Business contract obligation monitoring through use of multi tier contract ontology

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2889, Issue , 2003, Pages 690-702

  Kabilan, Vandana ^a   Johannesson, Paul ^a   Rugaimukamu, Dickson M ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WORK SIMPLIFICATION;

BUSINESS ACTIVITIES; BUSINESS CONTRACTS; BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS; CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATIONS; FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS; INTEGRATED BUSINESS; WORKFLOW MANAGEMENTS; WORKFLOW MODELING;

COMMERCE;

EID: 33646713882     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-39962-9_70     Document Type: Article

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