Compliance checking is gaining importance as today’s organizations need to show that operational processes are executed in a controlled manner while satisfying predefined (legal) requirements. Deviations may be costly and expose the organization to severe risks. Compliance checking is of growing importance for the business process management and auditing communities. This paper presents a compr...

The European Railway Agency (ERA) has the challenging task of establishing Common Safety Targets and Common Safety Methods throughout Europe. In this context, the harmonization of risk assessment methods is also discussed. The purpose of this paper is to present a new approach to risk assessment of technical systems in railway automation, which allows a rapid risk assessment while at the same t...

In order to automate verification process, regulatory rules written in natural language needs to be translated into a format that machines can understand. However, none of the existing formalisms can fully represent the elements that appear in legal norms. For instance, most of these formalisms do not provide features to capture the behavior of deontic effects, which is an important aspect in a...

This paper describes the development of the Individual Reporting Compliance Model (IRCM), an agent-based model for simulating tax reporting compliance in a community of 85,000 U.S. taxpayers. Design features include detailed tax return characteristics, taxpayer learning, social networks, and tax agency enforcement measures. The taxpayer's compliance reporting decision is modeled as a partially ...

Compliance has become a key requirement for robots meant to interact with humans. It is viewed as a necessary property to increase safety and efficiency in human–robot cooperative actions. In humans, compliance takes three dimensions: mechanical, cognitive and social. While robotics has focused primarily on modeling the first two, we here discuss the importance to consider also the social dimen...

The compliance of businesses is a highly relevant topic for companies of all sectors. Compliance comprises all necessities for obeying legal regulations as well as mandatory norms, and violations can entail painful penalties. Since nearly all companies base their daily business on the execution of business processes (consciously or unconsciously), these business processes also have to be compli...

By definition, regulatory rules (in legal context called norms) intend to achieve specific behaviour from business processes, and might be relevant to the whole or part of a business process. They can impose conditions on different aspects of process models, e.g., control-flow, data and resources etc. Based on the rules sets, norms can be classified into various classes and sub-classes accordin...