PONDICHERRY UNIVERSITY

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

REGULATIONS AND SYLLABUS

Master of Technology
(Computer Science and Engineering)

(For CBCS System in Pondicherry University)

(Effective from the academic year 2018-2019)

Eligibility for Admission

Candidates who have secured 55% of marks or above in B.Tech./ B.E. in Computer Science
and Engineering/ Information Technology or M.Sc. in Computer Science/Information
Technology/ Software Engineering or equivalent or MCA with Bachelor’s in Computer
Science/ Computer Applications/ Information Technology /Mathematics /Statistics/ Physics/
Electronics/ Applied Sciences are eligible for admission.

Duration of the Course

The course shall be of two years’ duration spread over four consecutive semesters. The
maximum duration to acquire prescribed number of credits in order to complete the Programme
of Study shall be four years.

Medium

The medium of instruction shall be English.

Passing & Classification

Passing & Classification for the award of the M. Tech (Computer Science & Engineering)
Degree shall be as per the norms of CBCS System of Pondicherry University.

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 COURSE STRUCTURE

Number Credits
Total
Category Course Nomenclature of per Remarks
Credits
courses course
SH Supportive Hard Core 4 3 12 From CSE programme
Hard core- Theory 5 3 15 From CSE programme
H
Hard core- Lab 5 2 10

Restricted Soft core From other departments like

RS 2 3 6 Electronics/BT/Maths/Stat or
CS dept.
SS Specialisation Soft 3 3 9 Any research stream offered in
core the CSE/NIS programmes
OS 1 3 3 CS Department / Any
Open Soft Core University Department
Relevant to research stream
Directed Study 1 3 3 chosen
Project Study Phase 1 4 4

Project Work 1 6 6
Project Report and
1 4 4
Viva Voce
Total 72

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 PONDICHERRY UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

Master of Technology
(Computer Science and Engineering)

CURRICULUM
(Effective from the academic year 2018-2019)

Note: All Course Codes are to be preceded with ‘CSCE’.

H – Hard Core subject
SH – Supportive Hard Core subject
RS- Restricted Soft core subject
SS- Specialisation Soft core subject
OS-Open Soft core subject

FIRST SEMESTER
S.No Course
Course Title H/S L T P S Credits
. Code
1. CSCE 611 Discrete Mathematics SH 3 2 0 0 3

2. CSCE 612 Probability and Statistics SH 3 2 0 0 3

Network Configuration and
3. CSCE 613 H 3 0 0 2 3
Management
Advanced Data Structures and
4. CSCE 614 H 3 0 0 2 3
Algorithms
5. CSCE 615 Internet and Web Technologies H 3 0 0 2 3
6. CSCE 616 Network Management lab H 0 0 4 0 2
7. CSCE 617 Web Technology lab H 0 0 4 0 2

SECOND SEMESTER
Course
S.No. Course Title H/S L T P S Credits
Code
Graph theory and its
1. CSCE 621 SH 3 2 0 0 3
applications
2. CSCE 622 Research Methodology SH 3 2 0 0 3
3. CSCE 623 Data Mining and Big Data H 3 0 2 2 3
Mobile & Pervasive 3
4. CSCE 624 H 3 0 2 2
Computing
5. Elective-1 RS 3 0 0 2 3
6. Elective-2 SS 3 0 0 2 3
7. CSCE 627 Data mining lab H 0 0 4 0 2

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 8. CSCE 628 Pervasive computing lab H 0 0 4 0 2

THIRD SEMESTER
Course
S.No. Course Title H/S L T P S Credits
Code
1. CSCE 711 Directed Study H - - - - 3
2. CSCE 712 Project Work Phase 1* H - - - - 4
3. Elective-3 RS 3 0 0 2 3
4. Elective-4 OS 3 0 0 2 3
5. Elective-5 SS 3 0 0 2 3

FOURTH SEMESTER
Course
S.No. Course Title H/S L T P S Credits
Code
1. Elective-6 SS 3 0 0 2 3
2. CSCE 721 Project work Phase 2 H - - - - 6
3. CSCE 722 Project report and Viva voce H - - - - 6

*
In case of failure due to lack of attendance or minimum internal marks, the course has to be
repeated in the subsequent semester and only after successful completion, CSCE 721 and
CSCE 722could be credited. If failure is due to external marks only, the course can be credited
along with CSCE 721 and CSCE 722 .

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 LIST OF ELECTIVES

Sl.No. Code Course Title

Research Stream-1 Data Science
1 CSCE 811 Big Data Technologies
2 CSCE 812 Statistics for Data Analytics
3 CSCE 813 Multivariate Techniques for Data
4 CSCE 814 Data Mining and Data Analysis
5 CSCE 815 Machine Learning
6 CSCE 816 Deep Learning
Research Stream-2 Software Engineering
7 CSCE 821 Software Testing
8 CSCE 822 Agile Software Process
9 CSCE 823 Software Risk Management and Maintenance
10 CSCE 824 Software Project Management
11 CSCE 825 Software Architecture
12 CSCE 826 Software Quality Assurance
Research Stream-3 Artificial Intelligence
13 CSCE 831 Cognitive Science
14 CSCE 832 Knowledge representation and reasoning
15 CSCE 833 Computational Intelligence
16 CSCE 834 Artificial Intelligence for Automation
17 CSCE 835 Natural Language Processing
18 CSCE 836 Introduction to Robotics
Research Stream-4 Human Computer Interface
19 CSCE 841 Introduction to human computer interaction
20 CSCE 842 Principles of interaction design
21 CSCE 843 Web accessibility
22 CSCE 844 Context aware computing
23 CSCE 845 Data Visualization
24 CSCE 846 Social Computing systems
Research Stream-5 Theoretical Computer Science
25 CSCE 851 Automata Computability and complexity
26 CSCE 852 Mathematical logic for computer science
27 CSCE 853 Complexity Theory
28 CSCE 854 Computability Theory
29 CSCE 855 Advanced Compiler Design
Research Stream-6 Evolutionary Computing
30 CSCE 861 Design of modern heuristics
31 CSCE 862 Evolutionary Algorithms
32 CSCE 863 Linear optimization
33 CSCE 864 Nature inspired algorithms
Research Stream-7 Image Processing
34 CSCE 871 Advances In Computer Graphics
35 CSCE 872 Digital Image Processing
36 CSCE 873 Pattern Recognition
37 CSCE 874 Steganography and Digital Watermarking
38 CSCE 875 Biometric Security
39 CSCE 876 Content Based Information Retrieval

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 CSCE 611 DISCRETE MATHEMATICS
L T P C
3 2 0 3
Pre-requisite:
• Knowledge of functions and basic algebra

Objectives:
• Introduce the mathematical concepts fundamental to computer science.
• To illustrate the applications of mathematical concepts to computer science

Module-I: Basic Structures: Sets, Functions, Sequences, Sums, and Matrices 6 hrs
Sets – Set Operations – Functions – Sequences and summation – cardinality – Matrices .
Module-II: Number theory 8 hrs
Divisibility and modular arithmetic – Integer representations and algorithms – Prime and GCD
– Congruences and applications – cryptography.
Module-III: Induction and Recursion 8 hrs
Mathematical induction – strong induction and well ordering – recursive definition and
structural induction – recursive algorithms – program correctness
Module-IV: Counting 8 hrs
Basics – Pigeon hole principle – Permutations and combinations – binomial coefficients -
Generalized Permutations and combinations
Module-V: Advanced Counting Techniques 10 hrs
Recurrence relations – solving – applications – Divide and conquer – generating functions –
inclusion – exclusion – applications
Text Book:
1. Kenneth H.Rosen, Discrete Mathematics and its Applications, 2012, Seventh Edition,
Jones & Bartlett Learning.

Reference Books:
1. Norman L Biggs, Discrete Mathematics, Oxford Press, 2nd Edition, 2002
2. Kenneth Bogart and Robert L Drysdale, Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science,
Addison-Wesley; 1 edition2010
3. Thomas Koshy, Discrete Mathematics with Applications, Academic Press Inc, 2004.

Web resources:
1. https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/engineering-mathematics-tutorials/MOOC
2. NPTEL Course on Discrete Mathematics : https://nptel.ac.in/courses/111107058/#

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 CSCE 612 PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS
L T P C
3 2 0 3
Pre-requisite:
• Set Theory and Calculus

Objectives:
• To learn and understand random variables that describe randomness or an
uncertainty in certain realistic situation.
• To understand the types of sampling distributions and transformations
• To understand the framing and testing of hypothesis

Module-I: 10 hrs
Probability: Combinatorial methods- Classical, relative frequency and axiomatic definitions
of probability, addition rule and conditional probability, multiplication rule, total probability,
Bayes’ Theorem and independence, problems.
Random Variables: Discrete, continuous random variables, probability mass function,
probability density function and cumulative distribution functions - mathematical expectation,
moments, moment generating function, Joint, marginal and conditional distributions, product
moments, correlation and regression, independence of random variables, Chebyshev’s
inequality, problems.
Module-II: 8 hrs
Discrete and Continuous Distributions: Bernoulli, Binomial, Poisson, Geometric, Negative
binomial, continuous Uniform, Normal, Exponential, Gamma, Pareto, Beta distributions
Reliability and hazard rate, reliability of series and parallel systems, problems. Function of a
random variable, problems.
Module-III: 6 hrs
Sampling Distributions: The Central Limit Theorem, distributions of the sample mean and the
sample variance for a normal population, Chi-Square, t and F distributions, problems.
Module-IV: 8 hrs
Estimation: Concepts of Unbiasedness, consistency and sufficiency, Methods of estimation -
maximum likelihood estimation, Interval estimation, confidence intervals for mean and
variance - problems.
Module-V: 8 hrs
Testing of Hypotheses: Null and alternative hypotheses, the critical regions, two types of
error, level of significance, power of the test, tests for mean for one sample and two sample
problems from normal populations, Tests for single mean, difference of means using t, paired
t test- tests for proportions - Chi-square goodness of fit test and its applications, Test for
independence of attributes, One way ANOVA, simple problems.

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Reference Books:
1. Irwin Miller and Marlyees Miller (2002): John E Freund’s Mathematical Statistics,
6/e, PHI
2. Gupta, S.C. and Kapoor, V.K.(2000): Fundamentals of Mathematical Statistics, 10/e,
Sultan Chand and Sons
3. S.M. Ross, Introduction to Probability and Statistics for Engineers and Scientists,2009,
4th edition, Elsevier.

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 CSCE 613 NETWORK CONFIGURATION AND MANAGEMENT
L S P C
3 2 0 3
Pre-requisite:
• Complete knowledge about Operating System and Computer Network

Objectives:
• Students learn how to implement and administer common operating systems
environments. They gain experience in systems administration functions and issues as
well as network services. Students develop a conceptual understanding of each
operating system function and network service and learn how to plan, implement, and
administer each. Topics include user access and privileges, DHCP, DNS, remote access,
file and print, update and patch management, security and network management
services

Module-I: Introduction 8 Hrs

Network Management goals, organization, and functions - Network Management System
Platform, Current Status and future of Network Management - Network monitoring - Network
control - SNMPv1 Network management organization and communication function models -
structure of SNMP management information – standards - SNMPv2 system architecture -
protocol - protocol specification - SNMPv3 architecture.

Module-II: Network Configuration 10 Hrs

IPv4and IPv6 addressing, Network Interface Configuration, Diagnosing Network start-up
issues, Linux and Windows Firewall configuration, Network troubleshooting commands, DNS
principles and Operations, Basic Name Server and Client Configuration, Caching Only name
server, Primary and Slave Name Server, DNS Zone Transfers, DNS Dynamic Updates, DNS
Server Security.

Module-III: Web, Proxy, Mail Server Configuration and Management 10 Hrs

HTTP Server Configuration Basics, Virtual Hosting, HTTP Caching, Proxy Caching Server
Configuration, Proxy Access Control List, Proxy-Authentication Mechanisms, Mail Domain
Administration, Basic Mail Server Configuration (like Sendmail, qmail), SMTP, POP and
IMAP principles, SMTP Relaying Principles, SPAM control and Filtering, Troubleshooting

Module-IV: Remote Administration and Management 5 Hrs

Remote Network monitoring-concepts - group management - RMON alarms and filters -
packet capture group - practical issues - RMON2 protocol -practical issues - ATM network
management- The ATM Network Reference Model, The Integrated Local Management
Interface, The ATM Management Information Base - Telecommunication network
management - TMN conceptual model - architecture - Network management applications.

Module-V: Techniques for Network Management 9 Hrs

Techniques for Network Management – Policy based management– Artificial Intelligence
Techniques – Expert systems, Machine Learning - Graph-Theoretic techniques – Causality
Graph, Dependency Graph, Decision Trees – Probabilistic Approaches – Fuzzy logic, Bayesian
Networks – Web-based Network Management - NMS with Web Interface and Web-Based
Management, Web Interface to SNMP Management, Embedded Web-Based Management –

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Distributed Object Computing - Bio-inspired Approaches.

Text Book(s):
1. Thomas A. Limoncelli, Christina J. Hogan , Strata R. Chalup.The Practice of System
and Network Administration, Second Edition
2. Mani Subramanian, Network management: Principles and Practice, Addison Wesley,
2000.
3. Jianguo Ding, Advances in Network Management, Taylor and Francis Group, LLC,
2010.
Reference Book(s):
1. Advanced Linux Networking, Roderick W. Smith, Addison-Wesley Professional
(Pearson Education), 2002.
2. Linux Network Administrator’s Guide, Tony Bautts, Terry Dawson, Gregor N. Purdy,
O’Reilly, Third Edition, 2005
3. William Stallings, Cryptography and Network Security: Principles and Standards,
Prentice Hall India, 4th Edition, 2005.

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 CSCE 614 ADVANCED DATA STRUCTURES AND ALGORITHMS
L S P C
3 2 0 3
Pre-requisite:
Basic Knowledge in
• Algorithm design and analysis techniques
• Data Structures
• Mathematical techniques

Objectives:
Understanding of
• Randomized algorithms
• Graph algorithms
• Parallel algorithms

Module-I: Introduction 8 hrs

Introduction: Advanced data structures: B-Trees, Fibonacci heaps, data structures for disjoint
sets, hash tables Role of Algorithms in Computing - Analyzing Algorithms - Designing
Algorithms Growth Functions: Asymptotic Function - Standard Notations and common
Functions

Module II: Divide and Conquer, Randomized Algorithms 8 hrs

Divide and Conquer: The maximum-subarray problem - Strassen’s algorithm for matrix
multiplication - The substitution method for solving recurrence - The recursion-tree method for
solving recurrences - The master method for solving recurrences Randomized Algorithms: The
Hiring Problem - Indicator Random Variables

Module III: Advanced Design and Analysis Techniques 8 hrs

Dynamic Programming: Rod Cutting - Matrix-Chain Multiplication - Elements of Dynamic
Programming - Longest Common Subsequence - Optimal Binary Search Trees Greedy
Algorithms: Elements of Greedy Strategy - Huffman Codes - Matroids and Greedy Methods
Amortized Analysis: Aggregate Analysis - The Accounting Method - The Potential Method -
Dynamic Tables Advanced graph algorithms: Johnsons Algorithm for Sparse Graphs
Maximum Flow: Flow Networks - The Ford-Fulkerson Method - Maximum Bipartite Matching

Module IV: Probabilistic and parallel Algorithms 8 hrs

Probabilistic Algorithms – Numerical probabilistic algorithms – Monte Carlo Method – Las
Vegas Algorithm.
Multithreaded Algorithms: Basics of Dynamic Multithreading - Multithreaded Matrix
Multiplication - Multithreaded Merge Sort Parallel Algorithms:simple examples – parallel
sorting

Module V: String matching and approximation algorithms 8 hrs

String Matching Algorithms: Naïve approach - Rabin-Karp Algorithm - String Matching with
Finite Automata -The Knutt-Morris-Pratt Algorithm-NP Completeness-Approximation
algorithms

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Text Book(s):
1. Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest and Clifford Stein, Introduction
to Algorithms, MIT Press, 2009.

Reference Book(s):
1. S. Dasgupta, C. H. Papadimitriou, and U. V. Vazirani, Algorithms, McGrawHill, 2008.
2. G. Brassard and P. Bratley, Algorithmics: Theory and Practice, Prentice -Hall, 1988.
3. J. Kleinberg and E. Tardos, Algorithm Design, Pearson Education, 2006
4. Rajeev Motwani and Prabhakar Raghavan, Randomized Algorithms, Cambridge
University Press, 1995.

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 CSCE 615 INTERNET AND WEB TECHNOLOGIES
L S P C
3 2 0 3
Pre-requisites:
• Basic Understanding of Computer Programming.

Course Objectives:
• Getting familiar with Full Stack of Web development.
• Understanding the components of Web Design and Development.
• Acquiring skills on developing effective web applications.

Module I :
The Internet Evolution – Protocols for the Internet – IP Subnetting and addressing - Name
resolution – Web Browsers: Features – Comparative analysis; Markup languages – HTML5:
Features – Multimedia handling – Canvas; Styling web pages : CSS3 – Types – Benefits –
Design considerations.

Module II:
Client Side Scripting languages : Features – Comparative analysis; Dynamic pages using client
side scripting – Client side storage through Cookies - Client side scripting frameworks : Case
study with Jquery – Optimizing web pages for speed.

Module III:
Web servers : Features – Comparative analysis; Service side scripting languages: Features –
Factors to consider in selecting Web Servers – Server Side Scripting case study with PHP :
Introduction - Functions – Object Orientation – Error and Exception Handling –
Internationalization and Localization – File Systems and the Server.

Module IV:
Databases for web applications : Features – Comparative analysis; Creating the web databases
– Accessing databases from server side scripting – Database Administration – Non RDBMS
Data Sources for Web applications.

Module V: Web Application Security

Web application security risks – Building secure web applications. Rich Internet Applications:
Design and Security issues – Mobile Web : Components and Security considerations.

Ref Books:
1. Laura Thomson & Luke Welling :PHP and MySQL Web Development, Pearson Education;
Fifth edition (2016)
2. Thomas A. Powell:HTML& CSS: The Complete Reference, Fifth Edition, McGraw Hill
Education; 5th edition (2017)

Web Resources:
1. https://github.com/MilanAryal/web-development-resources
2. https://github.com/bmorelli25/Become-A-Full-Stack-Web-Developer
3. https://github.com/JacobWylie/Web-Dev-Learning-Resources
4. https://www.w3schools.com/ MOOC NPTEL Course on Internet Technology :
http://nptel.ac.in/courses/106105084/

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 CSCE 616 NETWORK MANAGEMENT LAB
L S P C
0 0 4 2

Skills to be acquired:
• Administration of web server, proxy server, e-mail server, remote monitoring of
server, etc.
Lab Software Requirements:
• Open source network management tools
List of Exercises:
1. Server/Client Installation over VMware Environment
2. Packet Analysis by using TCPDUMP and WIRESHARK
3. Network Practice with Packet Tracer
4. System Administration: User/Group management, File System Management ….
5. Network Configuration: Start/Stop network Service, network interface configuration
6. Firewall Configuration
7. DNS and DHCP Configuration and Troubleshooting
8. Web and Proxy Server Configuration and Troubleshooting
9. Basic Mail Server Configuration and Troubleshooting
10. SAMBA, NFS, CUPS and FTP configuration and Troubleshooting
11. Webmin/SSH configurations

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 CSCE 618 WEB TECHNOLOGY LAB
L S P C
0 0 4 2
Skills to be acquired:
• Designing and developing web pages / applications.

Lab Software Requirements:

• Open Source Web Development tools.

List of Exercises:

1. Exercises to make the student acquire client side development skills.

2. Exercises to make the student acquire server side development skills.
3. Exercises to make the student acquire Rich Internet Application development skills.
4. Exercises to make the student acquire skills related with making the applications
secure.

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 CSCE 621 GRAPH THEORY AND ITS APPLICATIONS

L T P C
3 2 0 3
Pre-requisite:
• Nil

Objectives:
• To introduce graphs as a powerful modelling tool that can be used to solve practical
problems in various fields

Module-I: 8 hrs
Graph Theory Introduction: Introduction Of Graph and sub graphs - Graph Isomorphism –
Representation – Degree- Paths and Connection, Cycles, Trees – Cut Edges – Cut vertices –
Gayley’s Formula- Connector Problem – Euler’s and Hamiltonian Cycles.

Module-II: 8 hrs
Matching and Connectivity: Matching – Covering in Bipartite graphs – Perfect Matching –
Personal Assignment Problem – Optimal Assignment Problem. Connectivity- Blocks –
Construction of Reliable communication Networks.

Module-III: 8 hrs
Planar Graphs and Colouring: Planar Graphs – Dual Graphs - Euler’s Formula –
Kurotowski’s Theorem - Applications. Edge Colouring- Chromatic Number, Vizing’s
Theorem- Timetabling Problem – Vertex Colouring – Chromatic Number- Brook’s Theorem

Module-IV: 8 hrs
Directed graphs: Concepts-Directed walks-paths-cycles-orientation of graph-Job Sequencing
problem-tournaments- Applications

Module-V: 8 hrs
Network: Flows – Cuts- Max-Flow Min Cut Theorem – Menger’s Theorem – Feasible Flows.

Textbooks:
1. R J Wilson, Introduction to Graph Theory, 2003, 4th Edition, Pearson Education.
2. J.A Bondy and U.S.R Murthy, Graph Theory with Applications, Macmillan, 1976.

Reference Books:
1. Reinhard Diestel, Graph Theory ,2000, 2nd Edition, Springer- Verlag.
2. Jay Yellen, Jonathan L.Gross, Graph Theory and Its Applications ,1998, 2nd edition, CRC
Press LLC.
3. NarsinghDeo, Graph Theory: With Application to Engineering and Computer
Science,2003, Prentice Hall of India.

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 CSCE 622 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
L T P C
3 2 0 3
Pre-requisite:
• Nil

Objectives:
• Learn to focus on a research problem using scientific methods
• Learn research design methods
• Learn the art of report and thesis writing

Module-I: Objectives and types of research

Motivation and objectives – Research methods vs Methodology. Types of research –
Descriptive vs. Analytical, Applied vs. Fundamental, Quantitative vs. Qualitative, Conceptual
vs. Empirical
Module-II: Research Formulation
Defining and formulating the research problem - Selecting the problem - Necessity of defining
the problem - Importance of literature review in defining a problem – Literature review –
Primary and secondary sources – reviews, treatise, monographs-patents – web as a source –
searching the web - Critical literature review – Identifying gap areas from literature review -
Development of working hypothesis.
Module-III: Research design and methods
Research design – Basic Principles- Need of research design –– Features of good design –
Important concepts relating to research design – Observation and Facts, Laws and Theories,
Prediction and explanation, Induction, Deduction, Development of Models. Developing a
research plan - Exploration, Description, Diagnosis, and Experimentation. Determining
experimental and sample designs.
Module-IV: Reporting and thesis writing
Structure and components of scientific reports -Types of report – Technical reports and thesis
– Significance – Different steps in the preparation – Layout, structure and Language of typical
reports – Illustrations and tables- Bibliography, referencing and footnotes - Oral presentation
– Planning – Preparation – Practice – Making presentation – Use of visual aids - Importance
of effective communication-Software tools for research
Module-V: Application of results and ethics
Environmental impacts - Ethical issues - ethical committees - Commercialisation – Copy right
– royalty - Intellectual property rights and patent law – Trade Related aspects of Intellectual
Property Rights – Reproduction of published material – Plagiarism - Citation and
acknowledgement - Reproducibility and accountability.

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Text Book(s):
1. Garg, B.L., Karadia, R., Agarwal, F. and Agarwal, U.K., An introduction to Research
Methodology, 2002. RBSA Publishers.
2. Kothari, C.R., Research Methodology: Methods and Techniques. New Age
International. 418p. 1990.
3. Sinha, S.C. and Dhiman, A.K., Research Methodology, 2002.Ess Ess Publications. 2
volumes.
4. Trochim, W.M.K., Research Methods: the concise knowledge base, 2005., Atomic Dog
Publishing. 270p.
5. Wadehra, B.L. Law relating to patents, trade marks, copyright designs and
geographical indications. 2000. Universal Law Publishing.

Reference Book(s):
1. Anthony, M., Graziano, A.M. and Raulin, M.L., Research Methods: A Process of
Inquiry, Allyn and Bacon. 2009.
2. Carlos, C.M., Intellectual property rights, the WTO and developing countries: the
TRIPS agreement and policy options. 2000. Zed Books, New York.
3. Coley, S.M. and Scheinberg, C. A., "Proposal Writing", 1990, Sage Publications.
4. Day, R.A.,.How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper, 1992, Cambridge University
Press.
5. Fink, A.,Conducting Research Literature Reviews: From the Internet to Paper. 2009,
Sage Publications

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 CSCE123 DATA MINING AND BIG DATA
L T P C
3 1 2
Pre-requisite:
• Knowledge in Artificial Intelligence

Objectives:
• To understand the computational approaches to Mining
• To understand the need and application of Map Reduce
• To understand the various search algorithms applicable to Big Data
• To analyse and interpret streaming data

Module-I: Introduction to data mining 8 hrs

Why Data mining-KDD versus data mining, Stages of the Data Mining Process—Issues-
Getting to know your data- Data Preprocessing -Data Warehousing and OLAP.
Module-II: Mining Associations, Classification and Clustering 8 hrs
Apriori algorithm-Decision Tree Induction - Bayesian Classification – Rule Based
Classification – Classification by Back propagation – Support Vector Machines – Associative
Classification – Lazy Learners – Other Classification Methods – Clustering techniques – ,
Partitioning methods- k-means- Hierarchical Methods – distance based agglomerative and
divisible clustering, Density-Based Methods -Grid Based Methods – Model-Based Clustering
Methods-Clustering high dimensional data– Outlier Analysis.
Module-III: Data mining and large scale files 8 hrs
Introduction to Statistical modeling – Machine Learning – Computational approaches to
modeling – Summarization – Feature Extraction – Statistical Limits on Data Mining -
Distributed File Systems – Map-reduce – Algorithms using Map Reduce
Module-IV: Mining Data Streams 8 hrs
Stream Data Model – Sampling Data in the Stream – Filtering Streams – Counting Distance
Elements in a Stream – Estimating Moments – Counting Ones in Window – Decaying
Windows
Module-V: Applications 8 hrs
Mining complex data objects – Spatial databases – Temporal databases – Multimedia
databases –– Case study Recommendation systems – Mining social networks
Laboratory Components:
Skills to be acquired:
• Implementation of data mining algorithms
• Implementation of big data mining concepts

List of S/W requirements

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 o Weka, R language,Python
o Hadoop, spark
Text Book(s):
1. Jure Leskovec, AnandRajaraman, Jeffrey David Ullman, “Mining of Massive
Datasets”, Cambridge University Press, Second Edition, 2014.
2. Jiawei Han, MichelineKamber, Jian Pei, “Data Mining Concepts and Techniques”,
Morgan Kaufman Publications, Third Edition, 2011.
3. Ian H.Witten, Eibe Frank “Data Mining – Practical Machine Learning Tools and
Techniques”, Morgan Kaufman Publications, Third Edition, 2011.
4. David Hand, HeikkiMannila and Padhraic Smyth, “Principles of Data Mining”, MIT
PRESS, 2001

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 CSCE 624 MOBILE AND PERVASIVE COMPUTING
L S P C
3 2 0 3
Pre-requisite:
• Knowledge of Computer Networks
Objectives:
• Learn the underlying engineering principles that make pervasive computing work.
• To get an in-depth understanding about the most dynamic technologies like mobile
computing, service discovery, context aware computing and security issues in mobile
& pervasive computing.

Module-I:Introduction to Mobile Computing 7 hrs

Theory of Mobile Computing: Mobile Adaptive Computing – Adaptability – Mechanics of
Adaptation – Mobility Management- Data Dissemination and Management – Challenges –
Mobile Data Caching – Mobile Cache maintenance schemes – Mobile Web caching

Module-II:Context Aware Computing 10 hrs

Context aware Computing – Ubiquitous Vs. pervasive Computing – Context aware computing
and applications – Middleware support – Mobile middleware – Adaptation – Mobile Agents –
Service discovery middleware.

Module-III:Adhoc& Sensor networks 6 hrs

Introduction to Adhoc& Sensor networks- Properties of adhoc networks – Features of sensor
networks – proposed application and challenges.

Module-IV:Protocols 8 hrs
Protocols – Autoconfiguration – Energy efficient communications – Mobility requirements –
Deployment and configuration - Routing – Fault Tolerance and Reliability- Energy efficiency.

Module-V:Wireless Security 8 hrs

Mobile and Wireless security issues – problems in adhoc networks – additional issues :
commerce , Types of attacks - Approaches to security – Limit the signal – encryption – integrity
codes – IPSec - Authentication Protocols

Text Book(s):
1. Frank Adelstein, Sandeep K.S. Gupta , Golden G Richard , Loren schwiebert, ,
Fundamentals of Mobile and Pervasive Computing , Tata McGraw Hill edition , 2005.

Reference Book(s):
1. Asoke K. Talukar, Mobile Computing, Second Edition, Tata McGraw-Hill Publication,
2010

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 CSCE 627 DATA MINING LAB
L S P C
0 0 4 2

Skills to be acquired:
• Implementation of data mining algorithms
• Implementation of big data mining concepts

List of S/W requirements

• Hadoop, spark
• Weka, R language, Python

List of exercise
• Implementing classification and clustering algorithms
• Analysis of the algorithms
• Implementing mining algorithms on data streams

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 CSCE 628 PERVASIVE COMPUTING LAB
L S P C
0 0 4 2

Skills to be acquired:
• To understand and use the fundamentals of programming for mobile devices.
• To apply event-driven programming and graphical user interfaces for mobile device

Lab Software Requirements:

• Open SourceDevelopment tools.
• J2ME
• NS3
List of Exercises:
• Study of mobile application development platform and tools.
• Design and develop pervasive applications

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 CSCE 811 BIG DATA TECHNOLOGIES
L S P C
3 2 0 3
Prerequisite:
• Nil
Objectives:
• This course provides practical foundation level training that enables immediate
and effective participation in big data projects. The course provides grounding in
basic and advanced methods to big data technology and tools, including
MapReduce and Hadoop and its ecosystem.
Module I: Introduction to Big Data (8 hours)
Introduction – distributed file system – Big Data and its importance, Four Vs, Drivers for Big
data, Big data analytics, Big data applications. Algorithms using map reduce, Matrix-Vector
Multiplication by Map Reduce.
Module II Introduction to Hadoop (8 hours)
Big Data – Apache Hadoop&HadoopEcoSystem – Moving Data in and out of Hadoop –
Understanding inputs and outputs of MapReduce - Data Serialization.

Module III Hadoop Architecture (8 hours)

Hadoop Architecture, Hadoop Storage: HDFS, Common Hadoop Shell commands , Anatomy
of File Write and Read., NameNode, Secondary NameNode, and DataNode, Hadoop
MapReduce paradigm, Map and Reduce tasks, Job, Task trackers - Cluster Setup – SSH &
Hadoop Configuration – HDFS Administering –Monitoring & Maintenance.
Module IV Hadoop Ecosystem and Yarn (8 hours)
Hadoop ecosystem components - Schedulers - Fair and Capacity, Hadoop 2.0 New Features
Name Node- High Availability, HDFS Federation, MRv2, YARN, Running MRv1 in YARN.

