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15-494 Special Topic: Web Commerce, Security and Privacy

Units:	9.0
Department:	Computer Science
Prerequisites:	15-212
Related URLs:	http://www.csd.cs.cmu.edu

Overview: Over the past ten years, the Web has become an integral part of our daily life, whether at home or at work. This course provides students with an overview of the technologies and practices associated with Internet Commerce, including issues of security and privacy. Part I - We will start by trying to understand what eCommerce is, looking at both business-to-consumer and business-to-business usage scenarios. We will examine the different stages of electronic commerce, from the identification of buyers and sellers, to the selection of goods, negotiation, sale, payment, delivery and post-sale activities and examine how new Internet technologies and practices can help add value at each step. In the process, we will look at a variety of technologies such as Web search technologies, personalization, collaborative filtering, data mining, auctions, P2P technologies, Web Services, agent technologies and the Semantic Web. Part II - This section of the course covers Web security issues, including overviews of symmetric and asymmetric key cryptography and PKI. This part of the course also includes an overview of electronic payment solutions and a discussion of Web privacy (e.g. P3P) Part III - This third part of the course is a series of 4 or 5 lectures that look at Mobile Commerce, revisiting many of the issues covered earlier in the course and looking at what happens when one tries to support Web Commerce on mobile devices such as cell phones or PDAs. Objective: The objective of this course is to introduce students to the technologies of Web Commerce, Security and Privacy as well as to related business and policy issues.

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