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9. Software Engineering
System Development Life Cycle (SDLC): Steps, Water fall model, Prototypes, Sprial model. Software Metrics: Software Project Management.

Software Design: System design, detailed design, function oriented design, object oriented design, user interface design. Design level metrics.

Coding and Testing: Testing level metrics. Software quality and reliability, Clean room approach, software reengineering.

10. Current Trends and Technologies
The topics of current interest in Computer Science and Computer Applications shall be covered.

The experts shall use their judgement from time to time to include the topics of popular interest,
which are expected to be known for an application development software professional, currently,
they include:

Parallel Computing
Parallel virtual machine (pvm) and message passing interface (mpi) libraries and calls.
Advanced architectures. Today’s fastest computers.

Mobile Computing
Mobile connectivity-Cells, Framework, wireless delivery technology and switching methods,
mobile information access devices, mobile data internetworking standards, cellular data
communication protocols, mobile computing applications. Mobile databases- protocols, scope,
tools and technology. M-business.

E-Technologies
Electronic Commerce: Framework, Media Convergence of Applications, Consumer Applications, Organisation Applications.

Electronic Payment Systems : Digital Token, Smart Cards, Credit Cards, Risks in Electronic
Payment System. Designing Electronic Payment Systems.

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) : Concepts, Applications, (Legal, Security and Privacy) issues, EDI and Electronic Commerce. Standardization and EDI, EDI Software Implementation, EDI Envelope for Message Transport, Internet-Based EDI.

Digital Libraries and Data Warehousing : Concepts, Types of Digital documents, Issues behind document Infrastructure, Corporate Data Warehouses.

Software Agents : Characteristics and Properties of Agents, Technology behind Software Agents (Applets, Browsers and Software Agents)

Broadband Telecommunications : Concepts, Frame Relay, Cell Relay, Switched Multlmegabit Data Service, Asynchronous Transfer Mode.

Main concepts In Geographical Information System (GIS). E-cash, E-Business, ERP packages.
Data Warehousing : Data Warehouse environment, architecture of a data warehouse methodology, analysis, design, construction and administration.

Data Mining : Extracting models and patterns from large databases, data mining techniques, classification, regression, clustering. summarization, dependency modelling, link analysis, sequencing analysis, mining scientific and business data.

Windows Programming
Introduction to Windows programming—Win32, Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC), Documents and views, Resources, Message handling in windows. Simple Applications (in windows) Scrolling, splitting views, docking toolbars, status bars. common dialogs.

Advanced Windows Programming
Multiple Document Interface (MDI), Multithreading. Object linking and Embedding (OLE). Active X controls. Active Template Library (ATL). Network programming.