Using services across domain boundaries, be they organizations or self-managing
components of large distributed systs, requires the setup of an agreent between the parties …

Roles have been widely used for modeling theauthority, responsibility, functions, and
interactions, associated with manager positions within organizations. In this paper, we …

This paper examines the support needed for dynamically creating and managing contract-
driven virtual enterprises. Our approach to virtual enterprises views contracts as the central …

Organisational control principles, such as those expressed in the separation of duties,
supervision, review and delegation, support the main business goals and activities of an …

Distributed systems management faces new challenges due to an exponential increase in
the size of networked environments. New paradigms that devolve management control and …

Efficient means of electronic interaction are an essential requirement for the integration of
different companies' business processes along the value chain. Until recently, this …

Business contracts play a central role in governing commercial interactions between
organizations. It is increasingly recognized that business contract conditions need to be …

Nowadays, flexible electronic cooperation paradigms are required for core business
processes to meet the speed and flexibility requirements dictated by fast-changing markets …

The Reference Model of Open Distributed Processing (RM-ODP) introduces the notion of an
enterprise viewpoint and provides a minimum set of concepts for structuring enterprise …

In this paper we investigate those aspects of electronic commerce which can be used to
facilitate inter-organisational business dealings. The Internet has substantially promoted …