This course is an introduction to the information technologies required for secure, practical information systems for electronic commerce.

Topics will be chosen from areas such as

• document representation (XML, DTDs, XML Schema, XSLT, CSS)
• security (encryption, public key, symmetric key, PKI, authentication); kinds of attack and vulnerabilities
• electronic trading (spontaneous, deliberative, auctions)
• electronic document management (metadata, search, digital libraries, management and processing)
• recent developments and maturation of the area, such as web application frameworks, web services, the semantic web , mobile commerce

Case studies will be used where appropriate.

Upon completion of this course, the student will have the knowledge and skills to:

1. Create good quality XML documents to describe a simple data model, with related DTD and CSS style sheets for handling such XML documents.

2. Assess the quality of a simple XML data model.

3. Design and evaluate secure systems for information transmission in an electronic commerce system

4. Evaluate eTrading systems for individuals and organisations against types of trading and risks, and the advantages and limitations of electronic trading.

5. Evaluate the extension and application of transmission, security and document technologies in an area of current interest or development in eCommerce.

Quizzes (5%); Assignments (25%); Final Exam (70%)

Thirty one-hour lectures and seven two-hour tutorial/laboratory sessions

COMP1100 or COMP2720; 12 units of 2000-series IT courses; and 6 units of MATH/STAT courses

Garfinkel, Simson & Spafford, Gene Web Security, Privacy and Commerce O'Reilly, 2002.