Enabling Technologies for Electronic Commerce -
eXtensible Markup Language (XML)

22 and 29 January 2000

Enquiry : Dr. S.W.Ng by Tel:27666221

by email: enswng@polyu.edu.hk

1. Association for Computing Machinery (Hong Kong Chapter)

2. The Centre for Multimedia Signal Processing, The Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Sponsors :

1. Department of Information and Systems Management, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

2. Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, The University of Hong Kong

Course Description :

This is a two-day workshop covering Enabling Technologies for Electronic Commerce - 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.

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 - 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.

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.

Special 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)