Osmani University offers a 2-year MSc programme in Computer Science.

This master's course is appropriate for students who wish to pursue Research interests in any area of Computer Science Teaching, work for good career in the IT industry. Many colleges in Hyderabad city offering M.Sc Computer Science under Osmania University. An important aspect of this programme is the project that students undertake in the final semester in collaboration with a wellestablished software development company. However, it is upto the student, if they want to prepare for prject themselves. There are few colleges offering Final semester project with collaboration with well establsihed software development company. The syllabus for the course, designed by Osmania University, is broad-based and provides courses of study that cover the current and future challenges in this field. The revised syllabus of Osmani University is given below. Semester I
1.1 Discrete Mathematical Structures 1.2 Modern Operating Systems 1.3 Microprocessors and Microcontrollers ----------------------------1.4 Software Engineering 1.5 Computer Graphics----------------------------------------------------1.6 LAB - Unix & Computer Graphics 1.7 LAB- Microprocessors and Microcontrollers 1 2

Semester II
2.1 Automata, Languages, and Computation--------------------------2.2 Client Server Programming (using Java)--------------------------2.3 Computer Networks and Internet Protocols----------------------2.4 Design and Analysis of Algorithms---------------------------------Elective 2.6(a) Advance Computer Architecture--------------------------------2.5(b) Embedded Systems 2.6 Network Programming Lab 2.7 Client-Server Programming Lab 3 4 5 6 7

Semester III
3.1 Quantitative Techniques 3.2 Artificial Intelligence ------------------------------------------------3.3 Object Oriented System Development with UML-------------3.4 Network Security-----------------------------------------------------3.5 Parallel Programming----------------------------------------------8 9 10 11

3.6 LAB - Network Security 3.7 LAB - OOSD

Semester IV DWs & DM------------------------------------------------------ 12 Mobile Computing------------------------------------------------ 13

Academic Project. Complete Syllabus

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M. Sc. COMPUTER SCIENCE 1.1. Discrete mathematical Structures 4 Hr. PER WEEK UNIT - I Mathematical Logic and proofs Propositions from old ones Algorithms, Truth Tables and Tautologies Equilent Propositions the conditional and biconditional argument and proofs 0 predicate Logic Logical and electric circuits Boolean algebra Boolean functions some applications Minimization. Section 1.1 to 1.9,3.1 to 3.6 of (1) UNIT II Graph Theory Basic ideas and definitions Planer Graphic Connectivity Computer representations of graphs Directed graphs and trees paths, cycles etc.- Dijkstras algorithm. Euler & Hamiltoniah paths. Section 5.1 to 5.6, 6.1 to 6.3 of (1) UNIT III Elementary Combinations Basics of counting combinations and permutations their enumerations with repetitions Engineering permutations with constrained repetitions - Binomial coefficients the binominal and multinomial theorem the principle of inclusion exclusion. Section 2.1 to 2.8 of (2) UNIT IV Recurrence relations Recurrence relations characteristic roots Section 3.1. to 3.6 of TEXT BOOKS: Generating functions of sequences calculating coefficients of generating functions Solving recurrence relations by substitution and generating the method of Solution of inhomogeneous linear recurrence relations. (2)

1.Stephen a Wiitala, Discrete Mathematics, a Unified approach Mc Graw Hill International edition, Computer Science Series, 1987. new editions, available (if any) 2.Joe L.Mott, Abraham Kandel, Theodore P.Baker; Discrete Mathematics for Computer Scientists and Mathematics, Prentice Hall, NJ, 1986. REFERENCE BOOKS: 1.Kenneth H.Rosen; Discrete Mathematics, Mc. Graw Hill International Editions. *********************************************************************************************************** **************************** M. Sc. COMPUTER SCIENCE 1.2 Modern Operating System 4 Hr. PER WEEK UNIT I Introduction to Operating Systems: Computer System Structure, Operating System Structures : Architecture of distributed system, issues in distributed operating system, inherent Limitation of distributed system, logical clocks, global state, Distributed shared memory, Process concepts, process scheduling, inter process communication. CPU Scheduling: Criteria, Scheduling algorithms, Multiple processor scheduling, Real times scheduling, Algorithm evaluation. The critical section problem synchronization. Critical regions, Monitors, Atomic transactions. Dead locks: System model, Dead lock characterization. Methods of handling Dead locks, deadlock prevention, Deadlock avoidance, dead lock detection. Recovery from dead lock, combined approach to deadlock handling

