SWE485 - Selected Topics in Software Engineering

This course is designed to enable students to study different special topics of interest, which are carefully selected from software engineering topics. The contents of such a course are to be determined by the department council each time the course is offered. Topics of interest could be one or several from the following: Formal specifications using formal languages (Z, B, etc.), design patterns, component-based development, Agile and eXtreme programming, Aspect-oriented architecture, Service-oriented computing, and architecture, etc. Other topics can be added as needed. Students participate in group projects related to the special topic(s) selected.

In Spring 2019, the topic was Cloud Computing and Data Science. Where different data analytics algorithms and techniques were introduced: Data Analytics Lifecycle, Advanced Analytical Theory and Methods (Clustring, Association Rules, Regression, and Classification), web and text data mining, and Data visualization.