Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
unit convener, lecturer
Yan Wang
Contact via email
E6A 339
Wednesday 11am-1pm during teaching weeks, or by appointment
lecturer
Leslie Bell
Contact via email
practical tutor
Lie Qu
Contact via email
E6A 341
Friday 11am-12pm
practical tutor
Arun Neelakandan
Contact via email
E6A 355
Thursday 2-3pm
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Credit points |
Credit points
3
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
39cp and (COMP224(P) or ISYS224(P)) and COMP249(P)
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
This unit focuses on the underlying technologies of electronic commerce via the internet, and their application in a commercial environment. The emphasis is on understanding the technologies in order to develop, use and integrate them in industrial e-commerce solutions. The unit draws on a number of areas of computing such as networks, web servers, security, databases, and interactive program design.
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On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
Name | Weighting | Due |
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Tutorial Exercises | 10% | Weekly |
Assignment 1 | 15% | Weeks 4 to 7 |
Assignment 2 | 25% | Weeks 9 to 12 |
Final Examination | 50% | TBA |
Due: Weekly
Weighting: 10%
Each week after lectures, there will be several questions left to students. The answers should be submitted to iLearn by 9am in the coming Monday morning. Each week is for 1%. There will be 12 weeks in total for weekly exercises. The best 10 submissions will be counted for 10% totally in the final assessment.
Due: Weeks 4 to 7
Weighting: 15%
This assignment is planned for the design of a simple online shopping system, and the implementation some initial functionality. There would be more than one stage of submissions so that students could have better planning with different focuses in different stages.
Due: Weeks 9 to 12
Weighting: 25%
This assignment is planned to be an extension of the first assignment, with some advanced features
added in both design and implementation.
Due: TBA
Weighting: 50%
For this unit, a final examination is fully appropriate to test learning outcomes #1 to #3. Indeed, it allows to accurately assess the degree of understanding of concepts, theoretical topics, the capability of system design and analysis as well as the written communication skills of students.
The final examination accounts for 50% of the final assessment and consists of three sections. The first section includes multi-choice questions. The second section assesses your knowledge and comprehension of the topics to be introduced by Yan Wang, covering basic concepts, system design and problem solving. The remaining section focuses on the m-commerce, e-commerce supply chain and security topics to be introduced by Les Bell.
CLASSES
Each week you should attend a three-hour lecture (including a one-hour tutorial) and a one-hour practical. For details of days, times and rooms consult the timetables webpage.
Note that both tutorials and practicals commence in week 2.
Please note that you are required to attend most of the tutorials and submit your solutions each week. Failure to do so may result in you failing the unit.
REQUIRED AND RECOMMENDED TEXTS AND/OR MATERIALS
Recommended Reading
Students may find the following reference books helpful:
Note:
All books will be available in the Reserve Section of Macquarie library since week 1. They are available to COMP344 students only. When borrowing book, you need to present your student card to a staff there and tell them you are a COMP344 student.
UNIT WEBPAGE AND TECHNOLOGY USED AND REQUIRED
Lecture Recordings
Digital recordings of lectures are available at iLearn.
Websites
The majority of the unit materials are available only at iLearn website that require you to log in to access them.
Discussion Boards
The unit makes use of discussion boards hosted within iLearn. Please post questions relevant to this unit there. They are monitored by the staff on the unit.
Week | Lecturer | Topics |
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1 | Yan Wang | Fundamentals of E-Commerce |
2 | Yan Wang | Web Technologies for E-Commerce 1 |
3 | Yan Wang | Web Technologies for E-Commerce 2 |
4 | Yan Wang | Software Agent and E-Commerce 1 |
5 | Yan Wang | Software Agent and E-Commerce 2 |
6 | Yan Wang | Reputation and Trust Evaluation in E-Commerce |
7 | Les Bell | E-Commerce Architectures & Database Schemas; Project Management |
8 | Les Bell | Introduction to Security |
9 | Les Bell | E-commerce Security Mechanisms and Security Attacks |
10 | Les Bell | Payment Processing and Protocols |
11 | Les Bell | M-Commerce, E-Commerce Supply Chain Management |
12 | Les Bell | Advanced E-Commerce Processes, Personalization and Metrics |
13 | Yan Wang and Les Bell | Review |
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