Rutgers The State University of New Jersey
GSM

Introduction to Electronic Commerce
22:198:649

Fall 1999
Thursdays 6:00 - 9:00pm, Beck Hall, Rm 251

Instructor Prof. Vijay Atluri

Office

: 200R Ackerson Hall (Newark)
Office Hours : Thursday 4:00 - 5:45pm 217C, Janice H. Levin Bldg.
Telephone: 973-353-1642
Fax: 973-353-5003
E-mail: atluri at rutgers dot edu
Homepage: http://cimic.rutgers.edu/~atluri

Class on Sept 16 has been cancelled as Rutgers is closed !!!

Homework 1 Solutions

Homework 2 Solutions

Project Reports and Papers Due December 16

Additional Instructions from Igg Adwijaya on the Project

Call 732-932-1766 for Official University/Campus closings due to inclement weather

Papers and Projects

News
September 29, 1999 from Michael Marusky
October 18, 1999 from Narayanan Ramamoorthy

Students' Web Pages

Course Description:

Electronic commerce (EC) is fundamentally an inter-disciplinary subject. EC refers to business activities involving consumers, manufacturers, service providers, and intermediaries using computer networks such as the Internet. The goals of EC are to reduce product and service cost and improve customer response time and quality. Hence implementing initiatives in electronic commerce has emerged as a significant business strategy in the Information Age. Technological developments made possible by the convergence of the telecommunications and computing industries have opened the door to a world of new and exciting applications which are changing the way business takes place.

This course serves as an introduction to EC. It discusses the three principle tenets of this discipline: business, technical and policy issues. Specifically, it covers the various components and services of EC, technologies involved in EC, and EC for business applications.

Text Book: N. Adam, O. Dogramaci, A. Gangopadhyay and Y. Yesha, Electronic Commerce: Technical, Business and Legal Issues, Prentice Hall, 1999 edition.

Other Reading:

  • R. Kalakota and A.B. Whinston, Frontiers of Electronic Commerce Addison - Wesley, 1996.
  • Charlie Kaufman, Radia Perlman and Mike Speciner, Network Security: Private Communication in a Public World, Prentice-Hall, 1995.
  • Raghu Ramakrishnan, Database Management Systems McGraw-Hill, 1998.
  • V.S. Subrahmanian, Principles of Multimedia Database Systems, Morgan Kaufman, 1998.
  • Assigned readings of selected articles from journals and magazines.

Expected Work:

  • Homework assignments and class participation 20%
  • Research paper/Project 20%
  • Paper presentation/Project Demonstration 10%
  • Midterm Examination 25%
  • Final Examination 25%

Project Description

  • Sample Project
  • Project time line
    • Oct 1, you should have the organization of your EC Web site ready and you should have gathered all the necessary information that you want to put in into each section and each web page.
    • Oct 15, you should have finished creating the navigational web pages and putting the neccessary information into the each actual web page.
    • Oct 30, you should have finished the CGI part of your EC web sites.
    • Nov 15, you should have finished with all the neccessary last modification that you need.

Tentative Schedule:

Sept 9

  • Introduction to Electronic Commerce
  • Reading Assignment: Chapter 1
  • Powerpoint file

Sept 16

  • No Class

Sept 23

Sept 30

Oct 7

Oct 14

Oct 21

Oct 22

Oct 28

Nov 4

  • Electronic Payment Systems(Continued)

Nov 11

  • EDI, Electronic Catalogs
  • Reading Assignment: Chapter 2
  • Powerpoint file
  • Decision Support Systems for EC
  • Reading Assignment: Chapter 4.2 - Textbook
  • Powerpoint file
  • Additional materials:
  • Workflow Management
  • Reading Assignment: Chapter 4.5
  • Powerpoint file
  • Additional materials:
  • Multimedia
  • Reading Assignment: Chapter 4.4
  • Powerpoint file
  • Additional materials:

    Nov 18

    • Electronic commerce for Business and applications:
    • Reading Assignment: Chapter 3
    • Powerpoint file
    • Additional materials:
    • Additional materials:
      • WIRED Magazine (March 1999) - "The inside story of Amazon.com's ..." v
      • Harvard Management Update (1998) - "What you need to know about purchaing online"
      • Harvard Business Review (Nov-Dec 1995) - "Exploiting the Virtual Value Chain" by J. Rayport and J. Sviokla
      • Harvard Business School (Jan-Feb 1996) - "Electronic Commerce: Trends and opportunity" by L. Applegate
      • Harvard Business Review (Sept-Oct 1997) - "Strategy and the New Economics and Information" by P. Evans and T. Wurster v
      • Harvard Management Update (1998) - "What you need to know about purchaing online"
      • Harvard Business Review (Sept-Oct 1998) - "The Dawn of the E-lance economy" by T. Malone and R. Laubacher
      • The E-Business Tidal Wave
      • Electronic Commerce

    Nov 25

    • No Class

    Dec 2

    Dec 9

    • Paper Presentations and Project Demonstrations
    • All presentations and demos will be in the Levin Lab 005.
    • Project demonstrations should be approxmilately 5-7 minutes long and Paper presentations should be no longer than 12 minutes with an additional 3 minutes for questions.

    Dec 16