Group Course UNIQUE

Course Title
No. Code CODE
1 20SCS324 Multicore Architecture 201MC001
1 20LNI334 Network Routing Algorithm 201MC002
1 20SCS251 Image Processing and Machine Vision 201MC003
1 20SCE324 Agile Technologies 201MC004
1 20SAM331 Game Theory 201MC005
1 20SIT334 Advances in Operating Systems 201MC006
1 20SAM14 Data Science 201MC007
1 20SAM13 Cognitive Science 201MC008
1 20MCA252 Data Mining and Business Intelligence 201MC009
1 20MCA253 Enterprise Resource Planning 201MC010

2 20SIS15 Embedded Computing 202MC001

2 20SCN13 Information and Network Security 202MC002
2 20SIT13 Data Compression 202MC003
2 20SIT254 Software Project Planning & Management 202MC004
2 20SSE324 Supply Chain Management 202MC005
2 20LNI254 Advanced Cryptography 202MC006
2 20SSE14 Service Oriented Architecture 202MC007
2 20SSE243 Information Retrieval 202MC008
2 20SFC251 Data mining & Data warehousing 202MC009
2 20MCA263 Mobile Application Development 202MC010
2 20MCA264 Distributed operating System 202MC011

3 20SCN242 Switching & Statistical Multiplexing in 203MC001

Telecommunication
3 20SCN321 Computer System Performance Analysis 203MC002
3 20SFC243 Information Network Policies in Industry 203MC003
3 20SCN332 Protocol Engineering 203MC004
3 20SAM334 Speech Processing 203MC005
3 20SSE12 Advances in Software Testing 203MC006
3 20SFC253 Enterprise Application Programming 203MC007
3 20SCS244 Pattern Recognition 203MC008
3 20SCS13 Advances in Data Base Management System 203MC009
3 20MCA262 Artificial Intelligence 203MC010
4 20SFC254 Machine Learning Techniques 204MC001
4 20LNI324 Wireless Sensor Networks 204MC002
4 20LNI332 Social Network Analysis 204MC003
4 20SSE13 Object Oriented Software Engineering 204MC004
4 20SIS14 Internet of Things and Applications 204MC005
4 20SIS12 Cloud Computing 204MC006
4 20SSE23 Software Design Patterns 204MC007
4 20SAM333 Multidisciplinary Design Optimization 204MC008
4 20LNI252 Software Agents 204MC009

5 20SCS31 Deep Learning 205MC001

5 20LNI331 Wireless Networks & Mobile Computing 205MC002
5 20SCN334 Web Mining 205MC003
5 20SAM324 Software Defined Networks 205MC004
5 20SCS332 Robotics & Automation 205MC005
5 20LNI333 Cloud Security 205MC006
5 20SAM243 Probabilistic Graphical Models 205MC007
5 20SFC244 Trust Management in E-Commerce 205MC008
5 20SCS14 Advanced Algorithms 205MC009
5 20MCA31 Data Analytics using Python 205MC010

6 20SCS242 Natural Language Processing & Text Mining 206MC001

6 20SFC323 Mobile Device Forensics 206MC002
6 20SIT244 Cyber Security &Cyber law 206MC003
6 20SAM22 Soft & Evolutionary Computing 206MC004
6 20LNI251 Managing Big Data 206MC005
6 20SCS23 Block Chain Technology 206MC006
6 20SFC252 Data Base Security 206MC007
6 20SCE253 Decision Support System 206MC008
6 20SAM332 Semantic Web and Social Networks 206MC009
6 20MCA353 Wireless Ad Hoc Networks 206MC010
6 20MCA345 NOSQL 206MC011
6 20MCA343 Digital Marketing 206MC012
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(Group-1): Course Code20SCS324

Multicore Architecture
Exam Hours: 3 hours Exam Marks(Maximum):100
Module-1
Classes of Computers, Trends in Technology, Power, Energy and Cost – Dependability –
Measuring, Reporting and Summarizing Performance. Single core to Multi-core architectures:
Limitations of Single Core Processors - The Multi core era – Case Studies of Multi core
Architectures. System Overview of Threading: Defining Threads, System View of Threads,
Threading above the Operating System, Threads inside the OS, Threads inside the Hardware,
What Happens When a Thread Is Created, Application Programming Models and Threading.
Module-2
Fundamental Concepts of Parallel Programming: Designing for Threads, Task Decomposition,
Data 20082020 / 37 Decomposition, Data Flow Decomposition, Implications of Different
Decompositions, Parallel Programming Patterns, A Motivating Problem: Error Diffusion,
Analysis of the Error Diffusion Algorithm, An Alternate Approach: Parallel Error Diffusion.
Threading and Parallel Programming Constructs: Performance – Scalability – Synchronization
and data sharing – Data races – Synchronization primitives (mutexes, locks, semaphores,
barriers) – deadlocks and livelocks – communication between threads (condition variables,
signals, message queues and pipes).
Module-3
TLP AND MULTIPROCESSORS : Symmetric and Distributed Shared Memory Architectures
– Cache Coherence Issues -Performance Issues – Synchronization Issues – Models of Memory
Consistency - Interconnection Networks – Buses, Crossbar and Multi-stage Interconnection
Networks.
Module-4
A Portable Solution for Threading : Challenges in Threading a Loop, Loop-carried
Dependence, Datarace Conditions, Managing Shared and Private Data, Loop Scheduling and
Portioning, Effective Use of Reductions, Minimizing Threading Overhead, Work-sharing
Sections, Performance-oriented Programming, Using Barrier and No wait, Interleaving Single-
thread and Multi-thread Execution. OpenMP: OpenMP Execution Model – Memory Model –
OpenMP Directives – Work-sharing Constructs - Library functions – Handling Data and
Functional Parallelism – Handling Loops – Performance Considerations.

Module-5
Solutions to Common Parallel Programming Problems : Too Many Threads, Data Races,
Deadlocks, and Live Locks, Deadlock, Heavily Contended Locks, Priority Inversion,
Solutions for Heavily Contended Locks, Non-blocking Algorithms, ABA Problem, Cache
Line Ping-ponging, Memory Reclamation Problem, Recommendations, Thread-safe Functions
and Libraries, Memory Issues, Bandwidth, Working in the Cache, Memory Contention,
Cache-related Issues, False Sharing, Memory Consistency, Current IA-32 Architecture,
Itanium Architecture.
Question paper pattern:
 The question paper will have ten questions.
 Each full question is for 20 marks.
 There will be 2full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions in one full
question) from each module.
 Each full question with sub questions will cover the contents under a module.
 Students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each
module.
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Textbook/Reference Books
Title of the book Author Name Publisher’s Publication
Name year
Textbook(s):
1 Multicore Programming, Increased Shameem Akhter Intel Press 2006
Performance through Software and Jason
2 AnMulti-threading
Introduction to Parallel Roberts,
Peter Intel
S Pacheco, Elsevier 2011
Programming Press, 2006
Morgan/Kuffman
3 Multicore Application Darryl Gove, Darryl Gove,
Programming for Windows, Linux, Pearson Pearson 2011
Oracle, Solaris
Reference Book(s):
4 Parallel Programming in C with Michael J Quinn Tata McGraw 2003
MPI and OpenMP Hill

(Group-1): Course Code 20LNI334 Network Routing Algorithm

Exam Hours: 3 hours Exam Marks(Maximum):100
Module-1
NETWORK ROUTING: BASICS AND FOUNDATIONS: Networking and Network Routing:
An Introduction: Addressing and Internet Service: An Overview, Network Routing: An
Overview, IP Addressing, On Architectures, Service Architecture, Protocol Stack
Architecture, Router Architecture, Network Topology Architecture, Network Management
Architecture, Public Switched Telephone Network, Communication Technologies, Standards
Committees, Last Two Bits. Routing Algorithms: Shortest Path and Widest Path: Bellman–
Ford Algorithm and the Distance Vector Approach, Dijkstra’s Algorithm, Comparison of the
Bellman–Ford Algorithm and Dijkstra’s Algorithm, Shortest Path Computation with
Candidate Path Caching, Widest Path Computation with Candidate Path Caching, Widest Path
Algorithm, k-Shortest Paths Algorithm Routing Protocols: Framework and Principles: Routing
Protocol, Routing Algorithm, and Routing Table, Routing Information Representation and
Protocol Messages, Distance Vector Routing Protocol, Link State Routing Protocol, Path
Vector Routing Protocol, Link Cost
Module-2
ROUTING IN IP NETWORKS: IP Routing and Distance Vector Protocol Family : Routers,
Networks, and Routing Information: Some Basics, Static Routes, Routing Information
Protocol, Version 1 (RIPv1), Routing Information Protocol, Version 2 (RIPv2), Interior
Gateway Routing Protocol (IGRP), Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP),
Route Redistribution OSPF and Integrated IS-IS: From a Protocol Family to an instanceof a
Protocol, OSPF: Protocol Features, OSPF Packet Format, Examples of Router LSAs and
Network LSAs, Integrated IS-IS, Similarities and Differences Between IS-IS and OSPF
Internet Routing Architectures: Internet Routing Evolution, Addressing and Routing:
Illustrations, Current Architectural View of the Internet, Allocation of IP Prefixes and AS
Number, Policy-Based Routing, Point of Presence, Traffic Engineering Implications, Internet
Routing Instability
Module-3
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Router Architectures: Functions of a Router, Types of Routers, Elements of a Router, Packet

Flow, Packet Processing: Fast Path versus Slow Path, Router Architectures. IP Address
Lookup Algorithms: Impact of Addressing on Lookup, Longest Prefix Matching, Naïve
Algorithms, Binary Tries, Multibit Tries, Compressing Multibit Tries, Search by Length
Algorithms, Search by Value Approaches, Hardware Algorithms, Comparing Different
Approaches. IP Packet Filtering and Classification: Importance of Packet Classification,
Packet Classification Problem, Packet Classification Algorithms, Naïve Solutions, Two-
Dimensional Solutions, Approaches ford Dimensions, Extending TwoDimensional Solutions,
Divide and Conquer Approaches, Tuple Space Approaches, Decision Tree Approaches,
Hardware-Based Solutions.
Module-4
ADVANCED ROUTING PROTOCOLS FOR WIRELESS NETWORKS: Wireless
networking basic aspects, Basic routing concepts, AD hoc routing, Mesh routing, Vehicular
routing, Sensor routing
Module-5
TOWARD NEXT GENERATION ROUTING: Quality of Service Routing: QoS Attributes,
Adapting Shortest Path and Widest Path Routing: A Basic Framework, Update Frequency,
Information Inaccuracy, and Impact on Routing, Lessons from Dynamic Call Routing in the
Telephone Network, Heterogeneous Service, Single-Link Case, A General Framework for
Source-Based QoS Routing with Path Caching, Routing Protocols for QoS Routing MPLS and
GMPLS: Traffic Engineering Extension to Routing Protocols, Multiprotocol Label Switching,
Generalized MPLS, MPLS Virtual Private Networks. Routing and Traffic Engineering with
MPLS: Traffic Engineering of IP/MPLS Networks, VPN Traffic Engineering, Routing/Traffic
Engineering for Voice Over MPLS. VoIP Routing: Interoperability through IP and PSTN :
PSTN Call Routing Using the Internet, PSTN Call Routing: Managed IP Approach, IP-PSTN
Interworking for VoIP, IP Multimedia Subsystem, Multiple Heterogeneous Providers
Environment and All-IP Environment of VoIP Services.

Question paper pattern:

 The question paper will have ten questions.
 Each full question is for 20 marks.
 There will be 2 full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions in one full
question) from each module.
 Each full question with sub questions will cover the contents under a module.
 Students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each
module.
Textbook/Reference Books
Textbook(s):
Title of the book Author Name Publisher’s Publication
Name year
1 Network Routing: Algorithms, DeepankarMedhi Elsevier 2007
Protocols, and Architectures and
KarthikeyanRama
2 Advanced Routing Protocols for samy
Miguel Elias M. John Wiley 2014
Wireless Networks Campista and & Sons, Inc
Marcelo G.
Rubinstein
Reference Book(s):
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1 High speed networks and Internets 2nd Edition, Pearson 2002

Performance and Quality of Service Reprint India, Education
William Stallings Asia
2 Routing in Communication M. Steen Strub Prentice – 1995
network Hall
International

3 Network Analysis, Architecture, James D. McCabe Elsevier Inc, 2007

and Design

(Group-1): Course Code 20SCS251 Image Processing and Machine Vision

Exam Hours: 3 hours Exam Marks(Maximum):100
Module-1
Introduction and Digital Image Fundamentals Motivation & Perspective, Applications,
Components of Image Processing System, Fundamentals Steps in Image 20% Processing,
Image Sampling and Quantization, Some basic relationships like Neighbours, Connectivity,
Distance Measures between pixels
Module-2
Image Enhancement in the Spatial and Frequency Domain Image enhancement by point
processing, Image enhancement by neighbourhood processing, Basic Grey Level 20%
Transformations, Histogram Processing, Enhancement Using Arithmetic and Logic operations,
Zooming, Basics of Spatial Filters, Smoothening and Sharpening Spatial Filters, Combining
Spatial Enhancement Methods. Introduction to Fourier Transform and the frequency Domain,
Smoothing and Sharpening Frequency Domain Filters, Homomorphic Filtering
Module-3
Image Restoration and Image Compression Model of The Image Degradation / Restoration
Process, Noise Models, Restoration in the presence of Noise Only Spatial Filtering, Periodic
Noise Reduction by Frequency Domain Filtering, Linear PositionInvariant Degradations,
Estimation of Degradation Function, Inverse filtering, Wiener filtering, Constrained Least
Square Filtering, Geometric Mean Filter, Geometric Transformations. Data Redundancies,
Image Compression models, Elements of Information Theory, Lossless and Lossy
compression, Huffman Coding, Shanon-Fano Coding, Arithmetic Coding, Golomb Coding,
LZW Coding, Run Length Coding, Loss less predictive Coding, Bit Plane Coding, Image
compression standards.
Module-4
Image Segmentation and Morphological Image Processing Discontinuity based segmentation,
similaritybased segmentation, Edge linking and boundary detection, 20% Threshold, Region
based Segmentation Introduction to Morphology, Dilation, Erosion, Some basic
Morphological Algorithms
Module-5
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Object Representation and description and Computer Vision Techniques Introduction to

Morphology, Some basic Morphological Algorithms, Representation, Boundary Descriptors,
Regional Descriptors, Chain Code, Structural Methods. Review of Computer Vision
applications; Fuzzy-Neural algorithms for computer vision applications

Question paper pattern:

 The question paper will have ten questions.
 Each full question is for 20 marks.
 There will be 2 full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions in one full
question) from each module.
 Each full question with sub questions will cover the contents under a module.
 Students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each
module. ∎
Textbook/Reference Books
Title of the book Author Name Publisher’s Publication
Name year
Textbook(s):
1 Digital Image Processing Rafael C. Pearson 2006
Gonzalez & Education,
Richard E. Woods 3rd edition
2 Computer Vision: A Modern David A. Forsyth, Prentice Hall 2002
Approach Jean Ponce
3 Fundamental of Digital Image A.K. Jain PHI 1988
Processing
Reference Book(s):
4 Digital Image Processing W.K. Pratt CRC Press 2013

(Group-1): Course Code 20SCE324 Agile Technologies

Exam Hours: 3 hours Exam Marks(Maximum):100
Module-1
Why Agile?: Understanding Success, Beyond Deadlines, The Importance of Organizational
Success, Enter Agility, How to Be Agile?: Agile Methods, Don’t Make Your Own Method,
The Road to Mastery, Find a Mentor

Module-2
Understanding XP: The XP Lifecycle, The XP Team, XP Concepts, Adopting XP: Is XP Right
for Us?, Go!, Assess Your Agility

Module-3
Practicing XP: Thinking: Pair Programming, Energized Work, Informative Workspace, Root-
Cause Analysis, Retrospectives, Collaborating: Trust, Sit Together, Real Customer
Involvement, Ubiquitous Language, Stand-Up Meetings, Coding Standards, Iteration Demo,
Reporting,Releasing: “DoneDone”, No Bugs, Version Control, Ten-Minute Build, Continuous
Integration, Collective Code Ownership, Documentation. Planning: Vision, Release Planning,
The Planning Game, Risk Management, Iteration Planning, Slack, Stories, Estimating.
Developing: Incremental requirements, Customer Tests, TestDriven Development,
Refactoring, Simple Design, Incremental Design and Architecture, Spike Solutions,
Performance Optimization, Exploratory Testing
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Module-4
Mastering Agility: Values and Principles: Commonalities, About Values, Principles, and
Practices, Further Reading, Improve the Process: Understand Your Project, Tune and Adapt,
Break the Rules, Rely on People :Build Effective Relationships, Let the Right People Do the
Right Things, Build the Process for the People, Eliminate Waste :Work in Small, Reversible
Steps, Fail Fast, Maximize Work Not Done, Pursue Throughput
Module-5
Deliver Value: Exploit Your Agility, Only Releasable Code Has Value, Deliver Business
Results, Deliver Frequently, Seek Technical Excellence : Software Doesn’t Exist, Design Is
for Understanding, Design Trade-offs, Quality with a Name, Great Design, Universal Design
Principles, Principles in Practice, Pursue Mastery
Question paper pattern:
 The question paper will have ten questions.
 Each full question is for 20 marks.
 There will be 2 full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions in one full
question) from each module.
 Each full question with sub questions will cover the contents under a module.
 Students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each
module. ∎
Textbook/Reference Books
Title of the book Author Name Publisher’s Publication
Name year
Textbook(s):
1 The Art of Agile Development James shore, O'Reilly 2007
Chromatic
Reference Book(s):
1 Agile Software Development, Robert C. Martin Prentice Hall 1st edition,
Principles, Patterns, and Practices 2002
2 Agile and Iterative Development A Craig Larman Pearson 2004
Manger’s Guide Education,
First Edition,
India

(Group-1): Course Code20SAM331 Game Theory

Exam Hours: 3 hours Exam Marks(Maximum):100
Module-1
INTRODUCTION 9 Elements of Game Play – Artificial Intelligence – Getting Input from the
Player - Sprite Programming – Sprite Animation - Multithreading – Importance of Game
Design – Game Loop.

Module-2
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3D GRAPHICS FOR GAME PROGRAMMING 9 Coordinate Systems, Ray Tracing,

Modeling in Game Production, Vertex Processing, Rasterization, Fragment Processing and
Output Merging, Illumination and Shaders, Parametric Curves and Surfaces.

Module-3
GAME DESIGN PRINCIPLES 9 Character Development, Story Telling, Narration, Game
Balancing, Core mechanics, Principles of level design, Genres of Games, Collision Detection,
Game Logic, Game AI, Path Finding, Case study : Tetris.
Module-4
GAMING ENGINE DESIGN 9 Renderers, Software Rendering, Hardware Rendering, and
Controller Based Animation, Spatial Sorting, Level of Detail, Collision Detection, Standard
Objects, and Physics, Case study : The Sims

Module-5
GAME DEVELOPMENT 9 Developing 2D and 3D Interactive Games Using OpenGL,
DirectX – Isometric and Tile Based Games, Puzzle Games, Single Player Games, Multi-Player
Games. Case study: Mine craft.

Question paper pattern:

 The question paper will have ten questions.
 Each full question is for 20 marks.
 There will be 2 full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions in one full
question) from each module.
 Each full question with sub questions will cover the contents under a module.
 Students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each
module. ∎
Textbook/Reference Books
Title of the book Author Name Publisher’s Publication
Name year
Textbook(s):
1 3D Game Engine Design: A David H. Eberly Second 2010
Practical Approach to Real-Time Edition,
Computer Graphics Morgan
Kaufmann
2 3D Graphics for Game Jung Hyun Han, CRC, First 2011
Programming Chapman and Edition
Hall
Reference Book(s):
1 Beginning Game Programming‖, Jonathan S. Third Edition 2009
Course Technology Harbour PTR
2 Fundamentals of Game Design Ernest Adams and Pearson 2014
Andrew Rollings Education
Third Edition
3 Level Up: The Guide to Great Scott Rogers Wiley, First 2010
Video Game Design Edition
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4 Game Design: Principles, Practice, Jim Thompson, Wiley, First 2008

and Techniques The Ultimate Barnaby Berbank- Edition
Guide for the Aspiring Game Green, and
Designer NicCusworth

(Group-1): Course Code 20SIT334 Advances in Operating Systems

Exam Hours: 3 hours Exam Marks(Maximum):100
Module-1
Operating System Overview, Process description & Control: Operating System Objectives and
Functions, The Evolution of Operating Systems, Major Achievements, Developments Leading
to Modern Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows Overview, Traditional UNIX Systems,
Modern UNIX Systems, What is a Process?, Process States, Process Description, Process
Control, Execution of the Operating System, Security Issues.

