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A Ph.D. elective offered in the fall of 2000

by the Department of Accounting and Information Systems

Faculty of Management, Rutgers University

Instructor: Prof. Alexander Kogan

kogan@andromeda.rutgers.edu

(973) 353-1064

Overview: This course covers the theoretical foundations, implementation problems, and research issues of the emerging area of electronic commerce. It discusses technological, conceptual and methodological aspects of electronic commerce. The courseformat combines lectures, seminar presentations and classroom discussions.

Coursework: The coursework includes presentations of research articles, in-class discussions, and a final course project researching one of the problems of electronic commerce. All course after hours communications are expected to be conducted over the Internet.

Every student is required to study and briefly summarize in writing each required reading for every lecture, and submit the summaries to the instructor by e-mail before the beginning of each class. Each required article is assigned to two of the students, who have to prepare an extended summary (about two pages long) as well as a class presentation of the article. One of the two students (chosen randomly during the class) has to present the article in class. All students have to participate in discussing the presented articles and be prepared to (possibly) replace the main discussant. Extended summaries and presentations of additional readings can be prepared for extra credit.

It is absolutely essential to start working on the course research project as soon as possible. Every student is required to prepare a three page long proposal for the course research project, and submit this proposal for instructor's evaluation by October 24, 2000. The course research project should be prepared in the form of a term paper, and presented during the last meeting of the class on December 12, 2000. It should also be converted to HTML and posted online.

Grading: The presentations of articles, the course project and the final exam will provide the basis for the course grade:

The class is supported by an e-mailing list with Web-based archived. To subscribe, visit:

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1. (C) D.E. Comer. The Internet Book: Everything You Need to Know About Computer Networking and How the Internet Works. 3^rd Ed. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2000 (ISBN 0-13-030852-8). http://vig.prenhall.com/acadbook/0,2581,0130308528,00.html
2. (SP) G.P.Schneider and J.T. Perry. Electronic Commerce. Course Technology - Thomson Learning, Cambridge, MA, 2000 (ISBN 0-7600-1179-6). http://www.course.com/sl/viewtitle.cfm?isbn=0-7600-1179-6

The tentative list of topics to be covered in this course:

1. 9/5/2000 Introduction to electronic commerce, telecommunications infrastructure, and Internet technology

Required readings:

1. Digital Economy 2000, U.S. Department of Commerce, June 2000. http://www.esa.doc.gov/de2000.pdf
2. Jonathan Coppel, E-Commerce: Impacts and Policy Challenges, OECD Economics Department Working Paper NO. 252, June 2000. http://www.oecd.org/publications/Pol_brief/9701_Pol.htm

Additional readings:

• The Emerging Digital Economy, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1997. http://www.ecommerce.gov/emerging.htm
• Dismantling the Barriers to Global Electronic Commerce, OECD, October 1997. http://www.oecd.org/dsti/sti/it/ec/prod/dismantl.htm
• Digital Tornado: The Internet and Telecommunications Policy, Federal Communications Commission, OPP Working Paper No. 29, March 1997. http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/OPP/working_papers/oppwp29pdf.html



2. 9/12/2000 Client-server architecture of Internet applications, standard Internet services, HTTP, markup languages, dynamic Web content



3. 9/19/2000 Internet access and services: measuring and pricing the Internet

Required readings:

1. K. G. Coffman and A. M. Odlyzko, "Internet growth: Is there a "Moore's Law" for data traffic?", AT&T Labs - Research, July 11, 2000. http://www.research.att.com/~amo/doc/internet.moore.pdf
2. Richard Edell and Pravin Variaya, "Providing Internet access: What we learn from the INDEX trial", IEEE Network, 13 (5) (1999). http://www.path.berkeley.edu/~varaiya/papers_ps.dir/networkpaper.pdf
3. Shane Greenstein, "The Commercialization of Information Infrastructure as Technological Mediation: The Internet Access Market", Information Systems Frontiers, 1 (4) (2000), 329-348. http://www.wkap.nl/article.pdf?258701
4. J. Mackie-Mason and H. Varian, "Pricing the Internet", In: Public Access to the Internet (B. Kahin and J. Keller, eds.), MIT Press, 1995, pp. 269-314. http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jmm/papers/Pricing_the_Internet.pdf
5. S. Shenker, D. Clark, D. Estrin, and S. Hertzog, "Pricing in computer networks: Reshaping the research agenda", Telecommunications Policy, 20 (3) (1996), pp. 183-201. ftp://parcftp.xerox.com/pub/net-research/picn.ps
6. A. Gupta, D.O. Stahl, and A.B. Whinston, "The Economics of Network Management ", Communications of the ACM September 1999, Vol.42, No.9, 57-63. http://cism.bus.utexas.edu/works/articles/cacm99.pdf
7. Peter C. Fishburn and Andrew M. Odlyzko, "Dynamic behavior of differential pricing and quality of service options for the internet", Decision Support Systems, 28 (1-2) (2000), 123-136. http://www.elsevier.nl/cas/tree/store/decsup/sub/2000/28/1-2/789.pdf
8. Costas Courcoubetis, Frank P. Kelly, Vasilios A. Siris, Richard Weber, "A study of simple usage-based charging schemes for broadband networks ", Telecommunication Systems , to appear, 2000. http://www.ics.forth.gr/netgroup/publications/simple_charging.html

