A Workflow-Based Solution for the Law Study Process Management

Abstract

In the context of e-government engineering, legal requirements capture is arguably the most important phase in order to ensure the compliance of public e-services with the rigorous legal basis characterizing public institutions. This step is a strongly cooperative process that brings into interaction three roles with different skills and prerequisites. This paper proposes a workflow-based solution providing a cooperative space for these involved roles and an execution environment of the instances of the law study process. In addition, it also allows the assessment and the validation of the resulting legal requirements through a law meta-model. CCS Concepts • Information systems~Computing platforms • Humancentered computing~Collaborative and social computing systems and tools

A semantic approach for generating government processes

“…It constitutes a precious source of knowledge describing in a precise way key components (sub-processes, activities, artefact, etc. ), instructions and rules associated with government processes (Khadraoui et al, 2011a;Cherouana and Mahdaoui, 2015b), collectively referred here to as their 'legal context'.…”

“…In order to support legal context extraction phase, a workflow-based solution implementing this legal meta-model is solicited (Cherouana and Mahdaoui, 2015b). To illustrate its outputs, let us use our scenario from AFA described in Section 2 where a set of decrees between executive and procedural are selected (e.g., Decree N85-06, N10-13, etc.).…”

“…This solution is mainly articulated around an ontological framework, with a high level of abstraction, allowing the explicit representation of legal context associated with government processes. This one is connected to the developed legal meta-model that acts as legal context extraction guidelines and knowledge source (Cherouana and Mahdaoui, 2015b). Moreover, in order to semantically describe the structural relationships and dependencies between processes, sub-processes, as well as activities, this ontological framework is substantiated by a legal features model, which is an explicit description as a tree based on a set of description logic (DL) axioms.…”