UNIVERSITY OF MYSORE

DIRECTORATE OF OUTREACH AND

ONLINE PROGRAMS
MASTER OF COMPUTER APPLICATIONS

SEMESTER – III

Hard Core Courses

1. Theory of Complexity
2. Advanced Software Engineering
3. Python Programming
4. Machine Learning

Softcore courses
1. Digital Image Processing
2. Internet of Things
3. Mobile Application Design and Development
4. Big Data Analytics

Skill Enhancement Courses

1. Letex Documentation Tool
2. Project Methodology and Documentation
 III Semester

Hardcore Courses

Theory of Complexity (3:0:1)

Course Outcome

 Understand the notion of algorithm and its complexity.

 Able to compute tte time and space complexity of an algorithm.

 Able to analyse practical problems and classify them according to their complexity.

 Be familiar with the phenomenon of NP-completeness, and be able to identify problems

that are NP-complete.

 Be aware of a variety of complexity classes and their interrelationships.

Course Content

Unit-I
The notion of an algorithm. Complexity of algorithms and of problems. Lower and upper

bounds. Examples: sorting and travelling salesman. Models of computation and measures of

complexity. Time and space complexity on a Turing machine. Decidability and complexity.

Machine models for computations: variants of Turing machines and their equivalence.

Unit-II
Complexity theory: complexity hierarchies, effective reducibility, the P=NP problem, NP-
complete problems, complexity of various decidability problems in logic and automata
theory, Savitch's theorem.

Unit-III
The polynomial hierarchy. Boolean functions and circuits. First and second order logic
complexity and their relation to complexity classes. The relativized P=NP-problem.
Probabilistic algorithms and their complexity theory. Lower bounds for proof lengths in
systems of proposition logic.
Unit-IV
Complexity for other computational models, such as exact real arithmetic, higher type
functionals, and quantum computations. The time and space hierarchy theorems and complete
problems. Logics capturing complexity classes. Fagin’s theorem.

Reference Books

1. Papadimitriou (1994). Computational complexity. Addison-Wesley.

2. Goldreich (2008). Computational complexity: A conceptual perspective. Cambridge

University Press.

3. Sipser, M. (1997). Introduction to the theory of computation. PWS.

Advanced Software Engineering (3:1:0)

Course Outcome:

 Identify unique features of various software application domains and classify software
applications.

 Choose and apply appropriate lifecycle model of software development.

 Identify user needs and formulate software specifications, analyze requirements by

applying various modeling techniques, Translate the requirements model into the design
model.

 Understand the importance of User-interface design principles in software development,

the concepts of clean room software development.

 Classify CASE tools and their applicability in software development.

 Understand the principles of agile development and distinguish agile process model from
other process models.

 Learn the emerging trends in software development.

Course Content:

Unit-I

Introduction: The role of software engineering in system design, software products,

emergence of software engineering, notable changes in software development practices, the
changing nature of software, the software engineering challenges, software processes, desired
characteristics of software process, the software life cycle, software development process
models, comparison of process models.

Software Requirement Specification: Requirement analysis, need for SRS, characteristics

of SRS, organization of SRS document, techniques for representing complex logic, functional
specification with Use Cases, formal system development techniques.

Unit-II

Software Design: Introduction, cohesion and coupling, software design approaches, design
principles, module level concepts, Function-oriented software design, Object-oriented
software design concepts: Overview, UML, object-oriented design methodology, OOD
metrics and goodness criteria, user interface design concepts.

Coding and Testing: Coding standards, guidelines, code walkthroughs, code inspections,
software documentation, unit testing, black box testing, white box testing. Debugging,
approaches and guidelines, program analysis tools, integration testing, system testing, general
issues associated with testing.

Unit-III

Software Project Management: Main objectives of SPM, responsibility of software project

managers, project planning, structure of software project management document, project size
estimation metrics, project estimation techniques, project scheduling and staffing, work break
down structure, Gantt charts, PERT charts, organization and team structures, attributes of a
good software engineer, risk management and configuration management, software
maintenance process models, estimation of maintenance costs, CASE and its scope, CASE
support in software life cycle, characteristics of CASE tools, architecture of CASE
environment.
Software Quality Management: Software quality factors, quality metrics, software quality
management system, software reliability metrics, software reliability specification, reliability
growth modeling.

