Active digital documents are not only capable of performing various operations using their internal functionality and external services, accessible in the environment in which they operate, but can also migrate on their own over a network of mobile devices that provide dynamically changing execution contexts. They may imply conflicts between preferences of the active document and the device the former wishes to execute on. In the...

Poważnym ograniczeniem w upowszechnianiu standardu ebXML(elektronicznego obiegu dokumentów)jest możliwość występowania konfliktu pomiędzy partnerami transakcji. W artykule zaproponowano prosty mechanizm umożliwiający rozstrzyganie takich konfliktów w drodze automatycznie realizowanych negocjacji, którego wdrożenie pozwoli znacznie rozszerzyć zakres stosowania standardu ebXML.

Mobile document-agents are often in conflict with execution devices when attempting to perform activities of the business process they implement, since preferences of device owners may change depending on their current location and the actual class of the device in use. The paper proposes a bilateral negotiation mechanism based on a simple bargaining game that can effectively resolve such conflicts without any third party support.