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Detection tests for identifying violators of multi-party contracts

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Lai Xu,

Manfred A. Jeusfeld,

Paul W. P. J. GrefenAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGecom Exchanges, Volume 5, Issue 3

Pages 19 - 28

https://doi.org/10.1145/1120680.1120684

Published: 01 April 2005 Publication History

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In the modern business world, business coordinations are becoming complex and global. Contractual relations are required to explicitly define the collaboration between parties, certainly in scenarios with more than two parties. Therefore, execution of multi-party contracts has to be considered a vital point for successful business coordinations. However, there is little known about how to formally model a multi-party contract. The need for a multi-party contract model is thus becoming evident. In this paper, we investigate how to model a contract involving multilateral relations such that finding the responsible parties for given contract violations is facilitated. We provide algorithms for detecting violations and identifying the violator.

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Detection tests for identifying violators of multi-party contracts
1. Applied computing
  1. Electronic commerce
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Computing / technology policy
    1. Intellectual property
  2. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Information system economics

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Boukadi KFaci NMaamar ZUgljanin ESellami MBaker TAl-Khafajiy M(2019)Norm-based and Commitment-driven Agentification of the Internet of ThingsInternet of Things10.1016/j.iot.2019.02.002Online publication date: Feb-2019
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iot.2019.02.002
Modgil SOren NFaci NMeneguzzi FMiles SLuck M(2018)Monitoring compliance with E-contracts and normsArtificial Intelligence and Law10.1007/s10506-015-9167-923:2(161-196)Online publication date: 26-Dec-2018
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