Run-time monitoring and enforcement of electronic contracts
| Autor: | Santosh K. Shrivastava, John P. Warne, Carlos Molina-Jimenez, Ellis Solaiman |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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Marketing
Model checking Finite-state machine Computer program Operations research Computer Networks and Communications Programming language Computer science Process (computing) ComputingMilieux_LEGALASPECTSOFCOMPUTING Mathematical notation computer.software_genre Computer Science Applications Task (project management) Management of Technology and Innovation Middleware Representation (mathematics) computer |
| Zdroj: | Electronic Commerce Research and Applications. 3:108-125 |
| ISSN: | 1567-4223 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.elerap.2004.02.003 |
| Popis: | Converting a conventional contract into an electronic equivalent that can be executed and enforced by computers is a challenging task. The difficulties are caused by the ambiguities that the original human-oriented text is likely to contain. The conversion process involves the conversion of the original text into mathematical notation. This paper discusses how standard conventional contracts can be described by means of finite state machines (FSMs). This mathematical description helps eliminate ambiguities from the original text before the contract is coded into a computer program. The paper describes how to map the rights and obligations extracted from the clauses of the contract into the states, transition and output functions, and input and output symbols of a FSM. The FSM representation can be used to guarantee that the clauses stipulated in the contract are observed when the contract is executed. The paper describes the middleware required for the enactment of the contract represented as an FSM. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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