Module VHIVE AND HIVEQL, HBASE (8 hours)

Hive Architecture and Installation, Comparison with Traditional Database, HiveQL –
Querying- Data - Sorting And Aggregating, Map Reduce Scripts, Joins &Subqueries, HBase
concepts Advanced-Usage, Schema Design, Advance Indexing - PIG, Zookeeper - how it helps
in monitoring a cluster, HBase uses Zookeeper and how to Build Applications with Zookeeper.
References:
1. Boris lublinsky, Kevin t. Smith, Alexey Yakubovich, “Professional Hadoop Solutions”,Wiley,
ISBN: 9788126551071, 2015.
2. Chris Eaton, Dirk derooset al. , “Understanding Big data ”, McGraw Hill, 2012.
3. Tom White, “HADOOP: The definitive Guide” , O Reilly 2012.
4. VigneshPrajapati, “Big Data Analytics with R and Haoop”, Packet Publishing 2013.
5. Tom Plunkett, Brian Macdonald et al, “Oracle Big Data Handbook”, Oracle Press, 2014.
6. http://www.bigdatauniversity.com/
7. JyLiebowitz, “Big Data and Business analytics”,CRC press, 2013.

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 CSCE 812 STATISTICS FOR DATA ANALYTICS
L S P C
3 2 0 3
Prerequisite:
• Nil

Objectives:
• This course teaches fundamental concepts and tools needed to understand the
emerging role of business analytics in organizations.

MODULE I Data Analytics Life Cycle (9 Hours)

Introduction to Big data Business Analytics - State of the practice in analytics role of data
scientists- Key roles for successful analytic project - Main phases of life cycle - Developing
core deliverables for stakeholders.
MODULE II Statistics (9 Hours)
Sampling Techniques - Data classification, Tabulation, Frequency and Graphic representation
-Measures of central value - Arithmetic mean, Geometric mean, Harmonic mean, Mode,
Median,Quartiles, Deciles, Percentile - Measures of variation – Range, IQR, Quartile deviation,
Mean deviation, standard deviation, coefficient variance, skewness, Moments & Kurtosis.
MODULE III Probability and Hypothesis Testing (9 hours)
Random variable, distributions, two dimensional R.V, joint probability function, marginal
density function. Random vectors - Some special probability distribution - Binomial, Poison,
Geometric, uniform, exponential, normal, gamma and Erlang. Multivariate normal distribution
– Sampling distribuition – Estimation - point, confidence - Test of significance, 1& 2 tailed
test, uses of t distribution, F-distribution, χ2 distribution.
MODULE IV Predictive Analytics (9 hours)
Predictive modeling and Analyisis - Regression Analyisis, Multicollinearity , Correlation
analysis, Rank Correlation coefficient, Multiple correlation, Least square, Curve fitting and
good ness of fit.
MODULE V Time Series Forecasting and Design Of Experiments (9 Hours)
Forecasting Models for Time series : MA, SES, TS with trend, season - Design of Experiments,
one way Classification, two way classification, ANOVA, Latin square, Factorial Design.

Reference books:
1. Chris Eaton, Dirk Deroos, Tom Deutsch et al., “Understanding Big Data”,
McGrawHIll,2012.
2. Alberto Cordoba, “Understanding the Predictive Analytics Lifecycle”, Wiley, 2014.
3. Eric Siegel, Thomas H. Davenport, “Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will
Click, Buy, Lie, or Die”, Wiley, 2013.
4. James R Evans, “Business Analytics – Methods, Models and Decisions”, Pearson 2013.

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5. R. N. Prasad, Seema Acharya, “Fundamentals of Business Analytics ”, Wiley, 2015.
6. S M Ross, “Introduction to Probability and Statistics for Engineers and Scientists”,
Academic Foundation, 2011.
7. David Hand, HeikiMannila, Padhria Smyth, “Principles of Data Mining”, PHI 2013.
8. Spyros Makridakis, Steven C Wheelwright, Rob J Hyndman, “Forecasting methods and
applications”, Wiley 2013( Reprint).
9. David Hand, HeikkiMannila, Padhraic Smyth, “Principles of Data mining”, PHI 2013.

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 CSCE 813 MULTIVARIATE TECHNIQUES FOR DATA ANALYSIS
L S P C
3 2 0 3
Prerequisite:
• Nil
Objectives:
• The purpose of this course is to introduce the students into the field of Multivariate
Techniques for analyzing large volumes of data and to take decisions based on
inference drawn.
MODULE I :Introduction to Multivariate Analysis (9 Hours)
Meaning of Multivariate Analysis, Measurements Scales - Metric measurement scales and
Nonmetric measurement scales, Classification of multivariate techniques (Dependence
Techniques and Inter-dependence Techniques), Applications of Multivariate Techniques in
different disciplines.
MODULE II :Factor Analysis (9 hours)
Factor Analysis: Meanings, Objectives and Assumptions, Designing a factor analysis, Deriving
factors and assessing overall factors, Interpreting the factors and validation of factor analysis.
MODULE III :Cluster Analysis (9 hours)
Cluster Analysis: Objectives and Assumptions, Research design in cluster analysis, Deriving
clusters and assessing overall fit (Hierarchical methods, Non Hierarchical Methods and
Combinations), Interpretation of clusters and validation of profiling of the clusters.
MODULE IV :Discriminant Analysis (9 hours)
Discriminant Analysis- concept, objective and applications. Procedure for conducting
discriminant analysis. Stepwise discriminate analysis and Mahalanobis procedure. Logit
model.
MODULE V :Linear Programming (9 hours)
Linear Programming problem - Formulation, graphical method, simplex method. Integer
Programming. Transportation and Assignment problem.
References:
1. Joseph F Hair, William C Black etal , “Multivariate Data Analysis” , Pearson Education,
7th edition, 2013.
2. T. W. Anderson , “An Introduction to Multivariate Statistical Analysis, 3rd Edition”, Wiley,
2003.
3. William r Dillon, John Wiley & sons, “Multivariate Analysis methods and applications”,
Wiley, 1984.
4. Naresh K Malhotra, Satyabhusan Dash, “Marketing Research Anapplied Orientation”,
Pearson, 2011.
5. Hamdy A Taha, “Operations Research”, Pearson, 2012.
6. S R Yaday, A K Malik, “Operations Research”, Oxford, 2014.

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 CSCE 814 DATA MINING AND DATA ANALYSIS
L S P C
3 2 0 3
Prerequisite:
• Basic knowledge in statistics
Objectives:
• To learn data analysis techniques.
• To understand Data mining techniques and algorithms.
• Comprehend the data mining environments and application.

MODULE I INTRODUCTION TO DATA MINING 7 hrs

Data mining-KDD versus data mining, Stages of the Data Mining Process Task primitives,
Data Mining Techniques -Data mining knowledge representation – Data mining query
languages- Integration of a Data Mining System with a Data Warehouse – Issues, Data pre-
processing – Data cleaning – Data transformation - Feature selection – Dimensionality
reduction – Discretization and generating concept hierarchies-Mining frequent pattern
association - correlation.
MODULE II CLASSIFICATION AND CLUSTERING 7 hrs
Decision Tree Induction - Bayesian Classification – Rule Based Classification – Classification
by Back propagation – Support Vector Machines – Associative Classification – Lazy Learners
– Other Classification Methods – Clustering techniques – Partitioning methods- k-means-
Hierarchical Methods – Distance based agglomerative and divisible clustering - Density-Based
Methods – Expectation maximization -Grid Based Methods – Model-Based Clustering
Methods – Constraint – Based Cluster Analysis – Outlier Analysis.
MODULE III DATA MINING SOFTWARE AND APPLICATIONS 7 hrs
Mining complex data objects - Spatial databases, temporal databases, Multimedia databases-
Time series and Sequence data - Text Mining –Graph mining-Web mining-Application and
trends in data mining.
MODULE IV PREDICTION OF QUANTITATIVE VARIABLES 7 hrs
Prediction of quantitative variables – Non Parametric estimation – Logical regression –
Projection pursuit – Inferential aspects – Regression trees – Neural networks – Case studies.
MODULE V METHODS OF INTERNAL ANALYSIS 8 hrs
Methods of Internal analysis – Cluster analysis – Association among variables – Web mining
analysis. Data Analytics – Simulated data – Mathematical statistic analysis – Applications of
probability theory – Linear models – Case study.
Reference Book(s):
1. AdelchiAzzalini, Bruno Scapa, “Data Analysis and Data mining”, 2nd Edition, Oxford
University Press Inc., 2012.

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2. Jiawei Han and MichelineKamber, “Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques”, 3rd
Edition, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2011.
3. Alex Berson and Stephen J. Smith, “Data Warehousing, Data Mining & OLAP”, 10th
Edition, TataMcGraw Hill Edition, 2007.
4. G. K. Gupta, “Introduction to Data Mining with Case Studies”, 1st Edition, Easter
Economy Edition, PHI, 2006.

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 CSCE 815 MACHINE LEARNING
L S P C
3 2 0 3
Prerequisite:
• Basic knowledge in AI
Objectives:
• To understand the machine learning theory
• To implement linear and non-linear learning models
• To implement distance-based clustering techniques
• To build tree and rule based models
• To apply reinforcement learning techniques

MODULE I
Introduction – machine learning applications – learning associations, classification, regression,
unsupervised learning – Reinforcement Learning – Supervised Learning – Learning a class
from examples – VC Dimension – PAC learning – noise – learning multiple classes –
regression – model selection and generalization – Bayesian Decision Theory – Classification
– losses and risks – Discriminant Functions – Utility Theory – Association Rules
MODULE II
Parametric Methods – Maximum Likelihood Estimation – Bernoulli Density – Multinomial
Density – Gaussian Density – Bias – Variance – Parametric classification – regression –
Multivariate Methods – Multivariate Data – Parameter Estimation – Estimation of Missing
Values – Multivariate Normal Distribution – Multivariate Classification – Multivariate
Regression - Dimensionality Reduction – Subset Selection – Principal Component Analysis –
Factor Analysis – Dimensionality Scaling – Linear Discriminant Analysis – Isomap – Locally
Linear Embedding
MODULE III
Clustering – Mixture Densities – K Means Clustering – Expectation Maximization – Mixtures
of Latent Variable Models – Supervised Learning after clustering – Hierarchical Clustering –
Non Parametric Methods – Histogram Estimator – Kernel Estimator – K-Nearest Neighbor
Estimator – Non Parametric Classification – Non Parametric Regression –Decision Trees –
Classification Trees – Regression Trees
MODULE IV
Linear Discrimination – Linear Model – Geometry of the Linear Discriminant – Pairwise
Separation – Gradient Descent – Logistic Discrimination – Discrimination by Regression –
Multilayer Perceptrons – Introduction – Perceptron – Training a Perceptron – Learning
Boolean Functions – Multilayer Perceptrons – Backpropagation Algorithm
MODULE V
Kernel Machines – Optimal Separating Hyperplane – kernel trick – vectorialkernals – multiple
kernel learning – multiclass kernel machines – Hidden Markov Models – Discrete Markov

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Processes – Hidden Markov Models – Three Basic Problems of HMMs – Evaluation Problem
Finding the State Sequence – Learning Model Parameters – Generating Diverse Learners –
Model Combination schemes – Voting – Error Correcting Output Codes – Bagging – Boosting
Reference Book(s):
1. EthemAlpaydin, Introduction to Machine Learning, Second Edition, PHI,2010.
2. Machine Learning, An Algorithmic Perspective, Stephen Marsland, Chapman & Hall
Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition Series, Second Edition, CRC Press,2009.
3. Machine Learning, The Art and Science of Algorithms that Make Sense of Data, Peter
Flasch, Cambridge University Press.
4. Machine Learning, Tom M. Mitchell, Mc Graw Hill,2003

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 CSCE 816 DEEP LEARNING
L S P C
3 2 0 3
Prerequisite:
• Basic knowledge in machine learning

Objectives:
• To understand the machine learning theory
• To implement linear and non-linear learning models
• To implement distance-based clustering techniques
• To build tree and rule based models
• To apply reinforcement learning techniques

MODULE I
Building Intelligent Machines - Limitations - Mechanics of Machine Learning - Neuron -
Feed-Forward Neural Networks - Linear Neurons and Their Limitations - Sigmoid, Tanh, and
ReLU Neurons – Softmax Output Layers
Training Feed-Forward Neural Networks - The Fast-Food Problem - Gradient Descent -
Delta Rule and Learning Rates - Gradient Descent with Sigmoidal Neurons - Backpropagation
Algorithm - Stochastic and Minibatch Gradient Descent - Test Sets, Validation Sets, and
Overfitting - Preventing Overfitting in Deep Neural Networks
MODULE II
Implementing Neural Networks in TensorFlow – Introduction – installation- creation and
manipulation – operations – placeholder tensor – Sessions – Variables – Logistic Regression
Model - Visualization – multilayer model
Beyond Gradient Descent. Challenges - Local Minima in the Error Surfaces of Deep
Networks - Model Identifiability - Flat Regions in the Error Surface- Momentum-Based
Optimization - Second-Order Methods - Learning Rate Adaptation – AdaGrad – RMSProp –
Adam - Optimizer Selection
MODULE III
Convolutional Neural Networks - Neurons in Human Vision - The Shortcomings of Feature
Selection - Vanilla Deep Neural Networks Don’t Scale - Filters and Feature Maps -
Convolutional Layer- Max Pooling - Architectural Description - MNIST with Convolutional
Networks - Image Preprocessing Pipelines - Building a Convolutional Network for CIFAR-10
- Visualizing Learning - Leveraging and learning Convolutional Filters
Embedding and Representation Learning - Learning Lower-Dimensional Representations -
Principal Component Analysis - Motivating the Autoencoder Architecture - Implementing an
Autoencoder in TensorFlow - Denoising to Force Robust Representations - Sparsity in
Autoencoders - The Word2Vec Framework - Implementing the Skip-Gram Architecture
MODULE IV

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Models for Sequence Analysis - Analyzing Variable-Length Inputs - Tackling seq2seq with
Neural N-Grams - Implementing a Part-of-Speech Tagger - Dependency Parsing and
SyntaxNet - Beam Search and Global Normalization - A Case for Stateful Deep Learning
Models - Recurrent Neural Networks - The Challenges with Vanishing Gradients - Long Short-
Term Memory (LSTM) Modules - TensorFlow Primitives for RNN Models - Implementing a
Sentiment Analysis Model - Solving seq2seq Tasks with Recurrent Neural Networks -
Augmenting Recurrent Networks with Attention - Dissecting a Neural Translation Network
Memory Augmented Neural Networks - Neural Turing Machines - Attention-Based Memory
Access - NTM Memory Addressing Mechanisms- Differentiable Neural Computers -
Interference-Free Writing in DNCs - DNC Memory Reuse - Temporal Linking of DNC Writes
- Understanding the DNC Read Head - The DNC Controller Network - Visualizing -
Implementing, Teaching DNC
MODULE V
Deep Reinforcement Learning - Deep Reinforcement Learning - MDP - Future Return –
Discounted - Explore Versus Exploit - Policy Versus Value Learning - Policy Learning via
Policy Gradients - Pole-Cart with Policy Gradients - OpenAI Gym - Creating an Agent -
Building the Model and Optimizer - Sampling Actions - Policy Gradient Main Function - Q-
Learning and Deep Q-Networks - The Bellman Equation - Issues with Value Iteration -
Approximating the Q-Function - Deep Q-Network (DQN) concepts- Deep Recurrent Q-
Networks (DRQN) - Asynchronous Advantage Actor-Critic Agent
Reference Book(s):
1. Nikhil Buduma,Fundamentals of Deep Learning, Designing Next Generation Machine
Intelligence Algorithms, O’Reilly publications, June 2017
2. EthemAlpaydi,n Introduction to Machine Learning,, Second Edition, PHI.
3. Bishop, C. M. Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition. Oxford University Press. 1995
4. Ian Goodfellow, YoshuaBengio, Aaron Courville, Deep learning, MIT Press, 2016

Web Resources
1. https://github.com/joanbruna/stat212b

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 CSCE 821 SOFTWARE TESTING
L S P C
3 2 0 3
Pre-requisite:
• Knowledge in Software Engineering

Objectives:
• To know the behaviour of the testing techniques to detect the errors in the software.
• To understand standard principles to check the occurrence of defects and its removal.
• To learn the functionality of automated testing tools.
• To understand the models of software reliability.

