Legal Programming: Designing Legally Compliant RFID and Software Agent Architectures for Retail Processes and Beyond provides a process-oriented discussion of the legal concerns presented by agent-based technologies, processes and programming. It offers a general outline of the potential legal difficulties that could arise in relation to them, focusing on the programming of negotiation and contracting processes in a privacy, consumer and commercial context. The authors will elucidate how it is possible to create form of legal framework and design methodology for transaction agents, applicable in any environment and not just in a specific proprietary framework, that provides the right level of compliance and trust. Key elements considered include the design and programming of legally compliant methods, the determination of rights in respect of objects and variables, and ontologies and programming frameworks for agent interactions. Examples are used to illustrate the points made and provide a practical perspective.

Provides a process-oriented discussion of the legal issues presented by agent-based technology. It works through these processes to produce a framework for designing a methodology for legal compliance, rights, etc. for intelligent agents performing and negotiating various types of transactions A hot topic in the EE/CS and IT fields and Subirana is on top of this research Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Contracts.- Intellectual Property Rights.- Consumer Protection.- Privacy.- Conclusions.