Running Contracts with Defeasible Commitment
Abstract
Real life contracts imply commitments which are active during their running window, with effects on both normal runs as well as in the case of exceptions. We have defined defeasible commitment machines (DCMs) to provide more flexibility. As an extension to the task dependency model for the supply chain we propose the commitment dependency network (CDN) to monitor contracts between members of the supply chain. The workings of the DCMs in the CDN is shown by a simple scenario with supplier, producer, and consumer.
Full citation
"Running Contracts with Defeasible Commitment", Advances in Applied Artificial Intelligence, 19th International on Industrial, Engineering and Other Applications Applied Intelligent Systems, IEA/AIE 2006, Annecy, France, June 27-30, 2006 Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), Springer, Vol. 4031, pp. 91-100, DOI: 10.1007/11779568_12, ISBN: 3-540-35453-0, 2006.