PhD Entry Exam for Information Systems Department

PhD Comprehensive Exam, the first semester 2024/2025 Announcement

The Information Systems Department at the Faculty of Computing and Information Technology at King Abdulaziz University announces the Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam for the first semester 2024/2025 which will be on Wednesday 20 th Nov. 2024 and Wednesday 27 th Nov. 2024 for both Male and Female Sections.

اليوم Day

الوقت Time

الاختبار

Exam

مجال الاختبار (المقرر)

The domain of the exam

المكان Place

To be announced

الاربعاء 20 نوفمبر 2024  Wednesday 20 th Nov. 2024

9:00 – 12:00

التحريري Written

CPIS 701

 

CPIS 702

 

CPIS 703

 

CPIS 704

 

13:00 – 15:30

Collective scenario questions based on: CPIS 701, 702, 703, and 704

الاربعاء 27 نوفمبر 2024  Wednesday 27 th Nov. 2024

10:00-13:00

الشفوى

Oral

 

Eligibility

The student is eligible to enter the PhD Comprehensive exam in the semester which is next to the semester where he/she successfully finishes the core courses of CPIS 701, CPIS 702, CPIS 703, and CPIS 704.

 

The comprehensive exam is composed of two exams

(Both exams are taking place in the faculty)

  1. Written
  • Oral

1- The Written Exam

  • Consists of 5 question sheets.
  • It is allowed to bring a limited number of notebook sheets (20 pages of A4 size at most).
  • Portable devices such as mobile phones and laptops are forbidden.
  • It is allowed to use calculators.

2- The Oral Exam

  • Mandatory to be taken for those students who successfully passed the written exam.
  • The student who fails the written part is not eligible to take the oral exam.

Evaluation

The student passes the exam in the case of achieving at least 70% in the written exam and obtaining at least 70% in the oral exam.

 

 

The following references determine the topics in the comprehensive exam

Course Code

Chapter(s) / Description

References

CPIS-701

Prof. Ayman Faypumi

Discrete Probability Distributions

Statistical Techniques in Business and Economics17th Edition, By Douglas Lind and William Marchal and Samuel Wathen, 2018 [ISBN-978-1259666360, Edition, 17th,

Publisher, McGraw Hill] (Ch. 6)

Sampling Methods and the Central Limit

Theorem

Statistical Techniques in Business and Economics17th Edition, By Douglas Lind and

William Marchal and Samuel Wathen, 2018 [ISBN-978-1259666360, Edition, 17th,

Publisher, McGraw Hill] (Ch. 8)

Estimation and Confidence Intervals

Statistical Techniques in Business and Economics17th Edition, By Douglas Lind and

William Marchal and Samuel Wathen, 2018 [ISBN-978-1259666360, Edition, 17th,

Publisher, McGraw Hill] (Ch. 9)

CPIS-702

Prof. Manal Abdelaziz

Chapters (23, 24, 25) Storage and processing in parallel/distributed DBs

Ramez Elmasri, Shamkant Navathe, “Fundamentals of Database Systems”,7th ed.

Chapter (5) NOSQL Databases and Big Data Storage Technologies and Systems

Thomas Erl, Wajid Khattak, Paul Buhler, "Big Data Fundamentals: Concepts, Drivers & Techniques", 1st Edition, Prentice Hall; ISBN-10: 0134291077, ISBN-13: 978-0134291079

Chapter (6) Big Data Processing

Thomas Erl, Wajid Khattak, Paul Buhler, "Big Data Fundamentals: Concepts, Drivers & Techniques", 1st Edition, Prentice Hall; ISBN-10: 0134291077

Chapters (1-5) Knowledge Management

Shabahat Husain, Jean-Louis Ermine, “Knowledge Management Systems: Concepts, Technologies and Practices”, 1st edition. Emerald Publishing, Limited, 2021. ISBN: 978-1-80117-349-0 (Print), ISBN: 978-1-80117-348-3 (Online)

CPIS-703

Prof. Tariq Khanzada

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence A Modern Approach Stuart Russel and Peter Norvig Pearson series-2020 ISBN-13: 978-0134610993, (Ch 1)

Intelligent Agents

Artificial Intelligence A Modern Approach Stuart Russel and Peter Norvig Pearson series-2020 ISBN-13: 978-0134610993, (Ch 2)

Solving Problems by Searching

Artificial Intelligence A Modern Approach Stuart Russel and Peter Norvig Pearson series-2020 ISBN-13: 978-0134610993, (Ch 3)

Search in Complex Environments

Artificial Intelligence A Modern Approach Stuart Russel and Peter Norvig Pearson series-2020 ISBN-13: 978-0134610993, (Ch 4)

Adversarial Search and Games

Artificial Intelligence A Modern Approach Stuart Russel and Peter Norvig Pearson series-2020 ISBN-13: 978-0134610993, (Ch 5)

Logical Agents

Artificial Intelligence A Modern Approach Stuart Russel and Peter Norvig Pearson series-2020 ISBN-13: 978-0134610993, (Ch 7)

Deep Learning

Artificial Intelligence A Modern Approach Stuart Russel and Peter Norvig Pearson series-2020 ISBN-13: 978-0134610993, (Ch 21)

Natural Language Processing

Artificial Intelligence A Modern Approach Stuart Russel and Peter Norvig Pearson series-2020 ISBN-13: 978-0134610993, (Ch 23)

CPIS-704

Dr. Naif Aljhani

Chapter 1: Ubiquitous Computing: Basics and Vision.

Ubiquitous Computing Smart Devices, Environments and Interactions, by Stefan Poslad Queen Mary, University of London, UK, John Wiley and Sons.

Chapter 5: Human-Computer Interaction.

Chapter 6: Tagging, Sensing, and Controlling.

Chapter 7: Context-Aware Systems.

Chapter 8) Intelligent Ubiguitions Systems

Chapter 1: An Introduction to Ubiquitous Computing.

Ubiquitous Computing Fundamentals Edited by John Krumm, 2010

Chapter 8: Context-Aware Computing.


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