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.
