SIR PADAMPAT SINGHANIA UNIVERSITY

Department of Computer Science & Engineering Programme: B.Tech Semester VIII Session: 2011-14

BM401 Foundations of Economic Science

LTPC 3 003

Objective : This course is designed to expose engineering students to economic theories and their applications related to consumer behavior, production, marketing and developmental needs of countries. Course outline: Engineers and economics: Meaning of economics, why engineers should know economics, scope, important basics: consumption, production, exchange, distribution and public finance, cost of production and revenue through sales, Factors of Production: Land, Labour, Capital, Organization, Enterprises. Consumption and Pricing: Cardinal and Ordinal approach to Utility, Laws of Diminishing Marginal Utility and Equi Marginal Utility, Demand: Meaning, Law, Types, Elasticity of Demand: Meaning and Degrees. Laws of Supply, Pricing of all products: Theory and practice. Production of Markets: Factors of production: Land, Labour, Capital, Organization and Enterprise, Laws of Returns, Classification of Markets: Perfect and Imperfect competition, Oligopoly. Financial Engineering: Money and Finance, An overview of Banking, Money Market, Capital Market, Public Finance and Private Finance, Public Enterprises, Debts, Direct and Indirect Taxes, Canons of Taxation, National Income. Developmental Engineering: Underdevelopment, Stages of economic development, Economic Growth, Growth Theories, Industrial Policy, Growth of Public sector, Economic Reforms: LPG. Application of financial accounting techniques for engineering projects analysis. Texts / Reference Books 1. 2. 3. 4. Paul A. Samuelson and William D. Nordhaus, Economics, Mc Graw Hill Kautsoyiannis, A modern Micro Economics, New York Macmillan Economics: K.K. Dewett Macro/Micro Economics: H.L.Ahuja-Sultan Chand, Delhi

CS406 MIS and E-Commerce

L T P C 3 0 0 3

Objective: The course aims at acquainting students with the fundamentals of Information Systems and their application in the various areas of business. It also provides an overview of the emerging domain of e-commerce, its concepts, issues and technologies. Course outline: Management Information Systems - Need, Purpose and Objectives- Contemporary Approaches to MIS Business processes and Information Systems Information systems function in Business-Use of Information Systems for competitive advantage - MIS as an instrument for the organizational change: Management issues Types of Business Information Systems. Enhancing Decision Making: Information, Management and Decision Making - Models of Decision Making - Classical, Administrative and Herbert Simon's Models - Attributes of information and its relevance to Decision Making - Types of information, Decision Support Systems - Group Decision Support Systems - Executive Support Systems E-commerce: Introduction, Definition of e-commerce, emergence of Internet, commercial use of Internet, history of e-commerce, advantages and disadvantages of e-commerce Business models for e-commerce: B2C, B2B, C2C, C2B, brokerage model, aggregator model, info-mediaries, communities, value-chain model, manufacturer model, advertising model, subscription and affiliate model Enabling technologies: Internet Client server applications, networks, Uniform Resource Locator (URL), search engines, software agents, Internet Service Providers(ISP), broadband technologies, Electronic Data Interchange(EDI). E-marketing: characteristics, methods, e-marketing value-chain, site adhesion, browsing behavior model, e-advertising, e-branding, e-marketing strategies E-security: Security risks, risk management issues, legal and ethical issues, security mechanisms, encryption, digital signature, digital certificates, E-payment systems: token-based system, card-based system, e-cash. E-cheque, e-banking, risks, data protection Texts / Reference Books 1. Management Information Systems, Laudon and Laudon, 7th Edition, Pearson Education Asia 2. P.T. Joseph, S.J. E-commerce: An Indian Perspective, Prentice Hall India, Second Edition, 2007

CS420 Knowledge Management

L T P C 3 0 0 3

Objective : The objective of the course is to develop some ideas regarding the knowledge types and modeling using UML. Course outline: Knowledge Management- Knowledge Value , Knowledge Value Tree, Knowledge Acquisition Declarative Knowledge Subtypes , Declarative Knowledge Learning , Declarative Knowledge Representation Procedural Knowledge Definition , Capturing Procedural Knowledge Tacit Knowledge- Definition , Varieties , Tacit Knowledge Capture Explicit KnowledgeManagement Definition , Explicit Knowledge Implicit , Capture for Knowledge

Process Knowledge and Concept Knowledge Process Knowledge Workflow , Process Knowledge Applications , Concept Knowledge fundamentals Knowledge Modeling using UML- Overview , UML applied to Knowledge Modeling , Knowledge Process , UML Decision Tree Texts / Reference Books A.J.Rhem , UML for developing knowledge management systems , Auerbach Publications Taylor & Francis Group

EC426 Embedded Systems

L T P C 3 0 0 3

Objective: Embedded systems have several costs effective applications are used in industries by consumers and space projects. This course will familiarize student with the principles and techniques necessary for the development of embedded systems for various applications. Course outline: Introduction to Embedded System and Design Concept: Introduction and examples of embedded systems, Concept of embedded system design, design challenges, Processor technology and IC technology, embedded processors tradeoffs: General Purpose Processors & Custom built single purpose processor hardware, Application Specific instruction processor, Digital Signal Processors, Selection of embedded processor, Development phase of embedded system and use of software tools for development of embedded system. Embedded Processors Architecture and Programming Language: Overview of 8bits/16 bits/32 bits microcontrollers, microcontrollers hardware-PIC and ARM processor architecture , Memory Organization of an embedded system, Interfacing processor, memory and I/O devices ,Programming concept and embedded programming in C and C++ ,Embedded software development on PIC/ARM microcontrollers platforms. Embedded Software Architecture Development: Challenges and issues in embedded software development, Real time programming language and embedded operating systems, Embedded software architecture: Round-Robin, Round-Robin with interrupt, RTOS architecture, tasks and task states, priority based scheduling, semaphore and shared data, timer function, memory management, encapsulating semaphore and queue, hard real-time scheduling consideration, saving memory and power. Network for Embedded Systems: I2C two wire buses, The CAN bus, SHARC link ports, Ethernet, Myrinet, IEEE 1451.1 and IEEE 1451.2 plugs and play standards, Embedded TCP/IP. Embedded Application Development: Determine the requirements, Design the system architecture, Choose the operating system, Choose processor type , development platform and programming language, input/output, coding issue and code optimization, testing and debugging, Verify the software on the host system and verify the software on the embedded system. Texts / Reference Books
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Embedded/Rear-Time System by Dr. K.V.K.K Prasad, Dreamtech Press Embedded Systems-Architecture, Programming and Design by Rajkamal Embedded C Programming and the Microchip PIC by Barnett Cox and OCull, Thomson Press. Embedded Real-Time System Programming by S.V Iyer & Gupta,TMH Pub. TCP/IP-Application layer protocol for embedded system by M. Tim Jones, Laxmi Publication. An Embedded Software Primer by David E. Simon, Pearson Education Fundamental of Embedded Software by Daniel W. Lewis, Pearson Education