INCAS: A legal expert system for contract terms in electronic commerce

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 389-411

  Tan, Yao Hua ^a   Thoen, Walter ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRACTS; DATA STRUCTURES; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE; EXPERT SYSTEMS; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PROLOG (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE);

DEONTIC LOGICS; LEGAL REASONING; PAPER-BASED TRADE DOCUMENTS;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0034509014     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9236(00)00085-3     Document Type: Article

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