Additional readings:

• A. M. Odlyzko, "The history of communications and its implications for the Internet", AT&T Labs - Research, June 16, 2000. http://www.research.att.com/~amo/doc/history.communications0.pdf
• William Lehr, "Understanding Vertical Integration in the Internet", prepared for EURO CPR’98 Conference, Venice, March 1998. http://itel.mit.edu:/itel/pubs/Lehr.pdf
• F. P. Kelly, "Models for a self-managed Internet", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A358 (2000) 2335-2348. http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~frank/smi.html
• S. Herzog, S. Shenker and D. Estrin, "Sharing Multicast Cost", Internet Economics (L.W. McKnight and J.P. Bailey, eds.), MIT Press, 1997, pp. 167-212. Preliminary version: http://www.research.ibm.com/people/h/herzog/sigton.html
• P. Srinagesh, "Internet cost structures and interconnection agreements", Internet Economics (L.W. McKnight and J.P. Bailey, eds.), MIT Press, 1997, pp. 121-154. Preliminary version: http://www.press.umich.edu:80/jep/works/SrinCostSt.html
• Hal R. Varian, "Estimating the Demand for Bandwidth", University of California, Berkeley, August 29, 2000. http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~hal/Papers/wtp/wtp.pdf



4. 9/26/2000 Digital economy and e-business models

Required readings:

1. John Haltiwanger and Ron S. Jarmin, "Measuring the Digital Economy", presented at a White-House-NSF Conference: Understanding the Digital Economy: Data, Tools, and Research, May 25-26, 1999, Department of Commerce, Washington, DC. http://mitpress.mit.edu/UDE/haltiwanger.pdf
2. Anitesh Barua, Andrew B. Whinston, and Fang Yin, "Value and Productivity in the Internet Economy ", IEEE Computer, May 2000, pp. 2-5. http://cism.bus.utexas.edu/works/articles/IEEE_Computer.pdf
3. Anitesh Barua, Andrew B. Whinston, and Fang Yin, "Not all Dot Coms are Created Equal: An Exploratory Investigation of the Productivity of Internet Based Companies ", Center for Research in Electronic Commerce, University of Texas at Austin, May 2000. http://cism.bus.utexas.edu/works/articles/digital.pdf
4. Michael J. Shaw, "Electronic Commerce: Review of Critical Research Issues", Information Systems Frontiers, Volume 1, Issue 1, July 1999, pp. 95-106. http://www.wkap.nl/article.pdf?211689
5. Jaana Porra, "Electronic Commerce Internet Strategies and Business Models-A Survey", Information Systems Frontiers, Volume 1, Issue 4, April 2000, pp. 389-399. http://www.wkap.nl/article.pdf?258706
6. Dawn Jutla, Peter Bodorik and Yie Wang, "Developing Internet E-Commerce Benchmarks", Information Systems, Volume 24, Issue 6, September 1999, pp. 475-493. http://www.elsevier.nl/gej-ng/10/23/21/28/32/28/article.pdf
7. S.L. Jarvenpaa, E.H. Tiller, "Integrating market, technology, and policy opportunities in e-business strategy", Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 8 (3) (1999), 235-249. http://www.elsevier.com/cdweb/journals/09638687/articles/8/3/S096386879900025.pdf

Additional readings:

• Rob Kling and Roberta Lamb, "IT and Organizational Change in Digital Economies: A Socio-Technical Approach", presented at a White-House-NSF Conference: Understanding the Digital Economy: Data, Tools, and Research, May 25-26, 1999, Department of Commerce, Washington, DC. http://mitpress.mit.edu/UDE/kling.rtf



5. 10/3/2000 Security of e-commerce: Cryptography and security of Internet information flows, host security, intranets and extranets

Required readings:

1. P.-C. Cheng, J. A. Garay, A. Herzberg, and H. Krawczyk, "A security architecture for the Internet Protocol", IBM Systems Journal, Vol. 37, No. 1, 1998 - Internet Computing, p. 42. http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/371/cheng.html
2. David P. Kormann and Aviel D. Rubin, "Risks of the Passport Single Signon Protocol", Computer Networks, July, 2000. http://avirubin.com/passport.html
3. William A. Arbaugh, James R. Davin, David J. Farber, and Jonathan M. Smith, "Security for Virtual Private Intranets", IEEE Computer, Vol. 31, No. 9, September 1998, 48-55. http://www.intraware.com/ms/mktg/indaa/evaltch/security.html
4. A. Boulanger, "Catapults and grappling hooks: The tools and techniques of information warfare", IBM Systems Journal, Vol. 37, No. 1, 1998 - Internet Computing, p. 106. http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/371/boulanger.html
5. Xianjun Geng and Andrew B. Whinston, "Defeating Distributed Denial of Service Attacks", IT Pro, July-August, 2000, pp. 36-41. http://cism.bus.utexas.edu/works/articles/defeating_ddos.pdf
6. Samit Soni, Rakesh Gupta, Hasan Pirkul, "Survivable Network Design: The State of the Art", Information Systems Frontiers, Volume 1, Issue 3, October 1999, pp. 303-315. http://www.wkap.nl/article.pdf?242162
7. Y. Yemini, A. Dailianas, D. Florissi, G. Huberman, "MarketNet: protecting access to information systems through financial market controls", Decision Support Systems, 28 (1-2) (2000), pp. 205-216. http://www.elsevier.nl/cas/tree/store/decsup/sub/2000/28/1-2/795.pdf

