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Scalable Regulation of Inter-enterprise Electronic Commerce

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Electronic Commerce (WELCOM 2001)

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In the current electronic-commerce literature, a commercial transaction is commonly viewed as an exchange between two autonomous principals operating under some kind of contract between them—which needs to be formalized and enforced. But the situation can be considerably more complex in the case of inter-enterprise (also called businessto- business, or B2B) commerce. The participants in a B2B transaction are generally not autonomous agents, since their commercial activities are subject to the policies of their respective enterprises.

It is our thesis, therefore, that a B2B transaction should be viewed as being governed by three distinct policies: the two policies that regulate the activities of the two principals, while operating as representatives of their respective enterprises, and the policy that reflects the contract between the two enterprises. These policies are likely to be independently developed, and may be quite heterogeneous. Yet, they have to interoperate, and must all be brought to bear in regulating each B2B transaction. This paper presents a mechanism for formulating such interoperating policies, and for their scalable enforcement, thus providing for regulated inter-enterprise electronic commerce.

Work supported in part by NSF grants No. CCR-9710575 and No. CCR-98-03698

Work supported in part by DIMACS under contract STC-91-19999 ITECC, and Information Technology and Electronic Commerce Clinic, Rutgers University

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Minsky, N.H., Ungureanu, V. (2001). Scalable Regulation of Inter-enterprise Electronic Commerce. In: Fiege, L., Mühl, G., Wilhelm, U. (eds) Electronic Commerce. WELCOM 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2232. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45598-1_20

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