M.Sc.

COMPUTERSCIENCE

Syllabus

SCHOOL OF DISTANCE EDUCATION

2023– 2024onwards
BHARATHIARUNIVERSITY
OPEN AND DISTANCE LEARNING
AStateUniversity,Accreditedwith“A++”Gradeby NAACRanked21stamongIndianUniversitiesby MHRD-NIRF
Coimbatore-641 046, TamilNadu,India
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ProgramEducationalObjectives(PEOs)
TheM.Sc. CSprogramdescribeaccomplishmentsthatgraduatesareexpected toattainwithin
fivetosevenyearsafter graduation
Toenrichthestudentswiththeclearpictureofthecourseobjectivesandtomaptheirrequirements.

Toenablethestudents,tounderstandthecoreconcepts,visualizeandtoapplythemin thereal
timescenarios.
Toimparttheneedforconsistentlearning,importanceofresearch&developmentforthe welfareof
thesocietyand to thenationat large.

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Program SpecificOutcomes(PSOs)
AfterthesuccessfulcompletionofM.Sc.CSprogram,thestudentsareexpectedto

Abletoanalyze,designanddevelopproblemsolvingskillsinthedisciplineofcomputerscience.

Acquireevaluationofpotentialbenefitsofalternativesolutionindesigningsoftware and/or
hardware systems in broad range of open source programminglanguagesto withstand
technological changes.

AbletopursuecareersinITindustry/consultancy/researchanddevelopment,teachingandallied
areasrelatedto computer science.

Adapttothecontinuoustechnologicalchangeincomputationalscienceandupdatethemselves to
meet theindustryrequirements and standards.
Applythepracticesandstrategiesofcomputerscienceforsoftwareprojectdevelopmenttodeliveraq
ualitysoftwareproductandcontributetoresearchinthechosen fieldand perform effectively.

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ProgramOutcomes(POs)
OnsuccessfulcompletionoftheM.Sc.CSprogram
Developcreativityandproblemsolvingskillswiththeknowledgeofcomputingandmathematics.

Abilitytodevelopandcarryoutexperiments,interpretandinferdata.
Designalgorithmsanddevelopsoftwaretoaidsolutionstoindustryandgovernments.

Reviewthelatesttechnologyandtoolhandling mechanism.

Analyzetheoutcometosolveglobalenvironmentrelatedissues.

Applytheknowledgeinlifelong learningjourney toequip themselves.

Identifytheperspectiveofbusiness practices,risksandlimitations.

Workwithprofessionalandethicalvalues.

Formulatethe responsibilitiesofhumanrightsandentrepreneurialspirit.

Understandthemethodstocommunicateeffectivelyandworkcollectively.

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SCHOOL OF DISTANCE EDUCATION

BHARATHIARUNIVERSITY::COIMBATORE641046
OPEN AND DISTANCE LEARNING PROGRAMME (ODL)

M.Sc.ComputerScience Curriculum
(For the students admitted during the academic year 2023-24 onwards)

SCHEMEOFEXAMINATIONS
MaximumMarks
Titleof theCourse Credits CIA ESE Total
FIRSTSEMESTER
Paper I : Analysis &DesignofAlgorithms 4 25 75 100
Paper II : Object OrientedAnalysis and Design &C++ 4 25 75 100
Paper III:Python Programming 4 25 75 100
Paper IV : AdvancedSoftwareEngineering 4 25 75 100
PracticalI:AlgorithmandOOPSLab 4 40 60 100
PracticalII:PythonProgrammingLab 4 40 60 100
SECONDSEMESTER
PaperV:DataMiningandWarehousing 4 25 75 100
PaperVIAdvancedOperatingSystems 4 25 75 100
PaperVIIAdvancedJavaProgramming 4 25 75 100
Paper VIII : ArtificialIntelligence&MachineLearning 4 25 75 100
Elective–I :Multimedia and its Applications 4 25 75 100
Practical III: Data MiningLabusing R 4 40 60 100
PracticalIV:AdvancedJavaProgrammingLab 4 40 60 100
THIRDSEMESTER
PaperIX:DigitalImageProcessing 4 25 75 100
PaperX:CloudComputing 4 25 75 100
Paper XI: NetworkSecurityandCryptography 4 25 75 100
PaperXII: DataScience&Analytics 4 25 75 100
Elective–II 4 25 75 100
PracticalV:DigitalImageProcessing Lab usingMATLAB 4 40 60 100
PracticalVI:CloudComputingLab 4 40 60 100
Practical VII : WebApplicationdevelopment&hosting 2 20 30 50
FOURTHSEMESTER
ProjectworkandViva-voce(200marks) 8 200*
90 2250
Grand Total
* Project Report – 160 marks & Viva Voce – 40
marks#DuringIIorIIISemester (Optional)

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1. ELECTIVE – I
1.1.Multimediaand itsApplications
1.2.EmbeddedSystems
1.3.InternetofThings
1.4. Critical Thinking, Design Thinking and Problem Solving.

2. ELECTIVE – II
2.1. Mobile Computing
2.2.Block Chain Technology
2.3.WebServices
2.4. RoboticProcessAutomation forBusiness

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FirstSemester

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Coursecode ANALYSIS & DESIGN Core

OFALGORITHMS
BasicDataStructures &Algorithms
Pre-requisite
CourseObjectives:
Themain objectives ofthis courseareto:
1. EnablethestudentstolearntheElementaryDataStructures andalgorithms.
2. Presentsanintroductiontothealgorithms,theiranalysisanddesign
3. DiscussvariousmethodslikeBasicTraversalAndSearchTechniques,divideandconquermethod,D
ynamicprogramming, backtracking
4. Understoodthevariousdesignand analysisofthe algorithms.

ExpectedCourseOutcomes:
Onthesuccessful completionofthecourse,student willbe ableto:
Getknowledgeaboutalgorithmsanddeterminestheirtimecomplexity.Demonstratespecificsearchandsor
talgorithmsusingdivideandconquertechnique.
GaingoodunderstandingofGreedymethod anditsalgorithm.
Abletodescribeaboutgraphsusing dynamicprogrammingtechnique.
Demonstratethe conceptofbacktracking&branchandboundtechnique.
Explorethetraversaland searchingtechniqueandapplyitfortreesandgraphs.

Unit:1 INTRODUCTION
Introduction: - Algorithm Definition and Specification – Space complexity-Time Complexity-
Asymptotic Notations - Elementary Data Structure: Stacks and Queues – Binary Tree -
BinarySearchTree-Heap – Heapsort-Graph.

Unit:2 TRAVERSALANDSEARCHTECHNIQUES
BasicTraversalAndSearchTechniques:TechniquesforBinaryTrees-TechniquesforGraphs-Divideand
Conquer: -GeneralMethod– BinarySearch– MergeSort– Quick Sort.

Unit:3 GREEDYMETHOD
The Greedy Method: - General Method – Knapsack Problem – Minimum Cost Spanning Tree –
SingleSourceShortest Path.

Unit:4 DYNAMICPROGRAMMING
Dynamic Programming - General Method – Multistage Graphs – All Pair Shortest Path –
OptimalBinarySearchTrees –0/1Knapsacks –TravelingSalesmanProblem–Flow ShopScheduling.

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Unit:5 BACKTRACKING
Backtracking:-GeneralMethod–8-QueensProblem–SumOfSubsets–GraphColoring–
HamiltonianCycles – BranchAnd Bound:-The Method–Traveling Salesperson.

TextBooks
1 EllisHorowitz,“ComputerAlgorithms”,GalgotiaPublications.
2 AlfredV.Aho,JohnE.Hopcroft,JeffreyD.Ullman, "DataStructures andAlgorithms".
ReferenceBooks
1 Goodrich,“DataStructures&AlgorithmsinJava”,Wiley3rdedition.
2 Skiena,”TheAlgorithmDesignManual”,SecondEdition,Springer,2008
AnanyLevith,”IntroductiontotheDesignandAnalysisofalgorithm”,PearsonEducationAsia,
3
2003.
RobertSedgewick,PhillipeFlajolet,”AnIntroductiontotheAnalysisofAlgorithms”,Addison-
4
WesleyPublishing Company,1996.

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Coursecode OBJECT ORIENTED ANALYSIS Core

ANDDESIGN& C++
Pre-requisite BasicsofC++andObject OrientedConcepts
CourseObjectives:
Themain objectivesof this courseareto:
1. Presenttheobjectmodel,classesandobjects,objectorientation,machineviewandmodelmanageme
ntview.
2. Enablesthestudentstolearnthebasic functions,principlesandconceptsofobject
orientedanalysisand design.
3. EnablethestudentstounderstandC++language withrespecttoOOAD

ExpectedCourseOutcomes:
Onthesuccessful completionofthecourse,student willbe ableto:

UnderstandtheconceptofObject-Orienteddevelopmentandmodelingtechniques

Gainknowledgeaboutthevariousstepsperformedduringobjectdesign
Abstractobject-basedviewsfor genericsoftwaresystems
LinkOOADwithC++language
ApplythebasicconceptofOOPsand familiarize towriteC++program

Unit:1 OBJECTMODEL
The Object Model: The Evolution of the Object Model– Elements of the Object Model–Applying
the Object Model. Classes and Objects: The Nature of an Object – Relationship amongObjects.

Unit:2 CLASSESANDOBJECTS
ClassesandObject:NatureofClass–RelationshipAmongclasses–
TheInterplayofclassesandObjects.Classification:TheimportanceofProperClassification–
identifyingclassesandobjects
–KeyAbstractionsandMechanism.

