RP-Match: A Framework for Automatic Mapping of Regulations with Organizational Processes

Abstract

Mapping organizational processes with applicable regulatory guidelines is an important step in Regulatory Compliance Management. The Automation of the mapping process can help the overall compliance process. Though existing approaches compute mapping between different entities (e.g., ontology mapping, sentence similarity, semantic similarity and regulation-requirement mapping), the automation of the mapping process between regulation and processes has not been fully investigated yet. In this paper, we present RP-Match framework and propose a cascading-priority algorithm in order to compute similarity between regulation and processes. The framework also takes account of the structures of the regulation ontology and organizational process ontology for the similarity measures. The framework is tested using a Pharmaceutical industry case study. Results obtained show significant improvement in the mapping process.

Bioenergy Ontology for Automatic Pathway Generation

“…The concepts in the bioenergy ontology are extended from the concepts of the upper ontology Suggested Upper Merged Ontology (SUMO) 4 http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/COR0-landcover [11]. SUMO is suitable for our purpose because it has been widely used [15], and it has useful concepts for this project such as AbstractEntity, PhysicalEntity and Attributes (see Fig. 4).…”

Toward Better Mapping between Regulations and Operations of Enterprises Using Vocabularies and Semantic Similarity

“…• Mapping to Change-enable Compliance To map organizational processes with applicable regulatory guidelines, Sapkotaa et al present RP-Match framework based on regulation process similarity computation leveraging organizational process ontology [38]. The representations of the processes, regulations, and design of the validation tasks need to be changed or updated in circumstances such as (1) change/update in the existing regulations or (2) the processes need to conform to regulations from other regulatory bodies or in other territories.…”