M.Phil.-Ph.D. Programme Area II: Information System

SEG 5010 Advanced Database and Information Systems
SEG 5460 Information Systems Engineering
SEG 5470 Knowledge Systems
SEG 5530 Client/Server Systems Engineering
SEG 5560 E-Commerce Systems
SEG 5640 Human-Computer Spoken Language Systems
SEG 5680 Text Mining Models and Application

SEG 5010 Advanced Database and Information Systems

Database and information system design and control: advanced data structures, query optimization, recovery, concurrency control, deadlock resolution and recovery. Distributed system environment. Object-oriented approach. Engineering application: requirements and proposed solutions. Current Topics.

SEG 5460 Information Systems Engineering

Review of information systems development, systems project planning and control, and other related managerial issues. Information systems engineering economics. Quantitative analysis of systems development. Systems cost and effectiveness analysis. Design principles and methodology for management information systems, decision support systems, real-time systems, and unsurveyable systems.

SEG 5470 Knowledge Systems

The roles of knowledge systems in problem solving. Automation of commonsense reasoning. Non-monotonic and Plausible reasoning. Representation and reasoning about quantities, measurements, time, space, and physics. Knowledge systems to represent mind, plans and goal.

SEG 5530 Client/Server Systems Engineering

Issues in building client/server information systems. Concept, implementation, and management aspects in the development cycle of client/server systems. Advanced technology such as distributed objects, CORBA and COM+, component technology, client/server system management.

SEG 5560 E-Commerce Systems

This course introduces some basic principles of information technologies/systems management, business models and strategies for e-commerce. We will cover technologies and infrastructure required to support electronic commerce, for example, open systems, client/server computing, intelligent agents, knowledge extraction and data mining, middleware and plug-ins, etc. Other important topics, such as electronic payment and internet security, will also be covered.

SEG 5640 Human-Computer Spoken Language Systems

Principles and theories underlying the design and implementation of human-computer spoken language systems. Component technologies including multilingual speech recognition, natural language understanding, dialog modeling, speech synthesis. Related topics including acoustic-phonetics in conversational speech. Linguistic features of spoken language, digital signal processing, pattern recognition, machine learning, statistical modeling and artificial intelligence. Software architectures that integrate the various component technologies. Examples of real applications. Students are advised to take ELE3410 before taking this course.

SEG 5680 Text Mining Models and Application

This course covers basic mining models that are able to discover useful patterns and knowledge from text data. The form of text data ranges from semi-structured representation to free natural language texts. It discusses retrieval models as well as learning models based on user feedback. It also covers advanced models including language modeling, automatic entity extraction, and machine learning models suitable for text. Text mining applications such as knowledge management are presented.