Software Systems
All students study a core programme of 30 ECTS-credits; do a research training of 6 ECTS-credits and a master thesis of 24 ECTS-credits.
Students SHOULD choose one OUT of four specializations: Artificial Intelligence, Multimedia, Software Systems or Data Management and Analytics. 30 ECTS-credits should be spent to mandatory and optional courses within the chosen specialization.
The 24 remaining optional ECTS-credits can be taken within the specialization or from other specializations.
Finally, 6 ECTS-credits can be freely chosen from any master level VUB course. This free choice of 6 ECTS-credits has to be specified through the form (see facultary web site). Here is also an interuniversity offer of elective courses announced by the department. This brings the total to 120 ECTS-credits. The master thesis as well as the research training need to be related to the chosen specialization.
Master of Science in Applied Sciences and Engineering: Computer Science Software Systems
Compulsory courses - core (year 1)
Methods for Scientific Research
3
Declarative Programming
6
Philosophy of Science
3
Software Architectures
6
Data and Information Management
6
Theory of computation
3
Information Theory
3
Compulsory courses - core (year 2)
Research Training
6
Master Thesis Computer Science
24
Compulsory courses - profile
Meta Programming and Reflection
6
Functional Programming
6
Big Data Processing
3
Performance Analysis and Evaluation
6
Electives - profile
From the courses listed below, students must obtain 9 ECTS credits.
Real-Time Operating Systems
5
Introduction to Cryptography
5
Software Quality Analysis
6
Advanced Topics in Programming Languages
6
Fundamentals of programming languages
6
Security in Computing
6
Next Generation User Interfaces
6
Programming Language Engineering
6
Compilers
6
Programming Distributed and Replicated Systems
6
Multicore Programming
6
Capita Selecta of Software Engineering
6
Formal Verification of Computer Systems
5
Electives from other profiles
Statistical Foundations of Machine Learning
6
Computational Geometry
5
Image Processing
5
Capita Selecta Multimedia
3
Computer Vision
4
Image and Video Technology
3
Evolution of speech
6
Reinforcement Learning
6
Processus dynamiques
5
Advanced Topics in Natural Language Processing
6
Artificial Intelligence Programming Paradigms
6
Advanced Methods in Bioinformatics
6
Swarm Intelligence
5
Adaptive Systems Seminar
6
Computational Game Theory
6
Current Trends in Artificial Intelligence
6
Heuristic Optimisation
5
Database Systems Architecture
5
Geo-Spatial and web technologies
5
Information Visualisation
6
Scalable Analytics
6
Discrete Modeling, Optimization, and Search
6
Computational Creativity
6
Scalable Data Management Systems
6
Advanced Topics in Big Data
6
Capita Selecta of symbolic AI
6
Capita Selecta of Subsymbolic AI
6
Kernel Methods: Principles, Multi-Modality and Deep Learning
6
Biomedical Signals and Images
3
Hands-on channel coding - towards maximal capacity
6
3D graphics in VR
5
Machine Learning for the physical layer: design and analysis
3
Other electives
Distributed Computing and Storage Architectures
4
Information Theory
3
Multiprocessors and Reconfigurable Architectures
3
GPU Computing
3
Coding Theory
6
Signal Theory
5
Digital Signal Processing
4
Design and Implementation of Digital Circuits
4
Cryptography
3
Capita selecta Telecom
3
Internship Computer Science
6
Total number of ECTS
120