UNIT II Introduction, Logical versus physical address space. Swapping. Allocation or frames, thrashing, other considerations, demand segmentation. Thread scheduling and dispatching, interrupt and exception handling, system service dispatching, multiprocessor synchronization, file concept, access methods, directory structure and protection. File system implementation: system structure allocation Methods, free space management, directory implementation, secondary Storage structure, disk structure, disk scheduling, disk management, swap space management.

UNIT III
Security: Goals of protection and security Management: Revocation of access rights. Two case studies one on Unix/ Linux / Solaris and another Windows Server. Failure recovery, classification of failure, Basic approaches, check Fault tolerance, commit protocols, voting protocols, concurrency controls, lock time safe ordering.

UNIT IV System Administration commands: For Unix / Linux / Solaris : user management, resource management, network management, security management, process management, backup and recovery. TEXT BOOKS: 1. Andrew S.Tenen Baum Modern Operating System Prentice Hall of India Easter Economy Edition, 1998. 2. M.Singhal and H.G.Shivarathi, Advanced concepts in operating system, Mc.Graw Hill, 1994. 3. Abraham Silberschatz and Peter B.Gavilin, Operating System concept, Addison Wesily Publishing Company, Fifth edition, 1998. ***********************************************************************************
M. Sc. COMPUTER SCIENCE 1.3. Micro processor and Micro Controllers 4 Hr. PER WEEK UNIT I Digital System- Number System, Logic Gate, Boolean Algebra, Flip-Flops, Registers, Encoders, Decoders, Multiplexers, Demultiplexers, Counters, D/A and A/D Converters, DC Powder Supplies, SMPS, UPS (Block diagram, with technical information). (text 1, Ch:2, Ref- 3 Ch.13) UNIT II Micro Processors, 8085 Evolution of Microprocessors and Digital Computers, memory (Storage Type and Devices), Buses Bus Architecture, Intel 8085, Instruction Cycle, Timing Diagrams, Addressing Modes and Instructions with simple examples. (text 1, Ch, 1,3,4) UNIT III Microprocessors, 8085 Intel 8086, Block Diagram and Operations, Registers, Interrupts, Bus Cycle, Assembler Directives, and Operators, Addressing Modes and Instructions with simple examples. Interfacing peripheral devices PPI 8257, PIC 8259, 8253 Counter / Timer. (text Ch: 7,11, 2,3: ref- 4) UNIT IV Micro controllers, 8051 Detailed Architecture of Single chip Micro controller 8051, Registers, Flags and PSW, Internal Memory, Special Function Registers, I/O Interrupts, Instructions with simple examples, Other 8 bit, 16 bit and 32 bit Micro controllers (block diagram. Only) (text 1: Ch: 10 text 3, Ch: 16, Text- 4, Ch:3) Special Devices CRT, Floppy, Hard Disk and Printer Controllers, KBD 8279, Memory Controllers, cache controllers, CRT display printer, scanners, (Brief Technical Descriptions). Text books: 1.Fundamentals of Microprocessors and Microcomputers by B.Ram Dhanapat Rai Publicaitons (P)Ltd, India. 2.Microprocessors Architecture, Programming and Application with the 8-85, 4th Edition Ramesh S. Gaonkar Penram Inernational Publising (India). 3.Advanced Microprocessors and Peripherals, Architecture, Programming and Interface by A.K.Ray and K.M.Bhurchandi TMH, India. 4.The 8051 Microcontroller Architecture, Programming & Applications, 2nd Edition

