M.

Sc in Computer Science
with specialization in
Networking and Cyber Security/ Data Analytics

Faculty of Science
Department of Computer Science
St. Xavier’s University, Kolkata
 M.Sc Computer Science - Curriculum

Programme Educational Objectives

PEO 1: Providinga strong foundation on theoretical aspects of Computer Science by strengthening
mathematical and scientific competencies
PEO 2: Acquiring expertise in latest technological tools for development and experimentation
PEO 3: Building cutting-edge solutions to challenging societal problems that meets industry-standards
PEO 4: Forming research bent of mind in areas of interest
PEO 5: Encouraging students to take up higher education, research and entrepreneurship

Programme Outcomes
PO 1: Ability to apply mathematical, statistical and programming knowledge to tackle challenging
problems
PO 2: Gaining keen understanding of the hardware aspect of a system and its relationship with software
PO 3: Conducting rigorous experimentation to analyze and interpret data
PO 4: Building models which are technically robust and in-line with best computing practices
PO 5: Understanding the internal details of a computational process for identification and correction
of erroneous scenarios
PO 6: Analyzing the proposed solution to a problem based upon well-defined computational
parameters
PO 7: Learning to document research findings in a scientific and systematic manner
PO 8: Recognizing learning as a lifelong process and the need tobeing self-taught
M.Sc. Computer Science with specializations in:
1. Networking and Cyber Security
2. Data Analytics

Total Marks: 2400

Total Credit: 96
Semester wise Details
Semester–I
Number of Papers: 5
Course Credits in each course
Course code Course Title Type
Theory Practical Tutorial Credits Total Marks
MCSR110C Advanced Analysis of Algorithm Core 3 2 0 5 [20(CIA) +
40(T)] + 40(P)
MCSR120C Distributed System Core 3 2 0 5 [20(CIA) +
40(T)] + 40(P)
MCSR130T Automata and Compiler Design Core 4 0 0 4 20(CIA) + 80(T)
MCSR140C Statistical Analysis using Python Core 2 3 0 5 [20(CIA) +
30(T)] + 50(P)
MCSR150C Artificial Intelligence and Soft Core 3 2 0 5 [20(CIA) +
Computing 40(T)] + 40(P)
Total 15 9 0 24 500

Semester–II
Number of Papers: 6
Course Credits in each course
Course code Course Title
Type Theory Practical Tutorial Credits Total Marks
MCSR210C Core 3 1 0 4 [20(CIA) +
Cryptography and Cryptanalysis 60(T)] + 20(P)

MCSR220C Machine Learning Core 3 2 0 5 [20(CIA) +

40(T)] + 40(P)
MCSR230C Embedded and Real Time Core 2 2 1 5 [20(CIA) + 40(T)]
Systems + 40(P)
MCSR240C Advanced Software Engineering Core 3 2 0 5 [20(CIA) + 40(T)]
+ 40(P)
MCSR250C Operation Research and Core 3 2 0 5 [20(CIA) + 40(T)]
Research Methodology + 40(P)
Total 14 9 1 24 500

Semester–III
Number of Papers: 5+2
Course Course Title Course Credits in each course
code Type Theory Practical Tutorial Credits Total Marks
MCSR310C Computer Vision Core 3 2 0 5 [20(CIA) +
40(T)] + 40(P)
MCSR320C Data Warehouse and Mining Core 3 2 0 5 [20(CIA) + 40(T)]
+ 40(P)
MCSR330T Mobile and wireless Computing Core 2 0 0 2 20(CIA) + 80(T)
Specialization Bucket: 01 (Networking and Cyber Security)
MCSR341T Cloud Computing Core 4 0 0 4 20(CIA) + 80(T)
MCSR351T Network Security 4 0 0 4 20(CIA) + 80(T)
Specialization Bucket: 02 (Data Analytics)
MCSR342T Business Intelligence Core 4 0 0 4 20(CIA) + 80(T)
MCSR352T Deep Learning 4 0 0 4 20(CIA) + 80(T)
MCSR360P Smart Analytics System Design Core 0 2 0 2 20(CIA) + 80(P)
 Lab
MCSR370J Project – Phase 1 Core 0 0 2 2 20(CIA) + 80(J)
Total 16 6 2 24 700

Semester–IV
Number of Papers: 3+3
Course code Course Title Course Credits in each course
Type Theory Practical Tutorial Credits Total Marks
Specialization Bucket: 01 (Networking and Cyber Security)
MCSR411T Security for Business Core 4 0 0 4 20(CIA) + 80(T)
Infrastructure, Cyber Law and
Ethics
MCSR421T Security for Cyber-Physical 4 0 0 4 20(CIA) + 80(T)
Systems
MCSR431T IOT and Smart Systems 4 0 0 4 20(CIA) + 80(T)
Specialization Bucket: 02 (Data Analytics)
MCSR412T Bio-informatics Core 4 0 0 4 20(CIA) + 80(T)
MCSR422T NLP and Text Analytics 4 0 0 4 20(CIA) + 80(T)
MCSR432T Social Network Analytics 4 0 0 4 20(CIA) + 80(T)
MCSR440J Term Paper Core 0 0 2 2 20(CIA) + 80(P)
MCSR450J Project – Phase II ** Core 0 0 8 8 40(CIA) + 160(P)
MCSR460V General Viva-Voce Core 0 0 2 2 20(CIA) + 80(P)
Total 12 0 12 24 700
*CIA: Continuous Internal Assessment, T: Theory, P: Practical and C: Combine

** Publication of at least ONE research paper in UGC recognized Journal is Desirable.

 M.Sc Computer Science - Detailed Syllabus

Detailed Syllabus – Semester 1

MCSR110C: Advanced Analysis of Algorithm

Unit I: Introduction
Definition of algorithms, Characteristics of algorithms, Types of algorithms: Recursive, Non-recursive

Unit II: Performance evaluation of Algorithms

Efficiency of an algorithm in terms of space and time, Asymptotic notation (Big-O, Big-Omega, Big-Theta, Small-O,
Small-Omega), Best Case, Worst Case, Average Case, Recurrence Relations, Master’s Theorem for Recursive
Algorithms

