3501U BUSI E-Business Technologies Winter 2012 - Assignment 1
Due date and time: February 7, 2012 - By Mid-night Instructions: 1. This is an individual assignment. Each student must submit his/her own work. 2. Feel free to explore more references from any sources (e.g., newspaper articles, Web sites, or books), and to create more diagrams (if they are appropriate to support your essay). You will get higher marks for this question if you provide more relevant information, diagrams and references. 3. Always provide explanation for your answer. 4. Submit your assignment in WORD or PDF to the course's WebCT.
Question 1 (30 Marks): Referring to the paper "What's in a Name? Distinguishing between SaaS and SOA," conduct a background study of Cloud Computing and describe it from the six stakeholders' perspectives of Zachman architectural model as follows: Objective/scope Business model Information system model Technology model Detailed representation Functioning system You can answer this question by a table like "Table 2" on the paper and your answer should not contain more than 100 words.
Question 2 (20 Marks) Based on the following "BookList" XML document, create the related DTD file with explanation (Max 100 Words). <?xml version="1.0" ?> <BookList> <ItemInformation> <Title>Imperfect XML</Title> David <PersonalAuthor>Megginson, 1964</PersonalAuthor> <Edition>2</Edition> <PublicationDate>2004-02-28</PublicationDate> <Publisher>Wiley</Publisher> 1
<ISBN>0131453491</ISBN> </ItemInformation> <ItemInformation> <Title>Perfect XML</Title> <PersonalAuthor>John, Smith 1967</PersonalAuthor> <Edition>4</Edition> <PublicationDate>2005-05-28</PublicationDate> <Publisher>McGraw Hill</Publisher> <ISBN>0133245534</ISBN> </ItemInformation> </BookList>
Question 3 (20 Marks) Referring to the "BookList" XML document above, create the related XML Schema with explanation (Max 100 Words). There are two specific syntax rules you have to pay attention to: (1) The element "Publisher" is assumed to be any one of these five publishers: Wrox, Thompson, Wiley, McGraw Hill or Springer; and (2) The element "Edition" must be an integer and the element "PublicationDate" must be in the date format as shown in the following XML document.
Question 4 (30 Marks) Referring to the Olle's Framework, revisit the example of Library System discussed in class and revise it based on the "BookList" XML document above from the perspectives of data, process and behavior.
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