by Kenneth J.Ayala Penram International Publising (India). Reference Books and Data books: 1.Digital Systems Principal and Applications, 8th Edition by Ronald J.toccl, Neal S. Widmer Pearson Education PTe, Ltd, India 2.Digital Principles & Applications by Albert Paul Malvino and Donald P, Leach TMH, India. 3.Fundamentals of Digital Circuits by A. Anand Kumar PHI, India. 4.Ics & Microprocessors - Data Hand Book BPB Publications, India 5. The Intel Microprocessors 8-856/8088, 80186/188, Pentium Pro Professor Architecture, Programming and Interfacing 4th Edition By Barry B.Brey PHI, India. 6. Microprocessors and Interfacing, Programming and Hardware By Douglas V.Hall TMH, India. 7. Microprocessor Systems The 8086/8088 Family, Arch, Prog, and Design by Yucheng Liu and Glenn A.Gibson PHI, India. 8. The 8051 Microcontroller and Embedded systems by Muhammed Ali Mazidi, Janice Gillispie Mazid person Education Pte, Ltd, India. 9. Programming and Cuistomizing The 8051 Micro controller by Myke Predko TMH, India. ********************************************************************************** M. Sc. COMPUTER SCIENCE 1.4 Software Engineering 4 Hr. PER WEEK UNIT I Introduction to Software Engineering project size and its categories planning a software project software developing life cycle planning and organizational structure. UNIT II Software cost estimation, Least factor cost estimation techniques, maintenance cost estimation Software requirement specifications -formal specification techniques. UNIT- III Software Design Fundamental design concepts and relations o Modularization Module design techniques detailed design consideration Implementation issues Structures coding techniques coding style standards and guidelines Documentation verification and validation techniques quality assurance walk through and inspection testing format verification. UNIT IV Software tools overview of CASE Software reliability Software errors Faculty Repairs and availability Software maintenance Management aspects of maintenance maintenance tools and techniques. TEXT BOOKS: 1.RS. Pressman Software Engineering. Mc. Graw Hill publishing Co. 1987. Reference: Books: 1.R.Facles Software Engineering, Mc. Graw Hill Publishing Co. 1986. ************************************************************************************* M. Sc. COMPUTER SCIENCE 1.5 COMPUTER GRAPHICS

4 Hr. PER WEEK UNIT I A survey of computer graphics, overview of graphic systems, Video Display devices, Raster Sean systems, Random scare systems, graphic input devices, Hard copy devices. Graphics software.Output Primitives: LineDrawing Algorithms DDA, Bresenhan line Algorithm, Midpoint circle Algorithm, Ellipse Algorithm, Polygon fill Algorithms, : Scar line, Boundary fill, Floodfill Algorithms. UNIT II Attributes of output primitives: Line Attributes, Curve Attributes, Area fill and character Attributes Two dimensional transformations: Basic transformations, homogeneous representation, composite transformation, reflection and shear transformation. UNIT III Two dimensional viewing : Viewing pipeline, windows to view coordinate transformation Clipping Operations: Cohen Sutherland line clipping liang barsky lion clipping, Nicholl-Lee Nicholl Line Clipping Hodgman polygone clipping, weiler Autherton polygon clipping. UNIT IV Three dimensional objective representations, polygon surfaces, plygon tables, plane Equations, cubic Berier curves, B-spline, octrees. 3D transformations : Translation, Rotaiton, Rotations about a arbitrary point Projections: Perspective projections and parallel projections Visible surface detection: Back faced detection: Z-buffer Algorithms Depth sorting Algorithm, Area subdivision Algorithm. TEXT BOOKS: 1.M.Pauline Baker, Computer Graphics, C-Version, Prentice Hall of India Second Edition 1995. Reference Books: 1.Computer Graphics by Harinton, Mc.Graw Hill Publishing Co. 1987. ********************************************************************************** M. Sc. COMPUTER SCIENCE 1.6 (LAB UNIX AND COMPUTER GRAPHICS) 6 Hr. PER WEEK UNIT I a) Shell Programming 1. Using case, them and if Loop 2. To identify the type of a given file 3. Inter process communicating using pipes 4. To wish Good morning and good evening depending on the time b) Programmes Using System Calls: 5. Implementation of Cp(Copy) command of UNIX 6. To create a child process using fork ( ) and exce ( ) system calls 7. Process communication using signals 8. To convert upper case to lower case letters of a given ASCII file UNIT II Computer Graphics (using C) 9. Line drawing algorithms DDA and Bresenhams method 10. Circle and eclipse drawing algorithms parametric and Bresenhams method 11. Algorithm for polygon inside tests and testing convexity 12. Polygon filling using scan conversion method 13. Transformation on 2-D composite objects

