Semester 1

• [MCS-101] [6 ECTS] Advanced Databases
  The course aims are to continue with an in-depth study of databases. The course is a continuation of the same course from the first study cycle; it starts with some revision of the conceptual database design models (a well-known entity relationship model) and continues with the enhanced entity relationship model. The concept of normalization and normal forms is introduced and is used for database design. The course continues with data storage methods, representing data elements, database system architecture, query processing and optimization, transaction processing concepts, concurrency control techniques, database recovery techniques and database security and authorization.
• [MCS-102] [6 ECTS] Object-Oriented Design and Programming
  This course aims to teach a rigorous approach to object-oriented design and programming, with an emphasis on abstraction, modularity, and code reuse as applied to the building and understanding of large-scale systems. In addition to object-oriented concepts, it covers object-oriented modeling using UML, best design practices, design patterns, and their application to real world problem solving and modeling of applications.
• [MCS-103] [6 ECTS] Advanced Software Engineering
  The aim of this course is to provide students with knowledge and understanding of advanced software engineering concepts. Initially the students will be introduced to the construction of a clear specification. In addition, the aim is to answer the following advanced aspects of software engineering: What key technical activities are conducted during the clean room software engineering process? How is component-based software engineering used to create systems from reusable components? How does the client/server architecture affect the way in which software is engineered? Are software engineering concepts and principles applicable for Web-based applications and products?
• [ ] [6 ECTS] Elective course
  • [ ECSIS-01] Business Process Modeling
    Processes are the core technologies of all organizations for producing and delivering products and services that satisfy customer needs. Increasingly, in order to continue to serve their customers and remain competitive, organizations are required to continuously analyze, redesign, and improve their end-to-end core business processes in shorter and shorter time frames to achieve operational goals. Realizing this end-to-end business process integration requires an IT infrastructure that enables people, processes, and information to be integrated in a flexible manner. This course will explore how organizations can model business processes as the first step in achieving flexible and integrated business processes. The course will also examine the information technologies and architectures that show promise for enabling this business process integration. The course will provide students with the following: • A framework for understanding the design, control and improvement of business processes. Much of this material will be drawn from the field of operations management. • A methodology for analyzing, modeling, and designing business processes, including the use of simulation for measuring and comparing performance of various models. • Knowledge of the current and emerging information technologies and architectures as enablers of business process improvement, integration and automation.
  • [ ECSIS-02] IT Strategy
    The overall objective of this course is to develop your understanding of key IT leadership issues and “best practice” IT management approaches. The intention of this course is to help students successfully navigate IT management challenges as they pursue their chosen career paths. Specific knowledge that students are expected to obtain from this course include the following: - IT governance and leadership responsibilities and how they have evolved ; - Best practices for delivering large-scale enterprise systems projects; - Frameworks to design and assess a firm’s e-business capabilities; - Successful approaches to aligning IT investments with business goals; - IT outsourcing decision approaches and impacts on IT capabilities.
  • [ ECSIS-03] IT Project Management
    The aim of this course is the students to gain advanced knowledge of the models, methods, principles, practices, and challenges pertaining to project life-cycle cost. The students will be able to define what a project is and the discipline of project management. They will learn about the concepts of the project life cycle and systems development life cycle, as well as IT project governance and the project selection process. After that students will learn about conceptualizing and Initializing the IT Project and project integration management. Through the lessons will be described the formal and informal organization to conduct analysis to better understand the organizational landscape. Through defining and managing project and product scope, the students will be introduced with the project management knowledge area called project scope management. They will also gain knowledge for the Work Breakdown Structure and Project Estimation where several traditional project estimation approaches will be introduced.
  • [ ECSIS-04] Business Intelligence and Analytics
    The aim of this course is to provide the student with an understanding of several management science techniques and to provide some insight into how these tools may be used to analyze complex business problems and arrive at a rational solution. The techniques to be studied are forecasting, linear planning, simulation, and modeling. Cases of increasing complexity will be used to emphasize problem description, definition, and formulation. The computer will be used extensively throughout the course, primarily by using available programs to perform the calculations after the problem has been correctly formulated. Emphasis will be placed on the interpretation and implementation of results. In addition, we will examine the future of analytics.
  • [ ECSIS-05] Information Systems Management
    The aim of this program is to give an overview of information systems from organizational and social perspective. The objective is to supply the students with the adequate balance of technical and organizational perspectives that will serve as a foundation for further studies in the field of information systems.
  • [ ECSIS-06] Computer Systems Security
    This course introduces the basics of network security. The student will be introduced to computer network vulnerabilities and threats and how to safeguard computer networks from those vulnerabilities and threats. This course will expose the student to network security planning, network security technology, network security organization and the legal and ethical issues associated with network security.