Unit III: Divide and Conquer Paradigm

Binary Search, Quick Sort, Merge Sort, Strassen’s Algorithm for Matrix Multiplication

Unit IV: Greedy Paradigm

Knapsack problem, Huffman Coding, Job Sequencing problem, Activity Selection Problem

Unit V: Dynamic Programming Paradigm

Fibonacci Sequence, Longest Common Sub Sequence, Matrix Chain Multiplication, Subset Sum Problem

Unit VI: Graph Algorithms

Traversal algorithms: BFS, DFS, Minimal Spanning Tree algorithms: Prim’s, Kruskal’s, Single Source Shortest Path
Algorithms: Dijkstra’s, Floyd Warshall, Topological Sort

Unit VII: Classification of problems

Concept of P, NP, NP-hard, NP-complete, SAT Problem, Cook’s Theorem

For the practical portion, the following topics are to be covered:

1. Implementation of Divide and Conquer problems such as Binary Search, Quick Sort, Merge Sort
2. Implementation of Greedy problems such as Knapsack and Huffman Coding
3. Implementation of DP problems such as Matrix Chain Multiplication and Subset Sum Problem
4. Implementation of Graph algorithms such as BFS, DFS, Prim’s Kruskal’s among others

Suggested Books
1. T. H. Cormen et al -Introduction to Algorithms , PHI
2. E. Horowitz, S. Sahani - Fundamentals of Computer Algorithms – Galgotia
3. Bratley et al - Fundamentals of Algorithms-PHI

MCSR120C: Distributed Systems

Unit I: Introduction
Definition of Distributed System, Difference with Centralized System, Advantages and Disadvantages

Unit II: Communication in Distributed Systems

Review of the OSI Model, Client Server Model, Remote Procedure Call

Unit III: Synchronization in Distributed Systems

Clocks, Centralized, Distributed and Token Ring Algorithms for Mutual Exclusion, Bully and Ring Algorithms for
Election, Deadlocks in Distributed Systems and comparison with Centralized Systems
Unit IV: Processes and Processors in Distributed Systems
Threads, System Models, Processor Allocation, Scheduling, Fault Tolerance

Unit V: Distributed File Systems

Design, Implementation and Trends in Distributed File Systems

Unit VI: Distributed Shared Memory

Definition of shared memory, Consistency Models, Page-based distributed shared memory

For the practical portion, special reference may be given to Operating System as a concurrent program in UNIX
environments

Suggested Books
1. Tanenbum,A.S., Distributed Operating Systems ,Pearson Education.
2. Singhal,Shivaratri, Advanced Concepts in Operating Systems, TMH.
3. P.K.Sinha, Distributed Operating Systems, PHI
4. D.M. Dhamdhere, Operating Systems – A Concept Based Approach, Second Edition, TMGH, 2006, New Delhi

MCSR130T: Automata and Compiler Design

Unit I: Introduction to Automata Theory
Definition of automaton, Alphabet, Language, Finite Automaton (DFA, NFA, Epsilon-NFA, Mealy Machine, Moore
Machine), Construction of Finite Automata from language, Conversion of NFA to DFA, Minimization of DFA,
Construction of Mealy and Moore Machines from language, Inter-conversion of Mealy and Moore Machines

Unit II: Families of Formal Languages

Regular expressions, Examples of regular expressions, Identities of regular expressions, Testing whether a language is
regular or not, Examples of regular languages

Unit III: Grammar

Definition, Chomsky’s Classification of Grammars, Grammar as a generator of languages, Elimination of parameters
from CFG (null productions, unit productions, useless symbols), Representation of CFG (CNF, GNF)

Unit IV: Phases of Compilation

Definition of compiler, Different phases of compilation, Symbol Table, Ambiguous grammars and making them
unambiguous, Elimination of left recursion, Elimination of non-determinism

Unit V: Parsers
Recursive descent, LL(1), LR(0), SLR(1), LALR(1), CLR(1)

Suggested Books
1. Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation by John E. Hopcroft,
Rajeev Motwani, Jeffrey D. Ullman, 3rd Edition, Pearson.
2. Theory of Computer Science (Automata, Languages & Computation) by K L P Misra &
N Chandrasekharan, 3rd Edition, PHI.
3. Switching and Finite Automata Theory by ZviKohavi, Niraj.K.Jha, 3rd Edition, TMH.
4. Formal Language and Automata, P. Linz, Narosa

MCSR140C: Statistical Analysis using Python

Unit I: Exploratory Data Analysis
Introduction to IRIS dataset, Scatter plots (2-D, 3-D), Pair Plots, Histogram, Probability Density Function (PDF),
Univariate Analysis, Cumulative Distribution Function (CDF), Mean, Variance, Standard Deviation, Median,
Percentiles, Quartiles, Inter quartile range, Median Absolute Deviation, Box plot with whiskers, Violin plots, Contour
plot for multivariate analysis

Unit II: Applied Probability and Statistics

CDF of Gaussian Distribution, Symmetric distribution, Skewness, Kurtosis, Standard Normal Variable,
Standardization, Kernel Density Estimation (KDE), Sampling Distribution, Central Limit Theorem, Q-Q Plot,
Chebyshev’s Inequality, Discrete and Continuous Uniform Distributions, Log Normal Distributions, Power law
distributions, Box Cox transforms, Co-variance, Pearson Correlation Coefficient, Spearman Rank Correlation
Coefficient, Confidence Interval, Hypothesis Testing, Resampling and permutation testing, K-S Test

Unit III: Dimensionality Reduction

Data matrix, Feature Normalization, Mean and Co-variance of Data Matrix, Column Standardization, Demonstration
on MNIST Dataset of Handwritten digits, Principal Component Analysis (PCA) as a tool for dimensionality reduction
and visualization, t-SNE as a tool for dimensionality reduction and visualization

For the practical portion, all statistical techniques are to be covered on popularly available data sets or synthetic
data sets created using random values

Suggested Books
1. Practical Statistics for Data Scientists, 2e: 50+ Essential Concepts Using R and Python by Peter Bruce, Andrew
Bruce, Peter Gedeck, O’Reilly
2. Head First Statistics: A Brain-Friendly Guide by Dawn Griffiths, O’Reilly
3. Think Stats: Exploratory Data Analysis, Second Edition by Allen Downey, O’Reilly

MCSR150C: Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing

Unit I: Introduction
Definition, Importance of AI in fields of education, healthcare, medicine, environment, Advantages and
disadvantages of AI, AI as a superset of Machine Learning, Data Science and Deep Learning

Unit II: State Space search

State Space Graphs, Implicit and explicit graphs, Production Systems, formulating the state-space; Uninformed
search: breadth first search, depth first search; Uniform cost algorithm; Informed search: use of heuristics, A*
algorithm, Admissibility of A*; Analysis and comparison of search algorithms.

