Name
Abstract | ||
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Virtual Enterprises are being built on an Internet back-bone, for which security provisioning is an obvious first concern. However, additional sen,ices need provisioning as well. For instance, contracted arrangements for quality inspection, notification of delay, and other such coordinations can be provided by semi-autonomous agent-based services. We introduce information contracts, which specify the commitments of ContractAgents to each other Based on human-readable contract templates with fill-in-the-blank terms, ContractAgents manage the negotiation stage between user specialists and then operationalize and ensure these commitments during enactment. Building on the idea of agent-based sphere of commitments (SoComs) to overcome weaknesses in extended transaction processing and traditional workflow management, we show how ContractAgents also need to be positioned within the security architecture of virtual private networks. The standardization of contracts, SoCom servers, and operationalized commitments can then provide a basis for compliance checks by trusted third parties and oversight authorities. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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1998 | 10.1109/HASE.1998.731634 | HASE |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
trusted third party,software agents,business communication,internet,transaction processing,autonomous agent,inspection,spine,security architecture,internet backbone,workflow management,standardization,information security | Transaction processing,Computer science,Computer security,Server,Software agent,Provisioning,Enterprise information security architecture,Workflow,Private network,The Internet | Conference |
ISBN | Citations | PageRank |
0-8186-9221-9 | 1 | 0.38 |
References | Authors | |
1 | 5 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manuel Aparicio, IV | 1 | 1 | 0.72 |
| Peter Herman | 2 | 9 | 2.94 |
| Wendy Stephens | 3 | 1 | 0.38 |
| Anuj K. Jain | 4 | 66 | 4.58 |
| Munindar P. Singh | 5 | 6478 | 620.51 |