Directed deadline obligations in agent-based business contracts

• Tipo: Artigo em Livro de Atas de Conferência Internacional
• Data: 2010

Autores

Eugénio Oliveira (Autor) FEUP; Henrique Lopes Cardoso (Autor) FEUP

Ata de Conferência Internacional

Título: COORDINATION, ORGANIZATIONS, INSTITUTIONS AND NORMS IN AGENT SYSTEMS V

Páginas: 225-240

Multi-Agents Logics, Languages, and Organizations Workshop

Turin, ITALY, SEP 07-11, 2009

Indexação

ISI Web of Knowledge - 5 Citações

ISI Web of Science

Scopus - 12 Citações

INSPEC

Classificação Científica

FOS: Ciências da engenharia e tecnologias > Engenharia electrotécnica, electrónica e informática

CORDIS: Ciências Físicas > Ciência de computadores > Sistema de computadores

Outras Informações

ID Authenticus: P-003-AH9

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-14962-7_15

Abstract (EN): There are B2B relationships that presume cooperation in contract enactment. This issue should be taken into account when modeling, for computational handling, contractual commitments through obligations. Deadline obligations have been modeled by considering that reaching the deadline without compliance brings up a violation. When modeling commitments in business contracts, directed obligations have been studied for identifying two agents: the obligation's bearer and the counterparty, who may claim for legal action in case of non-compliance. We argue in favor of a directed deadline obligation approach, taking inspiration on international legislation over trade procedures. Our proposal to model contractual obligations is based on authorizations granted in specific states of an obligation lifecycle model, which we formalize using temporal logic and implement in a rule-based system. The performance of a contractual relationship is supported by a model of flexible deadlines, which allow for further cooperation between autonomous agents. As a result, the decision-making space of agents concerning contractual obligations is enlarged and becomes richer. We discuss the issues that agents should take into account in this extended setting.

Idioma: Inglês

Tipo (Avaliação Docente): Científica

Nº de páginas: 16