Requirements Engineering of Electronic Commerce

	Principle Investigators	Dr. William N. Robinson
	Collaborators	Greg Elofson
	Current members	Tuong M Vu
	Past members	S. Pawlowski, S. Volkov, Kuosheng Yang

Project Summary
 

Requirements engineering provides a theoretical perspective and tools for the definition and analysis of computer systems that support business goals. Electronically brokered transactions can be analyzed from this perspective. For example, the business to business negotiations that are part of supply chain management can be analyzed and supported with software agent-based solutions. Similarly, broker agents can assist in creating custom consumer channels of mass produced products. This project seeks to bring requirements engineering analyses to the tasks of defining electronic commerce applications.

Current focus Managing supply chains through the use of multiple negotiating broker agents.

Project Papers

Many of Dr. Robinson's publications are available on-line at his bibliography page.
 

Robinson, W.N., Elofson, G., Electronic Broker Impacts on the Value of Postponement in a Global Supply Chain, Journal of Global Information Management April-June 2001. Robinson, W.N , Elofson, G., Electronic Broker Impacts on the Value of Postponement, IEEE, Proceedings of The 33th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences, January 4-9, 2000. Elofson, G., Robinson, W.N., Creating a Custom Mass-Production Channel on the Internet, ACM, Communications of the ACM, March, 1998, pp. 56-62.  Robinson, W.N., Volkov, S., Supporting the Negotiation Life-Cycle, ACM, Communications of the ACM, May, 1998, pp. 95-102.  Robinson, W.N., Electronic Brokering for Assisted Contracting of Software Applets, IEEE, Proceedings of the 30th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences, January 7-10 1997, pp. 449-458.

 

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Software Prototypes  A project page for the DealMaker prototype is available.  A project page for the DealScribe prototype is available.

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