Aula Magna di Anatomia Comparata - BES - Via Selmi, 3 (second floor) 7th july 2009 at 16.00 pm

Prof. Santosh K. Shrivastava (University of Newcastle upon Tyne)

Title:
"Checking Contractual Compliance of Business Interactions"


Abstract

In the business world, legal contracts form the basis to regulate the interaction between two or more trading parties. As businesses are increasingly being conducted electronically, there has been a growing interest - both within industry and academia - in exploring innovative ways of automating the management and regulation of business interactions using electronic contracting systems.
By regulation we mean monitoring and/or enforcement of business--to--business (B2B) interactions to ensure that they comply with the rights (permissions), obligations and prohibitions stipulated in contract clauses. B2B interactions have several constraints on timing and validity of messages that need to be satisfied for their successful completion. Establishing the validity of B2B interactions is made difficult in the presence of software and hardware related problems.
Taking these observations into account, the talk will develop a model to represent contractual rights, obligations and prohibitions of B2B partners and will describe how the events captured from the underlying messaging middleware can be processed in a careful manner to evaluate contractual compliance.