14. Line clipping algorithms Sutherland Hodgman method 15. Polygon clopping using Sutherland Hodgman method 16. 3 D transformation on a cube 17. Bezier curves drawing. *********************************************************************************** M. Sc. COMPUTER SCIENCE 1.7 LAB DIGITAL SYSTEMS, MICROPRECESSORS AND MICROCONTROLLLERS 6 Hr. PER WEEK UNIT I Digital Systems: 1. Verification of The Logic Gates, Flip Flops 2. Encoder / Decoder, Mux / Demux 3. Design of Counters UNIT II 1. Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division 2. Fine Ones and Twos complement of a number 3. Find Square and Square root of a number 4. Find Largest and Smallest Number in Data Array / form a Series of Numbers 5. To Arrange a Data / a Series of Number in Ascending and Descending Order 6. Write a Delay Subroutine Program, using One, Two or More Registers 7. Measurement of Physical Quantities of Temperature, Speed of a Motor (using a Tacho generation) 8. Interfacing a Stepper Motor, with forward and Reverse Steps 9. To Generate a Square Wave of Pulse (text 1, Ch; 6,9) UNIT III Microprocessors 8086 1. Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division of the given Operands. 2. Find Largest and Smallest Number in Data Array/from a Series of Numbers\ 3. To Arrange a Data Array/ a Series of numbers in Ascending and Descending order. 4. Display the Message on the Monitor, String Operations. 5. Write a Program to generate a Delay of 100 ms, 100 sec, 1 minute and 10 minutes 6. To Generate Waveforms of Sawtooth, Triangular, Pulse, Sine, by Interfacing DCA By using 8086 Kit, DEBUG of DOS utility, MASM or TASM. UNIT IV 1. Setting up UMPS and getting a program to assemble 2. Arithmetic Operations 3. Direct and Indirect Bank Register Addressing 4. RAM Direct addressing 5. Subroutines 6. State Machines Experiments with Universal Microprocessor Program Simulator (UMPS) (Ref: -9, Ch.9) **********************************************************************************

Semester III
M.SC. COMPUTER SCIENCE 3.1 QUANTITATIVE TECHNIQUES 4 Hr. per week UNIT I: Probability models: Mathematical, Statistical and axiomatic definitions of Probability. Addition and Multiplication rules of probability. Conditional Probability and Bayes Theorem . Discrete and continuous random variables, probability mass function, probability density function, cumulative distribution function and Mathematical expectation of a random variable. Binomial, Poisson, Uniform, Normal, Exponential and Gamma distributions, Mean and variance of these distributions. Concepts of sample, sampling distribution and standard error t, F and Chi square distributions.

UNIT II: Statistical Inference: Estimation of Parameters Unbiasedness, Consistency and efficiency Methods of maximum likelihood and moments. Interval estimation and confidence limits of parameters of normal distribution. Testing of hypotheses Tests of mean (s), variance (s) and proportion (s) and goodness of fit test based on Z, t, F and Chi square distributions. UNIT III: Linear Programming Problem (LPP) : Formulation and solution by Graphical method of LPP. Standard LPP form and its basic solutions. Solution of LPP by simplex algorithm. Use of artificial variables and special cases in simplex algorithm. Definition of dual problem and economic interpretation of duality. Dual simplex method.

