Regulations, through the use of obligations and permissions, are widely used in modern society to define acceptable behaviours. Thus it is indeed important that these regulations do not conflict with each other and contain contradicting obligations. In the present paper we focus on identifying conflicts between obligations in dynamic settings. We first show the need of an alternative semantics ...

Authorizations and obligations are keystones of data handling. On one hand there are ambiguous links between authorization and obligations. On the other hand a clear separation between both concepts is necessary to improve readability and to avoid inconsistencies. This position paper focuses on authorizations necessary to enforce obligations. Such authorizations are necessary to prevents overdi...

in business format franchising agreements, franchisee, while dependent to other party of the contract (franchisor), follows the method of business belonging to franchisor. franchisee use of the system leads to many obligations such as payment of franchise fees, secrecy of know how, non competition and making available all necessary factors to use the system. irrespective of the law which govern...

Developing software systems in heavily regulated industries requires methods to ensure systems comply with regulations and law. An algorithm to generate finite state machines (FSM) from stakeholder rights and obligations for compliance monitoring is proposed. Rights and obligations define what people are permitted or required to do; these rights and obligations affect software requirements and ...

This paper examines whether the disclosure of purchase obligations in the MD&A section of 10-K filings provides useful information to investors. Firms are predicted to enter into additional purchase obligations when they expect an increase in demand for their products. As such, growth in purchase obligations is predicted to be associated with higher future sales and earnings. The evidence is co...

This paper focuses on the problem of dealing with privacy obligations in enterprises. Privacy obligations dictate expected behaviours, tasks and constraints that must be satisfied when handling personal and confidential data. This includes being compliant with data retention policies and satisfying constraints dictated by customers’ opt-in and opt-out choices. It is important for enterprises to...

human rights are the basic standards that people need to live in dignity.  in addition to the rights that are available to all people, there are rights that apply only to children.  children need special rights because of their unique needs;  they need additional protection that adults don’t.  the united nations convention on the rights of the child is an international document that sets out al...

In social mechanism design, obligation distribution creates individual or contractual obligations that imply a collective obligation. A distinguishing feature from group planning is that also the sanction of the collective obligation has to be distributed, for example by creating sanctions for the individual or contractual obligations. In this paper we address fairness in obligation distributio...