اسم المقرر
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الوحدات
Units

SD555

Postgraduate Master’s Thesis
رسالة الماجستير

6

SD500

Advanced Software Engineering

3 Units

Procedure and Object-oriented programming. C++, Software qualities, Software testing and verification, Program analysis.

Database security

3 Units

Database security concerns the use of a broad range of information security controls to protect databases (potentially including the data, the database applications or stored functions, the database systems, the database servers and the associated network links) against compromises of their confidentiality, integrity and availability. It involves various types or categories of controls, such as technical, procedural/administrative and physical.

SD509

Computer System Security

3 Units

Computer Systems Security is a class about the design and implementation of secure computer systems. Lectures cover threat models, attacks that compromise security, and techniques for achieving security, based on recent research papers. Topics include operating system (OS) security, capabilities, information flow control, language security, network protocols, hardware security, and security in web applications.

SD520

Design and Analysis of Algorithms

3 Units

The course provides a solid foundation in algorithm design and analysis. Specifically, the students acquire the basic knowledge of graph and matching algorithms, and design algorithms using greedy strategy, divide and conquer approach, dynamic programming, and max flow - min cut theory. This course enables the student to analyze asymptotic runtime complexity of algorithms including formulating recurrence relations. It provides basic knowledge of computational complexity, approximation and randomized algorithms.
The student will have an ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science and engineering to develop and analyze computing systems, to analyze a problem and identify and define the computing requirements appropriate for its solution under given constraints, to perform experiments to analyze and interpret data for different applications, to design, implement and evaluate computer-based systems, processes, components or programs to meet desired needs within realistic constraints of time and space and to identify, formulate and solve innovative engineering problems.

SD531

Information Security Management

3 Units

An ISMS is a systematic approach to managing sensitive company information so that it remains secure. It includes people, processes and IT systems by applying a risk management process.
It can help small, medium and large businesses in any sector keep information assets secure. The ISO 27000 family of standards helps organizations keep information assets secure. Using this family of standards will help your organization manage the security of assets such as financial information, intellectual property, employee details or information entrusted to you by third parties. ISO/IEC 27001 is the best-known standard in the family providing requirements for an information security management system (ISMS).

SD533

Advanced Object Oriented Programming

3 Units

This course introduces students to object oriented programming and design. Students will be exposed to the principles of the object-oriented programming paradigm specifically including abstraction, encapsulation, inheritance and polymorphism. They are equipped to use an object-oriented programming language Java, and associated class libraries, to develop object-oriented programs with a clear understanding of Java features. The course helps the students to design, develop, test, and debug programs using object-oriented principles, GUI design with Applets and Swings, JDBC –ODBC connections in conjuncture with an integrated development environment Eclipse. They will be able to describe and explain the factors that contribute to a good object-oriented solution.

SD536

Advanced Computer Networks

3 Units

This course introduces the advanced concepts of computer networking. Students will develop an understanding of the general principles of computer networks. Specific attention will be given to the principles of network architecture and layering, multiplexing, network addressing, routing and routing protocols. Activities include setting up a local area network, the Internet, security, network management and network performance analysis.

SD540

Web Services

3 Units

A web service is a piece of business logic, located somewhere on the Internet, that is accessible through standard-based Internet protocols such as HTTP or SMTP. Using a web service could be as simple as logging into a site or as complex as facilitating a multi-organization business negotiation.

SD542

Web Technologies

3 Units

The study of Web Technologies course demonstrates an in-depth understanding of the tools and Web technologies necessary for business application design and development. The course covers client side scripting like HTML, JavaScript and server side scripting like servlets, JSPs and also XML and web servers and database interfacing. By studying this course, students will develop their own paths in the software industry

Software Testing Methodologies

3 Units

To study the fundamental concepts of software testing which includes objectives, process, criteria, strategies, and methods. To discuss various software testing types and levels of testing like black and white box testing along with levels unit test, integration, regression, and system testing. It also helps to learn the types of bugs, testing levels with which the student can very well identify a bug and correct as when it happens. It provides knowledge on transaction flow testing and data flow testing techniques so that the flow of the program is tested as well. To learn the domain testing, path testing and logic based testing to explore the testing process easier. To know the concepts of state graphs, graph matrixes and transition testing along with testability tips to enhance the testing process in different way. To expose the advanced software testing topics, such as object-oriented software testing methods, and component-based software testing issues, challenges, and solutions.

