Cultural and Requirement Aspects on International E-commerce sites

Abstract- This paper investigates issues on culture and websites design for e-commerce, and also relates them to advanced requirements engineering practices. E-commerce parishioners and users have different expects and preferences from a web site. Finding information on a web site is an important issue. We observe that cultural concerns may crosscut several base functionalities of a system, constraining and modifying them in different ways. This paper examines Australian, Singaporean, German and Brazilian sites and relates them to requirements of users from different countries by identifying the cultural differences that should be taken into account. Kyewords: culture, e-commerce and requirement engineering Commonly, the e-commerce practitioners and providers try to present their web sites for a particular country users as well as international users. Also the e-commerce providers make assumptions in understandin