Enhancing Law Modeling and Analysis: using BPR-Based and Goal-Oriented Frameworks

Abstract—Legal documents contain regulations and principles at different levels of abstraction. They constitute rich sources of information for public administrations (PA) redesign and even-tually for the software delivery that must comply with normative regulations that are specified in laws and procedures. In order to facilitate the alignment between these elements, systematic methods and tools automating regulations modeling and analysis must be developed. In this paper, we propose the integration of process modeling (named VLPM) and goal-oriented (named Nòmos) tool-supported methodologies to systematically model and analyze laws and procedures in public administration. We show that such integrated view would provide a framework that allows tracing and reasoning either top-down, from the principles to the implementation or, vice versa, bottom-up, from a change in the procedure to the principles. Finally, we also believe that this would provide a facility for interchanging models among different tools and for sharing models among different actors. Keywords—BPR; goal-orientation; laws & procedures; Nòmos; public administrations; regulation compliance; VLPM. I