GCO3601

Infrastructure for electronic commerce

Not offered until 1999
Lecturer to be advised

6 points
* 3-4 hours per week
* Second, summer semesters
* Gippsland and distance
* Prerequisite: GCO2601 or GCO2813 and BEG1601

Objectives On completion of this subject students will have developed a comprehensive knowledge about national and global information infrastructure; practised using various types of information systems infrastructure mechanisms; acquired a sound knowledge of work place design applications in electronic commerce as they relate to workstations, LANS, and networking; undertaken evaluation of the electronic payment mechanisms and network systems; practised evaluating the capacity and application of a number of different information system infrastructures and infrastructure mechanisms.

Synopsis The subject provides a comprehensive examination of national and global infrastructures in use and planned for business using electronic commerce. The subject also extends this examination to the local and national level and to the workplace level. Applications of business practice using this infrastructure are used to highlight recent developments and changing technologies within the infrastructure. Other issues include wide area networks and server technologies, multimedia; software agents; CALS; local area networks and server technologies including groupware and workflow techniques; workstations and human-machine interfaces; computer mediated human and corporate communications; electronic payment mechanisms, including credit-, debit- and stored-value cards, and network payment systems.

Assessment Assignment 1 (2000 words): 20%
* Assignment 2 (2500 words): 30%
* Examination (3 hours): 50%
* Successful completion of this subject will be contingent on the student demonstrating a satisfactory level of performance in each element of assessment.

Prescribed texts

There is no prescribed text for this course. A reading list will be supplied with the study package for distance education students. This package will also include a book of readings. On-campus students will have access to the distance education materials and will be provided with comprehensive reading lists.