Contract-driven creation and operation of virtual enterprises

Computer Networks

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 111-136

  Hoffner, Yigal ^a   Field, Simon ^a   Grefen, Paul ^b   Ludwig, Heiko ^a  

^a IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Contract Enactment Infrastructures (CEIs); Contract Framework; Contract matchmaking; Cross organisational business processes; Dynamic Enactment Infrastructure configuration; Service contracts; Virtual enterprises; Virtual Markets

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INTERNET; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

CONTRACT ENACTMENT INFRASTRUCTURE (CEI); VIRTUAL ENTERPRISES;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 0035480059     PISSN: 13891286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1389-1286(01)00210-9     Document Type: Article

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