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CURRICULUM 2008
CURRICULA AND SYLLABI FOR VIII SEMESTER

B.E. COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

SEMESTER VIII
(Applicable to the students admitted from the Academic year 20082009 onwards)
Code No.
Course Title
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E6
PRACTICAL
CS2451

Elective V
Elective VI

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Project Work

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Course Title

Intellectual Property Rights

Graph Theory
Information Security
Soft Computing
Digital Image Processing
Software Quality Assurance
Distributed Systems
Knowledge Based Decision Support Systems
Professional Ethics in Engineering
Fundamentals of Nanoscience

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LIST OF ELECTIVES

SEMESTER VIII Elective V

Code No.
GE2071
CS2051
IT2042
CS2053
IT2023
CS2055
CS2056
CS2057
GE2021
GE 2023

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SEMESTER VIII Elective VI

Code No.
GE2072
CS2060
CS2061
IT2403
CS2062
CS2063
CS2064
IT2033
IT2064

GE2072

Course Title

Indian Constitution and Society

High Speed Networks
Robotics
Software Project Management
Quantum Computing
Grid Computing
Agent Based Intelligent Systems
Bio Informatics
Speech Signal Processing

3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3

0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS (IPR)

0
0
0
0
0
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3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3

L T P C
3 0 0 3

UNIT I
5
Introduction Invention and Creativity Intellectual Property (IP) Importance
Protection of IPR Basic types of property (i). Movable Property ii. Immovable Property
and iii. Intellectual Property.
UNIT II
10
IP Patents Copyrights and related rights Trade Marks and rights arising from
Trademark registration Definitions Industrial Designs and Integrated circuits
Protection of Geographical Indications at national and International levels Application
Procedures..
UNIT III
10
International convention relating to Intellectual Property Establishment of WIPO
Mission and Activities History General Agreement on Trade and Tariff (GATT).
UNIT IV
10
Indian Position Vs WTO and Strategies Indian IPR legislations commitments to
WTO-Patent Ordinance and the Bill Draft of a national Intellectual Property Policy
Present against unfair competition.
UNIT V

10

Case Studies on Patents (Basumati rice, turmeric, Neem, etc.) Copyright and related
rights Trade Marks Industrial design and Integrated circuits Geographic indications
Protection against unfair competition.
TOTAL: 45 PERIDOS
TEXT BOOKS:
1. Subbaram N.R. Handbook of Indian Patent Law and Practice , S. Viswanathan
Printers and Publishers Pvt. Ltd., 1998.

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REFERENCES:
1. Eli Whitney, United States Patent Number: 72X, Cotton Gin, March 14, 1794.
2. Intellectual Property Today: Volume 8, No. 5, May 2001, [www.iptoday.com].
3. Using the Internet for non-patent prior art searches, Derwent IP Matters, July
2000. www.ipmatters.net/features/000707_gibbs.html.

CS2051

GRAPH THEORY

LTPC
3003

UNIT I
NTRODUCTION
9
Graphs Introduction Isomorphism Sub graphs Walks, Paths, Circuits
Connectedness Components Euler Graphs Hamiltonian Paths and Circuits Trees
Properties of trees Distance and Centers in Tree Rooted and Binary Trees.
UNIT II
TREES, CONNECTIVITY, PLANARITY
9
Spanning trees Fundamental Circuits Spanning Trees in a Weighted Graph Cut
Sets Properties of Cut Set All Cut Sets Fundamental Circuits and Cut Sets
Connectivity and Separability Network flows 1-Isomorphism 2-Isomorphism
Combinational and Geometric Graphs Planer Graphs Different Representation of a
Planer Graph.
UNIT III
MATRICES, COLOURING AND DIRECTED GRAPH
9
Incidence matrix Submatrices Circuit Matrix Path Matrix Adjacency Matrix
Chromatic Number Chromatic partitioning Chromatic polynomial Matching
Covering Four Color Problem Directed Graphs Types of Directed Graphs
Digraphs and Binary Relations Directed Paths and Connectedness Euler Graphs
Adjacency Matrix of a Digraph.
UNIT IV
ALGORITHMS
9
Algorithms: Connectedness and Components Spanning tree Finding all Spanning
Trees of a Graph Set of Fundamental Circuits Cut Vertices and Separability
Directed Circuits.
UNIT V
ALGORITHMS
Algorithms: Shortest Path Algorithm DFS Planarity Testing Isomorphism.

TOTAL = 45
TEXT BOOKS:
1.
Narsingh Deo, Graph Theory: With Application to Engineering and Computer
Science, Prentice Hall of India, 2003.
REFERENCES:
1.

R.J. Wilson, Introduction to Graph Theory, Fourth Edition, Pearson Education,

2003.

