Business Process Compliance with the User Requirements Notation Daniel Amyot damyot@site.uottawa.ca 0 SITE, University of Ottawa , 800 King Edward, Ottawa, ON, K1N 6N5 , Canada

The User Requirements Notation (URN) [3,8], standardized by ITU-T in November 2008, aims to support the elicitation, modeling, analysis, specification, and validation of requirements, particularly for reactive and telecommunications systems. URN combines a goal view, expressed with the Goal-oriented Requirement Language, with a scenario view, expressed with the Use Case Maps notation. This unique combination proved to be useful in the description of business processes as well as of legislation and organization policies [5]. In this presentation, we will explore the modelling and evolution of business processes and policies and how several compliance issues can be addressed [1,2]. We will also discuss how recent extensions for key performance indicators [5,7] and aspect-oriented modeling [6], together with tool support [4], can be exploited in a compliance context. Examples from the healthcare domain will be used for illustrative purposes.

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