| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/S94919/01 |
| Title: |
Business Contract Driven Application Development and Control |
| Principal Investigator: |
Bacon, Professor JM |
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| Department: |
Computer Science and Technology |
| Organisation: |
University of Cambridge |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 October 2004 |
Ends: |
30 September 2007 |
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161,473
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| Information & Knowledge Mgmt |
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Legal/business contracts are central to the operation of commercial organisations in that they constrain and direct the behaviour of a company and its agents. We propose to make contracts central to the development and control of applications. To this end, we shall represent contractual provisions in a form suitable for machine interpretation. Contracts may then be queried, executed and monitored automatically; that is, we shall provide contractdriven enforcement. Our contracts are not static but are subject to change and this change must be managed. We propose to develop applications by ensuring that participants adhere to the provisions of the contracts that bind them. This is a novel approach which will integrate the specification of an e-business application with the implementation of its code base. As scenarios evolve participants are bound by a changing set of legal relations, in accordance with specified contractual terms and conditions. Our recent work has addressed event monitoring and the use of active databases to manage access control policy. We intend to pursue extensions to these paradigms in order to monitor contracts in a commercial setting. .
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http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/opera/projects/ |
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http://www.cam.ac.uk |