Software specification, design methods, programming and testing techniques and CASE tools. Design a large software system in a group environment using modern software engineering techniques. Prerequisites: CPS 301, CPS 340, CPS 360. Must be 2nd semester junior or 85+ credit hours.

Web-based applications focusing on server-side processing, data persistence, use of web services, Service Oriented Architecture, remote procedure calls, asynchronous messaging, transactions and security considerations. Prerequisite: CPS 340 or ITC 320. Recommended: ITC 341.

Formal definition of programming languages including specification of syntax and semantics. Prerequisites: CPS 240, CPS 340.

Hardware security; Trojan Horse, Supply Chain Attacks, IP Piracy, Side- Channel Attacks, Reverse Engineering, and Countermeasures. Prerequisites: CPS 333, CPS 360.

Operating systems as resource manager. Study of the strategies used to manage system resources such as devices, files, memory, processors. Prerequisites: CPS 340, CPS 360.

Software and operating system security, including holistic approach, static and dynamic testing, buffer-overflow exploits and defense, database security, SQL injection attacks, and virtualization. Prerequisites: CPS 333, CPS 470.

AI for security, trustworthiness of AI, security and privacy of data mining/machine learning based applications, adversarial machine learning, security visualization, anomaly detection. Prerequisites: CPS 333, CPS 480.

Automated reasoning, search strategies, knowledge representation, expert systems, reinforcement learning, machine learning and perception; applications. Prerequisite: CPS 285 or CPS 340.

Selected technical topics of the latest developments in the field. Topic (s) are listed in Course Search and Registration. Repeatable up to 6 credits when content does not duplicate previous special topic studies. Prerequisite: See course search and registration.

Open to students with permission of instructor. May be taken for credit more than once, total credit not to exceed 6 hours. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.

Continuation of senior capstone experience. This course integrates design methods and software engineering techniques to finalize development of a large software system. Prerequisite: CPS 410.