RP-Match: A Framework for Automatic Mapping of Regulations with Organizational Processes

Mapping organizational processes with applicable regulatory guidelines is an important step in Regulatory Compliance Management. The Automation of the mapping process can help the overall compliance process. Though existing approaches compute mapping between different entities (e.g., ontology mapping, sentence similarity, semantic similarity and regulation-requirement mapping), the automation of the mapping process between regulation and processes has not been fully investigated yet. In this paper, we present RP-Match framework and propose a cascading-priority algorithm in order to compute similarity between regulation and processes. The framework also takes account of the structures of the regulation ontology and organizational process ontology for the similarity measures. The framework is tested using a Pharmaceutical industry case study. Results obtained show significant improvement in the mapping process.