Comparative research on design methodologies for e-business systems

Under the new challenges brought by the Internet and e-business, there are emerging many new design methodologies for e-business systems. The goal of this paper is to introduce and compare some now popular design methodologies of this area. Moreover. the paper is also supposed to indicate the strengths and weaknesses of these methodologies by comparing them from six aspects: key-modeling technique, driven model, source of navigation, documentation, and semantic richness.