Module-I: Testing Environment And Test Processes 9 hours

Testing Environment and Test Processes: World-Class Software Testing Model – Building
a Software Testing Environment – The Seven Step Testing process: Overview of Software
Testing Process – Organizing for Testing – Developing the Test Plan – Verification Testing –
Analysing and Reporting Test Results – Acceptance Testing – Operational Testing – Post
Implementation Analysis.
Module-II: Testing Techniques And Levels Oftesting 9 hours
Testing Techniques and Levels of testing: Using White Box Approach to Test design - Static
Testing Vs. Structural Testing – Code Functional Testing – Coverage and Control Flow Graphs
–Using Black Box Approaches to Test Case Design – Random Testing – Requirements based
testing –Decision tables –State-based testing – Cause-effect graphing – Error guessing –
Compatibility testing – Levels of Testing - Unit Testing - Integration Testing - Defect Bash
Elimination. System Testing - Usability and Accessibility Testing – Configuration Testing -
Compatibility Testing - Case study for White box testing and Black box testing techniques.
Module-III: Incorporating Specialized Testing Responsibilities 9 hours
Incorporating Specialized Testing Responsibilities: Testing Client/Server Systems – Rapid
Application Development Testing – Testing in a Multiplatform Environment – Testing
Software System Security - Testing Object-Oriented Software – Object Oriented Testing –
Testing Web based systems – Web based system – Web Technology Evolution – Traditional
Software and Web based Software – Challenges in Testing for Web-based Software –Testing
a Data Warehouse - Case Study for Web Application Testing.
Module-IV: Test Automation 9 hours
Test Automation: Selecting and Installing Software Testing Tools - Software Test
Automation – Skills needed for Automation – Scope of Automation – Design and Architecture
for Automation – Requirements for a Test Tool – Challenges in Automation – Tracking the
Bug – Debugging – Case study using Bug Tracking Tool.
Module-V: Software Testing And Quality Metrics 9 hours
Software Testing And Quality Metrics: Testing Software System Security - Six-Sigma –
TQM - Complexity Metrics and Models – Quality Management Metrics - Availability Metrics

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- Defect Removal Effectiveness - FMEA - Quality Function Deployment – Taguchi Quality
Loss Function – Cost of Quality. Case Study for Complexity and Object Oriented Metrics
Laboratory Components:
Skills to be acquired:
• Test generation from requirement
• Test generation from models.
• Test process and continuous quality improvement

List of Exercises:
1. Cause Effect Graph Testing for a Triangle Program.
2. Boundary Value Analysis for a Software Unit
3. Cyclomatic Complexity for Binary Search
4. Data Flow Testing for Gregorian Calendar
5. State based Testing for an Assembler
6. Stress Testing of a Map-Aided Vehicle Tracking and Scheduling System
7. Model Based Testing
8. Web Application Testing for Student Grade System
Text Book(s):
1. William Perry, “Effective Methods of Software Testing”, Third Edition, Wiley
Publishing 2007
2. Srinivasan Desikan and Gopalaswamy Ramesh, “Software Testing – Principles and
Practices”, Pearson Education, 2007.

Reference Book(s):
1. NareshChauhan, “Software Testing Principles and Practices” Oxford University
Press, New Delhi, 2010.
2. Dale H. Besterfiled et al., “Total Quality Management”, Pearson Education Asia,
Third Edition, Indian Reprint (2006).
3. Stephen Kan, “Metrics and Models in Software Quality”, Addison – Wesley, Second
Edition, 2004
4. LleneBurnstein, “ Practical Software Testing”, Springer International Edition,
Chennai, 2003
5. RenuRajani,Pradeep Oak, “Software Testing – Effective Methods, Tools and
Techniques”, Tata McGraw Hill,2004
6. Edward Kit, “Software Testing in the Real World – Improving the Process”, Pearson
Education, 1995.
7. Boris Beizer, “ Software Testing Techniques” – 2 nd Edition, Van Nostrand Reinhold,
New York, 1990
8. Adithya P. Mathur, “Foundations of Software Testing – Fundamentals algorithms and
techniques”, Dorling Kindersley (India) Pvt. Ltd., Pearson Education, 2008.

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 CSCE 822 AGILE SOFTWARE PROCESS
3 2 0 3
Pre-requisite:
• Knowledge in Software Engineering

Objectives:
• To understand the basic concepts of Agile Software Process
• To gain knowledge in the area of various Agile Methodologies.
• To develop Agile Software Process
• To know the principles of Agile Testing

Module-I:INTRODUCTION 8 hours
Iterative development: Risk-Driven and Client-Driven iterative planning – Time boxed
iterative development – During the iteration, No changes from external stakeholders –
Evolutionary and adaptive development - Evolutionary requirements analysis – Early “Top
Ten” high-level requirements and skillful analysis – Evolutionary and adaptive planning –
Incremental delivery – Evolutionary delivery – The most common mistake –Specific iterative
and Evolutionary methods.
Module-II: AGILE AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE 8 hours
Agile development: Classification of methods – The agile manifesto and principles – Agile
project management – Embrace communication and feedback –Simple practices and project
tools – Empirical Vs defined and prescriptive process – Principle-based versus Rule-Based –
Sustainable discipline: The human touch – Team as a complex adaptive system – Agile hype –
Specific agile methods.
Motivation: The facts of change on software projects – Key motivations for iterative
development – Meeting the requirements challenge iteratively – Problems with the waterfall.
Evidence: Research evidence – Early historical project evidence – Standards-Body evidence
– Expert and thought leader evidence – A Business case for iterative development – The
historical accident of waterfall validity.
Module-III: AGILE METHODOLOGY 8 hours
Scrum Method overview – Lifecycle – Work products, Roles and Practices values –Common
mistakes and misunderstandings – Sample projects – Process mixtures– Adoption strategies –
Fact versus fantasy –Strengths versus “Other” history.
Module-IV: CASE STUDY 8 hours
Agile – Motivation – Evidence – Scrum – Extreme Programming – Unified Process –Evo–
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Module-V: AGILE PRACTICING AND TESTING 8 hours
Practice: Project management – Environment – Requirements – Test – The agile alliances –
The manifesto – Supporting the values
Agile testing : Nine principles and sixconcrete practices for testing on agile teams.
Text Book(s):
1. Craig Larman“Agile and Iterative Development – A Manager’s Guide”Pearson
Education – 2004.
2. Elisabeth Hendrickson, “Agile Testing” Quality Tree Software Inc 2008.

Reference Book(s):
1. Alistair “Agile Software Development series” Cockburn - 2001.
2. Robert C. Martin, Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices,
Prentice Hall (2002).

Web Resources:
1. www.agileintro.wordpress.com/2008:Agile Introduction For Dummies
2. www.serena.com/docs/repository/solutions/intro-to-agile-devel.pdf:An Introduction to
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 CSCE 823 SOFTWARE RISK MANAGEMENT AND MAINTENANCE
L S P C
3 2 0 3
Pre-requisite:
• Knowledge in Software Engineering
Objectives:
• To understand the various risk levels in software development.
• To gain expertise in discovering risk and usage of risk assessment tools
• To understand the risk plan , implementation and tracking risks
• To realize the software maintenance process, measurement and benchmarking
• To expertise in the SQA maintenance tools

Module-I: 9 hours
Risk Culture And Management Process: Risk- Basic Terms- Risk Vocabulary – Risk-
Driven Project Management- Controlling the Process, Environment and Risk- Maturity in Risk
Culture – Risk Scale – Preparing for Risk – Risk Management- Paradigms- Five Models of
Risk Management – Thinking about Less Risky alternatives – Risk Management at Different
Levels – Risk Escalation – Risk Models- Risk Intelligence - Software Risk Management steps.
Module-II: 9 hours
Discovering Risk And Assessment: Identifying software risk - Classification of Risks – Risk
Taxonomy – Risk Mapping – Statements – Risk Reviews – Risk Ownership and stakeholder
management – Risk Assessment Approach – Risk Assessment tools and techniques – Risk
Probability, impact, exposure, matrix and Application Problem - Self - assessment checklist.
Module-III: 9 hours
Responding To Risks And Tracking: Special Treatment for Catastrophic risks- Constraint
Risks – Risk Mitigation Plan Case Study – Contingency Plans- Implementing Risk Response-
Tracking Risk Response and Hazards – Trigger Levels- Tracking Project Risks and Operational
Risks- Learning by Tracking and Risk Tracker Tool.
Module-IV: 9 hours
Maintenance Process: Software Maintenance- Customer’s Viewpoint- Economics of
Maintenance- Issues in Maintenance- Software Maintenance Standard, Process, Activities and
Categories – Maintenance Measurement – Service Measurement and Benchmarking – Problem
Resolution – Reporting – Fix Distribution.
Module-V: 9 hours
Activities for Maintenance: Role of SQA for Support and Maintenance – SQA tools for
Maintenance- Configuration Management and Maintenance – Maintenance of Mission Critical
Systems – Global Maintenance Teams – Foundation of S3m Process Model- Exemplary
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Text Book(s):
1. C. RavindranathPandian, “Applied Software Risk Management: A guide for Software
Project Managers”, Auerbach Publications, 2007.
2. John Mcmanus, “Risk Management in Software Development Projects”, Elsevier
Butterworth- Heinemann, First Edition, 2004.

Reference Book(s):
1. Alian April and Alain Abran, “Software Maintenance Management: Evaluation and
Continuous Improvement”, John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2008
2. Gopalaswamy Ramesh and Ramesh Bhattiprolu, “Software Maintenance: Effective
Practices for Geographically Distributed Environments”, Second Reprint, Tata
McGrawHill, 2009.

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 CSCE 824SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT
L S P C
3 2 0 3
Pre-requisite:
• Knowledge in Software Engineering

Objectives:
• This course is intended to provide the students with an overall view over Software
Engineering Discipline and with insight into the processes of software development.
• To understand the various methods of Cost Estimation.
• To Study about Software Quality Management.
• To Study about Software Metrics

Module-I: 9 hours
Project Concepts And Its Management: Project life cycle models-ISO 9001 model -
Capability Maturity Model - Project, Planning-Project tracking-Project closure - Evolution of
Software Economics –Software Management Process Framework: Phases, Artifacts,
Workflows, Checkpoints – Software Management Disciplines: Planning / Project Organization
and Responsibilities / Automation / Project Control – Modern Project.
Module-II: 9 hours
Cost Estimation: Problems in Software Estimation – Algorithmic Cost Estimation Process,
Function, Points, SLIM (Software Life cycle Management), COCOMO II (Constructive Cost
Model) – Estimating Web Application Development – Concepts of Finance, Activity Based
Costing and Economic Value Added (EVA) – Balanced Score Card.
Module-III: 12 hours
Software Quality Management: Software Quality Factors – Software Quality Components –
Software Quality Plan– Software Quality Metrics – Software Quality Costs – Software Quality
Assurance-Standard – Certification – Assessment.
Module-IV: 12 hours
Software Management And Metrics: Software Configuration Management – Risk
Management: Risk Assessment: Identification / Analysis / Prioritization – Risk Control:
Planning / Resolution /Monitoring – Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) –Defect
Management-Cost Management. Software Metrics – Classification of Software Metrics:
Product-Metrics: Size Metrics, Complexity Metrics, Halstead’s Product Metrics, Quality,
Metrics, and Process metrics.
Module-V: 12 hours
Project Evaluation And Emerging Trends: Strategic Assessment–Technical Assessment–
Cost Benefit Analysis–Cash Flow Forecasting–Cost Benefit Evaluation Technique–Risk
Evaluation–Software Effort Estimation. Emerging Trends: Import of the internet on project
Management –people Focused Process Models.

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Text Book(s):
1. Ramesh Gopalaswamy ,“Managing and global Software Projects”, TataMcGraw Hill
Tenth Reprint, 2011.

Reference Book(s):
1. Demarco, T. and Lister, T. “Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams, 2ndEd.”,
Dorset House,1999.
2. Royce, W. “Software Project Management: A Unified Framework”, Addison-Wesley,
1998. Demarco, T. and Lister, T. “Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams,
2ndEd.”, Dorset House,1999.
3. Fenton, N.E., and Pfleeger, S.L..“Software Metrics: A Rigorous and
PracticalApproach, Revised” Brooks Cole, 1998.
4. Kaplan, R.S., Norton, D.P. “The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategyinto
Action”, Harvard Business School Press, 1996.
5. Boehm, B. W. "Software Risk Management: Principles and Practices" in IEEE
Software, January 1991, pp32-41.
6. Grant, J.L. “Foundations of Economic Value Added”, John Wiley & Sons, 1997.
7. Cooper, R., “The Rise of Activity-Based Costing- PartOne: What is an Activity-Based
Cost System” Journal of Cost Management, Vol.2, No.2

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 CSCE 825 SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE
L S P C
3 2 0 3
Pre-requisite:
• Knowledge in Software Engineering.

Objectives:
• Understand software architectural requirements and drivers.
• Be exposed to architectural styles and views.
• Be familiar with architectures for emerging technologies

Module-I: 9 hours
Introduction And Architectural Drivers: Introduction – What is software architecture? –
Standard Definitions – Architectural structures – Influence of software architecture on
organization-both business and technical – Architecture Business Cycle- Introduction –
Functional requirements – Technical constraints – Quality Attributes.
Module-II: 9 hours
Quality Attribute Workshop: Quality Attribute Workshop – Documenting Quality Attributes
– Six part scenarios – Case studies.
Module-III: 9 hours
Architectural Views: Introduction – Standard Definitions for views – Structures and views –
Representing views-available notations – Standard views – 4+1 view of RUP, Siemens 4 views,
SEI’s perspectives and views – Case studies.
Module-IV: 9 hours
Architectural Styles: Introduction – Data flow styles – Call-return styles – Shared Information
styles – Event styles – Case studies for each style.
Module-V: 9 hours
Documenting The Architecture: Good practices – Documenting the Views using UML –
Merits and Demerits of using visual languages – Need for formal languages – Architectural
Description Languages – ACME – Case studies. Special topics: SOA and Web services – Cloud
Computing – Adaptive structures.
Text Book(s):
1. Len Bass, Paul Clements, and Rick Kazman, “Software Architectures Principles and
Practices”, 2nd Edition, Addison-Wesley, 2003..
2. Anthony J Lattanze, “Architecting Software Intensive System. A Practitioner’s Guide”,
Auerbach Publications, 2010.

Reference Book(s):

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1. Paul Clements, Felix Bachmann, Len Bass, David Garlan, James Ivers, Reed Little,
Paulo Merson, Robert Nord, and Judith Stafford, “Documenting Software
Architectures. Views and Beyond”, 2nd Edition, Addison-Wesley, 2010.
2. Paul Clements, Rick Kazman, and Mark Klein, “Evaluating software architectures:
Methods and case studies. Addison-Wesley, 2001.
3. RajkumarBuyya, James Broberg, and Andrzej Goscinski, “Cloud Computing.
Principles and Paradigms”, John Wiley & Sons, 2011.

