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Title:
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EXPLORING ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN STRATEGIES FOR E-BUSINESS APPLICATIONS |
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Author(s):
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Feras T. Dabous , Fethi A. Rabhi |
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ISBN:
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972-8924-06-2 |
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Editors:
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Nitya Karmakar and Pedro Isaías |
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Year:
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2005 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Architectural design, e-business applications, legacy systems. |
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Type:
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Short Paper |
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First Page:
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333 |
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Last Page:
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337 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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Architectural design is a vital phase in the development of e-business applications. A suitable compromise must be determined taking into account business requirements, quality criteria and existing constraints (e.g. presence of legacy systems). This paper adopts the view that for a particular problem context, it is possible to consider the architectural design activity as consisting of a series of choices made regarding a number of architectural design strategies. To make this feasible, we are focusing on problems within a restricted context. The problem context described in the paper is very common for a category of e-business applications that are inspired from the e-finance domain. We identify a number of design strategies for such a problem context and show the resulting architectures. We also present a design process modeled as a decision tree and show how quality models can be used to select the most appropriate architecture. The recommendations made by the models are checked against real data from existing projects. |
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