Unit:3 C++INTRODUCTION
IntroductiontoC++-InputandoutputstatementsinC++-Declarations-controlstructures–Functionsin
C++.

Unit:4 INHERITANCEAND OVERLOADING

ClassesandObjects–ConstructorsandDestructors–operatorsoverloading–TypeConversion-
Inheritance– Pointers and Arrays.

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Unit:5 POLYMORPHISMANDFILES
MemoryManagementOperators-Polymorphism–Virtualfunctions–Files–ExceptionHandling–
String Handling-Templates.

TextBooks
“ObjectOrientedAnalysisandDesignwithApplications”,GradyBooch,SecondEdition,PearsonEd
1
ucation.
“Object-OrientedProgrammingwithANSI&TurboC++”,AshokN.Kamthane,FirstIndianPrint -
2
2003, Pearson Education.
ReferenceBooks
1 Balagurusamy“ObjectOrientedProgrammingwithC++”,TMH,SecondEdition,2003.

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Coursecode PYTHONPROGRAMMING Core

Pre-requisite Basicsofany OOProgramming Language

CourseObjectives:
Themain objectives ofthis courseareto:
1. PresentsanintroductiontoPython,creationofwebapplications,networkapplicationsandworkingin
the clouds
2. Usefunctions forstructuring Python programs
3. UnderstanddifferentData StructuresofPython
4. RepresentcompounddatausingPythonlists,tuplesanddictionaries

ExpectedCourseOutcomes:
Onthesuccessful completionofthecourse,student willbe ableto:
Understandthebasicconcepts ofPythonProgramming
Understand Fileoperations,ClassesandObjects
AcquireObject Oriented Skills inPython
DevelopwebapplicationsusingPython
DevelopClientServerNetworkingapplications

Unit:1 INTRODUCTION
Python:Introduction–Numbers–Strings–Variables–Lists–Tuples–Dictionaries–Sets–Comparison.

Unit:2 CODESTRUCTURES
Code Structures: if, elseif, and else – Repeat with while – Iterate with for – Comprehensions –
Functions – Generators – Decorators – Namespaces and Scope – Handle Errors with try
andexcept– User Exceptions.

Unit:3 MODULES,PACKAGESANDCLASSES
Modules,Packages,andPrograms:StandalonePrograms–Command-LineArguments–Modules
and the import Statement – The Python Standard Library. Objects and Classes: Definea Class
with class – Inheritance – Override a Method – Add a Method – Get Help from Parentwith super
– In self Defense – Get and Set Attribute Values with Properties – Name Mangling forPrivacy–
Method Types–Duck Typing – SpecialMethods–Composition.

Unit:4 DATATYPESAND WEB

DataTypes:TextStrings–BinaryData.StoringandRetrievingData:FileInput/Output–
StructuredTextFiles–StructuredBinaryFiles -RelationalDatabases–NoSQLDataStores.
Web:WebClients – WebServers–Web ServicesandAutomation

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Unit:5 SYSTEMSANDNETWORKS
Systems:Files–Directories–ProgramsandProcesses–CalendarsandClocks.
Concurrency:Queues–Processes–Threads–GreenThreadsandgevent–twisted–Redis.
Networks: Patterns – The Publish-Subscribe Model – TCP/IP – Sockets – ZeroMQ –
InternetServices – Web Services and APIs – Remote Processing – Big Fat Data and MapReduce
–Working intheClouds.

TextBooks
1 BillLubanovic,“IntroducingPython”,O’Reilly,FirstEdition-SecondRelease,2014.
2 MarkLutz,“Learning Python”,O’Reilly, FifthEdition,2013.
ReferenceBooks
David M. Beazley,“Python Essential Reference”, Developer’s Library,
1
FourthEdition,2009.
SheetalTaneja,Naveen Kumar, “Python Programming-A
2
ModularApproach”,PearsonPublications.

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Coursecode ADVANCEDSOFTWARE
Core
ENGINEERING
Pre-requisite BasicsofSoftwareEngineering&SPM
CourseObjectives:
Themain objectives ofthis courseareto:
1. IntroducetoSoftwareEngineering,Design,TestingandMaintenance.
2. Enablethestudents to learn theconcepts of SoftwareEngineering.
3. LearnaboutSoftwareProjectManagement,SoftwareDesign&Testing.

ExpectedCourseOutcomes:
Onthesuccessful completionofthecourse,student willbe ableto:
Understandabout SoftwareEngineering process

Understand about Software project management skills,design and qualitymanagement

AnalyzeonSoftwareRequirementsandSpecification
Analyzeon SoftwareTesting, Maintenanceand SoftwareRe-Engineering
Designandconduct varioustypes andlevels ofsoftwarequalityforasoftwareproject

Unit:1 INTRODUCTION
Introduction: The Problem Domain – Software Engineering Challenges - Software
EngineeringApproach – Software Processes: Software Process – Characteristics of a Software
Process –SoftwareDevelopment Process Models– Other softwareprocesses.

Unit:2 SOFTWAREREQUIREMENTS
SoftwareRequirementsAnalysisandSpecification:Requirementengineering–TypeofRequirements–
FeasibilityStudies–RequirementsElicitation–RequirementAnalysis–Requirement Documentation
– Requirement Validation – Requirement Management – SRS -Formal System Specification –
Axiomatic Specification – Algebraic Specification - Case study:Student Result management
system. Software Quality Management – Software Quality, SoftwareQualityManagement
System, ISO 9000, SEICMM.

Unit:3 PROJECTMANAGEMENT
SoftwareProjectManagement:Responsibilitiesofasoftwareprojectmanager–Projectplanning
– MetricsforProjectsizeestimation–ProjectEstimationTechniques–
EmpiricalEstimationTechniques–COCOMO–Halstead‟ssoftwarescience–
Staffinglevelestimation–Scheduling
– OrganizationandTeamStructures–Staffing–Riskmanagement–
SoftwareConfigurationManagement– Miscellaneous Plan.

Unit:4 SOFTWAREDESIGN

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Software Design: Outcome of a Design process – Characteristics of a good software design –

Cohesionand coupling- Strategy of Design–Function OrientedDesign– ObjectOrientedDesign-
Detailed Design- IEEERecommendedPractice forSoftwareDesignDescriptions.

Unit:5 SOFTWARETESTING
SoftwareTesting:AStrategicapproachtosoftwaretesting–Terminologies–Functionaltesting
–Structuraltesting–Levelsoftesting–Validationtesting-Regressiontesting–ArtofDebugging –
Testing tools - Metrics-Reliability Estimation. Software Maintenance - MaintenanceProcess-
ReverseEngineering–SoftwareRe-engineering-ConfigurationManagementActivities.

TextBooks
AnIntegratedApproachtoSoftwareEngineering–PankajJalote,NarosaPublishingHouse,Delhi,
1
3rdEdition.
2 FundamentalsofSoftwareEngineering–RajibMall,PHIPublication,3rdEdition.
ReferenceBooks
SoftwareEngineering–K.K.AggarwalandYogeshSingh,NewAgeInternationalPublishers,3 rd
1
edition.
2 APractitionersApproach-SoftwareEngineering,- R.S.Pressman,McGrawHill.
Fundamentals of Software Engineering - Carlo Ghezzi, M. Jarayeri,
3
D.Manodrioli,PHIPublication.

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PRACTICALI:ALGORITHMANDO Core
Coursecode OPS LAB

Pre-requisite BasicProgrammingof C++language

CourseObjectives:
Themain objectives ofthis courseareto:
1. Thiscoursecoversthe basicdatastructureslike Stack,Queue,Tree,List.
2. Thiscourseenables thestudentsto
learntheapplicationsofthedatastructuresusingvarioustechniques
3. ItalsoenablethestudentstounderstandC++languagewithrespecttoOOADconcepts
4. ApplicationofOOPSconcepts.

ExpectedCourseOutcomes:
Onthesuccessful completionofthecourse,student willbe ableto:
Understandthe concepts ofobjectoriented withrespecttoC++
Abletounderstand andimplement OOPSconcepts
ImplementationofdatastructureslikeStack, Queue,Tree,ListusingC++
ApplicationofthedatastructuresforSorting,Searchingusingdifferenttechniques.
K1-Remember; K2-Understand; K3-Apply;K4-Analyze;K5 -Evaluate; K6 -Create

LISTOFPROGRAMS
1) Writeaprogram tosolve the towerofHanoi usingrecursion.
2) Writeaprogramto traversethroughbinarysearchtreeusingtraversals.
3) Writeaprogram toperform variousoperationson stackusing linkedlist.
4) Writeaprogram toperform variousoperationin circularqueue.
5) Writeaprogramto sortan arrayof anelements usingquick sort.
6) Writeaprogram to solve numberof elements in ascendingorder using heap sort.
7) Writeaprogramtosolve the knapsackproblemusinggreedymethod
8) Writeaprogramto search foran element ina tree using divide&conquerstrategy.
9) Writeaprogramto place the8 queenson an8X8matrixso thatno twoqueens Attack.
10) WriteaC++program toperformVirtualFunction
11) WriteaC++programtoperformParameterizedconstructor
12) WriteaC++programtoperform Friend Function
13) WriteaC++programtoperform FunctionOverloading
14) WriteaC++programtoperformSingleInheritance
15) WriteaC++programto perform EmployeeDetails using files.
Expertlectures,onlineseminars –webinars

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TextBooks
1 Goodrich,“DataStructures&AlgorithmsinJava”,Wiley3rdedition.
2 Skiena,”TheAlgorithmDesignManual”,SecondEdition,Springer,2008
ReferenceBooks
AnanyLevith,”IntroductiontotheDesignandAnalysisofalgorithm”,PearsonEducationAsia,
1
2003.
RobertSedgewick,PhillipeFlajolet,”AnIntroductiontotheAnalysisofAlgorithms”,Addison-
2
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PRACTICAL II :
Coursecode PYTHONPROGRAMMI
NGLAB Core

Pre-requisite Basicsofany OOProgramming Language

CourseObjectives:
Themain objectives ofthis courseareto:
1. Thiscoursepresentsanoverviewofelementarydata items,lists,dictionaries,setsandtuples
2. TounderstandandwritesimplePythonprograms
3. ToUnderstandthe OOPSconceptsofPython
4. TodevelopwebapplicationsusingPython

ExpectedCourseOutcomes:
Onthesuccessful completionofthecourse,student willbe ableto:
AbletowriteprogramsinPythonusingOOPS concepts
Tounderstandthe conceptsof FileoperationsandModules inPython
Implementationoflists,dictionaries,sets andtuplesasprograms
TodevelopwebapplicationsusingPython

LISTOFPROGRAMS
Implementthe followinginPython:
1. Programsusingelementarydataitems,lists,dictionariesandtuples
2. Programsusingconditionalbranches,
3. Programsusingloops.
4. Programsusingfunctions
5. Programsusingexceptionhandling
6. Programsusinginheritance
7. Programsusingpolymorphism
8. Programstoimplementfileoperations.
9. Programsusingmodules.
10. Programsforcreatingdynamicandinteractivewebpagesusingforms.

