Electronic business

The course contains the following themes:
1. Introduction and basic definitions.
2. E-business as the first phase of digital transformation, industry 4.0 as the second phase.
3. Systemic view (business dynamics) on e-business through its generic structures (internal and external logistic and value added chains, the influence of decision making on their behavior).
4. Technological views: EDI, XML, web services, component architectures, digital payment systems (BitCoin) and blockchains, semantic web technologies, data integration, business processes integration (BPEL, BPMN), internet of things and mobile applications, secutiy in e-Business.
5. Organizational views: evolution of business functions, processes and information systems, new business models, auditing procedures (COBIT).
6. Latest trends – penetration of artificial inteligence (AI) based solutions, artificial agents based business simulations and machine learning basics through agents simulations.
7. Legislation views with emphasis on ZEPEP, ZEPEP-A, ZEKOM and KZ.
8. Specific views related to development and introduction of e-business systems: strategic planning changes, use of formal methods (language Z), and compliance with standards like Common Criteria.
9. Intelectual property issues, concrete examples and procedures with the latest legislation in this area.
10. Conclusions.
11. Addendum: Mini practical tasks covering the latest selected technological trends.

D. Trček: Elektronsko poslovanje, kopije prosojnic, FRI UL, Ljubljana, 2023.
D. Trček, Trust and reputation management systems : an e-business perspective. [S. l.]: Springer, cop. 2018. ilustr. Springer Briefs in inf. Systems, ISBN 978-3-319-62374-0.

Dodatna literatura / Additional literature:
G.Westerman et al, Leading Digital: Turning Technology into Business Transformation, Harward Business Review Press, Boston, 2014.
Dave Chaffey: E-Business and E-Commerce Management, FT Prentice Hall, 2011.
Sterman J.: Business Dynamics, Prentice Hall, 2002.

The objective of the course is to familiarize students with technological, organizational and legal knowledge that is required in e-business along with the latest trends in this area. The emphasis is on practical skills, i.e., students model a business (sub)process, develop a necessary e-business application and integrate it with the background information system.

Categorized competences:

• The ability to define, understand and solve creative professional challenges in computer and information science.
• The ability of professional communication in the native language as well as a foreign language.
• Compliance with security, functional, economic and environmental principles.
• The ability to understand and apply computer and information science knowledge to other technical and relevant fields (economics, organisational science, etc).
  -The ability to independently perform both less demanding and complex engineering and organisational tasks in certain narrow areas and independently solve specific well-defined tasks in computer and information science.

Knowledge and understanding:
Understanding of concepts of e-business and their integration with knowledge and skills obtained through other related courses.

Application:
Ability to develop, administer and manage e-business systems in organizations.

Reflection:
Understanding of theoretical concepts and their practical implementation through laboratory work.

Transferable skills:
Ability to integrate knowledge from various fields (and other courses) like information systems planning, information systems management, web applications development and mobile platforms. Further, stimulation of entrepreneurship’s mind-set and ability to communicate, work in teams, and public presentation of work.

Lectures, laboratory work (with practical prototype implementations), students’ presentations.
Attendance of laboratory work is mandatory (the exact percentage is announced at the beginning of a study year). The lecturer may also impose mandatory attendance of lectures as well.

Continuing (homework, midterm exams, project work)
Final (written and oral exam)

grading: 5 (fail), 6-10 (pass) (according to the Statute of UL)
To be eligible for the written exam, a candidate must have successfully completed laboratory work, and fulfilled other obligations related to lecturing that the lecturer may have imposed. For successful completition of the course both grades have to be positive.

TRČEK, Denis. Trust and reputation management systems : an e-business perspective, Springer, cop. 2018. ilustr. Springer Briefs in inf. Systems, ISBN 978-3-319-62374-0.
TRČEK, Denis. E-government 4.0 : managing APIs as facilitators for digital transformation. Academic journal of interdisciplinary studies. Jan. 2022, vol. 11, no. 1, str. 1-14, ilustr. ISSN 2281-3993, DOI: 10.36941/ajis-2022-0001.
LIKAR, Borut, TRČEK, Denis. Orde ab Chao method for disruptive innovations creation (with COVID-19 pandemic case application). Frontiers in psychology. Feb. 2021, vol. 11, str. 1-12, ilustr. ISSN 1664-1078.
TRČEK, Denis. Trust management in the pervasive computing era. IEEE security & privacy, ISSN 1540-7993. [Print ed.], 2011, vol. 9, no. 4, str. 52-55, ilustr. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5968087&tag=1.
TRČEK, Denis. Trust management methodology and agents simulations framework for conflict research. Advanced theory and simulations. 2023, vol. , no. , str. 1-7, ilustr. ISSN 2513-0390. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adts.202200705, DOI: 10.1002/adts.202200705

Celotna bibliografija je dostopna na SICRISu:
The whole bibliography can be obtained at the below URL:
https://bib.cobiss.net/biblioweb/eval/si/slv/evalrsr/11077.