Networks and distributed
systems
University of Bielefeld
- Faculty
of technology
Taxonomy of WWW Issues
Ahmed A. Faisal and Peter B. Ladkin
|Main|Lecture|WWW-Design|
- Structure and technique of the WorldWideWeb
- Theory of networking
- How the Internet works, techniques of client-server interaction, TCP/IP,
eMail, DNS, NTP
and HTTP
(e.g. "The
structure of the World Wide Web" by Christian Bauckhage)
- "Mathematical aspects of hypertext"
- by Peter B. Ladkin
- Introduction to HTML
- by Ahmed A. Faisal
- Introduction to CGI
- How to program and a guide witch practical examples
(e.g. "Einführung in CGI"
by Matthias Köper)
- Introduction to Cookies
- by Ahmed A. Faisal
- Introduction to Frames
- How and why to use frames and a guide with examples
- Introduction to VRML
- How and why to use frames and a guide with scientific examples
- Introduction to JavaScript
- How to program and a guide with example
(e.g. "Einführung
in JavaScript" by Stefan Kurtz)
- Introduction to Java Applets
- How to program applets (not executables) and a guide with examples
- (e.g. "Java
file browser" by Wali Baqai and Peter Munsche)
- Distributed Software
- Examples of creative use
- Security and Safety
- Client-side security
- intentional and inadvertent intrusion protection, firewalling
- Transaction security
- How do secure WWW transactions work, PublicKey, Banking, SHTTP and
security breaches on server side
- Tool security
- Essay on the newest security bugs, their explanation, prevention, source
code and executables of examples
(e.g. "Security
Risks in Java and Javascript" by Ellen Latz)
- Design factors
- Hypertext concepts
in communication
- by Julie Carson-Berndsen
- Experiments on information throughput
- Psychological experiments with different information architectures
How long does it take to reach the requested information? Hierarchical
(strong and weak), circular, plain and hybrids (crosslinked) structures
should be subjected to analysis
- Psychology of colours
- How do colors convey intention ? Which colors are most attractive ?
Which colors are most comfortable to eyes ?
- Examples
- "Fictous
company site" by Viktor Walz
- "Schools
in the Internet" by Thorsten Köpsel
- Social & legal environment
- Comparative legal environment (US<->Germany)
- Which legal differences do exist in concerning Internet usage and protection
- Copyright laws in distributed environments
- What laws exist to protect intellectual work on the Internet, (GNU
public license, recent Geneva copyright agreement)
- Legal history
- Evolution of laws concerning the Internet.
- eMail
- Social protocols, authentifications, expectations and features.
- Controversies
- Search engines
Created 8.4.1997 on
by Ahmed A. Faisal