  • [ ECSIS-07] Systems Analysis and Design
    The aim of this cours is to enable students to uderstand and use the methodologies, techniques, tools and perspectives essential for systems analysts to successfully investigate and develop information systems requirements, as well as deliver solutions tailored to its requirements using standard modeling techniques such as structured modeling techniques, information engineering modeling techniques, and object modeling techniques. Moreover, understand the methods and constraints involved in creating a workable design from the results of using the above systems analytics.
  • [ ECSIS-08] Data Warehousing
    The primary focus of this course is on Data Warehousing and its applications to business intelligence. The course will concentrate on topics such as requirements gathering for data warehousing, data warehouse architecture, dimensional model design for data warehousing, physical database design for data warehousing, extracting, transforming, and loading strategies, introduction to business intelligence, design and development of business intelligence applications, expansion and support of a data warehouse.
  • [ ECSIS-09] Emerging Trends in Information Systems
    The course on emerging trends in information systems tends to prepare the students to be technology leaders by exploring, analyzing and reporting on these trends and innovations that are reshaping the business in the 21st century.
  • [ ECSIS-10] Electronic and Mobile Business
    This course focuses on the technological infrastructure needed for implementing e-Business solutions, on the software components necessary, and on how to implement such applications for the benefit of the companies, following the emerging trends in web & mobile systems. A major component of the course will be a hands-on project of developing an e-business Application.
  • [ EMCS-02] Data Visualization
    The aim of this course is to introduce students to the field of data visualization. Students will learn visualization design and evaluation principles, and learn how to acquire, parse, and analyze large datasets. Students will also learn techniques for visualizing multivariate, temporal, text-based, geospatial, hierarchical, and network/graph-based data. Additionally, students will utilize Processing, D3, R and ggplot2, and many other tools to prototype many of these techniques on existing datasets.
• [6 ECTS] Free elective course
  • [MFE01] Rhetoric
    During its long history of 2,500 years, rhetoric was used to indicate many different things; but rhetoric nowadays is considered as the art of persuasion through language. Rhetoric marks the way that an individual is linked to a particular theme or idea in order to convince the others. Rhetoric is characterized by several distinguishing features.
  • [MFE02] Multilingualism and multiculturalism
    The purpose of this subject will be multilingualism in multicultural societies as a social phenomenon. This phenomenon is massive in the world. During the lectures, more precise terms such as monoculturalism and multiculturalism will be considered. The term ‘linguistic nationalism’ has at least two forms of this nationalism, which collide with each other: for the leaders of the most powerful countries nationalism means expansion, and for minorities it takes the form of defiance and struggle for the affirmation of identity, despite such pressure. The emphasis during the program will be multiculturalism in education. In the schools curricula consists of contents from different cultures.
  • [MFE03] Selected Advanced Topics in IT Applications for Preparing a Scientific Paper
    The aim of this subject is: To display the technical elements, the structure of the text and design of a scientific research. To enable students to acquire advanced knowledge and skills from selected advanced chapters of IT applications that will be needed in preparing the scientific and research paper. Practical application of these objectives in preparing student’s individual research paper.
  • [MFE04] Selected Advanced Topics in Applications for Statistical Data Processing
    The aim of this subject is: To display the technical elements in the field of statistics: organizing, processing, comparing through analysis and publication of data. To enable students to acquire advanced knowledge and skills from selected advanced chapters of the applications for statistical data processing. Practical application of these objectives in statistical processing of data obtained from questionnaires, reports, scientific studies and other documents.
  • [MFE05] Professional Communication
    The course is focused on the development of those communication skills that are essential for effective functioning in the professional world. Students will study the process for analysis of different communication situations, and will accordingly comprehend them. Among the themes that will be covered are communication in organization, interpersonal and group communication, oral presentations, interviews for employment, professional business letters and interpersonal skills including group dynamics and teamwork.
  • [MFE09] Labor Market
    The main aim of the course “Labor Market” is to provide second cycle students with basic and in-depth knowledge in the field of labor market theory and the mechanism of functioning of the market economy. The objective of the course Labor Market is to provide and teach students about categories, laws and basic principles through which the labor market functions. The course makes a detailed analysis of behavior pattern and the role that key agents play in labor market: individuals, companies and government. The analysis is based on two basic categories - labor demand and labor supply, which are applied in almost all the topics that are addressed in this course. The knowledge gained by the students from this course, serves as essential theoretical basis necessary to understand and grasp the different theories and policies that are applied in the labor market. The course teaches students to understand how labor markets distribute and use efficiently the rare factor of production- the labor. Lectures include knowledge about the concepts of labor demand and labor supply and their practical application; behavior of individuals in the labor market, in order to maximize their usefulness; behavior of companies in the labor market, aiming profit maximization; government's role in the labor market, the different structures of labor markets: labor market in full competition, monopoly in the labor market, the role of unions in the labor market, the bilateral monopoly in the labor market. Lectures and class discussions cover material that may not be in the book and some aspects of the material contained in the basic literature will not be discussed in class, but are left for active studying of the student. Therefore in order the student to achieve success in learning the course is to be present in lectures and workshops by participating actively in the discussion of various issues related to labor market.