Module-2
Threads, SMP, and Microkernel, Virtual Memory: Processes and Threads, Symmetric
Multiprocessing (SMP), Micro Kernels, Windows Vista Thread and SMP Hours Management,
Linux Process and Thread Management. Hardware and Control Structures, Operating System
Software, UNIX Memory Management, Windows Vista Memory Management, Summary

Module-3
Multiprocessor and Real-Time Scheduling: Multiprocessor Scheduling, Real-Time
Scheduling, Linux Scheduling, UNIX PreclsSl) Scheduling, Windows Vista Hours
Scheduling, Process Migration, Distributed Global States, Distributed Mutual Exclusion,
Distributed Deadlock
Module-4
Embedded Operating Systems: Embedded Systems, Characteristics of Embedded Operating
Systems, eCOS, TinyOS, Computer Security Concepts, Threats, Attacks, and Assets,
Intruders, Malicious Software Overview, Viruses, Worms, and Bots, Rootkits.
Module-5
Kernel Organization: Using Kernel Services, Daemons, Starting the Kernel, Control in the
Machine , Modules and Device Management, MODULE Organization, MODULE Installation
and Removal, Process and Resource Management, Running Process Manager, Creating a new
Task , IPC and Synchronization, The Scheduler , Memory Manager , The Virtual Address
Space, The Page Fault Handler , File Management. The windows NT/2000/XP kernel:
Introduction, The NT kernel, Objects , Threads, Multiplication Synchronization, Traps,
Interrupts and Exceptions, The NT executive , Object Manager, Process and Thread Manager ,
Virtual Memory Manager, I/o Manager, The cache Manager Kernel local procedure calls and
IPC, The native API, subsystems.
Question paper pattern:
 The question paper will have ten questions.
 Each full question is for 20 marks.
 There will be 2 full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions in one full
question) from each module.
 Each full question with sub questions will cover the contents under a module.
 Students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each
module.
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Textbook/Reference Books
Title of the book Author Name Publisher’s Publication
Name year
Text Book(s):
1 Operating Systems: Internals and William Stallings Prentice Hall, 2013
Design Principles 6th Edition
2 Operating Systems Gary Nutt, Pearson, 3rd 2014
Pearson Edition
Reference Book(s):
1. Operating System Concepts Silberschatz, Wiley, 8th 2008
Galvin, Gagne Edition
2 Operating Systems, Design and Andrew S. Prentice Hall, 2006
Implementation Tanenbaum, 3rd Edition
Albert S.
Woodhull,
3 Distribute Operating Systems, Pradeep K Sinha PHI 2007
Concept and Design

(Group-1): Course Code 20SAM14 Data Science

Exam Hours: 3 hours Exam Marks(Maximum):100
Module-1
Introduction: What is Data Science? Big Data and Data Science hype – and getting past the
hype, Why now? – Datafication, Current landscape of perspectives, Skill sets.
NeededStatistical Inference: Populations and samples, Statistical modelling, probability
distributions, fitting a model, - Introduction to R
Module-2
Exploratory Data Analysis and the Data Science Process: Basic tools (plots, graphs and
summary statistics) of EDA, Philosophy of EDA,The Data Science Process, Case Study:
RealDirect (online real estate firm). Three Basic Machine Learning Algorithms: Linear
Regression, k-Nearest Neighbours (kNN), k-means
Module-3
One More Machine Learning Algorithm and Usage in Applications: Motivating application:
Filtering Spam, Why Linear Regression and k-NN are poor choices for Filtering Spam, Naive
Bayes and why it works for Filtering Spam, Data Wrangling: APIs and other tools for
scrapping the Web
Module-4
Feature Generation and Feature Selection (Extracting Meaning from Data): Motivating
application: user (customer) retention. Feature Generation (brainstorming, role of domain
expertise, and place for imagination), Feature Selection algorithms. Filters; Wrappers;
Decision Trees; Random Forests. Recommendation Systems: Building a User-Facing Data
Product, Algorithmic ingredients of a Recommendation Engine, Dimensionality Reduction,
Singular Value Decomposition, Principal Component Analysis, Exercise: build your own
recommendation system
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Module-5
Mining Social-Network Graphs: Social networks as graphs, Clustering of graphs, Direct
discovery of communities in graphs, Partitioning of graphs, Neighbourhood properties in
graphs, Data Visualization: Basic principles, ideas and tools for data visualization. Data
Science and Ethical Issues, Discussions on privacy, security, ethics, Next-generation data
scientists
Question paper pattern:
 The question paper will have ten questions.
 Each full question is for 20 marks.
 There will be 2 full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions in one full
question) from each module.
 Each full question with sub questions will cover the contents under a module.
 Students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each
module. ∎
Textbook/Reference Books
Title of the book Author Name Publisher’s Publication
Name year
Textbook(s):
1 Doing Data Science Cathy O’Neil and O’Reilly 2014
Rachel Schutt,
Straight Talk
from The
Frontline
2 Mining of Massive DatasetsV2.1 Jure Leskovek, Cambridge 2014
AnandRajaraman University
and Jeffrey Press, 2nd
Ullman Edition
Reference Book(s):
1 Data Mining: Concepts and Jiawei Han, Morgan 2012
Techniques MichelineKamber Kauffman,
and Jian Pei Third
Edition,

(Group-1): Course Code 20SAM13 Cognitive Science

Exam Hours: 3 hours Exam Marks(Maximum):100
Module-1
The prehistory of cognitive science, The reaction against behaviorism in psychology, The
theory of computation and the idea of an algorithm, Linguistics and the formal analysis of
language, Information-processing models in psychology, The discipline matures: Three
milestones: Language and micro-worlds, How do mental images represent?, An
interdisciplinary model of vision
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Module-2
The turn to the brain : Cognitive systems as functional systems , The anatomy of the brain and
the primary visual pathway , Extending computational modeling to the brain , Mapping the
stages of lexical processing , THE INTEGRATION CHALLENGE, Cognitive science and the
integration challenge; Cognitive science: An interdisciplinary endeavor, Levels of explanation:
The contrast between psychology and neuroscience, The integration challenge, Local
integration I: Evolutionary psychology and the psychology of reasoning, Local integration II:
Neural activity and the BOLD signal
Module-3
INFORMATION-PROCESSING MODELS OF THE MIND , Physical symbol systems and
the language of thought ; The physical symbol system hypothesis , From physical symbol
systems to the language of thought , The Chinese room argument , Applying the symbolic
paradigm ; Expert systems, machine learning, and the heuristic search hypothesis , ID3: An
algorithm for machine learning , WHISPER: Predicting stability in a block world

Module-4
Neural networks and distributed information processing ; Neurally inspired models of
information processing , Single-layer networks and Boolean functions , Multilayer networks,
Information processing in neural networks: Key features, Neural network models of cognitive
processes; Language and rules: The challenge for information-processing models, Language
learning in neural networks, Object permanence and physical reasoning in infancy, Neural
network models of children’s physical reasoning

Module-5
THE ORGANIZATION OF THE MIND , How are cognitive systems organized?;
Architectures for intelligent agents , Fodor on the modularity of mind , The massive
modularity hypothesis , Strategies for brain mapping ; Structure and function in the brain , ,
Studying cognitive functioning: Techniques from neuroscience , Combining resources I: The
locus of selection problem , Combining resources II: Networks for attention , From data to
maps: Problems and pitfalls.

Question paper pattern:

 The question paper will have ten questions.
 Each full question is for 20 marks.
 There will be 2 full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions in one full
question) from each module.
 Each full question with sub questions will cover the contents under a module.
 Students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each
module. ∎
Textbook/Reference Books
Title of the book Author Name Publisher’s Publication
Name year
Textbook(s):
1 Cognitive Science :An Introduction Jose Luis Cambridge 2020
to the Science of the Mind Bermudez University
Press, Second
Edition
Reference Book(s):
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1 Cognition Reisberg W. W. 2005

Norton & Co.
price

2 Why Everyone (Else) Is a Kurzban Princeton 2012

Hypocrite University
Press; ISBN:
978-0- 691-
15439-8.,

Group-1
Course title : Data Mining with Business Intelligence

Course Code: 20MCA252 Exam Hours:03

Module-1
Overview and concepts Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence:
Why reporting and Analysing data, Raw data to valuable information-Lifecycle of Data -
What is Business Intelligence - BI and DW in today’s perspective - What is data
warehousing - The building Blocks: Defining Features - Data warehouses and data 1marts
- Overview of the components - Metadata in the data warehouse - Need for data
warehousing - Basic elements of data warehousing - trends in data warehousing.
The Architecture of BI and DW
BI and DW architectures and its types - Relation between BI and DW - OLAP (Online
analytical processing) definitions - Difference between OLAP and OLTP - Dimensional
analysis - What are cubes? Drill-down and roll-up - slice and dice or rotation - OLAP
models - ROLAP versus MOLAP - defining schemas: Stars, snowflakes and fact
constellations.
Module-2
Introduction to data mining (DM):
Motivation for Data Mining - Data Mining-Definition and Functionalities – Classification
of DM Systems - DM task primitives - Integration of a Data Mining system with a
Database or a Data Warehouse - Issues in DM – KDD Process
Data Pre-processing:Why to pre-process data? - Data cleaning: Missing Values, Noisy
Data - Data Integration and transformation - Data Reduction: Data cube aggregation,
Dimensionality reduction - Data Compression - Numerosity Reduction - Data Mining
Primitives - Languages and System Architectures: Task relevant data - Kind of Knowledge
to be mined - Discretization and Concept Hierarchy.
Module-3
Concept Description and Association Rule Mining
What is concept description? - Data Generalization and summarization-based
characterization - Attribute relevance - class comparisons Association Rule Mining:
Market basket analysis - basic concepts - Finding frequent item sets: Apriori algorithm -
generating rules – Improved Apriori algorithm – Incremental ARM – Associative
Classification – Rule Mining.
Module-4
Classification and prediction:
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What is classification and prediction? – Issues regarding Classification and prediction:

Classification methods: Decision tree, Bayesian Classification, Rule based, CART, Neural
Network Prediction methods: Linear and nonlinear regression, Logistic Regression.
Introduction of tools such as DB Miner /WEKA/DTREG DM Tools.
Module-5
Data Mining for Business Intelligence Applications:
Data mining for business Applications like Balanced Scorecard, Fraud Detection,
Clickstream Mining, Market Segmentation, retail industry, telecommunications industry,
banking & finance and CRM etc., Data Analytics Life Cycle: 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.

Textbook
1. J. Han, M. Kamber, “Data Mining Concepts and Techniques”, Morgan Kaufmann
2. M. Kantardzic, “Data mining: Concepts, models, methods and algorithms, John Wiley
&Sons Inc.
3. PaulrajPonnian, “Data Warehousing Fundamentals”, John Willey.
4. M. Dunham, “Data Mining: Introductory and Advanced Topics”, Pearson Education.
5. G. Shmueli, N.R. Patel, P.C. Bruce, “Data Mining for Business Intelligence: Concepts,
Techniques, and Applications in Microsoft Office Excel with XLMiner”, Wiley India

Group-1 Enterprise Resource Planning

Course Code:20MCA253 Exam Hours:03

Module-1
Introduction to Supply Chain Management: Supply chain – objectives – importance –
decision phases – process view – competitive and supply chain strategies – achieving
strategic fit – supply chain drivers – obstacles – framework – facilities – inventory –
transportation – information – sourcing – pricing.
Module-2
ERP Implementation: Implementation of Life Cycle, Implementation Methodology,
Hidden Costs, Organizing Implementation, Vendors, Consultants and Users, Contracts,
Project Management and Monitoring
Module-3
Business Modules: Business Modules in an ERP Package, Finance, Manufacturing,
Human Resource, Plant Maintenance, Materials Management, Quality Management,
Sales and Distribution
Module-4
ERP Market: ERP Market Place, SAP AG, People Soft, Baan Company, JD Edwards
World Solutions Company, Oracle Corporation, QAD, System Software Associates.
Module-5
ERP–Present And Future: Turbo Charge the ERP System, EIA, ERP and E–Commerce,
ERP and Internet, Future Directions in ERP.
Textbooks
1. Sunil Chopra and Peter Meindl, Supply Chain Management – Strategy, Planning and
Operation, Pearson/PHI, 3rd Edition, 2007
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2. Alexis Leon, “ERP Demystified”, Tata McGraw Hill, 1999.

3. Joseph A. Brady, Ellen F. Monk, Bret J. Wangner, “Concepts in Enterprise Resource
Planning”, Thomson Learning, 2001.
Reference
1.Vinod Kumar Garg and N.K .Venkata Krishnan, “Enterprise Resource Planning
concepts and Planning”, Prentice Hall, 1998.
2. Jose Antonio Fernandz, “ The SAP R /3 Hand book”, Tata McGraw Hill
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Ph.D Coursework Courses under

Group - 2
SlNo Course Code Course Name Page

1 20SIS15 Embedded Computing 2

2 20SCN13 Information and Network Security 3
3 20SIT13 Data Compression 5
4 20SIT254 Software Project Planning & Management 6
5 20SSE324 Supply Chain Management 8
6 20LNI254 Advanced Cryptography 9
7 20SSE14 Service Oriented Architecture 10
8 20SSE243 Information Retrieval 12
9 20SFC251 Data mining & Data warehousing 13

10. 20MCA263 Mobile Application Development

14
11. 20MCA264 Distributed operating System 15
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(Group-2): Course Code20SIS15 Embedded Computing

Exam Hours: 3 hours Exam Marks(Maximum):100
Module-1
Introduction to embedded systems: Embedded systems, Processor embedded into a system,
Embedded hardware units and device in a system, Embedded software in a system, Examples
of embedded systems, Design process in embedded system, Formalization of system design,
Design process and design examples, Classification of embedded systems, skills required for
an embedded system designer.
Module-2
Devices and communication buses for devices network: IO types and example, Serial
communication devices, Parallel device ports, Sophisticated interfacing features in device
ports, Wireless devices, Timer and counting devices, Watchdog timer, Real time clock,
Networked embedded systems, Serial bus communication protocols, Parallel bus device
protocols-parallel communication internet using ISA, PCI, PCI-X and advanced buses,
Internet enabled systemsnetwork protocols, Wireless and mobile system protocols
Module-3
Device drivers and interrupts and service mechanism: Programming-I/O busy-wait approach
without interrupt service mechanism, ISR concept, Interrupt sources, Interrupt servicing
(Handling) Mechanism, Multiple interrupts, Context and the periods for context switching,
interrupt latency and deadline, Classification of processors interrupt service mechanism from
Context-saving angle, Direct memory access, Device driver programming.
Module-4
Inter process communication and synchronization of processes, Threads and tasks: Multiple
process in an application, Multiple threads in an application, Tasks, Task states, Task and
Data, Clear-cut distinction between functions. ISRS and tasks by their characteristics, concept
and semaphores, Shared data, Inter-process communication, Signal function, Semaphore
functions, Message Queue functions, Mailbox functions, Pipe functions, Socket functions,
RPC functions.
Module-5
Real-time operating systems: OS Services, Process management, Timer functions, Event
functions, Memory management, Device, file and IO subsystems management, Interrupt
routines in RTOS environment and handling of interrupt source calls, Real-time operating
systems, Basic design using an RTOS, RTOS task scheduling models, interrupt latency and
response of the tasks as performance metrics, OS security issues. Introduction to embedded
software development process and tools, Host and target machines, Linking and location
software.
Question paper pattern:
 The question paper will have ten questions.
 Each full question is for 20 marks.
 There will be 2full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions in one full
question) from each module.
 Each full question with sub questions will cover the contents under a module.
 Students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each
module. ∎
Textbook/Reference Books
Title of the book Author Name Publisher’s Publication
Name year
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Textbook(s):
1 Embedded Systems: Architecture, Raj Kamal Tata McGraw 2013
Programming, and Design hill, 2nd
edition
Reference Book(s):
1 Computer as Components, Marilyn Wolf Elsevier, 3rd 2014
Principles of Embedded Computing edition
System Design

(Group-2): Course Code 20SCN13 Information and Network Security

Exam Hours: 3 hours Exam Marks(Maximum):100
Module-1
Classical Encryption Techniques Symmetric Cipher Model, Cryptography, Cryptanalysis
and BruteForce Attack, Substitution Techniques, Caesar Cipher, Mono-alphabetic Cipher,
Playfair Cipher, Hill Cipher, Poly alphabetic Cipher, One Time Pad. Block Ciphers and the
data encryption standard: Traditional block Cipher structure, stream Ciphers and block
Ciphers, Motivation for the Feistel Cipher structure, the Feistel Cipher, The data encryption
standard, DES encryption, DES decryption, A DES example, results, the avalanche effect, the
strength of DES, the use of 56-Bit Keys, the nature of the DES algorithm, timing attacks,
Block cipher design principles, number of rounds, design of function F, key schedule
algorithm
Module-2
Public-Key Cryptography and RSA: Principles of public-key cryptosystems. Public-key
cryptosystems. Applications for public-key cryptosystems, requirements for public-key
cryptosystems. Public-key cryptanalysis. The RSA algorithm, description of the algorithm,
computational aspects, the security of RSA. Other Public-Key Cryptosystems:Diffie-
Hellman key exchange, The algorithm, key exchange protocols, man in the middle attack,
Elgamal Cryptographic systems, Elliptic curve arithmetic, abelian groups, elliptic curves over
real numbers, elliptic curves over Zp, elliptic curves overGF(2m), Elliptic curve cryptography,
Analog of Diffie-Hellman key exchange, Elliptic curve encryption/ decryption, security of
Elliptic curve cryptography, Pseudorandom number generation based on an asymmetric
cipher, PRNG based on RSA.
Module-3
Key Management and Distribution: Symmetric key distribution using Symmetric
encryption, A key distribution scenario, Hierarchical key control, session key lifetime, a
transparent key control scheme, Decentralized key control, controlling key usage, Symmetric
key distribution using asymmetric encryption, simple secret key distribution, secret key
distribution with confidentiality and authentication, A hybrid scheme, distribution of public
keys, public announcement of public keys, publicly available directory, public key authority,
public keys certificates, X-509 certificates. Certificates, X-509 version 3, public key
infrastructure. User Authentication: Remote user Authentication principles, Mutual
Authentication, one way Authentication, remote user Authentication using Symmetric
encryption, Mutual Authentication, one way Authentication, Kerberos, Motivation , Kerberos
version 4, Kerberos version 5, Remote user Authentication using Asymmetric encryption,
Mutual Authentication, one way Authentication, federated identity management, identity
management, identity federation, personal identity verification.
Module-4
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Wireless network security: Wireless security, Wireless network threats, Wireless network
measures, mobile device security, security threats, mobile device security strategy, IEEE
802.11 Wireless LAN overview, the Wi-Fi alliance, IEEE 802 protocol architecture. Security,
IEEE 802.11i services, IEEE 802.11i phases of operation, discovery phase, Authentication
phase, key management phase, protected data transfer phase, the IEEE 802.11i pseudorandom
function. Web Security Considerations: Web Security Threats, Web Traffic Security
Approaches. Secure Sockets Layer: SSL Architecture, SSL Record Protocol, Change Cipher
Spec Protocol, Alert Protocol, and shake Protocol, Cryptographic Computations. Transport
Layer Security: Version Number, Message Authentication Code, Pseudorandom Functions,
Alert Codes, Cipher Suites, Client Certificate Types, Certificate Verify and Finished
Messages, Cryptographic Computations, and Padding. HTTPS Connection Initiation,
Connection Closure. Secure Shell(SSH) Transport Layer Protocol, User Authentication
Protocol, Connection Protocol
Module-5
Electronic Mail Security: Pretty good privacy, notation, operational; description, S/MIME,
RFC5322, Multipurpose internet mail extensions, S/MIME functionality, S/MIME messages,
S/MIME certificate processing, enhanced security services, Domain keys identified mail,
internet mail architecture, E-Mail threats, DKIM strategy, DKIM functional flow. IP
Security: IP Security overview, applications of IPsec, benefits of IPsec, Routing applications,
IPsec documents, IPsec services, transport and tunnel modes, IP Security policy, Security
associations, Security associations database, Security policy database, IP traffic processing,
Encapsulating Security payload, ESP format, encryption and authentication algorithms,
Padding, Anti replay service, transport and tunnel modes, combining security associations,
authentication plus confidentiality, basic combinations of security associations, internet key
exchange, key determinations protocol, header and payload formats, cryptographic suits.
Question paper pattern:
 The question paper will have ten questions.
 Each full question is for 20 marks.
 There will be 2 full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions in one full
question) from each module.
 Each full question with sub questions will cover the contents under a module.
 Students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each
module. ∎
Textbook/Reference Books
Title of the book Author Name Publisher’s Publication
Name year
Textbook(s):
1 Cryptography and Network William Stallings Pearson, 6 th 2013
Security edition
Reference Book(s):
1 Cryptography and Information V K Pachghare PHI, 2nd 2015
Security edition
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(Group-2): Course Code 20SIT13 Data Compression

Exam Hours: 3 hours Exam Marks(Maximum):100
Module-1
Introduction: Compression techniques, modeling and coding mathematical preliminaries for
lossless compression: A brief introduction to information theory, models, coding, algorithmic
information theory, minimum description length principle.
Module-2
Huffman Coding: The Huffman coding algorithm, non binary Huffman codes, adaptive
Huffman coding, golomb codes, rice codes, Tunstall codes, application of Huffman coding.
Module-3
Lossless Image Compression: Introduction, CALIC, JPEG-LS, multi resolution approaches,
facsimile encoding, MRC-T.44. Mathematical Preliminaries For Lossy Coding:
Introduction, distortion criteria, information theory revisited, rate distortion theory, models
Module-4
Wavelet Based Compression: Introduction, wavelets, multi resolution analysis and scaling
function, implementation using filters, image compression, embedded zero tree coder, set
partitioning in hierarchical trees, JPEG zero. Audio Coding:Introduction , MPEG coding,
MPEG advanced audio coding, Dolby AC3(DOLBY DIGITAL) other standards.
Module-5
Video Compression: Introduction, motion compensation, video signal representation, ITU-T
recommendation H.261, model based coding, asymmetric applications, The MPEG-1 video
standard, The MPEG-2 video standard, ITU-T recommendation H.263, ITU-T
recommendation H.264, MPEG-4 part 1.0 advanced video coding, MPEG-4 part 2 , packet
video, ATM networks

Question paper pattern:

 The question paper will have ten questions.
 Each full question is for 20 marks.
 There will be 2 full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions in one full
question) from each module.
 Each full question with sub questions will cover the contents under a module.
 Students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each
module. ∎
Textbook/Reference Books
Title of the book Author Name Publisher’s Publication
Name year
Textbook(s):
1 Introduction to data compression, Khalid sayood Elsevier, 2014
4 th edition
Reference Book(s):
1 Data compression, The complete David Salomon Springer, 4 th 2014
reference edition
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(Group-2): Course Code 20SIT254 Software Project Planning & Management

Exam Hours: 3 hours Exam Marks(Maximum):100
Module-1
Metrics: Introduction, The Metrics Roadmap, A Typical Metrics Strategy, What Should you
Measure?, Set Targets and track Them, Understanding and Trying to minimize variability, Act
on data, People and Organizational issues in Metrics Programs, Common Pitfalls to watch out
for in Metrics Programs, Matrices implementation checklists and tools, Software configuration
management: Introduction, Some Basic Definitions and terminology, the processes and
activities of software configuration management, configuration status accounting,
configuration audit, software configuration management in geographically distributed teams,
Metrics in software configuration management, software configuration management tools and
automation.
Module-2
Risk Management: Introduction, What is risk management and why is it important?, Risk
management cycle, Risk identification: common tools and techniques, Risk Quantifications,
Risk Monitoring, Risk Mitigation, Risks and Mitigation in the context of global project teams,
some practical techniques risk management, Metrics in risk management. Project Planning and
Tracking: Components of Project Planning and Tracking, The “What “ Part of a Project Plan,
The “What Cost “ Part of a Project Plan, The “When “ Part of Project Planning, The “How “
Part of a Project Planning: Tailoring of Organizational Processes For the Project, The “ By
Whom “ Part of the Project Management Plan : Assigning Resources, Putting it all together :
The Software Management Plan, Activities Specific to Project Tracking, Interfaces to the
Process Database. Project Closure: When Does Project Closure Happen?. Why Should We
Explicitly do a Closure?, An Effective Closure Process, Issues that Get Discussed During
Closure, Metrics for Project Closure, Interfaces to the Process Database.
Module-3
Software Requirements gathering: Inputs and start criteria for requirements gathering,
Dimensions of requirements gathering, Steps to be followed during requirements gathering,
outputs and quality records from the requirements phase, skill sets required during
requirements phase, differences for a shrinkwrapped software, challenges during the
requirements management phase, Metrics for requirements phase. Estimation: What is
Estimation? when and why is Estimation done?, the three phases of Estimation, Estimation
methodology, formal models for size Estimation, Translating size Estimate into effort
Estimate, Translating effort Estimates into schedule Estimate, common challenges during
Estimation , Metrics for the Estimation processes. Design and Development Phases: Some
differences in our chosen approach, salient features of design, evolving an architecture/
blueprint, design for reusability, technology choices/ constraints, design to standards, design
for portability, user interface issues, design for testability, design for diagnose ability, design
for maintainability, design for install ability, interoperability design, challenges during design
and development phases, skill sets for design and development, metrics for design and
development phases.
Module-4
Project management in the testing phase: Introduction, What is testing?, what are the activities
that makeup testing?, test scheduling and types of tests, people issues in testing, management
structures for testing in global teams, metrics for testing phase. Project management in the
Maintenance Phase: Introduction, Activities during Maintenance Phase, management issues
during Maintenance Phase, Configuration management during Maintenance Phase, skill sets
for people in the maintenance phase, estimating size, effort, and people resources for the
maintenance phase, advantages of using geographically distributed teams for the maintenance
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phase, metrics for the maintenance phase.

