M.Tech.

(Full Time) – DATABASE SYSTEMS

CURRICULUM & SYLLABUS
2013 – 2014

DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

FACULTY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY
SRM UNIVERSITY
SRM NAGAR, KATTANKULATHUR – 603 203
 DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
M.Tech. (Full Time) – DATABASE SYSTEMS
CURRICULUM & SYLLABUS
2013 – 2014

COURSE COURSE NAME

L T P C
CODE
SEMESTER I & II
IT2001 Data Structures and Algorithms 3 0 2 4
IT2003 Operating System and Linux Administration 3 0 2 4
DB2001 Database Management Systems 3 0 2 4
DB2002 Database Administration 3 0 2 4
DB2003 Business Analytics and Intelligence 3 0 2 4
DB2004 Data Warehousing and Data Mining 3 0 2 4
SEMESTER III
DB2047 Seminar 0 0 1 1
DB2049 Project work Phase I 0 0 12 6
SEMESTER IV
DB2050 Project work Phase II 0 0 32 16
SUPPORTIVE COURSE
CC2011 Data Analysis using Multivariate Techniques
3 0 0 3
and Forecasting Methods
INTER DISCIPLINARY ELECTIVE
One course to be taken in Semester I or II or
3 0 0 3
III
PROGRAM ELECTIVES
6 courses of 3 credits each to be taken in
- - - 18
Semesters I -III
TOTAL CREDITS 71

Total number of credits to be earned for the award of M.Tech degree = 71

CONTACT HOUR/CREDIT:
L: Lecture Hours per week T: Tutorial Hours per week
P: Practical Hours per week C: Credit
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 PROGRAM ELECTIVES
Course Name of the course
L T P C
Code
DB2101 Big Data Analytics 2 0 2 3
DB2102 Distributed Database Systems 3 0 0 3
DB2103 Semantic Web Intelligence 2 0 2 3
DB2104 Advanced Database Management Systems 3 0 0 3
DB2105 Decision Support Systems 3 0 0 3
DB2106 Database Security 3 0 0 3
DB2107 Knowledge Management 2 0 2 3
DB2108 Backup Recovery Systems and
3 0 0 3
Architecture
DB2109 Text Mining 3 0 0 3
DB2110 Object Oriented Software Engineering 3 0 0 3
IT2103 Mobile Application Development 2 0 2 3
IT2105 Artificial Intelligence Planning 3 0 0 3
IT2110 Information Storage Management 3 0 0 3
IT2111 Cloud Computing 2 0 2 3
CC2110 Cloud Application Development 2 0 2 3

NOTE: Students have to register for the courses as per the following
guidelines:
Sl. Category Credits
No. I II Semester III IV Category
Semester Semester Semester total
1 Core courses 12 ( 3 12( 3 --- --- 24
courses) courses)
2 Program Elective 18 (in I to III semesters) --- 18
courses
Interdisciplinary elective 3 (One course to be taken in 3
courses(any one Semester I or II or III)
program elective from
other programs)
3 Supportive courses - 3 (One course to be taken in --- 3
mandatory Semester I or II or III)
4 Seminar --- --- 1 --- 1
6 Project work --- --- 06 16 22
Total 71

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 SEMESTER I & II

DATA STRUCTURES AND ALGORITHMS L T P C

Total contact hours - 75 3 0 2 4
IT2001
Prerequisite
Nil
PURPOSE
Data structures play a central role in modern computer science. Interaction with
data structures much more often than with algorithms (think of Google, your mail
server, and even your network routers). In addition, data structures are essential
building blocks in obtaining efficient algorithms. This course will cover major
results and current directions of research in data structures.
INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES
1. To make the student learn an object oriented way of solving problems.
2. To make the student write ADTS for all data structures.
3. To make the student learn different algorithm design techniques.

UNIT I - OVERVIEW OF C++ (5 hours)

C++ class overview – class definition, objects, class members, access control,
constructors and destructors, parameter passing methods, dynamic memory
allocation and deallocation. Function overloading.

UNIT II - LINEAR DATA STRUCTURES AND ALGORITHM ANALYSIS (7 hours)

Review of Arrays, Stacks, Queues, linked lists , Linked stacks and Linked queues,
Applications. Efficiency of algorithms, Asymptotic Notations, Time complexity of
an algorithm using Big O notation, Average, Best, and Worst Case Complexities,
Analyzing Recursive Programs.

UNIT III - NON LINEAR DATA STRUCTURES AND HASH TABLES (14 hours)
Introduction, Definition and Basic terminologies of trees and binary trees,
Representation of trees and Binary trees, Binary tree Traversals, Threaded binary
trees, Graphs- basic concepts – representation and traversals. Introduction,
Binary Search Trees: Definition, Operations and applications. AVL Trees:
Definition, Operations and applications. B Trees: Definition, Operations and
applications. Red – Black Trees, Splay Trees and its applications. Hash Tables:
Introduction, Hash Tables, Hash Functions and its applications.

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UNIT IV- DIVIDE AND CONQUER & GREEDY METHOD (9 hours)
General Method, Binary Search, Finding Maximum and Minimum, Quick Sort,
Merge sort, Strassen’s Matrix Multiplication, Greedy Method- General Method,
Minimum Cost Spanning Trees, Single Source Shortest Path.

UNIT V- DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING AND BACKTRACKING (10 hours)

General Method, 0 / 1 Knapsack problem, Reliability Design, Traveling Sales
Person’s Problem. General Method, 8 – Queen’s Problem, Graph Coloring. Branch
– and – Bound.

PRACTICAL (30 hours)

REFERENCES
1. Mark Allen Weiss, “Data Structures and Problem Solving using C++”, The
Benjamin Cummings / Addison Wesley Publishing Company, 2002.
2. Pai G.A.V., “Data Structures and Algorithms”, TMH, 2009.
3. Ellis Horowitz, Sartaj Sahni and Sanguthevar Rajasekaran “Fundamentals of
Computer Algorithms”, 2nd edition, University Press, 1996.
4. Samanta D., “Classic Data Structures”, PHI., 2005.
5. Aho, Hopcraft, Ullman, “Design and Analysis of Computer Algorithms” PEA,
1998.
6. Goodman and Hedetniemi, “Introduction to the Design and Analysis of
Algorithms”, TMH 2002.
7. Horowitz E., Sahani S., “Design and Analysis of Algorithms”, 3rd Edition,
University Press, 2002.
8. Drozdek, “Data Structures and Algorithms in C++”, 2nd Edition, Thomson
Learning Academic Resource Center, 2001.

OPERATING SYSTEMS AND LINUX L T P C

ADMINISTRATION
Total contact hours – 75 3 0 2 4
IT2003
Prerequisite
Knowledge of Computer Architecture is
preferred
PURPOSE
To have a thorough knowledge of processes, scheduling concepts, memory
management, I/O and file systems in an operating system.

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INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES
1. Get the overview of different types of operating systems
2. Gain thorough knowledge of process management
3. Thorough knowledge of storage management and memory
4. Know the how operating system concepts are implemented in Linux.
5. Know the fundamentals of Linux Administration

UNIT I - OVERVIEW OF OPERATING SYSTEM (9 hours)

Introduction - Mainframe systems – Desktop Systems – Multiprocessor Systems
– Distributed Systems. Operating System Services – System Calls – System
Programs .Process Concept – Process Scheduling – Operations on Processes –
Cooperating Processes – Interposess Communication. Threads- Multithreading
Models- Threading Issues.

UNIT II - PROCESS SCHEDULING AND MANAGEMENT (9 hours)

CPU Scheduling – Basic Concepts – Scheduling Criteria – Scheduling Algorithms
– Multiple-Processor Scheduling – Real Time Scheduling. The Critical-Section
Problem – Synchronization Hardware – Semaphores – Classic problems of
Synchronization – Critical regions-Monitors- Deadlock characterization-Methods
for handling Deadlock-Recovery from Deadlock.

UNIT III - MEMORY AND STORAGE MANAGEMENT (9 hours)

Storage Management – Swapping – Paging – Segmentation – Segmentation with
Paging- Demand Paging-Page Replacement -Virtual Memory – Demand Paging –
Process creation – Page Replacement – Allocation of frames – Thrashing.

UNIT IV - LINUX SYSTEMS FUNDAMENTALS (5 hours)

The Linux System – Design Principles – Kernel Modules – Process Management
– Scheduling – Memory management – File systems – Network Structure –
Security.

UNIT V - LINUX ADMINISTRATION (13 hours)

Setting up a LINUX Multifunction Server - Domain Name Service - Installing,
Setingup and Safeguarding Linux Web Server – Mail Server – Local Network
Services – Backingup Data.