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IT2042

INFORMATION SECURITY

3 0 0 3

AIM
To study the critical need for ensuring Information Security in Organizations
OBJECTIVES
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

To understand the basics of Information Security

To know the legal, ethical and professional issues in Information Security
To know the aspects of risk management
To become aware of various standards in this area
To know the technological aspects of Information Security

UNIT 1

INTRODUCTION

History, What is Information Security?, Critical Characteristics of Information, NSTISSC

Security Model, Components of an Information System, Securing the Components,
Balancing Security and Access, The SDLC, The Security SDLC
UNIT II

SECURITY INVESTIGATION

Need for Security, Business Needs, Threats, Attacks, Legal, Ethical and Professional
Issues
UNIT III

SECURITY ANALYSIS

Risk Management: Identifying and Assessing Risk, Assessing and Controlling Risk
UNIT IV

LOGICAL DESIGN

Blueprint for Security, Information Security Poicy, Standards and Practices, ISO
17799/BS 7799, NIST Models, VISA International Security Model, Design of Security
Architecture, Planning for Continuity
UNIT V

PHYSICAL DESIGN

Security Technology, IDS, Scanning and Analysis Tools, Cryptography, Access Control
Devices, Physical Security, Security and Personnel
TOTAL : 45
TEXT BOOK
1.

Michael E Whitman and Herbert J Mattord, Principles of Information Security,

Vikas Publishing House, New Delhi, 2003

REFERENCES
1.
2.
3.

Micki Krause, Harold F. Tipton, Handbook of Information Security

Management, Vol 1-3 CRC Press LLC, 2004.
Stuart Mc Clure, Joel Scrambray, George Kurtz, Hacking Exposed, Tata
McGraw-Hill, 2003
Matt Bishop, Computer Security Art and Science, Pearson/PHI, 2002.

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CS2061
UNIT I

ROBOTICS

3 0 0 3

SCOPE OF ROBOTS

The scope of industrial Robots - Definition of an industrial robot - Need for industrial
robots - applications.
UNIT II

ROBOT COMPONENTS

Fundamentals opf Robot Technology - Automation and Robotics - Robot anatomy Work volume - Prescision of movement - End effectors - Sensors.
UNIT III

ROBOT PROGRAMMING

Robot Programming - Methods - interlocks textual languages. Characteristics of Robot

level languages, characteristic of task level languages.
UNIT IV

ROBOT WORK CELL

Robot Cell Design and Control - Remote Cemter compilance - Safety in Robotics.
UNIT V

FUTURE TRENDS

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Advanced robotics, Advanced robotics in Space - Specific features of space robotics

systems - long-term technical developments, Advanced robotics in under - water
operations. Robotics Technology of the Future - Future Applications.
TOTAL : 45
TEXTBOOK
1.

Barry Leatham - Jones, "Elements of industrial Robotics" PITMAN Publishing,

1987.

REFERENCE
1.
Mikell P.Groover, Mitchell Weiss, Roger N.Nagel Nicholas G.Odrey, "Industrial
Robotics Technology, Programming and Applications ", McGraw Hill Book
Company 1986.
2.
Fu K.S. Gonzaleaz R.C. and Lee C.S.G., "Robotics Control Sensing, Visioon and
Intelligence " McGraw Hill International Editions, 1987.
3.
Bernard Hodges and Paul Hallam, " Industrial Robotics", British Library
Cataloging in Publication 1990.
4.
Deb, S.R. Robotics Technology and flexible automation, Tata Mc GrawHill,
1994.

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CS2053

SOFT COMPUTING

LTPC
3003

UNIT I
FUZZY SET THEORY
10
Introduction to Neuro Fuzzy and Soft Computing Fuzzy Sets Basic Definition and
Terminology Set-theoretic Operations Member Function Formulation and
Parameterization Fuzzy Rules and Fuzzy Reasoning Extension Principle and Fuzzy
Relations Fuzzy If-Then Rules Fuzzy Reasoning Fuzzy Inference Systems
Mamdani Fuzzy Models Sugeno Fuzzy Models Tsukamoto Fuzzy Models Input
Space Partitioning and Fuzzy Modeling.
UNIT II
OPTIMIZATION
8
Derivative-based Optimization Descent Methods The Method of Steepest Descent
Classical Newtons Method Step Size Determination Derivative-free Optimization
Genetic Algorithms Simulated Annealing Random Search Downhill Simplex
Search.
UNIT III
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
10
Introduction, Knowledge Representation Reasoning, Issues and Acquisition:
Prepositional and Predicate Calculus Rule Based knowledge Representation Symbolic
Reasoning Under Uncertainity Basic knowledge Representation Issues Knowledge
acquisition Heuristic Search: Techniques for Heuristic search Heuristic Classification State Space Search: Strategies Implementation of Graph Search Search based on
Recursion Patent-directed Search Production System and Learning.
UNIT IV
NEURO FUZZY MODELING
9
Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference Systems Architecture Hybrid Learning Algorithm
Learning Methods that Cross-fertilize ANFIS and RBFN Coactive Neuro Fuzzy
Modeling Framework Neuron Functions for Adaptive Networks Neuro Fuzzy
Spectrum.
UNIT V
APPLICATIONS OF COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE
8
Printed Character Recognition Inverse Kinematics Problems Automobile Fuel
Efficiency Prediction Soft Computing for Color Recipe Prediction.
TOTAL: 45
TEXT BOOKS:
1. J.S.R.Jang, C.T.Sun and E.Mizutani, Neuro-Fuzzy and Soft Computing, PHI,
2004, Pearson Education 2004.
2. N.P.Padhy, Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Systems, Oxford University
Press, 2006.
REFERENCES:
1. Elaine Rich & Kevin Knight, Artificial Intelligence, Second Edition, Tata Mcgraw
Hill Publishing Comp., 2006, New Delhi.
2. Timothy J.Ross, Fuzzy Logic with Engineering Applications, McGraw-Hill, 1997.
3. Davis E.Goldberg, Genetic Algorithms: Search, Optimization and Machine
Learning, Addison Wesley, N.Y., 1989.

