In countries where GPs fulfill a central role in the health care system, like Netherlands, lack of value-based incentives GP payment systems may have negative consequences for value delivered other parts spectrum. We evaluate an experiment which were allowed to share savings total expenditures, conditionally on achieving quality targets. At least theory, these so-called ‘shared contracts’ incen...

Several proposals for component-based development methods have started to appear. However, the emphasis is still very much on the development of components as opposed to the development with components. The main focus is on how to generate ideal reusable components not on how to plug existing components and specify their interactions and connections. The concept of a coordination contract (Andr...

This note relates the mechanisms that are based on mediated contracts of Rahman and Obara (2010) to the mechanisms of Myerson (1982). It shows that the mechanisms in Myerson (1982) are more general in that they encompass the mechanisms based on mediated contracts. It establishes an equivalence between the two classes if mediated contracts are allowed to be stochastic.

We present a specification of the optimization of KLM’s flight schedule in this paper using object-oriented simulation services on top of the Java-based distributed simulation environment DSOL. The paper shows the added value of a service-based architecture for linking the simulation of KLM’s operations, the operational modules for day-to-day flight optimization, the interfaces to input data, a...

We address one of the challenges in developing solutions based on multiagent systems for the problems of cross-organizational business processes and commerce generally. Specifically, we study how to gather and analyze requirements embodied within business contracts using the abstractions from multiagent systems. Commerce is driven by business contracts. Each party to a business contract must be...

Research background: In the private sector and on social media, corporate emotional interaction has lately become a hot topic. background of public sector, however, it scarcely been discussed very little is known about its determinants implications.
 Purpose article: This research investigates role organizational engagement through relational contracts, senior management receptivity, upwar...

This work presents the e-Cobra architecture, an on-demand resource allocation system based on service contracts, developed to address some of the problems in the deployment and management of network based application services. The architecture supports business rules representation extracted from negotiated contracts between the involved parts (providers and customers). From these contracts, po...

Autonomic computing aims at producing software systems that can manage themselves. As component-based development also partly addresses the complexity of large applications, we propose to combine the benefits of both approaches by using components equipped with negotiable contracts. These contracts specify the correct behavior of the components and play a central role in feedback control loops ...

Blockchain-based distributed computing platforms enable the trusted execution of computation—defined in the form of smart contracts—without trusted agents. Smart contracts are envisioned to have a variety of applications, ranging from financial to IoT asset tracking. Unfortunately, the development of smart contracts has proven to be extremely error prone. In practice, contracts are riddled with...