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Application Form
(DEADLINE: September 13, 2000)
Workshop Objective
Hong Kong government is actively promoting Information
Technology and Electronic Commerce. Electronic Commerce
opens up a market that requires information and communications
between organizations and customers, and this cannot
be realized without enabling technologies to enable
transmission, transactions, information exchange, information
presentation and so on. Recently a Markup language ¡V
Extensible Markup Language (XML) has been developed
and it is applicable to information retrieval, access
control of information, and information presentation
for various users with different rights. This workshop
aims to provide the necessary information and skills
for corporate users to develop and understand Electronic
Commerce on the Web using XML.
Workshop Structure
This is a two-day workshop covering Enabling Technologies
for Electronic Commerce ¡V XML. The workshop is
divided into two parts: lecture sessions and hands-on
laboratory sessions. Day one of the workshop is at introductory
level suitable for managers, Information Technology
(IT) staffs, end users and web developers. After the
first day, workshop attendants should be aware of latest
technologies for electronic commerce and where to apply
them to their applications and should understand the
basics of the XML. They will have an opportunity to
develop their own webpages using these technologies.
After the second day, workshop attendees will learn
how to create well-formed and valid XML documents, understand
the power of XML in building Electronic Commerce applications,
and be aware of on-going XML developments.
Unique Features
- Designed to introduce Electronic Commerce and the
state-of-the-arts technologies for Electronic Commerce
- Cover the basic XML for beginner
- Emphasize extensive hands-on experience with the
Internet in a closely supervised and well equipped
computer laboratory (each workshop participant will
be assigned a high-speed workstation)
Who should Attend?
IT professionals who are responsible for the design
and development of their future generation Internet
based information services, and business end users.
The workshop is designed for technical professionals
who have programming experience in HyperText Markup
Language, web developing tools and suites, and are familiar
with windows95/NT environment. Development of Electronic
Commerce related applications using XML will be conducted
in hands-on lab sessions.
About the Speakers
Dr.
James S. H. Kwok is currently assistant professor
of Department of Information and Systems Management
at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
(HKUST). He holds a BEng (Hons) in Electronic and Communications
Engineering (1992) from the University of North London,
a Ph.D. in Digital Image Processing (1997) from the
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine,
University of London. He was a visiting scholar at the
Hong Kong Polytechnic University (1994-1995). He has
published in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing,
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video
Technology, Graphical Models and Image Processing, Journal
of Parallel and Distributed Computing as well as in
numerous refereed conference proceedings such as ICIP,
HICSS, PACIS and IEEE SICSPCS. His research interests
include intellectual property protection for electronic
commerce, image database systems, and multimedia database
systems. His teaching interests include XML, Java, and
Electronic commerce.
Dr.
Christopher C. Yang is currently an assistant professor
in the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering
Management at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. From
1997 to 1999, he was an assistant professor in the Department
of Computer Science and Information Systems and associate
director of the Authorized Academic JavaSM CampusSM
at the University of Hong Kong. He was born in Hong
Kong. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Electrical
Engineering from the University of Arizona, Tucson,
AZ, in 1990, 1992, and 1997, respectively. From 1995
to 1997, he was a research scientist in the Artificial
Intelligence Laboratory in the Department of Management
Information Systems, where he was an active researcher
in the Illinois Digital Library project. The Illinois
Digital Library project was one of the six multi-million
projects in the US Digital Library Initiative I from
1994 to 1998. From 1992 to 1997, he was also a research
associate in the Intelligent Systems Laboratory in the
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. From
1991 to 1992, he worked in the Multi-dimensional Image
Processing Laboratory as a research assistant. His current
research interests are digital library, Internet agent,
visualization, color image processing, constraint network,
and computer integrated manufacturing and inspection.
He is the chairman of the Association for Computing
Machinery Hong Kong Chapter in 2000. He was also the
program co-chair of the First Asia Digital Library Workshop,
and program committee and organizing committee member
for several international conferences such as, IEEE
International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics,
IEEE Asian Conference on Computer Vision, IEEE International
Conference of Computer Science, International Conference
on Chinese Language Computing, etc. In 1998 and 1999,
he was an invited panelist of the NSF Digital Library
Initiative II Review Panel.
Workshop Details
Time: Day 1 Morning 9:30 a.m.
to 12:30 p.m.
Subjects Covered:
- Electronic Commerce
- Enabling Technology: ASP, JavaScript, Flash,
Dreamweaver etc.
- Database Technologies: ASP and MS Access, PHP
and MySQL etc.
- Hands-on part (1.5 hour)
- Developing WebPage using current technologies.
Time: Day 1 Afternoon 2:00
p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Subjects Covered:
- XML and SGML
- XML Grammar Specification
- Well-Formed XML Documents
- Names, Characters, and White Spaces
- XML Markup: Comments, entity references, character
references, processing instructions, CDATA, start
and end tags, empty elements
- Document Type Definition (DTD)
- Internal and External DTD
- Attribute
- Entities
- Examples
- Hands-on Session (1.5 hour)
- Developing Web applications using markup that
is readable by both humans and machines - XML.
Time: Day 2 Morning 9:30 a.m.
to 12:30 p.m.
Subjects Covered:
- Resource Description Framework (RDF), Dublin Core
Metadata
- XML Parser
- e.g., Sun, IBM, and OpenXML
- Creating XML Browsers using JAVA
- Hands-on part (1.5 hour)
- Developing well-formed and valid XML files and
examining various XML parsers.
Time: Day 2 Afternoon 2:00
p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Subjects Covered:
- XML Resources
- Applications
- Hands-on part (1.5 hour): Developing E-Commerce
applications using XML.
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