A Model-Based Framework for Legal Policy Simulation and Legal Compliance Checking

Soltana, Ghanem

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Soltana, Ghanem

2015 • In Doctoral Symposium co-located with 18th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (DS@MODELS 2015)

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Keywords :

Legal Policies; Model-Based Simulation and Compliance Verification; Model-Driven Code and Data Generation

Abstract :

[en] Analyzing legal policies for many laws, such as taxes and social benefits, is a common way for governments to identify risks, e.g., risk of legal policies not achieving expected revenue. A typical analysis includes validation of policies and the verification of the systems implementing them. One efficient way to validate policies is simulation, e.g., by simulating whether a proposed law reform would realize target objectives. Once validated, policies are implemented into public administration procedures and eGovernment applications. Systems implementing legal policies also need to be analyzed and verified, e.g., through testing, to ensure that they are compliant with the underlying policies. Currently, legal policy analysis is conducted using a combination of spreadsheets and software code. Such strategy suffers mainly from being hard to use by legal experts due to the lack of adequate background. This is partly rooted in the fact that available techniques to formalize legal policies are based on complex logical expressions and code. The main goal of this research project, that this paper describes, is to narrow the aforementioned expertise gap by proposing convenient, systematic and automated techniques to support analysis of legal polices from their design to their implementation.

Research center :

Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) > Software Verification and Validation Lab (SVV Lab)

Disciplines :

Computer science

Author, co-author :

Soltana, Ghanem ; University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT)

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Language :

English

Title :

A Model-Based Framework for Legal Policy Simulation and Legal Compliance Checking

Publication date :

2015

Event name :

Doctoral Symposium co-located with 18th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (DS@MODELS 2015)

Event place :

Ottawa, Canada

Event date :

29-10-2015

Audience :

International

Main work title :

Doctoral Symposium co-located with 18th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (DS@MODELS 2015)

Publisher :

CEUR Workshop Proceedings

Peer reviewed :

Peer reviewed

Additional URL :

http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1531/paper1.pdf

FnR Project :

FNR9242479 - A Model-based Framework For Specification And Automated Verification Of Compliance To The Tax Law, 2014 (01/09/2014-31/10/2016) - Ghanem Soltana

Name of the research project :

A Model-Based Framework for Specification and Automated Verification of Compliance to the Tax Law

Funders :

FNR - Fonds National de la Recherche [LU]

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