CSI 5389 ELECTRONIC COMMERCE TECHNOLOGIES
S. Matwin

1. Basic e-commerce concepts. Examples of e-commerce stores.

2. Business models for e-commerce. Functional architectures.

3. Internet as the infrastructure for e-commerce. Network layers and 
   protocols. Network and transport layer. TCP/IP. 
   Web server design - CGI and JWS. DNSs, URLs, and HTTP. 
   Design of a search engine - GOOGLE.

4. Security and encryption. Basic concepts of computer cryptography.
   Symmetric and asymmetric cryptosystems. DES. Public key cryptosystems. 
   RSA, Diffie-Hellmann. Ellyptic codes. PGP. Breaking computer 
   cryptography with massive parallelism.

5. Internet security. Key management. Certificate autorities.
   X.509 standard. Diffie-Hellmann method for key exchange. WWW security -
   transport and tunnel mode. Secure Sockets layer.
   Secure Electronic transactions. 

6. Extensible Markup Language XML. Examples. 

7. Open Trading Protocol as an XML-based E-commerce standard.

8. Data mining in e-commerce. Classifiers and association builders.
   The "apriori" algorithm.  Recommender systems;
   collaborative filtering. 

9. Intelligent Agents. Kasbah and Tete a Tete. FIPA. 
   Product and merchant brokerage. 
   Mobile agents. eCo agent standard proposal. 

10.Auctions. Basic auction types. Auctions and negotiations. 

11.Business trends in E-commerce. iPlanet perspective.
   Economy of attention.  

12.Technological trends. Wireless Internet. Wireless standards.
   WML and WAP.

13.New developments: digital distribution of Intellectual Property.
   Strategic Digital Music Initiative.

14.Putting it all together: Vertical applications. Case studies.