The Model Driven Architecture (MDA) is offered as one way forward in software systems modelling to connect software design with the business domain. The general focus of the MDA is the development of software systems by performing transformations between software design models, and the automatic...

Electronic marketplaces (e-marketplaces) have a profound influence on the way in which organizations manage their supply chains. Proponents of the e-marketplace concept suggest that web-based trading systems, such as World Wide Retail Exchange (WWRE) and GlobalNetXchange (GNX), would enable...

Globalization and the Internet are creating a new form of network organization characterized by networks of cooperating and competing firms. The concept of network organization advocates flexible and open organizational structures that would improve coordination among organizational units and...

In electronic markets, the Internet creates new network structures that enable firms to integrate cross-functional activities at relatively low cost and eliminate non-value-adding activities. However, there is little empirical evidence on how structural characteristics of network organization...

The Model Driven Architecture (MDA) brings benefits to software development, among them the potential for connecting software models with the business domain. This paper focuses on the upstream or Computation Independent Model (CIM) phase of the MDA. Our contention is that, whilst there are many...