1997 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

ES507 Local Area Networks
10 credit points 3 hours per week.. Hawthorn
Prerequisite: ES407.e Instruction: lecture andlaboratory
sessions. Assessment: assignments and final examination.
A final year elective subject in the Bachelor of Software
Engineering and the Bachelor of Applied Science.
0 b jectives
To study the operation of common LAN topologies and
protocols; to study the functionality of LAN components
such as repeaters, bridges and routers; to study some
representative network operating systems.
Content
Data communication networks and open system standards;
protocol basics; ethernet, token ring and token bus
networks; high speed and bridged LANs; internetworking;
transport protocols; application specific protocols: DNS,
NIS, NFS; network operating systems: Novell's Netware,
Windows NT; network management: SNMP; security
aspects.
Recommended Reading
Halsall, F., Data Communications, Computer Networks and Open
Systems, Addison-Wesley, 1995.
Stevens, R. W., TCP/IP Illustrated Vol I: The Protocols, Addison-
Wesley, 1994
ES508 Multimedia Technology
.
10 credit points .3 hours per week.. Hawthorn
Prerequisite: ES406.e Instruction: lecture and laborato?y
sessions Assessment: assignments and final examination.
A final year elective subject in the Bachelor of Software
Engineering and the Bachelor of Applied Science.
Objectives
To present a range of technologies, concepts and techniques
used in the development of multimedia systems.
Content
Introduction to multimedia - concepts, terminologies and
application areas; multimedia objects - text graphics, audio,
animation, video, digitisation, standards (MCI, DVI,
Quicktime, MIME), capturing techniques, compressin
(entropy and redundancy, JPEG, MPEG, fractal), storage
formats and conversion, manipulation, processing and
editing tools; multimedia hardware - components of a
multimedia system, CD-ROM, scanners, video and sound
cards, interfaces (MDI, SCSI, PCMCIA, IDE), CD-R, CD-I;
multimedia on the Internet - WWW, HTML, CGI, VRML,
Java; WindowsTMmultimedia programming - Microsoft
Multimedia Viewer, WindowsmAPI and MCI, OLE;
application construction - toolkits, authoring systems,
search engines, scripting, 3-D animations; networking and
communication -protocols, multimedia servers, distributed
multimedia databases, video conferencing.
Recommended Reading
Koegel-Buford, J.F., Multimedia Systems, Addison-Wesley, 1994.
Gibbs,S.J. &Tsichritzis, D.C., Multimedia Programming:Objects,
Environments and Frameworks, Addison-Wesley, 1995.
ES509 Knowledge-Based Systems Engineering
.
10 credit points .3 hours per week.. Hawthorn .
Prerequisite: ES409.e Instruction: lecture and laboratory
sessions Assessment: assignments and final examination.
A final year elective subject in the Bachelor of Software
Engineering and the Bachelor of Applied Science.
0 b jectives
To introduce the techniques and theories of knowledge
acquisition and building knowledge-based systems.
Content
Manual knowledge acquisition techniques; automated
knowledge acquisition techniques; knowledge
representation in knowledge-based systems
inferences, problem solving and architecture in knowledgebased
systems
inconsistent, multiple and distributed knowledgesourcemanagement
building knowledge-based systems with multimedia
interfaces
Recommended Reading
Gonzalez, A.J. & Dankel, D.D., The Engineoing of Knowledge.
Based Systems, Prentice-Hall, 1993.
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ES514 Formal Methods
10 credit points .3 hoursper week.. Hawthorn
Prerequisite: ES304, ES300, SMII1.e Instruction: lecture and
tutorial Assessment: assignments, test and final
examination.
A third year subject in the Bachelor of Software Engineering
and an elective subject in the Bachelor of Applied Science.
0 biectives
To review the elements of discrete mathematics relevant to
formal systems development; to consider in detail the
Object Z specification language; to study the role of formal
methods in the software development process; to develop
skills in reading and writing formal system specifications; to
consider formal development methods.
Content
Review of fundamentals of discrete mathematics (sets,
relations, functions, propositional and predicate calculus);
the Object Z specification language; integration of formal
methods into software processes: the FOOM approach;
specification techniques for real-time systems; formal
verification techniques; formal development methods;
formal methods in practice - a case study.
Recommended Reading
Duke, R. et al. Object Z , to be published
Morgan, C.,Programming from Specz>cations, 2nd edition,
Prentice-Hall, 1994.
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