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Scholar Year 2008/09

              Adequated to the Third Cycle defined in the Bologne Declaration.

Applications:

Numerus Clausus is 25 and the Application Form is available (Portuguese version, English version soon available).

The calendar is the following:

      First phase applications:
  • Application period: from 26th May to 18th July, 2008
  • Candidates Selection: from 21st to 29th July, 2008
      Second phase applications:
  • Application period: from 19th July to 18th August, 2008
  • Candidates Selection: from 22nd July to 4th September, 2008
  • Registration: from 8th to 11th September, 2008
  • Selection and Registration of Substitute Candidates: 15th to 19th September, 2008
Start of scholar year:
  • 22nd September, 2008

Fees:

Fees are 3.000,00 ¤ per scholar year. 

Curricular Component

ProDEI courses are offered in such a way that permit to compose a set of relevant and updated competences, thought as relevant and updated. They qualify the students for:
  1. Research activities in specific areas of informatics, possibly in a multi or inter disciplinary context
  2. Independent and original research activity, in themes validated by international community in the field,
  3. Approaching systematization of research procedures and their practical application, as well as their evaluation.
Students considered with enough expertise in the offered courses may be granted ECTS equivalences, in a case by case basis, with a minimum of 30 ECTS to be completed in the program.

1st Semester
     
Mandatory Course in 1st Semester
Code Name ECTS
PRODEI001 Methodologies for Scientific Research
(Metodologias de Investigação Científica)
7,5
   
Optional Courses in 1st Semester  - Choose: 3 courses, 22.5 ECTS
Code Name ECTS
PRODEI002 Data Warehouses
(Armazéns de Dados)
7,5
PRODEI003 Description, Storage and Search of Information
(Descrição, Armazenamento e Pesquisa de Informação)
7,5
PRODEI004 Knowledge Extraction
(Extracção de Conhecimento)
7,5
PRODEI005 Information Systems Integration
(Integração de Sistemas de Informação)
7,5
PRODEI006 Interaction and Visual Simulation Environments
(Interacção e Ambientes de Simulação Visual)
7,5
PRODEI007 Service and Network Planning and Management
(Planeamento e Administração de Redes e Serviços)
7,5
PRODEI008 Strategic Planning of Information Systems
(Planeamento Estratégico de Sistemas de Informação)
7,5
PRODEI009 Constraint Programming for Combinatory Optimization
(Programação com Restrições para Optimização Combinatória)
7,5
PRODEI010 Intelligent Robotics
(Robótica Inteligente)
7,5
PRODEI011 Computer Systems Security
(Segurança em Sistemas Informáticos)
7,5
PRODEI012 Multi-agent Systems
(Sistemas Multi-agente)
7,5
PRODEI013 Test and Quality of Software
(Teste e Qualidade de Software)
7,5
PRODEI014 Software Engineering Research Topics
(Tópicos de Investigação em Engenharia de Software)
7,5
   
 
2nd Semester
   
Mandatory Course in 2nd Semester
Code Name ECTS
PRODEI015 Research Planning
(Planeamento de Investigação)
15
   
Optional Courses in 2nd Semester  - Choose: 2 courses, 15 ECTS
Code Name ECTS
PRODEI017 Planning and Scheduling Methodologies
(Metodologias de Planeamento e Escalonamento)
7,5
PRODEI026 Advanced Methods for Modelling and Simulation
(Métodos Avançados de Modelação e Simulação)
7,5
PRODEI018 Programming Paradigms
(Paradigmas de Programação)
7,5
PRODEI019 Distributed and Parallel Programming
(Programação Distribuída e Paralela)
7,5
PRODEI020 Assisted Reconstruction of 3D Objects
(Reconstrução Assistida de Objectos 3D)
7,5
PRODEI025 Information Retrieval
(Recuperação de Informação)
7,5
PRODEI021 High Performance Resources in Internet Environment
(Recursos de Elevado Desempenho em Ambiente Internet)
7,5
PRODEI022 Critical Systems
(Sistemas Críticos)
7,5
PRODEI023 Electronic Business Technologies
(Tecnologias para Negócio Electrónico)
7,5

Scholar Important Dates:

1st Semester
Starting Classes: 22nd September, 2008
Ending of Classes: 10th January, 2009
Preparing to Exams: 20th December, 2008 to 11th January, 2009
Christmas Vacancies: 22nd December, 2008 to 2nd January, 2009
Starting of Exams: 12th January, 2009
Ending of Exams: 21st February, 2009

2nd Semester
Starting Classes: 25th February, 2009
Ending of Classes: 15th June, 2009
Carnival Vacancies: 23th to 24th February, 2009
Easter Vacancies: 6th to 13th April, 2009
Preparing to Exams: 9th to 15th June, 2009
Starting of Exams: 16th June, 2009
Ending of Exams: 25th July, 2009



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