Unit-IV

Emerging Technologies: Agile software development concepts, Security concepts, security

risk management, design for security, system survivability. Service-oriented software
engineering- services as reusable components, service engineering, software development
with services. Aspect- oriented software development- The separation of concerns, aspects,
join points and point cuts, software engineering with aspects.

References Books:

1. Software Engineering, Ian Sommerville, 8th Edition, Pearson Education Ltd.,

2. Software Engineering – A practitioners approach, Roger. S. Pressman, Tata-McGraw

Hill 6th Edition.

3. Fundamentals of software engineering, Rajib Mall, Phi learning Pvt. Ltd, 3 rd edition.

4. Pankaj Jalote – An Integrated Approach to Software Engineering, Third Edition.

5. Ghezzi, Jazayeri, Mandrioli – Fundamentals of Software Engineering, PHI.

Python Programming (2:0:2)

Course Outcome

 Acquire programming skills in core Python. Acquire Object Oriented Skills in Python.

 Develop the skill of designing Graphical user Interfaces in Python.

 Develop an ability to write database applications in Python.

Course Content

Unit-I

Introduction: History of Python, Need of Python Programming, Applications Basics of

Python Programming Using the REPL(Shell), Running Python Scripts, Variables,
Assignment, Keywords, Input-Output, Indentation.
Unit-II

Types, Operators and Expressions: Types – Integers, Strings, Booleans; Operators-

Arithmetic Operators, Comparison (Relational) Operators, Assignment Operators, Logical
Operators, Bitwise Operators, Membership Operators, Identity Operators, Expressions and
order of evaluations Control Flow- if, if-elif-else, for, while break, continue, pass.

Data Structures Lists: Operations, Slicing, Methods; Tuples, Sets, Dictionaries, Sequences,
Comprehensions.

Unit-III

Functions: Defining Functions, Calling Functions, Passing Arguments, Keyword Arguments,

Default Arguments, Variable-length arguments, Anonymous Functions, Fruitful Functions
(Function Returning Values), Scope of the Variables in a Function- Global and Local
Variables. Modules: Creating modules, import statement, from. Import statement, name
spacing, Python packages, Introduction to PIP, Installing Packages via PIP, Using Python
Packages

Unit-IV

Object-Oriented Programming OOP in Python: Classes, ‘self-variable’, Methods, Constructor

Method, Inheritance, Overriding Methods, Data hiding, Error, and Exceptions: Difference
between an error and Exception, Handling Exception, try except for block, Raising
Exceptions, User Defined Exceptions.

Brief Tour of the Standard Library: Operating System Interface – String Pattern Matching,
Mathematics, Internet Access, Dates and Times, Data Compression, Multithreading, GUI
Programming, Turtle Graphics Testing: Why testing is required ?, Basic concepts of testing,
Unit testing in Python, Writing Test cases, Running Tests.

Reference Books

1. Charles Dierbach, "Introduction to Computer Science Using Python", 1st Edition, Wiley
India Pvt Ltd.

2. Mark Lutz, “Programming Python”, 4th Edition, O’Reilly Media, 2011.

3. Wesley J Chun, “Core Python Applications Programming”, 3rd Edition, Pearson

Education India, 2015.
4. Roberto Tamassia, Michael H Goldwasser, Michael T Goodrich, “Data Structures and
Algorithms in Python”,1st Edition, Wiley India Pvt Ltd, 2016.

5. ReemaThareja, “Python Programming using problem solving approach”, Oxford

university press, 2017.

6. Python Programming: A Modern Approach, VamsiKurama, Pearson

7. Learning Python, Mark Lutz, Orielly

8. Introduction to Python, Kenneth A. Lambert, Cengage.

Machine Learning (3:0:1)

Course Outcome

 Gain knowledge about basic concepts of Machine Learning.

 Identify machine learning techniques suitable for a given problem.
 Solve the problems using various machine learning techniques
 Design and implement machine learning solutions to classification, regression, and
clustering problems; and be able to evaluate and interpret the results of the algorithms.

Course Content

Unit-I
Introduction, Machine learning definition, importance of machine learning, machine learning
framework, types of machine learning, relation to other fields, examples of machine learning
applications, designing a learning system, issues in machine learning.

Unit-II
Introduction to Supervised Learning, Decision tree based classifier, Bayesian theory based
classifier, Neural network based classifier, Nearest neighbour classifier, Support vector
classifier, performance evaluation.

