Chh. Shahu Central Institute of Business Education & Research, Kolhapur
(An Autonomous Institute Under UGC Act)

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER STUDIES

Annual Report 2001-2002

Faculty Resources:

The department has 8 full time faculty members and during the year under review the Department had received support of 4 visiting faculty members specialized in different disciplines. A primary objective of seeking the services of visiting faculty for programme during the year under review has provide skills to the students on the new development in the field of Computer industry. The visiting faculty was drawn from various software companies of Bangalore and academic from Kolhapur.

Attendance at the Department by Teaching and Non-teaching staff:

For the teaching faculty, it is very difficult to visualize a time frame during the day for teaching and research activity in the department. However faculty members were present in the department at 9:00 hrs. and remain till 19:00 hrs. The timings for the non-teaching staff were restricted for 8:00 hrs. to 19:00 hrs.

Attendance of faculty members at the Conference

Our faculty members Mr. D. Rajesh Duthie, Mr. Solomon Pushaparaj and Dr. S. D. Bhoite had participated and Mr. Duthie & Dr. Bhoite had presented research papers in the international conference on Artificial Intelligence (ISAI'2001) held at Fort Panhala, Kolhapur. Dr. R. A. Akerkar was the convenor and chairman of international programme committee of the ISAI'2001 conference.

Seminars & colloquium :

Mr. D. Rajesh Duthie and Dr. S. D. Bhoite have attended national seminar on Computer Applications held at Sardar Patel University, Gujarat. Both the faculty members have presented research papers in the conference.

Dr. R. M. Patil and Mr S. D. Mundhe had attended refresher course in computer science held at University of Goa, Goa.

Activities of placement Cell:

The department has received excellent response for our project as well as a campus recruitment program from software organizations. Our alumni are appointed in leading companies. Some of the companies have recruited our students are: Tata Technologies Ltd., NIC, XLNET, Kale Consultancy, L& T IT, NAL Bangalore, Fortune, DSS, Softpro, Indus Software, Surya Consultancy, CMC. We wish to continue our support to industry by offering our current batch of students for placements. We are happy to note that 64 final year students out of 68 were absorbed in the organization where they did their organizational training.

The department has received excellent response for project recruitment program form software organizations. In December 2001, our final year MCA students have joined software organizations in Pune, Mumbai, Bangalore and New Delhi for their organizational training. Most of them were place din well known IT companies almost of them also getting Stipend for the project period. Dr. R Akerkar, Dr. S. D. Bhoite, and Mr. Ajay Shinde has made visits to many of the software organizations in Pune, Bangalore, Pimpari, Chinchwad, Vashi, And Mumbai, where our students were placed for project phase was over, 96 % of our MCA project trainees got placement in the some organization and few more are likely to be continued in their respective project organization.

Publication of the faculty

Research Papers: By Dr. R. A. Akerkar:
1. KRIS: Knowledge Representation Formalism, Refereed Proceedings of ISAI'2001, 2001. (Jointly with D.R. Duthie)
2. KRIS: Knowledge Representation Interctive System, Refereed Proceedings of the National Seminar on Computer Applications, Gujarat, India, 2001. (Jointly with D.R. Duthie)
3. Neural Networks: Additional Dynamism to AI, Refereed Proceedings of ISAI'2001, 2001. (Jointly with M. Joshi)

Research Papers: By Dr. S. D. Bhoite:
1. Some Vital Issues Pertaining To Computer Education Centres A Student's Feedback, Proceedings of the National Seminar on 'Applications Of Computers' held at S. P. University and Computer Society of India, Gujrat (India), 2 -3rd Feb.2001.
2. AcademicExcellence Through Knowledge-based Decision Support System, In the proceedings of an International Symposium On Artificial Intelligence held at Fort Panalha by Technomathematics Research Foundation (TMRF), Kolhapur (India), 18-20th Dec.2001.

