Abstract
In 2012 some Dutch government services organizations, academia and innovative companies decided to establish a co-creation, named Blue Chamber, with the aim to develop a national protocol to “translate regulations” into a durable, IT-independent model or specifications for interactive regulation based services. Regulation here means the union of laws and decrees, both government and ministerial. Such a protocol acts like a process and each process requires a conceptual data structure or IT-independent reference model. After 5 years of research, development and validation, version 1 of the Reference model is ready for publication. The Dutch Government has decided to provide IT-based services and enforcement actions based on as many laws and decrees as appropriate. The core of this Reference model will be described in this paper. The CogNIAM variant of Fact Based Modeling has been used to develop the Reference model, using field-testing with the associated prototypes.
S. Nijssen—Retired from PNA Group, Heerlen, The Netherlands
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The authors gratefully acknowledge the many discussions in the Blue Chamber and in particular Mrs. Mariette Lokin since June 2012. The Blue Chamber a multi-disciplinary group with the principle that each member brings more sandwiches to the lunch than he intends to eat and users are the ultimate decision makers whether or not a modeling approach is accepted. The authors express their thanks to the colleagues of the Blue Chamber for their inspiring sessions. The Blue Chamber will continue in the future to improve the development and maintenance of regulation based specifications for services.
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Nijssen, S., Dulfer, D., Bollen, P., Rozendaal, J. (2018). An IT-Independent Reference Model for IT-Supported, Interactive, Regulation Based Services. In: Debruyne, C., et al. On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems. OTM 2017 Workshops. OTM 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10697. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73805-5_18
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