UNIT IV: Transportation Problem(TP) : Formulations of it as LPP. Initial basic feasible solution by North West Corner rule. Least cost and Vogels approximation methods. Optimum solution by modified distribution method. Assignment Problem (AP): Formulation of its as LPP. Optimum solution by Hungarian Method. Queuing Theory: Queuing system and characteristics of a queue. M/M/1 queuing system without proofs. Reliability : Concept of reliability , failure density and Hazard function. System reliability of series, parallel and K out of n systems. TEXT BOOKS: 1. Trivedi, K.S: Probability and Statistics with Reliability, Queuing and Computer Applications. Prentice Hall of India, New Delhi(1999). 2. Sharma, S.D: Operations Research, Kedarnath and Ramnath and Co. (2002). REFERENCE BOOKS: 1. Hines, W.W., Montogemery, D.C., Goldsman, D.M. and Borror, C.M: Probability and Statistics in Engineering, Fourth Edition, John Wiley and Sons, Asia Private Limited(2003). 2. Hamdi A. Taha, Operations Research and Introduction Prentice Hall of India New Delhi(1998). *************************************************************************************
3.2 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 4 Hr. per week

Unit I Artificial Intelligence-Definition, introduction to AI techniques Problems Problem spaces and search-state space search problem-production system-problem characteristics-Heuristic search Generate and test, Hill climbing Breadth First search, problem reduction, Constraint satisfaction knowledge representation issues representation and mapping-approaches-issues-the frame problem knowledge representation using predicate logic predicate logic, unification, resolution. Unit II Procedural versus declarative knowledge-Logic Programming-Forward versus backward reasoning-matching declarative knowledge representation-Semantic NetsFrames-Conceptual dependency Scripts, CYC. Symbolic reasoning under uncertainty-Non-monotonic reasoning Implementation of depth-First search and Breadth first search Statistical reasoning, Certainty Factors and rule based systems-Bayesian Networks Dempster Shafter Theory Fuzzy logic.

Unit III Game playing-minmax search-alpha-beta heuristics-refinement intertive depending planning-Components-Goal stack planning-Nonlinear planning hierarchical planning-Learning-Rote learning-Rote learning Learning by taking advice Learning from examples, explain based learning connectist models Neural networks, applications Natural Language processing, syntax, Semantic and pragmatic processing perception. Expert System Representation and using domain knowledge Expert system shells Explanation Knowledge acquisitions.

Unit IV The brain as a dynamical system, Neurons as functions, signal monotonicity, Biological activations and signals, Neuron fields. Theory of Fuzzy sets; Definition dilation, concentration, normalizatization, reasoning with fuzzy logic, natural language computation, Fuzzy Maching algorithms. TEXT BOOKS: 1. W.F.CLICKSIN and C.S.MELLISH, Programming in PROLOG, spinger International Student Edition. 2. Dan.W.Patterson, Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Expert System, Prentice Hall of India. REFERENCE BOOK: 1. Artificial Intelligence by Elanine Rich, Mc Graw Hill Book Company. *************************************************************************************
3.2 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 4 Hr. per week Unit I Artificial Intelligence-Definition, introduction to AI techniques Problems Problem spaces and search-state space search problem-production system-problem characteristics-Heuristic search Generate and test, Hill climbing Breadth First search, problem reduction, Constraint satisfaction knowledge representation issues representation and mappingapproaches-issues-the frame problem knowledge representation using predicate logic predicate logic, unification, resolution. Unit II Procedural versus declarative knowledge-Logic Programming-Forward versus backward reasoning-matching declarative knowledge representation-Semantic Nets-Frames-Conceptual dependency Scripts, CYC. Symbolic reasoning under uncertainty-Non-monotonic reasoning Implementation of depth-First search and Breadth first search Statistical reasoning, Certainty Factors and rule based systems-Bayesian Networks Dempster Shafter Theory Fuzzy logic.

Unit III Game playing-minmax search-alpha-beta heuristics-refinement intertive depending planning-Components-Goal stack planning-Nonlinear planning hierarchical planning-Learning-Rote learning-Rote learning Learning by taking advice Learning from examples, explain based learning connectist models Neural networks, applications Natural Language processing, syntax, Semantic and pragmatic processing perception. Expert System Representation and using domain knowledge Expert system shells Explanation Knowledge acquisitions.

Unit IV The brain as a dynamical system, Neurons as functions, signal monotonicity, Biological activations and signals, Neuron fields. Theory of Fuzzy sets; Definition dilation, concentration, normalizatization, reasoning with fuzzy logic, natural language computation, Fuzzy Maching algorithms.