  • [MFE08] Methodology of Teaching
    The aim of the course is to introduce the students to the basic teaching approaches and methods. They are expected to gain knowledge and skills in order to be able to apply the active educational tools. The course also offers development, learning and teaching as concepts and basic practices that allow teachers to teach about the development of thinking. Throughout this course, students will gain both theoretical background and entirety of strategies that will enable them to reflect and develop both their own and their students' critical thinking.
  • [MFE10] Philosophy of Social Sciences
    This module covers information that will provide the learner to gain knowledge, skill and competence of the social sciences, including general methodology (explaining, theorizing, testing), the application of philosophy (especially individualism versus holism), the nature of rationality, and the history of theories and concepts. This module offers an advanced survey of current debates about the ontology, methodology, and aims of the social sciences. It will focus on the central issues of the social sciences: Ethno methodology; Evolution; Phenomenology; Rationality; Relativism; Scientific Methods; Тextual Interpretations. Learning outcomes: On successful completion of the course, students will be able to: Understand the goal of social sciences. Tell the difference between explaining and understanding human behavior; To explain the different approach in explanation of the social sciences compare the natural sciences, the peculiarities about human beings and social phenomena; To understand the social structures, practices, norms, institutions, etc. The relationship between individuals and larger social structures; To explain the rely not only on facts about individuals and their mental states, but also the cases in which social phenomena cannot be explained in terms of individual behavior; To understand the value-laden in a different way or to a different degree than natural science, the possibility to have a value-free social science, the possibility to have an objectivity in social science.
  • [MFE11] Project Management
    On successful completion of the course, students will be able to: plan the activities necessary to implement the project, identify their interdependencies, their duration and costs; prepare the necessary reports and perform all the required communication between the project and the client, as well as among the team members and the other stakeholders. structure the project to its constituent activities; prepare a Gantt-chart and a network plan for the project and identify the shortest time needed to complete the project; use MS Project as a tool in the process of planning, implementation and review of the project; define the project, identify its scope and objectives and develop project specification;
  • [MFE12] Optimization Methods
    The aim of this course is to present techniques of modeling and optimization in order to prepare students for developing their ability to prepare models for solving real problems in the field of computer science. The course explore the importance of matrix factorizations as an important tool which offers modality for optimizing the solutions of different numerical algorithms which are of basic interest for problem solving in the area computer sciences. The course introduces optimization theory and approach to find the optimum. The different methods of optimization will be analyzed such as the simplex method, duality problem and sensitivity of the problems of linear programming. The aim is to explore a computer implementation for each of the problems followed by the proposal of the corresponding model for optimization.
  • [MFE13] Ethical and Legal Issues in Information Technology (IT)
    Aims of the course program: to develop an understanding of the relationship between computing, technological change, society and the law; to emphasize the powerful role that computers and computer professionals play in a technological society; to provide an understanding of legal areas which are relevant to the discipline of computing; to provide an understanding of ethical concepts that are important to computer users and professionals; to provide experience in the consideration of ethical matters and the resolution of ethical dilemmas.
  • [MFE14] Protection of Human Rights
    The purpose of this course is: to introduce students with the concept of international law on human rights, their implementation, influence of those rights in the creation of national policies; to encourage students to critically reflect on the relationship between international law and national law; make them aware of current international events, how they affect the daily lives of people in the world; encourage students to contribute in matters of drafting laws for the protection of human rights hoping that, the law makers will consult them same during the creation and implementation of state policies.

Semester 2

• [MCS-201] [6 ECTS] Advanced Data Strucutres and Algorithms
  This course builds on previous knowledge in the area of algorithms and data structures. The goal of the course is to acquaint students with efficient advanced algorithms and adequate data structures that are used to organize, search and optimize data. It also includes the theoretical efficiency of algorithms and its practical determination with in order to be able to compare different algorithms. During the course, students will be introduced to several well-known algorithms, particularly search and optimization in complex nonlinear structures such as trees and graphs.
• [MCS-202] [6 ECTS] Web Information Systems
  This course will introduce technologies for building data-centric information systems on the World Wide Web and show the practical applications of such systems. The subject will focus on the aspects such as technologies and architectures for web information systems, web data management, web data and semantics, social web and web science.
• [MCS-203] [6 ECTS] Distributed Computing
  This subject introduces graduate students to the advanced topics in distributed computing models, algorithms, and software systems. In particular, the course will emphasize recent techniques used by real-world distributed systems such as distributed file systems, lock services, enterprise data centers, cloud computing, wireless sensor networks and pervasive applications. Case studies on real distributed systems will be conducted, and recent research literature in the subject area will be reviewed.
