Authors:
Nathália R. S. Oliveira
;
Sofiane Labidi
;
Edson Nascimento
and
Carlos R. B. Almeida
Affiliation:
Federal University of Maranhão, Brazil
Keyword(s):
Electronic Commerce, Intelligent Agents, Contract Formation, Contract Fulfillment, Ontology, Temporal Workflow
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
B2B, B2C and C2C
;
B2C/B2B Considerations
;
Business and Social Applications
;
Communication and Software Technologies and Architectures
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Society, e-Business and e-Government
;
Software Agents and Internet Computing
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
Abstract:
This work is part of the ICS project (Intelligent Commerce System) whose aim is to design and implement an effective B2B E-commerce system based on mobile and intelligent agents. The ICS lifecycle is based on five phases: User Modeling, Matchmaking, Negotiation, Contract Formation and Contract Fulfillment. We propose here an automated process for the Contract Formation and Fulfillment phases. We propose ontology for sharing knowledge between agents that participate in the configuration process of contract, besides a repository to store contract templates and contract instances. For managing the contract fulfillment, a Temporal Workflow and active rules based on ECA paradigm of Active Database System are applied in order to develop this process.