e-Service Design Using i* and e3value Modeling

  • Authors:
  • Jaap Gordijn;Eric Yu;Bas van der Raadt

  • Affiliations:
  • Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam;University of Toronto;Capgemini Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Software
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

e-Services are intangible products, provisioned via the Internet. Examples include Internet access and Internet radio. Because most e-services involve multiple enterprises, creating a shared understanding of the service under development is an issue. Such an e-service is more difficult to understand than a proposition just consisting of goods because services lack easily observable physical properties. Consequently, software engineers must first understand the e-service itself before they can build effective systems and support for these services. The authors present the complementary use of two requirements engineering techniques. Using i* modeling, they explore strategic goals that enterprises have, and using e3value modeling, they understand how these goals can result in profitable services for enterprises. They demonstrate their approach using a case study on Internet radio.This article is part of a special issue on requirements engineering.