Additional readings:

• Pete Loshin, "Defending from the Unthinkable," BYTE, December 1997, 67-74. http://www.byte.com/art/9712/sec7/art2.htm



6. 10/10/2000 Electronic payment systems

Required readings:

1. Laurie Law, Susan Sabett, Jerry Solinas, "How to make a mint: The cryptography of anonymous electronic cash", National Security Agency, 18 June 1996. http://jya.com/nsamint.htm
2. B. Clifford Neuman and Gennady Medvinsky, "Internet Payment Services", Internet Economics (L.W. McKnight and J.P. Bailey, eds.), MIT Press, 1997, 401-415. http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/works/NeumNetPay.html See also: ftp://prospero.isi.edu/pub/papers/security/netcheque-requirements-compcon95.ps ftp://prospero.isi.edu/pub/papers/security/netcash-cccs93.ps
3. N. Asokan, Phillipe A. Janson, Michael Steiner, and Michael Waidner, "The State of the Art in Electronic Payment Systems", IEEE Computer, Vol. 30, No. 9, September 1997, 28-35. http://www.zurich.ibm.com/Technology/Security/publications/1997/AJSW97.pdf
4. J. L. Abad Peiro, N. Asokan, M. Steiner, and M. Waidner, "Designing a generic payment service", IBM Systems Journal, Vol. 37, No. 1 - Internet Computing, p. 72. http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/371/abadpeiro.html
5. Leo Van Hove, "Electronic Purses: (Which) Way To Go? " First Monday, volume 5, number 7 (July 2000). http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue5_7/hove/index.html
6. Leo Van Hove, "Electronic Purses, Interoperability, and the Internet " First Monday, volume 4, number 4 (April 1999). http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue4_4/vanhove/index.html
7. J. Mackie-Mason and Kimberly White, "Evaluating and Selecting Digital Payment Mechanisms", in: Interconnection and the Internet, G. Rosston and D. Waterman, eds. Lawrence Erlbaum, 1997: 113-134. http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jmm/papers/digidoll.pdf
8. Soon-Yong Choi and Andrew B. Whinston, "Smart Cards Enabling Smart Commerce in the Digital Age", CREC/KPMG White Paper, June 1998. http://cism.bus.utexas.edu/works/articles/smartcardswp.html

Additional readings:

• Amir Herzberg, "Safeguarding Digital Library Contents: Charging for Online Content", D-Lib Magazine, January 1998. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january98/ibm/01herzberg.html
• B. Clifford Neuman, "Security, Payment, and Privacy for Network Commerce", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 13(8):1523-1531. October 1995. http://204.178.16.7/jsac/unprot/jsac13.8/neuman/abs_neuman.html



7. 10/17/2000 Trust and assurance in e-commerce, continuous online auditing, online financial reporting

Required readings:

1. A. Michael Froomkin, "The Essential Role of Trusted Third Parties in Electronic Commerce", Readings in Electronic Commerce (ed. R. Kalakota and A.B. Whinston), Addison Wesley 1997, pp.119-176. http://personal.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/articles/trusted.htm
2. Roger Debreceny and Glen Gray, "The Impact of the Internet on traditional assurance services and opportunities for new assurance services: Challenges and Research". http://www.summa.org.uk/corp/papers/debreceny/audit_web.htm
3. R. P. Srivastava and T. J. Mock, "Evidential Reasoning for WebTrust Assurance Services", Journal of Management Information Systems, Vol. 10, NO. 3, Winter 1999-2000, pp. 11-32.
4. A. Kogan, E.F. Sudit, M.A. Vasarhelyi, "Continuous Online Auditing: A Program of Research", Journal of Information Systems, Vol. 13, No. 2, Fall 1999, pp. 87-103.
5. Yao-Hua Tan and Walter Thoen, "Formalizing Trade Procedures to Analyze Trust in Electronic Commerce", in Proceedings of the Workshop on Formal Models of Electronic Commerce (FMEC99), Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands, June, 1999. ftp://abduction.euridis.fbk.eur.nl/pub/FMEC99/FMEC99_YTan.pdf
6. Efrim Boritz, Erin Mackler and Doug McPhie, "Reporting on systems reliability", Journal of Accountancy, November 1999 Vol. 188 No. 5. http://www.aicpa.org/pubs/jofa/nov1999/boritz.html
7. Falk v. Westarp, Dieter Ordelheide, Michael Stubenrath, Peter Buxmann, Wolfgang König, "Internet-Based Corporate Reporting - Filling the Standardization Gap", Proceedings of the 32nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January 5-8, Maui/Hawaii, 1999, pp. 1-10. http://intacc.wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de/papers/Internet_Standardisierung.html

