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Electronic Commerce involves coordination between different organizations using communication technology. The coordination can be achieved in the form of an electronic market or a virtual enterprise. In both cases, contracts play a central role. In the Electronic Market, contracts are agreements on a specific business transaction. In a Virtual Enterprise, the contract is a cooperation agreement for a longer period involving integrated business processes. A general framework of business communication is presented that is applied to a case study. We argue that an agent society model is most suitable for implementing contracts.
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Weigand, H., Xu, L. (2003). Contracts in E-Commerce. In: Meersman, R., Aberer, K., Dillon, T. (eds) Semantic Issues in E-Commerce Systems. IFIP - The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 111. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35658-7_1
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