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An adaptive service e-contract is an electronic agreement which is required to enable adaptive or agile service sourcing and provisioning. There are a number of e-contract metamodels that can be used to create a context specific adaptive service e-contract. The challenge is which one to choose and adopt for adaptive services. This paper presents a review and comparison of well-known e-contract metamodels using the architecture theory. The architecture theory allows the analysis of the e-contract metamodels using a three-dimension analytical lens: structure, behavior and technology. The results of this paper highlight the metamodels structural, behavioral and technological differences and similarities. This paper will help researchers and practitioners to observe whether the existing e-contract metamodels are appropriate to the adaptive services or if there is a need to merge and integrate the concepts of these metamodels to propose a new unifying adaptive service e-contract metamodel. This paper is limited to the number of compared metamodels.
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Braytee, A., Gill, A.Q., Kennedy, P.J., Hussain, F.K. (2015). A Review and Comparison of Service E-Contract Architecture Metamodels. In: Arik, S., Huang, T., Lai, W., Liu, Q. (eds) Neural Information Processing. ICONIP 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9492. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26561-2_69
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