Modelling Parliamentary Workows a Case Study in Belgian Parliaments

International Workshop on Regulations Modelling and Deployment

Christophe Ponsard1, Gaetan Deberdt2, and Joel Tournemenne3 ; 2 Parlement de la Communaute Francaise (Belgium) - [e-mail]

Others  :  http://CEUR-WS.org/Vol-342/paper3.pdf
PID  :  49258

来源: CEUR

【 摘 要 】

Parliament work is regulated by a number of democraticrules about the way laws are proposed, discussed and nally voted. De- spite a number variations, most parliaments share the same kind of work- ow supported by one or two assemblies. Such workows are most of the time described by a regulation stated in natural language and gener- ally approved by the assemblies themselves. This document is subject to some interpretation, especially by the administration responsible of the day to day management. Currently this management is also on-going strong electronication with even a direct exposure of the parliamentary work on the internet for better transparency and control by the citizen. In this paper we report about our work of modelling the parliamentary workows, starting from the ocial documents and in-place systems. The aim of this work is multiple: rst, discover potential ambiguities and in- consistencies, then compare how similar are a number of parliaments and nally see how those models can be translated in the computer systems, especially in the perspective of the open-sourcing and mutualisation of such systems among dierent parliaments. Our practical experience of applying various modelling techniques is reported and discussed using two of the seven (!) parliaments running in Belgium. This comparison work relies both on a set of modelling requirements for such systems and on the SEQUAL reference framework for assessing the quality of models. Key words: e-government, parliament, modelling, workow, mutuali-