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Dynamic and secure B2B e-contract update management

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Samuil Angelov,

Paul GrefenAuthors Info & Claims

EC '05: Proceedings of the 6th ACM conference on Electronic commerce

Pages 19 - 28

https://doi.org/10.1145/1064009.1064012

Published: 05 June 2005 Publication History

Abstract

Business-to-business electronic contracts provide a specification of the agreed value exchange and guarantee legal protection to companies during electronic trading relations. Important features that distinguish e-contracts from traditional paper contracts are the possibilities for automatic establishment and enactment, the more detailed e-contract content specification and the frequency of e-contract content updating. In this paper, we discuss these e-contract features and the technology requirements to which they lead. We describe two conceptual architectures for the support of updates in digitally signed e-contracts. We demonstrate that the straightforward approach is inefficient and therefore inadequate for supporting high update rates in an automated, dynamic, communication-intensive contract enactment environment. The second approach that we describe allows companies to handle e-contract updates in a more efficient and simplified manner. It introduces a new type of Trusted Third Party that can be used for the support of e-contract updates. This paper provides the required conceptual foundation for the construction of an important part of an e-contract management system.

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DOI:10.1145/1064009

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