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4. S. Rajasekaran and G.A.V.Pai, Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic and Genetic
Algorithms, PHI, 2003.
5. R.Eberhart, P.Simpson and R.Dobbins, Computational Intelligence - PC Tools,
AP Professional, Boston, 1996.
6. Amit Konar, Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing Behaviour and Cognitive
model of the human brain, CRC Press, 2008.
IT2023

DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING

3003

AIM:
The aim is to inculcate a basic training in the processing of images for practical
applications in the domain of medical, remoting sessions and in general.
OBJECTIVES:


To introduce basic concepts in acquiring, storage and Process of images


To introduce for enhancing the quality of images.


To introduce techniques for extraction and processing of region of interest


To introduce case studies of Image Processing.
UNIT I
FUNDAMENTALS OF IMAGE PROCESSING
9
Introduction Steps in Image Processing Systems Image Acquisition Sampling and
Quantization Pixel Relationships Colour Fundamentals and Models, File Formats,
Image operations Arithmetic, Geometric and Morphological.
.
UNIT II
IMAGE ENHANCEMENT
9
Spatial Domain Gray level Transformations Histogram Processing Spatial Filtering
Smoothing and Sharpening. Frequency Domain : Filtering in Frequency Domain DFT,
FFT, DCT Smoothing and Sharpening filters Homomorphic Filtering.
.
UNIT III
IMAGE SEGMENTATION AND FEATURE ANALYSIS
9
Detection of Discontinuities Edge Operators Edge Linking and Boundary Detection
Thresholding Region Based Segmentation Morphological WaterSheds Motion
Segmentation, Feature Analysis and Extraction.
UNIT IV
MULTI RESOLUTION ANALYSIS AND COMPRESSIONS
9
Multi Resolution Analysis : Image Pyramids Multi resolution expansion Wavelet
Transforms.
Image Compression : Fundamentals Models Elements of Information Theory Error
Free Compression Lossy Compression Compression Standards.
UNIT V
APPLICATIONS OF IMAGE PROCESSING
9
Image Classification Image Recognition Image Understanding Video Motion
Analysis Image Fusion Steganography Digital Compositing Mosaics Colour
Image Processing..
TOTAL = 45

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TEXT BOOKS:
1. Rafael C.Gonzalez and Richard E.Woods, Digital Image Processing Second Edition,
Pearson Education, 2003.
REFERENCES:
1. Milan Sonka, Vaclav Hlavac and Roger Boyle, Image Processing, Analysis and
Machine Vision, Second Edition, Thomson Learning, 2001
2. Anil K.Jain, Fundamentals of Digital Image Processing, PHI, 2006.
3. Sanjit K. Mitra, & Giovanni L. Sicuranza, Non Linear Image Processing, Elsevier,
2007.
4. Richard O. Duda, Peter E. HOF, David G. Stork, Pattern Classification Wiley
Student Edition, 2006.

CS2055

SOFTWARE QUALITY ASSURANCE

3 0 0 3

UNIT I
FUNDAMENTALS OF SOFTWARE QUALITY ASSURANCE
9
The Role of SQA SQA Plan SQA considerations SQA people Quality
Management Software Configuration Management
UNIT II
MANAGING SOFTWARE QUALITY
9
Managing Software Organizations Managing Software Quality Defect Prevention
Software Quality Assurance Management
UNIT III
SOFTWARE QUALITY ASSURANCE METRICS
9
Software Quality Total Quality Management (TQM) Quality Metrics Software
Quality Metrics Analysis
UNIT IV
SOFTWARE QUALITY PROGRAM
9
Software Quality Program Concepts Establishment of a Software Quality Program
Software Quality Assurance Planning An Overview Purpose & Scope.
UNIT V
SOFTWARE QUALITY ASSURANCE STANDARDIZATION
9
Software StandardsISO 9000 Quality System Standards - Capability Maturity Model
and the Role of SQA in Software Development Maturity SEI CMM Level 5
Comparison of ISO 9000 Model with SEIs CMM
Total = 45
TEXT BOOKS:
1. Mordechai Ben-Menachem / Garry S Marliss, Software Quality, Vikas Publishing
House, Pvt, Ltd., New Delhi.(UNIT III to V)
2. Watts S Humphrey, Managing the Software Process, Pearson Education Inc.(
UNIT I and II)

