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Identifying requirements for Business Contract language: A monitoring perspective

Neal, Stephen and Cole, James and Linington, Peter F. and Milosevic, Zoran and Gibson, Simon and Kulkarni, Sachin (2003) Identifying requirements for Business Contract language: A monitoring perspective. In: Steen, Maarten and Bryant, B.R., eds. Seventh IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference, 2003. Proceedings. IEEE, pp. 50-61. ISBN 0-7695-1994-6. (doi:10.1109/EDOC.2003.1233837) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:13903)

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Abstract

This paper compares two separately developed systems for monitoring activities related to business contracts, describes how we integrated them and exploits the lessons learned from this process to identify a core set of requirements for a Business Contract Language (BCL). Concepts in BCL needed for contract monitoring include: the expression of coordinated concurrent actions; obliged, permitted and prohibited actions; rich timeliness expressions such as sliding windows; delegations; policy violations; contract termination/renewal conditions and reference to external data/events such as change in interest rates. The aim of BCL is to provide sufficient expressive power to describe contracts, including conditions which specify real-time processing, yet be simple enough to retain a human-oriented style for expressing contracts.

Item Type: Book section
DOI/Identification number: 10.1109/EDOC.2003.1233837
Uncontrolled keywords: contracts; business; prototypes; Australia; condition monitoring; economic indicators; collaborative work; distributed computing; web services; enterprise resource planning
Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics (inc Computing science) > QA 76 Software, computer programming,
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Computing
Depositing User: Mark Wheadon
Date Deposited: 24 Nov 2008 18:00 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 09:52 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/13903 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Linington, Peter F..

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