Title :
Value based requirements creation for electronic commerce applications
Author :
Gordijn, Jaap ; Akkermans, Hans ; Van Vliet, Hans
Author_Institution :
Bakkenist Manage. Consultants, Vrije Univ., Amsterdam, Netherlands
Abstract :
Electronic commerce applications have special features compared to conventional information systems. First, because electronic commerce usually involves yet nonexisting business activities, requirements for e-commerce applications have to be created from scratch rather than elicited. Second, design decisions about e-business models and the associated information systems architecture cannot be sequentially made in a decoupled way, because business and technology considerations are strongly linked. On these counts, current methodology for requirements engineering is inadequate for electronic commerce applications. We outline a structured approach to e-commerce requirements creation. This e3-VALUE approach enables one to clarify business model decisions to be made by management, by modelling the end-to-end value activities and exchanges in the e-commerce stakeholder network. In addition, this value network model enables system developers to derive high-level requirements concerning the software architecture.
Keywords :
electronic commerce; information systems; software architecture; systems analysis; business; design decisions; e3-VALUE approach; electronic commerce; information systems; requirements engineering; software architecture; value based requirements creation; value network model; Application software; Business; Computer architecture; Decision making; Electrical capacitance tomography; Electronic commerce; Information analysis; Information systems; Management information systems; Software architecture;
Conference_Titel :
System Sciences, 2000. Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Hawaii International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0493-0
DOI :
10.1109/HICSS.2000.926846