Agreement Space Clause Samples

Agreement Space. As it has been stated before, an agreement can be seen as the definition of a common context. As commented in section 2 an space metaphor such as the one used in Context Spaces can be used to express such contexts. So, an agreement space can be defined. Definition 3 (Agreement Discourse Space). The Agreement Discourse Space of an agreement Ag ADS(Ag) is defined by considering as a dimension (in an Euclidean space) each concept included in an Agreement Discourse Universe of an agreement Ag. That is, the ADS(Ag) is an n-dimensional space, where n is the cardinality of the ADU (Ag) (number of common terms). Figure 1 shows an example with 3 dimensions, where the points represent the possible combination values of such space (assuming a discrete domain for every dimension). Definition 4 (Agreement Space). According to the first phase of an agree- ment, a decision must be taken about the concepts, that is, the dimensions in which the agreement will be expressed. So, an Agreement Space is a projection of the Agreement Discourse Space onto the dimensions defining the agreement. That is, this space will be defined by the features the different entities Ei making the agreement are going to negotiate (Cx), each one of such features defining a dimension in this space (∀i : di ∈ dim(Ei, Ag)). In order to be possible an agreement Ag, for all entity Ei participating in the agreement there will exist at least one other participating entity Ej so that dim(Ei, Ag) ∩ dim(Ej, Ag) /= 0. The Agreement Space is, then, the result of eliminating the unnecessary dimensions that are not relevant for the agreement. For example, in Figure 1 the y dimension is not relevant, so the way the entities will deal with y concept is not controlled by the agreement, and the Agreement Space is reduced to the marked 2-dimensional area, that is, the projection over x and z dimensions of the defined ADS. In this way, the outcome of the first phase of the agreement will be the definition of this Agreement Space, fixing the satisfying values for each one of the different dimensions comprising this space. The second phase of the agreement will be to carry out the execution of the agreement taking into account that it has to be carried out inside the previously defined Agreement Space.