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 CSCE 826 SOFTWARE QUALITY ASSURANCE
L S P C
3 2 0 3
Pre-requisite:
• Knowledge in Software Engineering

Objectives:
• To understand the basic tenets of software quality and quality factors.
• Be exposed to the Software Quality Assurance (SQA) architecture and the details of
SQA components
• Understand of how the SQA components can be integrated into the project life cycle.
• Be familiar with the software quality infrastructure.
• Be exposed to the management components of software quality.

Module-I:9 hours
Introduction to Software Quality & Architecture: Need for Software quality – Quality
challenges – Software quality assurance (SQA) – Definition and objectives – Software quality
factors- McCall‟s quality model – SQA system and architecture – Software Project life cycle
Components – Pre project quality components – Development and quality plans.
Module-II: 9 hours
Sqa Components and Project Life Cycle:Software Development methodologies – Quality
assurance activities in the development process - Verification & Validation – Reviews –
Software Testing – Software Testing implementations – Quality of software maintenance –
Pre-Maintenance of software quality components – Quality assurance tools – CASE tools for
software quality – Software maintenance quality – Project Management
Module-III: 9 hours
Software Quality Infrastructure: Procedures and work instructions - Templates - Checklists
– 3S development team - Staff training and certification Corrective and preventive actions –
Configuration management – Software change control – Configuration management audit -
Documentation control – Storage and retrieval.
Module-IV: 9 hours
Software Quality Management & Metrics: Project process control – Computerized tools -
Software quality metrics – Objectives of quality measurement – Process metrics – Product
metrics – Implementation – Limitations of software metrics – Cost of software quality –
Classical quality cost model – Extended model – Application of Cost model
Module-V: 9 hours
Standards, Certifications & Assessments:Quality management standards – ISO 9001 and
ISO 9000-3 – capability Maturity Models – CMM and CMMI assessment methodologies -
Bootstrap methodology – SPICE Project – SQA project process standards – IEEE st 1012 &
1028 – Organization of Quality Assurance – Department management responsibilities – Project
management responsibilities – SQA units and other actors in SQA systems

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Text Book(s):
1. Daniel Galin, “Software Quality Assurance”, Pearson Publication, 2009.

Reference Book(s):
1. Alan C. Gillies, “Software Quality: Theory and Management”, International Thomson
Computer Press, 1997.
2. Mordechai Ben-Menachem “Software Quality: Producing Practical Consistent
Software”, International Thompson Computer Press, 1997.

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 CSCE 831 COGNITIVE SCIENCE
L S P C
3 2 0 3
Pre-requisite:
• Exposure to AI

Objectives:
• To learn the basics of Cognitive Science with focus on acquisition, representation, and
use of knowledge by individual minds, brains, and machines
• To study the mind and intelligence, embracing psychology, artificial intelligence,
neuroscience and linguistics
• To understand the role of neuro science in the cognitive field

Module-I: Introduction to Cognitive Science 8hrs

The Cognitive view –Some Fundamental Concepts – Computers in Cognitive Science –
Applied Cognitive Science – The Interdisciplinary Nature of Cognitive Science
Module-II: Cognitive Psychology 8hrs
Cognitive Psychology – The Architecture of the Mind - The Nature of Cognitive Psychology-
A Global View of The Cognitive Architecture- Propositional Representation- Schematic
Representation- Cognitive Processes, Working Memory, and Attention- The Acquisition of
Skill- The Connectionist Approach to Cognitive Architecture
Module-III: Language Acquisition, Semantics and Processing Model 8hrs
Milestones in Acquisition – Theoretical Perspectives- Semantics and Cognitive Science –
Meaning and Entailment – Reference – Sense – Cognitive and Computational Models of
Semantic Processing – Information Processing Models of the Mind- Physical symbol systems
and language of thought- Applying the Symbolic Paradigm- Neural networks and distributed
information processing- Neural network models of Cognitive Processes
Module-IV: Integration Challenge 10hrs
Cognitive Science and Integration Challenge – Tackling the Integration Challenge.
Module-V: Tools 6hrs
Working with Concept Maps – Scribe Note making tools

Text Book(s):
1. José Luis Bermúdez, “Cognitive Science: An Introduction to the Science of the
Mind”, 2014, Cambridge University Press, New York.
2. Neil Stillings, Steven E. Weisler, Christopher H. Chase and Mark H. Feinstein,
“Cognitive Science: An Introduction”, 1995, Second Edition, MIT press.

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 CSCE 632 KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION AND REASONING
L S P C
3 2 0 3
Pre-requisite:
• Exposure to AI, formal languages, logic and programming
Objectives:
• Explore various representation formalisms and algorithms for reasoning

Module-I: Logic and Inferences 8hrs

Formal Logic – Propositional Logic –Propositional Theorem Proving- Resolution method in
propositional logic – FOL – Resolution – Forward Chaining – Backward Chaining - Refutation
– Horn clauses and SLD resolution – Backward chaining – Second order logic
Module-II: Concepts and Language 8hrs
Conceptual Domain – Reification - RDF and Semantic web – Properties – Event Calculus –
Conceptual Dependency Theory – Conceptual Analysis
Module-III: Structured Knowledge Representation 8hrs
Hierarchies in the Domain – Schema – Frames – Semantic Net – Scripts, Goals, Plans and
MOP - Inheritance in Taxonomies – Description Logic – Formal Concept Analysis –
Conceptual Graphs
Module-IV: Reasoning 8hrs
Knowledge Based Reasoning - Case Based reasoning – Default reasoning – Qualitative
reasoning – Probabilistic reasoning – Stochastic Actions – Combining Evidences to form
Beliefs
Module-V: Languages and Tools 8hrs
Working with LISP ,Prolog – RDF Tools – Ontology tools – SPARQL Implementation

Text Book:
1. Deepak Khemani, A First Course in Artificial Intelligence, 2013, First Edition,
McGrawHill.
2. Stuart J Russell and Peter Norvig, Artificial Intelligence – A Modern Approach, 2009,
Third Edition, PHI

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 CSCE 833 COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE
L S P C
3 2 0 3
Pre-requisite:
• Nil

Objectives:
The subject aims to introduce students to
• Fundamentals of key intelligent systems technologies including knowledge-based
systems, neural networks, fuzzy systems, and evolutionary computation, and
• Practice in integration of intelligent systems technologies for engineering applications.

Module-I: Introduction 5 hrs

Computational Intelligence: Intelligence machines -Computational intelligence paradigms –
History- Expert Systems: Rule-based expert systems – Uncertainty management - Fuzzy expert
systems:Fuzzy sets and operations of fuzzy sets - Fuzzy rules and fuzzy inference - Fuzzy
expert systems
Module-II: Artificial Neural Networks 10 hrs
Fundamental neurocomputing concepts: artificial neurons, activation functions, neural network
architectures, learning rules - Supervised learning neural networks: multi-layer feedforward
neural networks, simple recurrent neural networks, time-delay neural networks, supervised
learning algorithms - Unsupervised learning neural networks: self-organizing feature maps -
Radial basis function networks - Deep neural networks and learning algorithms
Module-III: Evolutionary computation 10 hrs
Representation: Chromosomes-fitness functions- selection mechanisms -Genetic algorithms:
crossover and mutation - Genetic programming -Evolution strategies
Module-IV: Hybrid Intelligent Systems 10 hrs
Neural expert systems -Neuro-fuzzy systems -Evolutionary neural networks
Module-V: Applications and case studies 5 hrs
Printed Character Recognition – Inverse Kinematics Problems – Automobile Fuel Efficiency
Prediction – Soft Computing for Color Recipe Prediction-Case studies
Laboratory Components:
Skills to be acquired:
• Gain a working knowledge of knowledge-based systems, neural networks, fuzzy
systems, and evolutionary computation;
• Apply intelligent systems technologies in a variety of engineering applications;

Lab Software Requirements:

• Implement typical computational intelligence algorithms in MATLAB

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Text Book:
1. A.P. Engelbrecht, Computational Intelligence: An Introduction, 2012,2nd Edition,
John Wiley & Sons.

Reference Books:
1. Marsland S, Machine Learning: An Algorithmic Perspective, 2009, CRC Press.
2. S. Russell and P. Norvig, Artificial Intelligence – A Modern Approach,2010, Prentice
Hall.
3. J.S.R.Jang, C.T.Sun and E.Mizutani, Neuro-Fuzzy and Soft Computing, 2004, PHI,
Pearson Education.
4. Timothy J.Ross, Fuzzy Logic with Engineering Applications, 1997, McGraw-Hill.

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 CSCE 834 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR AUTOMATION
L S P C
3 2 0 3
Pre-requisites:
• Knowledge about data structures and algorithms
Objective:
• Understanding the various problem solving approaches
• Understanding the knowledge representation and reasoning techniques
• Understanding the handling of uncertain knowledge

Module-I: INTRODUCTION TO PROBLEM SOLVING 8 hrs

Problem-Solving Agents, Example Problems, Searching for Solutions, Uninformed Search

Strategies, Breadth-first search, Uniform-cost search, Depth-first search, Depth-limited search,
Iterative deepening depth-first search, Bidirectional search. Informed (Heuristic) Search
Strategies, Greedy best-first search, A* search, Heuristic Functions, The effect of heuristic
accuracy on performance.

Module-II: Beyond Classical Search 8 hrs

Local Search Algorithms and Optimization Problems, Hillclimbing search, Simulated

annealing, Local beam search, Genetic algorithms, Local Search in Continuous Spaces,
Searching with Nondeterministic Actions, Searching with Partial Observations, Online Search
Agents and Unknown Environments.

Module-III: Knowledge Representation 8 hrs

Ontological Engineering, Categories and Objects, Events, Mental Events and Mental Objects,
Reasoning Systems for Categories, Semantic networks, Description logics, Reasoning with
Default Information, Truth maintenance systems.

Module-IV: Uncertain knowledge and reasoning 8 hrs

Quantifying Uncertainty, Acting under Uncertainty, Basic Probability Notation, Inference

Using Full Joint Distributions, Bayes' Rule and Its Use, Probabilistic Reasoning, R
epresenting Knowledge in an Uncertain Domain, The Semantics of Bayesian Networks,
Exact Inference in Bayesian Networks, Approximate Inference in Bayesian Networks,
Inference by Markov chain simulation, Relational and First-Order Probability Models.

Module-V: Probabilistic Reasoning over Time 8 hrs

Time and Uncertainty, Inference in Temporal Models, Hidden Markov Models, Kalman Filters,
Dynamic Bayesian Networks, Keeping Track of Many Objects, Combining Beliefs and Desires

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under Uncertainty, The Basis of Utility Theory, Utility Functions, Multiattribute Utility
Functions, Decision Networks, The Value of Information. Expert system architecture.

Text Book(s):
1. Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig, “Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach”, PEARSON
3rd ed,2009.

Reference Book(s):
1. DAN.W.Patterson, “Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems”, PHI,
2nd edition, 2009.
2. George.F.Luger, “Artificial Intelligence”, Pearson Education, Asia, 3rd Edition,2009.

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 CSCE 835 NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
L S P C
3 2 0 3
Pre-requisite:
• Mathematical Methods for Computer Science,
• Logic and Proof,
• Knowledge of Programming
• Machine Learning

Objectives:
At the end of the course, students should be
• able to tag a given word with basic language processing features
• be able to discuss the current and likely future performance of several NLP
applications;
• be able to describe briefly a fundamental technique for processing language for
several subtasks, such as morphological processing, parsing, word sense
disambiguation etc.;
• Understand how these techniques draw on and relate to other areas of computer
science.
Module-I: Introduction to NLP 8hrs
Knowledge in Speech and Language Processing -–Information Theory- Ambiguity Models and
Algorithms, Language : N-gram Language Models - Evaluating Language Models, Thought
and Understanding - The State of the Art and the Near term Future
Module-II: Speech Tagging and Transducers 8hrs
Part of Speech Tagging, Probability Basics: Hidden Markov - Maximum Entropy Models,
Word Transducers: Finite State Transducers - Orthographic Rules - Finite-State Transducers
Combining FST Lexicon Rules, Lexicon Free FSTs: The Porter Stemmer Human
Morphological Processing.
Module-III: Syntax Parsing 8hrs
Syntax Parsing: Grammar Formalisms - Tree Banks - Parsing with Context Free Grammars -
Features and Unification, Statistical parsing: probabilistic CFGs (PCFGs) - Lexicalized PCFG
Module-IV: Semantic Analysis 8hrs
Representing Meaning – Semantic Analysis - Lexical Semantics – Computational Lexical
Semantics - Supervised – Dictionary based and Unsupervised Approaches - Compositional
Semantics - Semantic Role Labelling - Semantic Parsing – Discourse Analysis.
Module-V: Case Studies and Applications 8hrs
Machine Translation Language Similarities and Differences - Named Entity Recognition and
Relation Extraction- IE using sequence labelling-Machine Translation (MT) - Basic issues in
MT-Statistical translation - Word Alignment - Phrase-based Translation – Question Answering

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Laboratory Components:
Skills to be acquired:
• Sentence Extraction
• Medical Language Extraction
• Semantic Tutorial for Languages

Lab Software Requirements:

• Any Programming Language

List of Exercises:
1. Build language models and generate text from them
2. Recognize sentences and separate the words
3. Speech tagging
4. Identify and find all mentions in unstructured text of named entities
5. making a simple supervised WSD classifier
6. determining topics from text (Lexical analysis)

Text Book(s):
1. Daniel Jurafsky and James H. Martin, Martin Speech and Language Processing,
2008, 2nd Edition, Prentice Hall.
2. Christopher D. Manning and HinrichSchuetze, Foundations of Statistical Natural
Language Processing, 1999, MIT Press.

Reference Book(s):
1. James Allen, Natural Language Understanding, 1994, 2nd Edition, Addison Wesley.
2. Steven Bird, Ewan Klein and Edward Loper, Natural Language Processing with
Python, O’Reilly Media, 2009, 1st Edition.

Web Resources:
1. http://www.nltk.org/
2. http://www.ucl.ac.uk/internet-grammar/home.htm

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 CSEL 476 INTRODUCTION TO ROBOTICS
L T P C
3 0 0 3
Pre-requisites:
• Mathematical Foundation of Computer Science
• Basics of Machine Learning

Objectives:
• To understand agents, principles and applications
• Design, build and program simple autonomous robots.

Module-I: Agents, Paradigms, Sensors (9 hrs)

Intelligent agents-Search overview-Adversarial search-Constraint satisfaction- Paradigms:

Hierarchical, Reactive- Types of Sensors-Vision

Module-II: Knowledge representation, reasoning and planning (9 hrs)

Predicate logic-Fuzzy logic-Classical planning-Planning and acting in real world-Navigation

Module-III: Learning (9 hrs)

Decision making-Learning from examples-Knowledge in learning-Learning probabilistic

models-Reinforcement learning-Deep learning

Module-IV: Robot Programming (9 hrs)

Features of various programming methods, Robot Task planning: concept, different methods,
robot learning, Mobile Robot: Introduction, obstacle Representatives, Motion Planning in fixed
and Changing structure - Simple Programs.

Module-V: Industrial Applications and Case Studies (9 hrs)

Application of robots: Material handling - Machine loading and unloading – Assembly –

Inspection –Recent developments in Robotics- Safety Considerations.

Text Books:
1. Robin.R.Murphy, Introduction to AI Robotics, MIT press, 2000.
2. Stuart J Russell and Peter Norvig, Artificial Intelligence – A Modern Approach, Third
Edition, PHI,2010.
Reference Books:
1. Kortenkamp, D., Bonasso, R. P., & Murphy, R. (Eds.). Artificial intelligence and
mobile robots. Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press,1998
2. Mikell P Groover & Nicholas G Odrey, Mitchel Weiss, Roger N Nagel, Ashish Dutta,
Industrial Robotics, Technology programming and Applications, McGraw Hill, 2012.
3. M. P. Groover, Mitchell Weis, Roger, N. Nagel, Nicholas G. Odrey, Industrial
Robotics Technology, Programming and Applications, McGraw Hill, Int. 2008.

