A Frame Work for Modeling Electronic Contracts
A Frame Work for Modeling Electronic Contracts
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电子合同建模框架
DOI：
10.1007/3-540-45581-7_16
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发表时间：
2001
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通讯作者：
P. R. Krishna
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作者：
K. Karlapalem;A. Dani;P. R. Krishna
合同是两个或多个当事人之间建立业务关系或法律的义务的协议。合同将定义由满足一系列条款和条件（条款）的各方执行的一系列活动。电子合同是由软件系统建模、指定、执行、控制和监控的合同。通常，工作流管理系统用于电子合同管理。电子合同是复杂的相互关联的工作流程，必须仔细指定以满足合同要求。大多数工作流模型没有能力处理这些相互关系的复杂性。也就是说，电子合同不坚持面向活动/任务的工作流过程，从而产生了电子合同和工作流的概念模型之间的差距。因此，需要一个建模框架来概念化电子合同并对相互关系的复杂性进行建模。在本文中，我们提出了一个框架，概念建模的电子合同（使用ER-R数据模型）和一种方法，将电子合同的工作流，可以执行的工作流管理系统。
A contract is an agreement between two or more parties to create business relations or legal obligations between them. A contract will define the set of activities to be performed by parties satisfying a set of terms and conditions (clauses). An e-contract is a contract modeled, specified executed, controlled and monitored by a software system. Typically, a workflow management system is used for e-contract management. E-contracts are complex inter related workflows that have to be specified carefully to satisfy the contract requirements. Most workflow models do not have the capabilities to handle the complexities of these interrelationships. That is, an e-contract does not adhere to activity/task oriented workflow process, thus generating a gap between a conceptual model of e-contract and workflow. Therefore, there is a need for a modeling framework to conceptualize e-contracts and model the complexity of interrelationships. In this paper, we present a framework for conceptually modeling e-contracts (using ER-R data model) and a methodology to translate an e-contract to a workflow that can be executed by a workflow management system.