From Contracts to E-Contracts: Modeling and Enactment |
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Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">P?Radha?KrishnaEmail author Kamalakar?Karlapalem A?R?Dani |
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Affiliation: | (1) Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology, Castle Hills, Masab Tank, Hyderabad, 500057, India;(2) International Institute of Information Technology, Gachibowli, Hyderabad, 50019, India |
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Abstract: | Contracts are complex to understand, represent and process electronically. Usually, contracts involve various entities such
as parties, activities and clauses. An e-contract is a contract modeled, specified, executed and enacted (controlled and monitored)
by a software system (such as a workflow system). Workflows are used to automate business processes that govern adherence
to the e-contracts. E-contracts can be mapped to inter-related workflows, which have to be specified carefully to satisfy
the contract requirements. Most workflow models do not have the capabilities to handle complex inter/intra relationships among
entities in e-contracts. An e-contract does not adhere to activity/task oriented workflow processes, thus generating a gap
between a conceptual model of e-contract and workflow. In this paper, we describe conceptual modeling of e-contracts and present
a business process model for e-contract enactment. The enactment of e-contracts necessitates dynamic generation and initiation
of workflows during the e-contract execution, besides the static workflows. EREC business process model facilitates an integrated approach to e-contracts enactment. Our methodology is illustrated by means
of a case study conducted using Financial Messaging Solution contract for banking transactions. |
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Keywords: | electronic contract ER model workflow meta-model business process model |
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