Course Name: E-Commerce Systems

Course Code:S2293223

Semester: 5

Credit: 2

Program: Computer science

Course Module: Optional

Responsible: Jianrong Wang

E-mail: wjr@tju.edu.cn

Department: Tianjin International Engineering Institute

Time Allocation(1 credit hour = 45 minutes)

Course Description

The course is designed for Engineering Master of Computer Science in TIEI. This course provides an overview of e-commerce from technological and managerial perspectives. The main contents can be summarized into three main areas: the basic theory of electronic commerce and the realization of technology, business management and marketing practices, social and legal environment. This course aims to familiarize students with the emerging electronic commerce technology, to master the basic concept of the electronic commerce, implementation techniques and coping strategies. Students should macro grasp the methods to deal with the electronic commerce, grasp the enterprise management method under the network environment, and lay a solid foundation for the operation of the modern enterprise management and information system.

Prerequisite

• Students should have a basic understanding of information system, the Internet and the Web

• Network communication technology: understand the contents of data communication, network connection and protocol

• Internet Technology: understand the concept and working principle of Internet

Course Objectives

By learning this course, students are required to have a comprehensive understanding of e-commerce, understand and master the basic methods of the electronic commerce operation of enterprise under network environment, and to lay a solid theoretical basis for the enterprise implementation of e-business strategy.Specifically, students are supposed to:

• Understand and manage the interplay between people, technologies and organisations that underlies e-business,

• Understand the technologies and processes of e-business infrastructure,

• Develop, test, deploy, maintain and measure e-business strategies, systems, processes and applications for an organisation,

• Exploit new business models and marketplace structures enabled by electronic communications,

• Communicate the technical and managerial aspects of e-business,

• Understand, manage and control e-business risks and security, and to

• Explain the impact of e-business on social, economic, legal and ethical issues in organisations and society.

CourseSyllabus

• Introduction to E-Commerce systems:basic concepts, basic and environment, application and development

• E-Commerce mode application: concept mode, application mode, transaction mode, function benefit

• E-commerce system development: development methods, operating platform, system structure, website construction, development tools and environment

• E-commerce implementation technology: network and communication technology, EDI technology, security technology, database technology, electronic payment technology

• E-commerce network marketing: network marketing overview, theoretical basis, strategies and methods

• E-commerce security and legal construction: the electronic commerce risk management, security mechanism, security technology, laws and regulations

Textbooks & References

• Laudon K C.E-commerce(3rd ed). Prentice Hall, 2006.

• William S. Davis, John Benamati.E-Commerce Basics: Technology Foundations and Business Applications(1st ed). Prentice Hall, 2002.

• Warwick Ford, Michael S. Baum.Secure Electronic Commerce: Building the Infrastructure for Digital Signatures and Encryption(2nd ed). Prentice Hall, 2000.

• Jim A. Carter.Developing E-commerce Systems(1st ed). Prentice Hall, 2001.

Capability Tasks

CT1: To understand the basic concepts of E-Commerce systems.

CT3: To master the technology of E-Commerce Systems; get the ability to develop systems.

CT5: To get the company philosophy and the intelligence to understand the economic issues, including economic stakes, quality management, competitiveness and productivity, businessrequirementsand others.

CT6: To get the ability to understand the stakes in work, as well as the professional ethics, security and health management and other matters.

CT8: To get the ability to understand the needs of society.

CS1: To master the basic theoretical knowledge about E-Commerce systems, and to understand the professional status and trends.

CS2: To master core knowledge of and related technical knowledge about E-Commerce systems, and to get the initial capacity of using core knowledge and engineering technical knowledge for system development.

Achievements

• To understand the concept of electronic commerce. - Level: N

• To understand the policy of electronic commerce. - Level: N

• To master electronic commerce technology, and to be able to develop the electronic commerce system. - Level: M

Students: Computer science,Year 3