document: Contracting in the days of ebusiness Putting electronic business on a sound foundation-model theoretically as well as technologically-is a central challenge for research as well as commercial development . This paper concentrates on the discovery and negotiation phase of concluding an agreement based on a contract . We present a methodology for moving seamlessly from a many-to-many relationship in the discovery phase to a one-to-one relationship in the contract negotiation phase . Making the content of contracts persistent is achieved by reconstructing contract templates by means of mereologic -LRB- logic of the whole-part relation -RRB- . Possibly nested sub-structures of the contract template are taken as a basis for negotiation in a dialogical way . For the negotiation itself the contract templates are extended by implications -LRB- logical -RRB- and sequences -LRB- topical -RRB-
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