Supporting Electronic Commerce Transactions with Contracting Services

Abstracting from basic communication mechanisms such as transactionally secure remote procedure calls and remote database access mechanisms, this includes service trading and brokerage functions as well as security aspects including such as notary and non-repudiation functions. Further important elements of a system infrastructure for electronic commerce applications are: common middleware infrastructures, componentware techniques, distributed and mobile agent technologies etc. As electronic transcations enter the phase of performance, increasingly new and important functions are required. Among these are: negotiation protocols to support both the settlement and the ful llment of electronic contracts as well as ad-hoc work ow management support for compound and distributed services in electronic commerce applications. In addition to an overview of the state of the art of the respective technology, the article brie y presents some related projects conducted by the authors jointly with...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 1998
• Where: IJCIS
• Authors: Michael Merz, Frank Griffel, M. Tuan Tu, Stefan Müller-Wilken, Harald Weinreich, Marko Boger, Winfried Lamersdorf
• Keywords: Basic Communication Mechanisms, Electronic Commerce Applications, IJCIS 1998, Secure Remote Procedure