PRACTICAL (30 hours)

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REFERENCES
1. Abraham Silberschatz, Peter Baer Galvin and Greg Gagne, “Operating
System Concepts”, 7th Edition, John Wiley & Sons (ASIA) Pvt. Ltd, 2005.
2. Tom Adelstein and Bill Lubanovic “Linux System Administration”, Published
by O’Reilly Media, Inc., March 2007.
3. Harvey M. Deitel, “Operating Systems”, Third Edition, Pearson/Prentice Hall,
2004.
4. Andrew S. Tanenbaum, “Modern Operating System”,Third Edition, Pearson
Prentice Hall, 2008.
5. William Stallings, “Operating Systems”, Prentice Hall, 2008.

DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS L T P C

Total contact hours – 75 3 0 2 4
DB2001
Prerequisite
Nil
PURPOSE
Most of the organizations depend on databases for storing the data and to share
the data among different kinds of users for their business operations. Persistent
storage required and several users must be able to safely access the same data
concurrently. Hence this course discusses about the problems with the file
processing system and how it can be handled effectively in Database Systems
through various design tools, design techniques and algorithms.
INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES
1. Learn the fundamentals of Database management and to design the database
for any given problem.
2. Understand the SQL and Provide the proof of good database design.
3. Know the fundamentals of transaction processing, practical problems of
Concurrency control and Recovery mechanisms.

UNIT I - INTRODUCTION TO DATABASE DESIGN (7 hours)

Data- Database – DBMS-File Processing System Vs DBMS- Approaches to build a
Database - Data Independence-Data Catalog-Three schema Architecture of a
database-Functional components of a DBMS - DBMS Languages - Database
design and ER diagrams - Beyond ER Design Entities, Attributes and Entity sets -
Relationships and Relationship sets - Additional features of ER Model - Concept
Design with the ER Model - Conceptual Design for Large enterprises.

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UNIT II - RELATIONAL MODEL AND SQL (6 hours)
Relational Algebra - Selection and projection set operations - renaming - Joins -
Division - Examples of Algebra overviews - Relational calculus – SQL - Basic SQL
Query -Nested queries - correlated and uncorrelated queries - Comparison
Operators - Aggregative Operators - NULL values - Comparison using Null values
- Logical connectivity's - AND, OR and NOT - Impact on SQL Constructs - Outer
Joins – PLSQL programming – cursors, procedures, functions, triggers.

UNIT III - DEPENDENCIES AND NORMAL FORMS (11 hours)

The importance of a good schema design, - Problems encountered with bad
schema designs - Motivation for normal forms- functional dependencies -
Armstrong's axioms for FD's- Closure of a set of FD's- Minimal covers-Definitions
of 1NF- 2NF- 3NF and BCNF- Decompositions and desirable properties -
Algorithms for 3NF and BCNF normalization-Multivalued dependencies-4NF-5NF.

UNIT I – TRANSACTION MANAGEMENT AND CONCURRENCY CONTROL

(12 hours)
Overview of Transaction Management: ACID Properties – Transactions and
Schedules – Concurrent Execution of the transaction – Lock Based Concurrency
Control – Performance Locking – Introduction to Crash recovery. Concurrency
Control: Serializability, and recoverability – Introduction to Lock Management –
Lock Conversions – Dealing with Dead Locks – Specialized Locking Techniques –
Concurrency without Locking. Crash recovery: Introduction to ARIES – the Log –
Other Recovery related Structures – the Write- Ahead Log Protocol – Check
pointing – recovering from a System Crash – Media recovery.

UNIT V - RECOVERY (9 hours)

Overview of Storage and Indexing: Data on External Storage – File Organization
and Indexing – Cluster Indexes, Primary and Secondary Indexes – Index data
Structures – Hash Based Indexing – Tree base Indexing – Comparison of File
Organizations – Indexes and Performance Tuning.

PRACTICAL (30 hours)

REFERENCES
1. Abraham Silberschatz, Henry F. Korth, S. Sudarshan, “Database System
Concepts”, McGraw-Hill, 6th Edition, 2010.
2. Raghu Ramakrishnan, Johannes Gehrke,“Database Management System”,
McGraw Hill., 3rd Edition, 2007.

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3. Elmasri & Navathe, “Fundamentals of Database System”, Addison-Wesley
Publishing, 5th Edition, 2008.
4. Date C.J, “An Introduction to Database”, Addison-Wesley Pub Co, 8th Edition,
2006.
5. Peter rob, Carlos Coronel, “Database Systems – Design, Implementation,
and Management”, 9th Edition, Thomson Learning, 2009.

DATABASE ADMINISTRATION L T P C
Total contact hours - 75 3 0 2 4
DB2002 Prerequisite
Knowledge of Database Management
Systems is preferred
PURPOSE
Database administration is the function of managing and maintaining database
management systems software. This course includes the concepts those are
used to improve the skills in managing the database and to make strong career as
Database Administrator for challenging and critical environment.
INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES
1. Understand the architecture of database
2. Install, create and maintain databases.
3. Understand the backup and recovery concepts.
4. Configure the database in real time environment

UNIT I - OVERVIEW OF ORACLE AND PHYSICAL STRUCTURE (5 hours)

Introduction - Oracle DB Architecture – Logical and Physical database structure -
Instance– Control files – Redo logs Files – Datafiles - Oracle database
configuration.

UNIT II-PROFILES AND SECURITY (10 hours)

User creation – Authenticating users – Privileges – System privileges – Role
creation – Secure Roles – Assigning roles to users -Security in oracle – Database
Auditing – Uniform Audit Trails - Memory Management.

UNIT III – DATA MANAGEMENT (10 hours)

Data pump export – export monitoring – parallel operation – database pump
import – using Flashback table feature to save session – Automatic Storage
Management – Creating and maintaining ASM.

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UNIT IV-BACKUP AND RECOVERY (10 hours)
Types of failures – Statement failure, User Process failure, Network failure, User
error, Instance failure – Background Processes and Recovery - Checkpoint, redo
log files and log writer, archiver - Recovery Manager RMAN – Incremental back
up - Flash recovery area – Incremental Merge – Resetlogs and Recovery.

UNIT V- DATABSE AUDITING AND TUNING (10 hours)

Auditing the Database – Extended Timestamp – GLOBAL_UID and
PROXY_SESSIONID, INSTANCE_NUMBER, OS_PROCESS, TRANSACTIONID,
Extended DB Auditing, Uniform Audit Trail. Automatic Database Diagnostic
Monitor ADDM – SQL Tuning advisor – Reactive, Proactive, Development tuning.

PRACTICAL (30 hours)

REFERENCES
1. Tom Best, Maria Billings, “Oracle Database 10g: Administration Workshop
I”, Oracle Press, Edition 3.1, 2008.
2. Sam R Alapati, “Expert Oracle 10g/11g Administration”, Dreamtech Press,
First Edition, 2009.
3. Matthew Hart and Robert G.Freeman, “Oracle Db 10G Rman Backup &
Recovery”, Tata McGraw-Hill, 2006.
4. http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/tutorials/index.html
5. http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/
6. http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/features/availability/rman-
overview-096633.html
7. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIjcMMnSpq4
8. http://www.dba-oracle.com/concepts/rman.htm

BUSINESS ANALYTICS AND INTELLIGENCE L T P C

Total contact hours - 75 3 0 2 4
DB2003
Prerequisite
Nil
PURPOSE
To provide knowledge in business analytics and business intelligence and the way
it is implied in data warehousing and data mining by collecting, managing and
interpreting data to solve issues and in improving decision making using the
knowledge retrieved from database.

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INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES
1. To learn the need of business analytics and business intelligence.
2. Use of business analytics in data warehousing and data mining architects.
3. To learn the need for business intelligence and to implement Business
intelligence in data mining.
4 Use of business intelligence in data warehousing and data mining architects.
5. Business intelligence in knowledge storage and retrieval.

UNIT I - BUSINESS ANALYTICS (7 hours)

Overview of business analytics - Examples of BA Applications - Business
analytics at the strategic level - link between strategy and deployment of BA - four
scenarios on strategy and BA - Common database marketing application-
obstacles to implementing database marketing application-two definition on data
mining-classes of data mining methods.

UNIT II - BUSINESS ANALYTICS IN DATA WAREHOUSNIG AND MINING

(10 hours)
Business analytics at the data warehousing level - why a data warehouse -
architects and processes in the data warehouse - business analytics in future -
data visualization - Business analytics and data mining - two definition on data
mining - classes of data mining methods -grouping method - predictive modeling
method – Crisp - dm phase - process model within a phase-business
understanding-data understanding.

UNIT III - BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE (8 hours)

Defining business intelligence - need for business intelligence - building a road
map - designing and planning business intelligence process - From raw data to
marketing information - Customer and transactional file - Internal and external
data sources (data enhancements and overlays).

UNIT IV - BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE IN DATA WAREHOUSNIG AND MINING

(10 hours)
Data warehousing, legacy system, data marts and marketing databases -
Relational databases and models- Structured query language (SQL) – end-user
perspective -Data mining for business intelligence- Online transaction processing
(OLTP)- Online analytical processing (OLAP- Data warehouses and data marts.

