Class Materials

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Data Mining for Decision Making and CRM (Transparencies)
- Motivations
- Applications
  - Bioinformatics
  - Social Networks
  - e-commerce
  - CRM
  - Security and Fraud Detection
- Technology issues
  - Association Rules
  - Decision Trees
  - Neural Networks
  - Clustering
- Data warehouse
- Case Study---Amazon.com
References:
- Terminology from Wikipedia
  - Business intelligence
  - Data warehouse
- An introduction of Amazon from Wikipedia
- Amazon Web Services
- Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
- Neural Networks, (A good introduction to neural networks by Christos Stergiou and Dimitrios Siganos).
- Machine Perception and Learning of Complex Social Systems
- Email traffic patterns can reveal ringleaders
- Data Mining Email to Discover Social Networks and Emergent Communities
- Emerging Technology:Pass your e-mail through some new software and the answer will become obvious
- Front Line Internet Analytics at Amazon.com, Emetrics Summit 2004.
- CRM Solutions, NCR
News:
RFID and the Internet of Things (Transparencies)
- Introduction
- EPC Global Network
- Security and Privacy Concerns
- Applications
  - Supply Chain Management
  - Logistics and Inventory
  - Smart Campus
  - Postal and Carrier Services
  - Medicare
- EasyCard and NFC
- Sensor Networks
- Case Study---Wal*Mart
References:
- Terminology from Wikipedia
- The IDTechEx RFID Knowledgebase
- The Basics of RFID and EPC
- EPCglobal
- EPCglobal epc information services introduction, http://www.epcglobalinc.org/standards/epcis/epcis_1_0-presentation-20070619.pdf.
- Frequently Asked Questions for RFID, by NetLinkRfid.
- The Strategic Implications of Wal-Mart's RFID Mandate , David H. Williams [July 29, 2004]
- Metro Group Future Store
- 台北智慧卡票證公司
- Habitat Monitoring on Great Duck Island
- The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works--and How It's Transforming the American Economy
News:
- Wal-Mart (WMT) Posts First $100 Billion Quarter, Driven By Overseas [2008-0219]
- Sam's Club Tells Suppliers to Tag or Pay [2008-0111]
- Related News anout Wal-Mart on RFID [rfidgazette.org]
- Hitachi develops new RFID powder, world’s smallest RFID chip [2007-0214]
- 2007年「台灣國際RFID應用展覽會」[2007-10-09]
- Integrating Activities in the Field of Polymer Electronic [2006-0512]
- "Hitachi advances paper-thin RFID chip.[EETimes, 2006-02-06]
- SMARTCODE CORP. announces the world's first 5 cent RFID tag [Smartcode 2006-0501]
- ABI has Dropped its 2007 RFID Revenue Projections to $3.1B.[RFID times, 2006-0811]
- Defining RFID: A review of RFID Forecasts [IDTechEx, 2006-0208]
- RFID progress at Wal-Mart[IDTechEx, 2005-10-01]
- Schoolchildren to be RFID-chipped. [2004-0708]
Information Security and Management (Transparencies)
- Basics of Security
- Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
- Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
- SET
- Kerberos
- Information Security Management
- BS7799/ISO 17799
Reading:
- How SSL Works (a short tutorial article from Netscape)
References:
Distributed Information Systems: Challenges and Design Issues (Transparencies)
- Characteristics of Distributed Information Systems
- Challenges of the Design
- Basic Design Issues
  - Scalability
  - Load Balance
  - Fault Tolerance
- Case Study: Grid Computing
References:
- Terminology from Wikipedia
- TeraGrid
- The Globus Alliance
- IBM Solutions Grid for Business Partners
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
- DesktopTwo
- YouOS
From Middleware to Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) (Transparencies)
- Sockets and Remote Procedure Call
- Basics of Middleware
- Message Oriented Middleware (MOM)
- Object Request Broker (ORB)
- Case Studies: CORBA, Java RMI, DCOM
- Case Studies: Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)
- Case Studies: Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
References:
- Terminology from Wikipedia
- CORBA:
  - The official CORBA website
  - Introduction to CORBA (Short Course)
  - CORBA FAQ (buried somewhere in the official website)
  - Distributed Object Computing with CORBA Middleware (a site maintained by D. C. Schmidt)
- Java RMI:
  - The Java RMI Home Page
  - CORBA Technology and the Java Platform (RMI over IIOP, Java IDL, etc.)
  - Using CORBA and Java IDL
  - Java RMI Tutorial
  - Java Native Interface
- DCOM:
- DCOM and CORBA Side by Side, Step by Step, and Layer by Layer, P. E. Chung et al., C++ Report, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp.18-29,40, Jan. 1998.
- A Detailed Comparison of CORBA, DCOM and Java/RMI by Gopalan Suresh Raj
- Services Oriented Architecture (SOA):
- What Is Service-Oriented Architecture, Hao He, Sep. 30, 2003. O'reilly XML.com.
- OASIS SOA Reference Model TC
- IBM Service Oriented Architecture
- IBM WebSphere software catalog

Web Services: Toward a Global and Dynamic Integration of Services (Transparencies)

Trend of Software technology
Web Services
- SOAP
- WSDL
- UDDI
XML
Representational State Transfer (REST)

References:

Terminology from Wikipedia
- Web Service
- Service-Oriented Architecture
- SOAP
- Business Process Execution Language
- Representational State Transfer (REST)
Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) (W3C)
Web Services Description Language (WSDL) (W3C)
Universal Description Discovery Integration (UDDI) (UDDI.org)
SUN's Web Services website
Microsoft's Web Services website
SOA and Web services, IBM 2006.
What Is Service-Oriented Architecture, xml.com, 2003
Migrating to a service-oriented architecture (IBM), Part I, Part II
Operating Environment essentials for an on demand breakthrough. IBM White Paper, Mar. 2004.
The official ebXML website
RosettaNet
Introduction to RosettaNet, Dev2Dev.
Semantic Web, W3C.
Business Process Execution Language for Web Services version 1.1
RosettaNet Home
ebXML - Enabling A Global Electronic Market
Open Applications Group (OAGI)
REST: Representational State Transfer, Programming Web Services with Perl, Chap. 11, Randy J. Ray, Pavel Kulchenko, O'reilly. 2002.
REST and the Real World,Paul Prescod, Feb. 20, 2002.
Second Generation Web Services,Paul Prescod, Feb. 6, 2002.
Representational State Transfer (REST), Erik Wilde, UC Berkeley iSchool.
OASIS Web Services Business Process Execution Language Version 2.0, Apr. 11, 2007.

Transaction Processing (Transparencies)

Basics of Transactions
Concurrency Control
1. Locking
2. Optimistic Concurreny Control
3. Timestamp Ordering
Distributed Transactions
Commit Protocols
Recovery Manager
Case Study: The eBay architecture.
Case material 1: eBay Creates Technology Architecture for the Future;
Case material 2: The eBay Architecture

References:

Google: The Search Engine Giant (Transparencies)

Introduction
Technology revolution
Innovative Applications
- Search Engines
- Google Earth
- Google Map
- Google Desktop
- Personalized Portal
- Cloud Computing

References: