2008–2009 - Florida Institute of Technology

CSE 4520 SPECIAL TOPICS IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING (3 credits).
Provides instruction and experience in timely topics related to the production of
quality-engineered software. May be repeated for a maximum of nine credits, provided
the topics change. (Requirement: Instructor approval.)
CSE 4610 REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING (3 credits). Studies in depth
software requirements, engineering tools and techniques. Includes gathering user
requirements, formal specification of system behavior, system interfaces, end user
and system documentation and validation techniques. Emphasizes the end-user
aspect of gathering and formalizing user expectations. Prerequisites: CSE 2410.
CSE 4621 SOFTWARE METRICS AND MODELING (3 credits). Examines
common software metrics, axiomatic foundations of measurement, validity of
measurements and measurement dysfunction, and some statistical and modeling
approaches to help students make their software measurements meaningful. Prerequisites:
CSE 2400, CSE 2410.
CSE 5210 FORMAL LANGUAGES AND AUTOMATA THEORY (3 credits).
Presents abstract models of computers (finite automata, pushdown automata and
Turing machines) and the language classes they recognize or generate (regular, context-free
and recursively enumerable). Also presents applications in compiler design,
algorithms and complexity theory. Prerequisites: CSE 2010.
CSE 5211 ANALYSIS OF ALGORITHMS (3 credits). Presents time and space
complexity of computer algorithms. Includes algorithm classes, such as divide-andconquer,
greedy, dynamic programming and backtracking; techniques for solving
recurrence equations; graph algorithms; searching and sorting; and deterministic and
nondeterministic polynomial time problem classes. Prerequisites: CSE 2010 or
CIS 5200, MTH 1002.
CSE 5231 COMPUTER NETWORKS (3 credits). Covers theory, design and
analysis of computer communication systems. Includes TCP/IP, Internet, the World
Wide Web, ISO-OSI network architecture, LANs (Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Token
Ring, Token Bus, etc.) FDDI, ATM, SONET, wireless communications, satellite
networks, DNS, firewalls, network modeling and simulation. Prerequisites: CSE 2400,
MTH 1002.
CSE 5232 NETWORK PROGRAMMING (3 credits). Covers design and implementation
of programs that communicate with other programs across a computer
network. Includes streams, server-side networking, client-side networking, multithreading,
exceptions and remote method invocation. Prerequisites: CSE 2010.
CSE 5233 COMPUTER FORENSICS (3 credits). Introduces concepts and
techniques for the seizure and examination of digital evidence, along with the legal
and ethical issues related to reporting on the results. Covers forensic tools and
investigative procedures and includes a survey of current literature. Prerequisites:
CSE 3101, CSE 4001.
CSE 5240 PARALLEL PROCESSING (3 credits). Investigates architectures for
parallel computers and parallel algorithms for computational problems. Discusses
performance evaluation metrics for the performance of parallel processing.
CSE 5241 DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING (3 credits). Studies the fundamental
concepts in software systems that support and work in a distributed computing environment.
Includes discussion of network communication mechanisms, distributed
operating systems, services supporting distributed systems, distributed database
systems, fault-tolerant systems and distributed algorithms. Prerequisites: CSE 4001.
CSE 5250 PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES (3 credits). Surveys programming
language concepts including language features, implementation issues and language
groups. Prerequisites: CIS 5200 or CSE 2010.
CSE 5251 COMPILER THEORY AND DESIGN (3 credits). Covers extensively
the major topics of compiler design. Includes lexical analysis, scannergenerator
tools, parsing, syntax-directed translation, static semantic checking, storage
organizations, code generation and code optimization. Prerequisites: CSE 2010,
CSE 3101.
CSE 5260 DATABASE SYSTEMS (3 credits). Introduces the analysis and design
of typical database systems. Includes theoretical and practical aspects of designing
database systems and a substantial project. Prerequisites: CIS 5200 or CSE 2010.
CSE 5261 INFORMATION RETRIEVAL (3 credits). Overviews key models
(vector space, Boolean, probabilistic) and utilities (relevance ranking, relevance feedback,
n-gram processing) for information retrieval. Also describes additional models
and utilities based on current trends in the field. Presents benchmarking efforts and
case studies. Corequisites: CSE 5260.
CSE 5280 COMPUTER GRAPHICS (3 credits). Presents the graphics pipeline
for polygonal-based models. Includes mathematical concepts and data structures
for graphics, coordinate systems, clipping, scan conversion, hidden-object detection,
rendering, color models and graphics programming standards. Prerequisites: CSE 2050
or CIS 5200, MTH 1002.
CSE 5281 GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES (3 credits). Studies the theories
and techniques of human-computer interaction and the design of direct manipulation
graphical-user interfaces that support menus, buttons, sliders and other widgets
for input, text and graphics for output. Students design, implement and evaluate a
graphical-user interface.
