CSC 111 – Computer Programming-I  (3-2-1)

وصف المقرر

Introduction to computers and programs. Programmer’s algorithm, byte code and Java Virtual Machine. Java program’s structure, constants, variables and built-in data types. The arithmetic, assignment, increment and decrement operators. Classes and object definition, UML representation of a class, declaration of objects (Instance variables), primitive types and reference types. Relational and logical operators, Boolean expressions, conditional statements, loop statements.  Object oriented principles, encapsulation and information hiding, methods and the message passing principles, setters, and getters. Methods in depth, passing parameters, constructors, setters. Arrays, usefulness of arrays, declaration of arrays, access to array elements, operations on arrays.

متطلب سابق

CT 101 - IT Skills.

الكتاب

• An Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming with Java, 4th edition, by C. Thomas Wu (Otani), McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2006.

اهداف المقرر

The course aims at giving the students a broad foundation in the fundamental concepts of object oriented programming accompanied by specific labs to develop the basic skills in object oriented programming with Java. It introduces the basic concepts and principles of the Object Oriented approach such as:  (i) Abstraction and Encapsulation principles, (ii) Classes, objects and the constructor concepts,  (iii) Information hiding principle and the assessors concept. (iv) Methods, the message passing and the overloading principles.

CSC 113 – Computer Programming-II  (3-2-1)

وصف المقرر

This course continues the coverage of the fundamental concepts of Object Oriented Programming started in Programming I (CSC 111). It covers more advanced concepts and topics such as relationships between classes, inheritance, polymorphism, abstract classes, error handling, interfaces, generics and data structures such as linked lists, stacks and queues, in addition to graphical user interface.

متطلب سابق

CSC 111 - Computer Programming I.

الكتاب

• An Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming with Java, 4th edition, by C. Thomas Wu (Otani), McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2006.
• Java Programming: From Problem Analysis to Program Design,4th Edition by D.S. Malik.

أهداف المقرر

The objective of this course is to develop the students' ability to use the basics of object-oriented design and programming. The students learn the characteristic features of object orientation – classes, methods, polymorphism, and inheritance – through both the lectures and a sequence of illustrative programming assignments. Students will also study list data structures, event-driven programming and graphical user interface tools.

CSC 212 – Data Structures  (3-0-1)

وصف المقرر

Fundamental concepts of data structures. Performance measurement of algorithms. Implementation and use of lists, stacks, queues, priority queues, trees, heaps, hash tables and graphs. Recursion. Students will do programming assignments.

متطلب سابق

CSC 113 - Computer Programming II.

الكتاب

• Data Structures and Algorithms in Java, 4th edition, by M.T. Goodrich and R. Tamassia. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., ISBN: 0-471-73884-0.

أهداف المقرر

The objective of this course is to teach the fundamentals of data structures needed in the remainder of the curriculum and develop students’ problem solving and computer programming skills.

CSC 215 – Procedural Programming With C  (2-2-1)

وصف المقرر

Introduction to the procedural programming paradigm. A brief history of C. C primitive data types, variables and constants, operators (arithmetic operators, logical operators, and access operators). Control structures. Procedures and parameter passing. User-defined types. Pointers.

متطلب سابق

CSC 111 - Computer Programming I

الكتاب

• Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie, “The C programming Language”, Prentice Hall, 1988.

أهداف المقرر

The objective of this course is to teach students the design and implementation of C programs. They also are meant to understand when to use procedural vs. OO programming.

CSC 220 – Computer Organization (2-2-1)

وصف المقرر

The course introduces basic digital logic design techniques and integrates the topics of generic assembly language programming, computer organization, and computer design. The objectives of this course are to: help students learn the fundamental elements of computer architecture from a functional, hardware perspective; foster an appreciation of organizational models and design decisions that determine the overall performance, capabilities, and limitations of a computer system; and help students understand the interdependencies among assembly languages, computer organization, and design. Topics include Introduction to basic computer organization and how the computer works; DeMorgan’s Law, simplifying circuits using Karnaugh maps, Instruction code, Computer registers, Instruction set, Timing and control; Register Transfer Language HDL ( Hardware Description Language) and Micro-operations; Computer Arithmetic Logic Unit Design. -Hardwired control unit, instruction set,  introduction to addressing modes; Central Processing Unit Design, Register organization, Instruction format, Addressing modes.