TEXT BOOKS: 1. W.F.CLICKSIN and C.S.MELLISH, Programming in PROLOG, spinger International Student Edition.

2. Dan.W.Patterson, Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Expert System, Prentice Hall of India. REFERENCE BOOK: 1. Artificial Intelligence by Elanine Rich, Mc Graw Hill Book Company. *************************************************************************************
M.Sc. COMPUTER SCIENCE 3.4 NETWORK SECURITY Unit I Conventional encryption, Security attacks, Security, Model for network security, conventional encryption model, encryption techniques, DES, Triple DES, key distribution, random number generation.

Unit II Public Key cryptology, principles of public key cryptosystems, RSA algorithm, key management, distribution of public keys, public key distribution of secret keys.

Unit III Authentication and digital systems, authenticate requirements functions cryptographic checksum, hash function, digital signatures authentication protocols, Kerberos, x-509 directory, authentication services, Diffie Hellman key exchange, digital signature standards.

Unit IV Cryptographic algorithms, The MD 5 message digest algorithm, secure hash algorithm, international data encryption algorithm, LUCA public key encryption Electronic mail and management security pretty good privacy (PGP), Privacy enhanced mail. TEXT BOOKS: 1. William Stallings, Network and Internet work Security, Prentice Hall of India. **************************************************************************************

M.SC. COMPUTER SCIENCE 3.5(C) PARALLEL PROGRAMMING (Elective) 4 Hr. per week Unit I Introduction to parallel Computing Motivation, scope, parallel programming platforms Implicit parallelism, limitations of memory system performance, dichotomy, physical organization, communication costs, principles of parallel algorithm design preliminaries, decomposition techniques, (Pages No. 1 to 109 from text book). Unit II Tasks and interaction, mapping techniques for load balancing, methods for containing interaction overheads, parallel algorithm models. Basic communication operations one-to-all broadcast and all-to-one reduction and all-to-all broadcast and reduction, scatter and gather. Analytical modeling of parallel programs performance metrics, effect of granularity, scalability. (Page 110-228 from text book). Unit III Programming using message passing - building blocks, message passing interface (MPI), Topology and embedding, non-blocking communication operations, collective communications and computation operations. Programming shared address space threads, synchronization, controlling threads, read-write locks, barriers, OpenMP. (Pages 23 331 of text books)

Unit IV Dense matrix algorithms matrix-vector multiplication, matrix-matrix multiplication, solving a system of linear equations. Sorting algorithms Issues, sorting networks, bubblesort, quicksort. Fast-Fourier transform serial algorithm, binary exchange algorithm, transpose algorithm. (Pages 337-416, 538-560) TEXT BOOK: 1. Ananth Grama, Anshul Gupta, Geroge Karypis, Vipin Kumar Introduction to Parallel Computing, Second Edition, Pearson 2003. REFERENCE BOOKS: 2. Gregory V.Wilson, Practical Programming, PHI 1998. 3. Michael J. Quinn Parallel Programming in C with MPI and OpenMP, Tata McGraw Hill. ***********************************************************************************

M.SC. COMPUTER SCIENCE 3.6 Lab System Security Lab Network Security Practical Implementation of these Algorithms in Java or C/C++ A. Encryption Techniques. * Polyalphabetic Ciphers * Transposition techniques * Hill Ciphers * Playfair Ciphers

* Monoalphabetic Ciphers * DES (Data Encryption Standard) Encryption * Double DES * Triple DES B. Public Key Cryptography using RSA * Key Generation * Encryption & Decryption Techniques * Diffie Hellman key Exchange * Hash Function * Kerboros ( Client & Server ) in Network * MD5 (Message Digest Algorithm) * Secure hash Algorithms(SHA) * Pretty Good Privacy function(services) * Authentication * Confidentiality * Cipher block chaining mode(CBC) * Electronic code book mode(ECB) * Cipher feedback mode * Digital Signature Algorithms * Message Authentication code * Hash message authentication code * Secure Multi purpose Internet mail Extension(S/MIME) * Envoloped Data * Signed Data * Clear Signing * Internet Data Encryption Algorithms * Encryption * Decryption C. Firewall installation & Configuration on Networking O.S such as Linux Server System