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REFERENCES:
1. Gordon G Schulmeyer, Handbook of Software Quality Assurance, Third
Edition,
Artech House Publishers 2007
2. Nina S Godbole, Software Quality Assurance: Principles and Practice, Alpha
Science International, Ltd, 2004

IT2403

SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT

300 3

UNIT I
INTRODUCTION TO SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT
9
Project Definition Contract Management Activities Covered By Software Project
Management Overview Of Project Planning Stepwise Project Planning.
UNIT II
PROJECT EVALUATION
9
Strategic Assessment Technical Assessment Cost Benefit Analysis Cash Flow
Forecasting Cost Benefit Evaluation Techniques Risk Evaluation.
UNIT III
ACTIVITY PLANNING
9
Objectives Project Schedule Sequencing and Scheduling Activities Network
Planning Models Forward Pass Backward Pass Activity Float Shortening Project
Duration Activity on Arrow Networks Risk Management Nature Of Risk Types Of
Risk Managing Risk Hazard Identification Hazard Analysis Risk Planning And
Control.
UNIT IV
MONITORING AND CONTROL
9
Creating Framework Collecting The Data Visualizing Progress Cost Monitoring
Earned Value Priortizing Monitoring Getting Project Back To Target Change
Control Managing Contracts Introduction Types Of Contract Stages In Contract
Placement Typical Terms Of A Contract Contract Management Acceptance.
UNIT V
MANAGING PEOPLE AND ORGANIZING TEAMS
9
Introduction Understanding Behavior Organizational Behaviour:A Background
Selecting The Right Person For The Job Instruction In The Best Methods Motivation
The Oldman Hackman Job Characteristics Model Working In Groups Becoming
A Team Decision Making Leadership Organizational Structures Stress Health
And Safety Case Studies.
TOTAL = 45
TEXT BOOK:
1. Bob Hughes, Mikecotterell, Software Project Management, Third Edition, Tata
McGraw Hill, 2004.
REFERENCES:
1. Ramesh, Gopalaswamy, "Managing Global Projects", Tata McGraw Hill, 2001.
2. Royce, Software Project Management, Pearson Education, 1999.
3. Jalote, Software Project Manangement in Practive, Pearson Education, 2002.

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CS2053

DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS

3003

UNIT I
9
Characterization of Distributed Systems-Introduction-Examples-Resource Sharing and
the Web-Challenges.
System Models-Architectural-Fundamental.
Interprocess Communication-Introduction-API for Internet protocols-External data
representation and marshalling--Client-server communication-Group communicationCase study: Interprocess Communication in UNIX.
UNIT II
9
Distributed Objects and Remote Invocation-Introduction-Communication between
distributed objects-Remote procedure calls-Events and notifications-Case study: Java
RMI.
Operating System Support-Introduction-OS layer-Protection-Processes and threadsCommunication and invocation OS architecture.
UNIT III
9
Distributed File Systems-Introduction-File service architecture-Case Study:Sun Network
File System-Enhancements and further developments.
Name Services-Introduction-Name Services and the Domain Name System-Directory
Services-Case Study: Global Name Service.
UNIT IV
9
Time and Global States-Introduction-Clocks, events and process states-Synchronizing
physical clocks-Logical time and logical clocks-Global states-Distributed debugging.
Coordination and Agreement-Introduction-Distributed mutual exclusion-ElectionsMulticast communication-Consensus and related problems.
UNIT V
9
Distributed Shared Memory-Introduction-Design and implementation issues-Sequential
consistency and Ivy case study Release consistency and Munin case study-Other
consistency models.
CORBA Case Study- Introduction-CORBA RMI-CORBA services.
TEXT BOOK:
1. George Coulouris, Jean Dollimore, Tim Kindberg, , "Distributed Systems: Concepts
and Design", 4th Edition, Pearson Education, 2005.
REFERENCES:
1. A.tS. Tanenbaum and M. V. Steen, "Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms",
Second Edition, Prentice Hall, 2006.
2. M.L.Liu, Distributed Computing Principles and Applications, Pearson Addison
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3. Mukesh Singhal, Advanced Concepts In Operating Systems, McGrawHill Series in
Computer Science, 1994.
4. Nancy A. Lynch, "Distributed Algorithms", The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data
Management System, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2000.

