Proceedings of the fourth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
A normative framework for agent-based systems
Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory
Commercial applications of agents: lessons, experiences and challenges
AAMAS '06 Proceedings of the fifth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Electronic contracting in aircraft aftercare: a case study
Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: industrial track
Using testimonies to enforce the behavior of agents
COIN'07 Proceedings of the 2007 international conference on Coordination, organizations, institutions, and norms in agent systems III
Developing a conference management system with the multi-agent systems unified process: a case study
AOSE'07 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Agent-oriented software engineering VIII
Electronic contracting in aircraft aftercare: a case study
Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: industrial track
Towards a Monitoring Framework for Agent-Based Contract Systems
CIA '08 Proceedings of the 12th international workshop on Cooperative Information Agents XII
A framework for monitoring agent-based normative systems
Proceedings of The 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 1
Contract Monitoring in Agent-Based Systems: Case Study
HoloMAS '09 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems: Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing
Contract Observation in Web Services Environments
SOCASE '09 Proceedings of the AAMAS 2009 International Workshop on Service-Oriented Computing: Agents, Semantics, and Engineering
CARE@AI'09/CARE@IAT'10 Proceedings of the CARE@AI 2009 and CARE@IAT 2010 international conference on Collaborative agents - research and development
Flexible behaviour regulation in agent based systems
CARE@AI'09/CARE@IAT'10 Proceedings of the CARE@AI 2009 and CARE@IAT 2010 international conference on Collaborative agents - research and development
Applying electronic contracting to the aerospace aftercare domain
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
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Of the ways in which agent behaviour can be regulated in a multi-agent system, electronic contracting - based on explicit representation of different parties' responsibilities, and the agreement of all parties to them - has significant potential for modern industrial applications. Based on this assumption, the CONTRACT project aims to develop and apply electronic contracting and contract-based monitoring and verification techniques in real world applications. This paper presents results from the initial phase of the project, which focused on requirements solicitation and analysis. Specifically, we survey four use cases from diverse industrial applications, examine how they can benefit from an agent-based electronic contracting infrastructure and outline the technical requirements that would be placed on such an infrastructure. We present the designed CONTRACT architecture and describe how it may fulfil these requirements. In addition to motivating our work on the contract-based infrastructure, the paper aims to provide a much needed community resource in terms of use case themselves and to provide a clear commercial context for the development of work on contract-based system.