Lecture: Friday, 13:00-15:00, E.0.005, L.2.210, aula QD and E.0.011 Exercise: Wednesday, 10:00-12:00, E.1.003 and Friday, 15:00-17:00, E.1.003

Lecture Schedule

Week 1 : Introduction

• History of the Web

Week 2 : Web Architectures

• HTTP Protocol
• Client-side Processing
• Server-side Processing
• Multi-tier Architectures

Week 3 : Markup Languages

• HTML and CSS
• XML, XSLT and XLink

Week 4 : XML Applications and Web Application Frameworks

• XML-RPC
• Model-View-Controller (MVC)
• Apache Struts 2
• Adobe Flex, Microsoft Silverlight, OpenLaszlo and Ruby on Rails, ...

Week 5 : Web 2.0 Basics

• Basic Terminology
• Web 2.0 Applications

Week 6 : Web 2.0 Patterns and Technologies

• Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs)
• Rich Internet Applications (RIAs)
• AJAX
• Mashups
• Web Services

Week 7 : Intermediate Project Presentations

Week 9 : Mobile Information Systems

• Peer-to-Peer (P2P)
• Context and Proximity

Week 10 : Semantic Web

• RDF and RDFS
• OWL
• Semantic Web Applications

Week 11 : Web Search

• Search Engine Architectures
• Google PageRank
• Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)

Week 12 : Security, Privacy and Trust

• Authenticity
• Cryptography
• Web Logging and User Profiling

Week 13 : Future Trends

• Internet of Things
• Cloud Computing
• Cross-Media Information Systems