CS2062

QUANTUM COMPUTING

3 0 0 3

UNIT I
FOUNDATION
9
Overview of traditional computing Church-Turing thesis circuit model of computation
reversible computation quantum physics quantum physics and computation Dirac
notation and Hilbert Spaces dual vectors operators the spectral theorem
functions of operators tensor products Schmidt decomposition theorem
UNIT II
QUBITS AND QUANTUM MODEL OF COMPUTATION
9
State of a quantum system time evolution of a closed system composite systems
measurement mixed states and general quantum operations quantum circuit model
quantum gates universal sets of quantum gates unitary transformations quantum
circuits
UNIT III
QUANTUM ALGORITHMS I
9
Superdense coding quantum teleportation applications of teleportation probabilistic
versus quantum algorithms phase kick-back the Deutsch algorithm the DeutschJozsa algorithm Simon's algorithm Quantum phase estimation and quantum Fourier
Transform eigenvalue estimation
UNIT IV
QUANTUM ALGORITHMS II
9
Order-finding problem eigenvalue estimation approach to order finding Shor's
algorithm for order finding finding discrete logarithms hidden subgroups Grover's
quantum search algorithm amplitude amplification quantum amplitude estimation
quantum counting searching without knowing the success probability
UNIT V

QUANTUM COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY AND ERROR

CORRECTION
9
Computational complexity black-box model lower bounds for searching general
black-box lower bounds polynomial method block sensitivity adversary methods
classical error correction classical three-bit code fault tolerance quantum error
correction three- and nine-qubit quantum codes fault-tolerant quantum computation
TEXT BOOK:
1. P. Kaye, R. Laflamme, and M. Mosca, An introduction to Quantum Computing,
Oxford University Press, 1999.
REFERENCES:
1. V. Sahni, Quantum Computing, Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, 2007.

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CS2057

KNOWLEDGE BASED DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM

3003

UNIT I
9
Decision Making and computerized support: Management support systems. Decision
making systems modeling- support.
UNIT II
9
Decision Making Systems Modeling and Analysis Business Intelligence Data
Warehousing,
Data Acquisition - Data Mining. Business Analysis Visualization Decision Support System Development.
UNIT III
9
Collaboration, Communicate Enterprise Decision Support System & Knowledge
management Collaboration Com
Technologies Enterprise information system
knowledge management.
UNIT IV
9
Intelligent Support Systems AI & Expert Systems Knowledge based Systems
Knowledge Acquisition , Representation & Reasoning, Advanced intelligence system
Intelligence System over internet.
UNIT V
9
Implementing MSS in the E-Business ERA Electronic Commerce integration,
Impacts and the future management support systems.
TEXT BOOKS:
1. Decision Support Systems & Intelligent Systems Seventh edition Efraim Turban &
Jay E. Aronson Ting-Peng Liang - Pearson/prentice Hall
2. Decision support Systems Second Edition George M Marakas - Pearson/prentice
Hall.
REFERENCES:
1. Decision Support Systems V.S. Janakiraman & K. Sarukesi
2. Decision Support systems and Data warehouse Systems by Efrem G Mallach- Mc
Graw Hill

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CS2063

GRID COMPUTING

3003

UNIT I
CONCEPTS AND ARCHITECTURE
9
Introduction-Parallel and Distributed Computing-Cluster Computing-Grid ComputingAnatomy and Physiology of Grid-Review of Web Services-OGSA-WSRF.
UNIT II
GRID MONITORING
9
Grid Monitoring Architecture (GMA) - An Overview of Grid Monitoring Systems- GridICE
JAMM -MDS-Network Weather Service-R-GMA-Other Monitoring Systems- Ganglia
and GridMon
UNIT III
GRID SECURITY AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
9
Grid Security-A Brief Security Primer-PKI-X509 Certificates-Grid Security-Grid
Scheduling and Resource Management-Scheduling Paradigms- Working principles of
Scheduling -A Review of Condor, SGE, PBS and LSF-Grid Scheduling with QoS.
UNIT IV
DATA MANAGEMENT AND GRID PORTALS
9
Data Management-Categories and Origins of Structured Data-Data Management
Challenges-Architectural Approaches-Collective Data Management Services-Federation
Services-Grid Portals-First-Generation Grid Portals-Second-Generation Grid Portals.
UNIT V
GRID MIDDLEWARE
9
List of globally available Middlewares - Case Studies-Recent version of Globus Toolkit
and gLite - Architecture, Components and Features.

TEXT BOOK:
1. Maozhen Li, Mark Baker, The Grid Core Technologies, John Wiley & Sons, 2005.
REFERENCES:
1. Ian Foster & Carl Kesselman, The Grid 2 Blueprint for a New Computing
Infrascture , Morgan Kaufman 2004
2. Joshy Joseph & Craig Fellenstein, Grid Computing, Pearson Education 2004.
3. Fran Berman,Geoffrey Fox, Anthony J.G.Hey, Grid Computing: Making the Global
Infrastructure a reality, John Wiley and sons, 2003.

