SmArt architecture: Semantic agreement aware management of services

For greater efficiency and lower casts, computer scientists and engineers have been pursuing automation of versatile process management. Highly structured agreements should he able to be executed and enforced automatically. In the progress of building an executable license agreement framework, we have noticed that different agreement processing and automation have something in common, which leads us to propose a generic architecture that is able to provide various automated agreement services by leveraging ontology, rule and agent technologies.;Keyword. agreement automation, autonomic computing, knowledge representation, ontology, agent.