Multiagent Based Support For Electronic Contracting In Virtual Enterprises

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-008044654-7/50202-8 Information Control Problems in Manufacturing 2006 A Proceedings Volume from the 12th IFAC Conference 17-19 May 2006, Saint-Etienne, France 2006, Pages 413-418International audienceIn this paper we present multi-agent based management of electronic contract (e-contract) in a B2B context, for Tele-services. Several solutions have been proposed in the multi-agent domain for negotiation of contracts. However few concern the monitoring of contracts and the management of their violation and enforcement. We describe a prototype implementing the concepts of e-contract using MOISEInst, a normative multi-agent organizational model. Thanks to it, contractual clauses are expressed as rights and duties of agents along four points of view: structural, functional, contextual and normative. We use a real-world contracting scenario as a test-bed for examining the proposed e-contract architecture and for implementing our prototype