Semester 1

• [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.
• [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?
• [MCS-201] [6 ECTS] Advanced Data Structures 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 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.
• [6 ECTS] Professional elective course
  • [EMCS-03] Web Engineering
    The Web has become a major delivery platform for resources. The aim of this course is to address concepts, methods, technologies and techniques to developing high quality, reliable and usable web applications. The course explores the approaches, methodologies, techniques and tools that support their design, development, evolution and evaluation. Students will be able to learn Web engineering methods and techniques that incorporate unique aspects of the problem domain such as: document-oriented delivery, fine-grained lifecycles, user-centric development, client-server legacy system integration and diverse end user skill levels that ensure proper operability, maintenance and security of a web application.
  • [ECS4060] Human - Computer Interaction
    This course aims to enable students with knowledge of the theory and practice in software development related to the communication between humans and computers, with the goal of creating usable application interfaces. The course deals with the psycho-motor aspects that influence the way people communicate with machines. Through concrete examples of user interfaces, students should understand the principles and be able to apply them while designing their applications.
  • [ECSWMS-07] Cloud Computing Technologies
    This course covers a series of current cloud computing technologies. The students will learn how to develop Cloud-based software applications on top of various Cloud platforms, how to integrate application-level services built on heterogeneous Cloud platforms, and how to leverage SaaS and PaaS solutions to build comprehensive end-to-end business solutions on the Cloud. For different layers of the cloud technologies, practical solutions such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft, SalesForce.com, etc. as well as theoretical solutions (covered by a set of papers) will be introduced.
  • [EMCS-01] Service Oriented Architectures
    The aim of this course is to establish an in-depth study of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) from three main perspectives: business, architectural and technological point of view. From business perspective, adopting SOA is essential to delivering business agility; therefore, the importance of SOA in industry will be explained. The architectural perspective will discuss different architectural models of software development, with focus on SOA design and design patterns. The technology perspective will provide students with the opportunity to gain the required experience to implement and deploy SOA solutions that will meet different functional and non – functional requirements.
  • [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.
  • [ECSWMS-05] Web Application Security
    This class is designed to teach students how to properly secure a web server, web page, and web application. Students will take an already existing web application and redesign it to be as secure as possible. Students will also design and build an ecommerce site designed with the best security practices. Students will learn how to protect confidential information, including financial and personal data. Part of security is testing the security and vulnerabilities of the web application. To that end, students will also learn the common techniques for penetrating web applications and web servers. This will give students the techniques to properly test their web applications in their academic and professional careers.
  • [ECSWMS-04] Software Development for Mobile Devices
    The aim of the course is to provide students with knowledge and understanding of a pragmatic process for developing applications for mobile devices. It will cover the development aspects for mobile devices, and practical individual project work in design and development oriented towards practical case for one or more contemporary platforms that will enable students to gain real life practical experience and insights.
  • [ECSWMS-06] Large Scale Distributed Systems
    Distributed systems have become widely inescapable and are having a tremendous impact on various domains of human activity. They range from ad-hoc networks comprising of tiny sensor devices, to massive web farms of powerful servers. Therefore, this course will cover advanced and current topics in modern, large-scale distributed systems. The course will include an in-depth coverage of different strategies to process voluminous data. Issues related to replication, fault tolerance, consistency, scalability, isolation and privacy, virtualization and creation of machine images in large-scale distributed systems will also be covered. Writing critical reviews of research papers in the field is a principal activity of this course.
  • [ECSSE-01] Software Project Management
    The aim of this course is to give students knowledge on how to develop a software project management plan for software intensive systems; how to set up monitoring and control mechanisms; how to allocate and reallocate project resources; how to track schedule, budget, quality, productivity, and progress; frameworks and how to plan for the installation and support phase of the system life cycle. They will understand the importance project structure, resource planning and execution, and progress measures of a project. In addition, they will understand the relationships among quality assurance, configuration management, verification and validation, and test and evaluation. They will also gain an understanding of the key issues in costing and pricing units of effort, motivation of workers, leading project teams, and total quality management.
  • [ECSSE-02] Software Testing and Analysis
    Software plays an important role in our daily activities, often providing critical services to end users. It is important to ensure that these systems function as they are intended with a high degree of quality. Software testing and program analysis are two techniques that are widely used to ensure the software quality. These techniques are used by developers in order to validate, verify, and evaluate the quality of software produced during the software engineering process. This course aims to provide students with advanced knowledge of the techniques used in software testing and program analysis. Students will gain an understanding of the concepts and theories that underlie these techniques. Students will also learn to use existing popular tools that support testing and analysis tasks and will be exposed to new research in the area.
  • [ECSSE-03] Requirements Engineering
    The course covers concepts for systematically establishing, defining and managing software requirements for large, complex, changing and software-intensive systems. The process is covered from technical, organizational and management perspectives, discussing past, present and future paradigms and methodologies in requirements engineering. The course covers informal, semi-formal and formal approaches, while keeping the balance between theory and practice. It involves building models of both requirement engineering process and requirements engineering product, concerning both functional and non-functional goals/requirements/specifications, using a systematic decision-making process.