Additional readings:

• AICPA CPA WebTrust, http://www.aicpa.org/webtrust/index.htm
• Committee on Information Systems Trustworthiness, "Trust in Cyberspace", National Research Council, Fred B. Schneider, Editor, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C. 1999. http://bob.nap.edu/html/trust/
• Adrian McCullagh and William Caelli, "Non-Repudiation in the Digital Environment", First Monday, volume 5, number 8 (August 2000). http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue5_8/mccullagh/index.html
• Gerald Flynn & Catherine Gowthorpe, "Volunteering financial data on the World Wide Web. A study of financial reporting from a stakeholder perspective", presented at the 1st Financial Reporting and Business Communication Conference, Cardiff, Wales. 3-4^th July 1997. http://www.summa.org.uk/corp/papers/gowthorpe/gowthorpe.htm
• David Gefen, "E-commerce: the role of familiarity and trust", Omega, 28 (6) (2000), pp. 725-737. http://www.elsevier.nl/cas/tree/store/ome/sub/2000/28/6/436.pdf
• Andrew Lymer and Anders Tallberg, "Corporate Reporting and the Internet - a survey and commentary on the use of the WWW in corporate reporting in the UK and Finland", presented at the 20th Annual Congress of the European Accounting Association, Graz, Austria. April 1997. http://www.summa.org.uk/corp/papers/lymer/lymereaa.htm
• Dominic Deller, Michael Stubenrath, and Weber, Christoph, "Investor Relations and the Internet: Background, Potential Application and Evidence from the USA, UK and Germany", presented at the 21st Annual Congress of the European Accounting Association in Antwerp, Belgium, April 1998. http://intacc.wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de/papers/Internet_Inv_Rel.html



8. 10/24/2000 E-business intelligence: Data mining, Web measurements and analysis

FINAL RESEARCH PROJECT PROPOSAL IS DUE

Required readings:

1. Jaideep Srivastava, Robert Cooley, Mukund Deshpande, Pang-Ning Tan, "Web Usage Mining: Discovery and Applications of Usage Patterns from Web Data", SIGKDD Explorations, January 2000, Volume 1, Issue 2, pp. 12-23. http://www.acm.org/sigkdd/explorations/issue1-2/srivastava.pdf
2. Ansari Suhail, Kohavi Ron, Mason Llew, Zheng Zijian, "Integrating E-commerce and Data Mining: Architecture and Challenges", WEBKDD'2000 workshop on Web Mining for E-Commerce -- Challenges and Opportunities, August, 2000. http://robotics.stanford.edu/~ronnyk/integratingEcom.pdf
3. S. Gomory, R. Hoch, J. Lee, M. Podlaseck, E. Schonberg, "E-Commerce Intelligence: Measuring, Analyzing and Reporting on Merchandising Effectiveness of Online Stores", IBM Research Report, IBM, Yorktown Heights, NY, July, 1999. http://www.ibm.com/iac/papers/eabs3.pdf
4. J. Lee and M. Podlaseck, "Visualization and Analysis of Clickstream Data of Online Stores for Understanding Web Merchandising ", IBM Research Report, IBM, Yorktown Heights, NY, January, 2000. http://www.ibm.com/iac/papers/lee.pdf
5. K.-L. Wu, P. S. Yu, and A. Ballman", SpeedTracer: A Web usage mining and analysis tool", IBM Systems Journal, Vol. 37, No. 1, 1998 - Internet Computing, p. 89. http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/371/wu.html
6. Novak, T.P. and D.L. Hoffman, "New Metrics for New Media: Toward the Development of Web Measurement Standards", World Wide Web Journal, Winter 1997, 2(1), 213-246. http://www2000.ogsm.vanderbilt.edu/novak/web.standards/webstand.html
7. T.P. Novak, D.L. Hoffman, and Yiu-Fai Yung "Measuring the Customer Experience in Online Environments: A Structural Modeling Approach", Marketing Science, Winter 2000. http://ecommerce.vanderbilt.edu/papers/pdf/Novak,%20Hoffman%20and%20Yung%20(October%201999)%20Measuring%20the%20Customer%20Experience.pdf

Additional readings:

• R. Kosala and H. Blockeel, "Web Mining Research: A Survey", SIGKDD Explorations, July 2000, Volume 2, Issue 1, pp. 1-15. http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigkdd/explorations/issue2-1/kosala.pdf
• P. Chatterjee, D.L. Hoffman, and T.P. Novak, "Modeling the Clickstream: Implications for Web-Based Advertising Efforts", Working Paper. http://www2000.ogsm.vanderbilt.edu/papers/clickstream/clickstream.html and http://www2000.ogsm.vanderbilt.edu/papers/pdf/clickstream.pdf



9. 10/31/2000 Business-to-consumer e-commerce: online marketing and selling, information goods

Required readings:

1. Chandrasekar Subramaniam, Michael J. Shaw and David M. Gardner, "Product Marketing and Channel Management in Electronic Commerce", Information Systems Frontiers, 1 (4) (2000), 363-378. http://www.wkap.nl/article.pdf?258704
2. Florian Zettelmeyer, "Expanding to the Internet: Pricing and Communications Strategies When Firms Compete on Multiple Channels", Journal of Marketing Research, forthcoming, 2000. http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/~florian/Papers/expint.pdf
3. Donna L. Hoffman and Thomas P. Novak, "Advertising Pricing Models for the World Wide Web", in Internet Publishing and Beyond: The Economics of Digital Information and Intellectual Property, Deborah Hurley, Brian Kahin and Hal Varian, eds. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000. http://ecommerce.vanderbilt.edu/papers/pdf/Web%20ad%20pricing%20models%20chapter.pdf
4. Erik Brynjolfsson and Michael D. Smith, "Frictionless Commerce? A comparison of Internet and Conventional Retailers", Management Science, Vol. 46, No. 4, April 2000, 563-585. http://ecommerce.mit.edu/papers/friction/friction.pdf
5. Yannis Bakos and Erik Brynjolfsson, "Bundling and Competition on the Internet: Aggregation Strategies for Information Goods", Marketing Science, January 2000. http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~bakos/bci.pdf
6. Erik Brynjolfsson and Michael D. Smith, "The Great Equalizer? Customer Choice Behavior at Internet Shopbots", Center for eBusiness@MIT, July 27, 2000. http://ebusiness.mit.edu/papers/tge
7. Manoj Kumar, Anand Rangachari, Anant Jhingran and Rakesh Mohan, "Sales Promotions on the Internet", IBM Research Report, November 1998. http://www.ibm.com/iac/papers/coupon_fp.pdf
8. J.B. Schafer, J. Konstan, and J. Riedl, "Electronic Commerce Recommender Applications", Journal of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Expected Publication Date - January, 2001. http://www.cs.umn.edu/Research/GroupLens/ECRA.pdf

Additional readings:

• P. C. Fishburn and A. M. Odlyzko, "Competitive pricing of information goods: Subscription pricing versus pay-per-use", Economic Theory, 13 (1999), 447-470. http://www.research.att.com/~amo/doc/competitive.pricing.pdf
• Ting-Peng Liang and Jin-Shiang Huang, "An empirical study on consumer acceptance of products in electronic markets: a transaction cost model", Decision Support Systems, 24 (1) (1998), 29-43.



10. 11/7/2000 Auctions on the Internet

Required readings:

1. David H. Lucking-Reiley, "Auctions on the Internet: What's Being Auctioned, and How?", Journal of Industrial Economics, forthcoming, September 2000. http://www.vanderbilt.edu/econ/reiley/papers/InternetAuctions.pdf
2. Manoj Kumar and Stuart I. Feldman, Internet Auctions, IBM Institute for Advanced Commerce Report, November 1998. http://www.ibm.com/iac/papers/auction_fp.pdf
3. P.R. Wurman, W.E. Walsh, and M.P. Wellman, "Flexible double auctions for electronic commerce: Theory and implementation", Decision Support Systems, 24 (1) (1998), 17-27. ftp://ftp.eecs.umich.edu/people/wellman/dss98.ps
4. Ray D. Zimmerman, Robert J. Thomas, Deqiang Gan, Carlos Murillo-Sánchez, "A web-based platform for experimental investigation of electric power auctions", Decision Support Systems, 24 (3-4) (1999), 193-205. http://www.elsevier.nl/cas/tree/store/decsup/sub/1999/24/3-4/703.pdf
5. Jeffrey Teich, Hannele Wallenius, Jyrki Wallenius, "Multiple-issue auction and market algorithms for the world wide web", Decision Support Systems, 26 (1) (1999), 49-66. http://www.elsevier.nl/cas/tree/store/decsup/sub/1999/26/1/734.pdf
6. Tuomas Sandholm, "Approaches to winner determination in combinatorial auctions", Decision Support Systems, 28 (1-2) (2000), 165-176. http://www.elsevier.nl/cas/tree/store/decsup/sub/2000/28/1-2/792.pdf
7. Martin Bichler, "An experimental analysis of multi-attribute auctions", Decision Support Systems, 29 (3) (2000), 249-268. http://www.elsevier.nl/cas/tree/store/decsup/sub/2000/29/3/828.pdf

Additional readings:

• Carrie Beam, Arie Segev, and J. George Shanthikumar, "Optimal Design of Internet-based Auctions", Fisher Center for Information Technology & Management, Working Paper 98-WP-1034, University of California, Berkeley, January, 1999. http://haas.berkeley.edu/citm/auction/wp-1034.pdf
• P.R. Wurman, W.E. Walsh, and M.P. Wellman, "The Michigan Internet AuctionBot: A configurable auction server for human and software agents", Second International Conference on Autonomous Agents, May 1998. ftp://ftp.eecs.umich.edu/people/wellman/agents98wurman.ps.Z



