Computational and Visualization Theory detailed syllabus for Automobile Engineering (AUTO) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the AUTO students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Automobile Engineering 5th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit AUTO 5th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-II scheme and its subjects refer to AUTO Professional Elective-II syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of computational and visualization theory is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
AUTOMATA THEORY 9 Defining Automaton, Finite Automaton, Transitions and Its properties, Acceptability by Finite Automaton, Nondeterministic Finite State Machines, DFA and NDFA equivalence, Mealy and Moore Machines, Minimizing Automata.
Unit II
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Unit III
TURING MACHINES & UNDECIDABILITY 9 Turing Machine Definition, Representations, Acceptability by Turing Machines, Designing and Description of Turing Machines, Turing Machine Construction, Variants of Turing Machine, Undecidability: The Church-Turing thesis, Universal Turing Machine, Halting Problem, Introduction to Unsolvable Problems
Unit IV
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Unit V
MULTIDIMENSIONAL VISUALIZATION 9 1D, 2D, 3D – Multiple Dimensions – Trees – Web Works – Data Mapping: Document Visualization – Workspaces.
Course Outcomes:
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Text Books:
- Hopcroft E. J., Ullman D. J. and Motwani R., Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages and Computation, Pearson Education (2007) 3rd ed.
- Martin C. J., Introduction to Languages and the Theory of Computation, McGraw-Hill Higher Education (2011) 4th ed.
- Colin Ware Information Visualization Perception for Design,3 rd edition, Morgan Kaufman 2012.
- Stuart.K.Card, Jock.D.Mackinlay and Ben Shneiderman, Readings in Information Visualization Using Vision to think, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1999.
Reference Books:
- Theory of Computation, Kavi Mahesh, Wiley India
- Elements of the Theory of Computation, Lewis, Papadimitriou, PHI
- Introduction to Languages and the Theory of Computation, John E Martin, McGraw-Hill Education
- Introduction to Theory of Computation, Michel Sipser, Thomson
- Chaomei Chan, Information Visualization,Beyond the horizon, 2nd edition, Springer Verlag, 2004.
- Pauline Wills, Visualisation: A Beginners Guide, Hodder and Stoughlon, 1999.
For detailed syllabus of all the other subjects of Automobile Engineering 5th Sem, visit AUTO 5th Sem subject syllabuses for 2021 regulation.
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