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In the business world, business coordinations are becoming global, execution of multi-party contracts has to be considered a vital point for successful business coordinations. The need for a new multi-party contract model is thus becoming evident. However, there is little known on how to formally model a multi-party contract. In this paper, we investigate how a contract involving multilateral parties can be modeled more easily for finding the contract responsible for given contract violations.
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Xu, L., Jeusfeld, M.A. (2004). Detecting Violators of Multi-party Contracts. In: Meersman, R., Tari, Z. (eds) On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2004: CoopIS, DOA, and ODBASE. OTM 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3290. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30468-5_33
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