Module-5
Globalization issues in project management: Evolution of globalization, challenges in building
global teams, Models for the execution of global projects, some effective management
techniques for managing global teams. Impact of the internet on project management:
Introduction, the effect of internet on project management, managing projects for the internet,
Effect on the project management activities. People focused process models: Growing
emphasis on people centric models, people capability maturity model(P-CMM), other people
focused models in the literature, how does an organization choose the models to use?
Question paper pattern:
 The question paper will have ten questions.
 Each full question is for 20 marks.
 There will be 2 full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions in one full
question) from each module.
 Each full question with sub questions will cover the contents under a module.
 Students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each
module. ∎
Textbook/Reference Books
Title of the book Author Name Publisher’s Publication
Name year
Textbook(s):
1 Managing Global Projects Ramesh Tata McGraw 2013
Gopalaswamy Hill
Reference Book(s):
1 Managing the Software Process Watts Humphrey Pearson 2000
Education
2 Software Project Management in PankajJalote Pearson 2002
practice Education

(Group-2): Course Code 20SSE324 Supply Chain Management

Exam Hours: 3 hours Exam Marks(Maximum):100
Module-1
Introduction to Supply Chain Management :Supply chain – objectives – importance –
decision phases – process view – competitive and supply chain strategies – achieving strategic
fit – supply chain drivers – obstacles – framework – facilities – inventory – transportation –
information – sourcing – pricing.

Module-2
Designing the supply chain network :Designing the distribution network – role of
distribution – factors influencing distribution – design options – e-business and its impact –
distribution networks in practice – network design in the supply chain – role of network –
factors affecting the network design decisions – modeling for supply chain.

Module-3
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Designing and Planning Transportation Networks.: Role of transportation - modes and

their performance - transportation infrastructure and policies - design options and their trade-
offs - Tailored transportation.
Module-4
Sourcing and Pricing: Sourcing – In-house or Outsource – 3rd and 4th PLs – supplier scoring
and assessment, selection – design collaboration – procurement process – sourcing planning
and analysis. Pricing and revenue management for multiple customers, perishable products,
seasonal demand, bulk and spot contracts.

Module-5
Information Technology in the supply chain: IT Framework – customer relationship
management – internal supply chain management – supplier relationship management –
transaction management – future of IT.
Question paper pattern:
 The question paper will have ten questions.
 Each full question is for 20 marks.
 There will be 2 full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions in one full
question) from each module.
 Each full question with sub questions will cover the contents under a module.
 Students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each
module. ∎
Textbook/Reference Books
Title of the book Author Name Publisher’s Publication
Name year
Textbook(s):
1 Supply Chain Management – Sunil Chopra and Pearson/PHI, 2007
Strategy, Planning and Operation Peter Meindl 3rd Edition
2 The management of Business Coyle, Bardi, Thomson 2006
Logistics – A supply Chain Longley Press
Perspective
3 Supply Chain Management Janat Shah Pearson 2008
Publication
Reference Book(s):
1 Supply Chain Logistics Donald J TMH, 2008
Management Bowersox, Dand J Second
Closs, M Bixby Edition
Coluper
2 Principles of Supply Chain Wisner, Keong Thomson 2005
Management A Balanced Approach Leong and Press
KeahChoon Tan
3 Designing and Managing the David Simchi- ISBN- 2019
Supply Chain – Concepts Levi et al 13:978-
0072357561,
MGH,3rd
Edition
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(Group-2): Course Code 20LNI254 Advanced Cryptography

Exam Hours: 3 hours Exam Marks(Maximum):100
Module-1
Number Theory: Introduction to number theory, Overview of modular arithmetic, discrete
logarithms, and primality/factoring, Euclid’s algorithm, Finite fields, Prime numbers, Fermat’s
and Euler’s theorem Testing for primality.

Module-2
Symmetric & Asymmetric Cryptography: Classical encryption techniques, Block cipher
design principles and modes of operation, Data encryption standard, Evaluation criteria for
AES, AES cipher, Principles of public key cryptosystems, The RSA algorithm, Key
management – Diffie Hellman Key exchange, Elliptic curve arithmetic-Elliptic curve
cryptography
Module-3
.Authentication functions: MAC ,Hash function, Security of hash function and MAC,MD5
,SHA ,HMAC, CMAC , Digital signature and authentication protocols , DSS ,EI Gamal –
Schnorr.
Module-4
Authentication applications: Kerberos & X.509 Authentication services Internet Firewalls for
Trusted System: Roles of Firewalls , Firewall related terminology-,Types of Firewalls
,Firewall designs, Intrusion detection system , Virus and related threats, Countermeasures ,
Firewalls design principles ,Trusted systems, Practical implementation of cryptography and
security.
Module-5
Quantum Cryptography and Quantum Teleportation: Heisenberg uncertainty principle,
polarization states of photons, quantum cryptography using polarized photons, local vs. non
local interactions, entanglements, EPR paradox, Bell’s theorem, Bell basis, teleportation of a
single qubit theory and experiments.
Question paper pattern:
 The question paper will have ten questions.
 Each full question is for 20 marks.
 There will be 2 full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions in one full
question) from each module.
 Each full question with sub questions will cover the contents under a module.
 Students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each
module. ∎
Textbook/Reference Books
Title of the book Author Name Publisher’s Publication
Name year
Textbook(s):
1 Cryptography and Network William Stallings Pearson 2005
Security Principles And Practice Education,
Fourth
Edition
2 A Course in Number Theory and Neal Koblitz Springer 1987
Cryptology
Reference Book(s):
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1 Cryptography and Network Behrouz A Mc- 2015

Security Forouzan, GrawHill,
DebdeepMukhop 3rd Edition
adhyay
2 Applied Cryptography and Damien Vergnaud 7th 2009
Network Security and Michel International,
Abdalla Conference,
ACNS 2009,
Paris, France,
June 2-5,
2009,
Proceedings

(Group-2): Course Code 20SSE14 Service Oriented Architecture

Exam Hours: 3 hours Exam Marks(Maximum):100
Module-1
SOA BASICS:Software Architecture – Types of IT Architecture – SOA – Evolution – Key
components – perspective of SOA – Enterprise-wide SOA – Architecture – Enterprise
Applications – Solution Architecture for enterprise application – Software platforms for
enterprise Applications – Patterns for SOA – SOA programming models.
Module-2
SOA ANALYSIS AND DESIGN: Service-oriented Analysis and Design – Design of
Activity, Data, Client and business process services – Technologies of SOA – SOAP – WSDL
– JAX – WS – XML WS for .NET – Service integration with ESB – Scenario – Business case
for SOA – stakeholder OBJECTIVES – benefits of SPA – Cost Savings.
Module-3
SOA GOVERNANCE:SOA implementation and Governance – strategy – SOA development
– SOA governance – trends in SOA – event-driven architecture – software s a service – SOA
technologies – proof-of-concept – process orchestration – SOA best practices.

Module-4
SOA IMPLEMENTATION:SOA based integration – integrating existing application –
development of web services – Integration - SOA using REST – RESTful services – RESTful
services with and without JWS – Role of WSDL,SOAP and Java/XML mapping in SOA –
JAXB Data binding.
Module-5
APPLICATION INTEGRATION:JAX –WS 2.0 client side/server side development –
Packaging and Deployment of SOA component – SOA shopper case study –WSDL centric
java WS with SOA-J – related software – integration through service composition (BPEL) –
case study - current trends
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Question paper pattern:

 The question paper will have ten questions.
 Each full question is for 20 marks.
 There will be 2 full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions in one full
question) from each module.
 Each full question with sub questions will cover the contents under a module.
 Students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each
module. ∎
Textbook/Reference Books
Title of the book Author Name Publisher’s Publication
Name year
Textbook(s):
1 Service–Oriented Architecture for Shankar Wiley 2008
Enterprise Applications Kambhampaly

Reference Book(s):
1 SOA using Java Web Services Mark D. Hansen Practice Hall 2007
2 SOA-Based Enterprise Integration WaseemRoshen Tata 2009
McGraw-
HILL

(Group-2): Course Code 20SSE243 Information Retrieval

Exam Hours: 3 hours Exam Marks(Maximum):100
Module-1
Introduction: Motivation, Basic concepts, Past, present, and future, The retrieval process.
Modeling: Introduction, A taxonomy of information retrieval models,Retrieval:Adhoc
and filtering, A formal characterization of IR models, Classic information retrieval,
Alternative set theoretic models, Alternative algebraic models, Alternative probabilistic
models, Structured text retrieval models, Models for browsing.
Module-2
Retrieval Evaluation: Introduction, Retrieval performance evaluation, Reference collections.
Query Languages: Introduction, keyword-based querying, Pattern matching, Structural
queries, Query protocols. Query Operations: Introduction, User relevance feedback,
Automatic local analysis, Automatic global analysis.

Module-3
Text and Multimedia Languages and Properties: Introduction, Metadata, Text, Markup
languages, Multimedia. Text Operations: Introduction, Document preprocessing, Document
clustering, Text compression, Comparing text compression techniques.
Module-4
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User Interfaces and Visualization: Introduction, Human-Computer interaction, The

information access process, Starting pints, Query specification, Context, Using relevance
judgments, Interface support for the search process. Searching the Web: Introduction,
Challenges, Characterizing the web, Search engines, Browsing, Meta searchers, Finding the
needle in the haystack, Searching using hyperlinks.

Module-5
Indexing and Searching: Introduction; Inverted Files; Other indices for text; Boolean
queries; Sequential searching; Pattern matching; Structural queries; Compression. Parallel
and Distributed IR: Introduction, Parallel IR, Distributed IR
Question paper pattern:
 The question paper will have ten questions.
 Each full question is for 20 marks.
 There will be 2 full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions in one full
question) from each module.
 Each full question with sub questions will cover the contents under a module.
 Students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each
module. ∎
Textbook/Reference Books
Title of the book Author Name Publisher’s Publication
Name year
Textbook(s):
1 Modern Information Retrieval, Ricardo Pearson 1999
BaezaYates,
BerthierRibeiroN
eto
Reference Book(s):
1 Information Retrieval Algorithms David A. Springer, 2nd 2004
and Heuristics Grossman, Edition
OphirFrieder

(Group-2): Course Code 20SFC251 Data mining & Data warehousing

Exam Hours: 3 hours Exam Marks(Maximum):100
Module-1
Introduction and Data Preprocessing :Why data mining, What is data mining, What kinds of
data can be mined, What kinds of patterns can be mined, Which Technologies Are used,
Which kinds of Applications are targeted, Major issues in data mining .Data Preprocessing:
An overview, Data cleaning, Data integration, Data reduction, Data transformation and data
discretization
Module-2
Data warehousing and online analytical processing: Data warehousing: Basic concepts, Data
warehouse modeling: Data cube and OLAP, Data warehouse design and usage, Data
warehouse implementation, Data generalization by attribute-oriented induction
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Module-3
Classification: Basic Concepts: Basic Concepts, Decision tree induction, Bays Classification
Methods, Rule-Based classification, Model evaluation and selection, Techniques to improve
classification accuracy
Module-4
Cluster Analysis: Basic concepts and methods: Cluster Analysis, Partitioning methods,
Hierarchical Methods, Density-based methods, Grid-Based Methods, Evaluation of clustering.
Module-5
Data mining trends and research frontiers: Mining complex data types, other methodologies of
data mining, Data mining applications, Data Mining and society.
Question paper pattern:
 The question paper will have ten questions.
 Each full question is for 20 marks.
 There will be 2 full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions in one full
question) from each module.
 Each full question with sub questions will cover the contents under a module.
 Students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each
module. ∎
Textbook/Reference Books
Title of the book Author Name Publisher’s Publication
Name year
Textbook(s):
1 Data Mining Concepts and Jiawei Han, ELSEVIER, 2012
Techniques MichelineKamber 3rd edition
, Jian Pei
Reference Book(s):

1 Data Warehousing and data mining Alex and Stephen Tata MGH 2008
OLAP I smith

Group-2 Mobile Applications Development

Course Code:20MCA263 Exam Hours:03

Module-1
Introduction : Preliminary Considerations – Cost of Development – Importance of
Mobile Strategies in the Business World – Effective use of Screen Real Estate –
Understanding Mobile Applications: Understanding Mobile Applications Users –
Understanding Mobile Information Design – Understanding Mobile Platforms – Using
the Tools of Mobile Interface Design.

Module-2
Getting Started with Android Programming
What is Android – Obtaining the required tools– Anatomy of an Android
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Application – Components of Android Applications – Activities – Fragments –

Utilizing the Action Bar
Module-3
Android UI Design and Location Based Services
Views and View Groups – Basic Views – Fragments – Displaying Maps –
Getting Location Data – Publishing for Publishing – Deploying APK Files
Module-4
Android Messaging and Networking
SMS Messaging – Sending Email – Networking – Downloading Binary Data,
Text files – Accessing Web Services – Performing Asynchronous Call –
Creating your own services – Communicating between a service and an activity
– Binding activities to services
Module-5
Feedback and Oscillator Circuits
iOS – Obtaining the tools and SDK – Components of XCODE – Architecture of
iOS – Building Derby App in iOS – Other useful iOS things – Windows Phone:
Getting the tools you need – Windows Phone 7 Project
Building Derby App in Windows Phone 7 – Distribution – Other useful
Windows Phone Thing
Text books
1. Jeff McWherter and Scott Gowell, “Professional Mobile Application
Development”, 1st Edition, 2012, ISBN: 978-1-118-20390-3
2. Wei-Meng Lee, “Beginning Android Application Development”, Wiley
2011.
References
1. Reto Meier, “ Professional Android 4 Application Development “, Wrox
Publications 2012.

Group-2 Distributed Operating System

Course Code:20MCA264 Exam Hours:03

Module-1
Fundamentals: What is Distributed Computing Systems? Evolution of Distributed
Computing System; Distributed Computing System Models; What is Distributed
Operating System? Issues in Designing a Distributed Operating System; Introduction
to Distributed ComputingEnvironment(DCE).Message Passing: Introduction,
Desirable features of a Good Message Passing System, Issues in PC by Message
Passing, Synchronization, Buffering, Multi-datagram Messages, Encoding and
Decoding of Message Data, Process Addressing, Failure Handling, Group
Communication, Case Study: 4.3 BSD UNIX IPC Mechanism.
Module-2
Remote Procedure Calls: Introduction, The RPC Model, Transparency of RPC,
Implementing RPC Mechanism, Stub Generation, RPC Messages, Marshaling
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Arguments and Results, Server Management, Parameter-Passing Semantics, Call

Semantics, Communication Protocols for RPCs, Complicated RPCs, Client-Server
Binding, Exception Handling, Security, Some Special Types of RPCs, RPC in
Heterogeneous Environments, Lightweight RPC, Optimization for Better
Performance, Case Studies: Sun RPC.
Module-3
Distributed Shared Memory: Introduction, General Architecture of DSM systems,
Design and Implementation Issues of DSM, Granularity, Structure of Shared Memory
Space, Consistency Models, Replacement Strategy, Thrashing, Other approaches to
DSM, Heterogeneous DSM, Advantages of DSM. Synchronization: Introduction,
Clock Synchronization, Event Ordering, Mutual Exclusion, Dead Lock, Election
Algorithms
Module-4
Resource Management: Introduction, Desirable Features of a Good Global
Scheduling Algorithm, Task Assignment Approach, Load – Balancing Approach, Load
– Sharing Approach Process Management: Introduction, Process Migration, Threads.
Module-5
Distributed File Systems: Introduction, Desirable Features of a Good Distributed File
System, File models, File–Accessing Models, File – Sharing Semantics, File – Caching
Schemes, File Replication, Fault Tolerance, Atomic Transactions and Design
Principles.
Text books
1. Pradeep. K. Sinha: Distributed Operating Systems: Concepts and Design, PHI, 2007.
References
1. Andrew S. Tanenbaum: Distributed Operating Systems, Pearson Education,
2013.
2. Ajay D. Kshemkalyani and MukeshSinghal, Distributed Computing: Principles,
Algorithms and Systems, Cambridge University Press, 2008
3. SunitaMahajan, Seema Shan, “ Distributed Computing”, Oxford University
Press,2015
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Ph.D Coursework Courses under

Group 3
Sl.No Course Code Course Page
1 20SCN242 Switching & Statistical Multiplexing in
2
Telecommunication
2 20SCN321 Computer System Performance Analysis 3
3 20SFC243 Information Network Policies in Industry 4
4 20SCN332 Protocol Engineering 5
5 20SAM334 Speech Processing 6
6 20SSE12 Advances in Software Testing 7
7 20SFC253 Enterprise Application Programming 9
8 20SCS244 Pattern Recognition 10
9 20SCS13 Advances in Data Base Management System 11
10. 20MCA262 Artificial Intelligence 13

(Group-3): Course Code : 20SCN242

Course Title: Switching & Statistical Multiplexing in Telecommunication
Exam Hours: 3 hours Exam Marks(Maximum):100
Module-1
Introduction: Evolution of Telecommunication, Simple Telephone Communication, Basics of
a Switching System, Manual Switching System, Major Telecommunication Networks. Why
Digital: Advantages of Digital Voice Networks, Digital Signal Processing, Disadvantages of
Digital Voice Networks
Module-2
Switching: Crossbar Switching, Principles of Common Control, Touch Tone Dial Telephone,
Principles of Crossbar Switching, Crossbar Switch Configurations, Crosspoint Technology,
Crossbar Exchange Organization
Module-3
Electronic Space Division Switching: Stored Program Control, Centralized SPC, Distributed
SPC, Software Architecture, Application Software, Enhanced Services, Two-stage, Three-
stage and n-stage Networks. Digital Transmission and Multiplexing: Sampling, Quantization
and Binary Coding, Quantization Noise, Companding, Differential Coding, Vocoders, Pulse
Transmission, Line Coding, Time Division Multiplexing
Module-4
Time Division Switching: Basic Division Space and Time Switching, Time Multiplexed Space
and Time Switching, Combination Switching, Three-stage and n-stage Combination Switching
Module-5
Traffic Engineering: Network Traffic Load and Parameters, Grade of Service and Blocking
Probability, Modelling Switching Systems, Incoming Traffic and Service Time
Characterization, Blocking Models and Loss Estimates, Delay Systems
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Question paper pattern:

 The question paper will have ten questions.
 Each full question is for 20 marks.
 There will be 2full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions in one full
question) from each module.
 Each full question with sub questions will cover the contents under a module.
 Students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each
module.∎
Textbook/Reference Books
Title of the book Author Name Publisher’s Publication
Name year
Textbook(s):
1 Telecommunication Switching ThiagarajanViswa PHI 1992
Systems and Networks na than
2 Digital Telephony John.C.Bellamy John Wiley 3rd Edition,
and Sons Inc 2002
Reference Book(s):
1 Computer Networks By Andrew S Pearson 2013
Tanenbaum

