A Review and Comparison of Service E-Contract Architecture Metamodels [chapter]

Ali Braytee, Asif Qumer Gill, Paul J. Kennedy, Farookh Khadeer Hussain
2015 Lecture Notes in Computer Science  
An adaptive service e-contract is an electronic agreement which is required to enable adaptive or agile service sourcing and provisioning. There are a number of e-contract metamodels that can be used to create a context specic adaptive service e-contract. The challenge is which one to choose and adopt for adaptive services. This paper presents a review and comparison of well-known e-contract metamodels using the architecture theory. The architecture theory allows the analysis of the e-contract
more » ... etamodels using a threedimension analytical lens: structure, behavior and technology. The results of this paper highlight the metamodels structural, behavioral and technological dierences and similarities. This paper will help researchers and practitioners to observe whether the existing e-contract metamodels are appropriate to the adaptive services or if there is a need to merge and integrate the concepts of these metamodels to propose a new unifying adaptive service e-contract metamodel. This paper is limited to the number of compared metamodels.
doi:10.1007/978-3-319-26561-2_69 fatcat:3hciuqazw5devgvon3ep2kbtc4