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UNIT V - DATA STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL (10 hours)
Querying data from data servers (SQL)- Restructuring transactional files -
Recoding alphanumeric and date variables- Date transformation into time periods-
Data Import and Transformation- Linear Regression- Regression Output-
Regression Transformation- Logistic Regression- Logistic Regression Output.

PRACTICAL (30 hours)

REFERENCES
1. Shmueli, Patel and Bruce, “Data Mining for Business Intelligence:
Concepts, Techniques, and Applications in Microsoft Office Excel with
XLMiner”, Wiley publication,edition 2010.
2. Daniel S. Putler, Robert E. Krider, “Customer and Business Analytics:
Applied Data mining for business decision making using R”, CRC press,
edition 2012.
3. Gert H. N. Laursen, Jesper Thorlund, “Business Analytics for Managers:
Taking Business Intelligence Beyond Reporting”, edition 2010.
4. Turban, Sharda, Delen, King, “Business Intelligence: A Managerial
Approach”, Publisher: Prentice Hall, Edition: 2nd, ISBN: 13-978-0-136-
10066-9, 2011.
5. Galit Shmueli, Nitin R. Patel and Peter C. Bruce,“Data Mining for Business
Intelligence: Concepts, Techniques, and Applications in Microsoft Office
Excel with XLMiner”, Wiley, 2007.
6. Paulraj Ponniah, “Data Warehousing Fundamentals - A comprehensive
guide for IT professionals”, John Wiley publications, 2nd edition, 2010.
7. http: // www.statsoft.com/textbook/
8. http: //www.fsb.muohio.edu / departments / isa / undergraduate / minor-
requirements / business-analytics

DATA WAREHOUSING AND DATA MINING L T P C

Total contact hours - 75 3 0 2 4
DB2004
Prerequisite
Nil
PURPOSE
Dramatic advances in data capture, processing power, data transmission, and
storage capabilities are enabling organizations to integrate their various databases
into data warehouses. Data mining is primarily used by the companies with a
strong consumer focus. It enables these companies to determine the factors such
as price, product positioning, or staff skills, and economic indicators, competition,
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and customer demographics.
INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES
1 Provide efficient distribution of information and easy access to data.
2 Create user friendly reporting environment
3 Find the unseen pattern in large volume of historical data that helps to mange
an organization efficiently.
4 Understand the concepts of various data mining Techniques

UNIT I - DATA WAREHOUSING (9 hours)

Data warehousing Components –Building a Data warehouse –- Mapping the Data
Warehouse to a Multiprocessor Architecture – DBMS Schemas for Decision
Support –Data Extraction, Cleanup, and Transformation Tools –Metadata.

UNIT II - BUSINESS ANALYSIS (9 hours)

Reporting and Query tools and Applications – Tool Categories – The Need for
Applications – Cognos Impromptu – Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) – Need
–Multidimensional Data Model – OLAP Guidelines – Multidimensional versus
Multirelational OLAP – Categories of Tools – OLAP Tools and the Internet.

UNIT III - DATA MINING (9 hours)

Introduction – Data – Types of Data – Data Mining Functionalities –
Interestingness of Patterns – Classification of Data Mining Systems – Data Mining
Task Primitives –Integration of a Data Mining System with a Data Warehouse –
Issues –Data Preprocessing.

UNIT IV - ASSOCIATION RULE MINING AND CLASSIFICATION

(9 hours)
Mining Frequent Patterns, Associations and Correlations – Mining Methods –
Mining Various Kinds of Association Rules – Correlation Analysis – Constraint
Based Association Mining – Classification and Prediction - Basic Concepts -
Decision Tree Induction - Bayesian Classification – Rule Based Classification –
Classification by Back propagation – Support Vector Machines – Associative
Classification – Lazy Learners – Other Classification Methods – Prediction.

UNIT V - CLUSTERING AND APPLICATIONS AND TRENDS IN DATA MINING

(9hours)
Cluster Analysis - Types of Data – Categorization of Major Clustering Methods -
Kmeans– Partitioning Methods – Hierarchical Methods - Density-Based Methods
–Grid Based Methods – Model-Based Clustering Methods – Clustering High
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Dimensional Data - Constraint – Based Cluster Analysis – Outlier Analysis – Data
Mining Applications.

PRACTICAL (30 hours)

REFERENCES
1. Alex Berson and Stephen J. Smith, “Data Warehousing, Data Mining &
OLAP”, Tata McGraw – Hill Edition, Thirteenth Reprint, 2008.
2. Jiawei Han and Micheline Kamber, Jian Pei, “Data Mining Concepts and
Techniques”, Third Edition, Elsevier, 2012.
3. Pang-Ning Tan, Michael Steinbach and Vipin Kumar, “Introduction To Data
Mining”,Person Education, 2007.
4. Soman K.P., Shyam Diwakar and V. Ajay, “Insight into Data mining Theory
and Practice”, Easter Economy Edition, Prentice Hall of India, 2006.
5. Gupta G. K., “Introduction to Data Mining with Case Studies”, Easter
Economy Edition, Prentice Hall of India, 2006.
6. Daniel T.Larose, “Data Mining Methods and Models”, Wile-Interscience,
2006.

SEMINAR L T P C
Total contact hours - 45 0 0 1 1
DB2047
Prerequisite
Nil
PURPOSE
Seminar is one of the important components for the engineering graduates to
exhibit and expose their knowledge in their field of interest. It also gives a platform
for the students to innovate and express their ideas in front of future engineering
graduates and professionals.
INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES
1 To make a student study and present a seminar on a topic of current
relevance in Information Technology or related fields.
2 Enhancing the debating capability of the student while presenting a seminar
on a technical topic.
3 Training a student to face the audience and freely express and present his
ideas without any fear and nervousness, thus creating self-confidence and
courage which are essentially needed for an Engineer.

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GUIDELINES
1 Each student is expected to give a seminar on a topic of current relevance in
IT/Related field with in a semester.
2 Students have to refer published papers from standard journals.
3 The seminar report must not be the reproduction of the original papers but it
can be used as reference.
ASSESMENT
1 Assessment will be done according to university regulation.

L T P C
DB2049 PROJECT WORK PHASE I 0 0 12 6
(III SEMESTER)
DB2050 PROJECT WORK PHASE II 0 0 32 16
(IV SEMESTER)
PURPOSE
To undertake research in an area related to the program of study
INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVE
The student shall be capable of identifying a problem related to the program of
study and carry out wholesome research on it leading to findings which will
facilitate development of a new/improved product, process for the benefit of the
society.

M.Tech projects should be socially relevant and research oriented ones. Each
student is expected to do an individual project. The project work is carried out in
two phases – Phase I in III semester and Phase II in IV semester. Phase II of the
project work shall be in continuation of Phase I only. At the completion of a
project the student will submit a project report, which will be evaluated (end
semester assessment) by duly appointed examiner(s). This evaluation will be
based on the project report and a viva voce examination on the project. The
method of assessment for both Phase I and Phase II is shown in the following
table:

Assessment Tool Weightage

In- semester I review 10%
II review 15%
III review 35%
End semester Final viva voce 40%
examination
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Student will be allowed to appear in the final viva voce examination only if he / she
has submitted his / her project work in the form of paper for presentation /
publication in a conference / journal and produced the proof of acknowledgement
of receipt of paper from the organizers / publishers.

SUPPORTING COURSE

DATA ANALYSIS USING MULTIVARIATE

TECHNIQUES AND FORECASTING L T P C
METHODS
CC2011
Total Contact Hours - 45 3 0 0 3
Prerequisite
Nil
PURPOSE
The purpose of this course is to introduce the students into the field of Multivariate
Techniques and Forecasting Methods for analyzing large volumes of data and to
take decisions based on inference drawn.
INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES
1. Data characteristics and form of Distribution of the Data Structures
2. Understanding the usage of multivariate techniques and forecasting
methods for the problem under the consideration
3. For drawing valid inferences and to plan for future investigations

UNIT I - MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS (5 hours)

Meaning of Multivariate Analysis, Measurements Scales: Metric measurement
scales and Non-metric measurement scales, Classification of multivariate
techniques (Dependence Techniques and Inter-dependence Techniques),
Applications of Multivariate Techniques in different disciplines.

UNIT II - FACTOR ANALYSIS (10 hours)

Meanings, Objectives and Assumptions, Designing a factor analysis, Deriving
factors and assessing overall factors, Interpreting the factors and validation of
factor analysis.

UNIT III - CLUSTER ANALYSIS (10 hours)

Objectives and Assumptions, Research design in cluster analysis, Deriving
clusters and assessing overall fit (Hierarchical methods, Non Hierarchical

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Methods and Combinations), Interpretation of clusters and validation of profiling
of the clusters.

UNIT IV- FORECASTING TECHNIQUES (10 hours)

Basics of forecasting: Basic steps in forecasting task. The forecasting scenario:
Averaging methods, Exponential smoothing methods, Holt’s linear method, Holt-
Winters trend and Seasonality method.

