1997 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

equirements, project design and development. The final
milestone involves a formal oral presentation at which the
completed software and user.
Recommended Reading
Ghezzi, G., Jazayeri, M. and Mandrioli, D., Fund'mentals of
Software Engineering, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1991.
Henderson-Sellers, B. and Edwards, J.M., Book Two of Object-
Oriented Knowledge: The Working Object, Prentice-Hall,
Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1994.
ES604 Advanced Software Engineering 2
10 credit points .3 hours per week.. Hawthorn @.
Prerequisite: ES504.e Instruction: lecture and tutorial
Assessment: assignments and final examination.
A third year subject in the Bachelor of Software Engineering
and an elective subject in the Bachelor of Applied Science.
0 b j ectives
To present an in-depth study of some of the current, critical
issues in Software Engineering.
Content
A number of Swinburne or visiting lecturers shall present a
selection of advanced, topical issues related to Software
Engineering. It is envisaged that three topics will be
presented, in depth, in a semester. Indicative topics
inc1ude:Object-Oriented Metrics; Software Engineering
Environments; Software Process Assessment; Software Reengineering;
Safety-Critical Systems
Recommended Reading
Henderson-Sellers, B.; Objectoriented Metrics, Prentice-Hall,
Englewood Cliffs NJ, 1996.
Garg,P., Jazayeri, M., Process-Centred Software Engineering
Environments, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos CA,
1996.
ES605 Advanced Database
.
10 credit points .3 hours per week.. Hawthorn @.
Prerequisite: ES30S.m Instruction: lecture and laboratory
sessions Assessmat: assignments and final examination.
A final year elective subject in the Bachelor of Applied
Science and the Bachelor of Software Engineering
Objectives
To provide students with sufficient theory and experience in
the areas of transaction management, client-server
architectures, distributed databases and object databases to
give a solid foundation for practical usefulness in clientserver
development in industry.
Content
Transaction management; security and privacy; distributed
databases; object databases; client-server technology.
Recommended Reading
Dewire, D.T., Client/Smer Computing, McGraw-Hill, 1993.
Carey, M.J. et al., Data Caching Tradeoffs in Client-Server DBMS
Architectures, SIGMOD, 1991.
ES606 Advanced HCI 2
10 credit points .3 hours per week.. Hawthorn *.
Prerequisite: ES506.m Instruction: lecture and tutorial .
Assessment: assignments and final examination.
A final year elective subject in the Bachelor of Applied
Science and the Bachelor of Software Engineering
Objectives
To allow lessons learned so far in the HCI stream to be
particularised within real world projects and contexts.
Content
Applications areas will be drawn from: biomedical issues and
HCI, physiological monitoring systems in hospitals, clinical
information systems (hospital records, orders, etc); HCI and
large complex systems, geographical information systems in
use, multi-function keyboards in aviation systems, air traffic
control, ground transportation control (traffic, trains, taxis,
etc.), power plant process control; software psychology;
novel display design; HCI issues in multimedia, multimedia
"walk-up-and-usen kiosks in public use, tv studio switching
systems for technical direction; HCI and groupwork and
CSCW.
Recommended Reading
Baecker,R., Buxton, W., & Greenberg, S, Readings in Human
Computer Interrtction: Beyond 2000, Morgan Kaufman, Cal, USA,
1995.
Preece, J. et al., Human Computer Interaction, Addison Wesley
Publishing Company, Wokingham, UK, 1994.
ES608 Multimedia Development
10 credit points .3 hours per week.. Hawthorn @.
Prerequisite: ES508.m Instruction: lecture and tutorial .
Assessment: assignments and final examination.
A final year elective subject in the Bachelor of Applied
Science and the Bachelor of Software Engineering
Obiectives
To design and develop a multimedia application operating in
a team environment; to evaluate multimedia systems.
Content
The multimedia project - the development team, project
planning, project management, media management; design
models and methodologies - design paradigms, naviagation
metaphors, hypertext models (Dexter, Trellis, Amsterdam),
document models (SGML, Hytime), analysis and design
methodologies; multimedia interface design; evaluation of
multimedia systems; societal issues - information
superhighway, patents and copyright, censorship.
Recommended Reading
Blattner, M.M. & Dannenberg, R.B., Multimedia Interface,
Addison-Wesley, 1992.
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