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CS2064

AGENT BASED INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS

1. INTRODUCTION

3003
9

Definitions - Foundations - History - Intelligent Agents-Problem Solving-Searching Heuristics -Constraint Satisfaction Problems - Game playing.
2. KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION AND REASONING

Logical Agents-First order logic-First Order Inference-Unification-Chaining- Resolution

Strategies-Knowledge Representation-Objects-Actions-Events
3. PLANNING AGENTS

Planning Problem-State Space Search-Partial Order Planning-Graphs-Nondeterministic

Domains-Conditional Planning-Continuous Planning-MultiAgent Planning.
4. AGENTS AND UNCERTAINITY

Acting under uncertainty Probability Notation-Bayes Rule and use - Bayesian

Networks-Other Approaches-Time and Uncertainty-Temporal Models- Utility Theory Decision Network Complex Decisions.
5. HIGHER LEVEL AGENTS

Knowledge in Learning-Relevance Information-Statistical Learning MethodsReinforcement Learning-Communication-Formal Grammar-Augmented GrammarsFuture of AI.

Total No of periods: 45
TEXT BOOK:
1. Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig, Artificial Intelligence - A Modern Approach,
2nd Edition, Prentice Hall, 2002
REFERENCES:
1. Michael Wooldridge, An Introduction to Multi Agent System, John Wiley, 2002.
2. Patrick Henry Winston, Artificial Intelligence, 3rd Edition, AW, 1999.
3. Nils.J.Nilsson, Principles of Artificial Intelligence, Narosa Publishing House, 1992.

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GE2021 PROFESSIONAL ETHICS IN ENGINEERING

LTPC
3 003

UNIT I
ENGINEERING ETHICS
9
Senses of Engineering Ethics Variety of moral issues Types of inquiry Moral
dilemmas Moral Autonomy Kohlbergs theory Gilligans theory Consensus and
Controversy Professions and Professionalism Professional Ideals and Virtues
Uses of Ethical Theories
UNIT II
ENGINEERING AS SOCIAL EXPERIMENTATION
9
Engineering as Experimentation Engineers as responsible Experimenters Research
Ethics - Codes of Ethics Industrial Standards - A Balanced Outlook on Law The
Challenger Case Study
UNIT III
ENGINEERS RESPONSIBILITY FOR SAFETY
9
Safety and Risk Assessment of Safety and Risk Risk Benefit Analysis Reducing
Risk The Government Regulators Approach to Risk - Chernobyl Case Studies and
Bhopal
UNIT IV
RESPONSIBILITIES AND RIGHTS
9
Collegiality and Loyalty Respect for Authority Collective Bargaining Confidentiality
Conflicts of Interest Occupational Crime Professional Rights Employee Rights
Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) - Discrimination
UNIT V
GLOBAL ISSUES
9
Multinational Corporations Business Ethics - Environmental Ethics Computer Ethics Role in Technological Development Weapons Development Engineers as Managers
Consulting Engineers Engineers as Expert Witnesses and Advisors Honesty
Moral Leadership Sample Code of Conduct
Total :45
TEXT BOOKS:
1. Mike Martin and Roland Schinzinger, Ethics in Engineering, McGraw Hill, New York,
2005.
2. Charles E Harris, Michael S Pritchard and Michael J Rabins, Engineering Ethics
Concepts and Cases, Thompson Learning, 2000.
REFERENCES:
Charles D Fleddermann, Engineering Ethics, Prentice Hall, New Mexico,
1999.John R Boatright, Ethics and the Conduct of Business, Pearson Education, 2003
1. Edmund G Seebauer and Robert L Barry, Fundamentals of Ethics for Scientists and
Engineers, Oxford University Press, 2001.
2. Prof. (Col) P S Bajaj and Dr. Raj Agrawal, Business Ethics An Indian Perspective,
Biztantra, New Delhi, 2004.
3. David Ermann and Michele S Shauf, Computers, Ethics and Society, Oxford
University Press, (2003)