(Group-3 ): Course Code : 20SCN321 : Computer System Performance Analysis

Exam Hours: 3 hours Exam Marks(Maximum):100
Module-1
Introduction: The art of Performance Evaluation; Common Mistakes in Performance
Evaluation, A Systematic Approach to Performance Evaluation, Selecting an Evaluation
Technique, Selecting Performance Metrics, commonly used Performance Metrics, Utility
Classification of Performance Metrics, Setting Performance Requirements.
Module-2
Workloads, Workload Selection and Characterization: Types of Workloads, addition
instructions, Instruction mixes, Kernels; Synthetic programs, Application benchmarks, popular
benchmarks. Workload Selection: Services exercised, level of detail; Representativeness;
Timeliness, Other considerations in workload selection. workload characterization
Techniques: Terminology; Averaging, Specifying dispersion, Single Parameter Histograms,
Multi Parameter Histograms, Principle Component Analysis, Markov Models, Clustering.
Module-3
Monitors, Program Execution Monitors and Accounting Logs: Monitors: Terminology and
classification; Software and hardware monitors, Software versus hardware monitors, Firmware
and hybrid monitors, Distributed System Monitors, Program Execution Monitors and
Accounting Logs, Program Execution Monitors, Techniques for Improving Program
Performance, Accounting Logs, Analysis and Interpretation of Accounting log data, Using
accounting logs to answer commonly asked questions.
Module-4
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Capacity Planning and Benchmarking: Steps in capacity planning and management; Problems
in Capacity Planning; Common Mistakes in Benchmarking; Benchmarking Games; Load
Drivers; Remote- Terminal Emulation; Components of an RTE; Limitations of RTEs.
Experimental Design and Analysis: Introduction: Terminology, Common mistakes in
experiments, Types of experimental designs, 2k Factorial Designs, Concepts, Computation of
effects, Sign table method for computing effects; Allocation of variance; General 2k Factorial
Designs, General full factorial designs with k factors: Model, Analysis of a General Design,
Informal Methods.
Module-5
Queuing Models: Introduction: Queuing Notation; Rules for all Queues; Little’s Law, Types
of Stochastic Process. Analysis of Single Queue: Birth-Death Processes; M/M/1 Queue;
M/M/m Queue; M/M/m/B Queue with finite buffers; Results for other M/M/1 Queuing
Systems. Queuing Networks: Open and Closed Queuing Networks; Product form networks,
queuing Network models of Computer Systems. Operational Laws: Utilization Law; Forced
Flow Law; Little’s Law; General Response Time Law; Interactive Response Time Law;
Bottleneck Analysis; Mean Value Analysis and Related Techniques; Analysis of Open
Queuing Networks; Mean Value Analysis; Approximate MVA; Balanced Job Bounds;
Convolution Algorithm, Distribution of Jobs in a System, Convolution Algorithm for
Computing G(N), Computing Performance using G(N), Timesharing Systems, Hierarchical
Decomposition of Large Queuing Networks: Load Dependent Service Centres, Hierarchical
Decomposition, Limitations of Queuing Theory.
Question paper pattern:
 The question paper will have ten questions.
 Each full question is for 20 marks.
 There will be 2 full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions in one full
question) from each module.
 Each full question with sub questions will cover the contents under a module.
 Students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each
module.∎
Textbook/Reference Books
Title of the book Author Name Publisher’s Publication
Name year
Textbook(s):
1 The Art of Computer Systems Raj Jain John Wiley 2013
Performance Analysis and Sons

Reference Book(s):

1 Computer Systems Performance Paul J Fortier Howard E 2003

Evaluation and prediction Michel,
Elsevier
2 Probability and Statistics with Queuing and Trivedi K S, 2nd Edition,
Reliability Computer Science Wiley India ,2001
Applications
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(Group-3 ): Course Code : 20SFC243 : Information Network Policies in Industry

Exam Hours: 3 hours Exam Marks(Maximum):100
Module-1
Introduction to Information Security Policies: About Policies, why Policies are Important,
When policies should be developed, How Policy should be developed, Policy needs, Identify
what and from whom it is being protected, Data security consideration, Backups, Archival
storage and disposal of data, Intellectual Property rights and Policies, Incident Response and
Forensics, Management Responsibilities, Role of Information Security Department, Security
Management and Law Enforcement, Security awareness training and support.
Module-2
Policy Definitions, Standards, Guidelines, Procedures with examples, Policy Key elements,
Policy format and Basic Policy Components, Policy content considerations, Program Policy
Examples, Business Goal Vs Security Goals, Computer Security Objectives, Mission
statement Format, Examples, Key roles in Organization, Business Objectives, Standards:
International Standards.
Module-3
Writing The Security Policies: Computer location and Facility construction, Contingency
Planning, Periodic System and Network Configuration Audits, Authentication and Network
Security, Addressing and Architecture, Access Control, Login Security, Passwords, User
Interface, Telecommuting and Remote Access, Internet Security Policies, Administrative and
User Responsibilities, WWW Policies, Application Responsibilities, E-mail Security Policies.
Module-4
Establishing Type of Viruses Protection: Rules for handling Third Party Software, User
Involvement with Viruses, Legal Issues, Managing Encryption and Encrypted data, Key
Generation considerations and Management, Software Development policies, Processes
Testing and Documentation, Revision control and Configuration management, Third Party
Development, Intellectual Property Issues.
Module-5
Maintaining the Policies: Writing the AUP, User Login Responsibilities, Organization’s
responsibilities and Disclosures, Compliance and Enforcement, Testing and Effectiveness of
Policies, Publishing and Notification Requirements of the Policies, Monitoring, Controls and
Remedies, Administrator Responsibility, Login Considerations, Reporting of security
Problems, Policy Review Process, The Review Committee, Sample Corporate Policies,
Sample Security Policies.
Question paper pattern:
 The question paper will have ten questions.
 Each full question is for 20 marks.
 There will be 2 full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions in one full
question) from each module.
 Each full question with sub questions will cover the contents under a module.
 Students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each
module.∎
Textbook/Reference Books
Title of the book Author Name Publisher’s Publication
Name year
Textbook(s):
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1 Writing Information Security Scott Barman Sams 2002

Policies Publishing

2 Information Policies Procedures Thomas.R.Peltier CRC Press 2004

and Standards

Reference Book(s):

1 Information Security Fundamentals Thomas R Peltier, CRC Press 2005

Justin Peltier,
John Backley
2. Information Security Management Harold F. Tipton Auerbach 5th Edition,
Handbook and Micki Krause publications 2005

(Group- 3): Course Code : 20SCN332 Protocol Engineering

Exam Hours: 3 hours Exam Marks(Maximum):100
Module-1
Introduction: Communication Model, Communication Software, Communication Subsystems,
Communication Protocol, Communication Protocol Development Methods, Protocol
Engineering Process. Layered Architecture, Network Services and Interfaces, Protocol
Function, OSI Model, TCP/IP Protocol Suite, Application Protocols, Protocol Specification:
Components of Protocol to be Specified, Communication Service Specification, Protocol
Entity Specification, Interface Specifications, Multimedia Protocol Specifications, Internet
Protocol Specifications: Examples
Module-2
SDL: Examples of SDL Based Protocol Specifications Introduction to Other Protocol
Specification Languages.
Module-3
Protocol Verification/Validation: Protocol Verification, Verification of a Protocol Using Finite
State Machines, Protocol Validation, Protocol Design Errors, Protocol Validation Approaches,
and SDL based Protocol Verification, SDL based Protocol Validation
Module-4
Protocol Conformance Testing: Conformance Testing, Conformance Testing Methodology
and Framework, Conformance Test Architectures, Test Sequence Generation Methods,
Distributed Architecture by Local Methods, Conformance Testing with TTCN, Conformance
Testing in Systems with Semi-controllable Interfaces, Conformance Testing of RIP,
Multimedia Applications Testing, SDL Based Tools for Conformance Testing, SDL Based
Conformance Testing of MPLS.
Module-5
Protocol Synthesis:Protocol Synthesis, Interactive Synthesis Algorithm, Automatic Synthesis
Algorithm, Automatic Synthesis of SDL from MSC, Protocol Re-synthesis. Protocol
Implementation: Requirements of Protocol Implementation, Object based approach to Protocol
Implementation, Protocol Compilers, and Tools for Protocol Engineering.
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Question paper pattern:

 The question paper will have ten questions.
 Each full question is for 20 marks.
 There will be 2 full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions in one full
question) from each module.
 Each full question with sub questions will cover the contents under a module.
 Students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each
module.∎
Textbook/Reference Books
Title of the book Author Name Publisher’s Publication
Name year
Textbook(s):
1 Communication Protocol Venkataram&Ma PHI Learning 2004
Engineering nvi et. al. Pvt. Ltd,

Reference Book(s):

1 Communication Protocol MiroslavPopovic CRC Press 2006

Engineering

2 Protocol Engineering Konig, Hartmut Springer 2012

(Group-3 ): Course Code : 20SAM334 : Speech Processing

Exam Hours: 3 hours Exam Marks(Maximum):100
Module-1
Introduction, Fundamentals of Digital Speech Processing
Module-2
Digital models for the speech signals, Time domain models for speech processing
Module-3
Digital representation of the speech waveform, short term Fourier analysis
Module-4
Homomorphic speech processing, Linear predictive coding of speech: Introduction, Basic
principles of LP analyse, Computation of gain for the model, solution of LPC equation,
Comparison between the methods of solution of the LPC analysis equation, the prediction
error signal.
Module-5
Linear predictive coding of speech: Frequency domain interpretation of LP analysis, Relation
of LP analysis, Relations between various speech parameters, applications Digital speech for
man machine communication by voice.
Question paper pattern:
 The question paper will have ten questions.
 Each full question is for 20 marks.
 There will be 2 full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions in one full
question) from each module.
 Each full question with sub questions will cover the contents under a module.
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 Students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each
module.∎

Textbook/Reference Books
Title of the book Author Name Publisher’s Publication
Name year
Textbook(s):
1 Digital Processing of Speech Lawrence R. Pearson 2003
Signals Rabiner, Ronald
W. Schafer
Reference Book(s):

1 Speech And Audio Signal Ben Gold WILEY 2011

Processing: Processing And INDIA
Perception Of Speech And Music,

(Group- 3): Course Code : 20SSE12

Course Title : Advances in Software Testing
Exam Hours: 3 hours Exam Marks(Maximum):100
Module-1
Basics of Software Testing and Examples: Basic definitions, Test cases, Insights from a
Venn diagram, Identifying test cases, Error and fault taxonomies, Levels of testing. Examples:
Generalized pseudocode, The triangle problem, The NextDate function, The commission
problem, The SATM (Simple Automatic Teller Machine) problem.
Module-2
Decision Table-Based Testing: Decision tables, Test cases for the triangle problem, Test
cases for the NextDate function, Test cases for the commission problem, Guidelines and
observations. Data Flow Testing: Definition-Use testing, Slice-based testing, Guidelines and
observations. Levels of Testing: Traditional view of testing levels, Alternative life-cycle
models, The SATM system, Separating integration and system testing. Integration Testing: A
closer look at the SATM system, Decomposition-based, call graph-based, Path-based
integrations, Case study.
Module-3
System Testing: Threads, Basic concepts for requirements specification, Finding threads,
Structural strategies and functional strategies for thread testing, SATM test threads, System
testing guidelines, ASF (Atomic System Functions) testing example. Interaction Testing:
Context of interaction, A taxonomy of interactions, Interaction, composition, and determinism,
Client/Server Testing,.Issues in Object-Oriented Testing: Units for object-oriented testing,
Implications of composition and encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism, Levels of
objectoriented testing, GUI testing, Dataflow testing for object-oriented software, Examples.
Class Testing: Methods as units, Classes as units.
Module-4
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Object-Oriented Integration Testing: UML support for integration testing, MM-paths for
object-oriented software, A framework for object-oriented dataflow integration testing.GUI
Testing: The currency conversion program, Unit testing, Integration Testing and System
testing for the currency conversion program. Object-Oriented System Testing: Currency
converter UML description, UML-based system testing,Statechart-based system testing.
Module-5
Exploratory Testing: The context-driven school, Exploring exploratory testing, Exploring a
familiar example, Exploratory and context-driven testing observations. Model-Based Testing:
Testing based on models, Appropriate models, Use case-based testing, Commercial tool
support for model-based testing. Test-Driven Development: Test-then-code cycles,
Automated test execution, Java and JUnit example, Remaining questions, Pros, cons, and open
questions of TDD, Retrospective on MDD versus TDD.
Question paper pattern:
 The question paper will have ten questions.
 Each full question is for 20 marks.
 There will be 2 full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions in one full
question) from each module.
 Each full question with sub questions will cover the contents under a module.
 Students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each
module.∎
Textbook/Reference Books
Title of the book Author Name Publisher’s Publication
Name year
Textbook(s):
1 Software Testing A Craftsman’s Auerbach 3rd Edition,
Approach, Paul C. Publications 2013
Jorgensen,
Reference Book(s):

1 Foundations of Software Aditya P Mathur Pearson 2008

Testing

2 Software Testing and Analysis Mauro Pezze, Michal John Wiley 2008
– Process, Principles and Young & Sons
Techniques

(Group-3 ): Course Code : 220SFC253 Enterprise Application Programming

Exam Hours: 3 hours Exam Marks(Maximum):100
Module-1
Web application and java EE 6: Exploring the HTTP Protocol, Introducing web
applications, describing web containers, exploring web architecture models, exploring the
MVC architecture. Working with servlets 3.0 Exploring the features of java servlet,
Exploring new features in servlet 3.0, Exploring the servlet API, explaining the servlet life
cycle, creating a sample servlet, creating a servlet by using annotation, working with servlet
config and servlet context objects, working with the HTTP servlet request and HTTP servlet
response interfaces, Exploring request delegation and request scope, implementing servlet
collaboration.
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Module-2
Handling sessions in servlet 3.0: Describing a session, introducing session tracking,
Exploring the session tracking, mechanisms, using the java servlet API for session tracking,
creating login application using session tracking. Implementing event handling Introducing
events, Introducing event handling, working with the servlet events, developing the online
shop web application. Working with java server pages: Introducing JSP technology,
Exploring new features of JSP2.1, listing advantages of JSP over java servlet, Exploring the
architecture of a JSP page, Describing the life cycle of a JSP page, working with JSP basic
tags and implicit objects, working with the action tags in JSP, exploring the JSP unified EL,
using functions with EL.
Module-3
Implementing JSP tag extensions: Exploring the elements of tag extensions, Working with
classic tag handlers, Exploring the tag extensions, Working with simple tag handlers.
Implementing java server pages standard tag library 1.2: Introducing JSTL, Exploring the
tag libraries JSTL, working with the core tag library. Implementing filters: Exploring the
need of filters, exploring the working of filters, exploring filters API, configuring a filter,
creating a web application using filters, using initializing parameter in filters.
Module-4
Persistence Management and Design Patterns: Implementing java persistence using
hibernate Introducing hibernate, exploring the architecture of hibernate, downloading
hibernate, exploring HQL, understanding hibernate O/R mapping, working with
hibernate,Implementing O/R mapping with hibernate. Java EE design patterns: Describing the
java EE application architecture, Introducing a design patterns, discussing the role of design
patterns, exploring types of patterns.
Module-5
Web Frameworks: Working with struts 2 Introducing struts 2, understanding actions in struts
2.Working with java server faces 2.0: Introducing JSF, Explaining the features of JSF,
Exploring the JSF architecture, describing JSF elements, Exploring the JSF request processing
life cycle. Working with spring 3.0: Introducing features of the spring framework, exploring
the spring framework architecture, exploring dependency injection & inversion of control,
exploring AOP with spring, managing transactions. Securing java EE 6 applications:
Introducing security in java EE 6, exploring security mechanisms, implementing security on
an application server.
Question paper pattern:
 The question paper will have ten questions.
 Each full question is for 20 marks.
 There will be 2 full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions in one full
question) from each module.
 Each full question with sub questions will cover the contents under a module.
 Students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each
module.∎
Textbook/Reference Books
Title of the book Author Name Publisher’s Publication
Name year
Textbook(s):
1 JAVA SERVER Kogent learning Dreamtech 2014
PROGRAMMING JAVA solution press
EE6(J2EE 1.6)
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Reference Book(s):

1 Java the complete Reference Herbert Schildt, Oracle Press 2017

Mc Graw Hill

(Group- 3): Course Code : 20SCS244 : Pattern Recognition

Exam Hours: 3 hours Exam Marks(Maximum):100
Module-1
Introduction: 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-2
Representation: Data structures for PR, Representation of clusters, proximity measures, size of
patterns, Abstraction of Data set, Feature extraction, Feature selection, Evaluation
Module-3
Nearest Neighbour based classifiers & Bayes classifier: Nearest neighbour 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, Bayesian belief
network
Module-4
Naive Bayes classifier, Bayesian belief network, Decision Trees: Introduction, DT for PR,
Construction of DT, splitting at the nodes, Over fitting & Pruning, Examples , Hidden Markov
models: Markov models for classification, Hidden Markov models and classification using
HMM
Module-5
Clustering: Hierarchical (Agglomerative, single/complete/average linkage, wards, Partitional
(Forgy’s, kmeans, Isodata), clustering large data sets, examples, An application: Handwritten
Digit recognition
Question paper pattern:
 The question paper will have ten questions.
 Each full question is for 20 marks.
 There will be 2 full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions in one full
question) from each module.
 Each full question with sub questions will cover the contents under a module.
 Students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each
module.∎
Textbook/Reference Books
Title of the book Author Name Publisher’s Publication
Name year
Textbook(s):
1 Pattern Recognition (An V Susheela Devi, Universities 2011
Introduction) M Narsimha Press
Murthy
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2 Pattern Recognition & Image Earl Gose, PH 1996

Analysis Richard
Johnsonbaugh,
Reference Book(s): Steve Jost
1 Pattern Classification Duda R. O., P.E. John Wiley 2000
Hart, D.G. Stork and sons

(Group-3 ): Course Code : 20SCS13 Advances in Data Base Management System

Exam Hours: 3 hours Exam Marks(Maximum):100
Module-1
Review of Relational Data Model and Relational Database Constraints: Relational model
concepts; Relational model constraints and relational database schemas; Update operations,
anomalies, dealing with constraint violations, Types and violations.
Object and Object-Relational Databases: Overview of Object Database Concepts, Object
Database Extensions to SQL, The ODMG Object Model and the Object Definition Language
ODL, Object Database Conceptual Design, The Object Query Language OQL, Overview of
the C++ Language Binding in the ODMG Standard.
Module-2
Disk Storage, Basic File Structures, Hashing, and Modern Storage Architectures:
Introduction, Secondary Storage Devices, Buffering of Blocks, Placing File Records on Disk
Operations on Files, Files of Unordered Records (Heap Files), Files of Ordered Records
(Sorted Files), Hashing Techniques, Other Primary File Organizations, Parallelizing Disk
Access Using RAID Technology, Modern Storage Architectures.
Distributed Database Concepts: Distributed Database Concepts, Data Fragmentation,
Replication, and Allocation Techniques for Distributed Database Design, Overview of
Concurrency Control and Recovery in Distributed Databases, Overview of Transaction
Management in Distributed Databases,Query Processing and Optimization in Distributed
Databases, Types of Distributed Database Systems , Distributed Database Architectures,
Distributed Catalogue Management.
Module-3
NOSQL Databases and Big Data Storage Systems: Introduction to NOSQL Systems, The
CAP Theorem, Document-Based NOSQL Systems and MongoDB, NOSQL Key-Value
Stores, Column-Based or Wide Column NOSQL Systems, NOSQL Graph Databases and
Neo4j.
Big Data Technologies Based on MapReduce and Hadoop: What Is Big Data? Introduction
to MapReduce and Hadoop, Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), MapReduce: Additional
Details Hadoop v2 alias YARN, General Discussion
Module-4
Enhanced Data Models: Introduction to Active, Temporal, Spatial, Multimedia, and
Deductive Databases:Active Database Concepts and Triggers, Temporal Database Concepts,
Spatial Database Concepts, Multimedia Database Concepts, Introduction to Deductive
Databases.
Introduction to Information Retrieval and Web Search:Information Retrieval (IR)
Concepts, Retrieval Models, Types of Queries in IR Systems, Text pre-processing, Inverted
Indexing, Evaluation Measures of Search relevance, web Search and Analysis. Trends in
Information Retrieval
Module-5
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Data Mining Concepts:Overview of Data Mining Technology, Association Rules,

Classification, Clustering, Approaches to Other Data Mining Problems, Applications of Data
Mining, Commercial Data Mining Tools Overview of Data Warehousing and
OLAP:Introduction, Definitions, and Terminology, Characteristics of Data Warehouses, Data
Modelling for Data Warehouses, building a Data Warehouse, Typical Functionality of a Data
Warehouse, Data Warehouse versus Views, Difficulties of Implementing Data Warehouses.
Question paper pattern:
 The question paper will have ten questions.
 Each full question is for 20 marks.
 There will be 2 full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions in one full
question) from each module.
 Each full question with sub questions will cover the contents under a module.
 Students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each
module.∎
Textbook/Reference Books
Title of the book Author Name Publisher’s Publication
Name year
Textbook(s):
1 Fundamentals of Database Elmasri and Navathe Pearson 2013
Systems Education
2 Database Management Raghu Ramakrishnan McGraw-Hill 3rd Edition,
Systems and Johannes Gehrke 2013.
Reference Book(s):
1 Database System Concepts, Abraham Silberschatz, McGraw Hill 6th Edition,
Henry F. Korth, S. 2010
Sudarshan

