Abstract. Agents may choose to ignore contract violations if the costs of enforcing the contract exceed the compensation they would receive. In this paper we provide an argumentati...
Electronic inter-organizational relationships are governed by contracts regulating their interaction. It is necessary to run-time monitor the contracts, as to guarantee their fulfi...
In recent years a number of OO methods have been enhanced with textual, mathematical languages for specifying invariants and action contracts (pre and post conditions). This paper ...
Abstract. This paper presents a new version of the CL contract specification language. CL combines deontic logic with propositional dynamic logic but it applies the modalities exc...
Abstract. The question we consider in this paper is: “When can a combination of fine-grain execution steps be contracted into an atomic action execution”? Our answer is basica...