NDLI: Approaching a formal definition of fairness in electronic commerce

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Gartner, F.C. Pagnia, H. Vogt, H.
Copyright Year	1999
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Comput. Sci., Darmstadt Univ. of Technol., Germany (Gartner, F.C.)
Abstract	The notion of fairness is a very general concept and can be used to coin terms in many different application areas. Recently the term fairness has appeared in the context of electronic commerce. Here, the term fair exchange refers to the problem that two parties want to swap some distinct items in a way which ensures that no participant can gain advantage over the other. Many protocols for fair exchange have been proposed but comparing or formally verifying them has remained rather difficult. The reason for this is that the notion of fairness they use is often different, and exact (i.e., formal) fairness definitions do not exist. We make a first attempt to approach a formal definition of fairness in electronic commerce. We do this by reviewing the established terminology regarding the notion of fairness in concurrency theory and adapting the formal apparatus to derive three precisely separable definitions of fairness in electronic commerce which we call strong, eventually strong and weak fairness.
Starting Page	354
Ending Page	359
File Size	67224
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0769502903
ISSN	10609857
DOI	10.1109/RELDIS.1999.805123
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	1999-10-22
Publisher Place	Switzerland
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Electronic commerce Computer science Business Protocols Concurrent computing Terminology Application software Dictionaries Computer networks IP networks
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Theoretical Computer Science Computer Networks and Communications Software Hardware and Architecture

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