  • [ECSSE-04] Agile Software Development
    The course aim is to introduce the fundamental principles and practices associated with each of the agile development methods: Lean, Scrum, eXtreme Programming (XP), Feature-driven Development (FDD), Kanban, and Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM).
  • [ECSSE-05] Model-Driven Software Development
    Model Driven Software Development is an emerging area in academic software engineering research and in industry practice. The aim of this module is to expose students to model – driven engineering by teaching them how to choose coherent modeling formalism to produce complete and consistent analysis and design models, and in which order the different models should be produced, and finally how models from one development phase are used as input/transformed into models at the next development phase. At the end of the course student will not only be able to analyze, specify and design, but also to implement applications using model – driven development and specific technologies.
  • [ECSSE-06] Software Quality Assurance and Risk Management
    As software becomes more complex, and in order to ensure a higher quality, it is necessary to establish clear processes and methodologies. Doing so will ensure that the end-product has been exposed to intensive and rigorous industry-wide verification and validation techniques and procedures. Additionally, it is necessary to provide good management of risks in order to ensure reliable processes. This will translate into a high degree of assurance that a software system passes the test for correctness and reliability. The aim of this course is to provide theoretical and practical knowledge about both the quality assurance processes and risk management.
  • [EM480] Multi-Paradigm Programming
    The aim of this course is to introduce principles and practices of software design and programming using languages that feature explicit and convenient support for multiple programming paradigms (e.g., imperative, object-oriented, and functional). This course seeks to prepare students for roles as software designers and programmers in the future workplace. In the future, most expert programmers will need to be familiar with programming in multiple paradigms. Most languages are evolving to include features drawn from multiple paradigms–imperative, functional, object-oriented, concurrency, etc. The course also seeks to prepare graduate students to conduct research on related software engineering and programming language topics.
  • [EM481] Distribution Systems Software Engineering
    Emerging computer networks and communication technology provide a new technological foundation for designing software systems. The course combines a set of new approaches to software engineering for distributed applications. It provides students with state-of-the-art knowledge of the field and develops their practical skills to meet current industrial requirements, as well as enhancing their ability to adapt to the new developments of tomorrow’s technology.
  • [EM549] Modern Front-End Web Development
    This comprehensive course aims to teach students the principles of modern front-end web development. The course will start from basic frontend development techniques such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript, continue with responsive and flex CSS design, advanced JavaScript (ES6, TypeScript) etc. The course will further continue with introducing modern JavaScript frameworks such as React, Angular and Vue. It will also discuss tools for testing web applications (Karma, Jest, etc.) and techniques for continuous integration (e.g., linting).
• [6 ECTS] Professional elective course
  • [EMCS-03] Web Engineering
    The Web has become a major delivery platform for resources. The aim of this course is to address concepts, methods, technologies and techniques to developing high quality, reliable and usable web applications. The course explores the approaches, methodologies, techniques and tools that support their design, development, evolution and evaluation. Students will be able to learn Web engineering methods and techniques that incorporate unique aspects of the problem domain such as: document-oriented delivery, fine-grained lifecycles, user-centric development, client-server legacy system integration and diverse end user skill levels that ensure proper operability, maintenance and security of a web application.
  • [ECS4060] Human - Computer Interaction
    This course aims to enable students with knowledge of the theory and practice in software development related to the communication between humans and computers, with the goal of creating usable application interfaces. The course deals with the psycho-motor aspects that influence the way people communicate with machines. Through concrete examples of user interfaces, students should understand the principles and be able to apply them while designing their applications.
  • [ECSWMS-07] Cloud Computing Technologies
    This course covers a series of current cloud computing technologies. The students will learn how to develop Cloud-based software applications on top of various Cloud platforms, how to integrate application-level services built on heterogeneous Cloud platforms, and how to leverage SaaS and PaaS solutions to build comprehensive end-to-end business solutions on the Cloud. For different layers of the cloud technologies, practical solutions such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft, SalesForce.com, etc. as well as theoretical solutions (covered by a set of papers) will be introduced.
  • [EMCS-01] Service Oriented Architectures
    The aim of this course is to establish an in-depth study of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) from three main perspectives: business, architectural and technological point of view. From business perspective, adopting SOA is essential to delivering business agility; therefore, the importance of SOA in industry will be explained. The architectural perspective will discuss different architectural models of software development, with focus on SOA design and design patterns. The technology perspective will provide students with the opportunity to gain the required experience to implement and deploy SOA solutions that will meet different functional and non – functional requirements.
  • [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.
  • [ECSWMS-05] Web Application Security
    This class is designed to teach students how to properly secure a web server, web page, and web application. Students will take an already existing web application and redesign it to be as secure as possible. Students will also design and build an ecommerce site designed with the best security practices. Students will learn how to protect confidential information, including financial and personal data. Part of security is testing the security and vulnerabilities of the web application. To that end, students will also learn the common techniques for penetrating web applications and web servers. This will give students the techniques to properly test their web applications in their academic and professional careers.
