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E-BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT AND ARCHITECTURE


This course was developed as a part of Avicenna Project.
 
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Introduction to e-Business
  • History of Internet and Web
  • Components of e-Business
  • Benefits of e-Business
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Introduction to e-Marketing
  • Comparison of e-Marketing with traditional marketing
  • Web as a marketing tool
  • Promoting and e-Commerce site
  • Marketing tools on web
  • Intelligent agents
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Introduction to e-Commerce
  • Comparison of e-Commerce with traditional commerce
  • Role of e-Commerce in the value-chain process
  • e-Commerce Business Models
  • Categories of e-Commerce
  • Advantages and disadvantages of e-Commerce
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Electronic Payment Systems (EPS)
  • Evaluation of EPSs
  • Comparison of EPS with traditional payment systems
  • Electronics Funds Transfer
  • Payment Cards
  • Electronic cash, electronic checks and electronic wallets
  • Tools and Technologies for secure EPS
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Legal and Ethical Issues in e-Business
  • Online privacy
  • Defamation, obscenity, spam problems
  • Concepts of copyright, patent, trademark
  • Online auctions
  • Legal issues on e-Commerce
  • Legal issues on Internet
  • Cyber-crime
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Introduction to e-Business Technology
  • Overview e-Business technology
  • Virtual collaboration
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Web Development- HTML
  • Introduction to HTML
  • HTML document structure
  • Elements and tags
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Web Development- XML
  • Introduction to XML
  • XML document structure
  • Creating XML documents
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Interoperability & Standards
  • Introduction to Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
  • Issues surrounding EDI
  • Internet and EDI
  • Tools to implement EDI
  • Integrating an organization into an EDI system
  • Integrating new e-Business applications into existing systems
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Security Issues
  • Introduction to Cryptography
  • Public/private keys, key agreement protocols
  • Digital signatures
  • Certificates and certification authorities
  • Internet Security
  • Security Protocols (SSL, SET)
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The course has been designed as an introduction to e-business and related concepts. In the first half of the course, social and business aspects of e-business will be discussed and e-marketing, e-commerce and e-operations concepts will be explained. Electronic payment systems will be described and legal and ethical issues in the context of e-Business will be discussed. The second half of the course will deal with the technical side of e-business applications such as web development technologies, interoperability, standards and Internet related security issues. HTML, XML and Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) technologies will be presented.

Course Content: Lecture Notes Self-Study Questions