1996 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

SQ919 Soft Computing
12.5 credit points *3 hours per week *Hawthorn
*Prerequisites: SQ310 or SQ300 *Inshll~tion: a combination c$
lectures and laboratories *Assessmat: masngnments, laboratory
repomnd examination
This is a subject in the Bachelor of Applied Science
(Honours in Computer Science)
Content
Soft computing is an emerging new discipline that combines
computational methods which share similar inexact,
approximate reasoning approaches in attempting to resolve
com~lex . ~roblems. The basic components of soft
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computing are artificial neural networks, fuzzy techniques,
evolitioniry computation.
SQ926 Interactive Systems Development
12.5 credit points *2 hours per week *Hawthorn
.Instruction a combination of lectures, seminars and laboratory
sessions *Assesmt two m'gnments and a final examination
This is a subject in the Bachelor of Applied
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Science
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(Honours in Computer Science)
Objectives
To introduce students to the concepts and methodologies
relevant to the systematic analysis and design of interactive
technology.
Content
The role of HCI in systems development; HCI and systems
methodolodes; approaches to user involvement in
development; task/requirements analysi-S; principles,
euidelines. standards and rules: , specification . techniaues:
Formal methods in HCI; design - prototyping, wizird of
Oz, storyboarding, animation and video, rapid prototype
implementation; implementation fundamental concepts
(independence, reuseability), interaction libraries, dialogue
control structure models; evaluation techniques -empirical
evaluation, predictive modelling; user interface management
systems; user guidance integrated into user interfaces.
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SQ944 Advanced Database Technology
12.5 credit points 2 hours per week Hawthorn
*Instruction: combination of lectures, tutorials and
laboratory work Assessment: assignments and a final
examination
This is a subject in the Bachelor of Applied Science
(Honours in Computer Science)
Objectives
To provide an understanding, through theory and practice,
of some advanced topics in database management systems
with a focus on object-oriented technology.
Content
To~ics covered will be selected from transaction
management, distributed databases, query optimisation,
performance analysis, advanced data modelling, database
security, and object-oriented databases. About 50% of the
course will be associated with object-oriented technology.
Practical work will include work with some of Oracle
RDBMS (proabably HP Unix), Objectstore OODBMs
(Borland C t t with Microsoft Windows), Versant (C and/
or C t t probably with Sun4 Unix) and 3GL program
development using C (or C t t) and the CIndex database
development package (any platform). We make no
assumptions about prior experience with C or C t t , but
students will be expected to be proficient in programming,
data structures and have some basic database knowledge.