  • [ECSWMS-04] Software Development for Mobile Devices
    The aim of the course is to provide students with knowledge and understanding of a pragmatic process for developing applications for mobile devices. It will cover the development aspects for mobile devices, and practical individual project work in design and development oriented towards practical case for one or more contemporary platforms that will enable students to gain real life practical experience and insights.
  • [ECSWMS-06] Large Scale Distributed Systems
    Distributed systems have become widely inescapable and are having a tremendous impact on various domains of human activity. They range from ad-hoc networks comprising of tiny sensor devices, to massive web farms of powerful servers. Therefore, this course will cover advanced and current topics in modern, large-scale distributed systems. The course will include an in-depth coverage of different strategies to process voluminous data. Issues related to replication, fault tolerance, consistency, scalability, isolation and privacy, virtualization and creation of machine images in large-scale distributed systems will also be covered. Writing critical reviews of research papers in the field is a principal activity of this course.
  • [ECSSE-01] Software Project Management
    The aim of this course is to give students knowledge on how to develop a software project management plan for software intensive systems; how to set up monitoring and control mechanisms; how to allocate and reallocate project resources; how to track schedule, budget, quality, productivity, and progress; frameworks and how to plan for the installation and support phase of the system life cycle. They will understand the importance project structure, resource planning and execution, and progress measures of a project. In addition, they will understand the relationships among quality assurance, configuration management, verification and validation, and test and evaluation. They will also gain an understanding of the key issues in costing and pricing units of effort, motivation of workers, leading project teams, and total quality management.
  • [ECSSE-02] Software Testing and Analysis
    Software plays an important role in our daily activities, often providing critical services to end users. It is important to ensure that these systems function as they are intended with a high degree of quality. Software testing and program analysis are two techniques that are widely used to ensure the software quality. These techniques are used by developers in order to validate, verify, and evaluate the quality of software produced during the software engineering process. This course aims to provide students with advanced knowledge of the techniques used in software testing and program analysis. Students will gain an understanding of the concepts and theories that underlie these techniques. Students will also learn to use existing popular tools that support testing and analysis tasks and will be exposed to new research in the area.
  • [ECSSE-03] Requirements Engineering
    The course covers concepts for systematically establishing, defining and managing software requirements for large, complex, changing and software-intensive systems. The process is covered from technical, organizational and management perspectives, discussing past, present and future paradigms and methodologies in requirements engineering. The course covers informal, semi-formal and formal approaches, while keeping the balance between theory and practice. It involves building models of both requirement engineering process and requirements engineering product, concerning both functional and non-functional goals/requirements/specifications, using a systematic decision-making process.
  • [ECSSE-04] Agile Software Development
    The course aim is to introduce the fundamental principles and practices associated with each of the agile development methods: Lean, Scrum, eXtreme Programming (XP), Feature-driven Development (FDD), Kanban, and Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM).
  • [ECSSE-05] Model-Driven Software Development
    Model Driven Software Development is an emerging area in academic software engineering research and in industry practice. The aim of this module is to expose students to model – driven engineering by teaching them how to choose coherent modeling formalism to produce complete and consistent analysis and design models, and in which order the different models should be produced, and finally how models from one development phase are used as input/transformed into models at the next development phase. At the end of the course student will not only be able to analyze, specify and design, but also to implement applications using model – driven development and specific technologies.
  • [ECSSE-06] Software Quality Assurance and Risk Management
    As software becomes more complex, and in order to ensure a higher quality, it is necessary to establish clear processes and methodologies. Doing so will ensure that the end-product has been exposed to intensive and rigorous industry-wide verification and validation techniques and procedures. Additionally, it is necessary to provide good management of risks in order to ensure reliable processes. This will translate into a high degree of assurance that a software system passes the test for correctness and reliability. The aim of this course is to provide theoretical and practical knowledge about both the quality assurance processes and risk management.
  • [EM480] Multi-Paradigm Programming
    The aim of this course is to introduce principles and practices of software design and programming using languages that feature explicit and convenient support for multiple programming paradigms (e.g., imperative, object-oriented, and functional). This course seeks to prepare students for roles as software designers and programmers in the future workplace. In the future, most expert programmers will need to be familiar with programming in multiple paradigms. Most languages are evolving to include features drawn from multiple paradigms–imperative, functional, object-oriented, concurrency, etc. The course also seeks to prepare graduate students to conduct research on related software engineering and programming language topics.
  • [EM481] Distribution Systems Software Engineering
    Emerging computer networks and communication technology provide a new technological foundation for designing software systems. The course combines a set of new approaches to software engineering for distributed applications. It provides students with state-of-the-art knowledge of the field and develops their practical skills to meet current industrial requirements, as well as enhancing their ability to adapt to the new developments of tomorrow’s technology.
  • [EM549] Modern Front-End Web Development
    This comprehensive course aims to teach students the principles of modern front-end web development. The course will start from basic frontend development techniques such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript, continue with responsive and flex CSS design, advanced JavaScript (ES6, TypeScript) etc. The course will further continue with introducing modern JavaScript frameworks such as React, Angular and Vue. It will also discuss tools for testing web applications (Karma, Jest, etc.) and techniques for continuous integration (e.g., linting).

Semester 2

• [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.
• [SAD-200] [24 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.