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~~404 Systems Analysis
10 credit points
No. of hours per week: three hours
Instruction: a combination of lectures and tutorial
sessions
Assessment: assignments andlor projects and a
final examination
Subject aims
To develop an understanding of the principles and practice
of systems analysis - translating of user needs into
specifications.
Subject description
The System Life Cycle; Strategic Information Systems
Planning; Systems Investigation and Feasibility; Structured
Analysis - Process Modelling; Structured Analysis - Data
Modelling; Structured Systems Design.
Textbooks
To be advised.
54407 Data Communications
10 credit points
No. of hours per week: three hours
Instruction: a combination of lectures and
practical sessions
Assessment: assignments and a final examination
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Subject description
An introduction to the fundamental concepts in modern
3. computer-to-computer communications. Topics covered
include physical aspects of data communications, data link
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control, terminal base networks, communication protocols,
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distributed computer systems, local area networks, public
5. data networks, Telecom Australia data communication
services, OSI - Open Systems Interconnection.
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20. SQ~I COBOL Programming
10 credit points
No. of hours per week: three hours
Instruction: lecture and practical classes
Assessment: assignments and exam
Subject aims
The aim is to introduce the COBOL language and its problem
solution domain.
Subject description
lntroduction to structured programming: COBOL overview;
file, record and data definition; file processing; modularity -
perform; arithmetic; move, editing, If; validation, testing,
debugging; control groups; tables; strings; subprograms; sort.
Textbook
Stern and Stern. Structured Cobol Programming. 7th edn, New York,
Wiley, 1994
~~412 Systems Programming
10 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
To introduce students to the UNlX operating system; to teach
the use of shell scripts as a method of prototyping system
software; to examine systems programming in a UNlX
environment via consideration of various system calls.
Subject description
lntroduction to UNlX operating systems; UNlX file
management; commands and filters; electronic mail;
structure of the operating system; tools - make, SCCS, lint
and sdb; shell programming (differences between Bourne and
C shell); systems programming (low level I/O, accessing the
file system, creating and controlling processes,
communication between processes, device control networks);
system administration.
Textbooks
To be advised
54419 Artificial Intelligence
10 credit points
No. of hours per week: three hours
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 course the students should have
gained an appreciation of the difficulties 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 objectdframes.
Expert systems as applied At: inference and
uncertaintyknowledge acquisition.
Artificial neural networks: backprop, otherarchitectures,
applications.
Genetic algorithms: search, optimisation, classifier
systems.
Machine learning.
Natural language processing.
Machine vision.
Textbooks
To be advised