Graduate School - Catalog of Studies - University of Arkansas

The Graduate School: Departments and Course Descriptions
plant physiology, weed science).
Prerequisites to Degree Programs: While extensive undergraduate
training in agriculture and physical and biological science is
desirable, no specific prerequisites are required. Deficiencies in
undergraduate major or prerequisites for advanced courses may be
included in the student’s program.
Requirements for the Master of Science Degree:
Thesis option: Minimum of 24 semester hours of course work
as outlined by the student’s graduate advisory committee plus six
semester hours of thesis credit. The student will be given an oral
examination after the thesis is completed.
Non-Thesis M.S. option: Some students wishing to obtain an
M.S. degree may be better served by a program that emphasizes
additional course work in the environmental and crop sciences rather
than the research thesis program. Students must be approved by the
department’s Graduate Committee for admission into the non-thesis
option before developing a program of study in concert with the
student’s major adviser and his/her graduate advisory committee.
A minimum of 33 hours of graduate-level course work is required,
including a graduate statistics class, a communication course, preferably
CSES 5103 (Scientific Presentation), a 3-hour research experience
taken as CSES 502V (Special Problems Research) that requires
the student to demonstrate scientific thinking, synthesizing, and
writing skills, a minimum of 9 hours of graduate courses at the 5000
level or higher in the plant, soil, or other relevant sciences in addition
to the communication (CSES 5103) and Special Problems Research
(CSES 502V) courses, and an exit seminar.
The student will interact with his/her major adviser and graduate
advisory committee in completing the agreed-upon course of study
and must pass an oral and a written examination given by the advisory
committee over all course work completed for the degree.
Requirements for the Doctor of Philosophy Degree: After a
student has been admitted to the Graduate School and accepted by
the department as being qualified for advanced work, the student is
assigned to a major adviser. The major adviser will, in consultation
with the department head, select a graduate committee. This committee
will serve both in an advisory capacity for the student’s program
and as the dissertation and examination committee. The student’s
graduate advisory committee will determine the number of hours of
course work to be completed for the degree.
The student must take candidacy examinations (prelims) in at
least five fields of study after completing approximately two years
of graduate study and at least one year before completing all other
requirements. Preliminary examinations must be written and oral.
Further details regarding requirements for the Doctor of Philosophy
degree are available in the department office.
Computer Sci/Computer Engr (CSCE)
CSCE5003 Advanced Programming Languages (Irregular) Abstraction, proof of
correctness, functional languages, concurrent programming, exception handling, dataflow and
object oriented programming, denotational semantics. Prerequisite: graduate standing.
CSCE5013 Advanced Special Topics in Computer Science (Irregular)
Consideration of current computer engineering topics not covered in other courses.
CSCE5023 Architecture of Computer Systems (Irregular) An advanced study
of both classical and recent computer hardware and software systems. Prerequisite: graduate
standing.
CSCE5033 Design and Analysis of Algorithms (Sp) Design of computer algorithms,
with primary emphasis on the development of efficient implementation. Prerequisite:
graduate standing.
CSCE5043 Artificial Intelligence (Irregular) In-depth introduction to AI. Topics
include: philosophical foundations, cognition, intelligent agents, AI languages, search, genetic
algorithms, first order and modal logic, inference, resolution, knowledge representation,
ontologies, problem solving, planning, expert systems, uncertainty, probabilistic reasoning,
fuzzy logic, machine learning, natural language processing, machine vision, and robotics.
Prerequisite: graduate standing.
CSCE5123 Database Management Systems (Fa) In-depth introduction to database
management systems. Topics include: architecture, schemas, data sources, file structures,
indexing, data models (relational, hierarchical, network, entity relationship, object-oriented),
query languages, views, relational algebras, SQL, optimization, user interfaces, ODBC, transaction
management, concurrency control, recovery, integrity, security, and commercial trends.
Prerequisite: CSCE 2143 or CENG 2143 and graduate standing.
CSCE5203 Advanced Database Systems (Sp) Topics include: object databases,
distributed databases, XML query, data warehouses, network as database systems, peer-peer
data sharing architectures, data grids, data mining, logic foundations, semantic databases,
spatial and tempral databases, and knowledge bases. Prerequisite: CSCE 5123 and graduate
standing.
CSCE5213 Intorduction to Bioinformatics (Irregular) Application of algorithmic
techniques to the analysis and solution of biological problems. Topics include an introduction
to molecular biology and recombinant DNA technology, biological sequence comparison, and
phylogenetics, as well as topics of current interest. Prerequisite: Instructor consent. (Same as
BENG 5213)
CSCE5233 Principles of Compiler Construction (Irregular) Lexical analysis,
parsing, symbol table construction, intermediate code generation, run-time simulation.
