Towards A Role-Based Framework for DistributedSystems Management
Journal of Network and Systems Management
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Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Service oriented computing
Pro-active monitoring of electronic contracts
CAiSE'03 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Advanced information systems engineering
Service level agreement management in federated virtual organizations
DAIS'07 Proceedings of the 7th IFIP WG 6.1 international conference on Distributed applications and interoperable systems
A contract layered architecture for regulating cross-organisational business processes
BPM'05 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Business Process Management
A legal architecture for digital ecosystems
KES'06 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems - Volume Part III
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Open distributed systems are increasingly used to support business transactions within and across organisations. In order to achieve this goal, fundamental concepts of business practices should be incorporated into a supporting architecture. Support for business contracts can be regarded as an essential ingredient of such an architecture in terms of facilitating more efficient inter-organisational business interactions. This is augmented by the prevailing feeling in business today that global interdependencies are becoming more critical for gaining and maintaining the competitive edge. In this paper we make an initial attempt to identify important contract concepts from economic and legal standpoints and use them to derive a business contract framework. We further discuss how these concepts can be incorporated into an architecture for open distributed processing (ODP).