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12.  Current Trends and Technologies

The topics of current interest in Computer Science and Computer Applications shall be covered. The

experts shall use their judgement from time to time to include the topics of popular interest which are

expected to be known by an ardent follower of the field. Currently, they include :

Parallel computing

Parallel virtual Machine (PVM) and message passing interface (MPI) libraries and calls. Advanced

architectures. Today's fastest computersMobile Computing

Mobile connectivity - Cells. Framework, wireless delivery technology and switching methods, mobile

information access devices, mobile data internetworking standards, cellular data communication

protocols, mobile computing applications. Mobile databases - protocols, scope, tools and technology.

E-Technologies

Electronic Commerce : Framework, Media convergence of Applications, Consumer Applications,

Organisation applications.

Electronic Payment Systems : Digital Token, Smart Cards, Credit Cards. Risks in Electronic Payment

System, Designing Electronic Payment Systems.

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) : Concepts, Applications, (Legal, Security and Privacy) issues.

EDI and Electronic Commerce. Standardisation and EDI. EDI Software Implementation. EDI

Envelope for Message Transport, internet-based EDI.

Data Warehousing : Data Warehouse environment, architecture of a data warehouse methodology,

analysis, design, construction and administration.

Data Mining : Extracting models and patterns from large databases, data mining techniques,

classification, regression, clustering, summarization, dependency modelling, link analysis,

sequencing analysis, mining scientific and business data.

Principles of parallelism, co routines, communication and execution, Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM)

and Message Passing Interface (MPI) routines and calls. Parallel programs in PVM paradigm as well

as MPl paradigm for simple problems like matrix multiplication.

NOTE: - It may be noted that apart from the topics detailed above, questions from other topics prescribed for the educational qualification of the post may appear in the question paper. There is no undertaking that all the topics above may be covered in thequestion paper.

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