CSC-356: Fundamentals of E-Commerce

Course Title: Fundamentals of E-Commerce

Course no: CSC-356                                                                                           Full Marks: 60+20+20
Credit hours: 3                                                                                                      Pass Marks: 24+8+8

Nature of course: Theory (3 Hrs.)

Course Synopsis: Discussion on types of commerce, doing business in electronics, infrastructure of electronic commerce.

Goal:   This course introduces basic concept of commerce and discusses the basic needs                            of electronic commerce.

Course Contents:

Unit 1:                                                                                                                          14 Hrs.
1.1  Introduction to Electronic Commerce: Introduction of commerce, Electronic commerce framework, electronic commerce and media convergence, the anatomy of e-commerce application.
1.2  The Network for Electronic Commerce:  Need of network, market forces influencing the I-way, components of I-way, network access equipment, and global information distribution network.
1.3  The Internet as a Network Infrastructure: Introduction, the Internet terminology, NSFNET: Architecture and Components, Internet governance: The Internet Society.

Unit 2:                                                                                                                                23 Hrs.
2.1  Network Security & Firewalls: Client-Server network security, security threats in client-server, firewalls and network security, data & message security, encrypted documents and electronic mail.    
2.2  Electronic Commerce & World Wide Web: Introduction, architectural framework for electronic commerce, WWW as an architecture, security in the web.        
2.3  Consumer Oriented Electronic Commerce: Introduction, consumer oriented application, mercantile process models, mercantile models  from the consumer’s perspective, mercantile models from the merchant’s perspective.
2.4  Electronic Payment Systems: Introduction, types of electronic payment system, digital token based electronic payment systems, smart cards and electronic payment systems, credit cards systems, Threat on electronic payment system.

Unit 3:                                                                                                                                  8 Hrs.
3.1  Inter-organizational Commerce & Electronic Data Interchange: Introduction, EDI application in business, EDI: legal, security, and privacy issues, EDI and electronic commerce.    
3.2  The Corporate Digital Library: Introduction, dimensions of electronic commerce systems, types of digital documents, Issues behind document infrastructure, corporate data warehouses.  

Laboratory works:    Developing the small electronic payment system.

Text Books:                Frontiers of Electronic Commerce, 5th Edition, Kalkotia and Whinston, Pearson Education Asia

Homework
Assignment:               Assignment should be given from the above units in throughout the semester.

Computer Usage:      No specific

Prerequisite:               C, C++, Data Structure, System Analysis & Design

Category Content:    Science Aspect:  60%
                     Design Aspect:   40%