Abstract
Creating an e-Commerce Information System (eCIS) also creates its quality. The development process used to develop an eCIS thus impacts on the quality of the resulting systems. Developers need to select a development process to be followed from a number of available processes. Their choice might be flawed as a result of insufficient knowledge regarding development processes, the quality characteristics of the processes, or a selection methodology. This paper defines an ontology for development processes of eCIS (e-Processes). It provides characteristics and for each a scale and thus a conceptual framework for quantitatively assessing e-Processes. Furthermore a selection methodology and the architecture of a prototype e-Process selection tool are discussed.
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Albertyn, F. (2005). Ontology for the Selection of e-Processes. In: Dean, M., et al. Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2005 Workshops. WISE 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3807. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11581116_1
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