SI652 / EECS 547 Electronic Commerce

Rahul Sami

WINTER 2012 TuTh 1:00-2:30pm

Classroom: 2185 North Quad
Office hours: Monday 4-5pm; Tuesday 3-4pm

Overview:

The Internet is rapidly changing the way we trade with one another, conduct businesses, and organize financial institutions. In this course, we will cover a range of important principles -- drawn from computer science, economics, and other disciplines -- that influence the design and analysis of Internet commerce systems. We will begin with an introduction to design and analysis methods to make e-Commerce systems robust against failures, malicious attackers, and strategic manipulation. We will then study three aspects of electronic commerce systems: locating buyers and sellers (search), setting terms of trade (negotiation), and verifying and consummating the deal (exchange). The goal is to develop a mastery of the fundamental concepts and approaches through examples, rather than an exhaustive survey of the field. The course is a semester-long, 3-credit course.

Course Learning Objectives:

After completing this course, students should be able to:

Prerequisites

SI502 (taken concurrently is fine), EECS281, or permission of instructor.

Course Schedule

Note: This schedule might change slightly over the course of the semester

Academic Integrity Policy

The UM and SI Academic Integrity Policy applies to this course: Collaboration while working on homework problems, and while discussing and interpreting the reading assignments, is encouraged. Active learning is effective. Collaboration will be especially valuable in summarizing the reading materials and picking out the key concepts. You must, however, write your homework submission on your own, in your own words, before turning it in. If you worked with someone on the homework before writing it, you must list any and all collaborators on your written submission.

All written submissions must be your own, original work. Original work for narrative questions is not mere paraphrasing of someone else's completed answer: you must not share written answers with each other at all. At most, you should be working from notes you took while participating in a study session. Largelyduplicate copies of the same assignment will receive an equal division of the total point score from the one piece of work. You may incorporate selected excerpts from publications by other authors, but they must be clearly marked as quotations and must be attributed. If you build on the ideas of prior authors, you must cite their work. You may obtain copy editing assistance, and you may discuss your ideas with others, but all substantive writing and ideas must be your own, or be explicitly attributed to another. See the Rackham Graduate policy on Academic and Professional Integrity for the definition of plagiarism, and associated consequences.

Accommodations for Students with Disabilities

If you think you need an accommodation for a disability, please let me know at your earliest convenience. Some aspects of this course, the assignments, the in-class activities, and the way we teach may be modified to facilitate your participation and progress. As soon as you make me aware of your needs, we can work with the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) to help us determine appropriate accommodations. SSD (734-763-3000; http://www.umich.edu/~sswd) typically rec- ommends accommodations through a Verified Individualized Services and Accommodations (VISA) form. I will treat any information you provide as private and confidential.

Course Work and Assessment