CS 798L Topics in Electronic Commerce

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Topics: 

1.      Introduction to Electronic Commerce Research

  • History of electronic business

  • Introduction to the variety of electronic commerce research issues

  • Canadian and US research agendas for electronic commerce

  • Multidisciplinary research

  • Electronic commerce evolutionary strategies:

  • Information broker, content specialist, electronic market facilitator

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2.      Internet Technology

  • Electronic Data Interchange, customer locking

  • URLs, Domain Names

  • Languages used on the Web – Perl, JavaScript, XML, HTML, VRML

  • Design Techniques – CGI Scripts (Perl, C++), SAPI, Structured Documents

  • Software requirements and architectures for electronic commerce

  • Procurement systems – CommerceOne

  • Search modules & optimization

  • Design of interfaces and web pages

  • Visualization of market activity

  • Formal presentation

  • Storefront software

  • Web enabled databases

  • Customer database development and management

  • Web site management

  • Data warehousing, mining and analysis

  • Co-operative and competitive systems in electronic commerce

  • Realtime interactive technologies

  • Software tools for managing electronic commerce sites

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3.      Security, Risk Management and Control

  • Cryptography, encryption, firewalls, cookies, SSL, certificates

  • Secure Electronic Transactions (SET)

  • PKI, Banking and credit issues

  • Transaction and web site security

  • Digital signatures

  • Privacy, consumer and business rights

  • Secure and reliable system architectures

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4.      Protocols and Standards

  • Optimization of protocols

  • Protocols for electronic commerce interfaces

  • Security protocols

  • Open trading protocols

  • Payment and exchange protocols

  • Open buying and transaction management protocols

  • Financial standards

  • Languages for describing goods, services, and contracts

  • Guarantees of service and delivery

  • Consumer standards and technology

  • Open and proprietary standards

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5.      Agent Technology

  • Intelligent agents

  • Mobile agents

  • Multiagents

  • Search and negotiation agents

  • Product brokers, merchant brokers, selling agents

  • Characteristics of agents

  • Social issues

  • Management concerns

  • Design and implementation

  • Co-ordination of services (supply chain)

  • Electronic auction, trading and exchange agents

  • Knowledge abstraction, representation and summarization

  • Expert decision-making and support systems

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6.      Communications, Distributed Systems and Wireless Technologies

  • Multimedia Communications

  • Data Compression

  • Internet-Based Systems

  • Network infrastructure

  • Interoperability

  • Distributed objects and components

  • Communications System Performance and Adaptability

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7.      Multidisciplinary Issues

  • Business to Consumer

  • Business to Business

  • New Business Models to support Electronic Commerce: internal organizational changes, outsourcing, intermediation and disintermediation

  • Back Office: electronic payments, order processing, delivery, billing, shipping, tracking, customer service, inventory management and tracking

  • Electronic Marketing, Advertising: portals, customization, customer service, differential quality of service

  • Legal: intellectual property

  • Supply Chain Management

  • Economic analysis

  • Taxation

  • Types of Electronic Commerce: eBanking, retail, publishing

  • Electronic Banking: e-cash (Digicash and Cybercash)

  • Virtual organizations

  • Web Publishing

  • Social issues: persuasion, trust, reputation, negotiation, conflict, communication

  • Evaluation and effectiveness of electronic commerce initiatives

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