SD559

Advanced Multimedia technologies

3 Units

An introduction to using and producing multimedia presented. The course introduces main concepts, components and use. Hardware and software considerations and requirements are covered. Design and presentation considerations and methods are explored. Students will produce multimedia presentations and be introduced to authoring systems. Prerequisites.

SD511

Digital Image Processing

3 Units

Image enhancement, restoration, and color image processing. Digital image generation, adjacency, connectivity, regions and boundaries, Frequency domain analysis, Image enhancement techniques in spatial and frequency domains, Image restoration in spatial and frequency domain (in presence of noise and other degradations), Color image processing, Image lossless and lossy compression, Image segmentation.

SD561

Computer Graphics

3 Units

In this course, the focus is on computer graphics techniques for the generation of realistic images using techniques for defining surfaces and for calculating lighting and shading effects. Students will write programs to render 3D objects using techniques ranging from simple flat shading to complex ray-shading. User-interface design with X-windows will be introduced. We will also briefly discuss programming with the OpenGL graphics library and Java.

SD535

Advanced Database Management Systems

3 Units

The course presupposes a basic knowledge of conceptual modelling for data base systems and implementation using relational DBMS and SQL. The course aims to a more profound understanding of database theories, models, and methods and an ability to use these in different situations.

SD570

IT Project Management

3 Units

The course provides students with essential knowledge and skills of good project management and project management software. Topics include Topics include identifying project stakeholders and defining roles and responsibilities of the team, defining scope, devising risks and quality plans, mapping-out a schedule, determining a budget and defining a communication strategy, initiating, planning, controlling, executing, monitoring and closing projects, human resource management, evaluating project in post implementation reviews.

SD513

Network Security

3 Units

Network security has become more important to personal computer users, organizations, and the military. With the advent of the internet, security became a major concern and the history of security allows a better understanding of the emergence of security technology. The internet structure itself allowed for many security threats to occur. The architecture of the internet, when modified the architecture can reduces the possible attacks that can be sent across the network.
Knowing the attack methods, allows for the appropriate security to emerge. Many businesses secure themselves from the internet by means of firewalls and encryption mechanisms. The businesses create an “intranet” to remain connected to the internet but secured from possible threats. This course introduces the basic concepts and principles in Network Security.

SD562

Computer Vision

3 Units

Image formation, image processing for feature detection, object recognition and representation, motion analysis, simple motion estimation problems, stereo vision, camera models and projections

SD529

Data Mining Technologies

3 Units

The course covers essential ideas and techniques for extracting information from large amounts of data. It discusses both supervised and unsupervised methods, and covers topics such as dimension reduction, multiple regression, logistic regression, discriminant analysis, classification and regression trees, neural networks, association rules, cluster analysis and multi‑dimensional scaling. Illustrations of the concepts and methods are given, and students gain practical experience in data mining with the use of popular data mining software.

SD565

Selected Topic in I.T.

3 Units

Postgraduate lectures/projects specialist on topical issues in I.T

SD575

Pattern Recognition

3 Units

Sensing, Segmentation, Feature extraction, training and Classification. The Bayesian decision theory, Maximum likelihood and Bayesian parameter estimation of known parametric form probability density functions, Nonparametric techniques of pattern classifications, Linear discriminate functions, and Neural networks, The Unsupervised learning and clustering.

SD580

Modeling and Simulation

3 Units

An introduction to modeling and simulation. Discrete and continues models. Discrete-event simulation: event-oriented and process-oriented approaches, time advance mechanisms, queues, queues disciplines and stopping rules, single-server model - case study. More complex models: case studies - memory model, simple batch computer system model. Monte-Carlo simulation. Probability concepts in modeling and simulation. Simulation languages - short review of GPSS and SIMSCRIPT.

            SD582

Probabilistic Models

3 Units

Probability theory. Random processes. Markov chains. The basic structure of queuing systems. Performance measures of a queuing systems. Little's formula. Birth and death process models and queuing systems with finite population.

SD584

Machine Learning

3 Units

This introductory course gives an overview of many concepts, techniques, and algorithms in machine learning, beginning with topics such as classification and linear regression and ending up with more recent topics such as boosting, support vector machines, hidden Markov models, and Bayesian networks. The course will give the student the basic ideas and intuition behind modern machine learning methods as well as a bit more formal understanding of how, why, and when they work. The underlying theme in the course is statistical inference as it provides the foundation for most of the methods covered.

SD555

Postgraduate Master’s Thesis

6 Units

The Thesis involves the specification, development and evaluation of an individual research project on a specific topic or problem within the broad field of specialization in computer systems, software engineering.