CSE 5283 COMPUTER VISION (3 credits). Develops computational methods
that model the capacity of the human vision system. Develops main concepts of
computer vision research and its applications including robot navigation and interaction,
autonomous exploration, traffic monitoring, biometrics identification and building
3-D images. Prerequisites: CSE 2010.
CSE 5290 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (3 credits). Introduces the theoretical
foundations of artificial intelligence, focusing on the areas of automated
reasoning, search and heuristics. Introduces an AI language to implement concepts.
Prerequisites: CIS 5200 or CSE 2010.
CSE 5294 THEORY AND APPLICATIONS OF NEURAL NETWORKS
(3 credits). Includes learning in a single neuron, single and multi-layer perceptrons,
recurrent neural networks, structured neural networks, neural networks to
perform principal component analysis, principal component regression and partial
least squares regression. (Requirement: Instructor approval or prerequisite course.)
Prerequisites: ECE 5201 or MTH 5102.
CSE 5400 TOPICS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (3 credits). Current topics in
computer science at the introductory graduate level. Topics vary and the course may
be repeated for credit. (Requirement: Instructor approval.)
CSE 5401 INDEPENDENT STUDY IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (1–3 credits).
Working closely with a faculty member, the student probes a subject in greater
depth than is normally possible in a regular class. Requires a comprehensive paper or
an applied research project. (Requirement: Instructor approval.)
CSE 5500 COMPUTER SCIENCE SEMINAR (0 credits). Presentations by
faculty, graduate students and guest speakers on topics of current interest. May be
repeated for credit.
CSE 5501 COMPUTER SCIENCES INTERNSHIP (0 credits). Industrybased
internship experience under the supervision of a graduate faculty member, to
provide professional experience for graduate students without prior experience in a
practical information technology setting. (Requirement: At least nine graduate credit
hours in computer sciences completed with at least a 3.0 GPA, and permission of the
instructor.)
CSE 5610 COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY (3 credits). Reviews problems,
algorithms, Turing machines and computability. Studies Boolean and first-order
logic, leading to undecidability results; and relations among complexity classes using
reductions and completeness. Presents approximate and randomized algorithms.
Prerequisites: CSE 5210, CSE 5211.
CSE 5615 COMPUTATIONAL MOLECULAR BIOLOGY (3 credits).
Introduces important computational problems related to molecular biology. Includes
motif finding, approximate sequence alignment, phylogeny construction and system
biology. Requires knowledge in programming, discrete mathematics, data structures
and algorithms. Does not require prerequisite biological sciences (BIO) course.
CSE 5620 ADVANCED COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE (3 credits). Covers
design of interleaved memory systems and multiprocessor caches; linear and nonlinear
pipelines; data-flow and reduction machines; Vector computers, multiprocessors
and array processors. Includes performance, scheduling and scalability of parallel
machines. Prerequisites: ECE 4551.
CSE 5630 ADVANCED OPERATING SYSTEMS (3 credits). Studies in detail
the design and implementation of an operating system. Discusses various data
structures and algorithms for process, memory and input/output device management.
Investigates issues in distributed operating systems. Prerequisites: CSE 4001.
CSE 5631 ADVANCED COMPUTER NETWORKS (3 credits). Covers
computer network design and analysis topics. Includes network management, distributed
network environments, bridges, routers, gateways, congestion control, ATM
application program interface, multimedia and network applications. Prerequisites:
CSE 5231.
CSE 5632 SURVIVABLE NETWORK OBJECTS (3 credits). Covers theory,
design and analysis of secure computer communication systems. Includes encryption,
authentication, digital signature, digital certificate, secure socket layer, agentbased
network applications and development of distributed applications over the
Internet using CORBA and Java. Prerequisites: CSE 5631 or ECE 5535.
CSE 5636 NETWORK SECURITY (3 credits). Covers network intrusion
detection, statistical anomaly detection and network perimeter security, and traffic
monitoring including tools (Ethereal, TCPDUMP) used to analyze captured traffic
streams. Overviews methods and tools used by hackers. Includes statistical anomaly
detection and its role in detecting previously unseen attacks. Prerequisites: CSE 5231
or ECE 5535.
CSE 5650 ADVANCED PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES (3 credits). Presents
theoretical topics in programming languages. Includes the lambda-calculus,
functional programming, type interface and different approaches to the semantics of
programming languages. Prerequisites: CSE 5250.
CSE 5660 DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS (3 credits). Studies the
internal components of a database management system (DBMS). Includes data
organization, query optimization, transaction processing, concurrency control, logging
and recovery, security and distributed DBMS. Prerequisites: CSE 5260.
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