متطلب سابق

MATH 151- Discrete Mathematics

الكتاب

• Computer System Architecture - 3rd Edition, Author: Morris Mano, Publisher: McGraw Hill.
• Logic and Computer Design Fundamentals*, 4th Edition by M. Morris Mano and Charles R. Kime. Published by Prentice-Hall, 2008. ISBN: 0-13-600158-0.

أهداف المقرر

The course aims to give the students:

• Design and understanding of the different basic components of a computer system;
• Understanding how the different components inside the computer system functions
• A theoretical and practical understanding of the register transfer language
• A basic understanding of the importance of control units.
• A theoretical and practical understanding of the arithmetic logic unit.
• Understanding the interdependencies among assembly languages, computer organization and design.

CSC 227 – Operating Systems  (3-0-1)

وصف المقرر

This is an introductory course in Operating Systems. As such, it is intended to cover many of the concepts related to most of the actual Operating Systems. Although the study of a particular Operating System is out of the scope of this course, nevertheless, we will cover most of the concepts found in any existing Operating System. We will review computer system and operating system structures, processes and threads (concepts of, communication, synchronization and deadlocks), CPU Scheduling, memory management and virtual memory.

متطلب سابق

CSC 212 - Data Structures.

الكتاب

• Operating System Concepts, A. Silberschatz, P.B. Galvin, Eight Edition, John Wiley & Sons Inc., ISBN 0-470-12872-0.

أهداف المقرر

Course objective is to provide the concepts of operating systems design and implementation. It identifies and describes the major and common components of an operating system with stating their functions and purposes especially process management (process scheduling, and synchronization), and memory management (segmentation, paging, and swapping).

CSC 281 – Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science (3-0-1) 

وصف المقرر

متطلب سابق

STAT 101 - An Introduction to Probability & Statistics.

MATH 151 - Discrete Mathematics.

متطلب مرافق

CSC 212 – Data Structures.

الكتاب

• Kenneth H. Rosen, Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications, McGraw-Hill, 2006, ISBN-10: 0073312711.

اهداف المقرر

The course is an introductory course in discrete mathematic with emphasis on how this theory can be invoked to develop efficient algorithms and systems.  Also, it serves as the mathematical prerequisite for many advanced courses.

CSC 304 – Ethical Issues in Computing & Research Methods (3-0-1)

وصف المقرر

This course seeks to equip students with sufficient knowledge of Computer Ethics to enable them to recognize the ethical nature of certain issues that arise in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) workplace. The course studies the effect of the proliferation of computers in our world, the impact of computers in the social, economic, political, and other aspects of our life. It covers the moral and legal obligations of computer professionals and issues concerning security, privacy versus freedom of information, ethics and professionalism, intellectual property rights, research methods: collecting and analyzing data, critical evaluation of research, report writing, choosing and evaluating references, and presentation skills.

متطلب سابق

CSC 113- Computer Programming II.

الكتاب

• Joseph M. Kizza: "Ethical and social issues in Information Age" 3rd   Edition Springer  2010.
• Giannis Stamatellos :Computer Ethics a global perspective” 2nd Edition  Jones and Bartlett 2007.

أهداف المقرر

The objective of the course is to provide the students with the main concepts of computer ethical issues and to introduce scientific research methods.

CSC 311 – Design and Analysis of Algorithms (3-0-1)

وسف المقرر

Mathematical essentials; sorting; space and time complexity; algorithm design methods: greedy algorithms, divide and conquer, and dynamic programming; introduction to graph theory; and NP-completeness.

متطلب سابق

CSC 281 - Discrete Mathematics.

CSC 212- Data Structures

الكتاب

• Introduction to the Design & Analysis of Algorithms – 2nd Edition. A. Levitin, Pearson Addison-Wesley, 2006.

أهداف المقرر

The course aims at giving the students a broad foundation in the fundamental concepts of object-oriented programming accompanied by specific labs to develop the basic skills in object-oriented programming with Java. It introduces the basic concepts and principles of the Object-Oriented approach such as (i) Abstraction and Encapsulation principles, (ii) Classes, objects and the constructor concepts, (iii) Information hiding principle and the assessors' concept. (iv) Methods, the message passing and the overloading principles.

