Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Dear Students,
I wish you all a merry Christmas and a happy new year 2009.
Sohag

Doubts - Financial Management

Dear Students,
Please post your doubts regarding FM in this thread. To post doubts click on the comments link below.

Doubts - Simulation and Modeling

Dear Students,
Please post your doubts regarding SM in this thread. To post doubts click on the comments link below.

LESSON PLAN - FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

LESSON PLAN

4^TH SEMESTER BCA

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

Sl.No	UNIT	CLASSES
1	Basic Accounting	2
2	Journal and ledger concepts	2
3	Types of accounts	2
4	Rules of entries	2
5	Branches of accounting	2
6	Objectives of financial accounting	2
7	Merits and demerits of financial accounting	2
8	Financial statements	2
9	Introduction to balance sheet	2
10	Profit and loss account	2
11	Funds flow statement	2
12	Ratio analysis	2
13	Types of ratios	2
14	Merits and demerits	2
15	Budgetary control	2
16	Essentials of a budget	1
17	Budget manual	1
18	Merits and demerits of budget cost concept	1
19	Definition, cost centre, cost unit, cost sheet	2
20	Overhead and allocation of overhead	1
21	Working capital	1
22	Importance of working capital	1
23	Principles of working capital	1
24	Dividend Decisions	1
25	Policy of Dividend	1
26	Essentials of a sound dividend policy	1

LESSON PLAN - SIMULATION AND MODELING

LESSON PLAN

4^TH SEMESTER MCA

SIMULATION AND MODELING

Sl.No	UNIT	CLASSES
1	System Models and Role of Simulation	2
2	Entities, Attributes, States and Activities	2
3	Types of System- Deterministic, Stochastic, Continuous and Discrete Systems	2
4	Steps in Simulation Studies	2
5	Statistical Tools and Techniques	2
6	Generation of Pseudorandom Numbers	2
7	Random Variate generation for uniform, poisson and normal distributions	2
8	Sampling and estimation	2
9	Maximum likelihood estimation	2
10	Confidence Intervals and Hypothesis Testing	2
11	Stochastic Processes and Markov Models	2
12	Discrete Event Simulation languages	1
13	Simulation of inventory and queuing systems-single and multi server queues	3
14	Network of queues	2
15	Modeling and performance evaluation of computers and computer communication networks	2
16	Workload characterization	1
17	Continuous System Simulation Languages	2
18	Growth and decay models	1
19	Verification and Validation of Simulation models	1
20	I/O Validation	1
21	Performance Measures and their estimation	2
22	Case Studies	2

38th ISTE Convention : Call for Papers

Dear Students,
Please go through the following call for papers for the 38th ISTE Convention.

38th ISTE Convention & IFEES International Conference

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THEME:

'Autonomy and accountability of technical education in changing scenario.'

SUB_THEMES:
a) Challenges and opportunity:

• Academic
• Managerial/Administration
• Financial
• Social

b) Role and responsibility of Stakeholders:

• Faculty/Management
• Regulatory bodies
• Industries
• Students/Parents
• Publics

c) Benchmarking performance assessments

d) Institutional capacity building.

e) Implementation strategies and recommendations.

Guidelines for Paper Submission:

The full paper (Not exceeding 3000 words) with an abstract not exceeding 250 words typed in A$ size sheets in single column with single line spacing may be sent in both hard and soft copies to the organization secretary on or before 25th November 2008. Soft Copies attached in MSWord document files should be sent at the following addresses.

isteconf08@gmail.com /isteconf08@kiit.ac.in

pt should be prepared in MS Word with font size 10 (Times new Roman). The title should be bold, capital and font size 12 followed by authors name and affiliations in 10 font size (Capital). Acceptance of the paper will be communicated to the authors by 5^th December 2008. For the paper to be selected and included in the proceeding one of the authors must register himself/herself. Author/s are requested to present their papers in the conference for general interest.

Important Dates

Papers with abstract to be sent before

25^th November 2008.

Announcement of Paper acceptance

5th December 2008.

Best of Luck.....

Best of luck to 3rd and 5th sem students for ur term end examinations......

