Organizations such as hospitals and banks that collect and use personal information are required tocomply with privacy regulations like the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA). With the goal of specification and enforcement of such prac-tical policies, we develop the logic PrivacyLFP, whose syntax is an extension of the fi...

and the anonymous reviewers for helpful comments on earlier drafts. Abstract One key policy dispute in the school choice debate concerns whether the education bureaucracy is a cause or a consequence of poor performance. This dispute is striking because both sides accept the same neo-institutionalist organization theory. This paper uses a large panel of school districts to address the dispute. T...

Within the field of environmental spatial decision and policy making the use of ICTs is currently limited to rudimentary aspects of the planning process and is focused on the duplication of available systems and processes. Over recent years large projects have been carried out and a range of tools has been developed but, the majority of the systems developed merely mirror traditional methods of...

The EDEE system provides a framework through which businesses may store the data pertaining to business events, contracts and organizational policies, within a single repository using the unifying notion of an occurrence. A collection of stored queries (cf. SQL views) is maintained. Each query describes the desirable, undesirable, and not-undesirable occurrences under the provisions (obligation...

Aalto University, P.O. Box 11000, FI-00076 Aalto www.aalto.fi Author Harri Paananen Name of the doctoral dissertation Balancing Acts – Managing Inter-Organizational Collaboration for Innovation Publisher School of Science Unit Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Series Aalto University publication series DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS 113/2015 Field of research Business Process Networks...

Legal compliance in software systems is one of the most important problems in the field of software engineering. Laws, regulations, and organizational policies describe societal values that impose serious challenges and requirements to software engineers building systems. My dissertation examines how software engineers can ensure software requirements comply with relevant laws, regulations, and...