• [6 ECTS] Free elective course
  • [MFE01] Rhetoric
    During its long history of 2,500 years, rhetoric was used to indicate many different things; but rhetoric nowadays is considered as the art of persuasion through language. Rhetoric marks the way that an individual is linked to a particular theme or idea in order to convince the others. Rhetoric is characterized by several distinguishing features.
  • [MFE02] Multilingualism and multiculturalism
    The purpose of this subject will be multilingualism in multicultural societies as a social phenomenon. This phenomenon is massive in the world. During the lectures, more precise terms such as monoculturalism and multiculturalism will be considered. The term ‘linguistic nationalism’ has at least two forms of this nationalism, which collide with each other: for the leaders of the most powerful countries nationalism means expansion, and for minorities it takes the form of defiance and struggle for the affirmation of identity, despite such pressure. The emphasis during the program will be multiculturalism in education. In the schools curricula consists of contents from different cultures.
  • [MFE03] Selected Advanced Topics in IT Applications for Preparing a Scientific Paper
    The aim of this subject is: To display the technical elements, the structure of the text and design of a scientific research. To enable students to acquire advanced knowledge and skills from selected advanced chapters of IT applications that will be needed in preparing the scientific and research paper. Practical application of these objectives in preparing student’s individual research paper.
  • [MFE04] Selected Advanced Topics in Applications for Statistical Data Processing
    The aim of this subject is: To display the technical elements in the field of statistics: organizing, processing, comparing through analysis and publication of data. To enable students to acquire advanced knowledge and skills from selected advanced chapters of the applications for statistical data processing. Practical application of these objectives in statistical processing of data obtained from questionnaires, reports, scientific studies and other documents.
  • [MFE05] Professional Communication
    The course is focused on the development of those communication skills that are essential for effective functioning in the professional world. Students will study the process for analysis of different communication situations, and will accordingly comprehend them. Among the themes that will be covered are communication in organization, interpersonal and group communication, oral presentations, interviews for employment, professional business letters and interpersonal skills including group dynamics and teamwork.
  • [MFE09] Labor Market
    The main aim of the course “Labor Market” is to provide second cycle students with basic and in-depth knowledge in the field of labor market theory and the mechanism of functioning of the market economy. The objective of the course Labor Market is to provide and teach students about categories, laws and basic principles through which the labor market functions. The course makes a detailed analysis of behavior pattern and the role that key agents play in labor market: individuals, companies and government. The analysis is based on two basic categories - labor demand and labor supply, which are applied in almost all the topics that are addressed in this course. The knowledge gained by the students from this course, serves as essential theoretical basis necessary to understand and grasp the different theories and policies that are applied in the labor market. The course teaches students to understand how labor markets distribute and use efficiently the rare factor of production- the labor. Lectures include knowledge about the concepts of labor demand and labor supply and their practical application; behavior of individuals in the labor market, in order to maximize their usefulness; behavior of companies in the labor market, aiming profit maximization; government's role in the labor market, the different structures of labor markets: labor market in full competition, monopoly in the labor market, the role of unions in the labor market, the bilateral monopoly in the labor market. Lectures and class discussions cover material that may not be in the book and some aspects of the material contained in the basic literature will not be discussed in class, but are left for active studying of the student. Therefore in order the student to achieve success in learning the course is to be present in lectures and workshops by participating actively in the discussion of various issues related to labor market.
  • [MFE08] Methodology of Teaching
    The aim of the course is to introduce the students to the basic teaching approaches and methods. They are expected to gain knowledge and skills in order to be able to apply the active educational tools. The course also offers development, learning and teaching as concepts and basic practices that allow teachers to teach about the development of thinking. Throughout this course, students will gain both theoretical background and entirety of strategies that will enable them to reflect and develop both their own and their students' critical thinking.
  • [MFE10] Philosophy of Social Sciences
    This module covers information that will provide the learner to gain knowledge, skill and competence of the social sciences, including general methodology (explaining, theorizing, testing), the application of philosophy (especially individualism versus holism), the nature of rationality, and the history of theories and concepts. This module offers an advanced survey of current debates about the ontology, methodology, and aims of the social sciences. It will focus on the central issues of the social sciences: Ethno methodology; Evolution; Phenomenology; Rationality; Relativism; Scientific Methods; Тextual Interpretations. Learning outcomes: On successful completion of the course, students will be able to: Understand the goal of social sciences. Tell the difference between explaining and understanding human behavior; To explain the different approach in explanation of the social sciences compare the natural sciences, the peculiarities about human beings and social phenomena; To understand the social structures, practices, norms, institutions, etc. The relationship between individuals and larger social structures; To explain the rely not only on facts about individuals and their mental states, but also the cases in which social phenomena cannot be explained in terms of individual behavior; To understand the value-laden in a different way or to a different degree than natural science, the possibility to have a value-free social science, the possibility to have an objectivity in social science.
