1997 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

grammar; FIRST and FOLLOW sets; the algorithm of a
parser; introduction to bottom-up parsing; code
generation; quadruples; a practical solution of typical
problems of code generation; putting the compiler together.
Recommended Reading
Aho,A.,Sethi, R., UllmanJ., Compilm. Principles, Techniques and
Tools, Addison-Wesley,
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Reading, 1986.
ES501 Real-Time Systems
10 credit points .3 hours per week.. Hawthorn 0.
Prerequisite: ES301.. Instruction: lecture and laboratory
sessions. Assessment: assignments and final examination.
A final year subject in the Bachelor of Software Engineering
and a final year elective in the Bachelor of Applied Science.
Objectives
To study the design and implementation of hard real-time
systems
Content
Characteristics of real-time systems; safety, reliability and
fault tolerance; resource management and deadlock
prevention;clocks and deadlines; low-level programming,
interrupt handling; pre-emptive scheduling; real-time
kernels; real-time aspects of distributed systems; analysis
for real-time systems; introduction to real-time
methodologies.
Recommended Reading
Burns, A & Wellings, A., Real-Time Systems and their
Programming Languages, Addison-Wesley, Wokingham, UK,
1990.
Gomaa, H., Software Design Systemsfor Concurrent and Real-Time
Systems, Addison-Wesley, Reading, Ma, 1993.
ES503 Software Engineering Project
.
30 credit points over two semesters.. 3 hours per week in Sem
I, 1 hour per week in Sem 2.. Hawthorn Prerequisite:
ES300, ES304.0 Instruction: lecture, contact with supervisor
. and project team sessions. Assessment:
assignments.
A final year subject in the Bachelor of Applied Science and
the Bachelor of Software Engineering.
Objectives
To develop a software system in a large team (10 or more
members); to apply the range of knowledge and skills
u, !gained throughout the course, especially in Software
-. & Engineering, Programming, Data Communications,
8 Database and Multi-User/Multi-Platform Technologies.
Content
Initiation, specification, design, implementation, testing and
initial maintenance of a large software system development,
requiring students to function as members of a sizable team
(Where possible these projects will be relevant to identifiable
industry needs); theoretical material will encompass the
tools that will be required for the software development.
Recommended Reading
Boehm, B.W., Software Risk Management, IEEE Computer
Society Press, Washington, 1989.
Fenton, N.E., Software Metrics: A Rigorous Approach, Chapman &
Hall, London, 1991.
.
ES504 Advanced Software Engineering 1
10 credit points 3 hours per week.. Hawthorn
Prereauisite: ES304.e Instruction: lecture and tutorial.
Assessment: assignments and final examination.
A third year subject in the Bachelor of Software Engineering
and an elective subject in the Bachelor of Applied Science.
Objectives
To demonstrate proficiency in current approaches and
techniques in Process Modelling, Software Architecture and
Software Validation and Verification.
Content
Process Modelling, Process Modelling Concepts, Process
Modelling Practice, Process Modelling Tools: Software
Architecture, Architecture Types, Finite State Machines,
Peer to Peer Architecture, Client/Server Architecture,
Layers and Partitions, Distributed Systems, Patterns;
Validation and Verification, V+V concepts, Static
Approaches, Dynamic Approaches, Acceptance, The
Cleanroom Approach.
Recommended Reading
Christie, A,, Software Process Automation, Springer-Verlag,
NewYork, NY 1995.
Gamma, E. et al., Design Patternr Elements of Reusable Object-
Oriented Software, Addison-Wesley, Reading MA, 1995.
.
Prerequisite: ES404.8 Instruction: lecture and tutorial.
ES506 Advanced HCI 1
10 credit points 3 hours per week.. Hawthorn .
Assessment: assignments and final examination.
An elective subject in the Bachelor of Software Engineering
and the Bachelor of Applied Science.
0 b jectives
To develop ability in selecting techniques for user centred
system; design; to introduce the philosophy and techniques
of cooperative user interface development; to introduce the
philosophy . . and techniques of cognitive user; interface
development.
Content
Designing the design process; the effect of context on
method selection; participatory approaches, the
cooperative paradigm, participative design methods,
contextual inquiry, sociotechnical design, participative
evaluation, ethnomethodology, the technology of
participatory design; formal modelling-based approaches,
function and task modeling, user modeling, situation
modeling, activity modeling.
Recommended Reading
Greenbaum, J. & Kyng, M., Design at Work: Cooperative Design of
Computer
Systems, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, NJ, 1991.
Monk, A., Wright, P., Haber, J. &Davenport, L., Improving
Your Human-
Computer Interface: A Practical Technique,: Prentice Hall, .
New York, 1993.