CSC 329 – Computer Networks (3-0-1) 

وصف المقرر

This course covers the theoretical as well as hands-on knowledge of Computer Networks covering all the fundamental aspects of networking such as OSI, TCP/IP, LANs, MANs,WANs, Routing Protocols, Switching etc. This course will discuss the design of small to medium size networks as well as different networking issues related to routing and switching. 

متطلب سابق

CSC 227 - Operating Systems.

الكتاب

• Computer Networks by Andrew S. Tanenbaum (4th edition).
• Computer Networks and Internets by Douglas E. Comer (5th edition).
• CCNA ICND1 and ICND2 official exam certification guides by Wendell Odom.

أهادف المقرر

The objective of this course is to equip students with theoretical as well as hands-on knowledge of Computer Networks covering all the fundamental aspects of networking such as OSI, TCP/IP, LANs, WAN, Routing Protocols, Switching etc. At the end of the course, students should be able to handle small to medium-size networks and have the ability to implement and troubleshoot different networking issues related to routing and switching.

CSC 339 – Theory of Computation (3-0-1)

وصف المقرر

Mathematical preliminaries. Regular languages, regular expression, deterministic and non-deterministic finite automata, closure properties and pumping lemma. Context-free grammar and languages, pushdown automata and pumping lemma.  Turing machines, the Church-Turing Thesis, Computability. Decidability and the Halting problem. Complexity, class P and NP.

متطلب سابق

CSC 281 - Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science.

متطلب مرافق

CSC 311 - Design and Analysis of Algorithms.

الكتاب

• Introduction to the Theory of Computation (second edition) by Michael Sipser. Editor: Thomson Course Technology

أهداف المقرر

The course aims at answering two questions: What can be computed by a machine? And how efficiently? It starts by presenting machines models, then addresses the computability problem, and then the complexity of algorithms and their classification according to it.

CSC 340 – Programming Languages and Compilation (3-0-1) 

وصف المقرر

Programming Languages: features, design and translation issues. Lexical Analysis. Syntactic Analysis. Semantic Analysis. Code Generation.

متطلب سابق

CSC 339 - Theory of Computation.

الكتاب

• Concepts of Programming Languages by Robert Sebesta, Addison-Wesley.
• Compiler Construction: Principles and Practice by Kenneth C. Louden, PWS Publications.

أهداف المقرر

The objective of this course is to explore different types of programming languages and their features and study translation/compilation techniques used in translating the high-level languages to a machine language. A basic compiler for a small programming language will be implemented during the semester.

CSC 343 – Systems Analysis and Design  (3-0-1)

وسف المقرر

This course focuses on the principles of software development including the life-cycle models and different phases of the software development process: requirements analysis, specification and design. The key objective of this course is to learn the modular design of software and documenting the design using symbolic representations, i.e., UML diagrams. Object-oriented techniques are key to the course. However, this is not a programming course. The key characteristic is having teams of three to four students work on developing software systems over a course of one semester. This work includes a feasibility study, requirements analysis and object-oriented design.

متطلب سابق

CSC 212 - Data Structures.

الكتاب:

• Ian Sommerville: Software Engineering, 8th edition, Addison-Wesley, 2007
• Roger Pressman: Software Engineering, McGraw-Hill, 2005.
• Larman C.: Applying UML and Patterns – An Introduction to Object-Oriented Analysis and Design and Iterative development, 3rd edition, Prentice-Hall, 2005.

أهداف المقرر

The purpose of this course is to present software engineering as a body of knowledge. The course is designed to present software engineering concepts and principles in parallel with the software development life cycle.

CSC 361 – Artificial Intelligence  (3-0-1)

وصف المقرر

The course will provide an introduction to artificial intelligence. Topics include problem-solving using search (search procedures e.g. depth-first, breadth-first, A*, etc.), constraint satisfaction problems, game playing, knowledge representation and inference procedures. Abstract highlights cover an advanced AI topic (e.g. machine learning, natural language processing). Students will do a small project in this course as well.

متطلب سابق

CSC 212 - Data Structures.

الكتاب

• Artificial Intelligence: A modern approach Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig, Prentice Hall, 2006.

