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Law Modeling with Ontological Support and BPMN: a Case Study

Authors:
Aaron Ciaghi
Komminist Weldemariam
Adolfo Villafiorita

Keywords: Laws; Proedures; Modeling; Ontology; Business Processes; Public Administration.

Abstract:
Modeling and analysis of legal documents is becoming more widely used in eGovernment practices. To support these activities, various frameworks, standards and ICT-based tools have been developed in the recent years. These approaches are mostly oriented towards defining common standards, managing legal documents and check compliance with current regulations. We have devised a tool-supported methodology that allows to model and analyze laws and procedures within public administrations. The approach used in this paper is based on the Business Process Modeling Notation for the visualization and formalization of business processes. In this paper, we show how our approach can be applied on the part of the Italian Immigration Law concerning Family Reunification as a case study.

Pages: 29 to 34

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011

Publication date: February 23, 2011

Published in: conference

ISBN: 978-1-61208-122-9

Location: Gosier, Guadeloupe, France

Dates: from February 23, 2011 to February 28, 2011