Common Contracts
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Carlos Molina-Jimenez1, Jim Pruyne2, and Aad van Moorsel1July 8th, 2005
Abstract. Various forms of agreements naturally arise in the service provider model as well as in multi-party computing models such as business-to-business, utility and grid computing. The role of these agree- ments is twofold: they stipulate obligations and expectations of the in- volved parties, and they represent the goals to be met by the infrastruc- ture. As a consequence of this latter point, in order to automate run-time adaptation and management of systems and services, agreements should be encoded and integrated in management software platforms. In this pa- per, we review the state of the art in software support for various forms of agreements, for all stages of their life-cycle. We also review emerging platforms and technologies in standard bodies, industries and academia.