11. 11/14/2000 Electronic markets

Required readings:

1. Yannis Bakos, "Towards Friction-Free Markets: The Emerging Role of Electronic Marketplaces on the Internet", Communications of the ACM, Volume 41, Number 8 (August 1998), pp. 35-42. http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~bakos/emkts-cacm.pdf
2. Michael Smith, Joseph Bailey, and Erik Brynjolfsson, "Understanding Digital Markets: Review and Assessment", Understanding The Digital Economy (eds. Erik Brynjolfsson and Brian Kahin), MIT Press, 1999. http://ecommerce.mit.edu/papers/ude/ude.pdf
3. Carrie Beam, Arie Segev, Martin Bichler, and Ramayya Krishnan, "On Negotiations and Deal Making in Electronic Markets", Information Systems Frontiers, 1 (3) (1999), 241-258. http://www.wkap.nl/article.pdf?242158
4. Ori Regev, Noam Nisan, "The POPCORN market. Online markets for computational resources", Decision Support Systems, 28 (1-2) (2000), 177-189. http://www.elsevier.nl/cas/tree/store/decsup/sub/2000/28/1-2/793.pdf
5. Jeffrey O. Kephart , James E. Hanson, and Amy R. Greenwald, "Dynamic Pricing by Software Agents", Computer Networks, to appear, 2000. http://www.research.ibm.com/infoecon/paps/rudin.pdf
6. A. M. Chircu and R. J. Kauffman, "Reintermediation Strategies in Business-to-Business Electronic Commerce", International Journal of Electronic Commerce, Vol. 4, No. 4, Summer 2000, pp. 7-42. http://webfoot.csom.umn.edu/faculty/phds/achircu/researchweb/ck_ijec_2000.pdf
7. Benny Rachlevsky-Reich, Israel Ben-Shaul, Nicholas Tung Chan, Andrew Lo and Tomaso Poggio, "GEM: A Global Electronic Market System", Information Systems, Vol. 24, No. 6, pp. 495-518, 1999. http://www.elsevier.nl/gej-ng/10/23/21/28/32/29/article.pdf
8. Ming Fan, Jan Stallaert and Andrew B. Whinston, "A Web-Based Financial Trading System", IEEE Computer, April 1999, pp. 64-70. http://cism.bus.utexas.edu/works/articles/ieee499.pdf

Additional readings:

• Hal R. Varian, "Effect of the Internet on Financial Markets", University of California, Berkeley, September 1998. http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~hal/Papers/brookings-paper.html
• Arie Segev, Judith Gebauer, Frank Färber, "Internet-based Electronic Markets ", EM - Electronic Markets, Vol. 9, No. 3, September 1999. http://haas.berkeley.edu/~citm/procurement/publications/El_Market.pdf
• Thomas Chan, Blake LeBaron, Andrew Lo, Tomasco Poggio, "Agent-Based Models of Financial Markets: A Comparison with Experimental Markets", MIT Artificial Markets Project, MIT, September 5, 1999. http://ebusiness.mit.edu/research/agents.pdf
• Timmers, Paul, "Business Models for Electronic Markets", EM - Electronic Markets, Vol. 8, No. 2, July 1998, 3-8. http://www.electronicmarkets.org/netacademy/publications.nsf/all_pk/949



12. 11/28/2000 Intelligent agents in electronic commerce

Required readings:

1. Nicholas R. Jennings, Katia Sycara, Michael Wooldridge, "A Roadmap of Agent Research and Development," Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Volume 1, Issue 1, 1998, 7-38. http://www.wkap.nl/article.pdf?165941
2. Kerschberg, L., and Banerjee, S., "An Agency-based Framework for Electronic Business," Cooperative Information Agents III, M. Klusch, O. Shehory, and G. Weiss, eds., Springer-Verlag, Berlin, et al., 1999, 254-279. http://ise.gmu.edu/~kersch/ECEB/pubs/AgencyBasedE-Business.zip
3. Daniel G. Conway, Gary J. Koehler, "Interface agents: caveat mercator in electronic commerce," Decision Support Systems, 27 (4) (2000), 355-366. http://www.elsevier.nl/cas/tree/store/decsup/free/2000/27/4/762.pdf
4. Tuomas Sandholm, "Agents in Electronic Commerce: Component Technologies for Automated Negotiation and Coalition Formation", Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Volume 3, Issue 1, March 2000, 73-96. http://www.wkap.nl/article.pdf?251211
5. Mike Perkowitz, Robert B. Doorenbos, Oren Etzioni, Daniel S. Weld, "Learning to Understand Information on the Internet: An Example-Based Approach", Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, Volume 8, Issue 2, March 1997, 133-153. http://www.wkap.nl/article.pdf?132806
6. Antonio Corradi, Marco Cremonini, Rebecca Montanari and Cesare Stefanelli, "Mobile Agents Integrity For Electronic Commerce Applications", Information Systems, Volume 24, Issue 6, September 1999, 519-533. http://www.elsevier.nl/gej-ng/10/23/21/28/32/30/article.pdf
7. K. Nelson, A. Kogan, R. Srivastava, M.A. Vasarhelyi, H. Lu, "Virtual auditing agents: the EDGAR Agent challenge", Decision Support Systems, 28 (3) (2000), 241-253. http://www.elsevier.nl/cas/tree/store/decsup/sub/2000/28/3/802.pdf