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GE 2023

FUNDAMENTALS OF NANOSCIENCE

L TP C
3 0 0 3

UNIT I
INTRODUCTION
10
Nanoscale Science and Technology- Implications for Physics, Chemistry, Biology and
Engineering-Classifications of nanostructured materials- nano particles- quantum dots,
nanowires-ultra-thinfilms-multilayered materials. Length Scales involved and effect on
properties: Mechanical, Electronic, Optical, Magnetic and Thermal properties.
Introduction to properties and motivation for study (qualitative only).
UNIT II
PREPARATION METHODS
10
Bottom-up Synthesis-Top-down Approach: Precipitation, Mechanical Milling, Colloidal
routes, Self-assembly, Vapour phase deposition, MOCVD, Sputtering, Evaporation,
Molecular Beam Epitaxy, Atomic Layer Epitaxy, MOMBE.
UNIT III
PATTERNING AND LITHOGRAPHY FOR NANOSCALE DEVICES
5
Introduction to optical/UV electron beam and X-ray Lithography systems and processes,
Wet etching, dry (Plasma /reactive ion) etching, Etch resists-dip pen lithography
UNIT IV
PREPARATION ENVIRONMENTS
10
Clean rooms: specifications and design, air and water purity, requirements for particular
processes, Vibration free environments: Services and facilities required. Working
practices, sample cleaning, Chemical purification, chemical and biological
contamination, Safety issues, flammable and toxic hazards, biohazards.
UNIT V
CHARECTERISATION TECHNIQUES
10
X-ray diffraction technique, Scanning Electron Microscopy - environmental techniques,
Transmission Electron Microscopy including high-resolution imaging, Surface Analysis
techniques- AFM, SPM, STM, SNOM, ESCA, SIMS-Nanoindentation
45 hrs
TEXT BOOKS:
1. A.S. Edelstein and R.C. Cammearata, eds., Nanomaterials: Synthesis, Properties and
Applications, (Institute of Physics Publishing, Bristol and Philadelphia, 1996)
2. N John Dinardo, Nanoscale charecterisation of surfaces & Interfaces, Second edition,
Weinheim Cambridge, Wiley-VCH, 2000
REFERENCES:
1. G Timp (Editor), Nanotechnology, AIP press/Springer, 1999
2. Akhlesh Lakhtakia (Editor) The Hand Book of Nano Technology, Nanometer
Structure, Theory, Modeling and Simulations. Prentice-Hall of India (P) Ltd, New
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GE2072

INDIAN CONSTITUTION AND SOCIETY

LT PC
3 0 0 3

UNIT-I
9
Historical Background Constituent Assembly of India Philosophical foundations of
the Indian Constitution Preamble Fundamental Rights Directive Principles of State
Policy Fundamental Duties Citizenship Constitutional Remedies for citizens.
UNIT- II
9
Union Government Structures of the Union Government and Functions President
Vice President Prime Minister Cabinet Parliament Supreme Court of India
Judicial Review.
UNIT-III
9
State Government Structure and Functions Governor Chief Minister Cabinet
State Legislature Judicial System in States High Courts and other Subordinate
Courts.
UNIT-IV
9
Indian Federal System Center State Relations Presidents Rule Constitutional
Amendments Constitutional Functionaries
- Assessment of working of the
Parliamentary System in India.
UNIT- V
9
Society : Nature, Meaning and definition; Indian Social Structure; Caste, Religion,
Language in India; Constitutional Remedies for citizens Political Parties and Pressure
Groups; Right of Women, Children and Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and
other Weaker Sections.
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
TEXT BOOKS:
1. Durga Das Basu, Introduction to the Constitution of India , Prentice Hall of India,
New Delhi.
2. R.C.Agarwal, (1997) Indian Political System, S.Chand and Company, New Delhi.
3. Maciver and Page, Society: An Introduction Analysis , Mac Milan India Ltd., New
Delhi.
4. K.L.Sharma, (1997) Social Stratification in India: Issues and Themes, Jawaharlal
Nehru University, New Delhi.
REFERENCES:
1. Sharma, Brij Kishore, Introduction to the Constitution of India:, Prentice Hall of India,
New Delhi.
2. U.R.Gahai, Indian Political System , New Academic Publishing House, Jalaendhar.
3. R.N. Sharma, Indian Social Problems , Media Promoters and Publishers

Pvt. Ltd.

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CS2060

HIGH SPEED NETWORKS

LTPC
3003

UNIT I
HIGH SPEED NETWORKS
9
Frame Relay Networks Asynchronous transfer mode ATM Protocol Architecture,
ATM logical Connection ATM Cell ATM Service Categories AAL. High Speed
LANs: Fast Ethernet Gigabit Ethernet Fibre Channel Wireless LANs, WiFi and
WiMax Networks applications, requirements Architecture of 802.11.
UNIT II
CONGESTION AND TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT
8
Queuing Analysis Queuing Models Single Server Queues Effects of Congestion
Congestion Control Traffic Management Congestion Control in Packet Switching
Networks Frame Relay Congestion Control.
UNIT III
TCP AND ATM CONGESTION CONTROL
12
TCP Flow control TCP Congestion Control Retransmission Timer Management
Exponential RTO backoff KARNs Algorithm Window management Performance of
TCP over ATM. Traffic and Congestion control in ATM Requirements Attributes
Traffic Management Frame work, Traffic Control ABR traffic Management ABR rate
control, RM cell formats ABR Capacity allocations GFR traffic management.
UNIT IV
INTEGRATED AND DIFFERENTIATED SERVICES
8
Integrated Services Architecture Approach, Components, Services- Queuing Discipline
FQ PS BRFQ GPS WFQ Random Early Detection Differentiated Services.
UNIT V
PROTOCOLS FOR QOS SUPPORT
8
RSVP Goals & Characteristics, Data Flow, RSVP operations Protocol Mechanisms
Multiprotocol Label Switching Operations, Label Stacking Protocol details RTP
Protocol Architecture Data Transfer Protocol RTCP.
TOTAL= 45
TEXT BOOKS:
1. William Stallings, High speed networks and internet, Second Edition, Pearson
Education, 2002.
REFERENCES:
1. Warland, Pravin Varaiya, High performance communication networks, Second
Edition , Jean Harcourt Asia Pvt. Ltd., , 2001.
2. Irvan Pepelnjk, Jim Guichard, Jeff Apcar, MPLS and VPN architecture, Cisco
Press, Volume 1 and 2, 2003.
3. Abhijit S. Pandya, Ercan Sea, ATM Technology for Broad Band
Telecommunication Networks, CRC Press, New York, 2004.

