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An e-contract is a contract that is specified, modeled and executed by a software system. E-contract business processes are modeled using workflows and their enactment is mostly dependent on the execution context. Existing e-contract systems lack context-awareness, and thus often face difficulties in enacting when context and requirements of e-contracts change at run-time. In this paper, we (a) present an approach for context pattern discovery and build a context-aware workflow execution engine, (b) develop an approach for context-aware execution-workflow to instantiate and execute context-based workflow instances and (c) provide a framework for context-aware e-contract enactment system. We also demonstrate the viability of our approach using a government contract.
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Jain, H., Radha Krishna, P., Karlapalem, K. (2016). Context-Aware Workflow Execution Engine for E-Contract Enactment. In: Comyn-Wattiau, I., Tanaka, K., Song, IY., Yamamoto, S., Saeki, M. (eds) Conceptual Modeling. ER 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9974. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46397-1_23
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