  • [MFE11] Project Management
    On successful completion of the course, students will be able to: plan the activities necessary to implement the project, identify their interdependencies, their duration and costs; prepare the necessary reports and perform all the required communication between the project and the client, as well as among the team members and the other stakeholders. structure the project to its constituent activities; prepare a Gantt-chart and a network plan for the project and identify the shortest time needed to complete the project; use MS Project as a tool in the process of planning, implementation and review of the project; define the project, identify its scope and objectives and develop project specification;
  • [MFE12] Optimization Methods
    The aim of this course is to present techniques of modeling and optimization in order to prepare students for developing their ability to prepare models for solving real problems in the field of computer science. The course explore the importance of matrix factorizations as an important tool which offers modality for optimizing the solutions of different numerical algorithms which are of basic interest for problem solving in the area computer sciences. The course introduces optimization theory and approach to find the optimum. The different methods of optimization will be analyzed such as the simplex method, duality problem and sensitivity of the problems of linear programming. The aim is to explore a computer implementation for each of the problems followed by the proposal of the corresponding model for optimization.
  • [MFE13] Ethical and Legal Issues in Information Technology (IT)
    Aims of the course program: to develop an understanding of the relationship between computing, technological change, society and the law; to emphasize the powerful role that computers and computer professionals play in a technological society; to provide an understanding of legal areas which are relevant to the discipline of computing; to provide an understanding of ethical concepts that are important to computer users and professionals; to provide experience in the consideration of ethical matters and the resolution of ethical dilemmas.
  • [MFE14] Protection of Human Rights
    The purpose of this course is: to introduce students with the concept of international law on human rights, their implementation, influence of those rights in the creation of national policies; to encourage students to critically reflect on the relationship between international law and national law; make them aware of current international events, how they affect the daily lives of people in the world; encourage students to contribute in matters of drafting laws for the protection of human rights hoping that, the law makers will consult them same during the creation and implementation of state policies.
• [6 ECTS] Elective course
  • [ ECSIS-01] Business Process Modeling
    Processes are the core technologies of all organizations for producing and delivering products and services that satisfy customer needs. Increasingly, in order to continue to serve their customers and remain competitive, organizations are required to continuously analyze, redesign, and improve their end-to-end core business processes in shorter and shorter time frames to achieve operational goals. Realizing this end-to-end business process integration requires an IT infrastructure that enables people, processes, and information to be integrated in a flexible manner. This course will explore how organizations can model business processes as the first step in achieving flexible and integrated business processes. The course will also examine the information technologies and architectures that show promise for enabling this business process integration. The course will provide students with the following: • A framework for understanding the design, control and improvement of business processes. Much of this material will be drawn from the field of operations management. • A methodology for analyzing, modeling, and designing business processes, including the use of simulation for measuring and comparing performance of various models. • Knowledge of the current and emerging information technologies and architectures as enablers of business process improvement, integration and automation.
  • [ ECSIS-02] IT Strategy
    The overall objective of this course is to develop your understanding of key IT leadership issues and “best practice” IT management approaches. The intention of this course is to help students successfully navigate IT management challenges as they pursue their chosen career paths. Specific knowledge that students are expected to obtain from this course include the following: - IT governance and leadership responsibilities and how they have evolved ; - Best practices for delivering large-scale enterprise systems projects; - Frameworks to design and assess a firm’s e-business capabilities; - Successful approaches to aligning IT investments with business goals; - IT outsourcing decision approaches and impacts on IT capabilities.
  • [ ECSIS-03] IT Project Management
    The aim of this course is the students to gain advanced knowledge of the models, methods, principles, practices, and challenges pertaining to project life-cycle cost. The students will be able to define what a project is and the discipline of project management. They will learn about the concepts of the project life cycle and systems development life cycle, as well as IT project governance and the project selection process. After that students will learn about conceptualizing and Initializing the IT Project and project integration management. Through the lessons will be described the formal and informal organization to conduct analysis to better understand the organizational landscape. Through defining and managing project and product scope, the students will be introduced with the project management knowledge area called project scope management. They will also gain knowledge for the Work Breakdown Structure and Project Estimation where several traditional project estimation approaches will be introduced.
  • [ ECSIS-04] Business Intelligence and Analytics
    The aim of this course is to provide the student with an understanding of several management science techniques and to provide some insight into how these tools may be used to analyze complex business problems and arrive at a rational solution. The techniques to be studied are forecasting, linear planning, simulation, and modeling. Cases of increasing complexity will be used to emphasize problem description, definition, and formulation. The computer will be used extensively throughout the course, primarily by using available programs to perform the calculations after the problem has been correctly formulated. Emphasis will be placed on the interpretation and implementation of results. In addition, we will examine the future of analytics.
  • [ ECSIS-05] Information Systems Management
    The aim of this program is to give an overview of information systems from organizational and social perspective. The objective is to supply the students with the adequate balance of technical and organizational perspectives that will serve as a foundation for further studies in the field of information systems.
