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Volume 6 Issue 1
Process Modelling towards e-Government – Visualisation and Semantic Modelling of Legal Regulations as Executable Process Sets
Sebastian Olbrich1 and Carlo Simon2
1Institute for Management Information Systems, Phillips University of Marburg, Germany
2Fachbereich Wirtschaftsinformatik, Provadis School of International Management and Technology, Germany
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Businesses and private citizens are not only constrained by economic threads but also by legal regulations formulated at different administrative levels - from cities, states and nations up to international agreements such as in the European Union. Although the legal regulations are of significant importance to the structure of the society, little research on the integration of processes exists. The paper addresses this shortcoming by discussing the visualisation and formal modelling of a legally regulated process.
The approach is motivated by a historic retrospective. The technical innovation is not only to consider the given law when developing business process models - like many other approaches do - but to explicitly derive a process structure which is implicitly specified within the paragraphs themselves. To translate paragraphs into process models the Semantic Process Language (SPL) is used, since it enables us to articulate language structures into executable workflow models. The paper illustrates its approach with a demonstration example which considers the obligation right of Switzerland. It selects those paragraphs which participate in the definition of a causal ordering. The presented approach provides means for verifying whether process-like behaviour fulfils the selected paragraphs formally.
Translating the code of law directly into formal process models appears to be a useful improvement for several ongoing (E-Government) projects. The goal is to verify current and future implementations against the code of law, i.e. see if they are effective in law. This can also be a useful improvement for regulated industrial processes like HR, regulated production processes or alignment processes in the European Union.
Keywords:
e-Government, business process modelling, legal visualisation, legal design.
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