Doctoral Program in Information Science and Technology

The work developed by a student during one academic year, according to the indicative plan of the course and on a full time basis, totals 60 ECTS.


Study Programme

Course unit title Year Regime Type Subject area ECTS credits
Thesis Proposal 1 Annual Compulsory PRJ 36.0
Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence 1 1st Semester Elective * OP 6.0
Advanced Topics in Communications 1 1st Semester Elective * OP 6.0
Advanced topics in Distributed Systems 1 1st Semester Elective * OP 6.0
Biosignals Processing and Analysis 1 1st Semester Elective * OP 6.0
Connectivity and Pattern Recognition 1 1st Semester Elective * OP 6.0
Dependability of Computer Systems 1 1st Semester Elective * OP 6.0
Information and Encoding Theory 1 1st Semester Elective * OP 6.0
Ludic Contexts 1 1st Semester Elective * OP 6.0
Research Methods 1 1st Semester Elective * OP 6.0
Simulation 1 1st Semester Elective * OP 6.0
Software Reuse and Design Patterns 1 1st Semester Elective * OP 6.0
Statistics 1 1st Semester Elective * OP 6.0
Advanced Topics in Cognitive Modeling 1 2nd Semester Elective * OP 6.0
Advanced Topics in Data Processing and Analysis 1 2nd Semester Elective * OP 6.0
Advanced Topics in Information Systems 1 2nd Semester Elective * OP 6.0
Art, Music, Creativity and Artificial Intelligence 1 2nd Semester Elective * OP 6.0
Data Analysis 1 2nd Semester Elective * OP 6.0
Development of socio-technical systems 1 2nd Semester Elective * OP 6.0
Evolutionary and Complex Systems 1 2nd Semester Elective * OP 6.0
Large Scale Concurrent Systems 1 2nd Semester Elective * OP 6.0
Learning Contexts) 1 2nd Semester Elective * OP 6.0
Modeling and simulation theory) 1 2nd Semester Elective * OP 6.0
Models of Computational Perception 1 2nd Semester Elective * OP 6.0
Molecular Biology 1 2nd Semester Elective * OP 6.0
Real time learning in Intelligent Systems) 1 2nd Semester Elective * OP 6.0
Sociology 1 2nd Semester Elective * OP 6.0
Technologies and Learning 1 2nd Semester Elective * OP 6.0
Topics for Research in Ubiquitous Computing 1 2nd Semester Elective * OP 6.0
Course unit title Year Regime Type Subject area ECTS credits
Thesis 2 MULTIANNUAL Compulsory D 120.0

The optional course units are offered on a yearly basis, depending on the availability of the Organic Unit