Ontology-based representation for assurance and compliance

In highly regulated industries, assurance and compliance management represent challenging activities. This is due to the need of navigating rapidly shifting requirements. Products may evolve rapidly creating a product line in time in addition to the one in space. Products and product variability are constrained by legislation, standards, etc. whose applicability may vary depending on the jurisdiction.

In this webinar, Barbara Gallina will briefly recall pieces of background information on the Semantic Web Technologies (RDF Graph, SHACL, SPARQL). Then, based on those technologies, she will propose an ontology-based representation for managing product variability in compliance with applicable legislations while assuring trust-related properties of interest. Specifically, she will provide the representation in Resource Description Framework (RDF), shaped via SHACL (Shapes Constraint Language) constraints, and queried via a set of SPARQL queries.

By the end of the seminar, the attendee is expected to gain a sufficient understanding for appreciating the potential of the proposed ontology-based representation.

Practical information about the webinar: 

• Time and date: 10:00 – 11:00, 2024-11-12
• The webinar welcomes active participation.
• The link to the webinar will be included in the confirmation email sent after registration.

The webinar builds on top of at least three papers and expands further:

• B. Gallina, Peter Munk, Markus Schweizer. An Extension of the Rasmussen Socio-technical System for Continuous Safety Assurance. Proceedings of 8th International Workshop on Critical Automotive Applications: Robustness & Safety (CARS), Leuven, Belgium, April 8th, 2024. HAL archives ouvertes.fr, <hal-04558510>
• B. Gallina, Henrik Dibowski, Markus Schweizer. An Ontology-based Representation for Shaping Product Evolution in Regulated Industries. 21st International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse (ICSR-2024), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14614. Springer, Cham. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-66459-5_6, Limassol, Cyprus, June 19-20, 2024.
• . Gallina, G. L. Steierhoffer, T. Young Olesen, E. Parajdi, M. Aarup. Towards an ontology for process compliance with the (machinery) legislations. Journal of Software Evolution and Process (JSEP). 2024; e2728. DOI; 10.1002/smr.2728