How to capture and use legal patterns in IT

摘要

In our own previous work [1], we looked at the problem of designing IT solutions (Security Patterns) accounting for legal and organizational issues. The proposed pattern design and validation process require legal experts to describe patterns in natural language. Such a description is parsed by a natural language processor on the basis of a semantic template [2]. The annotated description is then used to automatically generate graphical models of SI* patterns, which are revised by security engineers using a CASE Tool. The intriguing question that we address in this paper is the opposite of the mainstream one: