CMSC 665 - Introduction to Electronic Commerce

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This course focuses on the use of electronic means to pursue business objectives. Special emphasis is placed on students’ ability to do research into existing and emerging technology and to summarize and present their findings clearly. The first part of the course is devoted to enabling technologies, including an introduction to business models for e-commerce and basic infrastructure, an overview of networking technologies and their impact on e-commerce and discussions on database technologies and Web-database connectivity. The second part of the course concentrates on the issues that are not solely technical, such as trust management, privacy and personalization, selling information products, copy protection and the digital divide.

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