أهداف المقرر

The objective of this course is to develop the students' ability to understand the concepts of AI. The students will be taught and required to practice the informed and uninformed search techniques, problem formulation, optimization techniques, knowledge representation and detailed game theory. The students are expected to present their skills by a course project.                                                                                                                                       

CSC 380 – Introduction to Database Concepts  (3-0-1)

وصف المقرر

Purpose of Database Systems, View of Data, Data Models, Data Definition Language, Data Manipulation Language, Transaction Management, Storage Management, Database Administrator, Database Users, Overall System Structure.

Entity Sets, Relationship Sets, Design Issues, Mapping Constraints, Keys, E-R Diagram, Design of an E-R Database Schema.

Structure of Relational Databases, Relational Algebra, Extended Relational-Algebra-Operations, Modification of the Database, Reduction of an E-R Schema to Tables.

Basic Structure, Set Operations, Aggregate Functions, Null Values, Nested Sub-queries, Derived Relations, Views, Modification of the Database, Joined Relations, DDL, DML.

First Normal Form, Relational Database Design, Functional Dependencies, Decomposition, Boyce-Codd Normal Form, Third Normal Form, Overall Database Design Process.

متطلب مرافق

CSC 212 - Data Structures.

الكتاب

• Fundamentals of Database Systems. ElMasri, Navathe,   5th  Edition Addison Wesley.

أهداف المقرر

This course aims at giving the students a broad foundation in the fundamental concepts of database. This should allow students to design and implement real-life databases, in addition, to evaluate existing ones. Students will be able to use the query of different types of complexity.

CSC 429 – Computer Security (3-0-1)

وسف المقرر

Security principle, model and attacks. Cryptography, public key and secret-key cryptography. Authentication and digital signature. Key management and cryptographic protocol. Access control. Building secure system. Security in operating systems. Security in computer networks. Management and analysis of security. Risk assessment. Computer security policy. International information security standards. Intrusion detection and incident response.

متطلب مرافق

CSC 329 - Computer Networks

الكتاب

Introduction to Computer Security, Mat Bishop.

أهداف المقرر

 The course aims at giving the students a broad foundation in the fundamental concepts of Computer Security. It introduces the basic concept and principles of computer security such as Security requirements, encryption, access control, malicious software, security policy and management.

CSC 453 - Parallel Processing  (3-0-1)

وصف المقرر

Introduction to parallel processing. Models of parallel machines. Parallel programming paradigms and models. Performance analysis of parallel systems. Parallel programming languages and frameworks.

متطلب سابق

CSC 227 - Operating Systems.

الكتاب

• F. T. Leighton, Introduction to Parallel Algorithms and Architectures, Morgan Kaufmann, 1992.
• Joseph Jaja, Introduction to Parallel Algorithms, Addison Wesley, 1992.

CSC 457 – Internet Technologies  (3-0-1)

وصف المقرر

An overview of Internet technologies (definitions, evolutions, examples, and, applications). Publishing and browsing technologies.  Internet tools. TCP/IP and Client/server architectures. WWW, HTTP and HTML for text, images, links and forms.  Web-based applications development: client-side scripting, server-side scripting and the MVC design approach.  WEB site development.  Security and privacy.

متطلب سابق

CSC 329 – Computer Networks.

الكتاب

• Computer Networks by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 2003.

أهداف المقرر

The goal of this course is to provide an introduction to the basic concepts of the technologies that are used on the Internet. Students learn about building blocks of internet. They learn about various protocols used by internet. Students learn about web servers, search engines and software tools required to implement a website.

CSC 496 – Graduation Project-I  (2-0-0)

وسف المقرر

This course is the first part of a sequence of two courses (CSC496 and CSC497) that in entirety constitute the BSc graduation capstone project. In this project, the student is expected to develop software for a specific problem by applying previously learned concepts and methods during the course of the project. In this course, the student is typically expected to study the problem, see what others have done, perform the analysis, determine the requirements and suggest/design a solution. The project will culminate in a formal public presentation, and written documentation. Oral and written progress reports are required. The project topic may be provided by the faculty, by the student(s) or by the industry. The topic is subject to departmental approval.

متطلب سباق

• The student must have finished at least 95 hours in the BSc program.
• CSC 343- System analysis and design

أهداف المقرر

This course is a semester-long team project, where students apply a broad range of skills learned in earlier courses, and demonstrate their competence in technical material, communications, and project skills.

