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This paper describes the current state of the development of a formal Regulations Based Services Language that is understandable to various stakeholders, including legal experts, service experts and specification experts. This research and development work is the result of a co-creation that in 2012 has been established in The Netherlands involving government service providers, academia and innovative businesses to develop a durable architecture for services that are based on regulations. The authors have been involved in try outs of parts of the Regulations Based Services Language. The Regulations Based Services Language is primarily intended to be used as the language to express the durable specifications for the regulation based services. One of the requirements of the Regulations Based Services Language is use a declarative approach wherever possible. This Regulations Based Services Language is meant as a formal Controlled Natural Language (CNL).
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The authors gratefully acknowledges the many discussions in the co-creation the Blue Chamber and the Open Afternoons.
We thank the reviewers for excellent suggestions. One reviewer makes the following statement: “While the paper addresses an interesting issue and shows us that a set of inter-related languages would be needed to serve as a formal specification for legal regulations, it lacks exactly the concrete scenarios and examples the authors argue need to be included to fully grasp the meaning.”
We thank this reviewer as it is the trigger for two points.
The primary aim of the authors is to develop a language to express the specifications for regulation based services. That is a formal language and the resulting specifications need to satisfy the legality principle, also be legally formal. However the language under investigation here in NOT meant to replace the textual language in which currently a regulation is expressed and those expressions (laws, decrees, treaties) are currently not fully formal in the sense of logic. We believe that one first need to accept the regulations as they are now and with that as input (using human intelligence) and a formal language and fully independent of IT, specify the requirements for the regulation based services, of course satisfying all the regulations. And maybe thereafter, and that could be decades in the future is the expectation of the authors, would it be possible to start the introduction in practice to gradually introduce formal languages in the regulation specification processes.
The authors agree with one of the reviewers that “the concrete scenarios and examples need to be included [in the durable specifications for the regulation based services (added by the authors)] to fully grasp the meaning”; however the size of the concrete scenarios and the examples is many pages and a paper for the FBM workshop is limited to 10 pages. The authors intend to publish these scenarios and examples.
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Rozendaal, J., Nijssen, S. (2017). A Proposal for a Regulations Based Services Language. In: Ciuciu, I., et al. On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2016 Workshops. OTM 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10034. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55961-2_17
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