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 CSCE 841 INTRODUCTION TO HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION
L S P C
3 2 0 3
Pre-requisites:
• Basic Understanding of Graphical User Interface.
Course Objectives:
• Understanding the components of Human Computer Interaction
• Understanding the basics of interaction design
• Understanding the fundamentals of Universal design

Module I : The Components

The Human : Human Memory – Thinking – Emotion – Individual Preferences – Psychology
and Design of Interactive Systems. The Computer : Text Entry Devices – Pointing Devices –
Display Devices – Devices for Virtual Reality and 3D interaction – Physical Controls, Sensors
and Special Devices – Memory – Processing and Networks.

Module II: The Interaction

Models of Interaction – Frameworks and HCI- Ergonomics – Interaction Styles – Elements of
WIMP interface – Interactivity – Context of interaction – User Experience; Interaction Design
Basics : Design Definition – The process of Design – User Focus – Scenarios – Navigation
Design – Screen design and Layout – Iteration and prototyping.

Module III:
HCI in the software process: The software life cycle – Iterative design and prototyping – Design
rationale. Design Rules: Introduction – Principles to support usability – Standards – Guidelines
– Golden rules and heuristics – HCI patterns

Module IV:
Dialog Notations and design – Dialog semantics – Modeling rich interaction – Cognitive
models – Evaluation techniques.

Module V: Universal Design

Universal design principles – multimodal interaction – design for diversity; User Support:
requirements of user support – approaches to user support – adaptive help systems – designing
user support systems.

Text Book:
1. Alax Dix, Janet Finaly, Gregory D. Abowd, Russell Beale. Human Computer Interaction-
Third Edition – Pearson Prentice Hall Publishers.

Reference Book:
1. Jonathan Lazar. Research Methods in Human–Computer Interaction - John Wiley
&Sons(2009)
MOOC
1. NPTEL Course on Human Computer Interaction (HCI) :
http://nptel.ac.in/courses/106103115/

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 CSCE 842 PRINCIPLES OF INTERACTION DESIGN

L S P C
3 2 0 3
Pre-requisites:
• Basic Understanding of Human-Computer Interaction methodology and GUI styles
Course Objectives:
• Focuses on creating interfaces, systems, and devices revolving around user behavior.
• Explores the interaction design process, explains how interaction designers work and
the tools they use, and details the essential principles of interaction design
Module - I
Introduction: Goals of System Engineering – Goals of User Interface Design – Motivations of
Human factors in Design – High Level Theories –Object-Action Interface Design - Three
Principles – Guidelines for Data Display and Data Entry
Module - II
Managing Design Process: Organizational Design to Support Usability – The Three Pillars of
Design Development Methodologies- Ethnographic Observation – Participating Design-
Scenario Development- Social Impact Statement for Early Design – Legal Issues- Reviews –
Usability Testing and laboratories- Surveys- Acceptance tests – Evaluation during Active use-
Specification Methods- Interface – Building Tools- Evaluation and Critiquing tools
Module - III
Manipulation and Virtual Environments: Introduction-Examples of Direct Manipulation
Systems –Explanation of Direct Manipulation-Visual Thinking and Icons – Direct
manipulation Programming – Home Automation- Remote Direct Manipulation- Virtual
Environments- Task-Related Organization – Item Presentation Sequence- Response Time and
Display Rate – Fast Movement Through Menus- Menu Layouts- Form Filling – Dialog Box –
Functionality to Support User’s Tasks – Command Organization Strategies – Benefits of
Structure- Naming and Abbreviations – Command Menus- Natural Language in Computing.
Module- IV
Interaction Devices: Introduction – Keyboards and Functions – Pointing Devices- Speech
recognition ,Digitization and Generation – Image and Video Displays – Printers –Theoretical
Foundations –Expectations and Attitudes – User Productivity – Variability – Error messages –
Non anthropomorphic Design –Display Design – color-Reading from Paper versus from
Displays- Preparation of Printed Manuals- Preparation of Online Facilities.
Module-V
Windows Strategies and Information Search: Introduction- Individual Window Design-
Multiple Window Design- Coordination by Tightly –Coupled Window- Image Browsing-
Personal Role Management and Elastic Windows – Goals of Cooperation – Asynchronous
Interaction – Synchronous Distributed – Face to Face- Applying Computer Supported
Cooperative Work to Education – Database query and phrase search in Textual documents –
Multimedia Documents Searches – Information Visualization – Advance Filtering Hypertext
and Hypermedia – World Wide Web- Genres and Goals and Designers – Users and their tasks
– Object Action Interface Model for Web site Design

Text book:
1. Ben Shneiderman , " Designing the User Interface”, 5th Edition, Addison-Wesley, 2010

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Reference books:
1. Barfied , Lon , “The User Interface : Concepts and Design", Addison – Wesley.
2. Wilbert O. Galiz , “The Essential guide to User Interface Design”, Wiley Dreamtech.
3. Jacob Nielsen, "Usability Engineering ", Academic Press.
4. Alan Dix et al, "Human - Computer Interaction ", Prentice Hall, 2012.

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 CSCE 843 WEB ACCESSIBILITY
L S P C
3 2 0 3
Pre-requisites:
• Basic Understanding of Web Technologies.

Course Objectives:
• Understanding the components of web accessibility
• Understanding Accessibility standards and Evaluation Processes.
• Acquiring skills to evaluate and make the web contents accessible.

Module I :Introduction

The need for Web accessibility – Universal Design – Types of Disabilities and Accessibility
Requirements – Introduction to Guidelines and Standards – Accessibility Myths – Assistive
Technologies - Benefits of Accessible Design.

Module II: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines

Web Contents Accessibility Guidelines – WCAG 1.0 vs WCAG 2.x – Principles : Perceivable
– Operable – Understandable – Robust – Levels A, AA, AAA – WCAG standards evaluation
tools and Comparative analysis.

Module III: Universal Design of Components

Component Specific Requirements : Images – Hyperlinks – Color contrast – Audio and Video
components – Tables – Forms – Document Accessibility – Dynamic web contents Accessibility
– Mobile Content Accessibility.

Module IV: WAI –ARIA and Other Standards

Web Accessibility Initiatives – Accessible Rich Internet Applications – Features. ATAG :

Authoring tools accessibility guidelines – UAAG : User Agents Accessibility Guidelines –
Accessibility Laws.

Module V:

Readability: Text Readability – Evaluation : Flesch-Kincaid - Gunning Fog - SMOG index –

Dale Challe Score – Other Readability Scores – Web Content Readability. Security and
Accessibility : Web Security Concerns for Persons with Disabilities – Making Security
accessible.

Laboratory Components:
Skills to be acquired:
1. Evaluating the Web Accessibility
2. Designing Accessible Pages

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Lab Software Requirements:
1. Open Source Web Development tools.

List of Exercises:
1. Exercises to make the student to acquire web accessibility evaluation skills.
2. Exercises to make the student to acquire accessibility evaluation comparison skills.
3. Exercises to make the student to acquire skills related with accessible page design.
4. Exercises to make the student to acquire skills related with design accessible mobile
web apps.

Reference Book:
1. Simon Harper, YelizYesilada (Editors) . Web Accessibility: A Foundation for Research –
Springer Publications.

Web Resources:
1. W3C Resources on Web Accessibility https://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/accessibility.php
2. WebAIM(Web Accessibility in Mind) Resources : http://webaim.org

Online Courses
1. Introduction to Web Accessibility by Google : https://webaccessibility.withgoogle.com/
course

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 CSCE 844 CONTEXT AWARE COMPUTING
L S P C
3 2 0 3
Pre-requisites:
• Basic Knowledge of mobile computing and distributed systems
Course Objectives:
• Getting familiar with the components of Context aware computing
• Acquiring skills to build context aware applications
Module I
Introduction: Context, Context awareness and Situations – Analogies – Elements of a Context
aware System – Architecture – Infrastructure, Middleware and Toolkits.
Module II
Context aware mobile devices – Location bases serviced – ambient services – e-communities
– Interaction in context aware systems.- Enhancing context-aware mobile services.
Module III
Context aware mobile software agents – Context-aware addressing and communication for
people, things and Software agents.
Module IV
Context aware sensor networks – Context awareness and mirror-world models – Constructing
context aware pervasive systems : Declarative approaches and design patterns.
Module V
Context Aware Security: Traditional Security issues – models – context aware security systems
– context aware safety.
References:
1.Seng W. Loke, Context aware pervasive systems-Architecture for a new breed of applications,
Auerbach publications, 2006.
2. Context-Aware Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing for Enhanced Usability: Adaptive
Technologies and Applications: Dragan Stojanović, IGI Global Snippet, 2009.
3. Rocha, Ricardo CoutoAntunes da, Endler, Markus, Context Management for Distributed
and Dynamic Context-Aware Computing, Springer,2012.

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 CSCE 845 DATA VISUALIZATION

L S P C
3 2 0 3
Pre-requisites:
• Basic Understanding of Interaction design.
• Basic Understanding of Programming
Course Objectives:
• Understanding the Objectives of Data Visualization
• Acquiring skills in professional data visualization techniques
• Understanding the fundamentals of Universal design
Module I :Introduction
Introduction to Data Visualization – History of Visualization – Need for Visualization -
Interactive Visualization – Web Specific Components – Common Types of Data Visualization
– Data Visualization and Infographics – Dashboards.
Module II:
Data Abstraction : Data Set types – Attribute Types – Semantics. Task Abstraction : Actions
– Targets. Charts – Data Preprocessing - Choosing the optimal charts – Making charts effective
– Context in Visualization - Analyzing Visual Patterns – Beautiful vs Useful Design -
Cognitive Load Theory - Responsive Design principles.
Module III:
Perception and Visualization – Perceptual processing – Metrics - The Visualization Process –
Visual Variables – Taxonomies.
Visualization validation : Threats to Validity – Validation approaches .
Module IV:
Spatial Data Visualization - Multivariate Data Visualization Techniques : Point-Based – Line
based – Region based – Hybrid Techniques – Visualization techniques for trees, graphs and
networks – Text and Document Visualization.
Module V: Universal Design
Interaction concepts – Interaction techniques: screen space – object space – data space –
attribute space – Interaction Control – Web specific visualization with the case study of D3.
Laboratory Components:
Skills to be acquired:
1. Building effective visualization
2. Design and development of interactive visualization
Lab Software Requirements:
1. Open Source Web Development and visualization tools.
List of Exercises:
1. Exercises to make the student to acquire chart building skills with code.
2. Exercises to make the student to acquire skills to build effective infographics.
3. Exercises to make the student to acquire skills related with web based visualization.
4. Exercises to make the student to acquire skills to handle various visualization
libraries such as D3
5. Exercises to make the student to acquire advanced visuzliation mechanisms such as
Dendrogram, Node-link tree etc.
Text Book:
1. Matthew O.Ward Interactive Data Visualization: Foundations, Techniques, and
Applications AK Peters / CRC Press.

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 2. Mico Yuk. Data Visualization For Dummies
3. Tamara Munzner. Visualization Analysis and Design AK Peters Publications.
Web Resources :
1. http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1230000000345/ch01.html#_why_write_code
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 CSCE 846 SOCIAL COMPUTING SYSTEMS
L S P C
3 2 0 3
Pre-requisites:
• Basic Understanding of HCI Concepts
Course Objectives:
• Understanding the components of Social computing systems.
• Acquiring skills to analyse the social network data.
Module I :
Introduction to Social computing – Human centeredcomputing : Methods – benefits –
incentives – computer supported cooperative work – collaboration platforms- Introduction to
Crowd sourcing: Components – activities.
Module II:
Social Network methods : Social network data – Graphs to represent social relations – Matrices
to represent social relations – working with network data – Connection: Networks and actors
– basic demographics – density – reachability – connectivity – distance.
Module III:
Embedding: Introduction – density – reciprocity – transitivity – clustering – Group external
and internal ties – Krackhardt’s graph theoretical dimensions of hierarchy - Ego networks.
Module IV:
Opinion Formation Models – Cultural and language dynamics – crowd behavior patterns –
Hierarchies formation – Propagation models in social networks ; Advertisements and social
network systems.
Module V:
Statistical tools to analyze social network data – Sentiment analysis – Recommendation
systems – Link prediction in social networks.
Ref Books:
1. Cioffi-Revilla, Claudio. Introduction to Computational Social Science, Springer, 2014.
2. Robert Hanneman and Mark Riddle. Introduction to social network methods. Online
Open Book.
3. Matthew A. Russell. Mining the Social Web: Data Mining Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin,
Google+, Github, and More, 2nd Edition, O'Reilly Media, 2013.
4. Jennifer Golbeck, Analyzing the social web, Morgan Kaufmann, 2013.

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MOOC:
https://www.coursera.org/learn/social-computing

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 CSCE 851 AUTOMATA, COMPUTATBILITY AND COMPLEXITY

L S P C
3 2 0 3
Pre-requisite:
• Knowledge of discrete mathematics, proofs, data structures and algorithms
Objectives:
• Introduce concepts in automata theory, design recognizers for different formal
languages, and determine decidability and complexity of computational problems.

Module-I: Introduction to theory of computation and Finite Automata10hrs

Mathematical preliminaries – Basic concepts – Applications – DFA – NFA –
Equivalence – Reduction of states.
Module-II: Regular Language (RL) , Regular Grammar, Properties of RL8hrs
Regular Expressions (RE) – Relation between RE and RL – Regular Grammars –
Properties – Context Free Grammars (CFG)
Module-III: Simplification of Context Free Grammars & Normal Forms 8hrs
Methods for transforming Grammars – Chomsky and Greibach Normal Forms
Push Down Automata (PDA)
Non-deterministic PDA – PDA and Context Free Languages (CFL) – Deterministic
PDA and CFL
Module-IV: Properties of CFL and Turing Machines6hrs
Pumping lemma –closure properties
Turing machines (TM) – the standard TM – Turings’ thesis – Linear Bounded
Automata
Module-V: Algorithmic computation8hrs
Problems that cannot be solved by TM – Undecidable problems for recursively
enumerable and context-free languages- Post correspondence problem
Computational complexity
Efficiency of computation – TM and complexity – language families and complexity
classes – complexity classes P and NP.
Text Book:
1. Peter Linz, An introduction to Formal Languages and Automata, 2012, Fifth Edition,
Jones & Bartlett Learning.

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Reference Books
1. Automata, Computability and Complexity: Theory and Applications, Pearson
Education India; 1 edition 2012.
2. Moore, Cristopher, and Stephan Mertens. The Nature of Computation. Oxford
University Press, 2011.
3. Arora, Sanjeev, and Boaz Barak. Computational Complexity: A Modern Approach.
Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Web resources
1. www.Automatatutor.com
MOOC
1. NPTEL COURSE ON Formal languages and Automata Theory -
https://nptel.ac.in/courses/111103016/

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 CSCE 852 MATHEMATICAL LOGIC FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE

L S P C
3 2 0 3
Pre-requisite:
• Exposure to Automata Theory
Objectives:
• To learn the basics of mathematical logic
• To apply those concepts in various computer science domain

Module-I: Introduction 8 hrs

Objective – History – Terminology – Propositions, Beliefs and declarative sentences –
Contradictions - Formalization – Formalizing the language – Extending the language
Module-II: Propositional Logic 8 hrs
Formulas, Models, Tableaux – Deductive systems – Resolution – Binary Decision Diagrams -
Module-III: First order Logic 8 hrs
Formulas, Models, Tableaux – Deductive systems - Gentzen system – Hilbert system – C-
Rule - Formulas to Logic, Horn clauses in SLD resolution – Search Rules
Module-IV: Temporal Logic 8 hrs
Introduction – Syntax and semantics – Models of Time – Linear Temporal Logic – Binary
temporal operators and its Axioms
Module-V: Tools 8 hrs
Working with Prolog programs – Standard ML programs

Text Books:
1. Steve Reeves and Michael Clarke, “Logic for Computer Science”, 2003, Addison –
Wesley.
2. M Ben Ari,” Mathematical Logic for computer science”, 3rd Edition, 2015, Prentice
Hall.

