About the Programme

Programme Aim

The Postgraduate Programme “Digital Systems & Services” aims at educating scientists and professionals in areas of Digital Systems and Services, by:

  • Enhancing scientific excellence.
  • Promoting basic, applied and technological research.
  • Focusing efforts on real-world cases and adopting cutting-edge and high-impact approaches that address the ICT industry needs.
  • Creating the necessary infrastructure to enable and facilitate cooperation with similar postgraduate programmes and academic organizations, at a national and international level.
  • Providing expertise and specialized qualifications to executives in the public and private sector.
  • Preparing scientists for doctoral studies.

The Programmes’ Areas of Study

The Postgraduate Programme in “Digital Systems & Services” leads to a Master’s Degree (M.Sc.) of 90 ECTSs in one of following areas of study:

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of the PMS, graduates will be able to:

  • posess specialized knowledge about the architecture of information systems, the integration of analysis and data exploitation in them, and the methodologies of implementing advanced digital services.
  • implement scientific solutions in the design, development and evaluation of large-scale information systems and big data analysis systems for automated decision-making.
  • understand the governance issues of large-scale data systems.
  • understand the fundamentals of the technological, managerial and ethical aspects of IT and telecommunications project implementation.
  • apply the knowledge they acquired and the skills they developed during the program in the analysis and resolution of interdisciplinary problems, applying scientific methodology.
  • design, develop and evaluate projects, independently or collaboratively.
  • collect, evaluate and manage data, to analytically solve problems pertaining to the implementation of information systems and services.
  • carry out research work, evaluate alternatives and present results.
  • organize actions and take initiatives to manage projects, while designing and developing original ideas.
  • communicate the results of their research work in the form of a technical report and create presentations for knowledge transfer.

More specifically, the learning outcomes per PMS specialization are as follows.

Upon successful completion of the “Advanced Information Systems” specialization of the PMS, graduates will be able to:

  • understand basic elements of information systems and implement business processes.
  • implement programs using programming techniques and analyze database requirements.
  • build well-structured databases and use tools for design.
  • design and develop algorithms in Java, test programs in a specific programming environment.
  • model business processes with BPMN and execute the processes using management systems.
  • implement applications and computing arrays in a cloud environment.
  • analyze time series data and apply data mining techniques.
  • develop solutions in Python for information systems, use integrated development environments.
  • carry out research work, evaluate alternatives and present results.
  • They organize actions and take initiatives to manage projects, while designing and developing original ideas.

Upon successful completion of the PMS “Big Data and Analytics” specialization, graduates will be able to:

  • understand basic machine learning methods and algorithms.
  • design and implement relational and non-relational databases, use SQL for data management.
  • analyze problems using Python, identify libraries and use tools.
  • develop web-centric systems, integrate optimization and automated code review.
  • design and implement deep learning systems, evaluate their suitability.
  • choose and implement predictive methods, evaluate results of predictive methods.
  • search for and summarize study findings in a systematic way.
  • organize actions and take initiatives for project management.
  • innovate, develop ideas, communicate results.
  • analyze and evaluate results of machine learning algorithms.

Upon successful completion of the “Information Governance” specialization of the PMS, graduates will be able to:

  • design, implement and evaluate information systems development strategy.
  • design innovation methodologies and apply best practices in knowledge management.
  • choose IT governance standards and evaluate governance strategies.
  • design quality management strategies and apply best practices in its management.
  • design economic and technical study of information systems and analyze the cost and performance of IT projects.
  • apply methodologies for acceptance and adoption of digital technology and analyze the costs of developing digital systems.
  • apply best risk management methodologies and analyze operational situations and problems in risk management.
  • organize actions to manage projects and develop original ideas.
  • apply research methods, techniques and algorithms and evaluate alternative solutions to choose the most appropriate one.
  • communicate the results of their research work in the form of a technical report and create presentations for knowledge transfer.