Group-3 20MCA 262 Artificial Intelligence

Course Code:20MCA262 Exam Hours:03

Module-1
INTRODUCTION TO Al AND PRODUCTION SYSTEMS
Introduction to AI-Problem formulation, Problem Definition -Production systems,
Control strategies, Search strategies. Problem characteristics, Production system
characteristics -Specialized productions system- Problem solving methods – Problem
graphs, Matching, Indexing and Heuristic functions -Hill Climbing-Depth first and
Breath first, Constraints satisfaction – Related algorithms, Measure of performance and
analysis of search algorithms.
Module-2
REPRESENTATION OF KNOWLEDGE
Game playing – Knowledge representation, Knowledge representation using Predicate
logic, Introduction to predicate calculus, Resolution, Use of predicate calculus,
Knowledge representation using other logic-Structured representation of knowledge.
Module-3
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KNOWLEDGE INFERENCE
Knowledge representation -Production based system, Frame based system. Inference –
Backward chaining, Forward chaining, Rule value approach, Fuzzy reasoning –
Certainty factors, Bayesian Theory-Bayesian Network-Dempster – Shafer theory.
Module-4
PLANNING AND MACHINE LEARNING
Basic plan generation systems – Strips -Advanced plan generation systems – K strips -
Strategic explanations -Why, Why not and how explanations. Learning- Machine
learning, adaptive Learning.
Module-5
EXPERT SYSTEMS
Expert systems – Architecture of expert systems, Roles of expert systems – Knowledge
Acquisition – Meta knowledge, Heuristics. Typical expert systems – MYCIN, DART,
XOON, Expert systems shells.
Text books
1. Kevin Night and Elaine Rich, Nair B., “Artificial Intelligence (SIE)”, Mc Graw Hill-
2008. (Units-I,II,VI & V)
2. Dan W. Patterson, “Introduction to AI and ES”, Pearson Education, 2007. (Unit-III).
Reference books
1. Peter Jackson, “Introduction to Expert Systems”, 3rd Edition, Pearson Education,
2007.
2. Stuart Russel and Peter Norvig “AI – A Modern Approach”, 2nd Edition, Pearson
Education 2007.
3. Deepak Khemani “Artificial Intelligence”, Tata Mc Graw Hill Education 2013.
4. http://nptel.ac.in
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Ph.D Coursework Courses under

Group 4
Sl.No Course Code Course Page
1 20SFC254, Machine Learning Techniques 2
2 20LNI324, Wireless Sensor Networks 3
3 20LNI332, Social Network Analysis 4
4 20SSE13, Object Oriented Software Engineering 5
5 20SIS14, Internet of Things and Applications 6
6 20SIS12, Cloud Computing 7
7 20SSE23 Software Design Patterns 9
8 20SAM333 Multidisciplinary Design Optimization 10
9 20LNI252, Software Agents 11
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(Group-4): Course Code : 20SFC254, 20SSE334,

Machine Learning Techniques
Exam Hours: 3 hours Exam Marks(Maximum):100
Module-1
INTRODUCTION, CONCEPT LEARNING AND DECISION TREES Learning Problems –
Designing Learning systems, Perspectives and Issues – Concept Learning – Version Spaces
and Candidate Elimination Algorithm – Inductive bias – Decision Tree learning –
Representation – Algorithm – Heuristic Space Search
Module-2
NEURAL NETWORKS AND GENETIC ALGORITHMS: Neural Network Representation –
Problems – Perceptrons – Multilayer Networks and Back Propagation Algorithms – Advanced
Topics – Genetic Algorithms – Hypothesis Space Search – Genetic Programming – Models of
Evolution and Learning.
Module-3
BAYESIAN AND COMPUTATIONAL LEARNINGL Bayes Theorem – Concept Learning –
Maximum Likelihood – Minimum Description Length Principle – Bayes Optimal Classifier –
Gibbs Algorithm – Naïve Bayes Classifier– Bayesian Belief Network – EM Algorithm –
Probably Learning – Sample Complexity for Finite and Infinite Hypothesis Spaces – Mistake
Bound Model.
Module-4
INSTANT BASED LEARNING AND LEARNING SET OF RULES: K- Nearest Neighbor
Learning – Locally Weighted Regression – Radial Basis Functions –Case-Based Reasoning –
Sequential Covering Algorithms – Learning Rule Sets – Learning First Order Rules –
Learning Sets of First Order Rules – Induction as Inverted Deduction – Inverting Resolution

Module-5
ANALYTICAL LEARNING AND REINFORCED LEARNING: Perfect Domain Theories –
Explanation Based Learning – Inductive-Analytical Approaches - FOCL Algorithm –
Reinforcement Learning – Task – Q-Learning – Temporal Difference Learning
Question paper pattern:
 The question paper will have ten questions.
 Each full question is for 20 marks.
 There will be 2full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions in one full
question) from each module.
 Each full question with sub questions will cover the contents under a module.
 Students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each
module.∎
Textbook/Reference Books
Title of the book Author Name Publisher’s Publication
Name year
Textbook(s):
1 Machine Learning Tom M. Mitchell McGraw-Hill 2013
Education
Reference Book(s):
1 Introduction to Machine Learning EthemAlpaydin PHI Learning 2 nd Ed., 2013
Pvt. Ltd
2 The Elements of Statistical T. Hastie, R. Springer 1st edition,
Learning Tibshirani, J. H. 2001
Friedman
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(Group-4): Course Code : 20LNI324,

: Wireless Sensor Networks
Exam Hours: 3 hours Exam Marks(Maximum):100
Module-1
CHARACTERISTICS OF WSN Characteristic requirements for WSN - Challenges for WSNs
– WSN vs Adhoc Networks - Sensor node architecture – Commercially available sensor nodes
–Imote, IRIS, Mica Mote, EYES nodes, BTnodes, TelosB, Sunspot -Physical layer and
transceiver design considerations in WSNs, Energy usage profile, Choice of modulation
scheme, Dynamic modulation scaling, Antenna considerations.
Module-2
MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL PROTOCOLS Fundamentals of MAC protocols - Low duty
cycle protocols and wakeup concepts – Contention based protocols - Schedule-based protocols
- SMAC - BMAC - Traffic-adaptive medium access protocol (TRAMA) - The IEEE 802.15.4
MAC protocol.
Module-3
ROUTING AND DATA GATHERING PROTOCOLS Routing Challenges and Design Issues
in Wireless Sensor Networks, Flooding and gossiping – Data centric Routing – SPIN –
Directed Diffusion – Energy aware routing - Gradient-based routing - Rumor Routing –
COUGAR – ACQUIRE – Hierarchical Routing - LEACH, PEGASIS – Location Based
Routing – GF, GAF, GEAR, GPSR – Real Time routing Protocols – TEEN, APTEEN,
SPEED, RAP - Data aggregation - data aggregation operations - Aggregate Queries in Sensor
Networks - Aggregation Techniques – TAG, Tiny DB.
Module-4
EMBEDDED OPERATING SYSTEMS Operating Systems for Wireless Sensor Networks –
Introduction - Operating System Design Issues - Examples of Operating Systems – TinyOS –
Mate – MagnetOS – MANTIS - OSPM - EYES OS – SenOS – EMERALDS – PicOS –
Introduction to Tiny OS – NesC – Interfaces and Modules- Configurations and Wiring -
Generic Components -Programming in Tiny OS using NesC, Emulator TOSSIM.
Module-5
APPLICATIONS OF WSN WSN Applications - Home Control - Building Automation -
Industrial Automation - Medical Applications - Reconfigurable Sensor Networks - Highway
Monitoring - Military Applications - Civil and Environmental Engineering Applications -
Wildfire Instrumentation - Habitat Monitoring - Nanoscopic Sensor Applications – Case
Study: IEEE 802.15.4 LR-WPANs Standard - Target detection and tracking - Contour/edge
detection - Field sampling.
Question paper pattern:
 The question paper will have ten questions.
 Each full question is for 20 marks.
 There will be 2full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions in one full
question) from each module.
 Each full question with sub questions will cover the contents under a module.
 Students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each
module.∎
Textbook/Reference Books
Title of the book Author Name Publisher’s Publication
Name year
Textbook(s):
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1 Wireless Sensor Networks KazemSohraby, John Wiley 2007

Technology, Protocols, and Daniel Mino & Sons
Applications
2 Protocols and Architectures for Holger Karl and John Wiley 2005
Wireless Sensor Network Andreas Willig & Sons, Ltd

Reference Book(s):
1 A survey of routing protocols in K. Akkaya and Elsevier Ad 2012
wireless sensor networks M. Younis Hoc Network
Journal, Vol.
3, no. 3, pp.
325—349
2 TinyOS Programming Philip Levis Stanford 2009
University
3 Wireless Sensor Network Designs Anna Ha´c John Wiley 2003
& Sons Ltd

(Group-4): Course Code : 20LNI332,

: Social Network Analysis
Exam Hours: 3 hours Exam Marks(Maximum):100
Module-1
Introduction to social network analysis and Descriptive network analysis: Introduction to new
science of networks. Networks examples. Graph theory basics. Statistical network properties.
Degree distribution, clustering coefficient. Frequent patterns. Network motifs. Cliques and k-
cores.
Module-2
Network structure, Node centralities and ranking on network: Nodes and edges, network
diameter and average path length. Node centrality metrics: degree, closeness and betweenness
centrality. Eigenvector centrality and PageRank. Algorithm HITS.
Module-3
Network communities and Affiliation networks: Networks communities. Graph partitioning
and cut metrics. Edge betweenness. Modularity clustering. Affiliation network and bipartite
graphs. 1-mode projections. Recommendation systems.
Module-4
Information and influence propagation on networks and Network visualization: Social
Diffusion. 20082020/38 Basic cascade model. Influence maximization. Most influential nodes
in network. Network visualization and graph layouts. Graph sampling. Low -dimensional
projections
Module-5
Social media mining and SNA in real world: FB/VK and Twitter analysis: Natural language
processing and sentiment mining. Properties of large social networks: friends, connections,
likes, retweets.
Question paper pattern:
 The question paper will have ten questions.
 Each full question is for 20 marks.
 There will be 2full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions in one full
question) from each module.
 Each full question with sub questions will cover the contents under a module.
 Students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each
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module.∎
Textbook/Reference Books
Title of the book Author Name Publisher’s Publication
Name year
Textbook(s):
1 Networks, Crowds, and Markets: David Easley and Cambridge 2010
Reasoning About a Highly John Kleinberg University
Connected World Press
2 Statistical Analysis of Network Eric Kolaczyk, Springer 2014
Data with R Gabor Csardi
3 Social Network Analysis. Methods Stanley Cambridge 1994
and Applications Wasserman and University
Katherine Faust Press
Reference Book(s):
1 Social Networks and the Semantic Peter Mika Springer 2007
Web

(Group-4): Course Code : 20SSE13,

: Object Oriented Software Engineering
Exam Hours: 3 hours Exam Marks(Maximum):100
Module-1
INTRODUCTION: What is software engineering? Software Engineering Concepts,
Development Activities, Managing Software Development, Modeling with UML, Project
Organization and Communication.
Module-2
REQUIREMENT ELICITATION AND ANALYSIS: Requirements Elicitation:
Requirements Elicitation Concepts, Requirements Elicitation Activities, Managing
Requirements Elicitation, Analysis: Analysis Concepts, Analysis Activities, Managing
Analysis.
Module-3
SYSTEM DESIGN :System design-Decomposing the system: Overview of System Design,
System Design Concepts, System Design Activities: Objects to Subsystems, System Design –
Addressing design goals: Activities: An overview of system design actives, UML deployment
diagrams, Addressing Design Goals, Managing System Design.
Module-4
OBJECT DESIGN, IMPLEMENTATION AND TESTING : Object design-Reusing
pattern solutions: An Overview of Object Design, Reuse Concepts: Design Patterns, Reuse
20082020/9 Activities, Managing Reuse, Object design-Specifying interface: An overview of
interface specification, Interfaces Specification Concepts, Interfaces Specification Activities,
Managing Object Design, Mapping model to code: Mapping Models to Code Overview,
Mapping Concepts, Mapping Activities, Managing Implementation, Testing: An overview of
testing, Testing concepts, Managing testing.
Module-5
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SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE AND SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION

MANAGEMENT: Software maintenance: What is Software Maintenance?, Factors that
Mandate Change, Lehman’s Laws of system evolution, Types of software maintenance,
Software maintenance process and actives, Reverse Engineering, Software Re-engineering,
Patterns for Software Maintenance, Tool support for Software Maintenance. Software
Configuration Management: The baseline of Software Life Cycle, What is Software
Configuration Management, Why Software Configuration Management, Software
Configuration Management Functions, Software Configuration Management Tools.
Question paper pattern:
 The question paper will have ten questions.
 Each full question is for 20 marks.
 There will be 2full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions in one full
question) from each module.
 Each full question with sub questions will cover the contents under a module.
 Students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each
module.∎
Textbook/Reference Books
Title of the book Author Name Publisher’s Publication
Name year
Textbook(s):
1 Object-Oriented Software Bernd Bruegge, Pearson 3 rd edition,
Engineering Alan H Dutoit Education 2014
2 Object oriented software David C. Kung Tata McGraw 2015
engineering Hill
Reference Book(s):
1 Object oriented software Stephan R. Tata McGraw 2008
engineering Schach Hill
2 Applying UML and Patterns Craig Larman Pearson 3rd ed, 2005
Education

(Group-4): Course Code : 20SIS14,

: Internet of Things and Applications
Exam Hours: 3 hours Exam Marks(Maximum):100
Module-1
What is The Internet of Things? Overview and Motivations, Examples of Apllications, IPV6
Role, Areas of Development and Standardization, Scope of the Present Investigation.Internet
of Things Definitions and frameworks-IoT Definitions, IoT Frameworks, Basic Nodal
Capabilities. Internet of Things Apjplication Examples-Overview, Smart Metering/Advanced
Metering InfrastructureHealth/Body Area Networks, City Automation, Automotive
Applications, Home Automation, Smart Cards, Tracking, Over-The-Air-Passive
Surveillance/Ring of Steel, Control Application Examples, Myriad Other Applications.
Module-2
Fundamental IoT Mechanism and Key Technologies-Identification of IoT Object and
Services, Structural Aspects of the IoT, Key IoT Technologies. Evolving IoT Standards-
Overview and Approaches, IETF IPV6 Routing Protocol for RPL Roll, Constrained
Application Protocol, Representational State Transfer, ETSI M2M,Third Generation
Partnership Project Service Requirements for Machine-Type Communications, CENELEC,
IETF IPv6 Over Low power WPAN, Zigbee IP(ZIP),IPSO
Module-3
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Layer ½ Connectivity: Wireless Technologies for the IoT-WPAN Technologies for IoT/M2M,
Cellular and Mobile Network Technologies for IoT/M2M,Layer 3 Connectivity: IPv6
Technologies for the IoT: Overview and Motivations. Address Capabilities,IPv6 Protocol
Overview, IPv6 Tunneling, IPsec in IPv6,Header Compression Schemes, Quality of Service in
IPv6, Migration Strategies to IPv6.
Module-4
Case Studies illustrating IoT Design-Introduction, Home Automation, Cities, Environment,
Agriculture, Productivity Applications.
Module-5
Data Analytics for IoT – Introduction, Apache Hadoop, Using Hadoop MapReduce for Batch
Data Analysis, Apache Oozie, Apache Spark, Apache Storm, Using Apache Storm for Real-
time Data Analysis, Structural Health Monitoring Case Study.
Question paper pattern:
 The question paper will have ten questions.
 Each full question is for 20 marks.
 There will be 2full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions in one full
question) from each module.
 Each full question with sub questions will cover the contents under a module.
 Students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each
module.∎
Textbook/Reference Books
Title of the book Author Name Publisher’s Publication
Name year
Textbook(s):
1 Building the Internet of Things Daniel Minoli Wiley 2013
with IPv6 and MIPv6:The Evolving
World of M2M Communications
2 Internet of Things: A Hands-on ArshdeepBahga, Universities 2015
Approach Vijay Madisetti Press

Reference Book(s):
1 The Internet of Things Michael Miller Pearson 2015 First
Edition
2 Designing Connected Products Claire O’Reilly First Edition,
Rowland,Elizabet 2015
h Goodman et.al

(Group-4): Course Code : 20SIS12, : Cloud Computing

Exam Hours: 3 hours Exam Marks(Maximum):100
Module-1
Introduction, Cloud Infrastructure: Cloud computing, Cloud computing delivery models
and services, Ethical issues, Cloud vulnerabilities, Cloud computing at Amazon, Cloud
computing the Google perspective, Microsoft Windows Azure and online services, Open-
source software platforms for private clouds, Cloud storage diversity and vendor lock-in,
Energy use and ecological impact, Service level agreements, User experience and software
licensing. Exercises and problems.
Module-2
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Cloud Computing: Application Paradigms.: Challenges of cloud computing, Architectural

styles of cloud computing, Workflows: Coordination of multiple activities, Coordination based
on a state machine model: The Zookeeper, The Map Reduce programming model, A case
study: The Gre The Web application, Cloud for science and engineering, High-performance
computing on a cloud, Cloud computing for Biology research, Social computing, digital
content and cloud computing.
Module-3
Cloud Resource Virtualization: Virtualization, Layering and virtualization, Virtual machine
monitors, Virtual Machines, Performance and Security Isolation, Full virtualization and
paravirtualization, Hardware support for virtualization, Case Study: Xen a VMM based
paravirtualization, Optimization of network virtualization, vBlades, Performance comparison
of virtual machines, The dark side of virtualization, Exercises and problems
Module-4
Cloud Resource Management and Scheduling: Policies and mechanisms for resource
management, Application of control theory to task scheduling on a cloud, Stability of a two-
level resource allocation architecture, Feedback control based on dynamic thresholds,
Coordination of specialized autonomic performance managers, A utility-based model for
cloud-based Web services, Resourcing bundling: Combinatorial auctions for cloud resources,
Scheduling algorithms for computing clouds, Fair queuing, Start-time fair queuing, Borrowed
virtual time, Cloud scheduling subject to deadlines, Scheduling MapReduce applications
subject to deadlines, Resource management and dynamic scaling, Exercises and problems.
Module-5
Cloud Security, Cloud Application Development: Cloud security risks, Security: The top
concern for cloud users, Privacy and privacy impact assessment, Trust, Operating system
security, Virtual machine Security, Security of virtualization, Security risks posed by shared
images, Security risks posed by a management OS, A trusted virtual machine monitor,
Amazon web services: EC2 instances, Connecting clients to cloud instances through firewalls,
Security rules for application and transport layer protocols in EC2, How to launch an EC2
Linux instance and connect to it, How to use S3 in java, Cloud-based simulation of a
distributed trust algorithm, A trust management service, A cloud service for adaptive data
streaming, Cloud based optimal FPGA synthesis .Exercises and problems.
Question paper pattern:
 The question paper will have ten questions.
 Each full question is for 20 marks.
 There will be 2full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions in one full
question) from each module.
 Each full question with sub questions will cover the contents under a module.
 Students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each
module.∎
Textbook/Reference Books
Title of the book Author Name Publisher’s Publication
Name year
Textbook(s):
1 Cloud Computing Theory and Dan C Marinescu Elsevier(MK) 2013
Practice
Reference Book(s):
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1 RajkumarBuyya , James Broberg, Computing Willey 2014

Andrzej Goscinski Principles and
Paradigms
2 Cloud Computing Implementation, John W CRC Press 2013
Management and Security Rittinghouse,
James F Ransome

(Group-4): Course Code : 20SSE23

Course Title : Software Design Patterns
Exam Hours: 3 hours Exam Marks(Maximum):100
Module-1
Introduction: what is a design pattern? describing design patterns, the catalog of design
pattern, organizing the catalog, how design patterns solve design problems, how to select a
design pattern, how to use a design pattern. What is object-oriented development? , key
concepts of object oriented design other related concepts, benefits and drawbacks of the
paradigm
Module-2
Analysis a System: overview of the analysis phase, stage 1: gathering the requirements
functional requirements specification, defining conceptual classes and relationships, using the
knowledge of the domain. Design and Implementation, discussions and further reading.
Module-3
Design Pattern Catalog: Structural patterns, Adapter, bridge, composite, decorator, facade,
flyweight, proxy.
Module-4
Interactive systems and the MVC architecture:Introduction , The MVC architectural pattern,
analyzing a simple drawing program , designing the system, designing of the subsystems,
getting into implementation , implementing undo operation , drawing incomplete items, adding
a new feature , pattern based solutions.
Module-5
Designing with Distributed Objects: Client server system, java remote method invocation,
implementing an object oriented system on the web (discussions and further reading) a note on
input and output, selection statements, loops arrays.
Question paper pattern:
 The question paper will have ten questions.
 Each full question is for 20 marks.
 There will be 2full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions in one full
question) from each module.
 Each full question with sub questions will cover the contents under a module.
 Students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each
module.∎
Textbook/Reference Books
Title of the book Author Name Publisher’s Publication
Name year
Textbook(s):
1 Object-oriented analysis, design Brahma Dathan, Universities 2013
and implementation SarnathRammath Press
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2 Design patterns Erich Gamma, PEARSON 2013

Richard Helan,
Ralph Johman ,
John Vlissides
Reference Book(s):
1 Pattern Oriented Software Frank Bachmann, Hans Rohnert 1996
Architecture Volume 1 RegineMeunier
2 Anti-Patterns: Refactoring William J Brown John Wiley 1998
Software, Architectures and et al
Projects in Crisis

