An overview of workflow management: from process modeling to workflow automation infrastructure
Distributed and Parallel Databases - Special issue on software support for work flow management
A declarative approach to business rules in contracts: courteous logic programs in XML
Proceedings of the 1st ACM conference on Electronic commerce
A framework for applying intelligent agents to support electronic trading
Decision Support Systems
An inclusive and extensible architecture for electronic brokerage
Decision Support Systems - Special issue for business to business electronic commerce, issues and solutions
The Contract Net Protocol: High-Level Communication and Control in a Distributed Problem Solver
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Workflow View Based E-Contracts in a Cross-Organizational E-Services Environment
Distributed and Parallel Databases
A Three-Layer Framework for Cross-Organizational e-Contract Enactment
CAiSE '02/ WES '02 Revised Papers from the International Workshop on Web Services, E-Business, and the Semantic Web
Workflow View Driven Cross-Organizational Interoperability in a Web-Service Environment
CAiSE '02/ WES '02 Revised Papers from the International Workshop on Web Services, E-Business, and the Semantic Web
A Meta-model for e-Contract Template Variable Dependencies Facilitating e-Negotiation
ER '02 Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Conceptual Modeling
Workflow View Driven Cross-Organizational Interoperability in a Web Service Environment
Information Technology and Management
An EREC framework for e-contract modeling, enactment and monitoring
Data & Knowledge Engineering - Special issue: Contract-driven coordination and collaboration in the internet context
The business case for B2B e-contracting
ICEC '04 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Electronic commerce
From Contracts to E-Contracts: Modeling and Enactment
Information Technology and Management
Developing e-Negotiation support with a meta-modeling approach in a web services environment
Decision Support Systems - Special issue: Web services and process management
Evolution of entity-relationship modelling
Data & Knowledge Engineering
The 4W framework for B2B e-contracting
International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations
A methodology and toolkit for deploying contract documents as e-contracts
ER '07 Tutorials, posters, panels and industrial contributions at the 26th international conference on Conceptual modeling - Volume 83
Active meta modeling support for evolving e-contracts
ER '07 Tutorials, posters, panels and industrial contributions at the 26th international conference on Conceptual modeling - Volume 83
A Contract-Based Architecture for Business Networks
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
Mining e-contract documents to classify clauses
Proceedings of the Third Annual ACM Bangalore Conference
Actively evolving conceptual models for mini-world and run-time environment changes
Active conceptual modeling of learning
Enabling business process interoperability using contract workflow models
OTM'05 Proceedings of the 2005 Confederated international conference on On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems - Volume >Part I
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A contract is an agreement between two or more parties to create business relations or legal obligations between them. A contract will define the set of activities to be performed by parties satisfying a set of terms and conditions (clauses). An e-contract is a contract modeled, specified executed, controlled and monitored by a software system. Typically, a workflow management system is used for e-contract management. E-contracts are complex inter related workflows that have to be specified carefully to satisfy the contract requirements. Most workflow models do not have the capabilities to handle the complexities of these interrelationships. That is, an e-contract does not adhere to activity/task oriented workflow process, thus generating a gap between a conceptual model of e-contract and workflow. Therefore, there is a need for a modeling framework to conceptualize e-contracts and model the complexity of interrelationships. In this paper, we present a framework for conceptually modeling e-contracts (using ER-R data model) and a methodology to translate an e-contract to a workflow that can be executed by a workflow management system.