The Violation Situation Pattern: Persistent Representation of Compliance Violations in Knowledge Graphs
Existing compliance pipelines identify violations as transient query results, leaving no persistent representation of the violation itself or its lifecycle, evidence, and audit history. We address this limitation with the Violation Situation Pattern (VSP), a reusable ontology pattern that extends the Situation pattern of Gangemi and Mika by modeling each detected violation as a persistent first-class graph entity. Each violation is associated with a rule identifier, temporal validity interval, lifecycle state, and evidence links to the affected entities, while immutable lifecycle events provide a complete and queryable audit trail. We instantiate VSP on the schema of a deployed legal know...
| Authors | Nima Kamali Lassem, Fuqi Song, Seyid Amjad Ali |
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| Primary category | cs.AI |
| Published | 2 June 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 3 August 2026 |
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