1997 QUT Handbook

■ ITB446 PROJECT
Analysis, design and programming skills, and the underlying
theory, are presented in various units; practice in those units
naturally emphasises their particular specialisation. A project
unit brings many of those skills together in a practical exercise
of greater size and complexity, emphasising their complementary
nature and the need for careful management. Students,
either individually or in small groups, undertake a significant
project, relevant to the needs of industry, government
or a research area, carried out under the supervision of a staff
member whose interests lie in the field of the project. Before
work commences on the project, student(s) and supervisor
must agree on the topic of the project and the scope of the
work to be attempted. The role of the supervisor is to provide
broad guidance on the methods and techniques to be used but
progress depends largely on student initiative and problemsolving
ability.
Courses: IT20
Prerequisites: Completion of at least 72 credit points from
the Computing Science major
Credit Points: 12
■ ITB447 PROJECT
Analysis, design and programming skills, and the underlying
theory, are presented in various units; practice in those units
naturally emphasises their particular specialisation. A project
unit brings many of those skills together in a practical exercise
of greater size and complexity, emphasising their complementary
nature and the need for careful management. Students,
either individually or in small groups, undertake a significant
project, relevant to the needs of industry, government
or a research area, carried out under the supervision of a staff
member whose interests lie in the field of the project. Before
work commences on the project, student(s) and supervisor
must agree on the topic of the project and the scope of the
work to be attempted. The role of the supervisor is to provide
broad guidance on the methods and techniques to be used but
progress depends largely on student initiative and problemsolving
ability.
Courses: IT20
Prerequisites: Completion of at least 72 credit points from
the Computing Science major
Credit Points: 12
■ ITB448 OBJECT TECHNOLOGY
Examination of methods and techniques of object-oriented
design and implementation based on careful assessment of
the underlying software engineering issues. The design of effective
module interfaces is emphasised to achieve the full
benefit of the object-oriented approach. Practical work focuses
on building reusable components and constructing object-oriented
systems by combining existing and custom-made components.
In Semester 2, 1996, this unit may be run as a series
of intensive short courses on some Saturdays during the semester.
Check with the Unit Coordinator for details.
Courses: IT20 Prerequisites: ITB422
Corequisites: ITB424
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
Incompatible with: ITB236 and ITN221
■ ITB449 EXPERT SYSTEMS
Formal mathematical logic is the main theme of this unit. Some
fundamental theories in the formal representation of domain
knowledge are introduced. The introductory topics include:
propositional and predicate logic, resolution, temporal logic,
fuzzy logic and connectionist knowledge representation
themes. This unit is designed to establish a strong theoretical
foundation for students who will work in knowledge and engineering.
Courses: IF23, IT20
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
Incompatible with: ITB243
■ ITB450 ADVANCED COMPUTER
ARCHITECTURE
A continuation of the material introduced in the units ITB412
and ITB420. Intended to provide students with an under-
standing of the organisation of contemporary computer systems
and the variety of different structures which may be
used for specific tasks. Topics covered include the physical
basis of the constraints of processor speed; high performance
‘von Neumann’ architectures; pipelined processors,
vector processors and supercomputers; machines for protected
multitasking; conceptual models for parallel computation.
Courses: IF25, IT20 Prerequisites: ITB420
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ ITB451 PROJECT
Enables students to undertake a significant two-semester
project. See ITB446/7 for a general description of project units.
Courses: IT20
Prerequisites: Completion of at least 72 credit points from
the Computing Science major
Credit Points: 24
■ ITB452 PROJECT WORK
This unit is for students intending to proceed to the Honours
course following the Bachelor of Information Technology. The
project has a significant research component in addition to
the practical development of a system of greater size and complexity
than previously undertaken by a student. This unit allows
students to undertake a large project in one semester and
usually semester two. See ITB446/7 for a general description
of project units.
Courses: IT20
Prerequisites: Completion of at least 72 credit points from
the Computing Science major and ITB440
Credit Points: 24
■ ITB453 PROJECT
This unit allows students to undertake a large project in one
semester. See ITB446 /7 for a general description of project
units.
Courses: IT20
Prerequisites: Completion of at least 72 credit points from
the Computing Science major
Credit Points: 24
■ ITB454 SOFTWARE QUALITY ASSURANCE
Software quality assurance is concerned with ensuring that
software products are of high quality, and that the software
development process supports the production of high quality
software. In this unit it is presented as an integral part of software
development, affecting all stages of the life cycle of a
software product. Practical work focuses on the techniques
and tools for defining, measuring and achieving high quality
software products; and for helping to increase overall productivity.
Courses: IT20 Prerequisites: ITB424
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ ITB455 INTEGRATED SOFTWARE
ENGINEERING ENVIRONMENT
Provides a thorough understanding of the rationale for the use
of software tools in the software engineering process. The
information stored in various software engineering constructs
and the software tools used to aid their construction are examined.
The interrelationship between the information generated
in the software engineering process will also be examined.
In the light of this examination, the relationship between
the various software tools can be defined. Existing software
tools and methodologies will also be examined and evaluated.
Implementation issues for a fully integrated software engineering
environment are examined by inspecting the implementation
of one or more software engineering tools.
Courses: IT20 Prerequisites: ITB222 and ITB424
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ ITB456 INTELLIGENT GRAPHIC USER
INTERFACES
Introduction to the design and construction of intelligent GUIs.
Conventional User Interfaces (CUIs) and graphical techniques
are discussed as the basis for the development of IGUIs. Al-
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