An e-government information architecture for regulation analysis and compliance assistance
ICEC '04 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Electronic commerce
A relatedness analysis approach for regulation comparison and e-rulemaking applications
dg.o '05 Proceedings of the 2005 national conference on Digital government research
Mapping regulations to industry-specific taxonomies
Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Artificial intelligence and law
Relating taxonomies with regulations
dg.o '08 Proceedings of the 2008 international conference on Digital government research
Regulation retrieval using industry specific taxonomies
Artificial Intelligence and Law
REGNET: regulatory information management, compliance and analysis
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance
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There is a great deal of information available online regarding environmental regulations and the associated supplementary documents. The sheer volume and complexity of this information, coupled with its scattered distribution across many different sources, makes any attempt to understand and interpret the information a daunting task. Furthermore, current environmental regulation compliance checking is largely a paper-based process. Information technology is used simply to make available online versions of the paper-based guides and forms. Our vision for the regulation compliance process is to have organized and up-to-date regulatory information and compliance assistance procedures available over the Internet. Towards that end, we seek to develop information management frameworks that can facilitate public access to regulations and that can also facilitate the compliance process. This thesis addresses the problem of regulation compliance by developing a formal information infrastructure for regulatory information management and compliance assistance. There are three main contributions made in this thesis. First, a document repository containing regulations and supplemental documents is designed to help categorize these regulatory documents and make them more accessible. This repository, or collection of stored documents, includes a suite of concept hierarchies that enable users to browse documents according to the terms they contain. Second, an XML framework is proposed to structure the representation of regulations and the associated metadata. The XML framework enables the augmentation of regulation text with tools and information that will help users understand and comply with the regulation. Third, an Internet-enabled regulation assistance system is built that can guide users through regulation requirements to help them determine if they are in compliance, and also identify relevant supplementary documents.