Tentative Syllabus/Schedule

EC511 is one of the two IT courses in the core component of the MS in E-commerce program at GMU. This course discusses the basic networking infrastructure used in E-commerce environments as well the typical multi-tiered E-commerce architectures of E-commerce sites. The ISO OSI Reference Architecture. Functions and main features of the IP protocol. Functions and main features of the TCP protocol: connection establishment, error control, congestion control. The HTTP protocol. Load balancers, Web servers, application servers, and databases servers in an E-commerce site architecture. Software architecture elements such as servlets, transaction processing services, remote method invocation, cgi scripts, and active server pages are discussed.

Topic	Main Study Source
Introduction to Electronic Business	Chapter 1 and class notes
Impacts of Electronic Business	Chapter 2.
Barriers to Electronic Business	Chapter 3.
The Internet	Chapter 4 and slides.
Basic Internet Protocols: TCP/IP	Chapter 4 and slides.
The World Wide Web	Chapter 4.
The HTTP Protocol	Chapter 4 and slides.
Developing E-Business Applications	Chapter 5 and slides.
Telecommunication Technologies for E-Business	Chapter 6.
Client/Server Architectures	Chapter 7.
Content creation	Chapter 9
Privacy/Security/Authentication/Authorization	Chapter 10
Electronic Payment Infrastructure	Chapter 11
Additional topics	Book and other resources

• NOTE: this Web page is from last year's EC511 course taught by Dr Menasce. Have a look at Assignments 1-5 for review purposes, and the link to "Review Questions for the Midterm". We have covered most, but not all, of the topics discussed in Dr Menasce's class. Our Midterm will focus on what we have covered up to this point...through Chapter 7 in the text, class notes, and Dr Menasce's presentation from the Oct 14 class.