We present and implement an infrastructure for automating the negotiation of business contracts. Underlying our system is a declarative language for both (1) fully-specified, exe...
Daniel M. Reeves, Michael P. Wellman, Benjamin N. ...
Abstract. Suppose Alice and Bob are two entities (e.g. agents, organizations, etc.) that wish to negotiate a contract. A contract consists of several clauses, and each party has ce...
DRM has been widely promoted as a means to enforce copyright. In many previous papers, it has been argued that DRM gives too much power to rights holders and actually goes beyond ...
Abstract. In inter-enterprise business service collaborations management of nonfunctional properties has become a fundamental issue, as business management and computing infrastruc...
Conventional mechanisms for electronic commerce provide strong means for securing transfer of funds, and for ensuring such things as authenticity and non-repudiation. But they gene...