(Group-4): Course Code : 20SAM333

Course Title : Multidisciplinary Design Optimization
Exam Hours: 3 hours Exam Marks(Maximum):100
Module-1
Basic Concepts: Optimal Design Problem Formulation, Solution Existence and Uniqueness,
Functions of One Variable: Concepts and Newton's Method, Polynomial Fit and Golden
Section Search
Module-2
Unconstrained Functions in N Variables: Zero-Order Methods, First-Order Methods, Scaling
and Convergence, Conjugate Direction and Variable Metrics (DFP and BFGS), Newton's
Method, Variable Scaling Issues, Constrained Functions in N Variables - Sequential
Unconstrained Minimization Techniques: Exterior Penalty Methods, Interior and Extended
Interior Penalty Methods,
Module-3
Variable Penalty Function, Comparison of Penalty Methods, Constraint Scaling, Augmented
Lagrange Method (ALM) for Equality Constraints, ALM for Inequality Constraints and
Generalized ALM ; Linear Programming: Simplex Method; Constrained Functions in N
Variables - Direct Methods: Overview, Zero-Order Methods, Feasible Directions,
Module-4
Zoutendjik's Feasible Directions, Reduced Gradient, Sequential Quadratic Programming,
Sequential Quadratic Programming , Global Optimization: Simulated Annealing, Nelder-Mead
Simplex, Genetic Algorithm
Module-5
Multiobjective Optimization: Pareto Optimality, Global Function /Weighted Sum,
EpsilonConstraint or Gaming Approach , Min-Max, Goal Attainment, Recent MDO
Techniques: Approximations and Response Surface Methodology in MDO, problem
decomposition strategies
Question paper pattern:
 The question paper will have ten questions.
 Each full question is for 20 marks.
 There will be 2full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions in one full
question) from each module.
 Each full question with sub questions will cover the contents under a module.
 Students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each
module.∎
Textbook/Reference Books
Title of the book Author Name Publisher’s Publication
Name year
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Textbook(s):
1 Multidiscipline Design Vanderplaats, G. VR&D 2007
Optimization (ISBN: 0-944956-04- N
1)
2 Introduction to Optimum Design Arora, J. S Elsevier Fourth Edition,
(ISBN: 9780-12-800806-5) Academic 2016
Press, San
Diego, CA,
2016
Reference Book(s):
1 Multidisciplinary Design JaroslawSobieszc Jaroslaw 2015
Optimization Supported by zanski–Sobieski Willey
Knowledge Based Engineering and Alan Morris
2 Advances in Collaborative Civil Marin D. American 2010
Aeronautical Multidisciplinary Guenov, ErnstInstitute of
Design Optimization 233 (Progress Kesseler Aeronautics
in Astronautics and Aeronautics) and
Astronautics
(Group-4): Course Code : 20LNI252,
: Software Agents
Exam Hours: 3 hours Exam Marks(Maximum):100
Module-1
An introduction to Software Agents Why Software Agents? Simplifying Computing, Barriers
to Intelligent Interoperability, Incorporating Agents as Resource Managers, Overcoming user
Interface Problems, Toward Agent-Enabled System Architectures. Agents: From Direct
Manipulation to Delegation Introduction, Intelligent Interfaces, Digital Butlers, Personal
Filters, Digital sisters-in-Law, Artificial Intelligence, Decentralization, Why Linking works,
The Theatrical Metaphor, Conclusion: Direct Manipulation and Digital Butlers,
Acknowledgements. Interfaces Agents Metaphors with Character Introduction, Objections to
Agents, In Defense of Anthropomorphism, Key Characteristics of Interface Agents, Agency,
Responsiveness, Competence, Accessibility, Design and Dramatic Character, An R & D
Agenda
Module-2
Designing Agents as if People Mattered: What does ―Agents‖ Mean? Adaptive Functionality:
Three Design Issues, The Agent Metaphor: Reactions and Expectations The Agent Conceptual
Model. Direct Manipulation versus Agents: Paths to Predict able, Controllable, and
Comprehensible Interfaces: Introduction, General Concerns About Intelligent Interfaces,
Learning From History, What Is an Agent?, Looking at the Components, Realizing a New
Vision, Tree Maps, Dynamic Queries, Back to a Scientific Approach, Acknowledgements.
Agents for Information Sharing and Coordination: A History and some Reflections:
Information, Lens: An Intelligent Tool for Managing Electronic Messages, Semiformal
Systems an d Radical Tailorability, Oval: A Radically Tailorable Tool for Information
Management and Cooperative Work, Examples of Application and Agents in Oval,
Conclusions: An Addendum: The Relationship between Oval and Objects Lens
Module-3
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Agents that Reduce Work and Information Overload Introduction, Approaches to Building
Agents, Training a Personal Digital Assistant, Some Example of Existing Agents, Electronic
Mail Agents, Meeting Scheduling Agent, News Filtering Agent, Entertainment Selection
Agent, Discussion, Acknowledgements Software Agents for Cooperative Learning: Computer-
Supported Cooperative Learning, Examples of Software Agents for Cooperative Learning,
Examples of Software Agents for Cooperative Learning, Developing an Example, Discussion
and Perspectives.
Module-4
An Overview of Agent-Oriented Programming: Agent-Oriented Programming: Software with
Mental State, Two Scenarios, On the Mental state of agents, Generic Agent Interpreter,
AGENT-0: A Simple Language and its Interpreter, KQML as an Agent Communication
Language: The approach of knowledge sharing effort(KSE), The Solution of the knowledge
sharing efforts, knowledge Query Manipulation Language (KQML),Implementation,
Application of KQML , Other Communication Language, The Approach of Knowledge-
Sharing Effect,(KSE),The Solutions of the Sharing Effect.
Module-5
Agent for Information Gathering: Agent Organization, The Knowledge of an Agent, The
Domain Model of an Agent, Modeling other Agent, communication language and protocol,
query processing, an information goal, information source selection, generating a query access
plan, interleaving planning and execution , semantic query optimization, learning, caching
retrieved data, related work, discursion, acknowledgement. Mobile Agents: Enabling Mobile
Agents, Programming Mobile Agents, Using Mobile Agents.
Question paper pattern:
 The question paper will have ten questions.
 Each full question is for 20 marks.
 There will be 2full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions in one full
question) from each module.
 Each full question with sub questions will cover the contents under a module.
 Students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each
module.∎
Textbook/Reference Books
Title of the book Author Name Publisher’s Publication
Name year
Textbook(s):
1 Software Agents, Jeffrey M. PHI(MIT 2012
Bradshaw Press)
Reference Book(s):
1 Developing Intelligent Agent Lin Padgham and John Wiley 2004
Systems: A Practical Guide Michael Winikoff & sons
2 Agent-Based and Individual Based Steven F. Princeton
Publication 2012
modelling: A Practical Introduction RailsBack and University
Volker Grimm Press
3 Disappearing Cryptography – Peter Wayner Morgan 2002
Information Hiding: Steganography Kaufmann
& Watermarking, Publishers
4 Multimedia Secuirty, Frank Y. Shih CRC Press 2012
Watermarking, Steganography and
Forensics
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Ph.D Coursework Courses under

Group 5
Sl.No Course Code Course Page
1 20SCS31 Deep Learning 2
2 20LNI331, Wireless Networks & Mobile Computing 3
3 20SCN334 Web Mining 4
4 20SAM324, Software Defined Networks 5
5 20SCS332, Robotics & Automation 6
6 20LNI333, Cloud Security 7
7 20SAM243 Probabilistic Graphical Models 8
8 20SFC244, Trust Management in E-Commerce 9
9 20SCS14, Advanced Algorithms 10
10. 20MCA31 Data Analytics using Python 11
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(Group-5): Course Code : 20SCS31,

: Deep Learning
Exam Hours: 3 hours Exam Marks(Maximum):100
Module-1
Machine Learning Basics: Learning Algorithms, Capacity, Overfitting and Underfitting,
Hyperparameters and Validation Sets, Estimator, Bias and Variance, Maximum Likelihood
Estimation, Bayesian Statistics, Supervised Learning Algorithms, Unsupervised Learning
Algorithms, Stochastic Gradient Decent, building a Machine Learning Algorithm, Challenges
Motivating Deep Learning.
Module-2
Deep Feedforward Networks: Gradient-Based Learning, Hidden Units, Architecture Design,
BackPropagation. Regularization: Parameter Norm Penalties, Norm Penalties as Constrained
Optimization, Regularization and Under-Constrained Problems, Dataset Augmentation, Noise
Robustness, SemiSupervised Learning, Multi-Task Learning, Early Stopping, Parameter Tying
and Parameter Sharing, Sparse Representations, Bagging, Dropout.
Module-3
Optimization for Training Deep Models: How Learning Differs from Pure Optimization,
Challenges in Neural Network Optimization, Basic Algorithms. Parameter Initialization
Strategies, Algorithms with Adaptive Learning Rates. Convolutional Networks: The
Convolution Operation, Motivation, Pooling, Convolution and Pooling as an Infinitely Strong
Prior, Variants of the Basic Convolution Function, Structured Outputs, Data Types, Efficient
Convolution Algorithms, Random or Unsupervised Features.
Module-4
Sequence Modelling: Recurrent and Recursive Nets: Unfolding Computational Graphs,
Recurrent Neural Networks, Bidirectional RNNs, Encoder-Decoder Sequence-to-Sequence
Architectures, Deep Recurrent Networks, Recursive Neural Networks. Long short-term
memory
Module-5
Practical Methodology: Performance Metrics, Default Baseline Models, Determining
Whether to Gather More Data, Selecting Hyperparameters, Debugging Strategies, Example:
Multi-Digit Number Recognition. Applications: Vision, NLP, Speech.
Question paper pattern:
 The question paper will have ten questions.
 Each full question is for 20 marks.
 There will be 2full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions in one full
question) from each module.
 Each full question with sub questions will cover the contents under a module.
 Students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each
module.∎
Textbook/Reference Books
Title of the book Author Name Publisher‟s Publication
Name year
Textbook(s):
1 Deep Learning Lan Good fellow MIT Press 2016
and https://www.
YoshuaBengio deeplearn
and Aaron ingbook.org/,
Courville
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Reference Book(s):
1 Neural Networks Asystematic Raúl Rojas 1996
Introduction
2 Pattern Recognition and machine Chirstopher Springer 2007
Learning Bishop

(Group-5): Course Code : 20LNI331,

: Wireless Networks & Mobile Computing
Exam Hours: 3 hours Exam Marks(Maximum):100
Module-1
Mobile Computing Architecture: Architecture for Mobile Computing, 3-tier Architecture,
Design Considerations for Mobile Computing. Emerging Technologies: Wireless broadband
(WiMAX), Mobile IP: Introduction, discovery, Registration, Tunneling, Cellular IP, Mobile IP
with IPv6. Wireless Networks : Global Systems for Mobile Communication (GSM): GSM
Architecture, Entities, Call routing in GSM, PLMN Interface, GSM Addresses and Identities,
Network Aspects in GSM, Mobility Management, GSM Frequency allocation. Short Service
Messages (SMS): Introduction to SMS, SMS Architecture, SMMT, SMMO, SMS as
Information bearer, applications, GPRS and Packet Data Network, GPRS Network
Architecture, GPRS Network Operations, Data Services in GPRS, Applications for GPRS,
Billing and Charging in GPRS.
Module-2
Spread Spectrum technology, IS-95, CDMA versus GSM, Wireless Data, Third Generation
Networks, Applications on 3G, Mobile Client: Moving beyond desktop, Mobile handset
overview, Mobile phones and their features, PDA, Design Constraints in applications for
handheld devices.
Module-3
Mobile OS and Computing Environment: Smart Client Architecture, The Client: User
Interface, Data Storage, Performance, Data Synchronization, Messaging. The Server: Data
Synchronization, Enterprise Data Source, Messaging. Mobile Operating Systems: WinCE,
Palm OS, Symbian OS, Linux, Proprietary OS Client Development: The development process,
Need analysis phase, Design phase, Implementation and Testing phase, Deployment phase,
Development Tools, Device Emulators
Module-4
Building Wireless Internet Applications: Thin client overview: Architecture, the client,
Middleware, messaging Servers, Processing a Wireless request, Wireless Applications
Protocol (WAP) Overview, Wireless Languages: Markup Languages, HDML, WML, HTML,
cHTML, XHTML, VoiceXML.
Module-5
J2ME: Introduction, CDC, CLDC, MIDP; Programming for CLDC, MIDlet model,
Provisioning, MIDlet life cycle, Creating new application, MIDlet event handling, GUI in
MIDP, Low level GUI Components, Multimedia APIs; Communication in MIDP, Security
Considerations in MIDP.
Question paper pattern:
 The question paper will have ten questions.
 Each full question is for 20 marks.
 There will be 2full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions in one full
question) from each module.
 Each full question with sub questions will cover the contents under a module.
 Students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each
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module.∎
Textbook/Reference Books
Title of the book Author Name Publisher‟s Publication
Name year
Textbook(s):
1 Mobile Computing, Technology, Ashok Talukder, Tata McGraw 2nd Edition,
Applications and Service Creation RoopaYavagal, Hill 2010
2 Mobile and Wireless Design Hasan
MartynAhmed
Mallik Wiley India 2003
Essentials
Reference Book(s):
1 Mobile Computing Raj kamal Oxford 2007
University
2 Wireless Communications and ItiSahaMisra Tata
PressMcGraw 2009
Networks, 3G and Beyond Hill

(Group-5): Course Code : 20SCN334

Course Title : Web Mining
Exam Hours: 3 hours Exam Marks(Maximum):100
Module-1
INTRODUCTION: Crawling and Indexing, Topic Directories, Clustering and Classification,
Hyperlink Analysis, Resource Discovery and VerticalPortals, Structured vs. Unstructured
DataMining. INFRASTRUCTURE and WEB SEARCH -- Crawling the web – HTML and
HTTP Basics – Crawling 20082020 /41 Basics – Engineering Large ScaleCrawlers- Putting
together a Crawler- Boolean Queries and the Inverted Index – RelevanceRanking – Similarity
Search.
Module-2
INFORMATION RETRIEVAL: Information Retrieval and Text Mining - Keyword Search -
NearestNeighbour Methods -Measuring Similarity - Web-Based Document Search -
Document–Matching - Inverted Lists -Evaluation of Performance - Structure in a Document
Collection - Clustering Documents by Similarity- Evaluation of Performance - Information
Extraction - Patterns and Entities from Text- Co reference and Relationship Extraction -
Template Filling and Database Construction
Module-3
LEARNING I: Similarity and Clustering – Formulations and approaches- Bottom up and Top
down Partitioning Paradigms – Clustering and Visualization via Embedding‟s – Probabilistic
Approaches to clustering – Collaborative Filtering, SUPERVISED LEARNING: The
Supervised Learning Scenario, Overview of Classification Strategies, Evaluating Text
Classifiers, Nearest Neighbour Learners, Feature Selection.
Module-4
LEARNING II : SUPERVISED LEARNING – Bayesian Learners, Exploiting Hierarchy
among Topics, Maximum Entropy Learners, Discriminative Classification, Hypertext
Classification, SEMI SUPERVISEDLEARNING-- Expectation Maximization, Labelling
Hypertext Graphs and Cotraining.
Module-5
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APPLICATIONS: Social Network Analysis- Social Sciences and Bibliometry – Page Rank
and HITS – Shortcomings of coarse Grained Graph model- Enhanced Models and Techniques-
Evaluation of Topic Distillation- Measuring and Modelling the Web – Resource Discovery –
Collecting Important Pages Preferentially – Similarity Search Using Link Topology – Topical
Locality and Focused Crawling – Discovering Communities- The Future of Web Mining.
Question paper pattern:
 The question paper will have ten questions.
 Each full question is for 20 marks.
 There will be 2full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions in one full
question) from each module.
 Each full question with sub questions will cover the contents under a module.
 Students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each
module.∎
Textbook/Reference Books
Title of the book Author Name Publisher‟s Publication
Name year
Textbook(s):
1 Text Mining: Predictive Methods Sholom Weiss Sholom 2005
for Analysing Unstructured Weiss
Information
2 Mining the Web: Discovery SoumenChakraba Elsevier 2003
Knowledge from Hypertext Data rti Science

Reference Book(s):
1 Handbook of Research on Text and Vol I & II, Min Information 2009
Web Mining Technologies SongYi-fang Science
Brrok Wu Reference
(IGI)
2 Insight into Data Mining Theory K.P.Soman, Prentice Hall 2006
and Practice ShyamDiwakar, of India
V.Ajay
3 Web Mining Applications and Anthony Scime Idea Group 2005
Techniques Publishing

4 DATA MINING - Introductory and Margret PearsonEduc 2003

Advanced Concepts H.Dunham ation

(Group-5): Course Code : 20SAM324, Course Title : Software Defined Networks

Exam Hours: 3 hours Exam Marks(Maximum):100
Module-1
Introduction, Centralized and Distributed Control and Data Planes, OpenFlow
Module-2
SDN Controllers, Network Programmability,
Module-3
Data Centre Concepts and Constructs, Network Function Virtualization
Module-4
Network Topology and Topological Information Abstraction, Building an SDN Framework
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Module-5
Use Cases for Bandwidth Scheduling, Manipulation, and Calendaring, Use Cases for Input
Traffic Monitoring, Classification, and Triggered Actions
Question paper pattern:
 The question paper will have ten questions.
 Each full question is for 20 marks.
 There will be 2full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions in one full
question) from each module.
 Each full question with sub questions will cover the contents under a module.
 Students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each
module.∎
Textbook/Reference Books
Title of the book Author Name Publisher‟s Publication
Name year
Textbook(s):
1 SDN: Software Defined Networks Ken Gray, O‟Reilly 2013
Thomas D.
Nadeau
Reference Book(s):
1 Software Defined Networks Paul Goransson Elsevier 2nd Edition
Chuck Black 2016
Timothy Culver

(Group-5): Course Code : 20SCS332, : Robotics & Automation

Exam Hours: 3 hours Exam Marks(Maximum):100
Module-1
History of Automation, Reasons for automation, Disadvantages of automation, Automation
systems, Types of automation – Fixed, Programmable and Flexible automation, Automation
strategies Automated Manufacturing Systems: Components, classification and overview of
manufacturing Systems, Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS), Types of FMS, Applications
and benefits of FMS.
Module-2
Definition of Robot, History of robotics, Robotics market and the future prospects, Robot
Anatomy, Robot configurations: Polar, Cartesian, cylindrical and Jointed-arm configuration.
Robot motions, Joints, Work volume, Robot drive systems, Precision of movement – Spatial
resolution, Accuracy, Repeatability, End effectors – Tools and gripper
Module-3
Basic Control System concepts and Models, Transfer functions, Block diagrams, characteristic
equation, Types of Controllers: on-off, Proportional, Integral, Differential, P-I, P-D, P-I-D
controllers. Control system and analysis.
Robot actuation and feedback components Position sensors – Potentiometers, resolvers,
encoders, velocity sensors. Actuators - Pneumatic and Hydraulic Actuators, Electric Motors,
Stepper motors, Servomotors, Power Transmission systems
Module-4
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Robot Sensors and Machine vision system Sensors in Robotics - Tactile sensors, Proximity
and Range sensors, use of sensors in robotics. Machine Vision System: Introduction to
Machine vision, the sensing and digitizing function in Machine vision, Image processing and
analysis, Training and Vision systems.

