The wide and complex spectrum of regulations, especially in the financial services industry, calls for machine assistance in making sense of, and in consuming, regulatory text. This paper describes an approach to interpreting regulations with SBVR. The purpose is to clarify ambiguity in regulations by developing a shared vocabulary and shared guidance based on the regulatory text. The on-going ...

I represent the Business Rules Group (BRG) on the governing board of the Business Rules Team, the consortium that has submitted "Business Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules” (SBVR) in response to the OMG's RFP for "Business Semantics of Business Rules". So, it should be no surprise that my main focus on rules is at the business end rules that guide what people do in businesses ...

This paper presents the implementation of an SBVR editor. Our editor supports automatic highlighting and offers auto-completion suggestions as the model is being typed. These capabilities have been designed to reduce the overhead in the writing of SBVR models as much as possible. The editor has been built with web technologies, and can run in any browser.

in maritime transport law deck carriage is an important issue. whether a carrier is or is not allowed to carry goods on deck is a question that must be answered in each case and according to international rules and conventions (such as hague rules, hamburg and rotterdam conventions) and domestic laws and regulations (including maritime law of iran) governing the carriage as well as the type and...

Software platforms for e-government transactions may differ in developed functionalities, languages and technologies, hardware platforms, and operating systems that support them. Those differences can be found among public organizations that share common processes, services, and regulations. This scenario hinders interoperability between these organizations. Hence, to find a technique for integ...

despite many researchers conducted on electronic commerce, few studies have been performed in the field of internet businesses (ibs) with no up-to-date and applicable law. as a result, using library and field study, in one section we state the general rules and regulations governing all ibs, and in the other section we survey appropriative rules and regulations governing every model of ib. prov...

Business rule models are widely applied, standalone and embedded in smart objects. They have become segregated from information technology and they are now a valuable asset in their own right. As more business rule models are becoming assets, business models to monetize these assets are designed. The goal of this work is to present a step towards business model classification for organizations ...