Master of science in Computer Science and Engineering

Brussels School of Engineering

MA-IRIF | 2020-2021

Master of science in Computer Science and Engineering

Programme mnemonicMA-IRIF Focus Professional : M-IRIFS Focus Big Data Management and Analytics (Erasmus

Mundus) : M-IRIFB

Studies levelMaster 120 credits

Learning languageenglish

Scheduleoffice hours

Studies category / subcategorySciences and technics / Sciences and technics

Jury PresidentJohan GYSELINCK

Jury SecretarySimon-Pierre GORZA

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MA-IRIF | M-IRIFS | 2020-2021

Master of science in Computer Science and EngineeringFocus Professional

Bloc 1 | M-IRIFS | MA-IRIF

Tronc commun / Core coursesELEC-H417 Communication networks : protocols and architectures | Jean-Michel DRICOT (Coordinator)

5 credits [lecture: 36h, practical work: 24h] first term English

ELEC-H473 Microprocessor architecture | Dragomir MILOJEVIC (Coordinator) 5 credits [lecture: 24h, practical work: 36h] second term English

INFO-F403 Introduction to language theory and compiling | Gilles GEERAERTS (Coordinator) 5 credits [lecture: 24h, tutorial classes: 24h] first term English

INFO-F405 Introduction to cryptography | Olivier MARKOWITCH (Coordinator) and Gilles VAN ASSCHE 5 credits [lecture: 24h, tutorial classes: 24h] first term English

INFO-H410 Techniques of artificial intelligence | Hugues BERSINI (Coordinator) 5 credits [lecture: 24h, tutorial classes: 12h] second term English

INFO-H417 Database systems architecture | Stijn VANSUMMEREN (Coordinator) 5 credits [lecture: 24h, tutorial classes: 12h, practical work: 24h] first term English

INFO-H422 Theory of information coding computing and complexity | Nicolas CERF (Coordinator) and Jérémie ROLAND 5 credits [lecture: 48h, tutorial classes: 12h] second term English

INFO-H500 Image acquisition and processing | Olivier DEBEIR (Coordinator) 5 credits [lecture: 24h, practical work: 24h] first term English

One course chosen from the following

PROJ-H402 Computing project | Mauro BIRATTARI (Coordinator) 5 credits [project: 150h] academic year English

PROJ-H417 Projet coopération au développement / development cooperation project | Antoine NONCLERCQ (Coordinator) 5 credits [project: 150h] first and second terms French

Sur sélection seulement� : voirCellule de coopération de l’Ecole polytechnique de Bruxelles (CODEPO) [https://www.ulb.ac.be/facs/polytech/cooperation-Mission.html]

PROJ-H418 Hands-on learning: project manager (chef de projet) | Philippe BOUILLARD (Coordinator) and Nadine POSTIAUX 5 credits [project: 150h] first and second terms French

Cours electives/Elective coursesChoisissez 1 module parmi les modules des Electives 1 / Choose 1 complete module among the modules of Electives

An alternative chosen from the three following

Module Computational intelligence and optimizationINFO-F422 Statistical foundations of machine learning | Gianluca BONTEMPI (Coordinator) and Bernard MANDERICK

5 credits [lecture: 24h, tutorial classes: 12h, practical work: 12h] second term English

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INFO-F424 Combinatorial optimization | RENAUD CHICOISNE (Coordinator) 5 credits [lecture: 24h, tutorial classes: 12h, practical work: 12h] second term English

INFO-H413 Heuristic optimisation | Thomas,T STUTZLE (Coordinator) 5 credits [lecture: 24h, tutorial classes: 12h, practical work: 24h] second term English

or

Module Software and critical systems designINFO-F410 Embedded systems design | Jean-François RASKIN (Coordinator)

5 credits [lecture: 12h, tutorial classes: 12h, project: 24h] second term English

INFO-F412 Formal verification of computer systems | Jean-François RASKIN (Coordinator) 5 credits [lecture: 36h, tutorial classes: 12h] second term English

INFO-F514 Protocols, cryptanalysis and mathematical cryptology | Olivier MARKOWITCH (Coordinator), Liran LERMAN and ChristophePETIT 5 credits [lecture: 24h, tutorial classes: 12h] second term English

or

Module Web and information systemsINFO-H415 Advanced databases | Esteban ZIMANYI (Coordinator)

5 credits [lecture: 24h, tutorial classes: 24h, practical work: 12h] first term English

INFO-H419 Data warehouses | Mahmoud SAKR (Coordinator) and Esteban ZIMANYI 5 credits [lecture: 24h, tutorial classes: 24h, practical work: 12h] first term English

