Syllabus of e-commerce

Course Title: Fundamentals of E-Commerce
Course no: CSC-356                                                                                       Full Marks: 60+10+10
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.
1.7 Introduction to Electronic Commerce: Introduction of commerce, Electronic
commerce framework, electronic commerce and media convergence, the anatomy
of e-commerce application.
1.8 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.
1.9 The Internet as a Network Infrastructure: Introduction, the Internet terminology,
NSFNET: Architecture and Components, Internet governance: The Internet
Society.

Unit 2: 23 Hrs.
2.8 Network Security & Firewalls: Client-Server network security, security threats in
client-server, firewalls and network security, data & message security, encrypted
documents and electronic mail.
2.9 Electronic Commerce & World Wide Web: Introduction, architectural framework
for electronic commerce, WWW as an architecture, security in the web.
2.10 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.
2.11 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.
3.6 Inter-organizational Commerce & Electronic Data Interchange: Introduction, EDI
application in business, EDI: legal, security, and privacy issues, EDI and
electronic commerce.
3.7 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

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%

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