Recent compliance regulations are intended to foster and restore human trust in digital information records and, more broadly, in our businesses, hospitals, and educational enterprises. In the health sector, storage and management of electronic health records have become a vital issue. Specifically, with the passing of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the securit...

This paper describes the development of a logic based regulation compliance assistance system that builds upon an XML (eXtendable Markup Language) framework. First, a document repository containing federal regulations and supplemental documents, and an XML framework for representing regulations and associated metadata are briefly discussed. The prototype effort for the regulation assistance sys...

The complexity and diversity of government regulations make understanding the regulations a non-trivial task. One of the issues is the existence of multiple sources of regulations and interpretive guides which are often independent of governing bodies. In this work, we propose an information infrastructure for regulation management and analysis, which includes a document repository and tools fo...

Non-compliance with fishing regulations by Iranian fishermen in three provinces of Khuzestan, Bushehr, and Hormozgan along the Persian Gulf was investigated. Using a questionnaire and a stratified random sample method, a total of 566 fishermen were interviewed. The legitimacy variables (outcome and process) that can explain the observed noncompliance with zoning regulations for the shrimp fishe...