TOWARDS A RAD FRAMEWORK FOR E-COMMERCE SYSTEMS

Ernest Cachia, Mark Micallef

2006

Abstract

Given the ever-increasing revenues being generated from e-commerce systems (Emarketer.com, 2005), the quality of such systems is becoming ever more important. Industry studies carried out by the authors of this paper show that customers want higher quality systems built in ever-shorter timespans. This paper establishes the need for the creation of a Rapid Application Development (RAD) based framework specifically tailored towards e-commerce systems. A skeletal version of such a framework is also proposed.

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Cachia E. and Micallef M. (2006). TOWARDS A RAD FRAMEWORK FOR E-COMMERCE SYSTEMS . In Proceedings of WEBIST 2006 - Second International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 978-972-8865-46-7, pages 234-241. DOI: 10.5220/0001242102340241


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@conference{webist06,
author={Ernest Cachia and Mark Micallef},
title={TOWARDS A RAD FRAMEWORK FOR E-COMMERCE SYSTEMS},
booktitle={Proceedings of WEBIST 2006 - Second International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2006},
pages={234-241},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001242102340241},
isbn={978-972-8865-46-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of WEBIST 2006 - Second International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - TOWARDS A RAD FRAMEWORK FOR E-COMMERCE SYSTEMS
SN - 978-972-8865-46-7
AU - Cachia E.
AU - Micallef M.
PY - 2006
SP - 234
EP - 241
DO - 10.5220/0001242102340241