IOM540:
Network Information Systems:
Analysis, Design, and Implementation
Spring 1997
Instructor:
Professor
Walt Scacchi,
ATRIUM Laboratory,
Information and Operations Management Dept.,
School of Business Administration,
University of Southern California.
213-740-4782, 213-740-8494 (fax).
Email:Scacchi@gilligan.usc.edu
Office Hours:
3:30-5:30pm Thursday, ACCT-304, and
by appointment.
Teaching Assistant:
Gautam Aggarwal
(aggarwal@scf.usc.edu).
Office Hours:
11:00am to 1:00pm Monday, Office: TBD.
- Who are we?
- Who am I?
- Who are you?
- Who do you work for? current job title? why did you take this
course? what do you expect or want to learn from this course?
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- Goal: Understand what and how businesses can utilize
internal and external internets (Intranets,
Extranets,
the Internet).
- Strategy: Emphasize challenges and opportunities for Electronic
Commerce using network information systems and
internet technologies
- Focus: Distributed, collaborative, virtualization
of everything informational.
- Assumes legacy information systems, architectures, and frameworks (that
may require reengineering)
- Employs "commercial-of-the-shelf" components
- Incorporates software agents, applets, mediaware, and plug-ins
- Utilizes "glue-code" or middleware
- Supports old and new data sets, formats, models, and repositories
- Incorporates models and simulations of subsystems
- Operates as a "virtual enterprise"
utilizing an
electronic communication infrastructure
- Behaves as an open system with dynamically breaking components.
- Accomodates everything that is information based.
- Tactics:
- Learn by doing: individual assignments and group projects
- Discovery and task-driven knowledge acquisition
- Individual readings and classroom discussion
- Surfing the Internet
Overall Performance Target: Class GPA of 3.50 +/-
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- Required Books:
None. All readings accessed over the Internet via a
virtual book.
- Optional Books:
- (select a book on HTML 3.x for PC, w/CDRom).
- (select a book on Netscape 3.0 for PC).
- J. Martin, cybercorp, AMACOM, 1996.
- D. Tapscott, Digital Economy, McGraw-Hill, 1996.
- R. Grenier and G. Metes, Going Virtual, Prentice-Hall,
1996.
- R. Bernard, The Corporate Intranet, John Wiley and Sons,
1996.
Readings:
- Specified in the Syllabus and in course lecture notes.
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Browsings:
Networks, Internetworks, and Network Services
Internet Access, Presence, and Content Provision
on the World Wide Web (WWW)
Electronic Document Management, Hypermedia and
Networked Information Sharing Systems
Collaborative
Information Services: MUDs/MOOs, Virtual (Reality) Worlds,
and Networked Entertainment
- Readings:
-
Collaborative Networked Communication:
MUDs as Systems Tools, Proc. LISA 1993.,
- A
MOO-Based Virtual Training Environment Journal
Computer-Mediated Communication, Vol. 2(3), 1996.
- R.C. Waters and J.W. Barrus,
The rise of shared virtual environments, IEEE Spectrum,
34(3):20-25, March 1997.
- R. Rockwell,
An infrastructure for social software,
IEEE Spectrum, 34(3):26-31, March 1997.
- D. Larson,
Special Web Servers: Friend or Foe,
Web Developer, 3(2):62-69, March/April 1997.
Electronic
Publishing and Digital Libraries
Electronic
Channels: Advertising, Marketing, Shopping
Electronic Data Interchange and Financial Payments
- Readings:
-
Streamlining Procurement through Electronic Commerce,
Chapters 2&3,
Appendix M (Network Security). Federal Electronic Commerce
Acquisition Team, October 1994. (Note: the Internet version of
these papers are in PDF format, which requires the use of
the Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is available on
Keck Center PCs, or available for free to download as indicated).
Electronic
Business Process Networks, Virtual Enterprises,
and Electronic Commerce Infrastructure
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- One mid-semester exam (20% grade): 27 Feb 97 !!!
One final exam (10% grade)
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- Case Analyses (20% grade):
Case
1 Project Write-Up due: 6 March 97
- >>>NEW>>> Team
Project
(40% grade) due:
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- Mid-semester exams (20% grade),
- Final exam (10% grade)
- Case Analyses (20% grade)
- Team Project (40% grade)
- Class Participation (10%)
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- You will submit all case and project work in HTML electronically.
- You may use either (a) home computer, (b) computer at work,
or (c) Keck Center PCs to do you case and project work (plus designated
reading assignments) as long as they can access the Internet using
a WWW browser such as Netscape Navigator or Mosaic. Case and
project work content can be created with any software editors
or word processing packages (e.g., Microsoft Word 6.x with Internet
Assistant).
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- Dr. Scacchi: 3:30-5:30pm Thursday, ACCT-304.
AND BY APPOINTMENT.
- TA: Gautam Aggarwal (aggarwal@scf.usc.edu)
11:00am-1:00pm Monday.
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- What else should we discuss before the break?
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This interactive presentation
page is maintained by
Walt Scacchi
who can be reached at the e-mail address noted above. This page was last
updated at
9:30pm, 16 March 1997.
