Title
Transforming Agreements Into Contracts
Abstract
During the life cycle of a service consumer-provider relationship, agreements are reached in a variety of areas covering technical, service, business and legal issues. Although some of these agreements may be viewed as legally binding, it is unlikely that any of them will constitute a legal contract in the full sense of the word. It is often expedient to gather these agreements and create a legal contract out of them. Automating this process of contract generation can speed up the process and reduce the cost of legal expenses. In fact, the process of automated contract generation can also be useful outside the realm of web services, when agreements are made directly among people.We propose a way of transforming such agreements into contracts in a dynamic, efficient and speedy manner, using advanced forms of matchmaking technology in a novel way. This complements the other directions in which the agreements are to be used, namely configuration, instantiation, enactment supervision and relationship termination and evaluation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1142/S0218843005001134
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COOPERATIVE INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
contracts, matchmaking
Journal
14
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2-3
0218-8430
6
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.64
4
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yigal Hoffner126555.32
Simon Field211920.20