UNIT V- TIME SERIES ANALYSIS ( 10 hours)

Box-Jenkins Methodology for ARIMA models: Examining correlation and
stationarity of time series data, ARIMA models for time series data (An Auto-
regressive model of order one and a Moving Average Model of order one).

REFERENCES
1. Joseph F.Hair, William C.Black, Barry J.Babin, Rolph E.Anderson and Ronald
L.Tatham (2006). “Multivariate Data Analysis, 6th Edition”, Pearson
Education, Inc., (Chapters 1, 3 and 8 ), 2009.
2. Spyros Makridakis, Steven C.Wheelwright and Rob J. Hyndman.
“Forecasting methods and Applications, Third Edition”, John Wiley & Sons
Inc., New York (Chapters 1, 4 and 7 ), 2005.

INTERDISCIPLINARY ELECTIVE L T P C
Total Contact Hours - 45 3 0 0 3
Students to choose one Elective course from the list of Post Graduate courses
specified under the Faculty of Engineering and Technology other than courses
under M.Tech (DBS) curriculum either in I, II or III semester

PROGRAM ELECTIVES

BIG DATA ANALYTICS L T P C

Total Contact Hours - 60 2 0 2 3
DB2101 Prerequisite
Knowledge of Databse Management
Systems, Data mining are preferred
PURPOSE
The purpose is to understand data Science and perform some analytics over big
data. Today’s world is data-driven world. Increasingly, the efficient operation of
organizations across sectors relies on the effective use of vast amounts of
data.This course provides grounding in basic and advanced analytic methods and
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an introduction to big data analytics technology and tools, including MapReduce
and Hadoop.
INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES
1. Learn about the basics of data Science.
2. Understand the various supervised and Unsupervised learning Techniques
3. Bring together several key technologies used in manipulating, storing, and
analyzing big data
4. Gain the ability to design highly scalable systems that can accept, process,
store, and analyze large volumes of unstructured data in real time

UNIT I - INTRODUCTION TO DATA SCIENCE (6 hours)

Introduction: Introduction of Data Science-Getting started with R- Exploratory Data
Analysis- Review of probability and probability distributions- Bayes Rule
Supervised Learning- Regression- polynomial regression- local regression- k-
nearest neighbors.

UNIT II - UNSUPERVISED LEARNING (6 hours)

Unsupervised Learning- Kernel density estimation- k-means- Naive Bayes- Data
and Data Scraping Classification-ranking- logistic regression .Ethics- time series-
advanced regression- Decision trees- Best practices- feature selection.

UNIT III - BIG DATA FROM DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES (6 hours)

Big data from business Perspective: Introduction of big data-Characteristics of
big data-Data in the warehouse and data in Hadoop- Importance of Big data- Big
data Use cases: Patterns for Big data deployment. Big data from Technology
Perspective: History of Hadoop-Components of Hadoop-Application Development
in Hadoop-Getting your data in Hadoop-other Hadoop Component.

UNIT IV - INFOSPHERE BIGINSIGHTS (6 hours)

Infosphere Big Insights: Analytics for Big data at rest-A Hadoop -Ready
Enterprise-Quality file system-Compression –Administrative tooling-Security-
Enterprise Integration –Improved workload scheduling-Adaptive map reduce-Data
discovery and visualization-Machine Analytics

UNIT V- INFOSPHERE STREAMS (6 hours)

Infosphere Streams: Analytics for Big data in motion- Infosphere Streams Basics-
working of Infosphere Streams-Stream processing language-Operators-Stream
toolkits-Enterprise class

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PRACTICAL : ( 30 hours)

REFERENCES
1. Noreen Burlingame and Lars Nielsen, “A Simple Introduction To Data
Science”, 2012.
2. “Understanding Big Data: Analytics for Enterprise Class Hadoop and
streaming Data”, The McGraw-Hill Companies, 2012.

DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS L T P C

Total contact hours -45 3 0 0 3
DB2102 Prerequisite
Knowledge of Database management systems
is preferred
PURPOSE
The purpose of this course is to learn the breadth and depth of the emerging field
in Database, also to learn some advanced transaction models suitable for different
types of distributed database systems. To give a good knowledge on query
fragmentation and distribution for improving performance.
INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES
1. To learn the key concepts and techniques for distributed database
implementation, such as data storage, indexing, query evaluation, query
optimization, transaction management, concurrency control and cash
recovery.
2. To analyze and design distributed database systems based on the principles
of distributed indexing, distributed query evaluation, data replication,
distributed transaction and distributed concurrency and recovery.
3. To discuss the principles and techniques for database replication and
reliability.

UNIT I - OVERVIEW OF DISTRIBUTED DATABASE (7 hours)

Distributed Databases: What and Why? - Distributed Database Management
Systems - Promises of distributed database - design issues of distributed
databases - distributed database architecture - data fragmentation - Distributed
Database Access Primitives - Integrity Constraints in Distributed Databases.

UNIT II - DISTRIBUTED DATABASE DESIGN (10 hours)

Framework for Distributed Database Design - Database Fragmentation Design -
horizontal fragmentation - vertical fragmentation - Allocation of Fragments -
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allocation problem - allocation model - Translation of Global Queries to Fragment
Queries - The Equivalence Transformation for Queries, Transforming Global
Queries into Fragment Queries, Distributed Grouping - Aggregate Function
Evaluation, Parametric Queries - Database Integration - Schema Matching-
Schema Integration- Schema Mapping.

UNIT III - QUERY DECOMPOSITION AND DATA LOCALIZATION

(9 hours)
Overview of Query Processing-objectives- Characterization of Query Processors-
Layers of Query Processing- Query Decomposition and Data Localization-
Localization of Distributed Data- Optimization of Distributed Queries- Centralized
Query Optimization- Join Ordering in Distributed Queries- Distributed Query
Optimization.

UNIT IV - DISTRIBUTED TRANSACTION MANAGEMENT AND CONCURRENCY

CONTROL (10 hours)
Introduction to Transaction Management - Properties of Transactions - Types of
Transactions - Distributed Concurrency Control - Taxonomy of Concurrency
Control Mechanisms – Locking -Based Concurrency Control Algorithms –
Timestamp Based Concurrency Control Algorithms - Optimistic Concurrency
Control Algorithms - Deadlock Management - The System R * The Architecture of
System R*- Compilation - Execution and Recompilation of Queries - Protocols for
Data Definition and Authorization in R* - Transaction and Terminal Management.

UNIT V - RELIABILITY AND REPLICATION (9 hours)

Distributed DBMS Reliability - Reliability Concepts and Measures - Failures in
Distributed DBMS - Local Reliability Protocols - Distributed Reliability Protocols -
Data Replication - Consistency of Replicated Databases - Update Management
Strategies - Replication Protocols.

REFERENCES
1. Stefano Ceri, Guiseppe Pelagatti, “Distributed Databases - Principles and
Systems”, Tata McGraw Hill, 2008.
2. Ozsu M.T./ Sridhar S., “Principles of Distributed database systems”, Pearson
education, 2011.
3. Raghu RamaKrishnan, Johnaas Gehrke, “Database Management Systems”,
Tata McGrawHill, 2000.
4. Elmasri, Navathe, “Fundamentals of Database Systems”, Addison-Wesley,
Fifth Edition 2008.

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5. Peter Rob, Carlos Coronnel, “Database Systems- Design, Implementation
and Management”, Course Technology, 2000.

SEMANTIC WEB INTELLIGENCE L T P C

Total contact hours – 60 2 0 2 3
DB2103 Prerequisite
Knowledge in any programming language is
preferred.
PURPOSE
This course provides the students with the concepts to create the Semantic Web
include a systematic treatment of the different languages like XML, RDF, OWL,
and rules and technologies (explicit metadata, ontologies, and logic and inference)
that are central to Semantic Web development.
INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES
1. Understand the XML technologies, RDF and OWL
2. Develop semantic web application using protégé
3. Develop semantic web services

UNIT I - THE SEMANTIC WEB VISION (4 hours)

Thinking and Intelligent Web applications – The information age – The World Wide
Web- Limitations of Today’s Web, syntactic web, data-unstructured, semi
structured and structured, Levels of semantics, Semantic Web Technologies –
Layered Architecture.

UNIT II - ONTOLOGY DEVELOPMENT (7 hours)

The role of XML – XML and the web – SOAP – Web services – XML technologies
– XML revolution - Structuring with schemas – presentation technologies. RDF
basic ideas – RDF: Introduction to RDF, Syntax for RDF ,Simple Ontologies in RDF
Schema, An Example. Querying in RDF. OWL language – OWL Syntax and Intuitive
Semantics, OWL Species, examples.

UNIT III - ONTOLOGY RULES AND QUERYING (7 hours)

Ontology tools- Ontology development using protégé, Description Logics,
Automated Reasoning with OWL, Exercises – First-Order Rule Language,
Combining Rules with OWL DL. SPARQL: Query Language for RDF, Conjunctive
Queries for OWL DL, Exercises, Ontology Engineering.

