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Inter-organisational collaborations supported by E-Contracts

Zoran Milosevic, Peter F. Linington, Simon Gibson, Sachin Kulkarni, and James Cole

In Winfried Lamersdorf, Volker Tschammer, and Stephane Amarger, editors, Building the E-Service Society: E-Commerce, E-Business, and E-Government, volume 9 of 14 of IFIP 18th World Computer Congress, pages 182-196, Toulouse, France, August 2004. IFIP, Kluwer.

Abstract

This paper presents a model for describing inter-organizational collaborations for e-commerce, e-government and e-business applications. The model, referred to as a community model, takes into account internal organizational rules and business policies as typically stated in business contracts that govern cross-collaborations. The model can support the development of a new generation of contract management systems that provide true interorganizational collaboration capabilities to all parties involved in contract management. This includes contract monitoring features and dynamic updates to the processes and policies associated with contracts. We present a blueprint architecture for inter-organizational contract management and a contract language based on the community model. This language can be used to specialize this architecture for concrete collaborative structures and business processes.

Bibtex Record

@inproceedings{1982,
author = {Zoran Milosevic and Peter F. Linington and Simon Gibson and Sachin Kulkarni and James Cole},
title = {Inter-Organisational Collaborations Supported by {E}-{C}ontracts},
month = {August},
year = {2004},
pages = {182-196},
keywords = {determinacy analysis, Craig interpolants},
note = {},
doi = {},
url = {http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/pubs/2004/1982},
    publication_type = {inproceedings},
    submission_id = {21340_1097136649},
    ISBN = {1-4020-8154-5},
    booktitle = {Building the E-Service Society: E-Commerce, E-Business, and E-Government},
    editor = {Winfried Lamersdorf and Volker Tschammer and Stephane Amarger},
    volume = {9 of 14},
    series = {IFIP 18th World Computer Congress},
    address = {Toulouse, France},
    organization = {IFIP},
    publisher = {Kluwer},
    refereed = {yes},
}

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