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 CSCE 853 COMPLEXITY THEORY
L S P C
3 2 0 3
Course Pre-requisite:
Prior knowledge of following materials is assumed. A brief overview of basics will be given
in the first lecture. Other than this, the course should be self-contained.
• Computation Theory
• Automata Theory
• Linear Algebra, Algorithms

Course Objectives:
At the end of the course the student will be able to
• Understand the fundamental concepts of Complexity theory
• Provide the concepts of complexity classes and reduction problems
• Enumerate NP-complete and NP-equivalent problems
• Discuss complexity of approximation problems and black box problems
• Describe communication complexity

Module-I : INTRODUCTION ( 8 hours)

Introduction: Complexity Theory – Algorithmic Problems and Their Complexity – Algorithmic
Problems – Some Important Algorithmic Problems – Measuring Computation Time

Module- II : COMPLEXITY CLASSES & REDUCTIONS ( 8 hours)

Complexity classes: Randomized Algorithms – The Fundamental Complexity Classes for

Algorithmic Problems – The Fundamental Complexity Classes for Decision Problems
Reductions: Algorithmic Relationships Between Problems – Reductions Between Various
Variants of a Problem.

Module-III : NP-COMPLETE AND NP-EQUIVALENT PROBLEMS ( 8 hours)

NP-Completeness: Theory of NP-Completeness – Fundamental Considerations Problems in
NP – Alternative Characterizations of NP – NP-complete and NP-equivalent Problems –
Traveling Salesperson Problems – Knapsack Problems – Scheduling Problems

Module- IV : COMPLEXITY OF APPROXIMATION PROBLEMS ( 8 hours)

Complexity of Approximation Problems: Complexity Classes – Approximation Algorithms –
Approximation-Preserving Reductions. Complexity of Black Box Problems: Black Box
Optimization

Module-V : COMMUNICATION COMPLEXITY ( 8 hours)

The Communication Game – Nondeterministic Communication Protocols – Communication
Complexity and VLSI Circuits – Communication Complexity and Computation Time

Text Book(s):

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1. Ingo Wegener, “Complexity Theory: Exploring the limits of efficient algorithms”,
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.
2. Sanjeev Arora, “Computational Complexity - A Modern Approach”, Cambridge University
Press, 2009.

Reference Book(s):
1. Neil F.Johnson, “Simply Complexity: A Clear Guide to Complexity Theory”, Oneworld
Publications, 2007.

2. OdedGoldreich, “Computational Complexity: A Conceptual Perspective”, Cambridge

University Press, 2008.

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 CSCE 854 COMPUTABILITY THEORY

L S P C
3 2 0 3
Pre-requisite:
• Exposure to Automata Theory and basic logic
Objectives:
• To learn the basics of mathematical logic and computability
• To apply those concepts in various computer science domain

Module-I: Computability Theory 8 hrs

Enumerability – Diagonalization – Turing Computability – Uncomputability – Abacus
Computability – Recursive functions – Recursive sets and relations – Equivalent definitions of
computability
Module-II: Logic8 hrs
First order Logic – Syntax and Semantics – Undecidability of First Order Logic – Monadic and
Dyadic Logic – Second order Logic- Modal Logic and Provability
Module-III: Logic Proofs8 hrs
Models - The Existence of models – Proofs and completeness – Indefinitability, undecidability,
Imcompleteness – Unprovability of consistencey
Module-IV: Logic Theorems 8 hrs
Normal Forms – Disjunctive and Prenex Normal forms – Skolem Normal Form - Herbrand’s
Theorem - Craig Interpolation Theorem – Ramsey’s Theorem
Module-V: Tools 8 hrs
Working with Prolog – IDP – FLORID - MOLTAP

Text Book:
1. George S Boolos, John P Burgess and Richard C Jeffrey, “Computability and Logic”,
Fifth Edition, 2007, Cambridge University Press, New York.
Reference Book:
1. Martin Davis, “Engines of Logic: Mathematicians and the origin of computers”, 2001,
Norton

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 CSCE 855-ADVANCED COMPILER DESIGN

L S P C
3 2 0 3
Pre-requisite:
• Knowledge of data structures, algorithms, compilers, architecture, assembly language
programming
Objectives:
• Discuss advanced issues in the design and implementation of compilers

Module-I:
Compilers and Scanner - 10hrs
Overview of compilation –compiler structure – Translation - Introduction to Scanners –
Regular expressions – Scanner – Implementing scanners
Module-II: Parser and Context sensitive analysis 10 hrs
Expressing syntax – top down parsing – Bottom Up Parsing – Practical issues
Type systems – attribute grammar framework – Adhoc SDT
Module-III: Intermediate Representation and Optimization 10 hrs
Graphical IR – Linear IR – Mapping values to names – Symbol Table
Scope of optimization – Local – Regional – global – Interprocedural optimization
Module-IV: Data flow analysis and Scalar optimization 8 hrs
Iterative data flow analysis – Single static assignment - Interprocedural analysis
Useless code elimination - code motion – specialization – redundancy elimination – other
transformations
Module-V: Instruction selection, scheduling and register allocation 10 hrs
Code generation – tree pattern matching – peephole optimization
Instruction scheduling – local list – Regional scheduling
Register allocation – issues – local allocation – global allocation
Text Book:
1. Keith D Cooper and Linda Torczon, Engineering a Compiler, Morgan Kaufmann, 2
edition, 2011
Reference Book:

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 1. Advanced Compiler Design and implementation, Steven Muchnick, .Morgan
Kaufmann Publishers , 1997

MOOC: https://in.udacity.com/course/compilers-theory-and-practice--ud168

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 CSCE 861 DESIGN OF MODERN HEURISTICS

L S P C
3 2 0 3
• Pre-requisite: Knowledge of fundamental concepts of Designing Strategies,
Complexity analysis of Algorithms, followed by problems on Graph Theory and Sorting
methods

• Objectives: To enable the students to understand and appreciate and to design

application and to learn and practise the optimization techniques.

Module-I: Optimization Problems9 hours

Introduction - Solution Process - RecognizingProblems, Defining Problems, Constructing
Models, Solving Models Validating Solutions, Implementing Solutions - Problem Instances-
Search Spaces - Metrics, Neighborhoods, Fitness Landscapes, Optimal Solutions - Properties
of Optimization Problems - Problem Difficulty, Locality, Decomposability
Module-II: Optimization Methods 10 hours
Analytical and Numerical Optimization Methods- Optimization Methods for Linear,
Continuous Problems - Linear Optimization Problems, Simplex Method - Optimization
Methods for Linear, Discrete Problems -Heuristic Optimization Methods - Heuristics,
Approximation Algorithms, Modern Heuristics
Module-III: Design elements and Principles9 hours
Analytical and Numerical Optimization Methods-Optimization Methods for Linear,
Continuous Problems - Optimization Methods for Linear, Discrete Problems - Heuristic
Optimization Methods

Module-IV: Search Strategies 9 hours

Local Search Methods - Recombination-Based Search - Genetic Algorithms, Estimation of
Distribution Algorithms, Genetic Programming
Module-V: Case Study8 hours
The Optimal Communication Spanning Tree Problem - Biasing Modern Heuristics for OCST
Problems - Search Operator - Representation - Initialization - Using an MST as Initial Solution

Text Book(s):
1. Rothlauf, Franz, Design of Modern Heuristics - Principles and Application, Nature
Computing Series, Springer 2011.

Reference Books:

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1. Xiaopeng Fang, Engineering Design Using Genetic Algorithms, Iowa State University
2007.
2. David E. Goldberg, Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization, and Machine
Learning, Addison -Wesley publishing company, Inc., 1st Edition, 1989.

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 CSCE 862 EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS
L S P C
3 2 0 3
Pre-requisite:
• Programming competence.
• An Algorithms course should suffice.
• A general course in artificial intelligence is desirable, but not necessary
Objectives:
• To master the basics of EA
• To learn the techniques for solving optimization problems through EA

Module-I: Introduction to EA5 hours

EA Basics: Introduction to Evolutionary Computation: Biological evolution and genetics-
artificial evolution, Basics of optimization and search space , evolutionary computation and
AI, - The Historical Development of EC Classes of EA- Structure of EA - Advantages of
Evolutionary Computation -.Hybridization with Other Methods - Parallelism - Applications of
Evolutionary Computation - computational time complexity of the algorithms.

Module-II: Genetic Algorithm10 hours

A simple genetic algorithm- Biological background - Encoding- Fitness Evaluation techniques
- Search Operators: Crossover, mutation- Selection Schemes: Fitness proportional selection
and fitness scaling, ranking, tournament selection, Selection pressure and its impact on
evolutionary search.
The Schema Theorem in GA- Building Block Hypothesis - Applications of GA in Engineering
problems, job shop scheduling and routing problems

Module-III: Advanced operators and techniques in Genetic Algorithm 8 hours

Inversion and reordering operators – Micro operators- Population sizing - Advanced selection
schemes- Types of GA- Parallel & Distributed GA- Hybrid GA- Adaptive GA – Genetic
algorithm implementation using MATLAB.

Module-IV: Genetic Programming8 hours

Genetic programming and how it differs from GA., The creation and regeneration of
populations: crossover, mating, and reproduction Classic GP problems and their solutions:
Santa Fe Trail, Symbollic regression, boolean circuit design.

Module-V: Multi-objective Optimization8 hours

Linear and nonlinear multi-objective problems, convex and non – convex problems, dominance
– concepts and properties, Pareto – optimality, Use of Evolutionary Computations to solve
multi objective optimization. NSGA, SPEA ,etc. for multi-objective optimization.

Text Book(s):
1. Sivanandam, S.N., Deepa, S. N ,Introduction to Genetic Algorithms, Springer, 2008
2. Deb, K.: Multi-Objective Optimization using Evolutionary Algorithms, John Wiley
and Son, 2002.

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 3. John Koza, Genetic Programming, MIT Press, 1992
Reference Book(s):
1. D. E. Goldberg, Genetic Algorithm In Search, Optimization And Machine Learning,
New York: Addison _ Wesley (1989)

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 CSCS 863 LINEAR OPTIMIZATION

L S P C
3 2 0 3
Pre-requisite:
• Basic Mathematical Knowledge
Objectives:
• To enable the students to become a sophisticated practitioner of (linear) optimization,
or a researcher.

Module-I: Introduction to Linear Programming 9 hours

Introduction- The geometry of Linear programming - Polyhedra and convex sets – Extreme
points, vertices and basic feasible solution –Polyhedra in standard form – Degeneracy –
Existence and Optimality of extreme points–Representation of the polyhedral – Projection of
polyhedral.
Module-II: Simplex Method 9 hours
Optimality conditions – Development of simplex method – Implementation of the simplex
method–Anticyclying–Finding the initial basic feasible solution – Column geometry and the
simplex method – Computational efficiency of the simplex method.
Module-III: Duality theory and Sensitivity analysis 11 hours
The dual problem–The duality theorem–Optimal dual variables as marginal costs, standard
form problems and dual simplex method–Farkas` lemma and linear inequalities–Form
separating hyper planes to duality–Cones and extreme rays–Representation of polyhedral –
General linear programming duality–Local sensitivity analysis–Global dependence on right –
hand side vector–The set of all dual optimal solutions–Global dependence on the cost vector–
Parametric programming.
Module-IV: Large scale Optimization 8 hours
Delayed column generation–The cutting stock problem–Cutting plane methods – Dantzig-
Wolfe decomposition– Stochastic programming and Benders decomposition
Module-V: Network flow problems 8 hours
Graphs–Formulation of the network flow problem–The network simplex algorithm–The
negative cost cycle algorithm–The maximum flow problem–Duality in network flow
problems–Dual ascent methods–Theassignment problem and the auction algorithm–The
shortest path problem–The minimum spanning tree problem
Text Books:
1. Dimitris Bertsimas, John N. Tsitsiklis, Introduction to Linear Optimization, Athena
Scientific; 1997.
2. Dimitri P. Bertsekas, Dynamic Programming and Optimal Control, Athena Scientific;
4th edition (1 September 2005).
Reference Books:

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1. Stanislaw H. Zak Edwin K.P. Chong, An Introduction to Optimization, Wiley, Second
edition (2010)
2. R. Fletcher, Practical Methods of Optimization, Wiley, Second edition (2009)
3. Kalyanmoy Deb, Optimization for Engineering Design: Algorithms and
Examples, Prentice Hall India Learning Private Limited; Second edition (2012)

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 CSCE 864 NATURE INSPIRED ALGORITHMS

L S P C
3 2 0 3
• Pre-requisite:
Basic Knowledge of optimization theory
• Objectives:
To enable the students to understand and appreciate the design of nature inspired
algorithms and to explore the Meta-heuristic techniques.

Module-I: Single solution based Meta-heuristics 9 hours

Introduction-Newton’s Method – Optimization: Gradient-Based Algorithms, Hill Climbing
with Random Restart - Search for Optimality–No Free Lunch Theorems - Nature Inspired Meta
heuristics - A Brief History of Metaheuristics
Module-II: Evolutionary Algorithms 7 hours
Analysis of Optimization Algorithms - Nature-Inspired Algorithms – Cultural Algorithm- Co
Evolutionary Algorithm - Simulated Annealing
Module-III: Swarm Intelligence 10 hours
Swarm Intelligence – ACO Algorithm - PCO Algorithm – Bacterial Optimization – Ant and
Bee Colony Optimization based Algorithm – Bio-Geography Based Optimization -
Accelerated PSO - Convergence Analysis: Dynamical Systems, Markov Chain Approach -
Binary PSO
Module-IV: Physics and Chemistry based Algorithms 9 hours
Quantum computational complexity and chemistry - Digital quantum simulation - Hybrid
Algorithm – Krill Herd (KH) algorithm
Module-V: Case studies 10 hours
Simulated annealing – Particle swarm Optimization – Differential Evolution - Firefly algorithm
- Cuckoo search – Bat algorithm – Flower pollination algorithm
Reference Books:
1. Xin-She Yang, Nature-Inspired Optimization Algorithms, 1st Edition, Elsevier,
2014.
2. Nazmul H. Siddique, HojjatAdeli, Nature-Inspired Computing: Physics and
Chemistry-Based Algorithms, Taylor & Francis, 2016.
3. Omid Bozorg-Haddad, Advanced Optimization by Nature-Inspired Algorithms,
Studies in Computational Intelligence, Springer, 2017.
Web Resources:
1. http://www.academia.edu/7395054/Nature-Inspired_Optimization_Algorithms
2. http://www.cleveralgorithms.com/nature-inspired/index.html
3. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.201002689/full

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 CSCE 871 ADVANCES IN COMPUTER GRAPHICS
L S P C
3 2 0 3
Pre-requisite:
• Nil
Objectives:
▪ Learn basic and fundamental computer graphics techniques.
▪ Learn image synthesis techniques;
▪ Examine applications of modeling, design and visualization.
▪ Learn different colormodeling and computer animation
▪ Learn hierarchical modeling and graphing file formats.