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IT2033

BIO INFORMATICS

3 0 0 3

UNIT I
9
Introduction to molecular biology the genetic material gene structure protein
structure chemical bonds molecular biology tools genomic information content
UNIT II
9
Data searches simple alignments gaps scoring matrices dynamic programming
global and local alignments database searches multiple sequence alignments
Patterns for substitutions estimating substitution numbers evolutionary rates
molecular clocks evolution in organelles
UNIT III
9
Phylogenetics history and advantages phylogenetic trees distance matrix methods
maximum likelihood approaches multiple sequence alignments Parsimony
ancestral sequences strategies for faster searches consensus trees tree
confidence comparison of phylogenetic methods molecular phylogenies
UNIT IV
9
Genomics prokaryotic genomes: prokaryotic gene structure GC content - gene
density eukaryotic genomes: gene structure open reading frames GC content
gene expression transposition repeated elements gene density
UNIT V
9
Amino acids polypeptide composition secondary structure tertiary and quaternary
structure algorithms for modeling protein folding structure prediction predicting
RNA secondary structures
Proteomics protein classification experimental techniques inhibitors and drug
design ligand screening NMR structures empirical methods and prediction
techniques post-translational modification prediction
Total: 45
TEXT BOOK:
1. D. E. Krane and M. L. Raymer, Fundamental concepts of Bioinformatics, Pearson
Education, 2003.
REFERENCES:
1. Arthur M. Lesk, Introduction to Bioinformatics, Second Edition, Oxford University
Press, 2005.
2. T. K. Attwood, D. J. Parry-Smith, and S. Phukan, Introduction to Bioinformatics,
Pearson Education, 1999.
3. Vittal R. Srinivas, Bioinformatics A Modern Approach, Prentice-Hall of India Pvt.
Ltd., 2005.

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IT2064

SPEECH SIGNAL PROCESSING

3 0 0 3

UNIT I
MECHANICS OF SPEECH
9
Speech production: Mechanism of speech production, Acoustic phonetics - Digital
models for speech signals - Representations of speech waveform: Sampling speech
signals, basics of quantization, delta modulation, and Differential PCM - Auditory
perception: psycho acoustics.
UNIT II
TIME DOMAIN METHODS FOR SPEECH PROCESSING
9
Time domain parameters of Speech signal Methods for extracting the parameters
Energy, Average Magnitude, Zero crossing Rate Silence Discrimination using ZCR
and energy Short Time Auto Correlation Function Pitch period estimation using Auto
Correlation Function.
UNIT III
FREQUENCY DOMAIN METHOD FOR SPEECH PROCESSING
9
Short Time Fourier analysis: Fourier transform and linear filtering interpretations,
Sampling rates - Spectrographic displays - Pitch and formant extraction - Analysis by
Synthesis - Analysis synthesis systems: Phase vocoder, Channel Vocoder Homomorphic speech analysis: Cepstral analysis of Speech, Formant and Pitch
Estimation, Homomorphic Vocoders.
UNIT IV
LINEAR PREDICTIVE ANALYSIS OF SPEECH
9
Basic Principles of linear predictive analysis Auto correlation method Covariance
method Solution of LPC equations Cholesky method Durbins Recursive algorithm
Application of LPC parameters Pitch detection using LPC parameters Formant
analysis VELP CELP.
UNIT V
APPLICATION OF SPEECH & AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING
9
Algorithms: Dynamic time warping, K-means clustering and Vector quantization,
Gaussian mixture modeling, hidden Markov modeling - Automatic Speech Recognition:
Feature Extraction for ASR, Deterministic sequence recognition, Statistical Sequence
recognition, Language models - Speaker identification and verification Voice response
system Speech synthesis: basics of articulatory, source-filter, and concatenative
synthesis VOIP
TEXT BOOKS:
1. L. R. Rabiner and R. W. Schaffer, Digital Processing of Speech signals, Prentice
Hall, 1978.
2. Ben Gold and Nelson Morgan, Speech and Audio Signal Processing, John Wiley
and Sons Inc., Singapore, 2004.
REFERENCES:
1. Quatieri, Discrete-time Speech Signal Processing, Prentice Hall, 2001.
2. L.R. Rabiner and B. H. Juang, Fundamentals of speech recognition, Prentice Hall,
1993.

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