NM LAB : Assignment 1

NM Lab Assignment 1-Errors

1. Write a program in C to find absolute error.

2. Write a program in C to find relative error.

3. Write a program in C to find percentage error.

Durga Puja Greetings

Dear Students,
I Wish you all a very happy Durga Puja Vacation. Enjoy your holidays and utilize your time effectively. Meet you all after the vacation.
Best Wishes,
Sohag

Format for Final Year MCA (6th semester) Thesis Submission

Dear Students,
I'm uploading a PhD thesis which can serve as a reference for your masters thesis to be presented in 6th Semester. You can download the thesis here.
Best Wishes,
Sohag

Format for Seminar Presentation

Dear Students,
I am uploading a sample format for seminar presentations and one example presentation. You can use this format for your presentations.
Best Wishes,
Sohag.

Blank Presentation Format

Presentation Example

AI LAB: Assignment 10

1. What is the difference between DO and DO*. Illustrate with examples.

2. What is the use of infinite loop using DO. Illustrate with an example.

AI LAB: Assignment 9

1. Write a function to check two lists that are collections of single alphabets and output the common alphabets.

2. Using MAPCAR get a list of 8 numbers and output their squares.

AI LAB: Assignment 8

1. Using iteration get 10 numbers from the user and return their sum.

2. Write a function to compute factorial of a number.

AI LAB: Assignment 7

1. Write a function MAKE-EVEN that makes an odd number even by adding 1 to it. If the input is already even then it should be returned unchanged.

2. Take roll number of a student as input and return the name if present in the college register (consider the total number of students to be 5). If roll number is not present then inform the user. Use COND for this question.

AI LAB: Assignment 6

1. Write a simple function in LISP to read data from a file.
2. Get the name, roll number and state of residence of a student and write the data to a file.
3. Why is the special direction :DIRECTION :OUTPUT used?

AI LAB: Assignment 5

1. How does a string differ from a list?
2. Write a function to accept the name of the user and print "welcome ".
3. Calculate the pay of a worker in dollars by getting his pay in Indian Rupees. Use the conversion rate 1USD=42INR.
4. Write a function using yes-or-no-p that asks a person whether his salary is more than Rs.1.5 lakhs. If he answers yes then print "your income is taxable" else print "your income is not taxable".

Internship Opportunities at the Planning Commission of India

Dear Students,
There is an opportunity of doing your internship at the Planning Commission of India. Please download the rules and the form here. Apply as soon as possible.
Best Wishes.

MCA 5th Semester - Artificial Intelligence : First Order Logic and Building a Knowledge Base

Dear Students,
Please download the notes for Unit 5 and 6 here and here.
The topics covered include:

First Order Logic and Building a Knowledge Base

MCA 5th Semester- Artificial Intelligence- Unit 4: Agents that Reason Logically

Dear Students,
Please download the notes for Unit 4 here.
The topics covered include:
Knowlwdge based agent, Wumpus world environment, Representation, Reasoning and Logic, Propositional Logic: A very simple logic, An agent for the Wumpus world

Best of Luck for Mid Semester

Dear Students,
I wish you all the best for your mid-semester examinations starting from 1st September 2008. I hope that you all will come out in flying colours.

AI LAB : Assignment 4

Assignment 4

1. Define PAILLNDROMEP that tests its argument(a list) whether the list has a sequence of symbols when read from left to right and right to left.

2. Check whether thr following number sequences are in ascending order:

a) 33, 4, 2, 55, 983, -23

b)12, 4, 55, 76, 18

3. Check whether thr following number sequences are in descending order:

a) 3 2 1 -1

b)2 5 7 3 5

4. Create four lists of tour choice and check whether their contents are equal.

AI LAB : Assignment 3

Assignment 3

1. Define a procedure with name EXCHANGE that returns the elements of a two element list in reverse order.

2. Define a procedure COMBINE that does the same task as done by APPEND for four lists.

3. Define a procedure to delete the first four elements and the last three elements from a list of 10 elements.

4. What is the difference between the primitives LET and LET*. Explain using example.

Simplified Memory Bounded A* (SMA*) Search

Dear Students,
Please go through the following example of Simplified Memory Bounded A* (SMA*) Search and post any doubts that you have. Download the rar file here.

Quiz Test Postponed

Dear Students,
Since some of you have doubts in the Search section, I am postponing the quiz test scheduled to be held on 19th August 2008. This test will be held after your Mid-Semester examination. Date and syllabus for the test will be intimated at the appropriate time.

