Abstract
Conventional mechanisms for electronic commerce provide strong means for securing transfer of funds, and for ensuring such things as authenticity and non-repudiation. But they generally do not attempt to regulate the activities of the participants in an e-commerce transac- tion, treating them, implicitly, as autonomous agents. This is adequate for most cases of client-to-vendor commerce, but is quite unsatisfactory for inter-enterprise electronic commerce. The participants in this kind of e-commerce are not autonomous agents, since their commercial activi- ties are subject to the business rules of their respective enterprises, and to the preexisting agreements and contracts between the enterprises in- volved. These policies are likely to be independently developed, and may be quite heterogeneous. Yet, they have to intemperate, and be brought to bear in regulating each e-commerce transaction. This paper presents a mechanism that allows such interoperation between policies, and thus provides for inter-enterprise electronic commerce.
Work supported in part by DIMACS under contract STC-91-19999 and NSF grants No.CCR-9626577 and No.CCR-9710575
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Ungureanu, V., Minsky, N.H. (2000). Establishing Business Rules for Inter-Enterprise Electronic Commerce. In: Herlihy, M. (eds) Distributed Computing. DISC 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1914. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-40026-5_12
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