Course Catalogue

This is an advanced course in UNIX system facilities. It complements the operating systems course, in that it provides hands-on experience with such facilities as signals, semaphores and file locks. Familiarity with the C language is assumed. About 40% of the course is devoted to UNIX shell programming and some useful utilities like sed and awk. The rest of the course does the UNIX system calls in detail – unbuffered I/O, directories, process creation, signals, pipes, record locks, interposes communication, terminal handling and some tcp/ip calls.

This course explain the capabilities of both humans and computers from the viewpoint of human information processing, describe typical human–computer interaction (HCI) models and styles, as well as various historic HCI paradigms, apply an interactive design process and universal design principles to designing HCI systems, describe and use HCI design principles, standards and guidelines, analyze and identify user models, user support, socio-organizational issues, and stakeholder requirements of HCI systems, discuss tasks and dialogs of relevant HCI systems based on task analysis and dialog design, analyze and discuss HCI issues in groupware, ubiquitous computing, virtual reality, multimedia, and Word Wide Web-related environments.

This course describes properties and architecture of enterprise systems, account for strategies and approaches for implementation and use of enterprise systems, explain how enterprise systems support organizations, analyses implementation and use of enterprise systems from a socio-technical perspective, apply socio-technical models and provide recommendations for implementation and use of enterprise systems implementation, discuss and present critical issues related to implementation and use of enterprise systems, critically assess the role of enterprise systems in organizations, argue for different enterprise systems solutions.

Electronic Business is an interdisciplinary topic encompassing both business and technology. Basic business aspects and applications throughout the business world include commercial business, government, education, and health services. The major characteristics, opportunities, and limitations of this form of business are explored. Students study various issues and risks that exist in the rapidly changing world of electronic business.