CMPUT 410: Web-Based Information Systems

FALL 2004

Instructor: Osmar R. Zaïane (Other courses taught by Dr. Zaiane)
Office: ATH 352, Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta
Lecture Time: Tuesdays and Thursdays 14:00 to 15:20
Classroom: CSC B02
Laboratory: CSC 219 Fridays 11:00-13:50 & 14:00-16:50
Office Hours: Wednesdays 9:30 to 11:00 and by appointments

zaiane@cs.ualberta.ca
If no student shows up in the first half hour, the office hour is canceled (unless an appointment is made).

Assistants:	»Jiyang Chen (jiyang@cs.ualberta.ca), Office hours: Mondays 10-11am and Wednesdays 2-3pm Lab on Friday Morning - Office : Ath 140
	»Haobin Li (haobin@cs.ualberta.ca), Office hours: Mondays 10-11am and Wednesdays 1-2pm Lab on Friday Afternoon - Office: CAB 468
TA web page:	http://ugweb.cs.ualberta.ca/~c410/

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS!

Website will be up soon. Meanwhile, here are the slides for Lecture 1, Lecture 2 and Lecture 3.
Lecture 4 is also on-line.
The first lab is on Friday September 17 during which Lab Exercise 1 should be done.
Assignment 1 is due this Friday September 24 by e-mail.
The animation lecture is only on web pages. It is not printable.
Le slides for the lecture on HTML forms and CGI are now available.
The second lab is on Friday October 1 during which Lab Exercise 2 should be done.
Assignment 2 is due Friday October 15 by e-mail.
Create your term project groups using this on-line interface before the end of the day on Friday October 29.
Select your demo timeslot using this on-line interface. Only the group leaders can select these timeslots. Demo day is friday December 3 in the lab. Each time slot is maximum 30 minutes.
Comments from the students: I put a compilation of the final comments collected from the students on-line. If you have further comments, let me know.

Objectives
Expertise and skills in web technologis are very sought for in the current market place. This course is intended to present the students with the basic knowledge needed for professional web publishing and web-based database application development. This course will also introduce current advanced technologies used for web-application development such as web services, protocols for object sharing, web mining, recommendation systems, etc.

Textbook

H. Deitel, P. Deitel and A.B. Goldberg, Internet & World Wide Web How to Program, Third Edition, 2004, ISBN: 0-13-145091-3

Content
The course will progressively introduce the students to (1) publishing Web content, building (2) Web-based applications, developing (3) Web services and the use of advanced topics for designing (4) intelligent Web-based systems.
The course will cover the following topics (with no specific order):

Internet versus the World-Wide Web: the tools and services.
Web Publishing (HTML and dynamic HTML, style sheets, etc.).
Brief introduction to relevant Protocols: HTTP, TCP/IP, PPP, ...
Building dynamic web pages, CGI programming and other technologies
Interaction and Validation with Java scripting language
SGML and XML technology (storing, exchanging and querying data)
Search engines and document indexing
Web-based applications and databases
Using Cookies for Web-based applications
Web services
Web Mining for intelligent Web-based applications
Recommendation Systems
Multimedia and animation on the Web using CP, SP, Java & JavaScript
CORBA, COM, XML-RPC and SOAP
Security mechanisms, authentication, encryption, firewall, Secure Socket Links (SSL), Virtual Private Networks, etc.
Advanced topics: E-Commerce, E-Learning, etc.

Activities and deadlines
Individual work: There are 6 assignments scheduled.
Group work: There is an implementation project with demo and a selected topic class presentation.
Exams: One midterm exam. One short epilogue test on the last day of classes. (NO final exams)

FALL 2004

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