TextBooks
1 BillLubanovic,“Introducing Python”,O’Reilly,FirstEdition-SecondRelease,2014.
2 MarkLutz,“Learning Python”,O’Reilly, FifthEdition,2013.
ReferenceBooks

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David M. Beazley,“Python Essential Reference”, Developer’s Library,

1
FourthEdition,2009.
SheetalTaneja,Naveen Kumar, ”Python Programming-A
2
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SecondSemester

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Coursecode DATAMININGAND WAREHOUSING Core

Pre-requisite BasicsofRDBMS&Algorithms
CourseObjectives:
Themain objectives ofthis courseareto:
1. EnablethestudentstolearntheconceptsofMiningtasks,classification,clusteringandDataWarehous
ing.
2. Developskillsofusing recent dataminingsoftwareforsolving practicalproblems.
3. Developand applycriticalthinking,problem-solving,anddecision-makingskills.
ExpectedCourseOutcomes:
Onthesuccessfulcompletion ofthecourse, studentwill beable to:
Understandthebasicdataminingtechniquesandalgorithms
Understand the Associationrules, Clustering techniques andDatawarehousingcontents

Compareandevaluatedifferentdataminingtechniqueslikeclassification,prediction,Clustering and
association rule mining
DesigndatawarehousewithdimensionalmodelingandapplyOLAPoperations
Identifyappropriatedata miningalgorithmstosolverealworldproblems

Unit:1 BASICSAND TECHNIQUES

Basic data mining tasks – data mining versus knowledge discovery in databases – data
miningissues – data mining metrics – social implications of data mining – data mining from a
databaseperspective.
Data miningtechniques:Introduction–a statisticalperspective ondata mining–similaritymeasures–
decision trees– neuralnetworks– geneticalgorithms.

Unit:2 ALGORITHMS
Classification: Introduction–Statistical–based algorithms- distance –basedalgorithms- decisiontree-
basedalgorithms-neuralnetwork–basedalgorithms–rule-basedalgorithms–combining
techniques.

Unit:3 CLUSTERING ANDASSOCIATION

Clustering:Introduction–SimilarityandDistanceMeasures–Outliers–HierarchicalAlgorithms
-PartitionalAlgorithms.
Association rules: Introduction - large item sets - basic algorithms – parallel
&distributedalgorithms – comparing approaches- incremental rules – advanced association rules
techniques –measuringthe quality ofrules.

Unit:4 DATAWAREHOUSINGANDMODELING
Datawarehousing:introduction-characteristicsofadatawarehouse–datamarts–otheraspects

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ofdatamart.Online analyticalprocessing:introduction-OLTP&OLAPsystems
Datamodeling–starschemaformultidimensionalview–datamodeling–
multifactstarschemaorsnowflakeschema–OLAP TOOLS–Stateof themarket – OLAP TOOLSand
the internet.
Unit:5 APPLICATIONSOFDATAWAREHOUSE
Developing a data WAREHOUSE: why and how to build a data warehouse –data
warehousearchitectural strategies and organization issues - design consideration – data content –
metadatadistribution of data – tools for data warehousing – performance considerations – crucial
decisionsindesigning adata warehouse.
Applications of data warehousing and data mining in government: Introduction - national
datawarehouses– otherareas fordata warehousingand data mining.

TextBooks
MargaretH.Dunham,“DataMining:IntroductoryandAdvancedTopics”,Pearsoneducation,2003.
1

C.S.R.Prabhu,“DataWarehousingConcepts,Techniques,ProductsandApplications”,PHI,Second
2
Edition.
ReferenceBooks
1 ArunK.Pujari,“DataMiningTechniques”,UniversitiesPress(India)Pvt. Ltd.,2003.
AlexBerson,StephenJ.Smith,“DataWarehousing,DataMiningandOLAP”,TMCH,2001.
2

JiaweiHan&MichelineKamber,“DataMiningConcepts&Techniques”,2001,Academicpress.
3

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Coursecode ADVANCEDOPERATING SYSTEMS Core

Pre-requisite BasicsofOS&its functioning

CourseObjectives:
Themain objectives ofthis courseareto:
1. Enablethestudentsto learnthedifferenttypes ofoperating systemsand theirfunctioning.
2. GainknowledgeonDistributedOperatingSystems
3. Gaininsightintothecomponentsandmanagementaspectsofrealtimeandmobileoperatingsystems
.
4. LearncasestudiesinLinuxOperatingSystems

ExpectedCourseOutcomes:
Onthesuccessful completionofthecourse,student willbe ableto:
Understandthedesignissuesassociatedwithoperatingsystems
Mastervariousprocessmanagementconceptsincludingscheduling,deadlocksanddistributed
filesystems
PrepareRealTimeTask Scheduling
AnalyzeOperatingSystems forHandheld Systems
AnalyzeOperatingSystemslikeLINUXandiOS

Unit:1 BASICSOFOPERATINGSYSTEMS
Basics of Operating Systems: What is an Operating System? – Main frame Systems –
DesktopSystems–MultiprocessorSystems–DistributedSystems–ClusteredSystems–Real-
TimeSystems–HandheldSystems–FeatureMigration–ComputingEnvironments-ProcessScheduling
– Cooperating Processes – Inter Process Communication- Deadlocks –Prevention –Avoidance–
Detection–Recovery.

Unit:2 DISTRIBUTEDOPERATINGSYSTEMS
DistributedOperatingSystems:Issues–CommunicationPrimitives–Lamport‟sLogicalClocks
–Deadlockhandlingstrategies–Issuesindeadlockdetectionandresolution-distributedfilesystems–
design issues – Casestudies – TheSun Network FileSystem-Coda.

Unit:3 REALTIMEOPERATINGSYSTEM
Realtime Operating Systems :Introduction–Applications of RealTime Systems–
BasicModelofRealTimeSystem–Characteristics–SafetyandReliability-RealTimeTaskScheduling

Unit:4 HANDHELDSYSTEM
OperatingSystemsforHandheldSystems:Requirements–TechnologyOverview–
HandheldOperatingSystems–PalmOS-SymbianOperatingSystem-Android–
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Securinghandheldsystems

Unit:5 CASESTUDIES
Case Studies : Linux System: Introduction– Memory Management – Process Scheduling –
Scheduling Policy - Managing I/O devices – Accessing Files- iOS : Architecture and
SDKFramework-Media Layer -Services Layer-CoreOS Layer-FileSystem.

TextBooks
AbrahamSilberschatz;PeterBaerGalvin;GregGagne,“OperatingSystemConcepts”,SeventhEditi
1
on, John Wiley & Sons, 2004.
MukeshSinghalandNiranjanG.Shivaratri,“AdvancedConceptsinOperatingSystems–
2
Distributed,Database, andMultiprocessorOperatingSystems”,TataMcGraw-Hill,2001.
ReferenceBooks
1 RajibMall,“Real-TimeSystems:TheoryandPractice”,PearsonEducationIndia,2006.
PramodChandraP.Bhatt,Anintroductiontooperatingsystems,conceptandpractice,PHI,Third
2
edition,2010.
rd
3 Daniel.P.Bovet&Marco Cesati,“UnderstandingtheLinuxkernel”,3 edition,O‟Reilly,2005
NeilSmyth,“iPhoneiOS4DevelopmentEssentials–
4
Xcode”,FourthEdition,Payloadmedia,2011.

