FORMATION AND FULFILLMENT OF ELECTRONIC CONTRACTS IN ICS

Nathália R. S. Oliveira, Sofiane Labidi, Edson Nascimento, Carlos R. B. Almeida

2004

Abstract

This work is part of the ICS project (Intelligent Commerce System) whose aim is to design and implement an effective B2B E-commerce system based on mobile and intelligent agents. The ICS lifecycle is based on five phases: User Modeling, Matchmaking, Negotiation, Contract Formation and Contract Fulfillment. We propose here an automated process for the Contract Formation and Fulfillment phases. We propose ontology for sharing knowledge between agents that participate in the configuration process of contract, besides a repository to store contract templates and contract instances. For managing the contract fulfillment, a Temporal Workflow and active rules based on ECA paradigm of Active Database System are applied in order to develop this process.

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R. S. Oliveira N., Labidi S., Nascimento E. and R. B. Almeida C. (2004). FORMATION AND FULFILLMENT OF ELECTRONIC CONTRACTS IN ICS . In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS, ISBN 972-8865-00-7, pages 24-30. DOI: 10.5220/0002648700240030


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis04,
author={Nathália R. S. Oliveira and Sofiane Labidi and Edson Nascimento and Carlos R. B. Almeida},
title={FORMATION AND FULFILLMENT OF ELECTRONIC CONTRACTS IN ICS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,},
year={2004},
pages={24-30},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002648700240030},
isbn={972-8865-00-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,
TI - FORMATION AND FULFILLMENT OF ELECTRONIC CONTRACTS IN ICS
SN - 972-8865-00-7
AU - R. S. Oliveira N.
AU - Labidi S.
AU - Nascimento E.
AU - R. B. Almeida C.
PY - 2004
SP - 24
EP - 30
DO - 10.5220/0002648700240030