Additional readings:

• Michael Wooldridge, "Intelligent agents", in Multiagent Systems, ed. G. Weiss, The MIT Press, April 1999. http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~mjw/pubs/mas99.ps.gz
• David Kotz and Robert S. Gray, "Mobile Agents and the Future of the Internet ", ACM Operating Systems Review, 33 (3), August 1999, pp. 7-13. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~dfk/papers/kotz:future2/
• Aoun, B. "Agent Technology in Electronic Commerce and Information Retrieval on the Internet". In R. Debreceny & A. Ellis (Eds.), Landscaping the Web - Proceedings of AusWeb96 - the Third Australian World Wide Web Conference, 1996, 240-246. Lismore, NSW: Southern Cross University Press. http://www.scu.edu.au/sponsored/ausweb/ausweb96/tech/aoun/paper.html
• Etzioni, Oren, "Moving Up the Information Food Chain: Deploying Softbots on the World Wide Web," AI Magazine, 18(2): Summer 1997, 11-18. ftp://ftp.cs.washington.edu/pub/etzioni/softbots/a96.ps.gz
• M.P. Wellman and P.R. Wurman, "Market-aware agents for a multiagent world", Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Volume 24, Issue 3-4, 30 September 1998, 115-125. ftp://ftp.eecs.umich.edu/people/wellman/maamaw.ps
• R. Guttman and P. Maes, "Agent-mediated Integrative Negotiation for Retail Electronic Commerce", Proceedings of the Workshop on Agent Mediated Electronic Trading (AMET'98), Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 1998. http://ecommerce.media.mit.edu/papers/amet98.pdf



13. 12/5/2000 Business-to-business e-commerce, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), e-commerce transactions, and Extensible Markup Language

Required readings:

1. Mohanbir Sawhney and Steven Kaplan, "The Emerging Landscape of Business to Business E-Commerce", Business 2.0 Magazine, September 1999. http://gsbwww.uchicago.edu/fac/steven.kaplan/research/EHUBSN.PDF
2. Steven Kaplan and Mohanbir Sawhney, "B2B E-Commerce Hubs: Towards a Taxonomy of Business Models", University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, December 1999. http://gsbwww.uchicago.edu/fac/steven.kaplan/research/taxonomy.pdf
3. Shiwa Fu, Jen-Yao Chung, Walter Dietrich, Vibby Gottemukkala, Mitchell Cohen, and Shyhkwei Chen, "A Practical Approach to Web-Based Internet EDI", Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS’99 Workshop), May 1999. http://www.ibm.com/iac/papers/icdcsws99.pdf
4. Victoria Ungureanu and Naftaly Minsky, "Establishing Business Rules for Inter-Enterprise Electronic Commerce", Proc. of the 14th International Symposium on DIStributed Computing (DISC 2000), October 2000, Toledo, Spain. http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~minsky/papers/b2b.pdf
5. T. Sandholm, "Unenforced E-commerce Transactions", IEEE Internet Computing, Vol. 1, No. 6, Nov.-Dec. 1997, 47-54. http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~sandholm/prot_no_3rd_ieee.ps

Additional readings:

• Zhong TIAN, Jen-Yao CHUNG, Leo Y LIU, Vibby GUTTEMUKKALA, Jing LI, "Business-to-Business e-Commerce with Open Buying on the Internet", IBM Institute of Advanced Commerce, May 1999. http://www.ibm.com/iac/papers/obi-paper/index.html
• Benjamin N. Grosof, Yannis Labrou, and Hoi Y. Chan, "A Declarative Approach to Business Rules in Contracts: Courteous Logic Programs in XML", Proceedings of the 1st ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC-99), Edited by Michael P. Wellman. New York, NY: ACM Press, 1999. http://www.research.ibm.com/people/g/grosof/paps/ec99_proceedings.pdf
• Guidelines for using XML for Electronic Data Interchange, Editor: Martin Bryan, XML/EDI Group, Version 0.05, January 1998. http://www.geocities.com/WallStreet/Floor/5815/guide.htm
• A. Segev, J. Porra, M. Roldan "Internet-based EDI strategy", Decision Support Systems, 21 (1997), 157-170.
• Wil M.P. van der Aalst, "Process-oriented architectures for electronic commerce and interorganizational workflow", Information Systems, Vol. 24, No. 8, pp. 639–671, 1999. http://www.elsevier.nl/gej-ng/10/23/21/28/33/26/article.pdf
• Internet-based EDI solutions, InfoWorld, http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayTC.pl?/980406comp.htm
• Jay M. Tenenbaum, Tripatinder S. Chowdhry, Kevin Hughes, "Eco System: An Internet Commerce Architecture", IEEE Computer, Vol. 30, No. 5, May 1997, 48-55. See also http://www.commerce.net/research/eco/draft_01/ and http://www.commerce.net/research/eco/eco.pdf
• Curt Powley, David Benjamin, David Grossman, Robert Neches, Paul Postel, Ernesto Brodersohn, Rupal Fadia, Quan Zhu, and Peter Will, "DASHER: A Prototype for Federated E-Commerce Services", IEEE Internet Computing, Vol. 1, No. 6, Nov.-Dec. 1997, 62 -71. http://www.isi.edu/dasher/dasher-internet-computing.pdf