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Coursecode ADVANCEDJAVAPROGRAMMING Core

Pre-requisite BasicsofJava& its Usage

CourseObjectives:
Themain objectives ofthis courseareto:
1. Enablethestudentstolearnthebasicfunctions,principlesandconceptsofadvancedjavaprogrammin
g.
2. Provideknowledgeon conceptsneeded fordistributed ApplicationArchitecture.
3. LearnJDBC,Servletpackages, JQuery,JavaServer PagesandJAR fileformat

ExpectedCourseOutcomes:
Onthesuccessful completionofthecourse,student willbe ableto:
Understandthe advancedconceptsofJavaProgramming
UnderstandJDBCandRMIconcepts
ApplyandanalyzeJavainDatabase
Handledifferenteventinjavausingthedelegationeventmodel,eventlistenerandclass
Designinteractive applicationsusingJavaServlet, JSPandJDBC

Unit:1 BASICSOF JAVA

JavaBasicsReview:Componentsandeventhandling–Threadingconcepts–Networkingfeatures–
Media techniques

Unit:2 REMOTEMETHODINVOCATION
Remote MethodInvocation-Distributed Application Architecture-Creating stubsand skeletons-
DefiningRemoteobjects-RemoteObject Activation-Object Serialization-JavaSpaces

Unit:3 DATABASE
JavainDatabases-JDBCprinciples–databaseaccess-Interacting-databasesearch–
Creatingmultimediadatabases –Databasesupport in webapplications

Unit:4 SERVLETS
Java Servlets: Java Servlet and CGI programming- A simple java Servlet-Anatomy of a
javaServlet-Readingdatafromaclient-Readinghttprequestheader-
sendingdatatoaclientandwritingthehttp responseheader-working with cookies
Java Server Pages: JSP Overview-Installation-JSP tags-Components of a JSP page-Expressions-
Scriptlets-Directives-Declarations-Acompleteexample

Unit:5 ADVANCEDTECHNIQUES
JARfileformatcreation–Internationalization–SwingProgramming–Advancedjava

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techniques

TextBooks
1 JamieJaworski,“JavaUnleashed”,SAMSTechmediaPublications,1999.
2 Campione,Walrath andHuml,“TheJavaTutorial”,AddisonWesley,1999.
ReferenceBooks
JimKeogh,”TheCompleteReferenceJ2EE”,TataMcGrawHillPublishingCompanyLtd,2010.
1

DavidSawyerMcFarland,“JavaScriptAndJQuery-TheMissingManual”,OreillyPublications,3rd
2
Edition,2011.
3 DeitelandDeitel, “JavaHowtoProgram”,ThirdEdition,PHI/PearsonEducationAsia.

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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Coursecode Core
&MACHINELEARNING
Pre-requisite BasicsofAI& anIntroductionabout ML
CourseObjectives:
Themain objectives ofthis courseareto:
1. Enablethestudentsto learn thebasic functionsof AI, HeuristicSearch Techniques.
2. Provideknowledgeonconcepts ofRepresentations andMappings andPredicate Logic.
3. IntroduceMachineLearning withrespectDataMining,BigData andCloud.
4. StudyaboutApplications& ImpactofML.

ExpectedCourseOutcomes:
Onthesuccessful completionofthecourse,student willbe ableto:
DemonstrateAIproblemsandtechniques
Understandmachinelearningconcepts

Applybasicprinciples of AIinsolutions
thatrequireproblemsolving,inference,perception,knowledgerepresentation,and learning
Analyzethe impactof machinelearning onapplications

Analyzeanddesignarealworldproblemforimplementationandunderstandthedynamicbehavior
ofasystem

Unit:1 INTRODUCTION
Introduction: AI Problems - Al techniques - Criteria for success. Problems, Problem
Spaces,Search: State space search - Production Systems - Problem Characteristics - Issues in
design ofSearch.

Unit:2 SEARCHTECHNIQUES
Heuristic Search techniques: Generate and Test - Hill Climbing- Best-First, Problem
Reduction,Constraint Satisfaction, Means-end analysis. Knowledge representation issues:
Representationsand mappings -Approaches to Knowledge representations -Issues in Knowledge
representations -FrameProblem.

Unit:3 PREDICATELOGIC
UsingPredicatelogic:Representingsimplefactsinlogic-RepresentingInstanceandIsarelationships-
Computablefunctionsandpredicates-Resolution-
Naturaldeduction.Representingknowledgeusingrules:ProceduralVsDeclarative knowledge- Logic
programming
-ForwardVsBackwardreasoning-Matching-Controlknowledge.

Unit:4 MACHINELEARNING

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Understanding Machine Learning:What Is Machine Learning?-Defining Big Data-Big Data

inContext with Machine Learning-The Importance of the Hybrid Cloud-Leveraging the Power
ofMachine Learning-The Roles of Statistics and Data Mining with Machine Learning-
PuttingMachineLearning in Context-Approaches to Machine Learning.

Unit:5 APPLICATIONSOFMACHINE LEARNING

LookingInsideMachineLearning:TheImpactofMachineLearningonApplications-DataPreparation-
TheMachineLearning Cycle.

TextBooks
ElaineRichandKevinKnight,"ArtificialIntelligence",TataMcGrawHillPublisherscompanyPvt
1
Ltd, Second Edition, 1991.
2 GeorgeFLuger,"ArtificialIntelligence",4thEdition,PearsonEducationPubl,2002.
ReferenceBooks
MachineLearningForDummies®,IBMLimitedEdition byJudith Hurwitz,
1
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Coursecode PRACTICALIII:DATAMININGU Core

SING R
Basics of DM Algorithms &
Pre-requisite
RProgramming
CourseObjectives:
Themain objectives ofthis courseareto:
1. ToenablethestudentstolearntheconceptsofDataMiningalgorithmsnamelyclassification,cl
ustering,regression….
2. Tounderstand &writeprogramsusing theDM algorithms
3. Toapplystatisticalinterpretationsforthesolutions
4. Ableto usevisualizationstechniques forinterpretations

ExpectedCourseOutcomes:
Onthesuccessful completionofthecourse,student willbe ableto:
Ableto writeprograms using RforAssociationrules, Clustering techniques
Toimplement datamining techniqueslikeclassification,prediction
Abletousedifferent visualizations techniquesusing R
Toapplydifferentdataminingalgorithmstosolvereal worldapplications

LISTOFPROGRAMS
1. ImplementApriorialgorithmtoextractassociationruleof datamining.
2. Implementk-meansclusteringtechnique.
3. Implement anyoneHierarchalClustering.
4. ImplementClassificationalgorithm.
5. ImplementDecisionTree.
6. LinearRegression.
7. DataVisualization.

TextBooks
MargaretH.Dunham,“DataMining:IntroductoryandAdvancedTopics”,Pearsoneducation,2003.
1
C.S.R.Prabhu,“DataWarehousingConcepts,Techniques,ProductsandApplications”,PHI,Second
2
Edition
ReferenceBooks
1 ArunK.Pujari,“DataMiningTechniques”,UniversitiesPress(India)Pvt.Ltd.,2003.
AlexBerson,StephenJ.Smith,“DataWarehousing,DataMiningandOLAP”,TMCH,2001.
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Coursecode PRACTICALIV:ADVANCEDJ Core

AVALAB
Pre-requisite Basicsin JavaProgramming
CourseObjectives:
Themain objectives ofthis courseareto:
1.ToenablethestudentstoimplementthesimpleprogramsusingJSP,JAR2.Toprovid
e knowledge on using Servlets, Applets
3.TointroduceJDBCandnavigationofrecords4.T
ounderstand RMI& its implementation
5.TointroducetoSocketprogramming

ExpectedCourseOutcomes:
Onthesuccessful completionofthecourse,student willbe ableto:
Understand tothe implement concepts of Java using HTML forms, JSP &JAR
Mustbecapable ofimplementingJDBCand RMIconcepts
Ableto writeAppletswith Event handling mechanism
ToCreateinteractiveweb basedapplicationsusingservletsandjsp

LISTOFPROGRAMS

1. DisplayawelcomemessageusingServlet.
2. DesignaPurchaseOrder formusingHtmlformandServlet.
3. Developaprogramfor calculatingthepercentageofmarksofastudentusingJSP.
4. DesignaPurchaseOrder formusingHtmlformandJSP.
5. PrepareaEmployeepayslipusingJSP.
6. WriteaprogramusingJDBCforcreating
atable,Inserting,Deletingrecordsandlistouttherecords.
7. Writeaprogram usingJavaservlet tohandle formdata.
8. Write a simple Servlet program to create a table of all the headers it receives along
withtheirassociatedvalues.
9. Writeaprogram inJSPby usingsessionobject.
10. WriteaprogramtobuildasimpleClientServerapplication usingRMI.
11. Createan appletfora calculatorapplication.
12. Programtosendatextmessagetoanothersystemandreceivethetextmessagefromthesystem(useso
cket programming).
Expertlectures,onlineseminars –webinars

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TextBooks
1 JamieJaworski,“JavaUnleashed”,SAMSTechmediaPublications,1999.
2 Campione,Walrath andHuml,“TheJavaTutorial”,AddisonWesley,1999.
ReferenceBooks
JimKeogh,”TheCompleteReferenceJ2EE”,TataMcGrawHillPublishingCompanyLtd,2010.
1
DavidSawyerMcFarland,“JavaScriptAndJQuery-TheMissingManual”,OreillyPublications,3rd
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ThirdSemester

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Coursecode DIGITALIMAGEPROCESSING Core

Pre-requisite Basicsof ImageProcessing

CourseObjectives:
Themain objectives ofthis courseareto:
1. Learnbasicimageprocessingtechniques forsolving realproblems.
2. Gainknowledgein imagetransformationandImage enhancementtechniques.
3. LearnImagecompressionandSegmentationprocedures.

ExpectedCourseOutcomes:
Onthesuccessful completionofthecourse,student willbe ableto:
Understandthe fundamentalsofDigitalImageProcessing
Understandthemathematicalfoundationsfordigitalimagerepresentation,imageacquisition,
imagetransformation,and imageenhancement
Apply,DesignandImplementandgetsolutionsfordigitalimageprocessingproblems
Applytheconceptsoffilteringand segmentationfordigitalimageretrieval
ExploretheconceptsofMulti-resolutionprocessandrecognizetheobjectsinanefficient manner

Unit:1 INTRODUCTION
Introduction: What is Digital image processing – the origin of DIP – Examples of fields that
useDIP – Fundamentals steps in DIP – Components of an image processing system. Digital
ImageFundamentals: Elements of Visual perception – Light and the electromagnetic spectrum –
Imagesensing and acquisition – Image sampling and Quantization – Some Basic relationship
betweenPixels– Linear & Nonlinear operations.

