e-commerce at uqam

Nouvelles technologies et sciences appliquées – Novembre 2013
SÉRIEFOCUS
Recherche
et création
E-COMMERCE AT UQAM
LABORATOIRE DE RECHERCHE
SUR LES TECHNOLOGIES DU
COMMERCE ÉLECTRONIQUE/
THE LABORATORY FOR RESEARCH ON TECHNOLOGY FOR
E-COMMERCE (LATECE)
plement innovative, complex, flexible and
inter-organizational processes, are deployed on a large-scale, and involve certain requirements regarding accessibility,
performance, and security.
CUTTING-EDGE RESEARCH
UQAM’s Laboratory for Research on
Technology for E-commerce (LATECE) is
an institutional research centre that focuses on the technological aspects and
the business rules of software applications in the field of e-business. These
applications are unique because they im-
Led by professor Hafedh Mili, the LATECE brings together more than twenty
researchers from UQAM’s computer
science department and school of management (École des sciences de la gestion), as well as from ÉTS (École de technologie supérieure), UQAC (Université du
The LATECE boasts cutting-edge
expertise in e-business. Its research
focuses on the entire e-business software
development lifecycle, from the design of
underlying business processes to the
engineering of software systems, and the
post-deployment analysis of production
data. These multidisciplinary approaches
Soutien à la mobilisation des connaissances UQAM
(knowledge mobilization support services)
◊◊ Advice on knowledge translation (dissemination, transfer, etc.)
◊◊ Identification of opportunities (for funding, partnerships, etc.)
◊◊ Support for the development of collaborative projects
Contacts Faculté des sciences : www.sciences.uqam.ca
Josée Savard, 514-987-3000 poste 1646 – [email protected]
Service des partenariats et du soutien à l’innovation : www.sepsi.uqam.ca
Marie-France Lisé, 514-987-3000 poste 8505 – [email protected]
Service de la recherche et de la création : www.src.uqam.ca
Jérôme Elissalde, 514-987-3000 poste 3890 – [email protected]
www.recherche.uqam.ca@mdc_uqam
Québec à Chicoutimi), UQO (Université du
Québec en Outaouais), and the industry
(Xerox).
Laboratoire de recherche
sur les technologies
du commerce électronique /
Laboratory for Research
on Technology for E-commerce
514-987-3000 ext. 3943
www.latece.uqam.ca
DIRECTOR
Hafedh Mili, Professor, Département
d’informatique, UQAM
[email protected]
EXAMPLES OF
RESEARCH
Assisted
Business Process Design
enable researchers to bring concrete and
innovative solutions to the complex
challenges faced by manufacturers in the
information and communication
technology sector.
dissemination on the local, national and
CONTRIBUTIONS TO SOCIETY
focusing on the use of e-business to drive
E-business plays a central role in the so-
economic development.
international levels. It also offers free
access to the results of its legacy research
for the benefit of the research community,
and is involved in a United Nations project
called “digital society”. The work done by
LATECE researchers aims to support
software publishers – a key segment of
the information and communication
technology industry –, helping them to
offer competitive products in terms of
functionality, cost, and quality. It also
benefits software operators, such as
Sources
The LATECE’s website:
www.latece.uqam.ca
The United Nations Conference on Trade and
Development (UNCTAD) E-tourism Initiative:
http://etourism.unctad.org
The OTO software: http://oto.uqam.ca
The SOFA tool: http://sofa.uqam.ca
The Nit language: http://nitlanguage.org/
companies, banks, government agencies,
hospitals or schools, by helping them to
optimize their service offer, and to adapt it
Keywords
to their clients. The LATECE also aims to
E-business, semantic web, business
intelligence, mobile business, business
process management, data mining,
software engineering
train highly qualified personnel in the field
of Internet technology, and to provide the
E-business software engineering
begins with the design and
modelling of the business processes
implemented by the applications.
Such processes are often complex,
inter-organizational, and include
conflicting quality requirements.
LATECE researchers develop tools
and techniques to help business
analysts design and model the
processes best suited to their
product/service, organization and
industry. The lab’s approach ensures
that business factors (such as
organizational policy, for instance)
are taken into account and
formalized.
Quality Software Design
In software engineering, quality can
be achieved by using recognized
development practices, such as
design patterns, or by assessing
whether software meets certain
quality criteria. LATECE members
have undertaken the research and
development of tools to implement
the best practices in object- and
service-oriented applications. The
LATECE’s mature and freely
accessible tools include the SOFA
tool (a platform for the analysis of
service-oriented applications), the Nit
language (robust object-oriented
programming), and the Oto
application (used by teachers to
correct programming assignments
automatically).
workforce with qualified and competent
architects, designers and analysts.
LATECE researchers are highly involved in
their field, and believe in knowledge
sharing as well equitable development.
Besides doing precompetitive research on
behalf of its industrial partners, the lab
plays an active role in knowledge
CONCEPTION ET RÉDACTION
◊◊ Naouel Moha
◊◊ Marie-France Lisé
COLLABORATION
◊◊ Service des communications de l’UQAM