Transforming agreements into contracts

International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems

Volumn 14, Issue 2-3, 2005, Pages 217-244

  Hoffner, Yigal ^a   Field, Simon ^b  

^a IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Matching Systems Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contracts; Matchmaking

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; PROCESS ENGINEERING; QUALITY ASSURANCE; XML;

AUXILIARY SERVICE; LEGAL CONTRACTS; LEGAL EXPENSES; MATCHMAKING;

CONTRACTS;

EID: 21144437260     PISSN: 02188430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218843005001134     Document Type: Article

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