CIS 640 - Advanced Topics in Computer Systems: Electronic Commerce Systems

Spring 2000

• Payments

  • Current e-commerce payment systems:
    
    • http://home4.americanexpress.com/blue/learnmore.asp
      
    • http://www.visa.com
      
    • http://www.mondex.com
      
    • http://www.cybersource.com
      
  • Electronic Cash Research:
    • An Efficient Off-line Electronic Cash System Based on the Representation Problem, Stefan Brands
    • Electronic Cash on the Internet, Stefan Brands
    • Digital Cash and Monetary Freedom, Jon W. Matonis
    • CyberPayment Infrastructure, Henry H. Perritt, Jr.
    • ACHIEVING ELECTRONIC PRIVACY, David Chaum
    • MS Patents Anonymous Ecash , Chris Oakes
    • Ecash, Laura Braaten
  • Current e-cash models:
    • http://www.digicash.com
    • http://www.cybercash.com
    • http://www.ipin.com
    • http://www.echarge.com

• Load Sharing

  • Vivek Pai, Mohit Aron, Gaurav Banga, Michael Svendsen, Peter Druschel, Willy Zwaenepoel and Erich Nahum, Locality-Aware Request Distribution in Cluster-based Network Servers, Eighth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS VIII), October 1998, (San Jose, CA)
  • A. Bestavros, M. E. Crovella, J. Liu, and D. Martin, Distributed Packet Rewriting and its Application to Scalable Server Architectures, in Proceedings of the 1998 International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP '98) October, 1998.
  • Huican Zhu, Ben Smith, and Tao Yang, Scheduling Optimization for Resource-Intensive Web Requests on Server Clusters, in the Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual ACM Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA'99)
  • H. Zhu, T. Yang, Q. Zheng, D. Watson, O.H. Ibarra and T. Smith, Adaptive Load Sharing for Clustered Digital Library Servers, Seventh IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, Chicago, July 1998.

• Performance Evaluation

  • P. Barford and M. E. Crovella, A Performance Evaluation of Hyper Text Transfer Protocols, in Proceedings of ACM SIGMETRICS '99, pp. 188-197, Atlanta, Georgia, May 1999.
  • Erich M. Nahum, Tsipora Barzilai, and Dilip Kandlur, Performance Issues in WWW Servers, ACM SIGMETRICS Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, May, 1999.
  • Edith Cohen, Balachander Krishnamurthy and Jennifer Rexford, Improving End-to-end Performance of the Web Using Server Volumes and Proxy Filters, SIGCOMM 98.

• Middleware

  • Scott M. Lewandowski, Frameworks for Component-Base Client/Server Computing, ACM Computng Survey, March 1998, pp. 1-27.
  • Philip A. Bernstein, Middleware: A Model for Distributed System Services, CACM, Feb 1996, pp. 86-98.

• Modeling Web Applicatoin Design

  • Jim Conallen, Modeling Web Application Design with UML, White Paper, Rational, 1998.

• Cryptography

  • Bruce Schneier, Chapter I, "Applied Cryptography", Second edition.
  • C. Ellison and B. Schneier, ``Ten Risks of PKI: What You're not Being Told about Public Key Infrastructure,'' Computer Security Journal, Vol. XVI, No. 1, 2000.

• Watermark

  • H. Berghel, Watermarking Cyberspace, CACM, Nov 1997, pp. 19-24.
  • I.J. Cox, J. Kilian, T. Leighton and T. Shamoon, "A Secure, Robust Watermark for Multimedia," Workshop on Information Hiding, Newton Institute, Univ. of Cambridge, May 1996.
  • Fabien A. P. Petitcolas, Ross J. Anderson and Markus G. Kuhn. "Attacks on copyright marking systems".

• Firewall

  • M. Greenwald, S.K. Singhal, J.R. Stone, D.R. Cheriton, Design an Academic Firewall: Policy, Practice, and Experience with SURF, IEEE Symp.  on Network and Distributed System Security, Feb 22-23, 1996, pp. 79-92.

• Denial of Service Attacks

  • Distributed Denial of Service Attacks
  • Intrusion Detection

• Agents

  • Colin Harrison, Alper Caglayan (Contributor), Colin G. Harrison, "Agent Sourcebook"
  • R. Guttman, A. Moukas, and P. Maes. "Agent-mediated Electronic Commerce: A Survey." To appear, Knowledge Engineering Review, June 1998
  • P. Maes, R. Guttman and A. Moukas. "Agents that Buy and Sell: Transforming Commerce as we Know It." Communications of the ACM, March 1999
  • R. Guttman and P. Maes. "Cooperative vs. Competitive Multi-Agent Negotiations in Retail Electronic Commerce." To appear, Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents (CIA'98). Paris, France, July 1998
  • A. Moukas, R. Guttman, and P. Maes. "Agent-mediated Electronic Commerce: An MIT Media Laboratory Perspective." Proceedings of the First International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC'98), Seoul, Korea, April 1998
  • G. Zacharia, A. Moukas, R. Guttman, and P. Maes. "An Agent System for Comparative Shopping at the Point of Sale." J.-Y. Roger et al. (eds.), Technologies for the Information Society: Developments and Opportunities, IOS Press, 1998
  • A. Chavez, A. Moukas, and P. Maes. "Challenger: A Multiagent System for Distributed Resource Allocation: A Closed CPU-Time Marke." Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents, Marina Del Ray, California, ACM Press, February 1997
  • A. Chavez and P. Maes. "Kasbah: An Agent Marketplace for Buying and Selling Goods". Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Practical Application of Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Technology (PAAM'96). London, UK, April 1996

• XML

  • XML, Java, and the future of the Web
  • http://www.xml.com/pub/Ecommerce
  • Using XML with Existing Data Standards
  • Guidelines for using XML for Electronic Data Interchange
  • The European XML/EDI Pilot Project
  • http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/xmlArticles.html