Module-I: Introduction 10 hrs

Introduction to interactive computer graphics-2D-3D,Visible-Surface Detection Methods
:Classification- Back-Face Method, Depth-Buffer Method, A-Buffer Method, Scan-Line
Method, BSP-Tree Method, Area-Subdivision Method, Octree Methods, Ray-Casting Method,
Comparison of Visibility –Detection Methods, Curved Surfaces, Wire-Frame Visibility –
Detection Functions

Module-II: Illumination Models and Surface 10

hrs
Rendering Methods: Light Sources, Surface Lighting Effects, Basic Illumination Models,
Transparent Surfaces, Atmospheric Effects, Shadows, Camera parameters, Displaying light
intensities, Halftone patterns and dithering techniques, polygon rendering methods, ray-tracing
methods, Radiosity lighting model, Environment mapping, Photon mapping, Adding surface
details, Modeling surface details with polygons, Texture mapping, Bump mapping

Module-III: Color models 10 hrs

Properties of light, Color models, Standard primaries and the chromaticity diagram, The RGB
color model, The YIQ and related color models, The CMY and CMYK color models, The HSV
color model, The HLS color model, Color Selection and applications.

Module-IV: Animation ` 10 hrs

Raster methods, Design of animations sequences, Traditional techniques, General computer-
animation functions, languages, Key-frame systems, Motion specification, Articulated figure
animation, Periodic motions
.
Module-V: Hierarchical modeling and Graphics file formats 10 hrs
Basic modeling concepts, packages, General hierarchical modeling methods, Image-File
configurations, Color-reduction methods, File-compression techniques, Composition of the
major file formats.
Text Book(s):

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 1. Hearn Baker, Computer Graphics with openGL, 4rd edition, Pearson publication.2010
2. James D Foley,Andries van dam,Steven K Feiner,John F Hughes, Computer graphics,
Pearson Education 3rd edition, 2013

Reference Book(s):
1. Edward Angel: Interactive Computer graphics a top-down approach with openGL,
Addison Wesley, 6th edition 2012
2. Advanced graphics programming using openGL: TomMcReynolds-David Blythe.
Elesvier.MK, 2005

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 CSCE 872 DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING
L S P C
3 2 0 3
Pre-requisite:
• Nil
Objectives:
• To understand the image fundamentals and mathematical transforms necessary for
image processing and to study the image enhancement techniques.
• To understand the image segmentation and representation techniques.
• To understand how image are analyzed to extract features of interest.
• To introduce the concepts of image registration and image fusion.
• To analyze the constraints in image processing when dealing with 3D data sets.
Module-I: Introduction to DIP 10 hrs
Origin- Applications, Steps, Components- Elements of Visual Perception, A Simple Image
Formation Model, Basic Concepts in Sampling and Quantization, Representing Digital Images,
Spatial and Gray-level Resolution, Zooming and Shrinking Digital Images, Some Basic
Relationships Between Pixels, Linear and Nonlinear Operations.
Module-II: Image Enhancement in the Spatial Domain10 hrs
Basic Gray Level Transformations, Histogram Processing, Enhancement Using
Arithmetic/Logic Operations, Spatial Filtering, Smoothing, Sharpening, Combining Spatial
Enhancement Methods.
Image Enhancement in the Frequency Domain: Fourier Transform and the Frequency Domain,
Smoothing, Sharpening, Homomorphic Filtering.
Module-III:Image Restoration 10hrs
A Model of the Image degradation/Restoration process, Noise Models, Restoration in the
Presence of Noise–Spatial Filtering, Periodic Noise Reduction:Frequency Domain Filtering,
Linear, Position-Invariant Degradations, Estimating the Degradation Function, Inverse
Filtering, Minimum Mean Square Error (Wiener) Filtering, Constrained Least Square Filtering,
Geometric Mean Filter.
Module-IV: Color Fundamentals10hrs
Color Models, Pseudocolor Image Processing, Basics of Full-Color Image Processing, Color
Transformations, Smoothing and Sharpening, Color Segmentation, Noise in Color Images,
Color Image Compression.
Wavelets and Multiresolution Processing:Image Pyramids, Subband coding, The Haar
Transform, Multiresolution Expansions, Wavelet Transforms in one Dimension, Fast Wavelet
Transform, Wavelet Transforms in Two Dimensions, Wavelet Packets.
Image Compression:Fundamentals, Image Compression Models, Error-free (Lossless)
compression, Lossy Compression.
Module-V:Image Segmentation 10 hrs
Morphological Image Processing:Preliminaries, Dilation and Erosion, Opening and Closing,
The Hit-or-Miss Transformation, Some Basic Morphological Algorithms.
Image Segmentation:Detection of Discontinuities, Edge Linking and Boundary Detection,
Thresholding, Region-Based Segmentation.
Text Book(s):
1. Rafael C Gonzalez and Richard E. Woods: Digital Image Processing, PHI 2nd
Edition 2005

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Reference Book(s):
1. A. K. Jain: Fundamentals of Digital Image Processing, Pearson, 2004.
2. Scott.E.Umbaugh: Digital Image Processing and Analysis, CRC Press, 2014.
3. S.Jayaraman, S.Esakkirajan, T.Veerakumar: Digital Image Procesing, McGraw Hill
Ed. (India) Pvt. Ltd., 2013

CSCE 873 PATTERN RECOGNITION

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 3 2 0 3
Pre-requisite:
• Nil
Objectives:
• To study the mathematical morphology necessary for Pattern recognition.
• To introduce the student to various Pattern recognition techniques.
• To study the Representation and description and feature extraction.
• To study the principles of decision trees and clustering in pattern recognition.

Module-I: Introduction10hrs
Definition of PR, Applications, Datasets for PR, Different paradigms for PR, Introduction to
probability, events, random variables, Joint distributions and densities, moments. Estimation
minimum risk estimators, problems.
Module-II: Representation10hrs
Data structures for PR, Representation of clusters, proximity measures, size of patterns,
Abstraction of Data set, Feature extraction, Feature selection, Evaluation.
Module-III: Nearest Neighbor based classifiers & Bayes classifier10hrs
Nearest Neighbor based classifiers & Bayes classifier: Nearest neighbor algorithm, variants of
NN algorithms, use of NN for transaction databases, efficient algorithms, Data reduction,
prototype selection, Bayes theorem, minimum error rate classifier, estimation of probabilities,
estimation of probabilities, comparison with NNC, Naive Bayes classifier, Basyessian belief
network.
Module-IV: Decision Trees10hrs
Introduction, DT for PR, Construction of DT, Splitting at the nodes, Over-fitting & Pruning,
Examples.
Module-V: Clustering10hrs
Hierarchical (Agglomerative, single/complete/average linkage, wards, Partitional (Forgy’s, k-
means, Isodata), clustering large data sets, examples.
Text Book(s):
1. V Susheela Devi, M Narsimha Murthy, Pattern Recognition (An Introduction),
Universities Press, ISBN 978-81-7371-725-3,2011.
2. Earl Gose, Richard Johnsonbaugh, Steve Jost Pattern Recognition & Image Analysis,.
PHI ISBN-81-203-1484-0, 1996.
Reference Book(s):
1. Duda R. O., P.E. Hart, D.G. Stork., Pattern Classification, John Wiley and sons, 2000.

CSCE 874 STEGANOGRAPHY AND DIGITAL WATERMARKING

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 3 2 0 3
Pre-requisite:
• Basic knowledge of security
Objectives:
To make the student
• understand the importance of information hiding
• analyse various steganographic techniques
• learn the various watermarking techiques

Module-I: Introduction to Information hiding10hrs

Brief history and applications of information hiding – Principles of Steganography –
Frameworks for secret communication – Security of Steganography systems –Information
hiding in noisy data – Adaptive versus non adaptive algorithms – Laplace filtering – Using
cover models – Active and malicious attackers – Information hiding in written text – Examples
of invisible communications.

Module-II: Survey of steganographic techniques10hrs

Substitution system and bitplane tools – Transform domain techniques – Spread spectrum and
information hiding – Statistical Steganography - Distortion and code generation techniques –
Automated generation of English text.

Module-III: Steganalysis10hrs
Detecting hidden information – Extracting hidden information - Disabling hidden information
– Watermarking techniques – History – Basic Principles – applications –Requirements of
algorithmic design issues – Evaluation and benchmarking of watermarking system.

Module-IV: Watermarking techniques 10 hrs

Cryptographic and psycho visual aspects – Choice of a workspace – Formatting the watermark
bets - Merging the watermark and the cover – Optimization of the watermark receiver –
Extension from still images to video – Robustness of copyright making systems.

Module-V: Fingerprints10hrs
Applications – Classification – Research history – Schemes – Digital copyright and
watermarking – Conflict of copyright laws on the internet.

Text Book(s):
1. Stefan Katzenbelsser and Fabien A. P. Petitcolas, “Information hiding techniques for
Steganography and Digital Watermarking”, ARTECH House Publishers, January
2004.
Reference Book(s):
1. Jessica Fridrich, “Steganography in Digital Media: Principles, Algorithms, and
Applications”, Cambridge university press, 2010.

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2. Ingemar Cox, Matthew Miller,JeffreyBloom,JessicaFridrich and TonKalker,
“DigitalWatermarking And Steganography”, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Nov
2007.

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 CSCE 875 BIOMETRIC SECURITY
L S P C
3 2 0 3
Pre-requisite:
• Basic knowledge of security
Objectives:
i) To review image processing techniques for biometric security
ii) To understand Face, Fingerprint, Palmprint, Iris biometric technologies
iii) To understand three-dimensional image analysis techniques
iv) To study some applications of biometric security algorithms

Module-I: Introduction To Biometrics10 hrs

Introduction and background – biometric technologies – passive biometrics – active biometrics
– Biometric systems – Enrollment – templates – algorithm – verification – Biometric
applications – biometric characteristics – Authentication technologies – Need for strong
authentication – Protecting privacy and biometrics and policy – Biometric applications –
biometric characteristics.
Module-II: Fingerprint Technology 10 hrs
History of fingerprint pattern recognition – General description of fingerprints – Finger print
feature processing techniques – fingerprint sensors and RF imaging techniques – finger point
quality assessment – computer enhancement and modeling of fingerprint images – finger print
enhancement – Feature extraction – fingerprint classification – fingerprint matching.
Module-III: Face Recognition And Hand Geometry 10 hrs
Introduction to face recognition, Neural networks for face recognition – face recognition from
correspondence maps – Hand geometry – scanning – Feature Extraction – Adaptive Classifiers
– Visual-Based Feature Extraction and Pattern Classification – feature extraction – types of
algorithm – Biometric fusion.
Module-IV: Multimodal Biometrics And Performance Evaluation 10 hrs
Introduction to multimodal biometric system – Integration strategies – Architecture – level of
fusion – combination strategy – training and adaptability – examples of multimodal biometric
systems – Performance evaluation – Statistical Measures of Biometrics – FAR – FRR – FTE –
EER – Memory requirement and allocation.
Module-V: Biometric Authentication 10 hrs
Introduction –Methods –Systems – fingerprint –Face Recognition – hand geometry-
Maximization theory – Support Vector Machines.–Securing and trusting a biometric
transaction – matching location – local host – authentication server – match on card (MOC) –
Multibiometrics and Two-Factor Authentication.
Text Book(s):
1. Paul Reid, “Biometrics for Network Security”, Pearson Education, 2004.
2. NaliniK.Ratha,RundBolle,“Automatic fingerprint recognition system, Springer”, 2003.
Reference Book(s):
1. L C Jain, I Hayashi, S B Lee, U Haleci, “Intelligent Biometric Techniques in
Fingerprint and Face Recognition”.

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2. S.Y.Kung,S.H.Lin,M.W.,“Mak Biometric Authentication: A Machine Learning
Approach”.
3. John Chirillo, Scott Blaul, “Implementing Biometric Security”, John Wile, 2003.
4. IEEE – T- PAMI (IEEE transaction on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence)
International journal of computer vision, Springer.

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 CSCE 876 CONTENT BASED INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
L S P C
3 2 0 3
Pre-requisite:
• Basic knowledge about information retrieval
Objectives:
To make the student understand
• the various techniques used in image enhancement
• the image retrieval techniques

Module-I: Introduction10hrs
Introduction – Steps in Image Processing Systems – Image Acquisition – Sampling and
Quantization – Pixel Relationships – Colour Fundamentals and Models, File Formats, Image
operations – Arithmetic, Geometric and Morphological.
Module-II: Image Enhancement10hrs
Spatial Domain Gray level Transformations : Spatial Domain Gray level Transformations -
Histogram Processing -- Spatial Filtering – Smoothing and Sharpening. Frequency Domain :
Filtering in Frequency Domain – DFT, FFT, DCT – Smoothing and Sharpening filters –
Homomorphic Filtering.
Module-III: Multimedia Databases10hrs
Multimedia Databases: Definition – Applications – Data Structures – Image Databases –
Video and Audio Processing – Query Languages – SQL Extension – Colour Based Retrieval –
Texture Based Retrieval – Shape Based Retrieval – Multimedia Retrieval Frameworks.
Module-IV: Image Retrieval10hrs
Classification of Images Based on features – Image Segmentation – Region and Object
Extraction – Video Parsing for Information Retrieval – Intelligent Search Agents – Evaluation
of Image and Video Retrieval – Metrics for evaluation and procedures.
Module-V: Content Based Image Retrieval10hrs
Multimedia Query Languages – Semantic Image Features – Image Queries-Classification and
Indexing schemes – Video Retrieval – Image Data Management – Standards – Current trends
and applications.
Text Book(s):
1. J.K.Wu, M.S.Kankanhalli, J.H.Lim, D.Z.Hong “Perspectives on Content Based
Multimedia Systems”, Kluwer Academic publishers,Boston,2000.
2. Rafael C.Gonzalez and Richard E.Woods, “Digital Image Processing” Second Edition,
Pearson Education, 2003.
3. Milan Sonka, Vaclav Hlavac and Roger Boyle, “Image Processing, Analysis and
Machine Vision”, Second Edition, Thomson Learning, 2001

Reference Book(s):
1. Anil K.Jain, “Fundamentals of Digital Image Processing”, Person Education, 2003.
2. Michael S.Lew “Image and Video Retrieval”, Springer – Verlag, 2002.
3. V.S.Subrahmanian and SusilJajodia (Eds), “Multimedia Database Systems Issues and
Reaserchdirections”,Springer –Verlag, 1996.

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4. SetragKhosafian and A.Brad Baker, “Multimedia and Image Databases” Morgan
Kaufmann, 1996.

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 CSCE 711 DIRECTED STUDY
L S P C
0 0 0 3

Pre-requisite:
• Nil
Objectives:
1. Ability to formulate an area of study and participate in defining a process for
knowledge building in relation to the area of study.
2. Ability to orally discuss and critically analyze key issues of the subject matter studied
in the course.
3. The ability to conceptualize key issues and research questions relative to the area of
study.
4. Complete projects demonstrating a critical analysis of a specific dimension or aspect
of the subject and its relationship to other dimensions or aspects of the subject.

Outcomes:

The subject matter of the course will relate to the student’s research interests. The primary
products of this course are an extensive literature review that could serve as the foundation for
the student’s subsequent project work.

The student has to submit a report containing the following

Introduction and Statement of the Problem. The first few pages should make it clear
what the paper is about and how the subject will be approached and analyzed.
Literature Review. A minimum of 30 research articles should be included as
references in the review.
The literature review must include
• an in-depth, detailed and nuanced understanding of a specific issue, topic
orquestion in the area of study;
• the theoretical issues and arguments raised and discussed in the literature of the
research area;
• an analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the extant research literature;
Discussion. This section states and justifies the description, analysis and argument on
the topic in a precise, readable and rigorous manner.
Conclusion. The conclusion summarizes the main argument of the essay as shows how
the work enhances our understanding of the subject.

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