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On τ-, μ-, π-, and ε-Contracting

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Web Services, E-Business, and the Semantic Web (WES 2002)

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The use of electronic contracts is emerging as a way to improve the efficiency of contracting processes. Electronic contracts are, however, often used as a direct replacement for traditional paper contracts — which we call shallow e-contracting. Consequently, business processes in general and contracting processes in particular do not change much through the use of electronic contracts. New business scenarios caused by e-business developments, however, do require new contracting paradigms in which the use of electronic contracts becomes an essential element to obtain a radical paradigm shift in contractual business relations — which we call deep e-contracting. In this position paper, we explore these new paradigms. We link the paradigms to exchanged values described in e-contracts to obtain a mapping from business requirements. We next map the paradigms to contracting activities. Finally, we map the activities to information technology required for their automated support. Based on the paradigms and mappings, this paper provides a concise framework for the exploration of deep e-contracting.

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  1. Computer Science Department, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500, AE Enschede, Netherlands

    Paul Grefen & Samuil Angelov

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  1. Oracle Corporation, 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA, 94065, USA

    Christoph Bussler

  2. Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, 600 Mountain Avenue, Room 2D-510, Murray Hill, NJ, 07974, USA

    Richard Hull

  3. Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305-9020, USA

    Sheila McIlraith

  4. School of Info. Technology and Elec. Engineering, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld 4072, Australia

    Maria E. Orlowska

  5. Department of Electronic and Information Science, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133, Milan, Italy

    Barbara Pernici

  6. Infolab, Tilburg University, PO Box 90153, 5000, LE Tilburg, The Netherlands

    Jian Yang

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Grefen, P., Angelov, S. (2002). On τ-, μ-, π-, and ε-Contracting. In: Bussler, C., Hull, R., McIlraith, S., Orlowska, M.E., Pernici, B., Yang, J. (eds) Web Services, E-Business, and the Semantic Web. WES 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2512. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36189-8_6

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