Unit:2 IMAGEENHANCEMENT
ImageEnhancementinthespatialdomain:-Background–somebasicGraylevelTransformations –
Histogram Processing – Enhancement using Arithmetic / Logic operations –Basics of spatial
filtering – Smoothing spatial filters – Sharpening spatial filters – Combiningspatial
enhancementmethods.

Unit:3 IMAGERESTORATION
Image Restoration: A model of the Image Degradation / Restoration Process – Noise models –
Restorationistheprocessofnoiseonly–SpatialFiltering–
PeriodicNoisereductionbyfrequencydomainfiltering–Linear,Portion–InvariantDegradations–
Estimatingthedegradation function – Inverse filtering – Minimum mean square Error Filtering –
Constrainedleastsquares filtering –Geometric mean filter–Geometric Transformations.

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Unit:4 IMAGECOMPRESSION
ImageCompression:Fundamentals–Imagecompressionmodels–ElementsofInformationTheory–
ErrorFreecompression–Lossy compression –Imagecompression standards.

Unit:5 IMAGESEGMENTATION
Image Segmentation: Detection and Discontinuities – Edge Linking and Boundary deduction –
Thresholding – Region-Based segmentation – Segmentation by Morphological watersheds –
Theuseof motion in segmentation.

TextBooks
RafaelC.Gonzalez,RichardE.Woods,“DigitalImageProcessing”,SecondEdition,PHI/
1
PearsonEducation.
2 B.Chanda,D.DuttaMajumder,“DigitalImageProcessingandAnalysis”,PHI,2003.
ReferenceBooks
NickEfford,“DigitalImageProcessingapracticalintroducingusingJava”,PearsonEducation,2004.
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Coursecode CLOUDCOMPUTING Core

Pre-requisite BasicsofCloud&itsApplications
CourseObjectives:
Themain objectives ofthis courseareto:
1. Gainknowledgeon cloudcomputing,cloudservices,architecturesandapplications.
2. Enablethestudentsto learnthebasics ofcloud computingwith realtimeusage
3. Howto storeand share, inand from cloud?

ExpectedCourseOutcomes:
Onthesuccessfulcompletion of thecourse, studentwill beable to:
Understandthe conceptsofCloudanditsservices
CollaborateCloudforEvent&ProjectManagement
Analyzeon cloudin –WordProcessing,SpreadSheets,Mail,Calendar,Database
Analyzecloudinsocialnetworks
Explorecloud storageand sharing

Unit:1 INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION Cloud Computing Introduction, From, Collaboration to cloud, Working
ofcloud computing, pros and cons, benefits, developing cloud computing services, Cloud
servicedevelopment,discovering cloud services.

Unit:2 CLOUDCOMPUTING
CLOUDCOMPUTINGFOREVERYONECentralizingemailcommunications,cloudcomputingforc
ommunity,collaboratingonschedules,collaboratingongroupprojectsandevents, cloud computing for
corporation, mapping, schedules, managing projects, presenting onroad.

Unit:3 CLOUDSERVICES
USINGCLOUDSERVICESCollaboratingoncalendars,Schedulesandtaskmanagement,exploring
on line scheduling and planning, collaborating on event management, collaborating oncontact
management, collaborating on project management, collaborating on word
processing,spreadsheets,and databases.

Unit:4 OUTSIDETHECLOUD
OUTSIDETHECLOUDEvaluatingwebmailservices,Evaluatinginstantmessaging,Evaluatingwe
bconferencetools,creatinggroupsonsocialnetworks,Evaluatingonline

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groupware,collaboratingvia blogsandwikis.

Unit:5 STORINGANDSHARING
STORINGANDSHARINGUnderstandingcloudstorage,evaluatingonlinefilestorage,exploring on
line book marking services, exploring on line photo editing applications, exploringphotosharing
communities,controlling it with webbased desktops.

TextBooks
1 MichaelMiller,“Cloud Computing”,PearsonEducation,NewDelhi,2009.
ReferenceBooks
AnthonyT.Velte,“CloudComputing:APracticalApproach”,1stEdition,TataMcGrawHill
1
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NETWORKSECURITYAND
Coursecode Core
CRYPTOGRAPHY
Pre-requisite BasicsofNetworks& itsSecurity
CourseObjectives:
Themain objectives ofthis courseareto:
1. Enable students to learn the Introduction to Cryptography, Web Security and Case studies
inCryptography.
2. To gain knowledge on classical encryption techniques and concepts of modular arithmetic
andnumbertheory.
3. To explore the working principles and utilities of various cryptographic algorithms
includingsecretkey cryptography,hashes and messagedigests, and publickey algorithms.
4. To explore the design issues and working principles of various authentication
Applicationsand various secure communication standards including Kerberos, IPsec, and
SSL/TLS andemail.

ExpectedCourseOutcomes:
Onthesuccessful completionofthecourse,student willbe ableto:
Understandtheprocess ofthecryptographicalgorithms
Compareandapplydifferentencryptionanddecryptiontechniquestosolveproblemsrelated to
confidentiality and authentication
Applyandanalyzeappropriatesecuritytechniquestosolvenetworksecurityproblem
Explore suitablecryptographicalgorithms
Analyzedifferentdigitalsignaturealgorithmstoachieveauthenticationanddesignsecure applications

Unit:1 INTRODUCTION
Introduction to Cryptography – Security Attacks – Security Services –Security Algorithm-
StreamcipherandBlockcipher-SymmetricandAsymmetric-
keyCryptosystemSymmetricKeyAlgorithms:Introduction–DES– TripleDES– AES – IDEA–
Blowfish – RC5.

Unit:2 CRYPTOSYSTEM
Public-keyCryptosystem:IntroductiontoNumberTheory-RSAAlgorithm–KeyManagement
-Diffie-HellmanKeyexchange–
EllipticCurveCryptographyMessageAuthenticationandHashfunctions– HashandMacAlgorithm–
DigitalSignatures andAuthenticationProtocol.

Unit:3 NETWORKSECURITY
NetworkSecurityPractice:AuthenticationApplications–Kerberos–
X.509AuthenticationservicesandEncryptionTechniques.E-mail Security – PGP– S/MIME –IP
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Unit:4 WEBSECURITY
Web Security - Secure Socket Layer – Secure Electronic Transaction. System Security -
IntrudersandViruses –Firewalls– Password Security.

Unit:5 CASESTUDY
CaseStudy:ImplementationofCryptographicAlgorithms–RSA–DSA–ECC(C/JAVAProgramming).
NetworkForensic–SecurityAudit-OtherSecurityMechanism:Introductionto:Stenography–
QuantumCryptography– WaterMarking -DNACryptography

TextBooks
1 WilliamStallings,“CryptographyandNetworkSecurity”,PHI/PearsonEducation.
2 BruceSchneir,“AppliedCryptography”,CRCPress.
ReferenceBooks
A.Menezes,PVanOorschotandS.Vanstone,“HandBookofAppliedCryptography”,CRCPress,1
1
997
2 AnkitFadia,”NetworkSecurity”,MacMillan.

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Coursecode DATASCIENCE&ANALYTICS Core

Pre-requisite BasicsofDataScience&itsApplications
CourseObjectives:
Themain objectives ofthis courseareto:
1. Introducethestudentstodatascience,bigdata &its ecosystem.
2. Learndataanalytics &its lifecycle.
3. Toexploretheprogramming languageR,with respectto the datamining algorithms.
4. Relatetherelationshipbetweenartificialintelligence,machinelearning anddatascience.

ExpectedCourseOutcomes:
Onthesuccessful completionofthecourse,student willbe ableto:
Understandtheconcept ofdatascienceand itstechniques
Reviewdataanalytics
Apply and determine appropriate Data Mining techniques using R to real timeapplications
Analyzeonclusteringalgorithms
Analyzeon regressionmethods in AI

Unit:1 INTRODUCTION
IntroductionofDataScience:datascienceandbigdata–facetsofdata-datascienceprocess-Ecosystem-
TheData Scienceprocess– six steps-Machine Learning.

Unit:2 BASICSOFDATA ANALYTICS

DataAnalyticslifecycle-reviewofdataanalytics-AdvanceddataAnalytics-technologyandtools.

Unit:3 DATAANALYTICSUSING R
Basic Data Analytics using R : R Graphical User Interfaces – Data Import and Export –
AttributeandDataTypes–DescriptiveStatistics–ExploratoryDataAnalysis–
VisualizationBeforeAnalysis – Dirty Data – Visualizing a Single Variable – Examining Multiple
Variables – DataExplorationVersus Presentation.

Unit:4 CLUSTERING
Overview of Clustering : K-means – Use Cases – Overview of the Method – Perform a K-
meansAnalysisusingR–Classification–DecisionTrees–OverviewofaDecisionTree–DecisionTree
Algorithms – Evaluating a Decision Tree – Decision Tree in R – Bayes’ Theorem –
NaïveBayesClassifier– Smoothing– Naïve Bayes in R.

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Unit:5 ARTIFICIALINTELLIGENCE
Artificialintelligence:MachineLearninganddeeplearningindatascience-Clustering,associationrules.
Linear regression-logisticregression-Additional regressionmethods.