CSC 497 – Graduation Project-I  (4-0-0)

وصف المقرر

This course is the second part of a sequence of two courses (CSC496 and CSC497) that in entirety constitute the BSc graduation capstone project. In this project, the students will continue the software development of the problem they picked in CSC496. The project will culminate in the delivery of a working system, a formal public presentation, and written documentation. Oral and written progress reports are required.

متطلب سابق

CSC 496 - Graduation Project-I.

أهداف المقرر

This course is a semester-long team project, where students continue what they did in the first part of this project. In this part there are expected to do the actual implementation and evaluation.

CSC 979 – Practical Training – (1-0-0)

وصف المقرر

Training is an important aspect of the educational process in CCIS. The student is required to join a government or private sector IT centre. The aim of the training is to acquire experience in applying what he learned in real life. The training is evaluated by the training advisor at the IT centre and by the CCIS training committee.

متطلب سابق

The student must have finished at least 95 hours in the BSc program. 

أهداف المقرر

This summer training for college students aims to provide them with a sound foundation out of theoretical and practical hands on knowledge and experience in the field of computer science. The course will provide students insight in to design methodology and implementation using different types of programming languages in different environments.

CSC 226 – Unix OS Environment  (1-2-0)

Overview of the Unix OS, basic concepts, usage of the help and man and info commands. Unix file system and basic commands. Redirection and pipelining. Filtering commands: line searching, (grep, egrep and frep), line content manipulation (cut, sort, tr …). Line visualization (pr, pg, more, tail, fmt, …), comparing files (diff and cmp). Users and user-rights. Process management. The command find. Shell programming. The awk and sed commands.

CSC 111 - Computer Programming I .

الكتاب

• Ellie Quigley: “Unix ® Shell by Example” 4th edition, Prentice Hall, 2005.
• David I. Schwartz: “Introduction to UNIX”, 2nd Edition, Prentice Hall, 2006.

CSC 261 – Artificial Intelligence Programming Languages (3-0-1)

This course provides an overview of functional, logic and constraint logic programming paradigms used in the context of artificial intelligence. The course focuses on Prolog language syntax and semantics: lists, operators, arithmetic, structures, input/output, built-in predicates, etc. It emphasizes constraint handling and solving combinatorial problems involving constraints.

CSC113 - Computer Programming II.

• Prolog: Programming for Artificial Intelligence by Ivan Bratko,(Latest edition), Addison-Wesley.

CSC 320 – Systems Programming  (3-0-1)

The course aims to give the students a theoretical and practical understanding of the programming interface to a Unix system, including the system call interface and many of the functions provided in the standard C library. Topics covered include an overview of the basic Unix programming concepts, an introduction to shell programming, unbuffered I/O, the standard I/O library, the environment of a Unix process, process control, signals, and interprocess communication.

CSC 227- Operating Systems.

• Advanced programming in the UNIX environment, Last Edition, by W. Richard Stevens, Stephen A. Rago. Addison Wesley.

• A theoretical and practical understanding of the internal operation of a Unix system.
• Practical use and application of a Unix system call interface that supports I/O, processes, signals and IPC.
• A practical use and application of the C standard I/O library functions.

CSC 384    Applied Numerical Computation (3-0-1)

This is an introductory course on Numerical Analysis and Methods. Topics include: errors and their propagation, floating-point computation, algorithms and numerical stability, linear systems of equations, interpolation, difference equations, curve fitting, nonlinear equations, numerical differentiation and integration.

CSC 311 - Design and Analysis of Algorithms.

• Applied Numerical Analysis C.F. Gerald and P.O. Wheatley, Addison-Wesley (7th edition, 2003).

CSC 386 – Algorithms and Techniques for Database Management Systems (3-0-1)

The goal of this course is to introduce the students to the following fundamental data management issues: database file organization, indexing, query processing and optimization, transaction, concurrency control, recovery system as well as other advanced topics.

