The ever growing set of regulations and laws organizations have to comply to, introduces many new challenges. Current approaches that check for compliance by implementing controls in an existing information system (IS) decrease the maintainability of both the set of compliance rules and the IS. In this position paper, we advocate the separation of the compliance process from the organization’s ...

Managing business process compliance is a highly important topic in the financial sector. Various scandals and last but not least the financial crisis have caused many new constraints and legal regulations that banks and financial institutions need to face. Based on a domain-specific semantic business process modeling notation, we propose a new approach to modeling and analysis of business proc...

For modern enterprises, compliance to regulations has become increasingly important. Yet, substantial manual interventions and lack of interoperable models of various compliance aspects contribute to an ineffective implementation and rising costs of compliance. We propose a (semi-) automated end-to-end compliance framework that has the potential to address these challenges. Our contributions ar...

the market for carbon dioxide rights emerged as one of the tools applicable to the implementation of the measures adopted by the kyoto protocol to combat climate change. in this paper we analyze the case of spain, because their peculiar administrative division into seventeen autonomous communities, it is relevant to a detailed study of emissions and allowances of the industries that make up ...

Process compliance deals with the ability of a company to ensure that its business processes comply with domain-specific regulations and rules. So far, compliance issues have been mainly addressed for intra-organizational business processes, whereas there exists only little work dealing with compliance in the context of cross-organizational processes that involve multiple business partners. As ...

Land-use regulations are a critical component of forest governance and conservation strategies, but their effectiveness in shaping landholder behaviour is poorly understood. We conducted a spatial and temporal analysis of the Brazilian Forest Code (BFC) to understand the patterns of regulatory compliance over time and across changes in the policy, and the implications of these compliance patter...

Regulations of organizations and the contracts they enter into are generally recorded in human-readable, legal documents. Were such documents interpretable by computer, software could perform ongoing compliance checking. This would allow organizations to ensure they operate within legal bounds, or locate flaws in the regulations themselves. This paper presents early work on the CamPACE environm...

Compliance management is essential for ensuring that organizational business processes and supporting information systems are in accordance with a set of prescribed requirements originating from laws, regulations, and various legislative or technical documents such as Sarbanes-Oxley Act or ISO 17799. As the violation of such requirements may lead to significant punishment for an organization, c...

It is the ultimate goal of environmental compliance management to assure corporate compliance with given regulations. The work processes that are required to fulfill and maintain compliance are usually complex and long running processes that are composed of many interdependent human lead activities. Errors of human work activities and also material and equipment defects can lead to non-complian...

The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) is responsible for enforcing federal fisheries laws at sea. The USCG routinely reports high compliance rates and uses them as evidence that its program is successful at deterring fisheries violations. Research presented in this article indicates that high USCG-reported compliance rates vastly overestimate the actual rates and enforcement success because USCG at-sea i...