TextBooks
Introducing-Data-Science-Big-Data-Machine-Learning-and-more-using-Python-tools-
1
2016.Pdf
2 Datasciencein bigdata analytics-Wiley 2015JohnWiley &Sons
ReferenceBooks
1 Asimpleintroduction to DataScience -Lars Nielson 2015
IntroducingDataScienceDavyCielen,ArnoD.B.Meysman,MohamedAli2016ManningPublica
2
tion
3 RProgrammingforData Science-RogerD.Peng2015LeanPublication
4 DataScience& BigDataAnalytics:Discovering,Analyzing,VisualizingandPresentingData

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PRACTICAL V : DIGITAL
Coursecode IMAGEPROCESSINGUsingMAT Core
LAB
BasicProgrammingofImageProcessing&ani
Pre-requisite
ntro to MATLAB
CourseObjectives:
Themain objectives ofthis courseareto:
1. TounderstandthebasicsofDigitalImageProcessingfundamentals,imageenhancementandimagere
storation techniques
2. Toenablethestudentsto learnthefundamentalsof imagecompression andsegmentation
3. Tounderstand ImageRestoration&FilteringTechniques
4. Implementationofthe aboveusingMATLAB

ExpectedCourseOutcomes:
Onthesuccessful completionofthecourse,student willbe ableto:
Towriteprograms in MATLABforimageprocessing usingthe techniques
ToabletoimplementImageEnhancements&Restorationtechniques
CapableofusingCompressiontechniquesinan Image
Must beable to manipulatethe imageand Segment it

LISTOFPROGRAMS
1. ImplementImageenhancementTechnique.
2. HistogramEqualization
3. ImageRestoration.
4. ImplementImageFiltering.
5. EdgedetectionusingOperators(Roberts,PrewittsandSobelsoperators)
6. Implementimagecompression.
7. ImageSubtraction
8. BoundaryExtractionusing morphology.
9. ImageSegmentation

TextBooks
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PHI/PearsonEducation.
2 B.Chanda,D.DuttaMajumder,“DigitalImageProcessingandAnalysis”,PHI,2003.
ReferenceBooks
NickEfford,“DigitalImageProcessingapracticalintroducingusingJava”,PearsonEducation,2004.
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PRACTICAL VI :
Coursecode CLOUDCOMPUTING Core
LAB
Pre-requisite BasicProgrammingusingCloud
CourseObjectives:
Themain objectives ofthis courseareto:
1. Thiscoursecoversthe basicdatastructureslike Stack,Queue,Tree,List.
2. Thiscourseenablesthestudentsto learntheapplicationsof thedata
structuresusingvarioustechniques
3. ItalsoenablethestudentstounderstandC++languagewithrespecttoOOADconcepts
4. ApplicationofOOPSconcepts

ExpectedCourseOutcomes:
Onthesuccessfulcompletion ofthe course,studentwill beable to:
Understandthe concepts ofobjectorientedwithrespecttoC++
Abletounderstand andimplement OOPSconcepts
ImplementationofdatastructureslikeStack, Queue,Tree,ListusingC++
Application of the data structures for Sorting, Searching usingdifferenttechniques.

LISTOFPROGRAMS
1. WorkingwithGoogleDrivetomakespreadsheetandnotes.
2. LaunchaLinux VirtualMachine.
3. Tohosta staticwebsite
4. ExploringGooglecloudforthefollowinga)Storageb)Sharingofdatac)manageyourcalendar,to-do
lists, d) a document editing tool
5. Workingand installationof GoogleApp Engine
6. Workingandinstallation ofMicrosoftAzure
7. ToConnectAmazonRedshiftwithS3bucket
8. ToCreateandQuerya NoSQLTable
Expertlectures,onlineseminars–webinars

TextBooks
1 MichaelMiller,“Cloud Computing”,PearsonEducation,NewDelhi,2009.
ReferenceBooks

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AnthonyT.Velte,“CloudComputing:APracticalApproach”,1stEdition,TataMcGrawHill
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PRACTICAL VII :
Core
Coursecode WEBAPPLICATIONDEVELOPMENTAND
HOSTING

Pre-requisite BasicProgrammingusing HTMLtags

CourseObjectives:
Themain objectives ofthis courseareto:
1. Ableto designa web pageusing HTML tags
2. To enable thestudentstouse Framesets,hyperlinksanddifferentformattingfeaturesof HTMLtags
3. EnablethestudentstouseForms&other
controlsinawebpage4.Tocreate interactiveapplications using PHP

ExpectedCourseOutcomes:
Onthesuccessfulcompletion ofthecourse, student willbe able to:
Understand&implementthebasic HTMLtagstocreatestaticwebpages
Capableofusing hyperlinks,frames ,images, tables, inaweb page
Abletowritedynamicweb applicationsusingHTML forms
Mustbeable towritedynamicwebapplicationsin PHP&HTML tagsusingXAMPP.

LISTOFPROGRAMS
1. Developa websitefor yourcollegeusing advanced tags ofHTML.
2. Write namesof severalcountriesina paragraphandstore itasanHTMLdocument,world.html.
Each country name must be a hot text. When you click India (for example), it
mustopenindia.html and it should provide abrief introductionabout India.
3. Develop a HTML document to i)display Text with Bullets / Numbers - Using Lists ii)
todisplaythe Table FormatData
4. Develop a Complete Web Page using Frames and Framesets which gives the
Informationabouta Hospital using HTML.
5. WriteaHTML documenttoprint yourBio-Datain aneatformat usingseveralcomponents.
6. DevelopaHTML documentto displayaRegistrationFormfor aninter-collegiatefunction.
7. Using HTML form accept Customer details like Name, City, Pin code, Phone number
andEmailaddress and validatethedata and display appropriatemessages forviolationsusing PHP
(Eg.Name isMandatory field; Pincodemust be6 digits,etc.).
8. Writeaprogramtoaccepttwonumbersn1andn2usingHTMLformanddisplaythePrime

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numbersbetweenn1 andn2 usingPHP.

TextBooks
Ivan Bayross, “Web Enabled Commercial Applications Development Using
1
HTML,JavaScript,DHTML andPHP”, BPBPublications,4th RevisedEdition,2010.
ReferenceBooks
2 A.K.SainiandSumintTuli,“MasteringXML”, FirstEdition,NewDelhi,2002.

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MULTIMEDIA AND
Coursecode Elective
ITSAPPLICATIONS
Pre-requisite BasicsofMultimedia
CourseObjectives:
Themain objectives ofthis courseareto:
1. Tointroducethe studentstheconcepts ofMultimedia,Images &Animation.
2. TointroduceMultimediaauthoringtools
3. TounderstandtheroleofMultimediainInternet
4. ToknowaboutHighDefinitionTelevisionandDesktopComputing–KnowledgebasedMultimedia
systems

ExpectedCourseOutcomes:
Onthesuccessful completionofthecourse,student willbe ableto:
UnderstandthebasicconceptsofMultimedia
DemonstrateMultimedia authoringtools
Analyzethe conceptsofSound, Images, Video&Animation
ApplyandAnalyzethe roleofMultimediainInternet andrealtimeapplications
AnalyzemultimediaapplicationsusingHDTV

Unit:1 INTRODUCTION
WhatisMultimedia?–IntroductiontomakingMultimedia–MacintoshandWindowsProductionplatforms
– Basic Softwaretools.

Unit:2 MULTIMEDIATOOLS
Making Instant Multimedia – Multimedia authoring tools – Multimedia building blocks – Text –
Sound.

Unit:3 ANIMATION
Images–Animation –Video.

Unit:4 INTERNET
MultimediaandtheInternet–TheInternetandhowitworks–ToolsforWorldWideWeb–Designingfor
theWorld Wide Web.

Unit:5 MULTIMEDIASYSTEMS
HighDefinitionTelevisionandDesktopComputing–KnowledgebasedMultimediasystems.

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TextBooks
1 TayVaughan, “Multimediamakingitwork”,FifthEdition,TataMcGrawHill.
2 JohnF.KoegelBufford,“MultimediaSystems”,PearsonEducation.
ReferenceBooks
1 JudithJeffloate,“MultimediainPractice(TechnologyandApplications)”,PHI,2003.

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Coursecode EMBEDDEDSYSTEMS Elective

Pre-requisite BasicsofMicroController
CourseObjectives:
Themain objectives ofthis courseareto:
1. Presenttheintroductionto8051MicrocontrollerInstructionSet,conceptsonRTOS&Softwaretools.
2. Gaintheknowledge about theembeddedsoftwaredevelopment.
3. Learn aboutMicrocontrollerandsoftwaretoolsintheembeddedsystems.

ExpectedCourseOutcomes:
Onthesuccessful completionofthecourse,student willbe ableto:
Understandthe conceptof8051microcontroller
Understandthe InstructionSetandProgramming
Analyzethe conceptsofRTOS
AnalyzeanddesignvariousrealtimeembeddedsystemsusingRTOS
Debugthemalfunctioningsystem usingvariousdebuggingtechniques

Unit:1 8051MICROCONTROLLER
8051 Microcontroller:Introduction-8051Architecture-Input/Output Pins, Ports andCircuits -
ExternalMemory-Counters/ Timers-Serial DataInput/ Output–Interrupts

Unit:2 PROGRAMMINGBASICS
InstructionSetandProgrammingMovingData-AddressingModes-Logicaloperations-
ArithmeticOperation-JumpandCallInstructions-SimpleProgram.Applications:KeyboardInterface-
Display Interface-PulseMeasurements-DIAandAIDConversions-MultipleInterrupts.

Unit:3 CONCEPTS ON RTOS

CONCEPTS ON RTOS: Introduction to RTOS-Selecting an RTOS-Task and Task states -
Tasksand data- Semaphores and shared data. MORE operating systems services: Interrupt
Processcommunication - Message Queues, Mailboxes and pipes- Timer Functions-Events -
MemoryManagement-InterruptRoutines in an RTOS Environment.

