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Textbook
Stern and Stern. Structured Cobol Programming. 6th ed, New York:
Wiley, 1991
5441 2 Systems Programming
10.0 credit points
No. of hours per week: three hours
Prerequisites: approved competence in C
programming
Instruction: lectures and laboratory sessions
Assessment: assignment and exam
Subject aims
By the end of the unit, students should understand the
following: low level 110; file system access and manipulation;
time under UNIX; process control; accessing user information
under UNIX; signals and interrupts; interprocesses
communication and networking; I10 to terminals and device
control.
Subject description
Low level 110 will cover file descriptor, openo, close0, reado,
write0, and system calls. It will also cover error conditions
and how they are handled under systems programming. File
system access and manipulation will examine the UNlX file
system, reading directories, finding out information about
files from inodes, creating, changing and removing
directories etc. Time under UNlX will look at a number of
aspects of time under the UNlX operating system. Process
control will examine creation of processes under UNIX, the
overlaying of processes with programs and the
synchronisation of processes. Accessing user information will
examine the general area of asynchronous events under
UNIX. Interprocess communication and networking will look
at the facilities system V UNlX offers for interprocess
communication, including pipes and peer to peer
communications using the socket mechanism. This is
extended to cater for communication between different
computers. I10 to terminals and device control examines the
general area of controlling devices under UNlX with
particular reference to terminal control.
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SQ419 Artificial Intelligence
10.0 credit points
No. of hours per week: three hours
Prerequisite: nil
Instruction: a combination of lectures,
laboratories and tutorials
Assessment: a combination of assignments and
examination
Subject aims
To give students an introduction to some of the basic
concepts and tools of symbol-based artificial intelligence
research and their application in expert systems.
To contrast the symbol-based Al paradigm with the more
recently emergent non-symbolic artificial neural network
research and applications.
Upon completion of the coune the students should have
gained an appreciation of the difficutties involved in
encoding knowledge, even in restricted domains, in such
a fashion that 'intelligent behaviour' can be elicited.
Subject description
Problem solving and search: depth first, breadth first,
beam searching, hill climbing, A*, minimax.
Knowledge representation: production systems, logic
systems, inheritance networks, structured objectslframes.
Expert systems as applied Al: inference and uncertainty,
knowledge acquisition.
Artificial neural networks: backprop, other architectures,
applications.
Genetic algorithms: search, optimisation, classifier
systems.
Machine learning.
Natural language processing.
Machine vision.
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SQ500 Concurrent Programming
10.0 credit points
No. of hours per week: three hours
Prerequisite: 54300 Data Structures and
Algorithms
Instruction: lectures and laboratory sessions
Assessment: assignment and examination
A final-year subject of the degree course in computer
science and computing and instrumentation, a third-year
elective of the degree course of mathematics and computer
science.
Subject description
A study of the logical problems of concurrency; mutual
exclusion; safety and liveness; mechanisms to control
concurrency; semaphores; monitors; shared memory and
message passing; the CSP model; concurrent programming
in Ada; concurrency in real-time and distributed systems.
54502 Unix Systems Programming
10.0 credit points
No. of hours per week: three hours
Prerequisite: 5.4402
Instruction: a combination of lectures and
laboratory work
Assessment: examination (70%) and assignment
(30%)
A final-year electiw of the degree courses in computer
science and computing and instrumentation, a third year
elective of the degree course of mathematics and computer
science.
Subject description ,
The subject examines the UNlX operating system by
consideration of the use of some of the more common
system calls. It deals with the area of low lewl 110, the file
system, process creation and control, signals,
communications and device control. The subject has an
applications focus. stressing the use of the operating system
to accomplish application objectives.
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SQ503 Software Practice 3
10.0 credit points per semester
No. of hours per week: three hours in semester
seven, followed by six hours in semester eight
Instruction: lectures and practical work
Assessment: assignments
A final-year subject of the degree course in computer
science.
Subject description
This subject requires that students, working in large teams,
undertake a large scale software development project,
preferably industrially based. Software development,