SIGMOD '91 Proceedings of the 1991 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
UML in a nutshell: a desktop quick reference
UML in a nutshell: a desktop quick reference
A meta modelng approach to workflow management systems supporting exception handling
Information Systems - Special issue on meta-modelling and methodology engineering
A declarative approach to business rules in contracts: courteous logic programs in XML
Proceedings of the 1st ACM conference on Electronic commerce
Modeling components and frameworks with UML
Communications of the ACM
Web interface-driven cooperative exception handling in adome workflow management system
Information Systems - Special issue on the 1st web information systems engineering conference (WISE '00)
Architecting web services
York: programming software components
Proceedings of the 8th European software engineering conference held jointly with 9th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
B2B contract implementation using windows DNS
ITVE '01 Proceedings of the workshop on Information technology for virtual enterprises
Business Modeling With UML: Business Patterns at Work
Business Modeling With UML: Business Patterns at Work
Professional XML Web Services
SOAP: Cross Platform Web Service Development Using XML
SOAP: Cross Platform Web Service Development Using XML
WW-FLOW: Web-Based Workflow Management with Runtime Encapsulation
IEEE Internet Computing
ADOME: An Advanced Object Modeling Environment
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Mapping Service Components to EJB Business Objects
EDOC '01 Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Enterprise Distributed Object Computing
A Web-Based Material Requirements Planning Integrated Application
EDOC '01 Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Enterprise Distributed Object Computing
Towards Formal Modeling of e-Contracts
EDOC '01 Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Enterprise Distributed Object Computing
View-Based Contracts in an E-Service Cross-Organizational Workflow Environment
TES '01 Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Technologies for E-Services
Views for Inter-organization Workflow in an E-commerce Environment
Proceedings of the IFIP TC2/WG2.6 Ninth Working Conference on Database Semantics: Semantic Issues in E-Commerce Systems
A Frame Work for Modeling Electronic Contracts
ER '01 Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling: Conceptual Modeling
COMO: A UML-Based Component Development Methodology
APSEC '99 Proceedings of the Sixth Asia Pacific Software Engineering Conference
CrossFlow - Cross-Organizational Workflow Support for Virtual Organizations
RIDE '99 Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Research Issues on Data Engineering: Information Technology for Virtual Enterprises
DartFlow: A Workflow Management System on the Web using Transportable Agents
DartFlow: A Workflow Management System on the Web using Transportable Agents
The Contract Net Protocol: High-Level Communication and Control in a Distributed Problem Solver
IEEE Transactions on Computers
The 4W framework for B2B e-contracting
International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations
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In an e-commerce environment, contracts are important for attaining business process interoperability and enforcing their proper enactment. An e-contract is the computerized facilitation or automation of a contract in a cross-organizational business process. We find that e-contract facilitation can be divided into multiple levels and perspectives, which has not been adequately addressed before. In this paper, we present a framework for e-contract enactment with three layers, viz., business layer, structural layer, and implementation layer. In the business layer, e-contracts are defined through analyzing the contract clauses to business rules and business entities. In the structural layer, requirements for the E-contract enactment workflow are elucidated through requirement analysis to cover both static and dynamic aspects. In the implementation layer, workflows and cross-organizational interoperating interfaces are implemented using contemporary Enterprise Java Bean and Web services. In this paper, we present the methodology and process for engineering the functional aspects of e-contracts from high-level business-view down to implementation layer based on this framework, illustrated with an investment example. The framework allows an e-contract to be seamlessly defined and enacted. The framework is modeled in UML.