Determining the Trustworthiness of New Electronic Contracts

Paul  Groth; Simon  Miles; Sanjay  Modgil; Nir  Oren; Michael  Luck; Yolanda  Gil

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-10203-5

Determining the Trustworthiness of New Electronic Contracts

Paul Groth, Simon Miles, Sanjay Modgil, Nir Oren, Michael Luck, Yolanda Gil

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Abstract

Expressing contractual agreements electronically potentially allows agents to automatically perform functions surrounding contract use: establishment, fulfilment, renegotiation etc. For such automation to be used for real business concerns, there needs to be a high level of trust in the agent-based system. While there has been much research on simulating trust between agents, there are areas where such trust is harder to establish. In particular, contract proposals may come from parties that an agent has had no prior interaction with and, in competitive business-to-business environments, little reputation information may be available. In human practice, trust in a proposed contract is determined in part from the content of the proposal itself, and the similarity of the content to that of prior contracts, executed to varying degrees of success. In this paper, we argue that such analysis is also appropriate in automated systems, and to provide it we need systems to record salient details of prior contract use and algorithms for assessing proposals on their content. We use provenance technology to provide the former and detail algorithms for measuring contract success and similarity for the latter, applying them to an aerospace case study.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Engineering Societies in the Agents World X
Subtitle of host publication	10th International Workshop, ESAW 2009, Utrecht, The Netherlands, November 18-20, 2009. Proceedings
Publisher	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Pages	132-147
Number of pages	16
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-642-10203-5
ISBN (Print)	978-3-642-10202-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10203-5
Publication status	Published - 2009
Event	10th International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents World, ESAW 2009 - Duration: 1 Jan 2009 → …

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Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Publisher	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Volume	5881
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

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Conference	10th International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents World, ESAW 2009
Period	1/01/2009 → …

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Groth, P., Miles, S., Modgil, S., Oren, N., Luck, M., & Gil, Y. (2009). Determining the Trustworthiness of New Electronic Contracts. In Engineering Societies in the Agents World X: 10th International Workshop, ESAW 2009, Utrecht, The Netherlands, November 18-20, 2009. Proceedings (pp. 132-147). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 5881). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10203-5

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Determining the Trustworthiness of New Electronic Contracts. / Groth, Paul ; Miles, Simon ; Modgil, Sanjay et al.
Engineering Societies in the Agents World X: 10th International Workshop, ESAW 2009, Utrecht, The Netherlands, November 18-20, 2009. Proceedings. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009. p. 132-147 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 5881).

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Groth P, Miles S , Modgil S, Oren N, Luck M, Gil Y. Determining the Trustworthiness of New Electronic Contracts. In Engineering Societies in the Agents World X: 10th International Workshop, ESAW 2009, Utrecht, The Netherlands, November 18-20, 2009. Proceedings. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. 2009. p. 132-147. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-10203-5

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