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Aligning Monitoring and Compliance Requirements in Evolving Business Networks

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On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2014 Conferences (OTM 2014)

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Dynamic business networks (BNs) are intrinsically characterised by change. Compliance requirements management, in this context, may become particularly challenging. Partners in the network may join and leave the collaboration dynamically and tasks over which compliance requirements are specified may be consequently delegated to new partners or backsourced by network participants. This paper considers the issue of aligning the compliance requirements in a BN with the monitoring requirements they induce on the BN participants when change (or evolution) occurs. We first provide a conceptual model of BNs and their compliance requirements, introducing the concept of monitoring capabilities induced by compliance requirements. Then, we present a set of mechanisms to ensure consistency between the monitoring and compliance requirements when BNs evolve, e.g. tasks are delegated or backsourced in-house. Eventually, we discuss a prototype implementation of our framework, which also implements a set of metrics to check the status of a BN in respect of compliance monitorability.

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    Marco Comuzzi

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  1. TU Graz, Rechbauerstraße 12, 8010, Graz, Austria

    Robert Meersman

  2. CRAN, Campus Sciences, University of Lorraine, BP 70239, 54506, Vandoevre-les-Nancy, France

    Hervé Panetto

  3. Computer Science and Computer Engineering, La Trobe University, 3086, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Tharam Dillon

  4. Laboratory for Enterprise Knowledge and Systems (LEKS), IASI - CNR, Viale Manzoni 30, 00185, Rome, Italy

    Michele Missikoff

  5. School of Software, Tsinghua University, 100084, Beijing, China

    Lin Liu

  6. PROS Research Center, Camino de Vera, Universidad Politècnica de València, 46022, Valencia, Spain

    Oscar Pastor

  7. Department of Electronics, Computer Science and Systems, Univeristy of Calabria, Via P. Bucci, 41C, 87036, Rende, Cosenza, Italy

    Alfredo Cuzzocrea

  8. School of Computer Science and Information Technology, RMIT, Australia

    Timos Sellis

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Comuzzi, M. (2014). Aligning Monitoring and Compliance Requirements in Evolving Business Networks. In: Meersman, R., et al. On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2014 Conferences. OTM 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8841. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45563-0_10

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