This paper provides an analysis of how concepts pertinent to legal contracts can influence
certain aspects of their digital implementation through smart contracts, as inspired by recent …

The opportunity to automate and monitor the execution of legal contracts is gaining
increasing interest in Business and Academia, thanks to the advent of smart contracts …

Business process design is primarily driven by process improvement objectives. However,
the role of control objectives stemming from regulations and standards is becoming …

The ever-increasing obligations of regulatory compliance are presenting a new breed of
challenges for organizations across several industry sectors. Aligning control objectives that …

With a steady increase of regulatory requirements for business processes, automation
support of compliance management is a field garnering increasing attention in Information …

Legal contracts specify the terms and conditions—in essence, requirements—that apply to
business transactions. This paper proposes a formal specification language for legal …

Historically, business process design has been driven by business objectives, specifically
process improvement. However this cannot come at the price of control objectives which …

The independent verification of the right applications of business rules in an information
system is a task for auditors. The increasing complexity of information systems, and the high …

Abstract Service contracts bind parties legally, regulating their behavior in the scope of a
(business) service relationship. Given that there are legal consequences attached to service …

Legal relations abound in conceptual modeling. Despite that, the representation of these
relations in the area has not yet received sufficient theoretical support. We address this by …