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UNIT IV – SEMANTIC WEB SERVICE (6 hours)
Semantic web service concepts – Representation mechanisms for semantic web
services- WSMO – WSDL-S – Related work in the area of semantic web service
frameworks.

UNIT V - SEMANTIC WEB SERVICE DISCOVERY (6 hours)

Shortcomings and limitation of conventional web service discovery – Centralized
discovery architecture – P2P discovery architecture – Algorithm approaches. Web
service modeling ontology – Conceptual model for service discovery –Discovery
based on semantic descriptions.

PRACTICAL : (30 hours)

REFERENCES
1. Grigoris Antoniou and Frank Van Harmelen, “A Semantic Web Primer”, The
MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England, 2004.
2. www.semanticweb.org
3. Frank. P. Coyle, “XML, Web Services and the data revolution”, Pearson
Education, 2002.
4. Jorge Cardoso, “Semantic web services: Theory, tools and applications”,
Information science, 2007.
5. Michael C, Daconta, Leo J. Obrst and Kevin T. Smith, “The semantic Web: A
guide to the future of XML, web services, and knowledge management”,
John wiley & sons, 2003.
6. http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/~michael/sw/sw.html

ADVANCED DATABASE MANAGEMENT

L T P C
SYSTEMS
Total contact hours – 45 3 0 0 3
DB2104
Prerequisite
Nil

PURPOSE
Advanced database course aims at developing computer applications with
different kinds of data models. A range of features and benefits of Advanced
Database Management Systems discusses about parallel databases, object
oriented databases, web databases and emerging trends in database systems.

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INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES
1 Study the needs of different databases.
2 Get familiarized with transaction management of the database
3 Gain knowledge about web and intelligent database.
4 Provide an introductory concept about the way in which data can be stored in
geographical information systems.

UNIT I – PARALLEL DATABASES (9 hours)

Database System Architectures: Centralized and Client-Server Architectures –
Server System Architectures – Parallel Systems- Distributed Systems – Parallel
Databases: I/O Parallelism – Inter and Intra Query Parallelism – Inter and Intra
operation Parallelism – - Case Studies.

UNIT II - OBJECT ORIENTED DATABASES (9 hours)

Object Oriented Databases – Introduction – Weakness of RDBMS – Object
Oriented Concepts Storing Objects in Relational Databases – Next Generation
Database Systems – Object Oriented Data models – OODBMS Perspectives –
Persistence – Issues in OODBMS – Object Oriented Database Management
System Manifesto – Advantages and Disadvantages of OODBMS – Object
Oriented Database Design – OODBMS Standards and Systems – Object
Management Group – Object Database Standard ODMG – Object Relational DBMS
–Postgres - Comparison of ORDBMS and OODBMS.

UNIT III - WEB DATABASES (9 hours)

Web Technology And DBMS – Introduction – The Web – The Web as a Database
Application Platform – Scripting languages – Common Gateway Interface – HTTP
Cookies – Extending the Web Server – Java – Microsoft’s Web Solution Platform
– Oracle Internet Platform – Semi structured Data and XML – XML Related
Technologies – XML Query Languages.

UNIT IV - INTELLIGENT DATABASES (9 hours)

Enhanced Data Models For Advanced Applications – Active Database Concepts
And Triggers – Temporal Database Concepts – Deductive databases – Knowledge
Databases.

UNIT V - CURRENT TRENDS (9 hours)

Mobile Database – Geographic Information Systems – Genome Data Management
– Multimedia Database – Parallel Database – Spatial Databases - Database
administration – Data Warehousing and Data Mining.
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REFERENCES
1. Thomas M. Connolly, Carolyn E. Begg, “Database Systems - A Practical
Approach to Design, Implementation, and Management”, Third Edition ,
Pearson Education, 2003.
2. Ramez Elmasri & Shamkant B.Navathe, “Fundamentals of Database
Systems”, Fourth Edition , Pearson Education , 2004.
3. Tamer Ozsu M., Patrick Ualduriel, “Principles of Distributed Database
Systems”, Second Edition, Pearson Education, 2003.
4. Prabhu C.S.R., “Object Oriented Database Systems”, PHI, 2003.
5. Peter Rob and Corlos Coronel, “Database Systems – Design,
Implementation and Management”, Thompson Learning, Course
Technology, 5th Edition, 2003.
6. Subramanian V.S., “Principles of Multimedia Database Systems”, Harcourt
India Pvt Ltd., 2001.
7. Vijay Kumar, “Mobile Database Systems”, John Wiley & Sons, 2006

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS L T P C

Total contact hours – 45 3 0 0 3
DB2105 Prerequisite
Knowledge in Datawarehousihng and Data
Mining are preferred.
PURPOSE
Decision-support systems support management decision-making in a business
environment. Its focus is to provide viable alternatives for managers rather than
replacing judgment with an optimized solution.
INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES
1. Introduce the development of decision support or business intelligence, and
expert systems as both academic fields and as commercially viable software
systems for use to support, and to automate business decision making
2. Enable students to acquire an understanding of the basic concepts and skills
associated with decision theory and the modeling of business decisions.
3. Enable students to recognize the different classes of decision support
systems or business intelligence, expert systems, and to appreciate the
different settings in which these may be used to best effect.

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 4 Enable the student to appreciate the role and nature of Group Decision
Support Systems and related approaches such as Cognitive Mapping as a
means of structuring and supporting complex unstructured decision
problems with high levels of uncertainty

UNIT I - MANAGEMENT SUPPORT SYSTEMS-AN OVERVIEW (9 hours)

Overview of different types of Decision making system – mapping of databases,
MIS, EIS, KBS, expert systems ans OR - Decision Making and computerized
support: Management support systems. Decision making systems modeling-
support.

UNIT II - DECISION MAKING SYSTEMS (9 hours)

Normative, descriptive and prescriptive analysis - Decision Making Systems –
Modeling and Analysis – Business Intelligence – Data Warehousing, Data
Acquisition - Data Mining. Business Analysis – Visualization - Decision Support
System Development – Intelligent decision support systems tools and
applications.

UNIT III - KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT (9 hours)

Collaboration, Communicate Enterprise Decision Support System & Knowledge
management – relationship among knowledge, information and data –
organizational knowledge - Collaboration Com Technologies Enterprise
information system – knowledge management – Organizational Learning –
knowledge management processes and strategy – KM tools.

UNIT IV- INTELLIGENT SUPPORT SYSTEMS (9 hours)

Intelligent Support Systems – AI & Expert Systems – Knowledge based Systems –
Knowledge Acquisition, Representation & Reasoning, and advanced intelligence
system – Intelligence System over internet.

UNIT V- IMPLEMENTATION OF MSS (9 hours)

Managerial requirement of MSS - Implementing MSS in the E-Business ERA –
Electronic Commerce – Integration of management support systems -
Management Support Systems Emerging Trends and Impacts.

REFERENCES
1. Efraim Turban, Jay E. Aronson, Ting-Peng Liang, “Decision Support Systems
& Intelligent Systems”, 9th edition, Prentice Hall, 2010.

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2. George M Marakas, “Decision support Systems”, 2nd Edition, Pearson /
Prentice Hall,2002.
3. Janakiraman V.S., Sarukesi K., “Decision Support Systems”, PHI,
ISBN8120314441, 9788120314443, 2004.
4. Efrem G Mallach, “Decision Support systems and Data warehouse
Systems”, 1st Edition, Tata McGraw Hill 2000.

DATABASE SECURITY L T P C
Total contact hours – 45 3 0 0 3
Prerequisite
DB2106
Knowledge of Database Management
Systems, Database Administration are
preferred.
PURPOSE
This course is about database security, with many methods and techniques that
will be helpful in securing, monitoring and auditing database environments. It
covers diverse topics that include all aspects of database security and auditing -
including network security for databases, authentication and authorization issues,
links and replication, database Trojans, etc. It also includes vulnerabilities and
attacks that exist within various database environments or that have been used to
attack databases.
INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES
1. Describe and apply security policies on Databases
2. Understand authentication and password security
3. Know about application vulnerabilities
4 Understand about auditing techniques

UNIT I - DATABASE SECURITY (6 hours)

Introduction to database security – Security in Information Technology -
importance of data – database review - identity theft – Levels of security -
Human level: Corrupt/careless User, Network/User Interface, Database application
program, Database system, Operating System, Physical level.

UNIT II - AUTHENTICATION AND AUTHORIZATION (11 hours)

Passwords, Profiles, Privileges and Roles - Authentication – operating system
authentication, database authentication, Network or third-party authentication,
Database vector password policies - Authorization – User Account authorization,

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- Database/Application Security - Limitations of SQL Authorization - Access
Control in Application Layer - Oracle Virtual Private Database – Privacy.

UNIT III - APPLICATION VULNERABILITIES (10 hours)

Application Vulnerabilities - Application Security - OWASP Top 10 Web Security
Vulnerabilities - Unvalidated input, Broken access control, Broken
account/session management, Cross-site scripting (XSS) flaws, Buffer overflows
- SQL Injection flaws, Improper error handling, Insecure storage, Denial-of-
service, Insecure configuration management.

