Faculty of Science

Pre-screening form Master of Computer Science 2015-2016

Department Mathematics and Computer Science

Master of Computer Science

2015-2016
Pre-screening form

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Pre-screening form Master of Computer Science 2015-2016

Faculty of Science

Department Mathematics and Computer Science

IMPORTANT!
Participation in the pre-screening does not imply any official decision by the University of
Antwerp concerning admission. It is a preliminary appraisal of the suitability of your
academic background. The decisions of the Board of Admission will be based on the
information provided in this pre-screening application.
Follow the instructions from the Guidelines and Examples Pre-screening
Form for the Master of Computer Science to fill out the pre-screening form.
Fill out this pre-screening application very meticulously and supply all supporting
documents as proof in attachment of your pre-screening application and send all to
master-cs@uantwerp.be . Applications will be iterated just once. Only complete
applications will be forwarded to the Board of Admission for pre-screening.

1. Checklist supporting documents

Document
Scan of Diploma (and translation if applicable)
Scan of Transcript of Records (and translation if
applicable)
Course contents of the important courses listed
in paragraph 7 on Scientific Background in this
application document (only translation if
applicable)
Motivation for major
Proof of English Proficiency
Recommendation letters (not mandatory)
Application submission: write name, date and signature)

2. Personal Data
Last Name
First Name
Nationality (indicate if double)
Date of Birth (dd/mm/yyyy)
Place of Birth (city and country)
Gender (Male/Female)
Native Language
Present Address (street, city,
country)
Phone (with land code)
Fax (with land code)
Email
Permanent Address (if different from
above)
Phone
Fax
Email
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Status

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Department Mathematics and Computer Science

3. Academic Data
(Follow Guidelines and Examples)

Institute/University
Diploma/Degree
From
Until
Final Grade
Extra info
(Copy table as often as necessary.)

4. Professional and practical experience

(Follow Guidelines and Examples)

Type of work
Duration (from...until...)
Employer
Type of work
Duration (from...until...)
Employer
(Copy table as often as necessary.)

5. English Language Skills

(Follow Guidelines and Examples)

1. Via an English language test

Name of the test

Date

2. I planned a language test

Name of the test

Date

Score

3. Via proof of earlier instruction in (add proof to your application)

English.
Name university/college/institution
Programme

6. Major of interest
(Follow Guidelines and Examples)

Major of interest (one major only):

7. Motivation
(Follow Guidelines and Examples)

8. Scientific background requirements common to all

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Pre-screening form Master of Computer Science 2015-2016

Department Mathematics and Computer Science

majors
(Follow Guidelines and Examples)

Computer skills

UNIX-based operating system (Ubuntu or similar): file operations, installing

software
and libraries, shell scripting, regular expressions, network configuration
proficiency;
familiarity with at least one integrated development environment (e.g. Eclipse,
Code: Blocks, netbeans);
usage of compiler, linker, debugger, profiler etc. in at least on environment;

usage of a distributed Version Control Systems (Mercurial, Git or similar);

familiarity with at least one word processing system.

Course Name

Semest Grade
er

Keywords

(Add as many lines as appropriate. Avoid courses that do not cover these subjects.)

Programming and software development

Proficiency in at least one dynamically typed object oriented language (e.g.

Python, Ruby);
proficiency in at least one statically typed object oriented language (e.g. C++,
Java);
thorough understanding of object-oriented constructs (classes, inheritance,
polymorphism);
thorough understanding of programming constructs (generics, exception
handling, threads);
strong programming skills including use of appropriate language idiom, design
patterns, etc;
familiarity with structured development processes, analysis, architecture and
design of software;
Object Oriented Design Patterns (factory, singleton, adapter/wrapper, bridge,
faade, proxy,
command, observer, visitor, iterator, state, model-view-controller).
Course Name

Semest Grade
er

Keywords

(Add as many lines as appropriate. Avoid courses that do not cover these subjects.)

Mathematics

Discrete mathematics (set theory, number theory, logic, proof by induction);

calculus (summation, integrals, boundedness, injection/surjection/bijection,

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Pre-screening form Master of Computer Science 2015-2016

Department Mathematics and Computer Science

continuity, limits);
elementary statistics ( mean, average, probability, distributions);

algebra (vector, matrix, floating point, least squares,...).

Course Name

Semest Grade
er

(Add as many lines as appropriate. Avoid courses that do not cover these subjects.)

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Keywords

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Department Mathematics and Computer Science

Algorithms, Data Structures and Theoretical Concepts

Binary trees and search trees, tables, priority queues, balanced search trees;

graph searching, flow networks;

Turing machines, finite state machines;

time and space complexity;

context free grammars;

regular expressions;

automata.
Course Name

Semest Grade
er

Keywords

(Add as many lines as appropriate. Avoid courses that do not cover these subjects.)

Databases and XML

Relational database model;

XML (DOM or SAX parser, XSLT).

Course Name

Semest Grade
er

Keywords

(Add as many lines as appropriate. Avoid courses that do not cover these subjects.)

Networks

ISO/OSI layered reference model;

basic knowledge about communication networks;

basic knowledge about distributed systems;

Client Server Model;

using wire shark/tcpdump;

reading technical documentation (RFCs, standards,...).

Course Name

Semest Grade
er

(Add as many lines as appropriate. Avoid courses that do not cover these subjects.)

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Keywords

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Department Mathematics and Computer Science

9. Background requirements specific to your major

of interest
Your background needs to be stronger with respect to the major you choose. Below are
requirements specific to each major. You need to fill out the box for the major you
apply for (you can only apply for one major).

Specific requirements for the Data Science Major:

(Follow Guidelines and Examples)

Databases

SQL, relational algebra;

functional dependencies, normal forms;

transactions (two-phase commit);

data mining (classification, clustering, frequent pattern mining).

Course Name

Semest Grade
er

Keywords

(Add as many lines as appropriate. Avoid courses that do not cover these subjects.)

Specific requirements for the Software Engineering Major:

(Follow Guidelines and Examples)

Software Engineering

Unit testing, regression testing;

formal techniques (petri-nets, state charts);

Unified Modeling Language (class diagram, object diagram, activity diagram,

state machine diagram, sequence diagram).
Course Name

Semest Grade
er

Keywords

(Add as many lines as appropriate. Avoid courses that do not cover these subjects.)

Specific requirements for the Computer Networks and Distributed

Systems Major:
(Follow Guidelines and Examples)

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Computer Networks

Physical layer: signals and their representation, modulation and coding,

multiplexing;
Link layer: Fault detection (CRC), flow control (stop and wait protocol, sliding
window protocol,
ARQ protocols), ALOHA, Ethernet, IEEE 802.11, ARP;
Network layer: IPv4, IPv6, routing;
Transport layer: TCP, UDP;
basic knowledge about communication networks (IP networks, GSM, WLAN, DSL,
HFC, ).
Distributed Systems

Distributed middleware;

distributed communication: remote procedure calls, message exchange;

fault tolerance: distributed failure detection, masking and recovery;

clock synchronization: physical and logical clock synchronization (vector clocks,

Lamport clocks);

replication: consistency models, replica management;

coordination: distributed mutual exclusion and election mechanisms.

Course Name

Semest Grade
er

Keywords

(Add as many lines as appropriate. Avoid courses that do not cover these subjects.)

10.

Past educational profile: course contents

(Follow Guidelines and Examples)

Course:
Description:
Course:
Description:
Course:
Description:
Course:
Description:
Course:
Description:
(Add as many blocks as needed to give a full list)

11.

Tentative selection of elective Courses

(Follow Guidelines and Examples)

Course

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Year, Semester

ECTS

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