About faculty

In October 1998, the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology were officially established to meet the demands for additional academic programmes and to keep pace with rapid developments in the respective field. The setting up of the Faculty also parallels the goal of the university to stay abreast of developments in Information Technology.

Currently, the faculty constitutes of four departments: Department of Multimedia, Department of Computer Science, Department of Software Engineering and Information System and the Department of Communication Technology and Networks.

Database has always been a crucial component in any information system. Current trends have shown the transition from the traditional centralized-relational database approach to more advanced databases. Research in database includes the following leading sub-areas: semantic web; database (centralized, distributed, parallel, mobile, multimedia, bio-medical); data quality; data warehouse; query formulation, processing and optimization; integrity, integration, privacy and security in databases; applications, models and frameworks for e-commerce, e-governance; and ontology management.