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Formal certification and compliance for run-time service environments
With the increased awareness of security and safety of services in on-demand distributed service provisioning (such
as the recent adoption of Cloud infrastructures), certification and compliance checking of services is becoming a key element for service engineering. Existing certification techniques tend to support mainly design-time checking of service properties and tend not to support the run-time monitoring and progressive certification in the service execution environment. In this paper we discuss an approach which provides both design-time and runtime behavioural compliance checking for a services architecture, through enabling a progressive event-driven model-checking technique. Providing an integrated approach to certification and compliance is a challenge however using analysis and monitoring techniques we present such an approach for on-going compliance checking
Willingness to Comply with Corporate Law: An Interdisciplinary Teaching Method in Higher Education
Using an innovation training project, an interdisciplinary cross-sectional teaching strategy
was developed to enhance students’ willingness to comply with the law. Thirty-five business, finance
and accounting teachers examined the effects of ethical education on 484 university students’
willingness to comply with corporate law. Ethical education was based on building students’
ethical decisions on three court judgments in the new Spanish Corporate Governance Code.
The ethical training was carried out by developing and applying social justice counter arguments.
This perspective allowed students to imagine what decisions other person could have taken if they
had managed the company ethically. The results suggest that ethics education in higher education
can improve the willingness to comply the law. This methodology can be applied to interdisciplinary
departments teaching ethics in business, finance and accounting
Norm Monitoring under Partial Action Observability
In the context of using norms for controlling multi-agent systems, a vitally
important question that has not yet been addressed in the literature is the
development of mechanisms for monitoring norm compliance under partial action
observability. This paper proposes the reconstruction of unobserved actions to
tackle this problem. In particular, we formalise the problem of reconstructing
unobserved actions, and propose an information model and algorithms for
monitoring norms under partial action observability using two different
processes for reconstructing unobserved actions. Our evaluation shows that
reconstructing unobserved actions increases significantly the number of norm
violations and fulfilments detected.Comment: Accepted at the IEEE Transaction on Cybernetic
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