An EREC framework for e-contract modeling, enactment and monitoring

Data and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 31-58

  Krishna, P Radha ^a   Karlapalem, Kamal ^b   Chiu, Dickson K W ^c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENT AND RESEARCH IN BANKING TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c Dickson Computer Systems   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Business process model; Electronic contract; ER model; Exceptions; Meta model; Rules; Web Services; Workflow

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONITORING; WORLD WIDE WEB; XML;

BUSINESS PARTNERS; DOCUMENTS; ELECTRONIC CONTRACTS; WEB SERVICES;

CONTRACTS;

EID: 4243069517     PISSN: 0169023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.datak.2004.03.006     Document Type: Article

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