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2003 IEEE International Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC'03)
p. 92
Monitorable Electronic Contract
Lai Xu, Tilburg University
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An agent-based e-commerce environment is regarded as
one of the most suitable open environments for electronic
marketplaces. Because of agent’s autonomous, reactive
and proactive features, agents can, on the one hand, act
on behalf of their owner, and use individual strategies to
increase the ability to do business; on the other hand, the
problem of how to force agents to comply with prescribed
behavior and to have effective monitoring is more complicated.
Be able to monitor the contract at the fulfillment
stage is the key for a reliable, flexible and efficient, realistic
and acceptable e-market which should maintain the benefits
among all contractual parties.
At the contract fulfillment stage, all commitments and
prescribed actions, clearly described at paper contracts between
businesses, can be expressed as an electronic contract
which can be generated and executed automatically.
This paper first proposes a monitorable contract model
which can be automatically monitored in business execution.
Next, we demonstrate architecture which could
dynamically monitor business processes using our monitorable
e-contract model. Our approach not only supports
the detection of actual violations but also pro-active detection
imminent contract violations. A multi-party case is
used to explain our approach.
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Citation:
Lai Xu,
"Monitorable Electronic Contract,"
cec,
p. 92,
2003 IEEE International Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC'03),
2003
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