GCO3601

Infrastructure for electronic commerce (6 points)

(IT)

Leader: J Kamruzzaman

Offered:
Gippsland First semester 2004 (Day)
Gippsland First semester 2004 (OCL)
Hong Kong First semester 2004 (OCL)
OS-HKG-CID First semester 2004 (OCL)
Singapore First semester 2004 (OCL)

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

Contact Hours: 3-4 hours per week

Prerequisites: BEG1601, and 6pts of 2nd level computer studies