In addition, Intranets provide a cost-effective approach to both intra-organizational data sharing and facilitation of collaborative work process. Reflecting the eclectic nature of current Web development, the MS in E-Commerce Technology exposes people to a broad and ever-changing mix of technologies, programming languages and tools. Practicums, team projects, and work for real clients provide an authentic environment for learning.
Earning the MS in E-Commerce Technology can allow me the skills and knowledge necessary to lead e-commerce application development in large organizations or consulting firms, or establish their own consulting practices in this rapidly growing field.
The programming language C++ for students with previous programming experience in some high-level language other than C or C++.
PROGRAMMING IN JAVA
The programming in Java for students already having programming experience in an object-oriented language. Topics are: Java objects, I/O, applications, applets, the Java event model. Advanced topics include JDBC, object serialization, and network programming.
ANALYSIS AND DESIGN TECHNIQUES
Analyzing a problem requiring a computer-based solution, designing a solution, prototyping the solution in a 4th generation language, testing the prototype. Structured analysis and design techniques, data flow and control flow diagramming, the data/project dictionary, processing narratives, architectural design, detailed design, transform and transaction flow, program design language, technical reviews, inspections, and walkthroughs.
WEB APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT WITH SCRIPTING
Application development for e-commerce. Includes development of small-scale e-commerce transaction applications. Design and build a retail Web site that accesses a database for online order processing using server-side Active Server Page technology.
ADVANCED SCRIPTING TECHNOLOGIES
Applying advanced scripting technologies in the design and development of large Web applications. Major topics include tiered application design, transacted Web applications, components, and Web services using ASP.NET technology.
DATABASE TECHNOLOGIES
Conceptual database modeling, logical designs using the relational database model, relational algebra, implementation techniques using query languages, functional dependencies, normalization, and physical design and indexing structures.
DATABASE DESIGN
Requirement formulation and analysis, conceptual design, implementation design, physical design. Emphasis on data modeling techniques.
E-COMMERCE WEB SITE ENGINEERING
Web site engineering life cycle and user-centered design, including site goals, business models, value propositions, user analysis, information architecture, interface, database, testing, hosting strategies, usage metrics, and collaborative development. Technologies for e-commerce, shopping cart, digital payments, promotion strategies, and security issues. Fully functional Web sites using database and client- and server-side technologies.
DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS
Architecture of distributed systems; networking; datagram-oriented and stream-oriented protocols; network programming (for example, the sockets API); remote procedure call and remote method invocation; processes and threads; code migration; software agents; naming of non-mobile and mobile entities; cryptography and security.
USABILITY ISSUES FOR ELECTRONIC COMMERCE
Design, prototyping and evaluation of e-commerce web sites.
SECURE ELECTRONIC COMMERCE
The technologies, architectures, and infrastructure for securing electronic transactions over nonproprietary networks. The implementation and maintenance of mechanisms that secure electronic documents with confidentiality, authentication, integrity, and non-repudiation, the focus is on the technologies of public key certificate, digital signature and internet security.
INTRANETS AND PORTALS
Data warehousing concept and On-Line analytic processing (OLAP) for information management. Enterprise information portals (EIP).
INTERNET SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
Focus on the design, development and implementation of systems that facilitate the collaboration of an enterprise with its buyers and suppliers. Topics include development of messaging-based collaboration framework with web services.
E-COMMERCE TECHNOLOGY CAPSTONE
The deployment of Internet and enterprise technologies to support organization's e-business initiatives and collaborative commerce.
E-MARKETPLACE TECHNOLOGY
Concentrate on system development for online trading applications supporting complex interactions and transactions. Theoretical models of online information exchanges supporting negotiations such as: auctions and exchanges/marketplaces.
WEB DATA MINING FOR BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
An in-depth study of data collection, data extraction, and knowledge discovery on the Web for e-business intelligence. Web usage mining, Web content mining, and Web structure mining are covered. Techniques and applications for mining e-commerce and Web usage data for site management, personalization and user profiling. Also addressed are privacy issues, collaborative and content-based filtering. Techniques for harnessing semi-structured data through techniques based on text mining, and meta-data representation and manipulation using XML.
MOBILE COMMERCE TECHNOLOGY
Develop mobile commerce applications including personalization, customer relationship management, mobile portals, and wireless enterprise solutions for business process and workflow. Web synchronization, server-side content management, Wireless Application Protocol (WAP), Wireless Markup Language (WML), Handheld Device Markup Language (HDML), wireless user interface design, and wireless Web development tools are covered.