Unit III: Adversarial Search

Two agent games, AND/OR graphs, Min-max procedure, and game trees, Alpha – Beta pruning procedure, learning
evaluation functions.

Unit IV: Constrained Satisfaction Search

Introduction to Constrained Satisfaction search (CSP), Applications, Algorithms to CSPs, Symbolic constraints and
propagation.

Unit V: Fuzzy Systems

Introduction to fuzzy logic, Fuzz set v/s Crisp set, Fuzzy relation, Fuzzy set operations, Entropy of fuzzy set,
Composition of fuzzy set, Properties of fuzzy set, Defuzzification

Unit VI: Soft Computing

Definition, Comparison with traditional computing, Characteristics, Applications

Unit VII: Neural Networks

History of neural network and Deep Learning, Working of biological neurons, Growth of biological neural networks,
Perceptron, Multi-layer Perceptron (MLP), Training an MLP, Backpropagation, Activation functions, Vanishing
gradient problem, Bias-Variance tradeoff

For the practical portion, the following topics are to be covered:

1. Logic programming using PROLOG or LISP
2. Implementing Neural Networks from scratch using Python

Suggested Books
1. Elaine Rich and Kevin Knight: Artificial Intelligence, TMH
2. Dan W. Patterson: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems, PHI
3. S. Russel and P. Norvig, "Artificial Intelligence, A modern Approach"

Detailed Syllabus – Semester 2

MCSR210C: Cryptography and Cryptanalysis

Unit I: Introduction
Dimensions of Security, Classification of attacks, Definition of Cryptography, Advantages of Cryptography,
Applications of Cryptography in the modern-era, Real-world case studies on use of cryptography, Cryptography v/s
Network Security

Unit II: Mathematics behind Symmetric Key Cryptography

Set of Integers, Binary Operations on Integers, Modular Arithmetic, Matrices, Determinants, Linear Congruence,
Group, Ring, Field

Unit III: Symmetric Key Ciphers

Substitution Ciphers (Mono-alphabetic ciphers, Poly-alphabetic ciphers), Transposition Ciphers (Keyless, Keyed),
Stream Ciphers, Block Ciphers, DES, AES

Unit IV: Mathematics behind Asymmetric Key Ciphers

Prime Numbers, Euler’s Phi Function, Fermat’s Little Theorem, Euler’s Theorem, Factorization, Chinese Remainder
Theorem,

Unit V: Asymmetric Key Ciphers

Keys, Trapdoor One-way function, RSA Cryptosystem

Unit VI: Integrity, Authentication, Key Management

Hash Functions, Digital Signature, Passwords, Kerberos

For the practical portion, the following topics are to be covered:

1. Encryption/Decryption using Caesar Cipher, Substitution Cipher and Hill Cipher
2. Implementation of DES algorithm
3. Implementation of RSA algorithm
4. Implementation of Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange mechanism
5. Implementation of One Time Password mechanism

Suggested Books
1. Computer Security: Art and Science, M. Bishop, Pearson Education.
2. Information Security: Principles and Practice, M. Stamp, John Wiley & Sons.
3. Cryptography and Network Security, William Stallings, Eastern Economy Edition, PHI.
4. Cryptography and Network Security, Behrouz A Forouzan, McGraw Hill Education.
MCSR220C: Machine Learning
Unit I: Classification and Regression Models: KNN
How classification works, Data Matrix Notation, Classification v/s Regression (examples), KNN intuition, Failure cases
of KNN, Distance measures: Euclidean, Manhattan, Minkowski, Hamming, Cosine Distance and Cosine Similarity,
Measuring effectiveness of KNN, Test/Evaluation time and Space Complexity, KNN Limitations, Decision surface for
KNN as K changes, Overfitting and Underfitting, Cross validation, KNN for regression,

Unit II: Performance measurement of Models

Accuracy, Confusion Matrix, ROC Curve, AUC, Log-loss, Coefficient of determination, Median Absolute Deviation,
Distribution of errors

Unit III: Classification algorithms in various situations

Imbalanced v/s Balanced datasets, Multi-class classification, Train and Test set differences, Impact of outliers, Local
outlier factor, Reachability distance, Impact of scale and column standardization, Feature importance and Forward
Feature Selection, Handling categorical and numerical features, Handling missing values, Curse of Dimensionality,
Bias-Variance trade-off

Unit IV: Algorithms

Naive Baye’s, Logistic Regression, Linear Regression, SVMs, Decision Trees, Ensemble Models

Unit V: Case Study

Marketing Attribution using Mathematical Models, Quora Question Pair Similarity Problem, Personalized Cancer
Diagnosis, Stack Overflow Tag Predictor, Microsoft Malware Detection

For the practical portion, the case studies listed under Unit V are to be implemented

Suggested Books
1. Machine Learning by Tom M. Mitchell, TMH
2. Machine Learning by Saikat Dutt et al , Pearson
3. Introduction to Machine Learning with Python: A Guide for Data Scientists by Andreas Muller, O’Reilly
4. Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras and Tensor Flow: Concepts, Tools and Techniques to Build
Intelligent Systems by Aurelian Geron, O’Reilly
5. Deep Learning (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning Series) by Ian Goodfellow, et. al, The MIT Press

MCSR230C: Embedded and Real Time Systems

Unit I: Introduction to 8051
Overview of Microcontroller, Memory, I/O interface Intel Microcontroller 8051: Architecture, Peripheral Interface
Controller (PIC)

Unit II: Assembly Language Programming

Instruction set, Addressing Modes, Jump, Loop and Call instructions, I/O Manipulation, Serial communication,
Arithmetic and logical instructions.

