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International Workshop on Web Services, E-Business, and the Semantic Web

WES 2003: Web Services, E-Business, and the Semantic Web pp 51–61Cite as

A Framework for E-markets: Monitoring Contract Fulfillment

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To be able to monitor contracts at contract fulfillment stages is a key ingredient for a reliable, flexible, efficient, realistic and acceptable e-market. In this paper, we explore monitoring requirements of different e-market infrastructures, and define the monitorability of various e-market infrastructure approaches. For avoidance and anticipation of imminent contract violations, and detection and compensation of actual violations, a two-level framework is presented, a reference architecture of the two-level framework is demonstrated finally.

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  1. CRISM/Infolab, Tilburg University, 5000 LE, Tilburg, The Netherlands

    Lai Xu

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  1. Cisco Systems, Inc., CA 95134, San Jose, USA

    Christoph J. Bussler

  2. DERI Innsbruck, University of Innsbruck, Austria

    Dieter Fensel

  3. Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Faculty of IT, Ul. Koszykowa 86, 02-008, Warsaw, Poland

    Maria E. Orlowska

  4. Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

    Jian Yang

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Xu, L. (2004). A Framework for E-markets: Monitoring Contract Fulfillment. In: Bussler, C.J., Fensel, D., Orlowska, M.E., Yang, J. (eds) Web Services, E-Business, and the Semantic Web. WES 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3095. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-25982-4_6

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