Rules for Representing and Handling Contracts

Author

Vartic, Raluca ; Letia, Ioan Alfred

Author_Institution

Tech. Univ. of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca

fYear

2007

fDate

6-8 Sept. 2007

Firstpage

65

Lastpage

72

Abstract

E-business contracts comprise conventions regarding the behavior of the agents, including obligations, rights and permissions. Contract handling refers to contract negotiation, ratification and monitoring. Negotiation and ratification are accomplished through communication protocols. For monitoring purposes, agents have to reason on actions, and their effects on the evolution of the commitments in the contract. As first steps towards the automation of contract handling processes in eCommerce, we suggest an agent model based on rules in a non-monotonic logic, analyze contract reasoning, and interaction protocols.

Keywords

contracts; electronic commerce; nonmonotonic reasoning; agent model; communication protocol; contract handling; contract monitoring; contract negotiation; contract ratification; contract reasoning; e-business contracts; ecommerce; interaction protocol; nonmonotonic logic; obligations; permissions; rights; Automation; Business; Contracts; Databases; Electronic commerce; Knowledge representation; Logic; Monitoring; Permission; Protocols;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing, 2007 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Cluj-Napoca

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1491-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCP.2007.4352143

Filename

4352143