Business Intelligence (BI) promises a range of technologies for using information to ensure compliance to strategic and tactical objectives, as well as government laws and regulations. These technologies can be used in conjunction with conceptual models of business objectives, processes and situations (aka business schemas) to drive strategic decision-making about opportunities and threats etc....

Web services supporting business and administrative transactions between several parties over the Internet are more and more widespread. Their development involves several security issues ranging from authentication to the management of the access to shared resources according to given business and legal models. The capability of validating designs against fast evolving requirements is of param...

Recent empirical work finds a negative correlation between product market regulation and aggregate employment. We examine the effect of product market regulations on hours worked in a benchmark aggregate model of time allocation. We find that product market regulations affect time devoted to market work in effectively the same fashion as do taxes on labor income or consumption. In particular, i...

An ontology, a formal representation of domain knowledge, is an integral building block of the semantic web and is important in building an application within interdisciplinary domains. In the food domain, regulations require Food Business Operators (FBOs) to comply with traceability and track-ability measures when handling food in order to assess risk. In this paper, we identify several requir...

BACKGROUND The use of natural health products, such as vitamins, minerals, and herbs, by Canadians has been increasing with time. As a result of consumer concern about the quality of these products, the Canadian Department of Health created the Natural Health Products (NHP) Regulations. The new Canadian regulations raise questions about whether and how the NHP industry will be able to comply an...

OBJECTIVE To study the role of science related and other arguments in the development of workplace smoking regulations. DESIGN Case study, content analysis SUBJECTS Written commentaries and hearing transcripts on proposed indoor air regulations in Maryland and Washington. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES We coded each written commentary and hearing testimony for position toward the regulation, affil...

Driver fatigue is internationally recognized as a significant factor in approximately 15 to 20% of commercial road transport crashes. In their efforts to increase road safety and improve working conditions of truck drivers, governments world wide are enforcing stricter limits on the amount of working and driving time without rest. This paper describes an effective optimization algorithm for min...