Improving the usability of e-commerce applications using business processes

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 837-855

  Zhou, Ying ^a   Zhang, Qi ^a   Zhao, Xulin ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

And Usability; Business Process; Computer interfaces; Electronic commerce; Graphical user interfaces; Process Definition; Usability; User Interface Reengineering

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; REENGINEERING;

BUSINESS PROCESS; USER INTERFACE REENGINEERING;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 36348930456     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2007.70709     Document Type: Conference Paper

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