Reference : Business Process Regulatory Compliance is Hard
Scientific journals : Article
Engineering, computing & technology : Computer science
http://hdl.handle.net/10993/19564
Business Process Regulatory Compliance is Hard
English
Colombo Tosatto, Silvano mailto [University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > >]
Kelsen, Pierre mailto [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication (FSTC) > Computer Science and Communications Research Unit (CSC) >]
Governatori, Guido [> >]
2015
IEEE Transactions on Services Computing
8
6
958-970
Yes
International
1939-1374
[en] compliance ; complexity ; business process
[en] Verifying whether a business process is compliant with a regulatory framework is a difficult task. In the present paper we prove the hardness of the business process regulatory compliance problem by taking into account a sub-problem of the general problem. This limited problem allows to verify only the compliance of structured processes with respect to a regulatory framework composed of a set of conditional obligations including a deadline. Experimental evidence from existing studies shows that compliance is a difficult task. In this paper, despite considering a sub-problem of the general problem, we provide some theoretical evidence of the difficulty of the task. In particular we show that the source of the complexity lies in the core language of verifying conditional obligations with a deadline. We prove that for this simplified case verifying partial compliance belongs to the class of NP-complete problems, and verifying full compliance belongs to the class of coNP-complete problems. Thus by proving the difficulty of a simplified compliance problem we prove that the general problem of verifying business process regulatory compliance is hard.
http://hdl.handle.net/10993/19564
also: http://hdl.handle.net/10993/23650
10.1109/TSC.2014.2341236

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