UNIT IV - SECURING DATABASE TO DATABASE COMMUNICATIONS (9 hours)

Monitor and limit outbound communications – secure database links – protect link
usernames and passwords – monitor usage of database links – secure replication
mechanisms - map and secure all data sources and sinks. Trojans – four types
of database Trojans.

UNIT V - ENCRYPTING AND AUDITING THE DATA (9 hours)

Encrypting data in transit – encrypting data at rest – auditing architectures – audit
trail – architectures of external audit systems - archive auditing information –
secure auditing information – audit the audit system.

REFERENCES
1. Ron Ben-Natan, “Implementing Database Security and Auditing: A Guide for
DBAs, Information Security Administrators and Auditors”, Published by
Elsevier, 2005.
2. Silvana Castano, “Database Security” , Published by Addison-Wesley, 1994.
3. Alfred Basta, Melissa Zgola, Dana Bullaboy, Thomas L. Witlock SR,
“Database Security”, google books, 2011.
4. Silberschatz, Korth and Sudarshan, “Database System Concepts”, 6th
Edition, 2010.
5. The Open Web Application Security Project, http://www.owasp.org
6. Web application security scanners, http: // www. Window security . com /
software/Web-Application-Security/
7. SQL Injection, http://www.cgisecurity.com/development/sql.shtml
8. 9 ways to hack a web app, http : / / developers. sun. com / learning / javaone
online/2005/webtier/TS-5935.pdf
9. Database security, http : / / docs . oracle . com / cd / B19306_01 /
server.102 / b14220/security.htm

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 KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT L T P C
Total contact hours -60 2 0 2 3
DB2107
Prerequisite
Nil
PURPOSE
Knowledge management is a topic of key interest among businesses which
compete with each other to survive in the market. In order to make the students
manage knowledge in the data driven world, this course is designed to provide an
overview of knowledge representation, management, and tools available for the
same.
INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES
1. Design and develop knowledge-based information systems for knowledge
representation, management, and discovery
2. Understand various knowledge management tools
3. Discuss about relevant case studies to understand how knowledge
management is applied in real time scenario

UNIT I - INTRODUCTION (6 hours)

Introduction: An Introduction to Knowledge Management - The foundations of
knowledge management- including cultural issues- technology applications-
organizational concepts and processes- management aspects- and decision
support systems. The Evolution of Knowledge management: From Information
Management to Knowledge Management - Key Challenges Facing the Evolution of
Knowledge Management - Ethics for Knowledge Management.

UNIT II-CREATING THE CULTURE OF LEARNING AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING

(5 hours)
Organization and Knowledge Management - Building the Learning Organization.
Knowledge Markets: Cooperation between Distributed Technical Specialists - Tacit
Knowledge and Quality Assurance.

UNIT III-KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT-THE TOOLS (7 hours)

Telecommunications and Networks in Knowledge Management - Internet Search
Engines and Knowledge Management - Information Technology in Support of
Knowledge Management - Knowledge Management and Vocabulary Control -
Information Mapping in Information Retrieval - Information Coding in the Internet
Environment - Repackaging Information.

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UNIT IV-KNOWLEDGEMANAGEMENT-APPLICATION (6 hours)
Components of a Knowledge Strategy - Case Studies (From Library to Knowledge
Center, Knowledge Management in the Health Sciences, Knowledge Management
in Developing Countries).

UNIT V-FUTURE TRENDS AND CASE STUDIES (6 hours)

Advanced topics and case studies in knowledge management - Development of a
knowledge management map/plan that is integrated with an organization's
strategic and business plan - A case study on Corporate Memories for supporting
various aspects in the process life -cycles of an organization.

PRACTICAL (30 hours)

REFERENCES
1. Srikantaiah, T.K., Koenig, M., “Knowledge Management for the Information
Professional”, Information Today, Inc., 2000.
2. Nonaka, I., Takeuchi, H., “The Knowledge-Creating Company: How Japanese
Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation”, Oxford University Press,
1995.

BACKUP RECOVERY SYSTEMS AND

L T P C
ARCHITECTURE
Total contact hours –45 3 0 0 3
DB2108
Prerequisite
Knowledge on Information Storage and its
management is preferred
PURPOSE
The function of backup and recovery is very important in today’s world where
systems are frequently subjected to attacks and incidents. In order to understand
the principles involved in backup and recovery, this course focuses on the
concepts and technologies involved backup and recovery, planning of related
activities, backup methods and its related terminology.
INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES
1. Describe backup and recovery terminology and operations
2. Understand various types of storage systems and backup storage media
3. Examine the steps involved in planning for backup and recovery

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UNIT I -INTRODUCTION (6 hours)
Need for backup and recovery – common backup and recovery terminology –
components of client/server backup server architecture – flow of data in
client/server backup and restore operations.

UNIT II–INFORMATION STORAGE CONCEPTS (9 hours)

Components of storage system and disk drive – intelligent storage systems –
RAID levels and operations – direct attached storage – benefits of SCSI
architecture.

UNIT III–CLIENT BASED BACKUP DATA (12 hours)

Backup data – file system and database backup – Microsoft VSS for backup-
NDMP – Different forms of virtualization- VMware backup for clients – challenges
impacting client backup environments – factors impacting client backup
performance.

UNIT IV–STORAGE NODE (9 hours)

Components of storage node – Protocols during backup process – types of
backup storage media – technologies involved in backup and recovery.

UNIT V-BACKUP AND RECOVERY PLANNING (9 hours)

Backup and recovery planning considerations- backup and recovery testing –
disaster recovery considerations – key software and hardware products in the
backup and recovery – Proposing a backup and recovery solution.

REFERENCES
1. “Backup Recovery Systems and Architecture Student Guide”, EMC
Education Services, 2013.
2. Wei-Dong Zhu; Gary Allenbach; Ross Battaglia; Julie Boudreaux; David
Harnick-Shapiro; Heajin Kim; Bob Kreuch; Tim Morgan; Sandip Patel; Martin
Willingham, “Disaster Recovery and Backup Solutions for IBM FileNet P8
Version 4.5.1 Systems”, IBM Redbooks, 2010.
3. Techbook: “Backup and Recovery in a SAN” EMC Education Services, 2011-
2013.

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 TEXT MINING L T P C
Total contact hours – 45 3 0 0 3
DB2109 Prerequisite
Knowledge in C++ / Perl / Python, Data
structures and Algorithms are preferred
PURPOSE
Text mining is the analysis of data contained in natural language text. The
application of text mining techniques is used to solve business problems .Text
mining can help an organization derive potentially valuable business insights from
text-based content such as word documents, email and postings on social media
streams like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.This course covers the techniques for
interpreting and retrieving required information from large volumes of unstructured
texts.
INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES
1. Learn the concepts of Machine Learning
2. Know the concepts of Information Extraction
3. Understand the concepts of Information Retrieval
4. Practice and understand the concepts of Classification and Clustering

UNIT I -NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (9 hours)

Natural Language Processing – Introduction, Indian Languages, Language and
Grammar, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, Discourse, Synthesis, Machine
Translation. Implementation - Regular Expressions, Stemmer, POS Taggers, Spell
Checkers, Text Summarization, Question, Answer Systems.

UNIT II - INFORMATION EXTRACTION (9 hours)

Information Extraction - Statistical Modeling, Training Set Preparation, Hidden
Markov Models, Conditional Random Fields, Model Evaluation, Model
Optimization and Hacks. Implementation - HMM POS Taggers, CRF Address
Parsers, Rules based Extraction.

UNIT III – INFORMATION RETRIEVAL (9 hours)

Information Retrieval - Precision-Recall – Vector Space Models – Probabilistic
Retrieval – Feature Identification – Feature Selection – Term-Document Matrix –
Principal Component Analysis – Latent Semantic Indexing – Similarity
Measurements – Cross Language Retrieval - Implementation - Plagiarism
detection, Dimension Reduction , Query Expansion.

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UNIT IV-ALGORITHMIC TECHNIQUES (9 hours)
Probabilistic models - Aspect Models, Polysemy, Topic Proportion , Probabilistic
Latent, Semantic Analysis, Expectation Maximization Algorithm, Latent Dirichlet
Allocation, Gibbs Sampling, Model Evaluation. Implementation - Clustering
Terms, Document Classification, Polysemy Keyword Retrieval.

UNIT V- CLASSIFICATION (9 hours)

Classification - Naïve Bayes Classifier, Neural Net based Classification, Support
Vector Machines. Clustering - Agglomerative Clustering, Divisive Clustering,
Distance Measures , K-Means,, K-Nearest Neighbors, Co-clustering, Fuzzy C-
Means. Implementation - Keywords Clustering, Document Classification,
Taxonomy.

