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ISDO
2000
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Business Contracts for B2B
This paper presents an approach for the specification and implementation of business contracts needed for Business-to-Business (B2B) services. We first examine typical elements of...
Andrew Goodchild, Charles Herring, Zoran Milosevic
ICMAS
2000
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Surplus Equivalence of Leveled Commitment Contracts
In automated negotiation systems consisting of self-interested agents, contracts have traditionally been binding. Leveled commitment contracts--i.e., contracts where each party ca...
Tuomas Sandholm, Yunhong Zhou
ICMAS
1998
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Leveled Commitment Contracting among Myopic Individually Rational Agents
In automated negotiation systems consisting of selfinterested agents, contracts have traditionally been binding, i.e., impossible to breach. Such contracts do not allow the agents...
Martin Andersson, Tuomas Sandholm
AAAI
2006
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Contract Enactment in Virtual Organizations: A Commitment-Based Approach
A virtual organization (VO) is a dynamic collection of entities (individuals, enterprises, and information resources) collaborating on some computational activity. VOs are an emer...
Yathiraj B. Udupi, Munindar P. Singh
AAAI
2004
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Using Contracts to Influence the Outcome of a Game
We consider how much influence a center can exert on a game if its only power is to propose contracts to the agents before the original game, and enforce the contracts after the g...
Robert McGrew, Yoav Shoham
ICWS
2007
IEEE
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Probabilistic QoS and soft contracts for transaction based Web services
— Web services orchestrations and choreographies require establishing Quality of Service (QoS) contracts with the user. This is achieved by performing QoS composition, based on c...
Sidney Rosario, Albert Benveniste, Stefan Haar, Cl...
ATVA
2008
Springer
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Run-Time Monitoring of Electronic Contracts
Electronic inter-organizational relationships are governed by contracts regulating their interaction. It is necessary to run-time monitor the contracts, as to guarantee their fulfi...
Marcel Kyas, Cristian Prisacariu, Gerardo Schneide...
FLOPS
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Contracts as Pairs of Projections
Abstract. Assertion-based contracts provide a powerful mechanism for stating invariants at module boundaries and for enforcing them uniformly. In 2002, Findler and Felleisen showed...
Robert Bruce Findler, Matthias Blume
ERLANG
2007
ACM
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A language for specifying type contracts in Erlang and its interaction with success typings
We propose a small extension of the ERLANG language that allows programmers to specify contracts with type information at the level of individual functions. Such contracts are opt...
Miguel Jimenez, Tobias Lindahl, Konstantinos F. Sa...
DLS
2007
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Relationally-parametric polymorphic contracts
The analogy between types and contracts raises the question of how many features of static type systems can be expressed as dynamic contracts. An important feature missing in prio...
Arjun Guha, Jacob Matthews, Robert Bruce Findler, ...