To ensure legal compliance, requirements engineers need tools to validate existing requirements for compliance with relevant law. This paper proposes an approach to aid in validating software requirements for legal compliance. The approach employs a production rule model for the United States Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) that can be queried by requirements enginee...

This paper presents an overview of data encryption methods that may be used to protect data from unauthorized access. Data encryption has come to the forefront as an important method of protecting data due to legislation such as HIPAA as well as privacy concerns expressed by individuals. The authors examine the use of encryption in different situations by interviewing people in positions respon...

public accountability is a sign of modern and democratic administration. accountability has become a topic of concern in governance literature. the question of holding politicians and administration accountable in new governance environment, where many traditional means for controlling government have been no longer fully applied, has gained wide recognition. as a consequence, new types of acco...

Electricity industries around the world have significantly restructured in order to improve their economic efficiency, reliability of power systems and accountability. Accurate prediction of day-ahead electricity nodal price has now become an important activity to address the system operations and price volatility in the restructured electricity market. This will facilitate the market participa...

Notes A new edition of this book, considerably longer than the previous edition, that (according to the ARHQ PSNet synopsis) ‘continues to blend case studies with broad discussions of error types and strategies to improve safety but adds substantial new content in areas such as checklists, measures of harm (including trigger tools), information technology, complexity theory and high reliability...