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)

Course Content

1. Electronic Commerce
   • Enabling Technology: ASP, JavaScript, Flash, Dreamweaver etc.
   • Database Technologies: ASP and MS Access, PHP and MySQL etc.
2. XML and SGML
• Background and History
3. 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
4. Document Type Definition (DTD)
   • Internal and External
   • DTDAttribute
   • Entities
   • Examples
5. Resource Description Framework (RDF), Dublin Core Metadata
6. XML Parser : Sun, IBM, and OpenXML
7. XML Resources and Applications
   • E-Commerce
   • E-Catalog
8. Hand-On Sessions
   • Developing WebPage using current technologies.
   • Developing Web applications using markup that is readable by both humans and machines - XML.
   • Developing E-Commerce applications using XML.

HK$4000/person which includes handouts, two lunches, coffee, refreshment and a certificate of course attendance.

NTTS Pre-Approved

This course is pre-approved by the New Technology Training Scheme (NTTS), 75% of the course fee can be reimbursed for those attendees who satisfy the NTTS requirements.

Special Discount :

ACM members will receive a 10 % discount.

Local ACM-HK professional members will enjoy a further HK$200 discount.

Early Registration with registration form and payment received on or before 22 December 1999 will receive further 20 % discount.

Post-Graduate Student may apply for a Special Student Rate HK$1500 before 22 December 1999. The discount will be offered on a first-come-first-serve basis and is subject to the availability of vacancy.

Completion Certificate :

A Certificate of Attendance will be presented to each attendee who successfully completes the course.

Speakers:

Dr. James Kwok (HKUST)

Dr. Sai Ho Kwok is an 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, United Kingdom, a Ph.D. in Digital Image Processing 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 as well as in numerous refereed conference proceedings such as ICNNSP and IEEE SICSPCS. His research interests include intellectual property protection for electronic commerce, image database systems, and multimedia database systems.

Dr. Chris Yang (HKU)

Dr. Christopher C. Yang is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems and associate director of the Authorized Academic Java Campus at the University of Hong Kong. He is also the vice-chairman of the Association for Computing Machinery Hong Kong Chapter. 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 1992 to 1997, he was a research associate in the Intelligent Systems Laboratory in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. From 1995 to 1997, he was also 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 of Digital Libraries Initiative I. In 1998, he was an invited panelist of the NSF Digital Library Initiative II Review Panel. 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.

This time table is subject to change to accommodate the need of the lecturers.

Day One (9am-5:30pm)
by Dr. James Kwok

Day Two (9am - 5:30pm)
by Dr. Chris Yang