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A multi-party contract model

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ACM SIGecom Exchanges archive
Volume 5 , Issue 1 (July 2004) table of contents

Pages: 13 - 23

Year of Publication: 2004

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Lai Xu

Department of Computer Science, Free University, De Boelelaan, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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Contracts between multiple business parties play an increasingly important role in the global economy where activities along the value chain are executed by independent, yet co-operating, companies. Information technology to enact a value chain is now being deployed in the form of ERP systems, workflow systems, web services and e-marketplaces. However, there is little known on how to formally model a multi-party contract. In this paper, we investigate how to model a multi-party contract in a manner convenient for detecting the parties responsible for contract violations.

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