Well I have decided on my module options for the final year of my degree course. I shall be posting them back this morning!

I have chosen to go for:

  • CHS2575 - Mobile and Pervasive Computing
  • CHS2525 - Advanced Databases

I feel these will give me the additional skills I need for my intended career as well as adding a bit of variety to my final year work.

One thing I have noticed is that we appear to be doing modules totalling 140 credits, as opposed to 120, for the final year. I will have to ask why that is!

Below are the module synopses for the two optional modules I have chosen.

CHS2575 - Mobile and Pervasive Computing

The range of networks and devices to provide computerfacilities in flexible and unrestricted environments is growing dramatically,and is likely to be one of the major growth areas of IT development in the nextfive years. The technologies provide a broad range of challenges, bothtechnical and commercial. This module presents the state of the art in mobilecomputing, and examines current applications.

CHS2525 - Advanced Databases

Database management systems have been through a history of progressive evolution from hierarchical and network systems through to the relational systems which currently dominate the marketplace. More recently, object-oriented database systems have begun to occupy a small but significant niche and some of the world’s largest databases are supported by object database management systems. Database management systems must continue to evolve as the demands for database services evolve. These demands include support for complex 3-dimensional and 4-dimensional modelling, database accessibility across networks and realtime performance response.