Policy-based Compliance Control within Inter-organizational Service Integration Platforms

Organizations increasingly collaborate with each other using the service-oriented approach. Such collaboration is usually supported by integration platforms which process messages within inter-organizational service interactions. In turn, these collaborative environments have to satisfy compliance requirements concerning different areas (e.g. data privacy, quality of service) which may impact on these interactions. In such cases, some aspects of compliance requirements may be controlled within integration platforms. This paper proposes a policy-based solution to compliance control within inter-organizational service integration platforms. The solution comprises a system-level compliance control subsystem, which extends such platforms for controlling compliance at the message level, and a compliance policy language, which allows specifying how requirements have to be controlled leveraging the components of this subsystem.