Unit:4 DESIGNUSING RTOS

BasicDesignusingaRTOS:Principles-EncapsulatingsemaphoresandQueues-
Hardrealtimeschedulingconsiderations-Savingmemory space and power-introductions toRTL
&QNX.

Unit:5 SOFTWARETOOLS
SOFTWARETOOLS:EmbeddedsoftwareDevelopmentTools:HostsandTargetMachines-

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Linker/Locators for Embedded software-getting Embedded software into the Target

systems.Debugging Techniques: Testing on your Host machine -Instruction set simulators- The
assertmacro-using laboratory tools.

TextBooks
1 DavidE.Simon,“AnEmbeddedSoftwareprimer”PearsonEducationAsia,2003.
KennethJAyala,“The8051MicrocontrollerandArchitectureprogrammingandapplication”,Sec
2
ond Edition, Penram International.
ReferenceBooks
Raj Kamal, “Embedded Systems – Architecture, programming and design”, Tata McGraw –
1
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Coursecode INTERNETOFTHINGS Elective

Pre-requisite BasicsofSensors& its Applications

CourseObjectives:
Themain objectives ofthis courseareto:
1. AboutInternetofThingswherevariouscommunicatingentitiesarecontrolledandmanagedfordec
ision making in theapplication domain.
2. EnablestudentstolearntheArchitectureof IoTandIoTTechnologies
3. DevelopingIoTapplicationsandSecurityinIoT,BasicElectronicsforIoT,ArduinoIDE,Sensorsand
ActuatorsProgrammingNODEMCUusing Arduino IDE.

ExpectedCourseOutcomes:
Onthesuccessfulcompletion of thecourse, student willbe able to:
Understandabout IoT,itsArchitectureanditsApplications
UnderstandbasicelectronicsusedinIoT&itsrole
DevelopapplicationswithCusingArduinoIDE
Analyzeaboutsensorsandactuators
DesignIoTinrealtimeapplicationsusingtoday’sinternet&wirelesstechnologies

Unit:1 INTRODUCTION
IntroductiontoIoT:EvolutionofIoT–Definition&CharacteristicsofIoT-ArchitectureofIoT
–TechnologiesforIoT–DevelopingIoTApplications–ApplicationsofIoT–IndustrialIoT–Securityin
IoT

Unit:2 BASICELECTRONICSFOR IoT

BasicElectronicsforIoT:ElectricCharge,Resistance,CurrentandVoltage–BinaryCalculations –
Logic Chips – Microcontrollers – Multipurpose Computers – Electronic Signals –A/Dand D/A
Conversion – Pulse Width Modulation.

Unit:3 PROGRAMMINGUSINGARDUINO
Programming Fundamentals with C using Arduino IDE: Installing and Setting up the
ArduinoIDE – Basic Syntax – Data Types/ Variables/ Constant – Operators – Conditional
Statements andLoops – Using Arduino C Library Functions for Serial, delay and other invoking
Functions –Stringsand Mathematics Library Functions.

Unit:4 SENSORSANDACTUATORS
SensorsandActuators:AnalogandDigitalSensors–Interfacingtemperaturesensor,ultrasound

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sensorandinfrared(IR)sensorwithArduino– Interfacing LEDandBuzzerwithArduino.

Unit:5 SENSORDATAININTERNET
SendingSensorDataOverInternet:IntroductiontoESP8266NODEMCUWiFiModule–Programming
NODEMCU using Arduino IDE – Using WiFi and NODEMCU to transmit
datafromtemperaturesensortoOpen SourceIoTcloud platform (ThingSpeak).

TextBooks
ArshdeepBahga,VijayMadisetti,“InternetofThings:AHands-OnApproach”,2014.ISBN:978-
1
0996025515
BorisAdryan,DominikObermaier,PaulFremantle,“TheTechnicalFoundationsofIoT”,ArtechHo
2
user Publishers, 2017.
ReferenceBooks
1 MichaelMargolis,“ArduinoCookbook”,O‟Reilly,2011
2 MarcoSchwartz,“InternetofThingswithESP8266”,PacktPublishing,2016.
DhivyaBala,“ESP8266:StepbyStepTutorialforESP8266IoT,ArduinoNODEMCUDev.Kit”,
3 2018.

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CRITICAL THINKING,
Coursecode Elective
DESIGNTHINKINGANDPROBLEMSO
LVING
Pre-requisite BasicsofLogical& Reasoning Skills
CourseObjectives:
Themain objectives ofthis courseareto:
1. Learncriticalthinkinganditsrelatedconcepts
2. Learndesignthinkinganditsrelated concepts
3. DevelopThinkingpatterns,Problemsolving&Reasoning

Expected CourseOutcomes:
Onthesuccessful completionofthecourse,student willbe ableto:
Understandthe conceptsofCriticalthinkinganditsrelatedtechnology

Focusontheexplicitdevelopmentofcriticalthinkingandproblemsolvingskills

Applydesignthinking inproblems
Makeadecision andtakeactions basedonanalysis

AnalyzetheconceptsofThinkingpatterns,Problemsolving&Reasoninginrealtimeapplications

Unit:1 CRITICALTHINKING
CriticalThinking:Definition,ConclusionsandDecisions,BeliefsandClaims,Evidence–finding,
evaluation, Inferences, Facts – opinion, probable truth, probably false, Venn
diagram.Appliedcriticalthinking:Inference,Explanation,Evidence,Credibility,TwoCaseStudies,crit
icalthinking and science, critical evaluation,self assessment.

Unit:2 DESIGNTHINKING
Design Thinking: Introduction, Need of Design Thinking, problem to question - design
thinkingprocess,TraditionalProblemSolvingversusDesignThinking,phasesofDesignThinking,probl
em exploration, Stake holder assessment, design thinking for manufacturers, smart Idea
toimplementation.

Unit:3 CASESTUDY
Thinkingtoconfidence,fearmanagement,dutyVspassion,Teammanagement,ToolsforThinking,
prototype design, Relevance of Design and Design Thinking in engineering,
humancentereddesign, casestudy: apply design thinkingin problem.

Unit:4 PROBLEMSOLVING
Problemsolving:problemdefinition,problemsolvingmethods,selectingandusinginformation,datapr
ocessing,solutionmethods,solvingproblemsbysearching,recognizingpatterns,spatial

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reasoning,necessityandsufficiency,choosingandusingmodels,makingchoicesanddecisions.

Unit:5 REASONING
Reasoning: Deductive and hypothetical reasoning, computational problem solving;
generating,implementing,andevaluatingsolutions,interpersonalproblemsolving.Advancedproble
msolving: Combining skills – using imagination, developing models, Carrying out
investigations,Data analysis and inference. Graphical methods of solution, Probability, tree
diagramsanddecisiontrees

TextBooks
JohnButterworthandGeoffThwaites,Thinkingskills:CriticalThinkingandProblemSolving,Ca
1
mbridgeUniversity Press, 2013.
H.S.FoglerandS.E.LeBlanc,StrategiesforCreativeProblemSolving,2ndedition,Pearson,Upper
2
Saddle River, NJ, 2008.
ReferenceBooks
A.WhimbeyandJ.Lochhead,ProblemSolving&Comprehension,6thedition,LawrenceErlbaum
1
,Mahwah,NJ, 1999.
M.Levine,EffectiveProblemSolving,2ndedition,PrenticeHall,UpperSaddleRiver,NJ,1994.
2

3 MichaelBaker, TheBasicofCriticalThinking, TheCriticalThinkingCopress,2015.

4 DavidKelleyandTomKelley,CreativeConfidence,2013.

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Coursecode MOBILECOMPUTING Elective

Pre-requisite BasicsofMobileCommunication
CourseObjectives:
Themain objectives ofthis courseareto:
1. PresenttheoverviewofMobilecomputing,ApplicationsandArchitectures.
2. Describethefuturisticcomputingchallenges.
3. Enablethestudents to learn theconcept of mobilecomputing.

ExpectedCourseOutcomes:
Onthesuccessful completionofthecourse,student willbe ableto:
Understandtheneedandrequirementsofmobile communication
Focusonmobilecomputingapplicationsandtechniques
Demonstratesatellitecommunicationinmobilecomputing
Analyzeaboutwirelesslocallooparchitecture
Analyzevariousmobilecommunicationtechnologies

Unit:1 INTRODUCTION
Introduction: Advantages of Digital Information - Introduction to Telephone Systems –
Mobilecommunication: Need for Mobile Communication – Requirements of Mobile
Communication –Historyof Mobile Communication.

Unit:2 MOBILECOMMUNICATION
IntroductiontoCellularMobileCommunication–MobileCommunicationStandards–
MobilityManagement–Frequency Management – Cordless MobileCommunicationSystems.

Unit:3 MOBILECOMPUTING
Mobile Computing: History of data networks – Classification of Mobile data networks -
CDPDSystem–SatellitesinMobileCommunication:Satelliteclassification–
GlobalSatelliteCommunication – Changeover from one satellite to other – Global Mobile
Communication –Interferencesin Cellular Mobile Communication.

Unit:4 MOBILECOMMUNICATIONSYSTEM
Important Parameters of Mobile Communication System– Mobile Internet: Working of MobileIP
– Wireless Network Security – Wireless Local Loop Architecture: Components in WLL –
Problems in WLL – Modern Wireless Local Loop – Local Multipoint Distribution Service –
WirelessApplication Protocol.