  • [ ECSIS-06] Computer Systems Security
    This course introduces the basics of network security. The student will be introduced to computer network vulnerabilities and threats and how to safeguard computer networks from those vulnerabilities and threats. This course will expose the student to network security planning, network security technology, network security organization and the legal and ethical issues associated with network security.
  • [ ECSIS-07] Systems Analysis and Design
    The aim of this cours is to enable students to uderstand and use the methodologies, techniques, tools and perspectives essential for systems analysts to successfully investigate and develop information systems requirements, as well as deliver solutions tailored to its requirements using standard modeling techniques such as structured modeling techniques, information engineering modeling techniques, and object modeling techniques. Moreover, understand the methods and constraints involved in creating a workable design from the results of using the above systems analytics.
  • [ ECSIS-08] Data Warehousing
    The primary focus of this course is on Data Warehousing and its applications to business intelligence. The course will concentrate on topics such as requirements gathering for data warehousing, data warehouse architecture, dimensional model design for data warehousing, physical database design for data warehousing, extracting, transforming, and loading strategies, introduction to business intelligence, design and development of business intelligence applications, expansion and support of a data warehouse.
  • [ ECSIS-09] Emerging Trends in Information Systems
    The course on emerging trends in information systems tends to prepare the students to be technology leaders by exploring, analyzing and reporting on these trends and innovations that are reshaping the business in the 21st century.
  • [ ECSIS-10] Electronic and Mobile Business
    This course focuses on the technological infrastructure needed for implementing e-Business solutions, on the software components necessary, and on how to implement such applications for the benefit of the companies, following the emerging trends in web & mobile systems. A major component of the course will be a hands-on project of developing an e-business Application.
  • [ EMCS-02] Data Visualization
    The aim of this course is to introduce students to the field of data visualization. Students will learn visualization design and evaluation principles, and learn how to acquire, parse, and analyze large datasets. Students will also learn techniques for visualizing multivariate, temporal, text-based, geospatial, hierarchical, and network/graph-based data. Additionally, students will utilize Processing, D3, R and ggplot2, and many other tools to prototype many of these techniques on existing datasets.

Semester 3

• [MCS-301] [6 ECTS] Sofware Interfaces
  The course helps students learn the principles of designing computer applications to achieve high level of user usability. More specifically, students will gain knowledge of the user-centered design methods, which encompasses designing applications based on analyzing users and the conditions where the application is planned to be used. Additionally, various evaluating methods will be learned that will be implemented to ensure the application built will be highly usable by the users.
• [MCS-302] [6 ECTS] Advanced Datat Engineering
  The aim of this course is to learn from data, in order to gain useful predictions and insights. Separating signal from noise presents many computational and inferential challenges, which we approach from a perspective at the interface of computer science and statistics. Through real-world examples of wide interest, students will practically learn how to solve problems using methods and techniques learned in class.
• [MCS-303] [6 ECTS] Research Methodology
  The purpose of this course is to provide students with knowledge and understanding of different scientific theories and methodologies. Initially the student will be introduced to the conceptual, theoretical definitions and examples of all existing methods of research, hypothesis, direct and indirect variables, validation of the results, the conclusions BIAS and scientific qualitative and quantitative methodologies, "ground research" methodology and other methodological approaches. In each chapter the student will work on practical assignments. After completing the course the student will be able to explain thoroughly and understand the importance of basic scientific concepts, effectively search and find information-relevant literature, identify, describe and formulate scientific problems, make a careful choice of alternative research approaches, thoroughly described, compare and explain the advantages and disadvantages of different scientific methods for collecting quantitative and qualitative data, apply basic scientific methods to analyze quantitative and qualitative data, understand different frameworks for building theory and review and evaluate scientific publications.
• [6 ECTS] Elective course
  • [ ECSIS-01] Business Process Modeling
    Processes are the core technologies of all organizations for producing and delivering products and services that satisfy customer needs. Increasingly, in order to continue to serve their customers and remain competitive, organizations are required to continuously analyze, redesign, and improve their end-to-end core business processes in shorter and shorter time frames to achieve operational goals. Realizing this end-to-end business process integration requires an IT infrastructure that enables people, processes, and information to be integrated in a flexible manner. This course will explore how organizations can model business processes as the first step in achieving flexible and integrated business processes. The course will also examine the information technologies and architectures that show promise for enabling this business process integration. The course will provide students with the following: • A framework for understanding the design, control and improvement of business processes. Much of this material will be drawn from the field of operations management. • A methodology for analyzing, modeling, and designing business processes, including the use of simulation for measuring and comparing performance of various models. • Knowledge of the current and emerging information technologies and architectures as enablers of business process improvement, integration and automation.
