This course studies the impact of information technology on enterprises,
with emphasis on both theoretical foundations and practical examples.
Commentary requirement
There is no specific format for the commentary as long as you cover the
main points, limitation and relate the paper to your personal knowledge and
other topics. One possible format is
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Commentary
Paper: Name of the paper
First paragraph: summarize the main points of the pape
Second paragraph: point out the limitation of the paper
Third paragraph: Relate this paper to your personal knowledge or related
topics.
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The commentary should fit into one page.
The main component of the course grade is the project (10%
proposal, 20% final presentation, 50% concrete deliverables - see below).
The written commentaries on the papers and student participation form the
remaining 20%. Student presentation and discussion of research papers
carry bonus points.
Projects
The main deliverable of the course is a self-proposed project.
Students (individually or teams of maximum 3) will design, propose, and
implement a project relevant to the enterprise computing theme.
Typically, this will be the construction of some system component supporting
enterprise computing (e.g., electronic commerce or supply chain) or an
enterprise application. Other ideas are certainly possible. You are
encouraged to discuss your ideas with the instructor before proceeding to the
proposal stage. Since this is the first time the course is being offered,
there are no previous examples of project proposals. However, you may
want to look at the project proposals for the course CS8803H (Sp’04) Advanced
Internet Application Development (see <http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~lingliu/courses/cs8803/project>).
You may find examples that give you an idea of the format and length of typical
project proposals. Some ideas for projects follow.
- Mainstream
EComm software. (1.A) Download one of the
application servers (e.g., WebLogic or Websphere) and use it to build an ecommerce service;
run a simulated or real workload to evaluate its performance. (1.B)
Take an existing ecommerce service and implement it on a different
platform (e.g., take a service based on Websphere
and implement a subset on .NET), then compare their complexity and
performance. (1.C) Add support for wireless (e.g., cell phone)
access to some ecommerce service.
- Research
topics: (2.A) Evaluate the privacy guarantees given by various ecommerce
sites and how they are implemented. (2.B) Evaluate the strategies
the large ecommerce sites are using to defend themselves against
denial-of-service attacks.
Exceptional projects may be expanded as research projects for additional
credit.
Project Requirement
Project Reports
Report
You will need to submit a project report as a capstone to your project work for
this course. The report ties together your contributions and serves as a
"map" or "root document" to guide us through the corpus of
your group's work. We will use the requirements from last Spring's
8803 Internet Applications course (here).
Content: Your report should include the objectives of your project, the research
problems you are addressing, the approach/methods you took for evaluation of
your results, the architecture and functional components of your prototype
system, three most interesting contributions of your project design and/or
implementation. (Much of this can come from your proposal.) You are also
expected to summarize
- what
you have learned through the hand-on experience of doing this project, and
- what
concepts and techniques you learned in class are used in the current
project design,
- and
(c) what concepts and techniques you learned in class can be considered
for extension of your current project.
Format: I expect the report to be well written and
documented with references. The presentation style and quality (syntax and
grammar) are an important part of the evaluation and grading of your final
project. As the length of the reports, there is no specific rules, and quality
is more important than quantity. However, as a general guideline we'll be
expecting report lengths of 5 to 10 pages.
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