GCO3601

Infrastructure for electronic commerce

(IT)

J Kamruzzaman

6 points + 3-4 hours per week + Second semester + Gippsland, Malaysia, OCDL + Prerequisite: GCO2601 or GCO2813, BEG1601, and 6pts of 2nd level computer studies

Synopsis: National and global infrastructures in use and planned for business using electronic commerce. Infrastructures at the local and workplace levels. Wide area networks and server technologies, multimedia; software agents; Internet security issues; introduction to XML; computer-mediated human and corporate communications; Internet commerce applications using XML; electronic payment mechanisms, including smart cards and smart card security, credit, debit and stored-value cards; privacy and anonymity technologies.

Assessment: Assignments 50% + Examination (3 hours): 50