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DEMO/PSI Theory and the Law of the Land

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Advances in Enterprise Engineering XI (EEWC 2017)

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This work analyzes two sources of law and elicit its underlying transactions. Then tries to model them using DEMO/PSI theory and analyzes the assumptions mismatches between law and DEMO/PSI. Design Engineering and Modeling for Organizations (DEMO) is a general-purpose theory and method to model interactions in society (between individuals and/or organizations) that uses a communication-centric approach. The Performance in Social Interactions (PSI) theory is a component of DEMO that explains a “universal transaction pattern” used to model those social interactions. The laws used as case studies are Portuguese contract law included in the Civil Code (from 1966); and the Common European Sales Law (CESL) from the European Union (EU), which is currently in final proposal stage. Through the analysis and discussion of these case studies, we suggest improvements to the DEMO/PSI theory based on the constraints expressed in those laws.

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Acknowledgments

This work was partially funded by FCT/MCTES LARSyS (UID/EEA/50009/2013 (2015-2017)).

This work was developed with financial support from ARDITI (Agência Regional para o Desenvolvimento da Investigação, Tecnologia e Inovação), in the context of project M14-2009–5369-FSE-000001-Bolsa de Doutoramento.

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  1. Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, University of Madeira, Caminho da Penteada, 9020-105, Funchal, Portugal

    Duarte Gouveia & David Aveiro

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  1. University of Madeira and Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, Funchal, Portugal

    David Aveiro

  2. Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

    Robert Pergl

  3. Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy

    Giancarlo Guizzardi

  4. Federal University of Espírito Santo, Vitoria, Brazil

    João Paulo Almeida

  5. Kuwait Maastricht Business School, Kuwait, Kuwait

    Rodrigo Magalhães

  6. Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Hans Lekkerkerk

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Gouveia, D., Aveiro, D. (2017). DEMO/PSI Theory and the Law of the Land. In: Aveiro, D., Pergl, R., Guizzardi, G., Almeida, J., Magalhães, R., Lekkerkerk, H. (eds) Advances in Enterprise Engineering XI. EEWC 2017. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 284. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57955-9_4

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