Unit:5 COMMUNICATIONTECHNOLOGY

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WCDMA Technology and Fiber Optic Microcellular Mobile Communication – Ad hoc

NetworkandBluetoothtechnology–IntelligentMobileCommunicationsystem–
FourthGenerationMobileCommunication systems.

TextBooks
T.G.Palanivelu,R.Nakkeeran,“WirelessandMobileCommunication”,PHILimited,2009.
1

2 JochenSchiller,“Mobile Communications”,SecondEdition,PearsonEducation, 2007.

ReferenceBooks
1 AsokeK Talukder, HasanAhmed, RoopaYavagal,“Mobile Computing”,TMH, 2010.

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Coursecode Elective
BLOCKCHAINTECHNOLOGY

Pre-requisite BasicsofBlockChain &CryptoCurrency

CourseObjectives:
Themain objectives ofthis courseareto:
1. Understandthe fundamentalsofblockchainand cryptocurrency.
2. Understandthe influence and roleofblockchainin variousotherfields.
3. Learnsecurityfeaturesanditssignificance.
4. Identifyproblems&challenges posedby BlockChain.

ExpectedCourseOutcomes:
Onthesuccessful completionofthecourse,student willbe ableto:
Demonstrateblockchain technologyandcrypto currency
Understandtheminingmechanisminblockchain
Applyandidentifysecuritymeasures,andvarioustypesofservicesthatallowpeopleto tradeand
transact with bitcoins
Applyand analyzeBlockchain inhealth careindustry
Analyzesecurity,privacy,andefficiencyof agivenBlockchain system

Unit:1 INTRODUCTION
Introduction to Blockchain - The big picture of the industry – size, growth, structure,
players.Bitcoin versus Cryptocurrencies versus Blockchain- Distributed Ledger Technology
(DLT).Strategic analysis of the space – Blockchain platforms, regulators, application providers.
Themajorapplication: currency, identity, chain of custody.

Unit:2 NETWORKANDSECURITY
Advantage over conventional distributed database, Blockchain Network, Mining
Mechanism,Distributed Consensus, Blockchain 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0 – transition, advancements and
features.Privacy,Security issues in Blockchain.

Unit:3 CRYPTOCURRENCY
Cryptocurrency - History, Distributed Ledger, Bitcoin protocols -Symmetric-key cryptography -
Public-key cryptography - Digital Signatures -High and Low trust societies - Types of
Trustmodel:Peer-to-Peer,Leviathan,andIntermediary.ApplicationofCryptographytoBlockchain

Unit:4 CRYPTOCURRENCYREGULATION
CryptocurrencyRegulation-Stakeholders,RootsofBitcoin,Legalviews-exchangeofcryptocurrency-
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demand,inflationanddeflation –Regulation.

Unit:5 CHALLENGESINBLOCKCHAIN
OpportunitiesandchallengesinBlockChain–Applicationofblockchain:Industry4.0–machine to
machine communication – Data management in industry 4.0 – future prospects. Blockchain in
Health 4.0 - Blockchain properties - Healthcare Costs - Healthcare Quality - HealthcareValue-
Challenges forusing blockchain forhealthcaredata

TextBooks
Arvind Narayanan, Joseph Bonneau, Edward Felten, Andrew Miller and Steven
1 Goldfeder,“BitcoinandCryptocurrencyTechnologies:AComprehensiveIntroduction”,Princet
onUniversityPress (July 19, 2016).
2 Antonopoulos,“MasteringBitcoin:UnlockingDigitalCryptocurrencies”
ReferenceBooks
1 SatoshiNakamoto,“Bitcoin:APeer-to-PeerElectronicCashSystem”
RodrigodaRosaRighi,AntonioMarcosAlberti,MadhusudanSingh,“BlockchainTechnologyforIn
2
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Coursecode WEBSERVICES Elective

Pre-requisite BasicsofDistributedComputing
CourseObjectives:
Themain objectives ofthis courseareto:
1. PresenttheWebServices,BuildingrealworldEnterpriseapplicationsusingWebServiceswithTechn
ologies XML, SOAP , WSDL, UDDI
2. Getoverview ofDistributedComputing,XML,anditstechnologies
3. UpdatewithQoSanditsfeatures
4. DevelopStandards andfutureofWebServices

ExpectedCourseOutcomes:
Onthesuccessfulcompletion ofthe course,studentwill beable to:
Understandwebservices anditsrelatedtechnologies
UnderstandXML concepts
Analyzeon SOAPand UDDImodel
Demonstratetheroadmap forthe standardsand futureofweb services
AnalyzeQoSenabledapplicationsinwebservices

Unit:1 INTRODUCTION
Introduction to web services – Overview of Distributed Computing- Evolution and importance
ofwebservices-Industrystandards,Technologiesandconceptsunderlyingwebservices-
Webservicesandenterprises-web servicesstandardsorganization-web servicesplatforms.

Unit:2 XMLFUNDAMENTALS
XMLFundamentals – XMLdocuments-XML Namespaces-XML Schema–Processing XML.

Unit:3 SOAPMODEL
SOAP:TheSOAPmodel-SOAPmessages-SOAPencoding-WSDL:WSDLstructure-
interfacedefinitions-bindings-services-UsingSOAPandWSDL-UDDI:AboutUDDI-
UDDIregistrySpecification-Coredata structures-Accessing UDDI

Unit:4 TECHNOLOGIESANDSTANDARDS
Advancedwebservicestechnologiesandstandards:Conversationsoverview-
webservicesconversation language-WSCL interface components. Workflow: business process
management-workflows and workflow management systems Security: Basics-data handling and
forwarding-datastorage-errors-Webservices security issues.

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Unit:5 QUALITYOFSERVICE
Quality of Service: Importance of QoS for web services-QoS metrics-holes-design patterns-
QoSenabledwebservices-QoSenabledapplications.Webservicesmanagement-
webservicesstandardsand futuretrends.

TextBooks
SandeepChatterjee,JamesWebber,“DevelopingEnterpriseWebServices:AnArchitectsGuide”,Pr
1
enticeHall, Nov 2003.
KeithBallinger,“NETWebservices:ArchitectureandImplementationwith.Net”,PearsonEducatio
2
n,First Edition,Feb 2003.
ReferenceBooks
RameshNagappan,“DevelopingJavaWebServices:ArchitectinganddevelopingsecureWebSer
1
vicesUsingJava”, JohnWileyand Sons,firstEdition Feb2003.
EricAMarksandMarkJWerrell,“ExecutiveGuidetoWebservices”,JohnWileyandsons,March
2
2003.
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Coursecode ROBOTIC PROCESS

Elective
AUTOMATIONFOR
BUSINESS
Pre-requisite BasicsofRobots&itsApplications
CourseObjectives:
Themain objectives ofthis courseareto:
1. LearntheconceptsofRPA, itsbenefits,typesandmodels.
2. GaintheknowledgeinapplicationofRPAinBusinessScenarios.
3. IdentifymeasuresandskillsrequiredforRPA

ExpectedCourseOutcomes:
Onthesuccessful completionofthecourse,student willbe ableto:
DemonstratethebenefitsandethicsofRPA
UnderstandtheAutomationcycle anditstechniques
DrawinferencesandinformationprocessingofRPA
Implement&ApplyRPAinBusinessScenarios
AnalyzeonRobots &leveragingautomation

Unit:1 INTRODUCTION
Introduction to RPA - Overview of RPA - Benefits of RPA in a business environment -
Industries& domains fit for RPA - Identification of process for automation - Types of Robots -
Ethics ofRPA&BestPractices-AutomationandRPAConcepts-
DifferentbusinessmodelsforimplementingRPA-Centreof Excellence–Typesandtheirapplications -
Building anRPAteam
-ApproachforimplementingRPAinitiatives.

Unit:2 AUTOMATION
Role of a Business Manager in Automation initiatives - Skills required by a Business Manager
forsuccessfulautomation-TheimportanceofaBusinessManagerinautomation-Analyzingdifferent
business processes - Process Mapping frameworks - Role of a Business Manager insuccessful
implementation – Part 1 - Understanding the Automation cycle – First 3 automationstagesand
activities performed by different people.

Unit:3 AUTOMATIONIMPLEMENTATION
Evaluating the Automation Implementation Detailed description of last 3 stages and
activitiesperformed by different people - Role of a Business Manager in successful completion –
Part 2 -Activities to be performed post-implementation - Guidelines for tracking the
implementationsuccess - Metrics/Parameters to be considered for gauging success - Choosing the
right licensingoption-Sending emails-Publishing and RunningWorkflows.

Unit:4 ROBOT

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Ability to process information through scopes/systems- Understand the skill of

informationprocessing and its use in business - Leveraging automation - Creating a Robot - New
Processes.Establishcausalitybyvariablebehavior-
Understandtheskillofdrawinginferenceorestablishing causality by tracking the behavior of a
variable as it varies across time/referencedvariable-Leveraging automationforthis skill-Robot &
new processcreation.

Unit:5 ROBOTSKILL
Inference from snapshots of curated terms– Omni-source data curation - Multisource
trendtracking - Understand the skill of drawing inference from the behavior of curated terms by
takingsnapshots across systems in reference to time/variable(s) - Leveraging automation for this
skill –Robotcreation and newprocess creation for this skill.

TextBooks
AlokManiTripathi”LearningRoboticProcessAutomation:CreateSoftwarerobotsandautomatebusinesspro
1 cesses withtheleading RPAtool” PacktPublishing LimitedMarch2018.
2 TomTaulli“TheRoboticProcess AutomationHandbook”Apress,February2020.
ReferenceBooks
1 SteveKaelble”RoboticProcess Automation”JohnWiley& Sons,Ltd.,2018

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