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Establishment of Virtual Enterprise Contracts

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Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2002)

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In this paper we describe an approach to the modelling of virtual enterprise agreements. An important and ever-present issue in the set-up phase of such a virtual enterprise is the virtual enterprise contract. As one of the goals of virtual enterprises is to become operational quickly, the time consumed by the set-up phase must be reduced to a minimum. At the same time it has to be guaranteed that the outcome of this phase leads to a formally correct and executable agreement. Our approach aims at showing how to achieve a formal model of virtual enterprise contracts, which can later be executed and monitored in a particular automated contract management environment.

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  1. School of Computer and Information Science, University of South Australia, SA-5095, Mawson Lakes, Australia

    Gerald Quirchmayr & Roger Tagg

  2. Enterprise Distributed Systems Technology Centre (DSTC), University of Queensland, Level 7, GP South, Q4072, Brisbane, Australia

    Zoran Milosevic, James Cole & Sachin Kulkarni

  3. Institute for Computer Science and Business Informatics, University of Vienna, Liebiggasse 4, A-1010, Vienna, Austria

    Gerald Quirchmayr

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  1. Université Paul Sabatier, IRIT, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062, Toulouse Cedex, France

    Abdelkader Hameurlain

  2. Département Informatique, Université Aix-Marseille II, IUT, 413 Avenue Gaston Berger, 13625, Aix-en-Provence Cedex 1, France

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Quirchmayr, G., Milosevic, Z., Tagg, R., Cole, J., Kulkarni, S. (2002). Establishment of Virtual Enterprise Contracts. In: Hameurlain, A., Cicchetti, R., Traunmüller, R. (eds) Database and Expert Systems Applications. DEXA 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2453. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46146-9_24

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