processes from a legal point of view but also to avoid financial penalties and undesirable consequences to their reputation. Balancing compliance obligations with business objectives remains however a difficult chal...

Legal documents are the source of norms, guidelines, and rules that often feed into different applications. In this perspective, to foster the need of development and deployment of different applications, it is important to have a sufficiently expressive conceptual framework such that various heterogeneous aspects of norms can be modeled and reasoned with. In this paper, we investigate how to e...

Any competent data-miner should have already acquired strong technical skills. However, an outstanding data-miner will also understand the legal aspects of data analysis. It is because empirical analysis in the business world requires not only quantitative mastery but also strong business sense. This paper will provide an overview on several legal issues (consumer credit, investment strategy, a...

Information systems manage and hold a huge amount of important and critical information. For this reason, information systems must be trustworthy and should comply with relevant laws and regulations. Legal issues should be incorporated into the system development process and there should be a systematic and structured assessment of a system’s trustworthiness to fulfil relevant legal obligations...

We present a novel technological approach, based on Textual Rulelog, to automated decision support for financial regulatory/policy compliance, via a case study on banking Regulation W from the US Federal Reserve. Legal regulations and related bank operational policies in English documents are encoded relatively inexpensively by authors into Rulelog, a highly expressive logical knowledge represe...

In this paper we extend the preliminary work developed elsewhere and investigate how to characterise many aspects of the compliance problem in business process modeling. We first define a formal and conceptually rich language able to represent, and reason about, chains of reparational obligations of various types. Second, we devise a mechanism for normalising a system of legal norms. Third, we ...

Compliance means to adhere to laws, regulations and guidelines. It has become an integral part of business process management since the financial crisis revealed the dimension of legal offences and violated business rules. Even though Business Process Compliance (BPC) has reached a mature state, studies imply that practice still struggles with the documentation and automated control of complian...