Unit III: Introduction to Embedded System Programming

Data types and time delays, I/O programming, Logic operations, Data conversions, Data serialization, Interrupt
programming, LCD and Keyboard interfacing, ADC, DAC, sensors interfacing, interfacing 8255, I/O interfacing for
8051, interfacing 8255, 8257, 8259/ 8279, ADC, DAC, Motor control using 8051 C.

Unit IV: Programmable logic devices and Hardware description Language

PAL, PLA, PLD, ASIC, FPGA
Unit V: Hardware Description Language (VHDL)
Basic Terminology, Entity Declaration, Architecture body, Configuration and package declaration, Package body,
Model analysis and Simulation. Basic Language elements, Behavioral Model, Dataflow Model, Structural Model,
Subprogram and overloading, Applications.

For the practical portion, the following points are to be covered:

1. Assembly language programming using 8051 microcontroller
2. VHDL Programming

Suggested Books
1. Ray, Bhurchandi ,Advanced Microprocessors and Peripherals, TMH
2. Mazidi, McKinlay, The 8051 Microcontroller and Embedded Systems, Pearson – Prentice Hall
3. Barry Brey, The Intel Microprocessors: TMH
4. Computers as Components: Principles of Embedded Computing System Design (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in
Computer Architecture and Design) by Wayne Wolf
5. Embedded Systems - Architecture, Programming and Design by Raj Kamal, McGraw Hill Publishers

MCSR240C: Advanced Software Engineering

Unit I: Software Engineering Fundamentals

Software Process, Software Life Cycle Standards, Software Requirements Analysis & Specification, Software Design.

Unit II: Testing

Testing Fundamentals, System Testing, Integration Testing, Black Box Testing, White Box Testing,
Testing Process, Software Maintenance

Unit III: Project management

Process, software configuration process models, requirements change management process, Process management
process

Unit IV: Effort Estimation

Function Points, COCOMO, Project scheduling and staffing, Risk Management

Unit V: Software metrics and Reliability

Errors, Faults and Failures, Reliability as a Quality Attribute, Requirements Reliability Metrics, Textual Requirement
Analysis, Design and Code Reliability Metrics, Testing Reliability Metrics

For the practical portion, the following points are to be covered:

1. Project based on PERT/CPM
2. SRS to Deployment of model
3. Applying Software Engineering tools for Cloud-based problems

Suggested Books
1. Software Engineering: A Practitioner’s Approach by R.S. Pressman, McGraw-Hill
2. Fundamentals of Software Engineering by R. Mall, PHI
3. Software Engineering by I. Sommerville, Addison Wesle
4. Software Engineering for Students by D. Bell, Addison-Wesley
MCSR250C: Operation Research and Research Methodology

Part I: Operation Research

Unit I: Introduction
Definition, Concept, Meaning, Phases, Scope, Advantages, Disadvantages, Mathematical Modeling of Real Life
Problems

Unit II: Prerequisite to Linear Programming

Introduction to Linear algebra, Solution of a system of Linear Equations, Linear independence and dependence of
vectors, Concept of Basis, Basic Feasible solution, Convex sets, Extreme points, Hyperplanes and Halfspaces, Convex
cones, Polyhedral sets and cones

Unit III: Linear Programming Problem

Linear Programming Problem Formulation, solution by Graphical Method, Theory of Simplex Method, Simplex
Algorithm, Two phase Method, Charnes-M Method, Degeneracy, Theory of Duality, Dual-simplex method

For the practical portion, LPP exercises are to be carried out.

Part II: Research Methodology

Unit IV: Introduction

Overview of research; Types of Research approaches: fundamental, pure or theoretical research, applied research,
evaluation research, survey research; Sources of research problem; Criteria/Characteristics of a good research
problem; Scope and objectives of research problem; Formulation of a research problem, identifying variables,
constructing hypotheses, errors in selecting a research problem. 2. Research design: Objectives, Strategies,
Guidelines for design of experiments. Selecting a study design. 3. Literature survey – Reviewing the literature, Survey
using Web of Science, Survey using Scopus, Literature survey writing up, importance of Review of literature.

Unit V: Data and Statistics

Sources of Data, Documentary Sources, Field Sources, Methods of Data Collection. Data analysis – Definition, Types
of analysis, Terminology in data analysis, Data Preparation, Classification, and Visualization of data, assessing data
and reporting results; Descriptive statistics: Measure of Central Tendency, Measure of Dispersion, Measure of
Relation. Modelling skills – Concept, Different modelling approaches 5. Experimental skills, Safety in laboratory.
Testing of Hypothesis: Meaning of Hypothesis, Need for Hypothesis, Types of Hypothesis, Sources of Hypothesis,
Functions of Hypothesis, Character of Good Hypothesis, Statistical Testing of Hypothesis, One Sample Test, Two
Independent Sample Tests

Unit VI: Research Ethics

Ethics in Research, Ethics and Research Process, Importance of Ethics in Research Plagiarism: Introduction of
Plagiarism, Dimension of Plagiarism, Detect Plagiarism, Strategies to Minimize Plagiarism.

For the practical portion, the following points are to be covered:

1. Technical writing - LaTeX, Microsoft Word

Suggested Books
1. Operations Research by Kanti Swarup, P.K. Gupta, Man Mohan, Sultan Chand & Sons
2. Schaum's Outline of Operations Research, Richard Bronson and Govindasami
Naadimuthu, McGraw-Hill Education
3. Operations Research: An Introduction, Hamady.A. Taha, TMH
4. Research Methodology : Methods And Techniques by C.R. Kothari and Gaurav Garg, New Age International
Publishers
5. Research Methodology : Methods And Techniques by R K Jain, Vayu Education of India
6. Research Methodology: Concepts And Cases by Deepak Chawla and Neena Sondhi, Vikas Publishing House
 Semester–III
MCSR310C Computer Vision [20(CIA) + 40(T)] + 40(P)
Unit 1: Digital Image formation and low-level processing
Overview and State-of-the-art techniques, Fundamentals of image formation, Transformation: Orthogonal,
Euclidean, Affine, Projective etc., Image Enhancement, Restoration, Histogram processing
Unit 2: Feature Extraction
Edges-Canny, Line detectors (Hough Transform), Harris-Corners and Hessian Affine, Orientation
Histogram, Feature Selection: Principal Component Analysis (PCA)
Unit 3: Image Segmentation: Region Growing, Edge Based approaches to segmentation, Graph-Cut, Mean-
Shift, MRFs, Texture Segmentation, Object Detection
Unit 4: Object Detection and Classification: Feature Based, Deep Learning Based
Unit 5: Case Study: Human Iris Location, hole detection, Generalized Hough Transform (GHT), Spatial
matched filtering, object location, health, agriculture and biometric application
LAB:
OpenCV: Installation and setup, Basic image operations, mathematical operations on images, bitwise
operations, image annotations, QR code detection, using mouse, video I/O

