1997 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

ES609 Soft Computing Obiedives
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10 credit points .3 hours per week.. Hawthorn *.
Prerequisite: ES409.e Instruction: lecture and laboratory
sessions Assessment: assignments, laboratory reports and
final examination
A final year elective subject in the Bachelor of Applied
Science and the Bachelor of Software Engineering
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To introduce and investigate non-deterministic
computational methods and their application to complex
problem domains.
Content
Methods of inference and approximate reasoning; artificial
neural networks for supervised learning; artificial neural
networks for unsupervised learning; evolutionary
computing; fuzzy systems; hybrid systems.
Recommended Reading
McCord Nelson, M. & Illingworth, W.T., A Practical Guide to
Neural Networks,
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Addison-Wesley, 1991.
ES614 The Personal Sofiware Process
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10 credit points 3 hoursper week.. Hawthorn
Prerequisite: ES300, ES304.e Instruction: lecture and
laboratory sessions Assessment: assignments and rqorts.
A third year subject in the Bachelor of Software Engineering
and an elective subject in the Bachelor of Applied Science.
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To establish the need for discipline in software engineering;
to guide students to discover the methods of software
development which make them personally most effective
(eg, time and defect recording, coding standards, size
measurement, size estimating, task planning, schedule
planning, design reviews, design templates, code reviews); to
provide students with the knowledge base required to
manage their own personal software process and to come to
believe that the methods are of benefit to them.
Content
The course follows closely the "Personal Software Process"
course developed by Watts S. Humphrey, Software
Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University,
USA. It addresses: the baseline personal process (time/defect
recording, coding standards, size measurement); the
& personal planning process (size estimating, task planning,
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8 schedule planning); personal quality management (design
reviews, design templates, code reviews); cyclic personal
process (cyclic process improvement).
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" Recommended Reading
Humphrey, W.S. A Discipline for Sofiware Engineering, Addison-
Wesley, Reading, Ma, 1995.
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ES618 Computer Graphics and Animation
10 credit points .3 hours per week.. Hawthorn
Prerequisite: ESJ18-. 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
To present advanced areas of Computer Graphics, with
special attention given to computer animation.
Content
A selection from the following topics may be
covered:Nature of Light and Colour, what is light? what is
colour? colour models; Surface Shading, characteristics of
different types of surfaces, interaction of surfaces with light,
light sources, ambient light, diffuse and specular reflection,
simple surface shading equations, Phong and Gourand
shading of polygons; Radiosity, what is radiosity, how does
it differ from other rendering methods? basic radiosity
calculations; Animation, types of animation, simple
animation of shapes, layering, character animation, motion
description.
Recommended Reading
Cohen & Wallace, Radiosity and Realistic Image Synthesis,
Academic Press, 1993.
Watt & Watt, Advanced Animation and Rendering Techniques,
Addison Wesley, 1992.
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ES700 Object-Oriented Sofiware Development 1
10 credit points . 4 hours per week.. Hawthorn *.
Prerequisite: nil-. Instruction: lecture and laboratory sessions
Assessment: assignments, laboratory tests and final
examination.
A subject in the Graduate Diploma (Computer Science)
Objectives
Basic proficiency in programming using an object-oriented
language; appreciation of the software development process
in an object-oriented framework; good understanding of
basic object-oriented concepts; ability in elementary objectoriented
analysis and design.
Content
Responsibility driven design; contracts: pre and post
conditions and assertions; introduction to C+ +; control
structures; streams; introduction to object-modelling;
introduction to objects and classes in C+ +; introduction to
class libraries; use of an 00 CASE tool.
Recommended Reading
Deitel, H.M. & Deitel, P.J., C+ + How to Program, Prentice
Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1994.
Perry, J.E. & Levin, H.D., An Introduction to Ohect-oriented
Design in C+ +, Addison-Wesley, Reading,
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Ma, 1996.
ES703 Software Development Project
20 credit points over two semesters 3 hours per week..
Hawthorn Prerequisite: Knowledge of sofrware engineering
principles and practices either covered in previous semesters or
being taught in parallel with this subject . Instruction:
lecture, contact with supervisor and project team sessions
Assessment: assignments
A subject in the Graduate Diploma (Computer Science)
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To Introduce techniques and strategies for the management
of software project utilising development technologies that
enable the realisation of management objective; to give