Research Seminar on Systems, Software, Security and Communications

Recommended Prerequisites

Research Methods I (1st semester, 6 ECTS, mandatory.

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 – Peer-reviewing, presentation and discussion in a workshop.

 

Evaluation:

- Active participation in the seminars: 20%

- Quality of the reviews: 30%

- Written exam with questions on the papers discussed in the course: 50%

  Attendance to 75% of the total classes is mandatory.

Learning Outcomes

• To obtain an overview of the state of the art and main research challenges of the scientific area of the course.
• 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.
• 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 selected from the vast area that may include the following:
• Dependability and security concepts
• Dependable distributed systems and protocols
• Dependability in virtualized and cloud systems
• Fault injection and vulnerability & attack injection
• Robustness and interoperability testing
• Vulnerability detection and security assessment
• Adaptivity for QoS in Data Intensive systems
• Motivations and challenges for future networking.
• Mobility fundamentals.
• Resilient, trustworthy and energy-efficient Internet architectures.
• Wireless sensor networks, IoT, and Human-in-the-Loop
• Network management and operation frameworks.
• Cloud and fog computing infrastructures.
• Security, privacy and trustSocio-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.

Head Lecturer(s)

Henrique Santos do Carmo Madeira

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Active participation in the seminars: 20.0%
Quality of the reviews: 30.0%
Written exam with questions on the papers discussed in the course: 50.0%

Bibliography

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

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