Unit-III
Introduction to Unsupervised Learning, Clustering methods, Criteria functions for clustering,
Similarity measures, Component analysis, Low dimensional analysis and multidimensional
scaling.
Unit-IV
Additional topics, Reinforcement learning, Genetic algorithms, Analytical learning,
Ensemble of classifiers, Design and analysis of machine learning experiments.

Reference Books

1. Machine Learning: a Probabilistic Perspective by Kevin Patrick Murphy, MIT Press,

March 2014.

2. Introduction to Machine Learning by Alex Smola and S.V.N. Vishwanathan, Cambridge

University Press.

3. Understanding Machine Learning: From Theory to Algorithms by Shai Shalev-Shwartz

and Shai Ben-David

4. Published 2014 by Cambridge University Press.

Softcore Courses

Digital Image Processing (2:0:2)

Course Outcome:

 Develop and implement algorithms for digital image processing.

 Apply image processing algorithms for practical object recognition applications.

Course Content

Unit–I

Introduction to digital image processing, Stages, Application areas, components,

electromagnetic spectrum, image sensing and acquisition, image sampling and quantization,
relationships between pixels, Enhancement in spatial domain: Intensity transformation
functions.
Unit–II

Spatial filtering, Frequency domain enhancement: Discrete Fourier transform (DFT)

properties of the 2D discrete Fourier transform, filtering in the frequency domain,
Introduction to Color image processing.

Unit–III

Segmentation – Intensity based – point, line and edge. Region based – Boundaries, region
growing, Thresholding, splitting and merging, segmentation by morphological watersheds,
the use of motion in segmentation.

Unit–IV

Morphological operations: Preliminaries, opening and closing, the hit-or-miss transformation,

some basic morphological algorithms, gray-scale images. Image representation.

Some applications: Document image processing, Biometrics, robot vision, medical

applications.

Reference Books

1. R. C. Gonzalez, R. E. Woods, Digital Image Processing, 3-rd ed. Prentice Hall, Pearson
publication.

2. Anil K Jain, Digitial Image Processing, PHI Publication

3. Milan Sonka, Image Processing, Analysis, and Machine Vision, 3rd Edition, CL
Engineering(2013)

Internet of Things (2:0:2)

Course Outcome

 Understand the key technologies in internet of things, wireless sensor network architecture
and its framework along with WSN applications,

 Understand the resource management and business models for the internet of things.
Course Content

Unit–I

Introduction to IoT: Definition and Characteristics, Physical Design of IoT, Logical Design of
IoT, IoT Enabling Technologies.

M2M and IoT: Introduction to M2M, Difference between IoT and M2M, SDN and NFV for
IoT.

IoT Protocols: IEEE 802.15.4, BACNet Protocol, Modbus, KNX, Zigbee Architecture,
6LoWPAN, RPL

Unit–II

Developing Internet of Things: IoT Platforms Design Methodology, Python packages of

Interest for IoT, IoT Physical Devices and Endpoints.

IoT and Cloud: IoT Physical Servers and Cloud Offerings, IoT Tools: Chef, Puppet.

Unit–III

Data Analytics for IoT: Big Data Platforms for the IoT, Hadoop Map Reduce for Batch Data
Analysis, Apache Oozie Workflows for IoT Data Analysis, In-Memory Analytics using
Apache Spark, Apache Storm for Real Time Data Analysis, Sustainability Data and Analytics
in Cloud based M2M Systems, Fog Computing: A Platform for IoT and Analytics

Unit–IV

Domain Specific IoTs: Home Automation, Cities, Environment, Energy, Retail, Logistics,
Agriculture, Industry, Health and Lifestyle, Virtual Reality Internet Advertising, Intelligent
Transportation Systems, Health Information System: Genomics Driven Wellness Tracking
and Management System (Go-WELL).

Reference Books

1. Arshdeep Bahga, Vijay Madisetti, Internet of Things: A Hands-on Approach, 2015, 1st
Edition, Universities Press.

2. Olivier Hersent, David Boswarthick, Omar Elloumi, The Internet of Things – Key
applications and Protocols, 2012, Wiley Publication.
3. Honbo Zhou, The Internet of Things in the Cloud: A Middleware Perspective, 2012, CRC
Press.

4. Dieter Uckelmann; Mark Harrison; Florian Michahelles Architecting the Internet of

Things,

Mobile Application Design and Development (2:0:2)

Course Outcome

 Describe Android platform, Architecture and features.