REFERENCES
1. Charles.T.Meadow, Bert R Boyce, Donald H Karft, “Text information Retrievel
System”, 3rd Edition, 2007.
2. David Grossman, OphirFrieder, “Information Retrieval – Algorithms and
Heuristics”, Springer, 2004.
3. Stefan Buttcher,Charles LA Clarke,Dordon. V.Cormack, “Information
Retrieval, Implementing and evaluating Search Engine”, 2010.
4. TanveerSiddiqui, Tiwari, “Natural Language Processing and Information
Retrieval”, Oxford University Press, 2008 .
5. Gerald Kowalski, Mary Maybury, “Information Storage and Retrieval
Systems”, Springer, 2006.

OBJECT ORIENTED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING L T P C

Total Contact Hours - 45 3 0 0 3
DB2110 Prerequisite
Knowledge of Object Oriented Analysis and
Design, Programming in Java are preferred.
PURPOSE:
As Software development is the expensive process, proper measures are required
so that the resources can be used efficiently and effectively. Thus this course is to
provide the students with the concepts of organized methodology for
implementing medium-large software systems like Team programming, Common
design and coding methodologies, including Object-Oriented Design (OOD),
Design Patterns, Refactoring, and the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and
Standard software engineering tools.

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INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES
1 Understand the phases in a software project and activities in project
management
2 Comprehend the purpose of different UML diagrams
3 Understand the major considerations in collecting, documenting and
analyzing project requirements.
4 Cognize the activities in the crucial phase of system design.
5 Identify the key phases in the recent trends of RUP and agile development

UNIT I-INTRODUCTION TO SOFTWARE ENGINEERING (3 hours)

Software engineering development activities-Managing software development.

UNIT II–MODELING WITH UML (9 hours)

UML Diagrams- Use Case Diagrams - Class Diagrams - Interaction Diagrams -
State Machine Diagrams - Activity Diagrams. Modeling Concepts - Diagram
Organization - Diagram Extension.

UNIT III–REQUIREMENTS AND ANALYSIS (9 hours)

Requirements Elicitation - Concepts - Activities & Managing Requirements
Elicitation
Analysis- Concepts - Analysis Activities - Analysis Model

UNIT IV–SYSTEM DESIGN (15 hours)

Decomposing the System - Addressing Design Goals - Reusing Patterns -
Specifying Interfaces - Mapping Models to Code.

UNIT V-AGILE DEVELOPMENT AND RATIONAL UNIFIED PROCESS (9 hours)

Rational Unified Process Key Features - Software Best Practices - Static Structure
- Dynamic Structure.
Agile Development - Adapting to Scrum - Patterns for Adopting to Scrum - New
Roles - Changed Roles - Sprints - Product Backlogs – Teamwork.

REFERENCES
1. Bernd Bruegge, Alan H Dutoit, “Object-Oriented Software Engineering Using
UML, Patterns, and Java”, 3rd Edition, ISBN-10: 0136061257 | ISBN-13:
978-0136061250, 2010.
2. Philippe Kruchten, “The Rational Unified Process: An Introduction”, 3rd
Edition, ISBN-10: 0321197704 | ISBN-13: 978-0321197702,2003.

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3. Mike Cohn, “Succeeding with Agile: Software Development Using Scrum”,
1st Edition, ISBN-10: 0321579364 | ISBN-13: 9780321579362, 2010.
4. Grady Booch, James Rumbaugh and Ivar Jacobson, “The Unified Modeling
Language User Guide”, Addison-Wesley Longman, USA, 2nd Edition, ISBN-
10: 0321267974 | ISBN-13: 978-0321267979, 2005.
5. Timothy Lethbridge, Robert Laganiere, “Object-oriented software
engineering: practical software development using uml and java”, | ISBN-
10: 0077109082 | ISBN-13: 978-0077109080 | 2nd Edition, 2004.

MOBILE APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT L T P C

Total Contact Hours – 60 2 0 2 3
IT2103 Prerequisite
Knowledge of Core java Programming is
required.
PURPOSE:
The course harnesses the skills of student in developing mobile application
development using the Android platform.
INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES
1. Understanding Mobile Application development features and trends
2. Understand the basics of Android devices and Platform.
3. Impart knowledge on basic building blocks of Android programming
Activities, Services, Broadcast Receivers and Content providers
4. Understanding persistence Data storage in Android
5. Understanding Advanced application concepts like networking, cloud
interface and Google Maps services etc
6. Enable Students to develop and publish Android applications in to Android
Market

UNIT 1- INTRODUCTION (6 hours)

Introduction to mobile application development, trends, introduction to various
platforms, introduction to smart phones, introduction to development
environment/IDE, Android platform features and architecture, versions, android
market

ANDROID DEVELOPMENT SETUP

Eclipse, ADT, android sdk, tools. Android application anatomy, emulator setup,
application framework basics-,resources-layout, values, asset XML

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representation and generated R.Java file ,Android manifest file. Creating a simple
application.

UNIT II– ACTIVITIES (8 hours)

Introduction to activities, activities life-cycle, User Interface
INTENT – intent object, intent filters – adding categories, linking activities, user
interface design components-Fragments, basic views, list views, picker views
,adapter views, Menu ,Action Bar etc, layouts, basics of screen design, registering
listeners and different event Listeners. Creating application using multiple
activities.,UI views with different layouts

UNIT III– DATA PERSISTENCE (4 hours)

Shared preferences, File Handling, Managing data using SQLite database
CONTENT PROVIDERS – user content provider, android provided content
providers. Creating a simple examples using content provider and persisting data
into database

UNIT IV – BACK GROUND RUNNING PROCESS, NETWORKING AND

TELEPHONY SERVICES (6 hours)
Services-Introduction to services–local service-remote service and binding the
service- communication between service and activity-Multi-Threading-Handlers
and AsyncTask-Android network programming- Telephony services- SMS and
telephony applications
BROADCAST RECEIVERS–Introduction to receivers, pending intent, Notification.

UNIT V- ADVANCED APPLICATIONS (6 hours)

Location based services-Google maps services using Google API, Overview on
Tweened animations, Property animations- android media-Google App engine and
connecting Android apps-Cloud Storage-Android application development
guidelines-publishing android applications

PRACTICAL (30 hours)

REFERENCES
1. Wei-Meng Lee, “Beginning Android 4 Application Development” Wrox
Publications, 2012.
2. Paul Deital and Harvey Deital,”Android How to Program”, Detial associates
publishers, 2013.

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3. Zigurd Mednieks, Laird Dornin, G. Blake Meike, Masumi Nakamura,
“Programming Android Java Programming for the New Generation of Mobile
Devices”, O'Reilly Media, July 2011.
4. http://developer.android.com

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PLANNING L T P C

Total contact hours – 45 3 0 0 3
IT2105
Prerequisite
Nil
PURPOSE
Planning is a fundamental part of intelligent systems. This course aims to provide
a foundation in artificial intelligence techniques for planning, with an overview of
the wide spectrum of different problems and approaches, including their
underlying theory and their applications.
INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES
1. Understand different planning problems
2. Have the basic know how to design and implement AI planning systems
using state-space Planning
3. Know how to use AI planning technology for projects in different
application domains using HTN (Hierarchical Task Network) Planning
4. Have the ability to make use of graph plan for the problems and developing
its heuristics.
5. Know how to plan the time and resources of the problem

UNIT I - INTRODUCTION AND PLANNING IN CONTEXT (9 hours)

Introduction to planning-Conceptual model for planning-Representations for
classical planning-Complexity of classical planning

UNIT II - STATE-SPACE SEARCH (9 hours)

Heuristic Search and STRIPS-State-Space Planning-The STRIPS algorithm-
Domain-Specific State Space Planning

UNIT III - PLAN-SPACE SEARCH AND HTN PLANNING (9 hours)

The Search-Space of Partial Plans-Solution Plans-Algorithms for Plan-Space
Planning-Plan-Space versus State-Space Planning-HTN (Hierarchical Task
Network) Planning

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UNIT IV - GRAPH PLAN AND ADVANCED HEURISTICS (9 hours)
Planning Graphs-The GraphPlan Planner-Constraint Satisfaction Techniques-
Heuristics in Planning

UNIT V - PLAN EXECUTION AND APPLICATIONS (9 hours)

Planning with Time and Resources-Time for Planning-Temporal Planning -
Planning and Resource Scheduling - Case Studies and Applications.

REFERENCES
1. Ghallab M., Nau D., and Traverso P., “Automated Planning: Theory &
Practice (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Artificial Intelligence”, Elsevier,
ISBN 1-55860-856-72004, 2004.
2. Stuart Russell, Peter Norvig, “Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach”, 3rd
Edition, December 11, ISBN-10: 0136042597, ISBN-13: 978-0136042594,
2009.

INFORMATION STORAGE MANAGEMENT L T P C

Total contact hours - 45 3 0 0 3
IT2110 Prerequisite
Knowledge in Database Management Systems,
Computer Networks is preferred
PURPOSE
Information Storage and Management have highly developed into a sophisticated
pillar of information technology, provides a variety of solutions for storing,
managing, accessing, protecting, securing, sharing and optimizing information.
INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES
1. Identify the components of managing the data center and Understand logical
and physical components of a storage infrastructure.
2. Evaluate storage architectures, including storage subsystems SAN, NAS,
IPSAN,CAS
3. Understand thebusiness continuity, backup and recovery methods.

