TY - GEN
T1 - Handling mitigating circumstances for electronic contracts
AU - Miles, Simon
AU - Groth, Paul
AU - Luck, Michael
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Electronic contracts are a means of representing agreed responsibilities and expected behaviour of autonomous agents acting on behalf of businesses. They can be used to regulate behaviour by providing negative consequences, penalties, where the responsibilities and expectations are not met, i.e. the contract is violated. However, long-term business relationships require some flexibility in the face of circumstances that do not conform to the assumptions of the contract, that is, mitigating circumstances. In this paper, we describe how contract parties can represent and enact policies on mitigating circumstances. As part of this, we require records of what has occurred within the system leading up to a violation: the provenance of the violation. We therefore bring together contract-based and provenance systems to solve the issue of mitigating circumstances.
AB - Electronic contracts are a means of representing agreed responsibilities and expected behaviour of autonomous agents acting on behalf of businesses. They can be used to regulate behaviour by providing negative consequences, penalties, where the responsibilities and expectations are not met, i.e. the contract is violated. However, long-term business relationships require some flexibility in the face of circumstances that do not conform to the assumptions of the contract, that is, mitigating circumstances. In this paper, we describe how contract parties can represent and enact policies on mitigating circumstances. As part of this, we require records of what has occurred within the system leading up to a violation: the provenance of the violation. We therefore bring together contract-based and provenance systems to solve the issue of mitigating circumstances.
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M3 - Contribución a la conferencia
AN - SCOPUS:78650046048
SN - 1902956648
SN - 9781902956640
T3 - AISB 2008 Convention: Communication, Interaction and Social Intelligence - Proceedings of the AISB 2008 Symposium on Behaviour Regulation in Multi-Agent Systems
SP - 37
EP - 42
BT - AISB 2008 Convention
T2 - AISB 2008 Symposium on Behaviour Regulation in Multi-Agent Systems
Y2 - 1 April 2008 through 4 April 2008
ER -