Prerequisite: graduate standing.
CSCE5243 Formal Languages (Irregular) An advanced continuation of CSCE 4323.
Prerequisite: CSCE 4323 and graduate standing.
CSCE5263 Computational Complexity (Irregular) Turing machines, recursion
theory and computability, complexity measures, NP-completeness, analysis on NP-complete
problems, pseudo-polynomial and approximation. Prerequisite: graduate standing.
CSCE5283 Graph and Combinatorial Algorithms (Irregular) A study of algorithms
for graphs and combinatorics with special attention to computer implementation and
runtime efficiency. Prerequisites: graduate standing or instructor consent.
CSCE5303 Parallel Programming (Irregular) An analysis of parallel computer systems
with respect to software engineering. Practical programming experience on pipelined,
array, and multi-processor computers. Prerequisite: CSCE 4413 or equivalent and graduate
standing.
CSCE5313 Advanced Operating Systems (Irregular) Concurrent processes and
process communication; mutual exclusion and synchronization principles; kernel philosophy;
resource allocation and deadlock; and case studies of specific operating systems. Prerequisite:
CSCE 4413 or equivalent and graduate standing.
CSCE5323 Computer Security (Fa) Study of a broad selection of contemporary
issues in computer security. Topics include access control, security policies, authentication
methods, secure system design, and information assurance. Prerequisite: CSCE 4413.
CSCE5333 Computer Forensics (Sp) Various methods for identification, preservation,
and extraction of electronic evidence at a computer crime scene. Specific topics include auditing
and investigation of network and host instrusions, computer forensics tools, resources for
system administrators and information security officers, legal issues related to computer and
network forensics. Prerequisite: CSCE 5323.
CSCE5513 Intelligent Robot Control (Irregular) This course is designed to examine
software issues surrounding the creation and control of autonomous robots. Techniques
include: genetic programming, artificial neural networks, reinforcement learning, and symbolic
methods. Programs are run in simulation and on actual robotic controllers. Topic discussed
include visual processing, spatial mapping, and learning. Prerequisite: graduate standing
CSCE5523 Multiagent Systems (Irregular) Multiagent systems is the study, construction,
and application of systems in which several interacting software (or software and
human) agents pursue some set of goals or some set of tasks. The course covers agent
architectures; multiagent problem-solving and planning; multiagent communication; multiagent
search; multiagent learning; reasoning about action, plans, beliefs and knowledge; coordination;
cooperation and competition; teamwork; and multiagent decision-making. Application
examples are presented in e-commerce, scheduling, robotics, control, information retrieval,
manufacturing and logistics.
CSCE5713 Multimedia Systems Design (Irregular) Overview of digital unified
multimedia. Programming methodology involved in integration of all forms of digitized information
(e.g., text, sound, graphics, animation, and process control) in a single computer-based
interactive environment. Prerequisite: graduate standing.
CSCE5723 Client-Server Computing (Irregular) Advanced Object Oriented methods
for designing software systems for network applications. Topics include implementations of
distributed object models, remote database connectivity. Server side programming, and reusable
components. Prerequisite: CSCE 5743 and graduate standing.
CSCE5733 Information Agency (Irregular) Study of software agents and their
deployment on the internet: precursors to agents - viruses and worms, origins of software
agents, delegate vs. representative agents, agency of the Internet and Web, operational
guidelines for agents, HTTP, transaction security, MUD agency, intelligent agency, applications
of agents: indexers, resource managers, search utilities, and commercial applications.
Prerequisite: graduate standing.
CSCE5743 Object Oriented Programming for the Internet (Irregular) Object
oriented design and programming for Internet client/server applications. Basics of the Internet,
including TCP/IP protocol stack. Introduction to Object Oriented Programming and Object
Oriented Design with Unified Modeling Language. Sockets application programming interface.
Graphical user interfaces. Prerequisite: graduate standing.
CSCE590V Advanced Individual Study in Computer Science (Irregular) (1-3)
Advanced graduate level individual study directed by faculty in current research topics, state of
the art, or advanced methodology in one of the major computer science areas.
CSCE5953 Real-time Systems (Irregular) A study of real-time system design. The
development of real-time systems will be examined from the standpoint of academia, government,
and industry. Scheduling, operating systems, and architecture considerations are among
other topics to be covered. Prerequisite: graduate standing.
CSCE610V Master’s Thesis (Sp, Su, Fa) (1-6) Prerequisite: graduate standing.
CSCE620V Research in Computer Science (Sp, Su, Fa) (1-18) Prerequisite:
graduate standing.
CSCE690V Graduate Seminar (Irregular) (1-6) Concentrated study in selected
areas of computer science research. Prerequisite: advanced graduate standing May be
repeated for 12 hours.
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