  • [ ECSIS-02] IT Strategy
    The overall objective of this course is to develop your understanding of key IT leadership issues and “best practice” IT management approaches. The intention of this course is to help students successfully navigate IT management challenges as they pursue their chosen career paths. Specific knowledge that students are expected to obtain from this course include the following: - IT governance and leadership responsibilities and how they have evolved ; - Best practices for delivering large-scale enterprise systems projects; - Frameworks to design and assess a firm’s e-business capabilities; - Successful approaches to aligning IT investments with business goals; - IT outsourcing decision approaches and impacts on IT capabilities.
  • [ ECSIS-03] IT Project Management
    The aim of this course is the students to gain advanced knowledge of the models, methods, principles, practices, and challenges pertaining to project life-cycle cost. The students will be able to define what a project is and the discipline of project management. They will learn about the concepts of the project life cycle and systems development life cycle, as well as IT project governance and the project selection process. After that students will learn about conceptualizing and Initializing the IT Project and project integration management. Through the lessons will be described the formal and informal organization to conduct analysis to better understand the organizational landscape. Through defining and managing project and product scope, the students will be introduced with the project management knowledge area called project scope management. They will also gain knowledge for the Work Breakdown Structure and Project Estimation where several traditional project estimation approaches will be introduced.
  • [ ECSIS-04] Business Intelligence and Analytics
    The aim of this course is to provide the student with an understanding of several management science techniques and to provide some insight into how these tools may be used to analyze complex business problems and arrive at a rational solution. The techniques to be studied are forecasting, linear planning, simulation, and modeling. Cases of increasing complexity will be used to emphasize problem description, definition, and formulation. The computer will be used extensively throughout the course, primarily by using available programs to perform the calculations after the problem has been correctly formulated. Emphasis will be placed on the interpretation and implementation of results. In addition, we will examine the future of analytics.
  • [ ECSIS-05] Information Systems Management
    The aim of this program is to give an overview of information systems from organizational and social perspective. The objective is to supply the students with the adequate balance of technical and organizational perspectives that will serve as a foundation for further studies in the field of information systems.
  • [ ECSIS-06] Computer Systems Security
    This course introduces the basics of network security. The student will be introduced to computer network vulnerabilities and threats and how to safeguard computer networks from those vulnerabilities and threats. This course will expose the student to network security planning, network security technology, network security organization and the legal and ethical issues associated with network security.
  • [ ECSIS-07] Systems Analysis and Design
    The aim of this cours is to enable students to uderstand and use the methodologies, techniques, tools and perspectives essential for systems analysts to successfully investigate and develop information systems requirements, as well as deliver solutions tailored to its requirements using standard modeling techniques such as structured modeling techniques, information engineering modeling techniques, and object modeling techniques. Moreover, understand the methods and constraints involved in creating a workable design from the results of using the above systems analytics.
  • [ ECSIS-08] Data Warehousing
    The primary focus of this course is on Data Warehousing and its applications to business intelligence. The course will concentrate on topics such as requirements gathering for data warehousing, data warehouse architecture, dimensional model design for data warehousing, physical database design for data warehousing, extracting, transforming, and loading strategies, introduction to business intelligence, design and development of business intelligence applications, expansion and support of a data warehouse.
  • [ ECSIS-09] Emerging Trends in Information Systems
    The course on emerging trends in information systems tends to prepare the students to be technology leaders by exploring, analyzing and reporting on these trends and innovations that are reshaping the business in the 21st century.
  • [ ECSIS-10] Electronic and Mobile Business
    This course focuses on the technological infrastructure needed for implementing e-Business solutions, on the software components necessary, and on how to implement such applications for the benefit of the companies, following the emerging trends in web & mobile systems. A major component of the course will be a hands-on project of developing an e-business Application.
  • [ EMCS-02] Data Visualization
    The aim of this course is to introduce students to the field of data visualization. Students will learn visualization design and evaluation principles, and learn how to acquire, parse, and analyze large datasets. Students will also learn techniques for visualizing multivariate, temporal, text-based, geospatial, hierarchical, and network/graph-based data. Additionally, students will utilize Processing, D3, R and ggplot2, and many other tools to prototype many of these techniques on existing datasets.
• [6 ECTS] Elective course
  • [ ECSIS-01] Business Process Modeling
    Processes are the core technologies of all organizations for producing and delivering products and services that satisfy customer needs. Increasingly, in order to continue to serve their customers and remain competitive, organizations are required to continuously analyze, redesign, and improve their end-to-end core business processes in shorter and shorter time frames to achieve operational goals. Realizing this end-to-end business process integration requires an IT infrastructure that enables people, processes, and information to be integrated in a flexible manner. This course will explore how organizations can model business processes as the first step in achieving flexible and integrated business processes. The course will also examine the information technologies and architectures that show promise for enabling this business process integration. The course will provide students with the following: • A framework for understanding the design, control and improvement of business processes. Much of this material will be drawn from the field of operations management. • A methodology for analyzing, modeling, and designing business processes, including the use of simulation for measuring and comparing performance of various models. • Knowledge of the current and emerging information technologies and architectures as enablers of business process improvement, integration and automation.
