Declarative Approaches for Compliance by Design

Abstract

The interest of scholars in devising automated methods to describe and analyse business processes has increased in the last decades due to the extreme interest of organisations in achieving their business objectives while remaining compliant with the relevant normative system. Adhering with norms and policies does not only help to avoid severe sanctions but also results in greater confidence by the consumers, and prestige for the organisation. Defining processes through the paradigm of declarative specifications is gaining momentum due to its intrinsic characteristic of being able to capture business as well as normative specifications within the same framework. We describe some of the state of the art techniques in the field of Business Process Compliance, focusing on pros and cons of such techniques, and advancing future lines of research.