Suggestedbook
• "Computer Vision: A Modern Approach", by Forsyth and Ponce
• "Multiple View Geometry in Computer Vision", by Hartley and Zisserman
• Richard Szeliski, Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications, Springer-Verlag London Limited
2011.
• Computer Vision: A Modern Approach, D. A. Forsyth, J. Ponce, Pearson Education, 2003.
• Richard Hartley and Andrew Zisserman, Multiple View Geometry in Computer Vision, Second
Edition, Cambridge University Press, March 2004.
• Christopher M. Bishop; Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning, Springer, 2006
• R.C. Gonzalez and R.E. Woods, Digital Image Processing, Addison- Wesley, 1992.
• K. Fukunaga; Introduction to Statistical Pattern Recognition, Second Edition, Academic Press,
Morgan Kaufmann, 1990.

MCSR320C Data Warehouse and Mining ([20(CIA) + 40(T)] + 40(P))

.
1.1. Overview And Concepts: Need for data warehousing, Basic elements of data warehousing, Trends in
data warehousing.
1.2. Planning And Requirements: Project planning and management, Collecting the requirements.
1.3. Architecture And Infrastructure: Architectural components, Infrastructure and metadata.
1.4. Data Design And Data Representation: Principles of dimensional modelling, Dimensional modelling
advanced topics, data extraction, transformation and loading, data quality.
1.5. Information Access and Delivery: Matching information to classes of users, OLAP in data warehouse,
Data warehousing and the web, Introductory Concept of Hadoop and MapReduce.
1.6. Implementation And Maintenance: Physical design process, data warehouse deployment, growth and
maintenance.
Unit 2: Data Mining:
2.1. Introduction: Basics of data mining, related concepts, Data mining techniques; Data Mining Algorithms:
Classification, Clustering, Association rules; Knowledge Discovery: KDD Process
2.2. Web Mining: Web Content Mining, Web Structure Mining, Web Usage mining, Spatial mining,
Temporal mining.
2.3. Visualisation: Data generalization and summarization-based characterization, Analytical
characterization: analysis of attribute relevance, Mining class comparisons: Discriminating between
different classes, Mining descriptive statistical measures in large databases
2.4. Data Mining Primitives, Languages, and System Architectures: Data mining primitives, Query
language, Designing GUI based on a data mining query language, Architectures of data mining systems
2.5. Application and Trends in Data Mining: Applications, Systems products and research prototypes,
Additional themes in data mining, Trends in data mining
LAB:
Installation of WEKA Tool; Creating new Arff File; Pre-Processes Techniques on Data Set; Pre-process a
given dataset based onHandling Missing Values; Generate Association Rules using theApriori Algorithm;
Generating association rules using fpgrowth algorithm; Build a Decision Tree by using J48algorithm; Naïve
bayes classification on a givendata set; Applying k-means clustering on agiven data set; Calculating
Information gains measures; OLAP Cube and its differentoperations; Case Study: Create Student. ariff fileto
suggest better college usingDecision tree; Case Study: Create Placement.arifffile to identify the students
who areeligible for placements using KNN

Suggested Books:
• Data Mining Concepts and Techniques by Jiawei Han and Micheline Kamber, MorganKaufmann
Publishers.
• Data Warehousing, Data Mining and OLAP by Berson, Tata McGraw Hill.
• Introduction to Data Mining by Pang-Ning Tan, Michael Steinbach, Vipin Kumar,
PearsonEducation.
• Data mining: Introductory and Advanced Topics by Dunham M H,” Pearson Education.
• Mining Concepts, Methods and Algorithms by Mehmed Kantardzic, John Wiley andSons.
• Big Data Simplified bySayan Goswami Sourabh Mukherjee , Amit Kumar Das.

MCSR330T Mobile and wireless Computing (20(CIA) + 80(T))

Unit 1. Wireless networking

Primer on wireless communications and networking
A. Physical layer
- OFDM and 802.11 (WiFi) PHY
- Multi-antenna systems and MIMO
- Overview of 802.11n/ac PHY including beamforming
B. MAC layer
- CSMA/CA, CSMA/CD and WiFi MAC overview
- Wide bandwidth channel access techniques (802.11n/ac)
- Energy efficiency and rate control

Unit 2. Mobile and wearable sensing

A. Overview of smartphone/wearable sensors
- Accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer etc.
- Smartphone orientation and heading detection
B. Activity recognition and healthcare
- Identifying human activities and context through sensors
 - Health monitoring and fitness tracking
C. Wearables overview
- Wrist-worn wearables - gesture and remote interaction
- Sensor fusion in body-area networks

Unit 3. Multi-gigabit wireless networks

Next generation (5G) wireless technologies
Upper Gigahertz and Terahertz wireless communications
A. Millimeter wave networking
- Directionality and beamforming
- Mobility and signal blockage
- IEEE 802.11ad (60 GHz WLAN) MAC and PHY overview
B. Visible light communication
- High-speed networking using LEDs
- IEEE 802.15.7 PHY and MAC overview
C. Sensing through visible light
- Visible light indoor localization and positioning
Unit 4. Indoor localization and RF sensing
A. Smartphone localization
- WiFi fingerprinting - protocols and challenges
- Non-WiFi localization
B. Device-free sensing with radio frequency
- Mining wireless PHY channel state information
- Device-free localization and indoor human tracking
- Activity and gesture recognition through RF

Suggested Books -
• Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice, by Theodore S. Rappaport, Prentice Hall.
• 802.11n: A Survival Guide, by Matthew Gast, O'Reilly Media.
• 802.11ac: A Survival Guide, by Matthew Gast, O'Reilly Media.
• Wireless Networking Complete, by Pei Zheng et al., Morgan Kaufmann.