CSC 380 - Introduction to Database Concepts

“Database System Concepts”. Silberschatz Mc Graw Hill Fourth/Fifth Edition

The main objective of this course is to provide an in-depth understanding of Database Management Systems. In particular, students will be exposed to the internal structures and algorithms of a relational database system in order to facilitate their ability to later build database systems in general

CSC 412– Simulation and Modeling (3-0-1)

Introduction to Simulation. Concepts in Discrete-event Simulation (DES). Components of DES. Monte Carlo simulation, the life cycle of a simulation study, input and output data analysis, world views and time control, random number generation, credibility assessment of simulation results, simulation languages,   Parallel and Distributed Simulation, applications of simulation using contemporary simulation modelling and support software.

CSC 111 - Computer Programming I

STAT 101 - An Introduction to Probability & Statistics

• A.M. Law and W.D. Kelton: “Simulation Modeling and Analysis”, McGraw Hill, 2000.

CSC 430 – Computer Arabization (3-0-1)

System Arabization level (screen Arabization, keyboard Arabization, printer Arabization, font and codepage manipulation, creating visual Arabic interfaces, etc.);Introduction to Arabic natural language processing (Arabic morphological analysis, Arabic syntax and semantics, Classical models, Applications); Applying neural networks in Arabic natural language processing (neural networks for Arabic morphological analysis, neural networks for syntactic analysis);  The phonetic properties of the Arabic language (Arabic allophones, isolating Arabic allophones, characterization of Arabic allophones, using Arabic allophones in some applications.

CSC 220 – Computer Organization

CSC 227 Operating Systems

Collection of papers and articles.

The objective of this course is to be aware of the state-of-the-art in Computer Arabization.

CSC 440–Human-Computer Interaction (3-0-1)

Introduction to HCI. The Human User: Capabilities and Limitations. The Computer: Capabilities and Limitations. The Interaction: Models of Interaction and Interaction Styles. Usability Principles: Principles of HCI that support user-friendliness. Interface design: dialogue notation and design - Visual Design. Design support: Systems that support the design process. Usability Evaluation. Introduction to Speech Computing and other Forms of Input/output.

CSC 343 – Systems Analysis and Design

• Human-Computer Interaction, Third Edition by Alan Dix et al, Prentice Hall (2004).

CSC 443 – IT/Software project management (3-0-1)

Project life cycle; Project constraints; Project organization; Risk management; Project cost; Integrated schedule and critical path analysis; Baseline cost; Team building; Project planning; Reporting on project status; Closing and sign-off.

CSC 343 – Systems Analysis and Design

• Kathy Schwalbe, Information Technology Project Management, 2nd Edition, Course Technology, 2002.
• Anita Rosen, Effective IT Project Management, Prentice-Hall, 2008.

CSC 446 – Design Patterns  (3-0-1)

This course aims at giving the student the ability to design programs using patterns. A design pattern is a general repeatable solution to a commonly occurring problem in software design. Design patterns deal specifically with problems at the level of software design.

Definition, the context of use will be introduced along with their classification. Some of the most used patterns will be studied such as : Abstract factory, Factory method, Builder, Lazy initialization, Object pool, Prototype, Singleton, Adapter, Bridge, Composite, Decorator, Façade, Flyweight ,Proxy, Chain of responsibility, Command, Interpreter, Iterator, Mediator, Observer.

CSC 343 – Systems Analysis and Design

• Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software Addison-Wesley,  Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John M. Vlissides. 

CSC 456 – Distributed Systems  (3-0-1)

Understanding the main characteristics of distributed systems and the various design choices required for building a distributed system such as the architectural models varying from client/server to peer-to-peer, grid-computing; the communication models varying from client-pull (RPC/RMI, Message Queuing, …) to server-push models (publish-subscribe, …); the synchronization techniques based on the system clock, on the logical clock (timestamp) and on the token ring; the standard middlewares such as RPC, RMI, Corba and SOAP.

CSC 329 – Computer Networks.

• Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design by G. Coulouris, J. Dollimore and T. Kindberg.
• Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms by A. S. Tanenbaum and M. V. Steen.
• Distributed Computing: Concepts and Applications by M.L Liu.

أهداف المقرر

The course aims at giving the students a broad foundation in the fundamental concepts of distributed systems accompanied by the specific project to develop the basic skills in network programming using RMI or RPC. It introduces the basic architectural models of distributed systems as well as the communication paradigms such as Publish/Subscribe, Message passing, Remote Procedure Call/ Remote Method Invocation, Message Queuing, etc. Besides, it presents various techniques of synchronization. It aims too to introduce distributed algorithms such as election, mutual exclusion, etc.

