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Ontology-Based Platform for Trusted Regulatory Compliance Services

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On The Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2003: OTM 2003 Workshops (OTM 2003)

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This paper describes the shared objectives and planned collaborative venture to develop and deploy an ontology platform for trusted regulatory assurance and compliance certification services. The platform is based on extensions to the established DOGMA suite using legal domain-experts to develop and deliver the use cases. It is end-to-end, based on national and EU regulations, and will exploit multi-lingual representations, commitment rules, ontology management and reconciliation, intelligent agents and forensic tools. Evolution of the platform to a common integrated workbench for data privacy and digital rights controllers and for generic regulatory use is outlined.

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  2. STAR Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, Building G-10, B-1050, Brussel, Belgium

    Peter Spyns & Pieter De Leenheer

  3. Advanced Forensic Solutions Ltd, Staffordshire, UK

    Richard Leary

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Ryan, H., Spyns, P., De Leenheer, P., Leary, R. (2003). Ontology-Based Platform for Trusted Regulatory Compliance Services. In: Meersman, R., Tari, Z. (eds) On The Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2003: OTM 2003 Workshops. OTM 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2889. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39962-9_69

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