A Prototype for an Agent-Based Electronic Contracting using an Organizational Model

The purpose of a contract, in a B2B context, is to establish an agreement in order to decrease risks associated with the interactions between trading partners. Humans currently carry manually out the business contract processes. This mainly includes the mechanisms of negotiation, signing, validation and monitoring. In order to improve the execution of the contracts with complex scenarios the use of multi agent system technologies is more appropriate. This paper describes a prototype implementing the concepts of electronic contract dedicated for tele-services based on MOISE^Inst, an organizational model for agents. This model aims to specify the rights and duties of agents in a society according to four points of view: structural, functional, contextual and normative. We use a real-world contract scenario as a test-bed for examining our e-contract architecture and for implementing our prototype