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AMERICAN UNIVERSITY of KUWAIT 2007-2008 ACADEMIC CATALOG CSIS 330 Software Engineering (3) An introduction to the software development life cycle (analysis, design, coding, testing and maintenance) and contemporary software development methods. This course places special emphasis on object-oriented systems. Students are expected to complete a medium-scale software project. Prerequisite: CSIS 130. CSIS 335 Computer Architecture and Assembly Language (3) An introduction to digital computer hardware architecture and organization. Topics include digital logic, processor design, instruction sets, and system architecture. Programs written in assembly language will be used to gain hands-on experience with the underlying system architecture. Prerequisite: CSIS 120. CSIS 340 Software Project Management (3) Study of project management in the context of software systems development. The course will cover the processes, contexts, metrics, planning, and management concerns of projects for modern software systems. Prerequisite: CSIS 330. CSIS 345 Artificial Intelligence (3) Introduction to the types of problems and techniques in Artificial Intelligence; problemsolving methods. Major structures used in Artificial Intelligence programs. Study of knowledge representation techniques, problem-solving through problem decomposition and interaction among subparts. Neural Networks and Heuristic programming. Prerequisite: CSIS 210. CSIS 352 Information Technology and Decision Strategies (3) The course is designed around a model that views the firm as an information processing entity that must sense and respond to its environment. It provides an understanding of the role and potential contribution of information technology for organizations. In addition, it furnishes different ways to understand the opportunities and threats posed by IT in contemporary competitive environments. Further, the course recognizes the growing importance of E- commerce in business and how information technologies are enabling this important business paradigm. The course will emphasize the strategic role that computer-based information systems now play in modern organizations. The course will explore how rapid advances in hardware and software technology are impacting strategies, structures and processes within organizations. Prerequisites: CSIS 110 and STAT 201. CSIS 356 Intelligent Information Systems (3) This course provides the student with an introduction to the fundamentals of Intelligent Systems. Businesses are becoming increasingly “knowledge intensive”. In particular, with the explosion in the amount of data available, there is an increasing need for systems that help people filter, summarize, and interpret large amounts of very disparate kinds of data. At the same time, the enabling technologies such as database systems, networks, desktops, and Artificial Intelligence techniques have reached industrial strength maturity, providing unprecedented opportunities for building powerful decision support systems. This course 144
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY of KUWAIT 2007-2008 ACADEMIC CATALOG provides the student with a broad understanding of these technologies, a methodology that lets the student evaluate the pros and cons of each of the technologies in the context of realworld problems, and exposure to business cases where this methodology has been applied. Prerequisite: CSIS 250. CSIS 360 Analysis of Algorithms (3) Covers algorithmic analysis and strategies, advanced searching and sorting algorithms, hashing, graph and spanning trees algorithms, topological sort, complexity, approximation algorithms, and basic computability theory. Prerequisites: CSIS 210 and MATH 201. CSIS 362 Knowledge Systems: Development and Use (3) This course covers the development and use of knowledge intensive systems in business applications. Businesses are becoming increasingly “knowledge intensive”. Techniques to support knowledge intensive business processes and exploiting the vast amount of data available, especially in the Internet age are explored. Several development environments for the construction of knowledge intensive applications are studied. Various tools and techniques used in the development of knowledge intensive systems will be studied and the tradeoffs involved in choosing from among them will be evaluated. Case studies of several knowledge intensive systems are used for insight into their motivation, construction, and use. Innovative e-business applications of knowledge intensive systems will be discussed. Prerequisite: CSIS 352. CSIS 365 Expert Systems (3) Introduces the basic concepts, techniques, and tools involved in the development of information systems based on human expertise. It includes: identification of expert system projects, knowledge acquisition, architecture of expert systems, inference, verification and validation of expert systems. Prerequisite: CSIS 345. CSIS 369 Short Course (1-3) Topic varies by semester. Classes are taught by a guest lecturer or lecturers. Permission of Instructor. Can be repeated for credit. CSIS 370 Computer Graphics (3) Detailed study of two-dimensional graphics and introduction to issues from three-dimensional graphics. Graphics hardware and applications. Study of graphics primitives in two dimensions: lines, attributes, windowing, clipping, transformations. Overview of other topics: threedimensional transformations, modeling, color science, rendering. Prerequisites: CSIS 210 and MATH 201. CSIS 375 Compiler Construction (3) Review of program language structures, translation, loading, execution and storage allocation. Compilation of simple expressions and statements. Organization of a compiler including compile-time and run-time symbol tables, lexical scan, syntax scan, object code generation, error diagnostics, object code optimization techniques, and overall design. Use of compiler writing languages and bootstrapping. Prerequisite: CSIS 210. 145
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