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Run-Time Monitoring of Electronic Contracts

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Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis (ATVA 2008)

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Electronic inter-organizational relationships are governed by contracts regulating their interaction, therefore it is necessary to run-time monitor the contracts, as to guarantee their fulfillment. The present work shows how to obtain a run-time monitor for contracts written in \(\mathcal {CL}\), a formal specification language which allows to write conditional obligations, permissions, and prohibitions over actions. The trace semantics of \(\mathcal {CL}\) formalizes the notion of a trace fulfills a contract. We show how to obtain, for a given contract, an alternating Büchi automaton which accepts exactly the traces that fulfill the contract. This automaton is the basis for obtaining a finite state machine which acts as a run-time monitor for \(\mathcal {CL}\) contracts.

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  1. Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1080, Blindern, N-0316, Oslo, Norway

    Marcel Kyas, Cristian Prisacariu & Gerardo Schneider

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  1. College of Information & Communication, Division of Computer and Communication Engineering, Korea University, Anam-Dong, Seongbuk-Gu, 136-701, Seoul, South Korea

    Sungdeok (Steve) Cha

  2. Departmnet of Computer Science and Engineering, Korea University, Anam-Dong, Seongbuk-Gu, 136-702, Seoul, South Korea

    Jin-Young Choi

  3. KAIST, Department of Computer Science, Guseong-Dong, Yuseong-Gu, 305-701, Daejon, South Korea

    Moonzoo Kim

  4. School of Engineering and Applied Science, Department of Computer and Information Science,, University of Pennsylvania, Levine Hall, Room 602, 3330 Walnut Street, PA 19104-6389, Philadelphia, USA

    Insup Lee

  5. Thomas M. Siebel Center , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 201 N. Goodwin Avenue, IL 61801-2302, Urbana, USA

    Mahesh Viswanathan

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Kyas, M., Prisacariu, C., Schneider, G. (2008). Run-Time Monitoring of Electronic Contracts. In: Cha, S.(., Choi, JY., Kim, M., Lee, I., Viswanathan, M. (eds) Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis. ATVA 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5311. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88387-6_34

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