ELECTRONIC CONTRACT NEGOTIATION AND RENEGOTIATION USING FEATURES

Daniel Avila Vecchiato, Maria Beatriz Felgar de Toledo, Marcelo Fantinato, Itana Maria de Souza Gimenes

2010

Abstract

Electronic contracts (e-contracts) usually describe cross-organizational business processes defining electronic services to be provided and consumed as well as constraints on service execution such as, for instance, Quality of Service (QoS). Due to market dynamism, it is common that organizations involved in a cooperation need to do some adjustments in a pre-established e-contract. These changes should be allowed through renegotiation of contractual clauses after the e-contract is already signed and being enacted. In this paper, feature modeling is used to represent electronic services (e-services), QoS attributes and control operations to be applied when QoS attribute levels are not met. In addition, an execution environment is proposed to support contract establishment, business process execution, service monitoring and contract renegotiation.

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Avila Vecchiato D., Beatriz Felgar de Toledo M., Fantinato M. and Maria de Souza Gimenes I. (2010). ELECTRONIC CONTRACT NEGOTIATION AND RENEGOTIATION USING FEATURES . In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technology - Volume 2: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-674-025-2, pages 313-318. DOI: 10.5220/0002800203130318


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@conference{webist10,
author={Daniel Avila Vecchiato and Maria Beatriz Felgar de Toledo and Marcelo Fantinato and Itana Maria de Souza Gimenes},
title={ELECTRONIC CONTRACT NEGOTIATION AND RENEGOTIATION USING FEATURES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technology - Volume 2: WEBIST,},
year={2010},
pages={313-318},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002800203130318},
isbn={978-989-674-025-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technology - Volume 2: WEBIST,
TI - ELECTRONIC CONTRACT NEGOTIATION AND RENEGOTIATION USING FEATURES
SN - 978-989-674-025-2
AU - Avila Vecchiato D.
AU - Beatriz Felgar de Toledo M.
AU - Fantinato M.
AU - Maria de Souza Gimenes I.
PY - 2010
SP - 313
EP - 318
DO - 10.5220/0002800203130318