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MCTA – 301 Syllabus
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(A) Data Mining and Warehousing
Introduction: Data Mining: Definitions, KDD v/s Data Mining, DBMS v/s Data Mining , DM techniques,
Mining problems, Issues and Challenges in DM, DM Application areas.
Association Rules & Clustering Techniques: Introduction, Various association algorithms like A Priori,
Partition, Pincer search etc., Generalized association rules. Clustering paradigms; Partitioning algorithms
like K-Medioid, CLARA, CLARANS; Hierarchical clustering, DBSCAN, BIRCH, CURE; categorical
clustering algorithms, STIRR, ROCK, CACTUS.
Other DM techniques & Web Mining: Application of Neural Network, AI, Fuzzy logic and Genetic
algorithm, Decision tree in DM. Web Mining, Web content mining, Web structure Mining, Web Usage
Mining.
Temporal and spatial DM: Temporal association rules, Sequence Mining, GSP, SPADE, SPIRIT, and
WUM algorithms, Episode Discovery, Event prediction, Time series analysis. Spatial Mining, Spatial
Mining tasks, Spatial clustering, Spatial Trends. Data Mining of Image and Video : A case study. Image and
Video representation techniques, feature extraction, motion analysis, content based image and video
retrieval, clustering and association paradigm, knowledge discovery.
The vicious cycle of Data mining, data mining methodology, measuring the effectiveness of data mining
data mining techniques. Market baskets analysis, memory based reasoning, automatic cluster detection, link
analysis, artificial neural networks, generic algorithms, data mining and corporate data warehouse, OLA.
301(B) Web Engineering
Introduction: layering, DNS - encapsulation, de-multiplexing, client /server model, port numbers,
standardization process, the Internet. Link layer: introduction, Ethernet and IEEE 802 encapsulation, trailer
encapsulation, SLIP, PPP- Loop back interface, MTU.
Internet protocol: introduction, IP header, IP routing, subnet addressing, subnet mask- special case of IP
addresses, a subnet example. Address Resolution Protocol: Introduction, an example, ARP cache, ARP
packet format, ARP examples, Proxy ARP, ARP command.
RARP: Introduction, RARP packet format, RARP examples, RARP server design. ICMP: Introduction,
ICMP message types, ICMP address mask request and reply- ICMP timestamp request and reply- 4.4 BSD
processing of ICMP Messages.
Ping Program: Introduction, ping program, IP record route option, IP Time stamp option. Trace route
program: Introduction, trace route program operation, LAN output, and WAN output- IP source routing
option. IP routing: Introduction, routing principles, ICMP host, and ICMP redirect errors. Dynamic Routing
protocols: introduction, dynamic routing, RIP-OSPF, BGP, CIDR.
UDP: introduction, UDP header, UDP checksum, IP Fragmentation, UDP Server design. DNS Introductionbasics,
message format, simple example, pointer quires, resource records, caching, UDP. TFTP:
introduction, protocol, security. BOOTP: introduction, packet format, server design, through router.
TCP: Introduction, services, headers, connection establishment and termination, timeout of connection
establishment- maximum segment size- half, close, state transition diagram, reset segments, simultaneous
open and close- options, server design.
SNMP Introduction, protocol, structure of management information, object identifiers, management
information base, instance identification. Telnet: rlogin protocols, examples, telnet protocol and examples.
FTP, protocol, examples, SMTP protocols, examples, NFS, TCP/IP Applications.