MCSR341T Cloud Computing 20(CIA) + 80(T)

UNIT I
Introduction to Cloud Computing- Cloud issues and challenges - Properties - Characteristics - Service
models, Deployment models.

UNIT II
Cloud resources: Network and API - Virtual and Physical computational resources - Data-storage.
Virtualization concepts - Types of Virtualization- Introduction to Various Hypervisors - High Availability
(HA)/Disaster Recovery (DR) using Virtualization, Moving VMs .
UNIT III
Service models - Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Resource Virtualization: Server, Storage, Network -
Case studies. Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Cloud platform & Management: Computation, Storage - Case
studies. Software as a Service (SaaS) - Web services - Web 2.0 - Web OS - Case studies – Anything as a
service (XaaS).
UNIT IV
Cloud Programming and Software Environments – Parallel and Distributed Programming paradigms –
Programming on Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure – Programming support of Google App Engine –
Emerging Cloud software Environment.

UNIT V
Cloud Access: authentication, authorization and accounting - Cloud Provenance and meta-data - Cloud
Reliability and fault-tolerance - Cloud Security, privacy, policy and compliance- Cloud federation,
interoperability and standards.

Suggested Books:
• Cloud Computing: Principles and Paradigms, Editors: Rajkumar Buyya, James Broberg, Andrzej M.
Goscinski, Wiley,2011
• Enterprise Cloud Computing - Technology, Architecture, Applications, Gautam Shroff, Cambridge
University Press, 2010
• Cloud Computing Bible, Barrie Sosinsky, Wiley-India, 2010
• Cloud Security: A Comprehensive Guide to Secure Cloud Computing, Ronald L. Krutz, Russell
Dean Vines, Wiley- India,2010

MCSR351T Network Security 20(CIA) + 80(T)

UNIT-I
Security Attacks (Interruption, Interception, Modification and Fabrication), Security
Services(Confidentiality, Authentication, Integrity, Non-repudiation, access Control and Availability)
andMechanisms, A model for Internetwork security, Internet Standards and RFCs, Buffer overflow &
formatstring vulnerabilities, TCP session hijacking, ARP attacks, route table modification, UDP hijacking,
andman-in-the-middle attacks.

UNIT-II
Conventional Encryption Principles, Conventional encryption algorithms, cipher block modes ofoperation,
location of encryption devices, key distribution Approaches of Message Authentication,Secure Hash
Functions and HMAC.

UNIT-III
Public key cryptography principles, public key cryptography algorithms, digital signatures,
digitalCertificates, Certificate Authority and key management Kerberos, X.509 Directory
AuthenticationService.

UNIT-IV
Email privacy: Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) and S/MIME.IP Security Overview, IP Security Architecture,
Authentication Header, Encapsulating Security Payload, Combining Security Associations and
KeyManagement.

UNIT-V
Basic concepts of SNMP, SNMPv1 Community facility and SNMPv3. Intruders, Viruses and related
threats. Firewall Design principles, Trusted Systems. Intrusion Detection Systems.

Suggested Books
 • Network Security Essentials (Applications and Standards) by William Stallings Pearson Education.
• Hack Proofing your network by Ryan Russell, Dan Kaminsky, Rain Forest Puppy, JoeGrand, David
Ahmad, Hal Flynn Ido Dubrawsky, Steve W.Manzuik and Ryan Permeh, Wiley Dreamtech
• Network Security and Cryptography: Bernard Menezes, CENGAGE Learning.
• Network Security - Private Communication in a Public World by CharlienKaufman, Radia
Perlmanand Mike Speciner, Pearson/PHI.
• Cryptography and network Security, Third edition, Stallings, PHI/Pearson
• Principles of Information Security, Whitman, Cengage Learning.

MCSR342T Business Intelligence 20(CIA) + 80(T)

Unit I: Introduction to Business Intelligence
Understanding the scope of today’s BI solutions and how they fit into existing infrastructure Assessing new
options such as SaaS and cloud-based technology. Describe BI, its components & architecture, previewing
the future of BI Crafting a better experience for all business users, End User Assumptions, Setting up Data
for BI, The Functional Area of BI Tools, Query Tools and Reporting, OLAP and Advanced Analytics,
Supporting the requirements of senior executives, including performance management.

Unit II: Elements of Business Intelligence Solutions

Reports & ad hoc queries; Analyse OLAP data; Dashboards & Scorecards development, Metadata Models;
Automated tasks & events; Mobile & disconnected BI; Collaboration capabilities; Real time monitoring
capabilities; Software development kit; Consume BI through portals, web applications, Desktop
applications.

Unit III: Building the BI Project

Planning the BI project, Project Resources; Project Tasks, Risk Management and Mitigation, Cost-justifying
BI solutions and measuring success, Collecting User Requirements, Requirements-Gathering Techniques;
Prioritizing & Validating BI Requirements, Changing Requirements; BI Design and Development, Best
Practices for BI Design; Post-Implementation Evaluations, Maintaining Your BI Environment.

Unit IV: Reporting authoring

Building reports with relational vs Multidimensional data models; Types of Reports – List, crosstabs,
Statistics, Chart, map, financial etc; Data Grouping & Sorting, Filtering Reports, Adding Calculations to
Reports, Conditional formatting, Adding Summary Lines to Reports. Drill up, drill- down, drill-through
capabilities. Run or schedule report, different output forms – PDF, excel, csv, xml etc.

Unit V: BI Deployment, Administration & Security

Centralized Versus Decentralized Architecture, BI Architecture Alternatives, phased & incremental BI
roadmap, System Sizing, Measurements and Dependencies, System Sizing, Measurements, and
Dependencies. Setting Early Expectations and Measuring the Results. End-User Provisos. OLAP
Implementations. Expanding BI Authentication Authorization, Access Permissions, Groups and Roles,
Single-sign on Server Administration, Manage Status & Monitoring, Audit, Mail server & Portal integration,
Back Up and Restore.

Suggested Books–
• Business Intelligence (IBM ICE Publication).

