Course Objectives: The course investigates the research topics
on Web intelligence (WI) and Electronic Commerce (EC). The topics include: web
technology, network infrastructure, web-based businesses, agents, economics and
business models, XML, Web mining, Security, Web information filtering and
retrieval, Intelligent information systems.
Credit Hours: 3.
Instructor: Dr. JingTao
Yao, Tel 585 4071, Office: CW308.18, Email: jtyao@cs.uregina.ca Office hours: Wednesdays: 3:30-5:00pm,
Thursdays: 1:00pm – 2:30pm or by appointment
Class time and
location: Thursdays:
2:30 pm - 5:15 pm, Classroom Building 125
Textbook: There is no specific textbook required. There are many excellent Ecommerce
textbooks available, and you may also find them useful for reference.
1.
Electronic Commerce 2010: A Managerial Perspective (6th
edition) by
Efraim Turban, Jae K. Lee, David King, Ting Peng Liang, Deborrah Turban (Pearson/Prentice-Hall,
2010). (http://www.prenhall.com/turban/
) (Other editions: 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008)
2.
Global Electronic Commerce: Theory & Cases by J. C. Westland & H.
K. Clark's, (MIT Press, 2000)
3.
E-Commerce: Business, Technology, Society (3rd Edition) by Kenneth
Laudon and Carol Traver (Prentice Hall 2006)
4.
E-Commerce Basics: Technology foundations & e-business applications
by William S. Davis, John Benamati (Addison
Wesley 2003)
5.
Proceedings of International Conference on Web Intelligence
(WI’01-10) (http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/webi/index.html)
Course website
URL:
http://www2.cs.uregina.ca/~jtyao/Teaching/CS839
Grading system:
1.
Assignments 20%
2.
Midterm 15%
3.
Presentation 10%
4.
Project and/or Exam 55%
Tentative schedule:
1.
Introduction to Web Intelligence and Electronic Commerce
2.
Business oriented stream
3.
Technology oriented stream
4.
Presentations
Useful links:
1.
Google: http://www.google.ca
2.
E-commerce Times: http://www.ecommercetimes.com/
3.
Roger Clarke's eBusiness Home Page: http://www.rogerclarke.com/EC/
4.
Web Intelligence Consortium: http://wi-consortium.org/
5.
Web-based Support Systems: http://www2.cs.uregina.ca/~wss
Important notes:
1.
We will use UR Courses.
2.
Please use your cs or uregina
email account for class communication. Emails from other accounts, especially
free web based accounts, will be deleted without being read.
3.
Please read the sections of the 2009-2010 University of Regina General
Calendar as well as Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research
Academic Calendar dealing with Academic Regulations.