 Design User Interface and develop activity for Android App.

 Use intent, broad cast receivers and internet services in Android App.

 Design and implement Database Application and Content providers.

 Use multimedia, camera and Location based services in Android App.

 Discuss various security issues in Android platform.

Course Content:

Unit–I

Mobile application development: A brief history of mobile, Mobile ecosystem, Designing for
context, Developing a Mobile Strategy, Mobile Information Architecture, Mobile Design,
Types of mobile application

Unit –II

Technologies: HTML5-elements, form, graphics, media, CSS3-2Dtransforms, 3Dtransforms,

transitions, animations, images, Javascript-forms, objects, error handling, validations, JQuery-
selectors, effects, traversing, Ajax

Unit –III

Android programming: Android toolkit, Java for android, components of an Android

Application.
Android software development: Eclipse Concepts and Terminology, Eclipse Views and
Perspectives, Eclipse and Android, Effective java for Android.

Android Framework: Building a View, Fragments and Multiplatform Support, Handling and
Persisting Data.

Android UID principles: Designing powerful user interfaces, handling advanced user input,
designing accessible applications.

Unit–IV

Drawing, Animations and Graphics programming: Developing 2D graphics applications,

working with animations developing Android 3D graphics applications, using Android NDK.

Reference Books

1. ZigurdMednieks, Laird Dornin, G. Blake Meike, and Masumi Nakamura,

Programming Android, 2011, 1st Edition, O’Reilly Media.

2. Jonathan Stark, Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS and JavaScript, 2011,
1st Edition, O’Reilly Media.

3. Brian fling, Mobile Design and Development, 2009,1st Edition, O'Reilly Media.

4. Paul Deitel, Harvey Deitel, Abbey Deitel, Michael Morgana, Android for
Programmers An App-Driven Approach, 2012, 2nd Edition, Deitel Developer Series,
Pearson Education.

Big Data Analytics (2:0:2)

Course Outcome

 Understand the key issues in big data management and its associated applications in
intelligent business and scientific computing.

 Acquire fundamental enabling techniques and scalable algorithms like Hadoop, Map
Reduce and NO SQL in big data analytics.

 Interpret business models and scientific computing paradigms, and apply software tools for
big data analytics.

 Achieve adequate perspectives of big data analytics in various applications like

recommender systems, social media applications etc.
Course Content

Unit–I

Introduction to Big Data Analytics: Big Data Overview, State of practice in analytics, Role of
Data Scientists, Examples of Big Data Analytics, Data Analytics Lifecycle, Components of
Hadoop, Analyzing Big data with Hadoop, Design of HDFS, Developing a Map reduce
Application.

Unit-II

Map Reduce: Distributed File System(DFS), Map Reduce, Algorithms using Map Reduce,
Communication cost Model, Graph Model for Map Reduce Problem.

Unit–III

Hadoop Environment: Setting up a Hadoop Cluster, Hadoop Configuration, Security in

Hadoop, Administering Hadoop, Hadoop Benchmarks, Hadoop in the cloud.

Big Data Analytics Methods using R: Introduction to R-Attributes, R Graphical user

interfaces, Data import and export, attribute and Data Types, Descriptive Statistics,
Exploratory Data Analysis.

Unit–IV

Statistical methods for evaluation: Hypothesis Testing, Difference of Means, Wilcoxon Rank-
Sum Test, Type I and Type II errors, power and sample size, ANOVA.

Advanced Analytics - technologies and tools: Analytics for unstructured data, The Hadoop
ecosystem – pig – Hive- HBase- Mahout- NoSQL.

Reference Books

1. Data Science and Big Data Analytics: Discovering, Analyzing, Visualizing and Presenting
Data by EMC Education Services, 2015, publishing.

2. Anand Raja Raman and Jeffrey David Ullman, Mining of Massive Datasets, 2012,
Cambridge University Press.

3. Tom White, Hadoop: The Definitive Guide, 3rd Edition, O’Reilly Media
Skill Enhancement Courses

Letex Documentation Tool (1:0:1)

Course Outcome

 Understanding the overall features supported by Latex tool to prepare flawless, elegant
and descriptive documents.

 Able to prepare any type of document such as Project Dissertation, Ph.D. Thesis, research
articles, survey papers etc., incorporating the required features supported by the Latex
tool.