INFO-H509 XML and Web Technologies | Dimitrios SACHARIDIS (Coordinator) 5 credits [lecture: 24h, tutorial classes: 12h, practical work: 24h] second term English

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MA-IRIF | M-IRIFS | 2020-2021

Master of science in Computer Science and EngineeringFocus Professional

Bloc 2 | M-IRIFS | MA-IRIF

Tronc commun / Core courses - Block 2GEST-S483 Digital and IT Governance | Georges ATAYA (Coordinator)

5 credits [lecture: 24h] second term English

INFO-F530 Computer science seminar | Tom LENAERTS (Coordinator), Helena Bruyninckx, RENAUD CHICOISNE, John IACONO and OlivierMARKOWITCH 5 credits [seminars: 36h] first and second terms English

MEMO-H504 Mémoire de fin d'études en Informatique | Nicolas CERF (Coordinator) 20 credits [mfe/tfe: 600h] academic year French

COURS ELECTIVES/ELECTIVE COURSES - Block 2Pour arriver à un total de 60 crédits, choisisez 30 crédits de cours parmi les cours d'ELECTIVES 1 pas encore choisi en bloc 1 et les cours d'ELECTIVES 2. Avec l'accord du jury et du titulaire, vous pouvez aussi choisir maximum 10 crédits de cours offert dans un autre programme de l'Ecole (y compris les cours des modules transversaux de l'Ecole) et/ou maximum 6 crédits de cours hors faculté.Choose, to arrive at a total of 60 credits, 30 credits of courses among the courses of ELECTIVES 1 not chosen in the block 1 of study and thecourses of ELECTIVES 2. With the approval of the jury and the lecturer, you may also complete your program by choosing at most 10 credits ofcourses offered in the other programs of the School (including the courses of the transversal modules of the school) and/or at most 6 creditsof courses offered outside of the School.

Electives 1 and 2

Up to 60 credits chosen from the following

Module Computational intelligence and optimization 1INFO-F422 Statistical foundations of machine learning | Gianluca BONTEMPI (Coordinator) and Bernard MANDERICK

5 credits [lecture: 24h, tutorial classes: 12h, practical work: 12h] second term English

INFO-F424 Combinatorial optimization | RENAUD CHICOISNE (Coordinator) 5 credits [lecture: 24h, tutorial classes: 12h, practical work: 12h] second term English

INFO-H413 Heuristic optimisation | Thomas,T STUTZLE (Coordinator) 5 credits [lecture: 24h, tutorial classes: 12h, practical work: 24h] second term English

Module Software and critical systerms design 1INFO-F410 Embedded systems design | Jean-François RASKIN (Coordinator)

5 credits [lecture: 12h, tutorial classes: 12h, project: 24h] second term English

INFO-F412 Formal verification of computer systems | Jean-François RASKIN (Coordinator) 5 credits [lecture: 36h, tutorial classes: 12h] second term English

INFO-F514 Protocols, cryptanalysis and mathematical cryptology | Olivier MARKOWITCH (Coordinator), Liran LERMAN and ChristophePETIT 5 credits [lecture: 24h, tutorial classes: 12h] second term English

Module Web and information systems 1INFO-H415 Advanced databases | Esteban ZIMANYI (Coordinator)


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INFO-H509 XML and Web Technologies | Dimitrios SACHARIDIS (Coordinator) 5 credits [lecture: 24h, tutorial classes: 12h, practical work: 24h] second term English

Module Stage/internshipSTAG-H500 Stage (3 mois) | Frédéric ROBERT (Coordinator)

10 credits [work placement: 300h] first term French

Module Computer engineering 2ELEC-H409 Digital architectures and design | Dragomir MILOJEVIC (Coordinator)

4 credits [lecture: 12h, practical work: 36h] first term English

ELEC-H410 Real-time computer systems | François QUITIN (Coordinator) 5 credits [lecture: 24h, practical work: 36h] second term English

ELEC-H505 Advanced digital architecture | Dragomir MILOJEVIC (Coordinator) 5 credits [lecture: 24h, practical work: 36h] second term English

Module Entrepreneurship and management 2GEST-H501 Logistics and quality Engineering | Alassane Ballé NDIAYE (Coordinator)

5 credits [lecture: 24h, tutorial classes: 24h] second term English

GEST-H502 Supply Chain Performance Analytics | Alassane Ballé NDIAYE (Coordinator) 5 credits [lecture: 24h] second term English

