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Practical Contract Storage, Checking, and Enforcement for Business Process Automation

In: Formal Modelling in Electronic Commerce

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  • Alan Abrahams

    (University of Cambridge)

  • David Eyers

    (University of Cambridge)

  • Jean Bacon

    (University of Cambridge)

Abstract

We show how Kimbrough’s Disquotation Theory, a formal theory about sentences that embed propositional content, can be profitably applied to the creation of computational environments for monitoring and enforcing electronic commerce contracts using pervasive, mainstream industrial technologies such as Java and relational databases. We examine the notion of an occurrence and provide a structural representation of this abstraction. We show how contractual provisions - obligations, permissions, prohibitions, and powers - can be stored, monitored, and enforced. Detailed examples illustrate how a query coverage-determination mechanism can be used to check inter-organizational contractual provisions against internal policies and external legislation for dynamic conflicts. The work presented here demonstrates that an extended version of Kimbrough’s theory presents a novel and promising means of storing interrogable and executable specifications for e-commerce workflow applications.

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  • Alan Abrahams & David Eyers & Jean Bacon, 2005. "Practical Contract Storage, Checking, and Enforcement for Business Process Automation," International Handbooks on Information Systems, in: Steven O. Kimbrough & D.J. Wu (ed.), Formal Modelling in Electronic Commerce, chapter 1, pages 33-77, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:ihichp:978-3-540-26989-2_2
    DOI: 10.1007/3-540-26989-4_2
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