Course Content
Unit-1
Introduction, LATEX Syntax-Commands, Environments, Packages; Keyboard Characters in
LATEX; Fonts Selection-Text-Mode Fonts, Math-Mode Fonts, Emphasized Fonts, Colour
Fonts; Formatting Texts-Sectional Units, Labelling and Referring Numbered Items, Texts
Alignment, Quoted Texts, New Lines and Paragraphs, Creating and Filling Blank Space,
Producing Dashes Within Texts, Preventing Line Break, Adjusting Blank Space After a
Period Mark, Hyphenating a Word, Increasing Depth of Sectional Units, Changing Titles and
Counters of Sectional Units, Multiple Columns, Mini Pages, Foot, Marginal Notes.

Unit-2

Page Layout and Style-Page Layout, Page Style, Running Header and Footer, Page Breaking
and Adjustment, Page Numbering; Listing and Tabbing Texts-Listing Texts, Tabbing Texts
Through the tabbing Environment; Table preparation, Figure Insertion, Figure Drawing,
Equation Writing, User-Defined Macros, Bibliography with LATEX, Bibliography with
BIBTEX Program, Lists of Contents and Index, Letter and Article, Book and Report, Slide
Preparation, Error and Warning Messages, Miscellaneous.

Reference Books

1. Dilip Datta, Latex in 24 Hours, A Practical Guide for Scientific Writing, Springer
International Publishing AG 2017. ISBN 978-3-319-47831-9.

2. Goossens M, Mittelbach F, Samarin A (1994) The LATEX companion. Addison-Wesley

Publishing Company.
3. Goossens M, Rahtz S, Mittelbach F (1997) The LATEX graphics companion. Addison-
Wesley, Longman Inc.

4. Harvey J, Greenberg A (2000) Simplified introduction to LATEX. Technical report,

Mathematics Department, University of Colorado at Denver.

5. Kopka H, Daly PW (1995) A guide to LATEX2ε. Addison-Wesley, Harlow.

6. Lamport L (1994) LATEX: user’s guide and reference manual. Pearson Education,
Englewood Cliffs.

7. Frank M, Michel G, Johannes B, David C, Chris R (2004) The LATEX companion.

Addison-Wesley, Boston.

8. Oetiker T, Partl H, Hyna I, Schlegl E (2006) The not so short introduction to LATEX2ε.
Technical report. https://www.CTAN.org/tex-archive/info/lshort.

Project Methodology and Documentation (1:0:1)

Course Outcome

 Able to identify the need of designing and development of computer application for real
world problem, perform feasibility analysis and problem formulation.

 Understand the types of project such as research project, applied project and their features.

 Understand the importance of project design, features of good project design, experimental
design in any project work.

 Understand the concept of measurement, sampling, data analysis, interpretation and

documentation.

Course Content

Unit-1

Overview of Project: Meaning, purpose, significance of ethical conduct in project,

Classification of project based on its purpose (Basic, Applied, Evaluation and Action).

Scientific Thinking: Types of reasoning, Critical Thinking, Importance of existing

knowledgebase (review of literature)
Elements of Project: Concepts, Constructs, Definitions – Theoretical and Operational,
Theory, Literature Review and its importance, Models, questions and objectives, project
design and methodology.

Unit-2
Qualitative and Quantitative Project, Concept of measurement, Concepts of Statistical
Population, Sample, Sampling Frame, Sampling Error, Sample Size, Non Response,
Characteristics of a good sample, Simple Random Sample, Systematic Sample, Stratified
Random Sample & Multi-stage sampling, Determining size of the sample, Practical
considerations in sampling and sample size.

Data Analysis: Univariate analysis (frequency tables, bar charts, pie charts, percentages),
Bivariate analysis – Cross tabulations and Chi-square test including testing hypothesis of
association.

Interpretation of Data and Project Documentation: Organization of a project report,

overview of the problem statement, scope and domain, review of literature related to the
problem domain, identifying the technical gap to be addressed, motivation for the problem
statement, challenges and issues to be addressed, expected outcomes of the project work,
overall framework of the proposed project work, implementation platform and bibliography.

Reference Books:

1. The Practical Guide to Project Management Documentation by John Rakos et al., John
Wiley & Sons, Inc. Hoboken, New Jersey, December 2004.

2. Fundamentals of Project management by James P. Lewis, Third edition.

3. Fundamentals of Project management by Joseph Heagney, Fifth edition.

4. Guide to Project Management by Paul Roberts, Second Edition