Today’s business climate requires business processes to meet many compliance regulations, such as Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and to adhere to business partner contracts. In this paper, we report a comparative analysis between Linear Temporal Logic and Formal Contract logical languages, which have been successfully utilized in the literature as the formal basis of compliance requirements to enable the...

Challenges in research ethics education in the behavioral and social sciences appears to stem from two distinct yet related sources. One is the use of the terms “research ethics” and “research regulations” interchangeably. And, second is the notion that the ethical and regulatory frameworks for the protection of human research participants are not applicable to the behavioral and social science...

Context: Ensuring software systems conforming to multiple sources of relevant policies, laws, and regulations is significant because the consequences of infringement can be serious. Unfortunately, this goal is hardly achievable due to the divergence and frequent changes of compliance sources and the differences in perception and expertise of the involved stakeholders. In the long run, these iss...

In this paper we present details of a critical requirement of many systems, namely, trust. Trust is one of the oldest issues that has taken a new incarnation with advent of the Internet. In the context of the Internet and the scientific and commercial applications it has enabled, definition of trust stands to be rewritten and reviewed. Our research indicates that privacy, identity management, a...

Accessibility regulations are federally enacted by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Design of buildings and facilities must comply with the guidelines developed by the authors of ADA. This paper discusses a hybrid approach using encoding prescriptive-based provisions and supplementing them with performance-based methods to support compliance and usability analysis for accessibility. T...

Fire outbreak is a disturbing phenomenon that has over the years destroyed market centers. There growing knowledge persistence of these fire disasters as result people’s noncompliance with safety regulations. This study therefore contributes to search for solutions by assessing stakeholders’ capacity manage fires, While creating individual trader’s awareness and on what they need do against ris...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors believed to affect compliance behavior with regard to the zoning regulation of 284 Peninsular Malaysian fishermen. Frequent violation of regulations will have an impact on the demand for protection, and therefore lead to greater expenditure on law enforcement. The theoretical models of compliance behavior tested include the basic deterrent mod...

Today's enterprises face the daunting task of complying with an increasing number of intricate and constantly evolving laws and regulations. While some individual regulations such as Basel II or the USA Patriot Act necessitate the use of risk-based approaches to achieve compliance, the heightened cost and risk of compliance activities have resulted in a general tendency of enterprises to integr...

Marine mammals and sea turtles in the United States are protected from commercial fishery interactions under the Marine Mammal Protection Act and the Endangered Species Act. To reduce harbor porpoise bycatch in the northeast sink gillnet fishery, fishermen are mandated to attach pingers to their nets in regulated areas. Although, pinger regulations have been in place for over a decade, in pract...