CSC 459 – Net-Centric Computing (3-0-1)

Overview of most important distributed algorithms such as election, mutual exclusion, termination detection and concurrency control; Object-based distributed systems concepts and the CORBA standard middleware; Introduction to component-based distributed systems with a focus on implementation issues and on related technologies; SOA and Web-services technologies with focus on SOAP and WSDL; Advanced distributed computing models such peer-to-peer and Grid computing with an emphasis on related technologies such as Juxta, Net and Globus toolkit.

CSC 329 - Computer Networks.

• Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design by G. Coulouris, J. Dollimore and T. Kindberg.
• Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms by A.S. Tanenbaum and M.V. Steen.

CSC 462 – Machine Learning  (3-0-1)

This course gives an overview to machine learning concepts, techniques, and algorithms. Topics include: inductive learning, decision trees, artificial neural networks, instance-based learning, clustering, reinforcement learning, and some examples of application domains.

CSC 361- Artificial Intelligence.

• Machine Learning, Last edition, by Tom M. Mitchell. McGraw Hill.

CSC 463 – Knowledge Engineering and Expert Systems  (3-0-1)

The course will provide an introduction to knowledge-based systems. Topics include: knowledge representation and inference, representing uncertainty using probabilistic logic and fuzzy logic, non-monotonic reasoning and knowledge acquisition. The students will do a programming project related to knowledge-based systems.

CSC 361- Artificial Intelligence.

• Expert Systems: Principles and Programming by Giarrantano and Riley, Thomson.
• Introduction to Expert Systems by Peter Jackson, Addison-Wesley.

CSC 476 – Computer Graphics  (3-0-1)

This course is an introduction to computer graphics, with an emphasis on application programming using OpenGL software. The topics covered are Introduction to Computer Graphics - Graphics Display Devices - Drawing Based Graphics Primitives - Transformation of Object - 3D Affine Transformation.-Three-Dimensional Viewing -  Tools for Raster Displays - Scan conversion Algorithms - Defining and Filling Regions of Pixel. -  Filling Polygon-Defined Regions. - Aliasing :Anti-aliasing Techniques. - Creating more Shades and Colors.

CSC 212 - Data Structures.

• Hill, J.S. Jr., Computer Graphics Using OpenGL, 2nd Edition, Prentice Hall.

CSC 478 – Digital Image Processing and Analysis  (3-0-1)

Introduction; Image Sensing and Acquisition; Some Basic Gray Level Transformations for Image Enhancement.; Image Contrast Enhancement Using Histogram Processing; Image Smoothing Using Spatial Filters; Image Sharpening Using Spatial Filters; Point, Line and Edge Detection; Basic image compression procedures; Basic Global and Adaptive Thresholding for Image Segmentation; Optimal Global and Adaptive Thresholding for Image Segmentation; Region-Based Image Segmentation and Edge-Based Segmentation; Image Restoration in the Presence of Noise-Spatial Filtering; Image Enhancement in Frequency Domain; Objects Representation and Description; introduction to Object Recognition.

CSC 212 - Data Structures.

• Rafael C Gonzalez, Richard E Woods 2nd Edition, Digital Image Processing - Pearson Education 2003.
• Image Processing Analysis and Machine Vision – Millman Sonka, Vaclav hlavac, Roger Boyle, Broos/colic.

CSC 484 – Information Retrieval  (3-0-1)

This course is intended to prepare students to understand the underlying theories and methods for searching and retrieval of text and bibliographic information, analysis of the relevance, utility, statistical and linguistic methods for automatic indexing, query formulation, output ranking, filtering methods, measures of retrieval effectiveness and retrieval experimentation Methodology.

CSC 380 - Introduction to Database Concepts 

• Ricardo B. , Berthier R. : “Modern Information Retrieval” Addison Wesley.

CSC 489 – Selected Topics in Computer Science  (3-0-1)

This course aims at introducing the students to a different area of Computer Science. This will be achieved by exposing them to new tools, techniques, and research in Computer Science.

متطلب سابق

The student must finish 100 Credit Hours.

Journals and Magazines relevant to the topics covered.