MCSR352T Deep Learning 20(CIA) + 80(T)

UNIT I DEEP LEARNING CONCEPTS
Fundamentals about Deep Learning. Perception Learning Algorithms. Probabilistic modelling. EarlyNeural
Networks. How Deep Learning different from Machine Learning. Scalars. Vectors. Matrixes,Higher
Dimensional Tensors. Manipulating Tensors. Vector Data. Time Series Data. Image Data.Video Data.

UNIT II NEURAL NETWORKS

About Neural Network. Building Blocks of Neural Network. Optimizers. Activation Functions.
LossFunctions. Data Pre-processing for neural networks, Feature Engineering. Overfitting andUnderfitting.
Hyperparameters.

UNIT III CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK

About CNN. Linear Time Invariant. Image Processing Filtering. Building a convolutional neuralnetwork.
Input Layers, Convolution Layers. Pooling Layers. Dense Layers. BackpropagationThrough the
Convolutional Layer. Filters and Feature Maps. Backpropagation Through the PoolingLayers. Dropout
Layers and Regularization. Batch Normalization. Various Activation Functions.Various Optimizers. LeNet,
AlexNet, VGG16, ResNet. Transfer Learning with Image Data. TransferLearning using Inception Oxford
VGG Model, Google Inception Model, Microsoft ResNet Model. RCNN, Fast R-CNN, Faster R-CNN,
Mask-RCNN, YOLO

UNIT IV NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING USING RNN

About NLP & its Toolkits. Language Modeling . Vector Space Model (VSM). Continuous Bag ofWords
(CBOW). Skip-Gram Model for Word Embedding. Part of Speech (PoS) Global Cooccurrence Statistics–
based Word Vectors. Transfer Learning. Word2Vec. Global Vectors for WordRepresentation GloVe.
Backpropagation Through Time. Bidirectional RNNs (BRNN). Long ShortTerm Memory (LSTM). Bi-
directional LSTM. Sequence-to-Sequence Models (Seq2Seq). Gatedrecurrent unit GRU.

UNIT V DEEP REINFORCEMENT & UNSUPERVISED LEARNING

About Deep Reinforcement Learning. Q-Learning. Deep Q-Network (DQN). Policy GradientMethods.
Actor-Critic Algorithm. About Autoencoding. Convolutional Auto Encoding. VariationalAuto Encoding.
Generative Adversarial Networks. Autoencoders for Feature Extraction. AutoEncoders for Classification.
Denoising Autoencoders. Sparse Autoencoders

LIST OF EXPERIMENTS:
1: Feature Selection from Video and Image Data
2: Image and video recognition
3: Image Colorization
4: Aspect Oriented Topic Detection & Sentiment Analysis
5: Object Detection using Autoencoder

Suggested Books
• Deep Learning A Practitioner’s Approach Josh Patterson and Adam Gibson O’Reilly Media,
• Inc.2017
• Learn Keras for Deep Neural Networks, JojoMoolayil, Apress,2018
• Deep Learning Projects Using TensorFlow 2, Vinita Silaparasetty, Apress, 2020
• Deep Learning with Python, FRANÇOIS CHOLLET, MANNING SHELTER ISLAND,2017
• Pro Deep Learning with TensorFlow, SantanuPattanayak, Apress,2017

MCSR360P Smart Analytics System Design Lab 20(CIA) + 80(P)

 Semester–IV
MCSR411T Security for Business Infrastructure, Cyber Law and Ethics (20(CIA) + 80(T))
Unit 1: Security Awareness, Compliance, Assessments, and Risk : Social Engineering, Phishing, Security
Awareness, Security Assessment and Audit, What is GRC?, NIST Framework Overview, PCI-DSS
Framework Overview, Challenges of Compliance versus Security

Unit 2: Hybrid Cloud Security Enterprise Shift to Hybrid Cloud, Workload Micro-Segmentation, Defense in
Depth through Micro-Segmentation, Cloud Access Security Brokers, Advanced Hybrid Cloud Security
Architecture , Security of Isolated Servers

Unit 3: Introduction to Cyber security Defining Cyberspace and Overview of Computer and Web-
technology, Architecture of cyberspace, Communication and web technology, Internet, World wide web,
Advent of internet, Internet infrastructure for data transfer and governance, Internet society, Regulation of
cyberspace, Concept of cyber security, Issues and challenges of cyber security

Unit 4: Cyber crime and Cyber law Classification of cyber crimes, Common cyber crimes- cyber crime
targeting computers and mobiles, cyber crime against women and children, financial frauds, social
engineering attacks, malware and ransomware attacks, zero day and zero click attacks, Cybercriminals
modus-operandi , Reporting of cyber crimes, Remedial and mitigation measures, Legal perspective of cyber
crime, IT Act 2000 and its amendments, Cyber crime and offences, Organizations dealing with Cyber crime
and Cyber security in India, Case studies

Unit 5: Blockchain, Anonymity, and Critical Infrastructure Protection: Blockchain, Cyber Attribution
Onion Routing and Tor Chaum Binding Algorithm

Suggested Books:
• Cyber Security and IT Infrastructure Protection, John R. Vacca, Syngress Publisher, O’Reilley
• Cyber Law and Ethics: Regulation of the Connected World, Eric P. Robinson and Mark Grabowski,
Routledge; 1st edition

MCSR421T Security for Cyber-Physical Systems (20(CIA) + 80(T))