UNIT I - INTRODUCTION TO STORAGE AND MANAGEMENT (9 hours)

Introduction to Information Storage Management - Data Center Environment–
Database Management System (DBMS) - Host - Connectivity –Storage-Disk Drive
Components- Intelligent Storage System -Components of an Intelligent Storage
System- Storage Provisioning- Types of Intelligent Storage Systems

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UNIT II - STORAGE NETWORKING (9 hours)
Fibre Channel: Overview - SAN and Its Evolution -Components of FC SAN -FC
Connectivity-FC Architecture- IPSAN-FCOE-FCIP-Network-Attached Storage-
General-Purpose Servers versus NAS Devices - Benefits of NAS- File Systems
and Network File Sharing-Components of NAS - NAS I/O Operation -NAS
Implementations -NAS File-Sharing Protocols-Object-Based Storage Devices-
Content-Addressed Storage -CAS Use Cases.

UNIT III - BACKUP AND RECOVERY (9 hours)

Business Continuity -Information Availability -BC Terminology-BC Planning Life
Cycle - Failure Analysis -Business Impact Analysis-Backup and Archive - Backup
Purpose -Backup Considerations -Backup Granularity - Recovery Considerations -
Backup Methods -Backup Architecture - Backup and Restore Operations.

UNIT IV - CLOUD COMPUTING (9 hours)

Cloud Enabling Technologies -Characteristics of Cloud Computing -Benefits of
Cloud Computing -Cloud Service Models-Cloud Deployment models-Cloud
computing Infrastructure-Cloud Challenges.

UNIT V - SECURING AND MANAGING STORAGE INFRASTRUCTURE (9 hours)

Information Security Framework -Storage Security Domains-Security
Implementations in Storage Networking - Monitoring the Storage Infrastructure -
Storage Infrastructure Management Activities -Storage Infrastructure Management
Challenges.

REFERENCES
1. EMC Corporation, “Information Storage and Management”, WileyIndia, 2nd
Edition, 2011.
2. Robert Spalding, “Storage Networks: The Complete Reference”, Tata
McGraw Hill, Osborne, 2003.
3. Marc Farley, “Building Storage Networks”, Tata McGraw Hill, Osborne, 2nd
edition, 2001.
4. Meeta Gupta, “Storage Area Network Fundamentals”, Pearson Education
Limited, 2002.

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 CLOUD COMPUTING L T P C
Total contact hours – 60 2 0 2 3
IT2111 Prerequisite
Knowledge of Computer Networks is
preferred
PURPOSE
Cloud Computing has drawn the attention of industries and researchers
worldwide. Many applications that are being built nowadays were developed to
suit the needs of cloud environment. Hence it becomes necessary to have course
in cloud computing which deals with the basics of cloud, different services
offered by cloud, and security issues in cloud. In a nutshell, this course on cloud
computing provides information on fundamental aspects of the cloud
environment.
INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES
1. Learn about different deployment models of cloud and different services
offered by cloud
2. Understand the technique of virtualization through theoretical concepts and
practical training
3. Become knowledgeable in the rudimentary aspects of cloud application
development

UNIT I - CLOUD COMPUTING BASICS (4 hours)

Cloud computing components- Infrastructure-services- storage applications-
database services – Deployment models of Cloud- Services offered by Cloud-
Benefits and Limitations of Cloud Computing – Issues in Cloud security- Cloud
security services and design principles.

UNIT II - VIRTUALIZATION FUNDAMENTALS (4 hours)

Virtualization – Enabling technology for cloud computing- Types of Virtualization-
Server Virtualization- Desktop Virtualization – Memory Virtualization – Application
and Storage Virtualization- Tools and Products available for Virtualization.

UNIT III - SAAS AND PAAS (6 hours)

Getting started with SaaS- Understanding the multitenant nature of SaaS
solutions- Understanding OpenSaaS Solutions- Understanding Service Oriented
Architecture- PaaS- Benefits and Limitations of PaaS.

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UNIT IV - IAAS AND CLOUD DATA STORAGE (6 hours)
Understanding IaaS- Improving performance through Load balancing- Server
Types within IaaS solutions- Utilizing cloud based NAS devices – Understanding
Cloud based data storage- Cloud based backup devices- Cloud based database
solutions- Cloud based block storage.

UNIT V-CLOUD APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT (10 hours)

Client Server Distributed Architecture for cloud – Traditional apps vs. Cloud apps
– Client side programming model: Web clients. Mobile clients- Server Side
Programming Technologies : AJAX, JSON, Web Services (RPC, REST)- MVC
Design Patterns for Cloud Application Development

PRACTICAL (30 hours)

REFERENCES
1. Anthony T .Velte, Toby J.Velte, Robert Elsenpeter, “Cloud Computing: A
Practical Approach”, Tata McGraw Hill Edition, Fourth Reprint, 2010.
2. Kris Jamsa, “Cloud Computing: SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, Virtualization, Business
Models, Mobile, Security and more”, Jones & Bartlett Learning Company
LLC, 2013.
3. Ronald L.Krutz, Russell vines, “Cloud Security: A Comprehensive Guide to
Secure Cloud Computing”, Wiley Publishing Inc., 2010.

CLOUD APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT L T P C

Total contact hours – 60 2 0 2 3
IT2110 Prerequisite
Knowledge of Java programming, Computer
Networks are preferred
PURPOSE
This module introduces students to developing web and cloud applications. By the
end of the module the student will be able to build and deploy web and cloud-
based application.
INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES
1. Use best practices in the design and development of elegant and flexible
cloud software solutions.
2. Create, implement and deploy a cloud/LAMP based application.
3. Analyze a real world problem and develop a cloud/LAMP based software
solution.
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4. Contrast software development in the web, cloud and others.

UNIT I - CLOUD BASED APPLICATIONS (4 hours)

Introduction, Contrast traditional software development and development for the
cloud. Public vs private cloud apps. Understanding Cloud ecosystems – what is
SaaS/PaaS, popular APIs, mobile.

UNIT II - DESIGNING CODE FOR THE CLOUD (8 hours)

Designing code for the Cloud - Class and Method design to make best use of the
Cloud infrastructure; Web Browsers and the Presentation Layer - Understanding
Web browsers attributes and differences. Building blocks of the presentation
layer: HTML, HTML5, CSS, Silverlight, and Flash.

UNIT III - WEB DEVELOPMENT TECHNIQUES AND FRAMEWORKS (8 hours)

Web Development Techniques and Frameworks-Building Ajax controls,
introduction to Javascript using JQuery, working with JSON, XML, REST.
Application developement Frameworks e.g. Ruby on Rails , .Net, Java API's or
JSF; Deployment Environments – Platform As A Service (PAAS) ,Amazon,
vmForce, Google App Engine, Azure, Heroku, AppForce.

UNIT IV – BUILDING AN APPLICATION USING THE LAMP STACK (4 hours)

Use Case 1: Building an Application using the LAMP stack: Setting up a LAMP
development environment. Building a simple Web app demonstrating an
understanding of the presentation layer and connectivity with persistance.

UNIT V - DEVELOPING AND DEPLOYING AN APPLICATION IN THE CLOUD

(6 hours)
Use Case 2: Developing and Deploying an Application in the Cloud - Building on
the experience of the first project students will study the design, development,
testing and deployment of an application in the cloud using a development
framework and deployment platform.
PRACTICAL (30 hours)

REFERENCES
1. Chris Hay, Brian Prince, “Azure in Action” [ISBN: 978-1935182481],
Microsoft, 2010.
2. Henry Li, “Introducing Windows Azure”, [ISBN: 978-1-4302-2469-3]
Apress, 2009

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3. Eugenio Pace, Dominic Betts, Scott Densmore, Ryan Dunn, Masashi
Narumoto, MatiasWoloski, “Developing Applications for the Cloud on the
Microsoft Windows Azure Platform”, [ISBN: 9780735656062], Microsoft
Press; 1 edition, 2010.
4. Eugene Ciurana, “Developing with Google App Engine” [ISBN: 978-
1430218319], Apress, 2011.
5. Charles Severance, “Using Google App Engine” [ISBN: 978-0596800697],
O'Reilly Media; 1 edition, 2009).
6. George Reese, “Cloud application architectures”, O'Reilly Sebastopol, CA
[ISBN: 978-0596156367], 2009.
7. Dan Sanderson, “Programming Google App Engine”, [ISBN: 978-
0596522728], O'Reilly Media; 1 edition, 2009.
8. Paul J. Deitel, Harvey M. Deitel, “Ajax, rich Internet applications, and web
development for programmers”, Prentice Hall Upper Saddle River, NJ [ISBN:
978-0-13-158738-0], 2008.

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