Contact Persons

Dr. Mareike Schoop
Dipl.-Inform. Aida Jertila
Dipl.-Inform. Jörg Köller
Dipl.-Math. Thomas List
Dipl.-Inform. Christoph Quix
Prof. Dr. M. Jarke

labss02@i5.informatik.rwth-aachen.de

More Information

All participants have been invited to the lab's BSCW workspace. You can reach the workspace here. 

Dates

	10.06.2002, 16.30h: First Review
	03.07.2002, 13.30h: Second Review
	12.07.2002, 13.30h: Final Review

General Information

The lab aims at designing a prototypical electronic marketplace for the construction industry. The requirements analysis will be conducted in cooperation with an architectural practice. Based on the requirements, a framework of an electronic marketplace will be developed that will guide the design and implementation phases. The marketplace will support a complete transaction phase, starting from a search for business partners followed by negotiations and the fulfilment of the contract. Thus, the three phases of search-negotiate-fulfil will have to be supported. There are different possibilities of operation in each of the phases. For example, the search can consist of a simple keyword search, an indirect search via a bulletin board, or a complex semantic search based on product ontologies. The different components need to be integrated to enable a user to choose the most suitable component for a particular context.  

The participants will work together in project teams that need to be coordinated. Thus, project management will be taught and experienced in addition to the marketplace topic. 

Both computer science students (Hauptstudium) and master students of software systems engineering can participate in the lab. Master students can use the lab for the required project management component of their course.  

Programming language will be Java. Furthermore, techniques and systems such as CORBA, Servlets, Java Enterprise Beans, relational databases, and XML will be used. Knowledge in object-oriented programming and Java is a prerequisite. Further knowledge in the above areas is helpful but not mandatory. 

Links

	Java Page of Sun
	TogetherSoft (provides UML modelling tool used in the lecture, evaluation version available)
	XML page of W3C (information about the XML standard) XML Query (information about the XML Query standard)
	ConceptBase's home page (Metadata Manager developed Informatik V)
	Databases & Logic Programming bibliography server
	ACM SIGMOD (Special Interest Group Management of Data): Links to many online resources related to research in databases
	MySQL JDBC Driver Documentation