Module-5
Robots Technology of the future: Robot Intelligence, Advanced Sensor capabilities,
Telepresence and related technologies, Mechanical design features, Mobility, locomotion and
navigation, the universal hand, system integration and networking. Artificial Intelligence:
Goals of AI research, AI techniques – Knowledge representation, Problem representation and
problem solving, LISP programming, AI and Robotics, LISP in the factory.
Question paper pattern:
 The question paper will have ten questions.
 Each full question is for 20 marks.
 There will be 2full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions in one full
question) from each module.
 Each full question with sub questions will cover the contents under a module.
 Students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each
module.∎
Textbook/Reference Books
Title of the book Author Name Publisher‟s Publication
Name year
Textbook(s):
1 Automation, Production Systems M.P. Groover Pearson 2nd Edition,
and Computer Integrated Education 2007
Manufacturing
Reference Book(s):
1 Robotics, control vision and Fu, Lee and McGraw Hill 2nd Edition,
Intelligence Gonzalez International 2007
2 Robotic Engineering - An Klafter, Prentice Hall 1stEdition,
Integrated approach Chmielewski and of India 2009
Negin
(Group-5): Course Code : 20LNI333,
: Cloud Security
Exam Hours: 3 hours Exam Marks(Maximum):100
Module-1
Cloud Computing Architectural Framework: Cloud Benefits, Business scenarios, Cloud
Computing Evolution, cloud vocabulary, Essential Characteristics of Cloud Computing, Cloud
deployment models, Cloud Service Models, Multi- Tenancy, Approaches to create a barrier
between the Tenants, cloud computing vendors, Cloud Computing threats, Cloud Reference
Model, The Cloud Cube Model, Security for Cloud Computing, How Security Gets Integrated.
Module-2
Compliance and Audit: Cloud customer responsibilities, Compliance and Audit Security
Recommendations. Portability and Interoperability: Changing providers reasons, Changing
providers expectations, Recommendations all cloud solutions, IaaS Cloud Solutions, PaaS
Cloud Solutions, SaaS Cloud Solutions.
Module-3
Traditional Security, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Risk of insider abuse, Security
baseline, Customers actions, Contract, Documentation, Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs),
Customers responsibility, Vendor Security Process (VSP).
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Module-4
Data Center Operations: Data Center Operations, Security challenge, Implement Five Principal
Characteristics of Cloud Computing, Data center Security Recommendations. Encryption and
Key Management: Encryption for Confidentiality and Integrity, Encrypting data at rest, Key
Management Lifecycle, Cloud Encryption Standards, Recommendations.
Module-5
Identity and Access Management: Identity and Access Management in the cloud, Identity and
Access Management functions, Identity and Access Management (IAM) Model, Identity
Federation, Identity Provisioning Recommendations, Authentication for SaaS and Paas
customers, Authentication for IaaS customers, Introducing Identity Services, Enterprise
Architecture with IDaaS , IDaaS Security Recommendations. Virtualization: Hardware
Virtualization, Software Virtualization, Memory Virtualization, Storage Virtualization, Data
Virtualization, Network Virtualization, Virtualization Security Recommendations.
Question paper pattern:
 The question paper will have ten questions.
 Each full question is for 20 marks.
 There will be 2full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions in one full
question) from each module.
 Each full question with sub questions will cover the contents under a module.
 Students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each
module.∎
Textbook/Reference Books
Title of the book Author Name Publisher‟s Publication
Name year
Textbook(s):
1 Cloud Security and Privacy, An Tim Mather, Oreilly 2009
Enterprise Perspective on Risks and Subra Media
Compliance Kumaraswamy,
Shahed Latif
Reference Book(s):
1 Securing the Cloud, Cloud Vic (J.R.) Syngress 2011
Computer Security Techniques and Winkler
Tactics

(Group-5): Course Code :20SAM243

Course Title : Probabilistic Graphical Models
Exam Hours: 3 hours Exam Marks(Maximum):100
Module-1
Intro and Refresher of Probabilities, Bayesian Networks (directed graphical models)
Module-2
Excurse Causality , Markov Networks (undirected graphical models) Factor graphs, Parameter
Estimation
Module-3
Maximum-A-Posteriori Estimation, Bayesian Inference, EM, Inference and Learning in
Hidden Markov Models Maximum Entropy Models, (Loopy) Belief Propagation
Module-4
Approximate Inference Conditional Random Field Learning , Energy Minimization,
Structured Loss Functions
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Module-5
Structured Support Vector Machines , Graph cuts
Question paper pattern:
 The question paper will have ten questions.
 Each full question is for 20 marks.
 There will be 2full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions in one full
question) from each module.
 Each full question with sub questions will cover the contents under a module.
 Students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each
module.∎
Textbook/Reference Books
Title of the book Author Name Publisher‟s Publication
Name year
Textbook(s):
1 Probabilistic graphical models – Daphne Koller MIT press 2009
Principles and techniques and Nir Friedman
Reference Book(s):
1 Introduction to Probability Joseph K. Stanford 2015
(Chapman & Hall/CRC Texts in Blitzstein, Jessica University
Statistical Science) Hwang
2 Probability: For the Enthusiastic David J. Morin,
CreateSpace 2016
Beginner Tata Mc-Graw Independent
Hill Publishing
Platform
(Group-5): Course Code : 20SFC244,
: Trust Management in E-Commerce
Exam Hours: 3 hours Exam Marks(Maximum):100
Module-1
Introduction to E-Commerce: Network and E-Commerce, Types of E-Commerce. Ecommerce
Business Models: B2C, B2B, C2C, P2P and M-commerce business models. Ecommerce
Payment systems: Types of payment system, Credit card E-Commerce transactions, B2C E-
Commerce Digital payment systems, B2B payment system.
Module-2
Security and Encryption: E-Commerce Security Environment, Security threats in Ecommerce
environment, Policies, Procedures and Laws.
Module-3
Inter-organizational trust in E-Commerce: Need, Trading partner trust, Perceived benefits and
risks of ECommerce, Technology trust mechanism in E-Commerce, Perspectives of
organizational, economic and political theories of inter-organizational trust, Conceptual model
of inter-organizational trust in ECommerce participation.
Module-4
Introduction to trusted computing platform: Overview, Usage Scenarios, Key components of
trusted platform, Trust mechanisms in a trusted platform.
Module-5
Trusted platforms for organizations and individuals: Trust models and the E-Commerce
domain.
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Question paper pattern:

 The question paper will have ten questions.
 Each full question is for 20 marks.
 There will be 2full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions in one full
question) from each module.
 Each full question with sub questions will cover the contents under a module.
 Students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each
module.∎
Textbook/Reference Books
Title of the book Author Name Publisher‟s Publication
Name year
Textbook(s):
1 Study Guide to E-Commerce Kenneth C. Pearson 2005
Business Technology Society Laudon and Carol Education
GuercioTrave
2 Inter-Organizational Trust for Pauline IRM Press 2005
Business-to-Business Ecommerce Ratnasingam

Reference Book(s):
1 Trusted Computing Platforms: Siani Pearson, et Prentice Hall 2002
TCPA Technology in Context al PTR

(Group-5): Course Code : 20SCS14

: Advanced Algorithms
Exam Hours: 3 hours Exam Marks(Maximum):100
Module-1
Review of Analysis Techniques: Growth of Functions: Asymptotic notations; Standard
notations and common functions; Recurrences and Solution of Recurrence equations- The
substitution method, The recurrence – tree method, The master method; Amortized Analysis:
Aggregate, Accounting and Potential Methods.
Module-2
Graph Algorithms: Bellman - Ford Algorithm; Single source shortest paths in a DAG;
Johnson‟s Algorithm for sparse graphs; Flow networks and Ford-Fulkerson method;
Maximum bipartite matching. Polynomials and the FFT: Representation of polynomials; The
DFT and FFT; Efficient implementation of FFT.
Module-3
Number -Theoretic Algorithms: Elementary notions; GCD; Modular Arithmetic; Solving
modular linear equations; The Chinese remainder theorem; Powers of an element; RSA
cryptosystem; Primality testing; Integer factorization
Module-4
String-Matching Algorithms: Naïve string Matching; Rabin - Karp algorithm; String
matching with finite automata; Knuth-Morris-Pratt algorithm; Boyer – Moore algorithms.
Module-5
Probabilistic and Randomized Algorithms: Probabilistic algorithms; Randomizing
deterministic algorithms, Monte Carlo and Las Vegas algorithms; Probabilistic numeric
algorithms
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Question paper pattern:

 The question paper will have ten questions.
 Each full question is for 20 marks.
 There will be 2full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions in one full
question) from each module.
 Each full question with sub questions will cover the contents under a module.
 Students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each
module.∎
Textbook/Reference Books
Title of the book Author Name Publisher‟s Publication
Name year
Textbook(s):
1 Introduction to Algorithms T. H Cormen, C E PHI 3rd Edition,
Leiserson, R L 2010
Rivest and C
Stein
2 Algorithms Kenneth A. Cengage 2002
Berman Learning

Reference Book(s):
1 Fundamentals of Computer , Ellis Horowitz, Universities 2nd Edition,
Algorithms SartajSahni, press 2007
S.Rajasekharan

Group-5
Data Analytics using Python
Subject Exam Hours:03
Code:20MCA31
Module 1
Python Basic Concepts and Programming
Interpreter – Program Execution – Statements – Expressions – Flow Controls – Functions -
Numeric Types – Sequences - Strings,
Parts of Python Programming Language, Identifiers, Keywords, Statements and
Expressions, Variables, Operators, Precedence and Associativity, Data Types, Indentation,
Comments, Reading Input, Print Output, Type Conversions, The type( ) Function and Is
Operator, Control Flow Statements, The if Decision Control Flow Statement, The if…else
Decision Control Flow Statement, The if…elif…else Decision Control Statement, Nested if
Statement, The while Loop, The for Loop, The continue and break Statements, Built-In
Functions, Commonly Used Modules, Function Definition and Calling the Function, The
return Statement and void Function, Scope and Lifetime of Variables, Default Parameters,
Keyword Arguments, *args and **kwargs, Command Line Arguments.
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Module 2
Python Collection Objects, Classes
Strings- Creating and Storing Strings, Basic String Operations, Accessing Characters in
String by Index Number, String Slicing and Joining, String Methods, Formatting
Strings, Lists-Creating Lists, Basic List Operations, Indexing and Slicing in Lists, Built-In
Functions Used on Lists, List Methods. Sets, Tuples and Dictionaries. Files: reading and
writing files. Class Definition – Constructors – Inheritance – Overloading

Module 3

Data Pre-processing and Data Wrangling

Acquiring Data with Python: Loading from CSV files, Accessing SQL databases. Cleansing
Data with Python: Stripping out extraneous information, Normalizing data AND
Formatting data. Combining and Merging Data Sets – Reshaping and Pivoting – Data
Transformation – String Manipulation, Regular Expressions.

Module 4
Web ScrapingAnd Numerical Analysis

Data Acquisition by Scraping web applications –Submitting a form - Fetching web pages –
Downloading web pages through form submission – CSS Selectors.
NumPyEssentials:TheNumPy array, N-dimensional array operations and manipulations,
Memory mapped files.

Module 5
Data Visualization with NumPy Arrays, Matplotlib, and Seaborn

Data Visualization: Matplotlib package – Plotting Graphs – Controlling Graph – Adding

Text – More Graph Types – Getting and setting values – Patches. Advanced data
visualization with Seaborn.- Time series analysis with Pandas.
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Text Books:
1. Allen B. Downey, “Think Python: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist„„, 2nd
edition,Updated for Python 3, Shroff/O„Reilly Publishers, 2016
(http://greenteapress.com/wp/thinkpython/)
2. Guido van Rossum and Fred L. Drake Jr, ―An Introduction to Python – Revised
andupdated for Python 3.2, Network Theory Ltd., 2011.
3. Jake Vander plas, “Python Data Science Handbook: Essential tools for working
with data”, O„Reilly Publishers, I Edition.
References:
1. Mark Lutz, “Programming Python”, O'Reilly Media, 4th edition, 2010.
2. Tim Hall and J-P Stacey, “Python 3 for Absolute Beginners”, Apress, 1st
edition, 2009.
3. Magnus Lie Hetland, “Beginning Python: From Novice to Professional”,
Apress, Second Edition, 2005.
4. Shai Vaingast, “Beginning Python Visualization Crafting Visual
Transformation Scripts”, Apress, 2nd edition, 2014. 6. Wes Mc Kinney, “Python for
Data Analysis”, O'Reilly Media, 2012
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Ph.D Coursework Courses under

Group 6
Sl.No Course Code Course Page
1 20SCS242, Natural Language Processing & Text
2
Mining
2 20SFC323 Mobile Device Forensics 3
3 20SIT244, Cyber Security &Cyber law 4
4 20SAM22, Soft & Evolutionary Computing 6
5 20LNI251, Managing Big Data 7
6 20SCS23, Block Chain Technology 8
7 20SFC252, Data Base Security 10
8 20SCE253 Decision Support System 11
9 20SAM332, Semantic Web and Social Networks 12
10 20MCA353 Wireless Ad Hoc Networks 14
11 20MCA345 NOSQL 15
12. 20MCA343 Digital Marketing 16
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(Group-6): Course Code :20SCS242,

Natural Language Processing & Text Mining
Exam Hours: 3 hours Exam Marks(Maximum):100
Module-1
OVERVIEW AND LANGUAGE MODELING: Overview: Origins and challenges of NLP-
Language and Grammar-Processing Indian Languages- NLP Applications-Information
Retrieval. Language Modeling: Various Grammar- based Language Models-Statistical
Language Model.
Module-2
WORD LEVEL AND SYNTACTIC ANALYSIS: Word Level Analysis: Regular
Expressions-FiniteState Automata-Morphological Parsing-Spelling Error Detection and
correction-Words and Word classesPart-of Speech Tagging. Syntactic Analysis: Context-free
Grammar-Constituency- Parsing-Probabilistic Parsing.
Module-3
Extracting Relations from Text: From Word Sequences to Dependency Paths: Introduction,
Subsequence Kernels for Relation Extraction, A Dependency-Path Kernel for Relation
Extraction and Experimental Evaluation. Mining Diagnostic Text Reports by Learning to
Annotate Knowledge Roles: Introduction, Domain Knowledge and Knowledge Roles, Frame
Semantics and Semantic Role Labelling, Learning to Annotate Cases with Knowledge Roles
and Evaluations. A Case Study in Natural Language Based Web Search: InFact System
Overview, The GlobalSecurity.org Experience.
Module-4
Evaluating Self-Explanations in iSTART: Word Matching, Latent Semantic Analysis, and
Topic Models: Introduction, iSTART: Feedback Systems, iSTART: Evaluation of Feedback
Systems, Textual Signatures: Identifying Text-Types Using Latent Semantic Analysis to
Measure the Cohesion of Text Structures: Introduction, Cohesion, Coh-Metrix, Approaches to
Analysing Texts, Latent Semantic Analysis, Predictions, Results of Experiments. Automatic
Document Separation: A Combination of Probabilistic Classification and Finite-State
Sequence Modelling: Introduction, Related Work, Data Preparation, Document Separation as a
Sequence Mapping Problem, Results. Evolving Explanatory Novel Patterns for Semantically
based Text Mining: Related Work, A Semantically Guided Model for Effective Text mining.
Module-5
INFORMATION RETRIEVAL AND LEXICAL RESOURCES: Information Retrieval:
Design features of Information Retrieval Systems-Classical, Non classical, Alternative Models
of Information Retrieval – valuation Lexical Resources: World Net-Frame Net- Stemmers-
POS Tagger- Research Corpora.
Question paper pattern:
 The question paper will have ten questions.
 Each full question is for 20 marks.
 There will be 2full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions in one full
question) from each module.
 Each full question with sub questions will cover the contents under a module.
 Students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each
module.∎
Textbook/Reference Books
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Title of the book Author Name Publisher’s Publication

Name year
Textbook(s):
1 Natural Language Processing and TanveerSiddiqui, Oxford 2008
Information Retrieval U.S. Tiwary University
Press
2 Natural Anne Kao and Springer- 2007
LanguageProcessingandText Stephen R. Potee Verlag
Mining London
Reference Book(s): Limited
1 Speech and Language Processing: Daniel Jurafsky Prentice Hall 2008 2nd
Anintroduction to Natural and James H Edition
Language Processing, Martin
Computational Linguistics and
SpeechRecognition
2 Natural Language Understanding James Allen Benjamin/Cu 2nd edition,
mmingspubli 1995
shing
company
3 Information Storage and Retrieval Gerald J. Kluwer 2000
systems Kowalski and academic
Mark.T. Maybury Publishers

4 Natural Language Processing with Steven Bird, O'Reilly 2009

Python Ewan Klein, Media
Edward Loper

5 Foundations of Statistical Natural Christopher MIT Press 1999

Language Processing D.Manning and
HinrichSchutze

(Group-6): Course Code :20SFC323

Course Title : Mobile Device Forensics
Exam Hours: 3 hours Exam Marks(Maximum):100
Module-1
Android and mobile forensics: Introduction, Android platform, Linux, Open source software
and forensics, Android Open Source Project, Internationalization, Android Market, Android
forensics
Module-2
Android hardware platforms: Overview of core components, Overview of different device
types, Readonly memory and boot loaders, Manufacturers, Specific devices
Module-3
Android software development kit and android debug bridge: Android platforms, Software
development kit (SDK), Android security model, Forensics and the SDK.
Module-4
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Android file systems and data structures: Data in the shell, Type of memory, File systems,
Mounted file systems and directory structures. Android forensic techniques: Procedures for
handling an Android device, Imaging Android USB mass storage devices, Logical techniques,
Physical techniques
Module-5
Android device data and app security: Data theft targets and attack vectors, Security
considerations, Individual security strategies, Corporate security strategies, App development
security strategies. Android application and forensic analysis: Analysis techniques, FAT
forensic analysis, YAFFS2 forensic analysis, Android app analysis
Question paper pattern:
 The question paper will have ten questions.
 Each full question is for 20 marks.
 There will be 2full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions in one full
question) from each module.
 Each full question with sub questions will cover the contents under a module.
 Students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each
module.∎
Textbook/Reference Books
Title of the book Author Name Publisher’s Publication
Name year
Textbook(s):
1 Android Forensics Investigation, Andrew Hoog, Technical 2011
Analysis, and Mobile security for John McCash Editor,
Google Android Elsevier
Reference Book(s):
1 Practical Mobile Forensics SatishBommisetty Packt 2014
, RohitTamma, Publishing
Heather Mahalik
2 Mobile Device Forensics Andrew Martin SANS 2009
Institute

(Group-6): Course Code :20SIT244,

: Cyber Security &Cyber law
Exam Hours: 3 hours Exam Marks(Maximum):100
Module-1
Introduction to Cybercrime: Cybercrime: Definition and Origins of the Word, Cybercrime and
Information Security, Who are Cybercriminals?, Classifications of Cybercrimes, Cybercrime:
The Legal Perspectives, Cybercrimes: An Indian Perspective, Cybercrime and the Indian ITA
2000, A Global Perspective on Cybercrimes, Cybercrime Era: Survival Mantra for the
Netizens. Cyberoffenses: How Criminals Plan Them: How Criminals Plan the Attacks, Social
Engineering, Cyberstalking, Cybercafe and Cybercrimes, Botnets: The Fuel for Cybercrime,
Attack Vector, Cloud Computing.
Module-2
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Cybercrime: Mobile and Wireless Devices: Introduction, Proliferation of Mobile and Wireless
Devices, Trends in Mobility, Credit Card Frauds in Mobile and Wireless Computing Era,
Security Challenges Posed by Mobile Devices, Registry Settings for Mobile Devices,
Authentication Service Security, Attacks on Mobile/Cell Phones, Mobile Devices: Security
Implications for organizations, Organizational Measures for Handling Mobile, Organizational
Security Policies and Measures in Mobile Computing Era, Laptops
Module-3
Tools and Methods Used in Cybercrime: Introduction, Proxy Servers and Anonymizers,
Phishing, Password Cracking, Keyloggers and Spywares, Virus and Worms, Trojan Horses
and Backdoors, Steganography, DoS and DDoS Attacks, SQL Injection, Buffer Overflow,
Attacks on Wireless Networks. Phishing and Identity Theft: Introduction, Phishing, Identity
Theft (ID Theft).
Module-4
Understanding Computer Forensics: Introduction, Historical Background of Cyberforensics,
Digital Forensics Science, The Need for Computer Forensics, Cyberforensics and Digital
Evidence, Forensics Analysis of E-Mail, Digital Forensics Life Cycle, Chain of Custody
Concept, Network Forensics, Approaching a Computer Forensics Investigation, Setting up a
Computer Forensics Laboratory: Understanding the Requirements, Computer Forensics and
Steganography, Relevance of the OSI 7 Layer Model to Computer Forensics, Forensics and
Social Networking Sites: The Security/Privacy Threats, Computer Forensics from Compliance
Perspective, Challenges in Computer Forensics, Special Tools and Techniques, Forensics
Auditing, Antiforensics.
Module-5
Introduction to Security Policies and Cyber Laws: Need for An Information Security Policy,
Information Security Standards – Iso, Introducing Various Security Policies and Their Review
Process, Introduction to Indian Cyber Law, Objective and Scope of the it Act, 2000,
Intellectual Property Issues, Overview of 20082020 / 23 Intellectual - Property - Related
Legislation in India, Patent, Copyright, Law Related to Semiconductor Layout and Design,
Software License.
Question paper pattern:
 The question paper will have ten questions.
 Each full question is for 20 marks.
 There will be 2full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions in one full
question) from each module.
 Each full question with sub questions will cover the contents under a module.
 Students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each
module.∎
Textbook/Reference Books
Title of the book Author Name Publisher’s Publication
Name year
Textbook(s):
1 Cyber Security: Understanding SunitBelapure Wiley India 2013
Cyber Crimes, Computer Forensics and Nina Godbole Pvt Ltd
And Legal Perspectives
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2 Introduction to information security Surya Dreamtech 2015

and cyber laws PrakashTripathi, Press
RitendraGoyal,
Praveen Kumar
Shukla
Reference Book(s):
1 Cybersecurity: Managing Systems, Thomas J. John Wiley 2013
Conducting Testing, and Mowbray & Sons
Investigating Intrusions
2 Cyber Security Essentials James Graham, CRC Press 2010
Ryan Olson, Rick
Howard

(Group-6): Course Code :20SAM22,

: Soft & Evolutionary Computing
Exam Hours: 3 hours Exam Marks(Maximum):100
Module-1
Introduction to Soft computing: Neural networks, Fuzzy logic, Genetic algorithms, Hybrid
systems and its applications.
Introduction to classical sets and fuzzy sets: Classical relations and fuzzy relations,
Membership functions.
Module-2
Defuzzification, Fuzzy decision making, and applications.
Module-3
Genetic algorithms: Introduction, Basic operations, Traditional algorithms, Simple GA
General genetic algorithms, The schema theorem, Genetic programming, applications.
Module-4
Swarm Intelligence System: Introduction, background of SI, Ant colony system Working of
ant colony optimization, ant colony for TSP. (Textbook 2)
Module-5
Unit commitment problem, particle Swarm Intelligence system Artificial bee colony system,
Cuckoo search system. (Textbook 2)
Question paper pattern:
 The question paper will have ten questions.
 Each full question is for 20 marks.
 There will be 2full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions in one full
question) from each module.
 Each full question with sub questions will cover the contents under a module.
 Students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each
module.∎
Textbook/Reference Books
Title of the book Author Name Publisher’s Publication
Name year
Textbook(s):
1 Principles of Soft computing Shivanandam, Wiley India 2011
Deepa S. N
2 Soft Computing with MATLAB N. P. Padhy S.P. Oxford 2015
Programming Simon
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Reference Book(s):
1 Neuro-fuzzy and soft computing S.R. Jang, C.T. Phi (EEE 2012
Sun, E. Mizutani edition)
2 Soft Computing SarojKaushikSuni McGrawHill 2018
taTiwari