Introduction: Cyber-Physical System (CPS), Key Features of CPS, Application Domains of CPS, Basic
principles of design and validation of CPS, Challenges in CPS.
CPS Platform components: CPS HW platforms, Processors, Sensors and Actuators, CPS Network -Wireless,
CAN, Automotive Ethernet, Scheduling Real Time CPS tasks, Synchronous Model andAsynchronous
Model.
Synchronous and Asynchronous Model: Reactive Components, Components Properties,Components
Composing, Synchronous Designs and Circuits, Asynchronous Processes and operations,Design Primitives
in Asynchronous Process, Coordination Protocols in Asynchronous Process, LeaderElection, Reliable
Transmission.Security of Cyber-Physical Systems: Introduction to CPS Securities, Basic Techniques in CPS
Securities, Cyber Security Requirements, Attack Model and Countermeasures, advanced Techniquesin CPS
Securities.
CPS Application: Health care and Medical Cyber-Physical Systems, Smart grid and Energy CyberPhysical
Systems, WSN based Cyber-Physical Systems, Smart Cities.
Suggested Books:
• E. A. Lee and S. A. Seshia, “Introduction to Embedded Systems: A Cyber-Physical Systems
Approach”, 2011.
• R. Alur, “Principles of Cyber-Physical Systems,” MIT Press, 2015.
• Raj Rajkumar, Dionisio de Niz and Mark Klein, “Cyber-Physical Systems”, Addison-Wesley,
2017
• Rajeev Alur, “Principles of Cyber-Physical Systems”, MIT Press, 2015
• Fei Hu, “Cyber-Physical Systems”, CRC Press 2013
MCSR431T IOT and Smart Systems20(CIA) + 80(T)
Unit I: Introduction to IoT
Brief History and evolution of IoT, Definition of IoT, Characteristics of IoT, Physical design of IoT,Logical
design of IoT, Functional blocks of IoT. Communication models and APIs.

Unit II: IoT & Machine to Machine

Machine to Machine, Difference between IoT and M2M, Software define Network, SDN and NFVfor IoTs.

Unit III: Challenges in IoT

IoT Services Platform: Functions and Requirements, Design challenges, Development challenges,Internet of
Things Security and Privacy, Other challenges.

Unit IV: Developing IoTsIntroduction to Python and IoT tools, Developing applications through IoT tools,
Developing sensorbased application through IoT platform.

Unit V: Specific applications of IoT

IOT for Home automation, Smart Cities, Environment monitoring, IOT for financial inclusion,Logistics
monitoring, IOT for rural empowerment, Industry applications, Health monitoring, OtherIoT applications.

Suggested Books:
• Machine Learning and IoT for Intelligent Systems and Smart Applications, Madhumathy P, M
Kumar, R. Umamaheswari, CRC Press
• IoT Fundamentals: Networking Technologies Protocols And Use Cases For The Internet Of Things,
Hanes David, Salgueiro Gonzalo, Grossetete Patrick, Barton Rob, Henry Jerome, Pearson Education;
First Edition
• IoT for Beginners: Explore IoT Architecture, Working Principles, IoT Devices, and Various Real
IoT Projects, Vibha Soni, BPB Publications

MCSR412T Bioinformatics 20(CIA) + 80(T)

Basic Biology: What is life? The unity and the diversity of living things. Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes, Yeast
and People, Evolutionary time and relatedness, Living parts: Tissues, cells, compartments and organelles,
Central dogma of molecular biology, Concept of DNA, RNA, Protein and metabolic pathway. What is
Bioinformatics? Recent challenges in Bioinformatics.
Biological databases: Their needs and challenges. Example of different biological databases – sequence,
structure, function, micro-array, pathway, etc.
Sequence Analysis: Theory and Tools: Pairwise alignment – Different local and global search alignment,
Heuristic searches (like BLAST) applicable to search against database, Multiple alignment algorithms,
Whole genome comparison.
Walk through the genome: Prediction of regulatory motifs, Operon, Gene, splices site, etc.
Markov models: Hidden Markov models – The evaluation, decoding and estimation problem and the
algorithms. Application in sequence analysis.
Molecular phylogeny: maximum Parsimony, distance Matrix and maximum likelihood methods. Concepts
of adaptive evolution.
Application of graph theory in Biology: Biochemical Pathway, Protein-protein interaction network,
Regulatory network and their analysis.

Suggested Books:
• Bioinformatics: David Mount
• Biological Sequence Analysis: Probabilistic Models of Proteins and Nucleic acids, R. Durbin, S.R.
Eddy, A. Krogh and G. Mitchison.

MCSR422T NLP and Text Analytics 20(CIA) + 80(T)

Unit 1: NLP
Word Embeddings, Deep learning models for NLP , Recurrent networks, LSTM , Attention models,
transformers, POS tagging, Entity tagging, Topic Categorization, Opinion analysis, Grammars and Parsing,
Information Extraction (relationship, event extraction), Summarization, Entity resolution, wikification,
Trending phrases, terminology discovery, Semantic Role Labeling, Textual Entailment
Unit 2: Recommender Systems
Collaborative filtering, Model based, content based
Unit 3: Social Network Analysis
Network models and measures, Diffusion models, Influence Models, Behaviour analytics

Suggested books:
• Speech and Language Processing (3rd Edition) DanielJurafsky and James Martin, 2019. [SLP]
• Recommender Systems Charu C. Aggarwal, Springer, 2016. [RS]
• Social Media Mining Zafarni, Abbasi and Liu, Cambridge University Press, 2014. [SMM]

MCSR432T Social Network Analytics 20(CIA) + 80(T)

UNIT 1 – Social Network Analysis: Preliminaries and definitions, Erdos Number Project, Centrality
measures, Balance and Homophily.

UNIT 2 – Random graph models:Random graphs and alternative models, Models of network growth,
Navigation in social Networks, Cohesive subgroups, Multidimensional Scaling, Structural equivalence, roles
and positions.

Unit 3 – Network topology and diffusion, Contagion in Networks, Complex contagion, Percolation and
information, Navigation in Networks Revisited.

UNIT 4 – Small world experiments, small world models, origins of small world, Heavy tails, Small
Diameter, Clusteringof connectivity, The ErdosRenyi Model, Clustering Models.

UNIT 5 – Network structure -Important vertices and page rank algorithm, towards rational dynamics in
networks, basics of game theory, Coloring and consensus, biased voting, network formation games, network
structure and equilibrium, behavioral experiments, Spatial and agent-based models.

Suggested Books:
• S. Wasserman and K. Faust. “Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications”, Cambridge
University Press.
• D. Easley and J. Kleinberg, “Networks, Crowds and Markets: Reasoning about a highly connected
world”, Cambridge University Press, 1st edition,2010
• Maarten van Steen. “Graph Theory and Complex Networks. An Introduction”, 2010.2)RezaZafarani,
Mohammed Ali Abbasi, Huan Liu. “Social Media Mining: An Introduction”. Cambridge University
Press 2014.
• Maksim Tsvetovat and Alexander Kouznetsov. “Social Network Analysis for Startups”. O’Reilly
Media, 2011.