14. Virtual organizations and supply chain management over the Internet

Required readings:

1. Robert Haugen and William E. McCarthy, "REA, a semantic model for Internet supply chain collaboration", to be presented at ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA 2000), January 21, 2000. http://www.supplychainlinks.com/Rea4scm.htm
2. Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Hans Schuster, Andrzej Cichocki and Donald Baker, "Managing Process and Service Fusion in Virtual Enterprises", Information Systems, Volume 24, Issue 6, September 1999, 429-456. http://www.elsevier.nl/gej-ng/10/23/21/28/32/26/article.pdf
3. Arie Segev, Judith Gebauer, Carrie Beam, "Procurement in the Internet-Age - Current Practices and Emerging Trends (Results from a Field Study)", Fisher Center for Management and Information Technology, University of California, Berkeley, Working Paper 98-WP-1033, August, 1999. http://haas.berkeley.edu/citm/procurement/publications/wp-1033.PDF
4. Judith Gebauer, Peter Buxmann, "Assessing the Value of Interorganizational Systems to Support Business Transactions", International Journal of Electronic Commerce, forthcoming, 2000. http://haas.berkeley.edu/~gebauer/publications/Gebauer_Buxmann_IJEC.pdf

Additional readings:

• Daniel E. O’Leary, "Reengineering Assembly, Warehouse and Billing Processes, for Electronic Commerce Using "Merge-in-Transit"", Information Systems Frontiers, Volume 1, Issue 4, April 2000, 379-387. http://www.wkap.nl/article.pdf?258705
• P. K. Kannan, Ai-Mei Chang, Andrew B. Whinston, "Electronic Communities in E-Business: Their Role and Issues", Information Systems Frontiers, Volume 1, Issue 4, April 2000, 415-426. http://www.wkap.nl/article.pdf?258708
• Troy J. Strader, Fu-Ren Lin, Michael J. Shaw, "Information infrastructure for electronic virtual organization management", Decision Support Systems, 23 (1) (1998), 75-94.
• Elgar Fleisch and Hubert Österle, "A Process-oriented Approach to Business Networking", Electronic Journal of Organizational Virtualness, Vol. 2 No. 2, pp. 1-21, March 28, 2000. http://www.virtual-organization.net/files/articles/fleisch-oesterle-00.pdf
• John Collins, Rashmi Sundareswara, Maksim Tsvetovat, Maria Gini, Bamshad Mobasher, "Multi-Agent Contracting for Supply-Chain Management", University of Minnesota - Computer Science and Engineering, Technical Report 00-010, 2 - 10 - 2000. http://tiberius.cs.umn.edu/tech-reports/listing/tr2000/00-010.pdf
• Arthur M. Keller and Michael R. Genesereth, "Multivendor Catalogs: Smart Catalogs and Virtual Catalogs", EDI Forum, The Journal of Electronic Commerce, Vol. 9, No. 3, September 1996. http://www-db.stanford.edu/pub/keller/1996/virtual-catalogs-EDI-Forum.pdf



15. 12/12/2000 Presentation of course research projects



16. 12/19/2000 Final Exam

1. (KWF) Ravi Kalakota and Andrew B. Whinston. Frontiers of Electronic Commerce. Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1996 (ISBN 0-201-84520-2, http://cseng.awl.com/bookdetail.qry?ISBN=0-201-84520-2&ptype=0 )

2. (FB) Warwick Ford and Michael S. Baum. Secure Electronic Commerce: Building the Infrastructure for Digital Signatures and Encryption, Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1997 (ISBN 0-13-476342-4, http://www.prenhall.com/ptrbooks/ptr_0134763424.html)

3. (IE) Internet Economics. Edited by Lee W. McKnight and Joseph P.Bailey. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1997 (ISBN 0-262-13336-9, http://www-mitpress.mit.edu/book-home.tcl?isbn=0262133369)

4. (CSW) Soon-Yong Choi, Dale O. Stahl, and Andrew B. Whinston. Economics of Electronic Commerce. Macmillan Technical Publishing, Indianapolis, IN, 1997 (ISBN 1-57870-014-0, http://merchant.superlibrary.com:8000/catalog/mcp/PRODUCT/PAGE/15787/bud/1578700140.html)

5. (GS) Simson Garfinkel with Gene Spafford. Web Security & Commerce, O'Reilly & Associates (ISBN 1-56592-269-7, http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/websec/)
6. (KWR) Ravi Kalakota and Andrew B. Whinston. Readings in Electronic Commerce. Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1997 (ISBN 0-201-88060-1, http://cseng.awl.com/bookdetail.qry?ISBN=0-201-88060-1&ptype=0