Towards legal programming: the incorporation of legal criteria in software agent design - Current proposals and future prospects

摘要

This fourth and final article in a series on the legal challenges of ecommerce oriented software agents summarises issues analysed in previous articles and puts current agent research in context: the semantic web and web services, multi agent systems and open markets. The authors comment on these technologies from a legal perspective especially in relation to establishing trust in agent based commerce. Continuing their process oriented analysis of agent activities, they discuss certain tools such as modelling and agent ontologies and protocols, presenting a brief roadmap indicating potential paths towards creating legally compliant agent systems.