Quiz test on 19th August 2008

Dear Students,
Please note that a quiz test on Artificial Intelligence will be held on 19th August 2008. The total marks will be 50 and duration will be 45 minutes. Marks obtained in this test will be added to the final marks for this semester. So make sure that everyone attends the exam.

AI LAB : Assignment 2

Assignment 2

1. Create a list ORISSA with atoms [BBSR CTC PURI PDP BHR]. Find the length of the list. Remove PURI from the list.

2. Create a list INDIA with 8 elements of your choice. Delete the fourth element and insert your name in the first position.

3. Create a list CRICKET with 10 elements and perform the following operations:

a) Insert a sublist in the first place

b) Remove the eighth element

c) Change the list by inserting a new element in the first place without using CONS

4. Create a list of four sublists and use the key of the second sublist to retrieve information using ASSOC.

5th Semester Assignment for Artificial Intelligence (Theory)

Dear Students,
You are required to submit the following assignment after your mid semester examinations. Originality of content with appropriate examples will be graded accordingly.

Q. Explain the difference between Breadth First Search and Uniform Cost Search with examples. Analyze each of the algorithms.

GRASS GIS

Dear Students,

I'm giving the link to the GRASS Geographic Information System homepage. Interested students can download the latest stable version along with user and programming manuals. Students who would like to do their 6th Semester project in GIS are advised to start using GRASS.

GRASS Software

Tutorials and Books on GRASS

Artificial Intelligence - Search Techniques

Dear Students,
Please go through the following resources for Search Techniques:

1. Breadth First Search

2. Depth First Search

Missionaries and Cannibals

Three missionaries and three cannibals come to a river and find a boat that holds two. If the cannibals ever outnumber the missionaries on either bank, the missionaries will be eaten.

How shall they cross?

Post your responses here.

Artificial Intelligence : Theory Doubts

Dear Students,
Please post all your doubts regarding Artificial Intelligence(theory) here.

Dot NET framework 3.0 for LISP

Dear Students,
Please download the Dot NET framework 3.0 from here. This is required for the LISP IDE.
Best Regards,
Sohag.

Examples of Environments

Dear Students,
We had a lively discussion in the class on examples of various types of environments. Taking the act further, please post some examples (with appropriate explanations) for the environments that we have studied. Click here to post your examples.
Best Regards,
Sohag

Opportunity at United Nations University

Dear students,
There is an opening at United Nations University, Macau SAR, China for the post of trainee system administrator. last date to apply is 15th August 2008. You can get all the information here.

Artificial Intelligence- Chapter 3: Problem Solving- Part 1

This post presents the topic Solving Problems by Searching. Topics covered include:
Problem solving agents and Formulating Problems.
You can save the images to your PC/Laptop. You can also download the rar file for this chapter here. In case of doubts leave comments. I will try my best to get them clarified as soon as possible.

Artificial Intelligence Chapter 2: Intelligent Agents

This post presents the topic Intelligent Agents. Topics covered include:

How agents should act, Structure of Intelligent agents, Environments.
You can save the images to your PC/Laptop. You can also download the rar file for this chapter here. In case of doubts leave comments. I will try my best to get them clarified as soon as possible.

AI LAB : Assignment 1

1. Perform the following arithmetic operations in COMMON LISP:
a. 34+21
b. 35+(70/2)
c. (100+25)/(15/3)

2. Create a list named MCA containing atoms [ masters in computer applications]. Remove the atom computer and insert comp in its place.

3. Explain the difference between FIRST and REST using examples.

AI-LAB : LISP Software

Dear Students,
Please download the LISP software from here. We will use this for AI lab.

MCA 5th Semester - Artificial Intelligence - Chapter 1- Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

This post presents the first part of Unit 1 of Artificial Intelligence. Topics covered include:

The foundations of Artificial Intelligence, The history of Artificial Intelligence and the state of the art.

You can save the images to your PC/Laptop. You can also download the rar file for this chapter here. In case of doubts leave comments. I will try my best to get them clarified as soon as possible.

MCA 5th Semester - Artificial Intelligence - Introduction

Dear students,

I am uploading the notes for artificial intelligence(AI). If you have any doubts please feel free to leave a comment. Your prescribed book for Artificial Intelligence is Russell and Norvig. Please remember that these notes are key-notes and not exhaustive notes. You are strongly encouraged to prepare personal notes using the resources at your disposal. Assignments and additional resources will also be uploaded here.

Best Wishes,
Sohag