(Group-6): Course Code :20LNI251,

: Managing Big Data
Exam Hours: 3 hours Exam Marks(Maximum):100
Module-1
Meet Hadoop: Data!, Data Storage and Analysis, Querying All Your Data, Beyond Batch,
Comparison with Other Systems: Relational Database Management Systems, Grid Computing,
Volunteer Computing Hadoop Fundamentals MapReduce A Weather Dataset: Data Format,
Analysing the Data with Unix Tools, Analysing the Data with Hadoop: Map and Reduce, Java
MapReduce, Scaling Out: Data Flow, Combiner Functions, Running a Distributed MapReduce
Job, Hadoop Streaming
The Hadoop Distributed Filesystem The Design of HDFS, HDFS Concepts: Blocks,
Namenodes and Datanodes, HDFS Federation, HDFS High-Availability, The Command-Line
Interface, Basic Filesystem Operations, Hadoop Filesystems Interfaces, The Java Interface,
Reading Data from a Hadoop URL, Reading Data Using the FileSystem API, Writing Data,
Directories, Querying the Filesystem, Deleting Data, Data Flow: Anatomy of a File Read,
Anatomy of a File Write.
Module-2
YARN Anatomy of a YARN Application Run: Resource Requests, Application Lifespan,
Building YARN Applications, YARN Compared to MapReduce,Scheduling in YARN: The
FIFO Scheduler, The Capacity Scheduler, The Fair Scheduler, Delay Scheduling, Dominant
Resource Fairness
Hadoop I/O Data Integrity, Data Integrity in HDFS, LocalFileSystem, ChecksumFileSystem,
Compression, Codecs, Compression and Input Splits, Using Compression in MapReduce,
Serialization, The Writable Interface, Writable Classes, Implementing a Custom Writable,
Serialization Frameworks, File-Based Data Structures: SequenceFile
Module-3
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Developing a MapReduce Application The Configuration API, Combining Resources,

Variable Expansion, Setting Up the Development Environment, Managing Configuration,
GenericOptionsParser, Tool, and ToolRunner, Writing a Unit Test with MRUnit: Mapper,
Reducer, Running Locally on Test Data, Running a Job in a Local Job Runner, Testing the
Driver, Running on a Cluster, Packaging a Job, Launching a Job, The MapReduce Web UI,
Retrieving the Results, Debugging a Job, Hadoop Logs, Tuning a Job, Profiling Tasks,
MapReduce Workflows: Decomposing a Problem into MapReduce Jobs, JobControl, Apache
Oozie
How MapReduce Works Anatomy of a MapReduce Job Run, Job Submission, Job
Initialization, Task Assignment, Task Execution, Progress and Status Updates, Job
Completion, Failures: Task Failure, Application Master Failure, Node Manager Failure,
Resource Manager Failure, Shuffle and Sort: The Map Side, The Reduce Side, Configuration
Tuning, Task Execution: The Task Execution Environment, Speculative Execution, Output
Committers
Module-4
MapReduce Types and Formats: MapReduce Types,Input Formats: Input Splits and
Records Text Input, Binary Input, Multiple Inputs, Database Input (and Output) Output
Formats: Text Output, Binary Output, Multiple Outputs, Lazy Output, Database Output,
Flume Installing Flume, An Example,Transactions and Reliability, Batching, The HDFS Sink,
Partitioning and Interceptors, File Formats, Fan Out, Delivery Guarantees, Replicating and
Multiplexing Selectors, Distribution: Agent Tiers, Delivery Guarantees, Sink Groups,
Integrating Flume with Applications, Component Catalogue.
Module-5
Pig Installing and Running Pig, Execution Types, Running Pig Programs, Grunt, Pig Latin
Editors, An Example: Generating Examples, Comparison with Databases, Pig Latin: Structure,
Statements, Expressions, Types, Schemas, Functions, Data Processing Operators: Loading and
Storing Data, Filtering Data, Grouping and Joining Data, Sorting Data, Combining and
Splitting Data.
Spark An Example: Spark Applications, Jobs, Stages and Tasks, A Java Example, A Python
Example, Resilient Distributed Datasets: Creation, Transformations and Actions, Persistence,
Serialization, Shared Variables, Broadcast Variables, Accumulators, Anatomy of a Spark Job
Run, Job Submission, DAG Construction, Task Scheduling, Task Execution, Executors and
Cluster Managers: Spark on YARN
Question paper pattern:
 The question paper will have ten questions.
 Each full question is for 20 marks.
 There will be 2full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions in one full
question) from each module.
 Each full question with sub questions will cover the contents under a module.
 Students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each
module.∎
Textbook/Reference Books
Title of the book Author Name Publisher’s Publication
Name year
Textbook(s):
1 Hadoop: The Definitive Guide Tom White O'Reilley Third Edition,
2012
Reference Book(s):
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1 SPARK: The Definitive Guide MateiZaharia and Oreilly 2018

Bill Chambers
2 Apache Flume: Distributed Log D'Souza and Oreilly 2014
Collection for Hadoop Steve Hoffman

(Group-6): Course Code :20SCS23,

: Blockchain Technology
Exam Hours: 3 hours Exam Marks(Maximum):100
Module-1
Introduction: Basic Cryptographic primitives used in Blockchain – Secure, Collison-resistant
hash functions, digital signature, public key cryptosystems, zero-knowledge proof systems.
Need for Distributed Record Keeping, Modelling faults and adversaries, Byzantine Generals
problem, Consensus algorithms and their scalability problems, Why Nakamoto Came up with
Blockchain based cryptocurrency?
Module-2
Technologies Borrowed in Blockchain – hash pointers, Consensus, Byzantine Models of fault
tolerance, digital cash etc.Bitcoinblockchain - Wallet - Blocks - Merkley Tree - hardness of
mining - transaction verifiability - anonymity - forks - double spending - mathematical
analysis of properties of Bitcoin. Bitcoin, the challenges, and solutions
Module-3
Abstract Models for BLOCKCHAIN - GARAY model - RLA Model - Proof of Work (PoW)
as random oracle - formal treatment of consistency, liveness and fairness - Proof of Stake
(PoS) based Chains - Hybrid models (PoW + PoS).Bitcoin scripting language and their use
Module-4
Ethereum - Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) - Wallets for Ethereum - Solidity - Smart
Contracts - The Turing Completeness of Smart Contract Languages and verification
challenges, Using smart contracts to enforce legal contracts, comparing Bitcoin scripting vs.
Ethereum Smart Contracts. Some attacks on smart contracts
Module-5
Hyperledger fabric, the plug and play platform and mechanisms in permissioned
blockchain.BeyondCryptocurrency – applications of blockchain in cyber security, integrity of
information, E-Governance and other contract enforcement mechanisms. Limitations of
blockchain as a technology, and myths vs. reality of blockchain technology
Question paper pattern:
 The question paper will have ten questions.
 Each full question is for 20 marks.
 There will be 2full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions in one full
question) from each module.
 Each full question with sub questions will cover the contents under a module.
 Students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each
module.∎
Textbook/Reference Books
Title of the book Author Name Publisher’s Publication
Name year
Textbook(s):
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1 Blockchain Technology: S. Shukla, M. Oxford 2019

Cryptocurrency and Applications Dhawan, S. University
Sharma, S. Press
Venkatesan
2 Bitcoin and cryptocurrency Arvind Princeton 2016
technologies: a comprehensive Narayanan et. Al University
introduction Press

Reference Book(s):
1 Research perspectives and Joseph Bonneau SoK, IEEE 2015
challenges for Bitcoin and et al Symposium
cryptocurrency on security
and Privacy
2 The bitcoin backbone protocol - J.A.Garay et al EUROCRYP 2015
analysis and applications T LNCS VOl
9057, (
VOLII ), pp
3 Analysis of Blockchain protocol in R.Pass et al 281-310
EUROCRYP 2017
Asynchronous networks T

4 Fruitchain, a fair blockchain R.Pass et al PODC 2017

5 Blockchain: The Blockchain for Josh Thompson Create Space 2017

Beginnings, Guild to Blockchain Independent
Technology and Blockchain Publishing
Programming Platform

(Group-6): Course Code :20SFC252

: Data Base Security
Exam Hours: 3 hours Exam Marks(Maximum):100
Module-1
Introduction: Introduction to Databases, Security Problems in Databases Security Controls
Conclusions. Security Models 1: Introduction, Access Matrix Model, Take-Grant Model,
Acten Model, PN Model, Hartson and Hsiao's Model, Fernandez's Model, Bussolati and
Martella's Model for Distributed databases.
Module-2
Security Models 2: Bell and LaPadula's Model, Biba's Model, Dion's Model, Sea View Model,
Jajodia and Sandhu's Model, The Lattice Model for the Flow Control conclusion. Security
Mechanisms: Introduction, User Identification/Authentication, Memory Protection, Resource
Protection, Control Flow Mechanisms, Isolation, Security Functionalities in Some Operating
Systems, Trusted Computer System, Evaluation Criteria.
Module-3
Security Software Design: Introduction, A Methodological Approach to Security, Software
Design, Secure Operating System Design, Secure DBMS Design, Security Packages, Database
Security Design.
Module-4
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Statistical Database Protection & Intrusion Detection Systems: Introduction, Statistics,

Concepts and Definitions, Types of Attacks, Inference Controls, evaluation Criteria for
Control Comparison, Introduction IDES System, RETISS System, ASES System Discovery.
Module-5
Models For The Protection Of New Generation Database Systems 1: Introduction, A Model
for the Protection of Frame Based Systems, A Model for the Protection of Object-Oriented
Systems, SORION Model for the Protection of Object-Oriented Databases. Models For The
Protection Of New Generation Database Systems 2: A Model for the Protection of New
Generation Database Systems, the Orion Model, Jajodia and Kogan's Model, A Model for the
Protection of Active Databases Conclusions.
Question paper pattern:
 The question paper will have ten questions.
 Each full question is for 20 marks.
 There will be 2full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions in one full
question) from each module.
 Each full question with sub questions will cover the contents under a module.
 Students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each
module.∎
Textbook/Reference Books
Title of the book Author Name Publisher’s Publication
Name year
Textbook(s):
1 Database Security and Auditing Hassan A. CENGAGE 2009
Afyoun Learning
2 Database Security Castano Pearson 1995
Education
Reference Book(s):
1 Database security Alfred Basta, CENGAGE 2014
Melissa Zgola learning

(Group-6): Course Code :20SCE253

Course Title : Decision Support System
Exam Hours: 3 hours Exam Marks(Maximum):100
Module-1
Introduction to decision support systems: DSS Defined, History of decision support systems,
Ingredients of a DSS, Data and model management, DSS Knowledge base, User interfaces,
User interfaces, The DSS user, Categories and classes of DSSs, Chapter Summary. Decisions
and decision makers Decision makers: who are they, Decision styles, Decision effectiveness,
How can a DSS help?, A Typology of decisions, Decision theory and simon’s model of
problem solving, Bounded decision making, The process of choice, Cognitive processes,
Biases and heuristics in decision making, Chapter summary.
Module-2
Decisions in the organization: Understanding the organization, Organizational culture.
Modelling decision processes: Defining the problem and its structures, Decision models,
Types of probability, Techniques for forecasting probabilities, Calibration and sensitivity,
Chapter summary
Module-3
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Group decision support and groupware technologies: Group Decision making, the problem
with groups, MDM support technologies, Managing MDM activities, the virtual workspace,
chapter summary. Executive information systems: What exactly is an EIS, Some EIS history,
Why area top executives so different?, EIS components, Making the EIS work, The future of
executive decision making and the EIS, chapter summary
Module-4
Designing and building decision support systems: Strategies for DSS analysis and design, The
DSS developer, DSS user interface issues, chapter summary. Implementing and integrating
decision support systems: DSS implementation, System evaluation, The importance of
integration, chapter summary.
Module-5
Creative decision making and problem solving What is creativity?, Creativity defined, The
occurrence of creativity, Creative problem solving techniques, Creativity and the role of
technology, chapter summary.
Question paper pattern:
 The question paper will have ten questions.
 Each full question is for 20 marks.
 There will be 2full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions in one full
question) from each module.
 Each full question with sub questions will cover the contents under a module.
 Students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each
module.∎
Textbook/Reference Books
Title of the book Author Name Publisher’s Publication
Name year
Textbook(s):
1 Decision support system George PHI 2011
M.Marakas
Reference Book(s):
1 Decision Support Systems, 2ndEdn Marakas Pearson India 2015

(Group-6): Course Code :20SAM332,

: Semantic Web and Social Networks
Exam Hours: 3 hours Exam Marks(Maximum):100
Module-1
Web Intelligence Thinking and Intelligent Web Applications, The Information age,The World
Wide Web, Limitations of Today’s Web, The Next Generation Web, Machine Intelligence,
Artificial Intelligence, Ontology, Inference engines, Software Agents, Berners-Lee www,
Semantic Road Map, Logic on the semantic Web.
Module-2
Knowledge Representation for the Semantic Web Ontologies and their role in the semantic
web, Ontologies Languages for the Semantic Web – Resource Description Framework(RDF) /
RDF Schema, Ontology Web Language(OWL), UML, XML/XML Schema.
Module-3
Ontology Engineering, Ontology Engineering, Constructing Ontology, Ontology Development
Tools, Ontology Methods, Ontology Sharing and Merging, Ontology Libraries and Ontology
Mapping, Logic, Rule and Inference Engines.
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Module-4
Semantic Web Applications, Services and Technology Semantic Web applications and
services, Semantic Search, e-learning, Semantic Bioinformatics, Knowledge Base, XML
Based Web Services, Creating an OWL-S Ontology for Web Services, Semantic Search
Technology, Web Search Agents and Semantic Methods
Module-5
Social Network Analysis and semantic web What is social Networks analysis, development of
the social networks analysis, Electronic Sources for Network Analysis – Electronic Discussion
networks, Blogs and Online Communities, Web Based Networks. Building Semantic Web
Applications with social network features.
Question paper pattern:
 The question paper will have ten questions.
 Each full question is for 20 marks.
 There will be 2full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions in one full
question) from each module.
 Each full question with sub questions will cover the contents under a module.
 Students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each
module.∎
Textbook/Reference Books
Title of the book Author Name Publisher’s Publication
Name year
Textbook(s):
1 Thinking on the Web Berners Lee, Wiley inter 2008
Godel and Turing science
2 Social Networks and the Semantic Peter Mika Springer 2007
Web
Reference Book(s):
1 Semantic Web and Semantic Web Liyang Lu CRC 2007
Services Chapman and Publishers
Hall
2 Semantic Web Technologies, Paul John Willet 2006
Trends and Research in Ontology Warren, Rudi & Sons Ltd.
Based Systems Studer, John
Davis
3 Programming the Semantic Web T.Segaran, O’Reilly. 2009
C.Evans, J.Taylor
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Group-6
Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

Course Code : 20MCA353 Exam Hours : 03

Module-1
Ad-hoc Wireless Networks Introduction, Issues in Ad-hoc Wireless Networks, Ad-hoc Wireless
Internet; MAC Protocols for Ad-hoc Wireless Networks: Introduction, Issues in Designing a
MAC Protocol, Design Goals of MAC Protocols, Classification of MAC protocols, Contention-
Based Protocols, Contention-Based Protocols with Reservation Mechanisms, Contention-Based
Protocols with Scheduling Mechanisms, MAC Protocols that Use Directional Antennas.
Module -2
Routing Protocols for Ad-hoc Wireless Networks Introduction, Issues in Designing a Routing
Protocol for Ad-hoc Wireless Networks; Classification of Routing Protocols; Table Driven
Routing Protocols; On-Demand Routing Protocols, Hybrid Routing Protocols, Hierarchical
Routing Protocols and Power-Aware Routing Protocols.
Module – 3
Multicast Routing in Ad-hoc Wireless Networks Introduction, Issues in Designing a Multicast
Routing Protocol, Operation of Multicast Routing Protocols, An Architecture Reference Model
for Multicast Routing Protocols, Classifications of Multicast Routing Protocols, Tree-Based
Multicast Routing Protocols and Mesh-Based Multicast Routing Protocols.
Module-4
Transport Layer and Security Protocols for Ad-hoc Networks: Introduction, Issues in Designing a
Transport Layer Protocol; Design Goals of a Transport Layer Protocol; Classification of Transport
Layer Solutions; TCP over Transport Layer Solutions; Other Transport Layer Protocols for Ad-
hoc Networks; Security in Ad-hoc Wireless Networks, Issues and Challengesin
Security Provisioning, Network Security Attacks, Key Management and Secure Touting Ad-hoc
Wireless Networks.
Module-5
Quality of Service and Energy Management in Ad-hoc Wireless Networks: Introduction, Issues
and Challenges in Providing QoS in Ad-hoc Wireless Networks, Classification of QoS Solutions,
MAC Layer Solutions, Network Layer Solutions; Energy Management in Ad-hoc Wireless
Networks: Introduction, Need for Energy Management in Ad-hoc Wireless Networks,
Classification of Energy Management Schemes, Battery Management Schemes, Transmission
Management Schemes, System Power Management Schemes.
Textbook

1. Ad-hoc Wireless Networks , C. Siva Ram Murthy & B. S. Manoj, Pearson Education, 2nd
Edition, 2011
Reference Books

1. Ad-hoc Wireless Networks, Ozan K. Tonguz and John Wiley, 2007 ,Gianguigi Ferrari
2. Ad-hoc Wireless Networking. Xiuzhen Cheng, Xiao Hung, Ding-Zhu Du, Kluwer
Academic Publishers, 2004
3. Ad-hoc Mobile Wireless Networks- Protocols and Systems, C.K. Toh, Pearson Education,
2002
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Group-6
Course title: NOSQL

Course Code:20MCA345 Exam Hours:03

Module-1
Introduction to NoSQL
Definition of NoSQL, History of NoSQL and Different NoSQL products.
Exploring NoSQL
Exploring Mongo DB Java/Ruby/Python, Interfacing and Interacting with NoSQL.

Module-2
NoSQL Basics :NoSQL Storage Architecture, CRUD operations with Mongo DB, Querying,
Modifying and Managing.
Data Storage in NoSQL: NoSQL Data Stores, Indexing and ordering datasets
(MongoDB/CouchDB/Cassandra)
Module-3
Advanced NoSQL, NoSQL in Cloud, Parallel Processing with Map Reduce, Big Data with
Hive.
Module-4
Working with NoSQL, Surveying Database Internals, Migrating from RDBMS to NoSQL,
Web Frameworks and NoSQL, using MySQL as a NoSQL.
Module-5
Developing Web Application with NOSQL and NOSQL Administration
Php and MongoDB, Python and MongoDB, Creating Blog Application with PHP.

Textbooks
1.Professional NOSQL Shashank Tiwari WROX Press
References
2. The Definitive Guide to Mongo DB, The NOSQL Database for cloud and Desktop
Computing EelcoPlugge, Peter Membreyand Tim Hawkins APress

Group-6
Digital Marketing

Course Code:20MCA343 Exam Hours:03

Module-1
Introduction to Digital Marketing Evolution of Digital Marketing from traditional to modern
era, Role of Internet; Current trends, Info-graphics, implications for business & society;
Emergence of digital marketing as a tool; Drivers of the new marketing environment; Digital
marketing strategy; P.O.E.M. framework, Digital landscape, Digital marketing plan, Digital
marketing models.
Module-2
Internet Marketing and Digital Marketing Mix – Internet Marketing, opportunities and
challenges; Digital marketing framework; Digital Marketing mix, Impact of digital channels
on IMC; Search Engine Advertising: - Pay for Search Advertisements, Ad Placement, Ad
Ranks, Creating Ad Campaigns, Campaign Report Generation Display marketing: - Types of
Display Ads - Buying Models - Programmable Digital Marketing - Analytical Tools -
YouTube marketing.
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Module-3
Social Media Marketing – Role of Influencer Marketing, Tools & Plan– Introduction to
social media platforms, penetration & characteristics; Building a successful social media
marketing strategy Facebook Marketing: - Business through Facebook Marketing, Creating
Advertising Campaigns, Adverts, Facebook Marketing Tools Linkedin Marketing: -
Introduction and Importance of Linkedin Marketing, Framing Linkedin Strategy, Lead
Generation through Linkedin, Content Strategy, Analytics and Targeting Twitter Marketing:
- Introduction to Twitter Marketing, how twitter Marketing is different than other forms of
digital marketing, framing content strategy, Twitter Advertising Campaigns Instagram and
Snapchat: - Digital Marketing Strategies through Instagram and Snapchat Mobile Marketing:
- Mobile Advertising, Forms of Mobile Marketing, Features, Mobile Campaign
Development, Mobile Advertising Analytics Introduction to social media metrics
Module-4
Introduction to SEO, SEM, Web Analytics, Mobile Marketing, Trends in Digital
Advertising– - Introduction and need for SEO, How to use internet & search engines; search
engine and its working pattern, On-page and off-page optimization, SEO Tactics -
Introduction to SEM Web Analytics: - Google Analytics & Google AdWords; data collection
for web analytics, multichannel attribution, Universal analytics, Tracking code Trends in
digital advertising
Module-5
Social Media Channels: Introduction, Key terms and concepts, Traditional media vs Social
media. Social media channels: Social networking. Content creation, Bookmarking &
aggregating and Location & social media. Tracking social media campaigns. Social media
marketing: Rules of engagement. Advantages and challenges.
Social Media Strategy: Introduction, Key terms and concepts. Using social media to solve
business challenges. Step-by-step guide to creating a social media strategy. Documents and
processes. Dealing with opportunities and threats. Step-by-step guide for recovering from an
online brand attack. Social media risks and challenges
Textbooks
1. Seema Gupta “Digital Marketing” Mc-Graw Hill 1st Edition – 2017
References
1. Ian Dodson “The Art of Digital Marketing” Wiley Latest Edition
2. Puneet Singh Bhatia “Fundamentals of Digital Marketing” Pearson 1st Edition – 2017
3. Prof. Nitin C. Kamat, Mr.Chinmay Nitin Kamat Digital Social Media Marketing
Himalaya Publishing House Pvt. Ltd. Latest Edition