Electronic Commerce environment, modes, types; Intranet, intranet, extranet, VPN, and VAN; Security and authentication; Cryptography, key management, certificate authority, PKI, digital signature and digital certificate; Payment gateway; Electronic cash and electronic payment schemas: EDI, EFT, SWIFT. Secure transaction through credit cards and PayPal; Shopping cart; Cloud-hosting; Web database design, development and management; Integrating database with web applications, Web database security and access controls; Legal framework of e-Commerce.

• CEN 455 : Web Applications and Internet

• Comprehend the underlying economic mechanisms and driving forces of E-Commerce.
• Understand the critical building blocks of E-Commerce and different types of prevailing business models employed by leading industrial leaders.
• Appraise the opportunities and potential to apply and synthesize a variety of E-Commerce concepts and solutions to create business value for organizations, customers, and business partners.
• Formulate E-Commerce strategies that lever firms’ core competencies, facilitate organizational transformation, and foster innovation.
• Undertake planning, organizing, and implementing of E-Commerce initiatives to effectively respond to of dynamic market environments.
• Design, implement and maintain databases for e-commerce applications.

1. Effortless E-Commerce with PHP and MySQL (2nd Edition) by Larry Ullman
2. Web Information Retrieval (Data-Centric Systems and Applications) by Stefano Ceri, Alessandro Bozzon, Marco Brambilla and Emanuele Della Valle

Biweekly Quiz, One Midterm Exam, One Final Exam, Project