CIS 640 -- Advanced Topics in Computer Systems: Electronic Commerce Systems

Spring 2000

• Group Presentation Evaluation

  • Evaluation

• Announcement

  • All the project groups are required to install their sites into machines in Moore 279 before doing their project demo presentations.
    Contact a TA for the arrangement of your installation.
    
    

• Course Description

  E-commerce is one of the fast growing areas of computer and network applications. Although E-commerce systems consist of many components depending on their purposes, there are a set of principles and concepts that are important in developing reliable E-commerce systems. The purpose of this course is to identify and study the principles and concepts needed for building fault-tolerant, scalable and secure E-commerce systems. This course will cover relevant selected topics, such as secure document management, high-performance servers, large system testing, dynamic and interactive web-application architectures, e-auction systems, etc. Students will be required to participate in class discussions and to do class presentations. In addition, there will be a significant group project, in which each group will design and implement a toy E-business or E-auction system.
  
  

• Instructors:

  Name: Office: Phone: Email: Office Hours:

  Insup Lee Moore 262 898-3532 lee@central.cis.upenn.edu Tuesdays 2:00-3:00

  Vijay Gehlot Moore 274 898-6310 gehlot@saul.cis.upenn.edu

  Oleg Sokolsky Pender 134 898-8122 sokolsky@saul.cis.upenn.edu

• Teaching Assistant:

  Name: Office: Phone: Email: Office Hours:

  Insik Shin Moore 279 (knock on the door) 898-8090 ishin@saul.cis.upenn.edu Monday 2:00-3:00 Wednesday 2:00-3:00

• Time and Place

  Time: Place:

  3:00-4:30, Monday and Wednesday Moore 216, changed from 212

• Texts

  • Lincoln D. Stein, Web Security: A Step-by-Step Reference Guide Addison-Wesley, 1998.
  • Micro Modeling Associates, Inc. Microsoft Commerce Solutions Web Techology, Microsoft Press, 1999.
  
  
• Course Description Handout
• Reading List
• Project
  • Project Description
  • Sample Store-Front, download(tar), download(zip)
• Discussion Group

Last updated on May 10, 2000.