Electronic Business

The course contains the following themes:

1. Introduction and basic definitions.
2. Short historical overview of the e-business field.
3. Systemic view on e-business through its generic structures (internal and external logistic and value added chains, the influence of decision making on their behavior).
4. Technological views: EDI, XML, web services, component architectures, digital payment systems (BitCoin), semantic web technologies, internet of things and mobile applications.
5. Organizational views: evolution of business functions, processes and information systems, new business models, auditing procedures (COBIT).
6. Legislation views with emphasis on ZEPEP, ZEPEP-A, ZEKOM.
7. Specific views related to development and introduction of e-business systems: strategic planning changes, use of formal methods (language Z), and compliance with standards like Common Criteria.
8. Intelectual property issues.
9. Conclusions.
10. Addendum: Mini practical tasks covering the latest selected technological trends

The objective of the course is to familiarize students with technological, organizational and legal knowledge that is required in e-business along with the latest trends in this area. The emphasis is on practical skills, i.e., students model a business (sub)process, develop a necessary e-business application and integrate it with the background information system.

Categorized competences:

• The ability to define, understand and solve creative professional challenges in computer and information science.
• The ability of professional communication in the native language as well as in a foreign language.
• Compliance with security, functional, economic and environmental principles.
• The ability to understand and apply computer and information science knowledge to other technical and relevant fields (organisational science, etc).
• The ability to independently perform less demanding and less complex engineering and organisational tasks requiering the application of in computer and information systems domain.

Lectures, laboratory work (with practical prototype implementations), students’ presentations.

Attendance of laboratory work is mandatory (the exact percentage is announced at the beginning of a study year). The lecturer may also impose mandatory attendance of lectures as well.