  • [ ECSIS-02] IT Strategy
    The overall objective of this course is to develop your understanding of key IT leadership issues and “best practice” IT management approaches. The intention of this course is to help students successfully navigate IT management challenges as they pursue their chosen career paths. Specific knowledge that students are expected to obtain from this course include the following: - IT governance and leadership responsibilities and how they have evolved ; - Best practices for delivering large-scale enterprise systems projects; - Frameworks to design and assess a firm’s e-business capabilities; - Successful approaches to aligning IT investments with business goals; - IT outsourcing decision approaches and impacts on IT capabilities.
  • [ ECSIS-03] IT Project Management
    The aim of this course is the students to gain advanced knowledge of the models, methods, principles, practices, and challenges pertaining to project life-cycle cost. The students will be able to define what a project is and the discipline of project management. They will learn about the concepts of the project life cycle and systems development life cycle, as well as IT project governance and the project selection process. After that students will learn about conceptualizing and Initializing the IT Project and project integration management. Through the lessons will be described the formal and informal organization to conduct analysis to better understand the organizational landscape. Through defining and managing project and product scope, the students will be introduced with the project management knowledge area called project scope management. They will also gain knowledge for the Work Breakdown Structure and Project Estimation where several traditional project estimation approaches will be introduced.
  • [ ECSIS-04] Business Intelligence and Analytics
    The aim of this course is to provide the student with an understanding of several management science techniques and to provide some insight into how these tools may be used to analyze complex business problems and arrive at a rational solution. The techniques to be studied are forecasting, linear planning, simulation, and modeling. Cases of increasing complexity will be used to emphasize problem description, definition, and formulation. The computer will be used extensively throughout the course, primarily by using available programs to perform the calculations after the problem has been correctly formulated. Emphasis will be placed on the interpretation and implementation of results. In addition, we will examine the future of analytics.
  • [ ECSIS-05] Information Systems Management
    The aim of this program is to give an overview of information systems from organizational and social perspective. The objective is to supply the students with the adequate balance of technical and organizational perspectives that will serve as a foundation for further studies in the field of information systems.
  • [ ECSIS-06] Computer Systems Security
    This course introduces the basics of network security. The student will be introduced to computer network vulnerabilities and threats and how to safeguard computer networks from those vulnerabilities and threats. This course will expose the student to network security planning, network security technology, network security organization and the legal and ethical issues associated with network security.
  • [ ECSIS-07] Systems Analysis and Design
    The aim of this cours is to enable students to uderstand and use the methodologies, techniques, tools and perspectives essential for systems analysts to successfully investigate and develop information systems requirements, as well as deliver solutions tailored to its requirements using standard modeling techniques such as structured modeling techniques, information engineering modeling techniques, and object modeling techniques. Moreover, understand the methods and constraints involved in creating a workable design from the results of using the above systems analytics.
  • [ ECSIS-08] Data Warehousing
    The primary focus of this course is on Data Warehousing and its applications to business intelligence. The course will concentrate on topics such as requirements gathering for data warehousing, data warehouse architecture, dimensional model design for data warehousing, physical database design for data warehousing, extracting, transforming, and loading strategies, introduction to business intelligence, design and development of business intelligence applications, expansion and support of a data warehouse.
  • [ ECSIS-09] Emerging Trends in Information Systems
    The course on emerging trends in information systems tends to prepare the students to be technology leaders by exploring, analyzing and reporting on these trends and innovations that are reshaping the business in the 21st century.
  • [ ECSIS-10] Electronic and Mobile Business
    This course focuses on the technological infrastructure needed for implementing e-Business solutions, on the software components necessary, and on how to implement such applications for the benefit of the companies, following the emerging trends in web & mobile systems. A major component of the course will be a hands-on project of developing an e-business Application.
  • [ EMCS-02] Data Visualization
    The aim of this course is to introduce students to the field of data visualization. Students will learn visualization design and evaluation principles, and learn how to acquire, parse, and analyze large datasets. Students will also learn techniques for visualizing multivariate, temporal, text-based, geospatial, hierarchical, and network/graph-based data. Additionally, students will utilize Processing, D3, R and ggplot2, and many other tools to prototype many of these techniques on existing datasets.

Semester 4

• [CST-THESIS-120] [30 ECTS] Master Thesis
  This module enables students to transfer their skills and knowledge to research and carry out more complex tasks related to their master thesis. The module is designed to be fully practical and students to acquire the necessary knowledge and skills to approach writing the thesis. The module has unique return result-to enable students to write the master thesis with minimal difficulties, and with maximum efficiency. The course aims to improve research techniques and style of writing the paper, taking into account the prevention of the usage of illegal means, such as plagiarism and infringement of copyright, which are prohibited by the Statute of SEEU.