CS839 Web Intelligence and Electronic Commerce (Fall 2010)

 

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.