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Electronic Contracts
July/August 2008 (vol. 12 no. 4)
pp. 60-68
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P. Radha Krishna, Kamalakar Karlapalem, "Electronic Contracts," IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 60-68, July/August, 2008.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MIC.2008.77,
author = {P. Radha Krishna and Kamalakar Karlapalem},
title = {Electronic Contracts},
journal ={IEEE Internet Computing},
volume = {12},
number = {4},
issn = {1089-7801},
year = {2008},
pages = {60-68},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MIC.2008.77},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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KW - data and text mining
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P. Radha Krishna, Infosys Technologies, India
Kamalakar Karlapalem, International Institute of Information Technology, India
As service-oriented computing increases, so does the role of e-contracts in helping business partners automate contractual agreements and relationships. The key challenge is to translate traditional contracts into executable e-contracts in a way that facilitates runtime monitoring and management. As research in this area progresses, organizations will have different approaches for modeling, implementing, and managing e-contracts. For now, developers must contend with several key research issues and challenges.

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Index Terms:
e-contracts, data and text mining, logic-based formalism, metamodeling, monitoring, Web services, commitments, workflows
Citation:
P. Radha Krishna, Kamalakar Karlapalem, "Electronic Contracts," IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 60-68, July-Aug. 2008, doi:10.1109/MIC.2008.77
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