Books Published: By Dr. R. A. Akerkar
( Books marked with * are currently being used as textbooks in Shivaji University and Bombay University computer science/ engineering curriculum. )

1. Nonlinear Functional Analysis, Narosa Publishing House, New Delhi & London and American Mathematical Society. [ISBN 81-7319-230-8] This book is used as supplementary text in 51 universities world-wide.
2. Symbolic Algebraic Computation, TMRF Lecture Notes, TMRF, Kolhapur, 2001.
3. * Software Engineering, Mahalaxmi Publishing, Kolhapur., 2002.
4. * Theory of Computer Science: Automata, Languages & Complexity, Mahalaxmi Publishing, Kolhapur, 2001.
5. * Discrete Mathematics, Mahalaxmi Publishing House, Kolhapur. (with Rupali Akerkar)
6. Applications of Computer Algebra, Proceedings of ISACA'2000, (Editor) Allied Publishers, New Delhi, 2001. [ ISBN 81-7764-181-6 ].
7. Future Trends in Artificial Intelligence, Proceedings of ISAI'2001, (Editor) Allied Publishers, New Delhi, 2002. [ ISBN 81-7764-298-7 ]

Books Published: By Dr. R. A. Akerkar & S. D. Bhoite
( Books marked with * are currently being used as textbooks in Shivaji University and Bombay University computer science/ engineering curriculum. )
8. * Glimpses of C Programming, Mahalaxmi Publishing House, Kolhapur
9. * Glimpses of Visual Basic, Mahalaxmi Publishing House, Kolhapur
10. *Glimpses of C++ Programming, Mahalaxmi Publishing House, Kolhapur

Details of Research profile of the Department

Research details of faculty members is given below:
a) Research Area: Knowledge Representation & Reasoning

Faculty: R.Akerkar

Goal: To develop mathematical theories, algorithms, implementation techniques software libraries/packages, user interfaces for efficiently and reliably solving non-linear constraints, arising in science and engineering, and declaration language design.

b) Research Area: knowledge Representation & Reasoning
Faculty : R.Akerkar and D.R. Duthie
Goal: To develop KRR system for the representation of knowledge associated with natural language dialog. A KRR system to present a formalization of a propositional semantic network based knowledge representation and reasoning system that addresses our objectives for natural language processing

c) Research Area: knowledge Representation & Reasoning
Faculty : R.Akerkar
Goal: To to propose a computational model- a framework for knowledge-intensive
problem solving & learning from experiences. Also, to study case-based reasoning
and learning.

d) Research Area: Design and development of Computer applications
Faculty: R. M. Patil
Goal: To apply various operation research techniques to real world problems.

e) Research Area: IT, Data warehousing, and Data mining
Faculty : S.D.Bhoite
Goal: To study the changing scenario of technology and develop a new framework
for AI application in Data Ware housing and Data Mining

f) Research Area: Procedure oriented and object oriented Software Engineering
Faculty: Ajay d. Shinde
Goal: To design tool for translation of procedure oriented design to object oriented design.

g) Research Area: Machine learning for Data mining in Medicine
Faculty : R.Akerkar And Solomon pushparaj
Goal: Development of an electronic documentation system for medical data, Systematic collection of data by means of documentation systemand knowledge discovery within the data by means of Data Mining tools & study of the evaluation criteria appropriate for supporting medical problem solving

Seminars/Guest Lectures:

During the Academic year, MCA Placement Cell Department of Computer Studies has organized Guest seminars/ Colloquium on various topics. In which, seven eminent software experts and academicians have delivered lectures. Their names are as follows:

Nitin Purohit ( EdVenture Systems), Sangram Patil (Global Infosys), N. A. Patil (Gokul), Ajay Sabanis (Orchid ), Prof. Manish Joshi (NMU, Jalgaon), D. Rajesh Duthie (SIBER), Prof. A. A. Bagwan (Dr. DY Patil College of Engg., Kolhapur).