Research Seminar on Information Systems

Recommended Prerequisites

Current Topics on Human-Centric Computing (1st semester, 9 ECTS, elective); Research Methods I (1st semester, 6 ECTS, mandatory)

The enrollment in the course is subject to approval by the Coordination of the Doctoral Program

Teaching Methods

 

Three complementary activities will be carried out:

 

1 - Lectures (9h): to introduce to current topics in the scientific area.

 

2 - Seminars (24h): presentation and discussion of scientific papers by students.

 

3 – Elaboration of a paper, peer-reviewing, presentation and discussion in a workshop.

 

Evaluation:

- Presentations in comp. 1: 25%

- Discussions in comp. 2 and 3, quality of revisions in comp. 3: 25%

- Paper of comp. 3 (overall quality, presentation, discussion): 50%

 

Attendance to 75% of the total classes is mandatory.

Learning Outcomes

1.    To obtain an overview of the state of the art and main research challenges of the Information Systems scientific research area.
2.    To obtain knowledge and understanding about research projects and topics of the scientific area of the course under different perspectives, including scientific, methodological, management and communication.
3.    To improve competences of critical analysis of scientific works, synthesis, scientific writing, verbal and writen communication, critical reasoning, autonomous learning, research and group integration.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

 

Advanced topics in the following areas will be addressed:

 

Introduction to Research in Information Systems

Socio-Technical Studies of Information Systems

Advanced Business Process Management

Service Oriented Architectures

Information Systems Development

Context Engineering

Maturity Models in Management of Information Systems

Quality of Software and Online Services

 

Other topics may be analysed and discussed, within the general area of cognitive and media systems, depending on their interest to the achievement of the course objectives.

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Report of a seminar or field trip: 50.0%
Synthesis work: 50.0%

Bibliography

Para cada tópico abordado na disciplina será fornecida aos alunos uma lista de artigos de investigação actualizada anualmente.

For each topic to be addressed in the course, a list of research papers will be provided to the students to be updated annually.