Formal Modelling in Electronic Commerce

✍ Scribed by Steven O. Kimbrough, D.J. Wu (auth.), Professor Steven O. Kimbrough, Professor D.J. Wu (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 556
• Series: International Handbooks on Information Systems
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Advances in automation for electronic commerce require improved understanding and formalization of the objects, processes, and policies of commerce itself. These include business objects such as bills of lading and contracts; processes such as workflows and trade procedures; and policies covering such problems as contract or procedure validation and strategic behaviour. This book is about theory, formalization, and proof-of-concept implementation of these and related matters. In addition to presenting state-of-the-art results, the book places this work in the context of nearly twenty years of developments in formal modelling for electronic commerce. A comprehensive bibliography and index are provided.

✦ Table of Contents

FMEC: Overview and Interpretation....Pages 1-29
Practical Contract Storage, Checking, and Enforcement for Business Process Automation....Pages 33-77
Legitimacy Checking in Communicative Workflow Design....Pages 79-99
CANDID Specification of Commercial and Financial Contracts: A Formal Semantics Approach to Knowledge Representation, Part I: Syntax & Formal Semantics of CANDID....Pages 101-143
CANDID Specification of Commercial and Financial Contracts: A Formal Semantics Approach to Knowledge Representation, Part II: Formal Description of Economics Actors and Objects....Pages 145-158
CANDID Specification of Commercial and Financial Contracts: A Formal Semantics Approach to Knowledge Representation, Part III: CANDID Specification of Financial Concepts....Pages 159-176
Performatives, Performatives Everywhere but Not a Drop of Ink....Pages 177-200
EDI, XML, and the Transparency Problem in Electronic Commerce....Pages 201-227
Designing Control Mechanisms for Value Exchanges in Network Organisations....Pages 231-246
Sim-I-Space: An Agent-Based Modelling Approach to Knowledge Management Processes....Pages 247-294
On Representing Special Languages with FLBC: Message Markers and Reference Fixing in SeaSpeak....Pages 297-324
A Note on Modelling Speech Acts as Signalling Conventions....Pages 325-342
Dynamic Conversation Structures: An Extended Example....Pages 343-360
Investigating the Value of Information and Computational Capabilities by Applying Genetic Programming to Supply Chain Management....Pages 363-391
Multi-Agent Simulation of Financial Markets....Pages 393-419
Adaptive Agents in Coalition Formation Games....Pages 421-443
On Learning Negotiation Strategies by Artificial Adaptive Agents in Environments of Incomplete Information....Pages 445-461
A Note on Strategic Learning in Policy Space....Pages 463-475
Learning and Tacit Collusion by Artificial Agents in Cournot Duopoly Games....Pages 477-492
A Note on Working Memory in Agent Learning....Pages 493-507
Investigations of Granularity and Payoffs in 2×2 Games under Replicator Dynamics....Pages 509-527

✦ Subjects

Business Information Systems; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet)