E-commerce Technology
Objectives and Requirements
This course aims to provide an introduction to the technology underlying electronic commerce systems and services.
After learning the course, the students should be able to:
1. use the relevant internet technology in eCommerce and explain their implications;
2. use the relevant wireless and mobile technology in eCommerce and explain their implications;
3. describe and use the security and transaction properties of eCommerce systems and their solutions;
4. use basic electronic data interchange (EDI) technology, including the related XML-based EDI technology;
5. describe and use some of the privacy, regulatory, and legal issues of eCommerce;
6. explain the models and strategies for eCommerce systems, such as the e-logistics applications;
7. use the fundamental technologies for implementing eCommerce based systems, such as the e-logistics applications.
Contents
ECommerce Models and Development Strategies, Web architecture and Technologies; Development Tools; Network Security; Cryptographic Protocols, Public Key Infrastructure, Authentication Technologies; Data Interchange, EDI, XML, CRM tools, Internet Information Processing, Mobile and Wireless Technologies, Search Engines, Intelligent Agents; Payment Protocols, eCommerce Legal and Privacy Aspects. eCommerce technology in elogistics development.
Credit(s): 3
Prerequisite Course(s): Fundamentals of Internet Applications Development /or Computer Networks /or Fundamentals of Computer Networks and the Internet /or equivalent
