Business Process Compliance: An Abstract Normative Framework

Governatori, Guido

doi:10.1524/itit.2013.2003

Cited by 12 publications

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“…We adopt social norms (Singh 2013) to formally represent electronic contracts. Norms (commitments, authorizations, and prohibitions) take their basis from deontic logic concepts (Von Wright 1999), and have been widely used in fields of artificial intelligence that deal with legal concepts (Boella and van der Torre 2008;Dechesne et al 2013), compliance checking (Governatori 2013), and requirements engineering (Kafalı et al 2016a). Formally, a norm n(X, Y, antecedent, consequent) represents a social relationship between its subject (X) and object (Y) regarding its consequent when its antecedent holds.…”

Section: Electronic Contracts and Normsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pirasa: strategic protocol selection for e-commerce agents

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We present PIRASA: an agent-based simulation environment for studying how autonomous agents can best interact with each other to exchange goods in e-commerce marketplaces. A marketplace in PIRASA enables agents to enact buyer or seller roles and select from sales, auction, and negotiation protocols to achieve the individual goals of their users. An agent's strategy to maximize its utility in the marketplace is guided by its user's preferences and constraints such as 'maximum price' and 'deadline', as well as an agent's personality attributes, e.g., how 'eager' or 'late' the agent can be for exchanging goods and whether the agent is a 'spender' or 'saver' in an exchange. To guide the agent's actions selected by a strategy, we use the notion of electronic contracts formulated as regulatory norms. In this context, we present how PIRASA is organized with regards to seller processes for goods submission, the inclusion of buyer preferences, and the management of transactions through specialized broker agents. Using randomized simulations, we demonstrate how a buyer agent can strategically select the most suitable protocol to satisfy its user's preferences, goals and constraints in dynamically changing market settings. The generated simulation data can be leveraged by researchers to analyze agent behaviors, and develop additional strategies.

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Section: Electronic Contracts and Normsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pirasa: strategic protocol selection for e-commerce agents

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“…For this reason, they share a perspective similar to works on checking non-compliance at regulatory level, e.g. (Governatori 2013;Jiang et al 2014): system (normative) requirements are literally taken as the reference against which to test compliance of business processes. Unfortunately, in doing this, we are not able to scope behaviours that superficially look compliant, but, for those who know the 'game', are not.…”

Section: Diagnosis Of Multi-agent Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reading agendas between the lines, an exercise

2017

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This work presents elements for an alternative operationalization of monitoring and diagnosis of multi-agent systems, developed in the context of compliance checking. In contrast to traditional accounts of model-based diagnosis, and most proposals concerning non-compliance, our method does not consider any commitment towards the individual unit of agency. Identity is considered to be mostly an attribute to assign responsibility, and not as the only referent to a source of intentionality. The proposed method requires as input a set of prototypical agentroles known to be relevant for the domain, and an observation, i.e. evidence collected by a monitor agent. We elaborate on a concrete example concerning tax frauds in real-estate transactions.

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“…These classifications do not encompass various types of obligations based on the time, effects of an obligation on other obligations and obligations arising from the violations. In [7,12] we provided a classification of obligations along temporal dimensions. The key aspects of the classification are: what constitutes the violation in terms of the temporal validity of an obligation, and whether violated obligations can be compensated for or not.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The paper is structured as follows: in Section 2 we revisit the classification of normative requirements proposed elsewhere ( [7,12]) and provide formal definitions of the concepts. Section 3 provides a terse background of the EC and introduces new predicates for modeling the legal norms followed by the modeling of various obligation types using the new predicates in Section 4.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%