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2008年4月5日 星期六

Homework 3-29-2008

1. Read the abstract of Paper 3, 6 and 7. If possible, skim the whole paper. Summarize the papers briefly.

Paper 3, Paper 6 and Paper 7

2. According to Chap. 6 of Textbook. what is a functional architecture of e-commerce systems?

The way it decomposes the system into functional units. ex: Customer Data, Order Data, Payment Data, Catalog Database...

3. Lab:
PageRank
PageRank is a tool for measuring the importance of websites. Given every URL, there is a PageRank value for it.


PageRank (9/10) New York Times http://www.nytimes.com



PageRank (9/10) CNN http://www.cnn.com/

2008年3月28日 星期五

Homework 3-15-2008

1. Read Paper 1 & Paper 2. Provide a summary for each of the paper.

Paper 1 & Paper 2

2. Read Chap. 4 of the textbook. What is the Business-to-business model?

A Business offer the catalogs for maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) goods and for component sourcing for products to another Business for commerce

This commerce are characterized by high-volume, low-value purchases, repeat business from the same customers, and high order processing costs for both buyers and sellers

Putting a business-to-business catalog online are immediate cost savings and an ability to provide better service

3. Digital goods can be distributed over the Internet but physical goods have to be delivered logistically. What are digital goods? What are the differences between the two?

Digital goods : some things or some services can display through computer

catch sight, touch; survive time, re-get; copy; set price...

4. Using RSS to track many blogs at one time.

done