GEST-S318 Introduction to theoretical finance | Laurent GHEERAERT (Coordinator) 5 credits [lecture: 24h, tutorial classes: 24h] academic year English

GEST-S421 International entrepreneurship | Judith BEHRENS (Coordinator) 5 credits [lecture: 24h, tutorial classes: 24h] second term English

Module Computational intelligence 2INFO-F409 Learning dynamics | Tom LENAERTS (Coordinator) and Ann NOWE

5 credits [lecture: 24h, practical work: 12h, project: 24h] first term English

INFO-F439 Advanced Methods in Bioinformatics | Matthieu DEFRANCE (Coordinator) and Wim VRANKEN 5 credits [lecture: 24h, project: 36h] second term English

INFO-H414 Swarm Intelligence | Marco DORIGO (Coordinator) and Mauro BIRATTARI 5 credits [lecture: 12h, practical work: 48h] second term English

INFO-H512 Current trends in artificial intelligence | Hugues BERSINI (Coordinator) 5 credits [lecture: 24h, project: 30h] second term English

INFO-Y004 Natural language processing 6 credits [lecture: 26h, tutorial classes: 26h] first term

INFO-Y087 Declarative programming 6 credits [lecture: 26h, tutorial classes: 26h] first term English

Module Web & information systems 2INFO-H420 Business process management | Dimitrios SACHARIDIS (Coordinator)

5 credits [lecture: 24h, tutorial classes: 36h] first term English

Ce cours ne sera pas donné en 20-21.

INFO-H423 Data Mining | Dimitrios SACHARIDIS (Coordinator) 5 credits [lecture: 24h, tutorial classes: 12h, practical work: 24h] first term English


INFO-H515 Big Data : Distributed Data Management and Scalable Analytics | Ann NOWE (Coordinator) and Gianluca BONTEMPI 5 credits [lecture: 24h, practical work: 18h, project: 45h] second term English

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INFO-Y088 Web information systems 6 credits [lecture: 26h, tutorial classes: 26h, project: 60h] first term English

INFO-Y106 Information visualisation 6 credits [lecture: 26h, tutorial classes: 26h] academic year

INFO-Y531 Conceptual modeling & design methods | Olga DE TROYER (Coordinator) 6 credits [lecture: 26h, tutorial classes: 26h] first term

Module 3D Graphics & image processing 2INFO-H501 Pattern recognition and image analysis | Olivier DEBEIR (Coordinator) and Christine DECAESTECKER

5 credits [lecture: 36h, practical work: 24h] second term English

INFO-H502 Virtual Reality | Gauthier LAFRUIT (Coordinator) 5 credits [lecture: 24h, practical work: 24h] first term English

INFO-H503 CUDA GPGPU programming | Gauthier LAFRUIT (Coordinator) 5 credits [lecture: 12h, practical work: 24h] second term English

Module Algorithms 2INFO-F413 Data structures and algorithms | Jean CARDINAL (Coordinator)


INFO-F420 Computational geometry | Stefan LANGERMAN F. SWARZBERG (Coordinator) 5 credits [lecture: 24h, tutorial classes: 12h, practical work: 12h] first term English

INFO-F521 Graphs and networks | Gwenaël JORET (Coordinator) 5 credits [lecture: 24h, tutorial classes: 12h, practical work: 12h] first term English

INFO-H514 Quantum information and computation | Nicolas CERF (Coordinator), Ognyan Oreshkov and Jérémie ROLAND 5 credits [lecture: 24h, tutorial classes: 24h] second term English

Module Optimization 2INFO-F524 Continuous optimization | Bernard FORTZ (Coordinator)

5 credits [lecture: 24h, project: 24h] second term English

MATH-H405 Decision Engineering | Yves DE SMET (Coordinator) 5 credits [lecture: 24h, tutorial classes: 24h] second term English

Module Software & critical systems 2INFO-F404 Real-Time Operating Systems | Joël GOOSSENS (Coordinator)

5 credits [lecture: 24h, tutorial classes: 12h] first term English

INFO-Y082 Distributed and mobile programming paradigms 6 credits [lecture: 26h, tutorial classes: 26h] second term English

INFO-Y084 Aspect oriented software development 6 credits [lecture: 26h, tutorial classes: 26h] academic year English

INFO-Y085 Functional programming | Wolfgang DE MEUTER (Coordinator) 6 credits [lecture: 26h, tutorial classes: 26h] first term English

INFO-Y099 Multicore programming 6 credits [lecture: 26h, tutorial classes: 26h] second term English

INFO-Y1001 GPU Computing 3 credits [lecture: 12h, practical work: 18h] first term French

INFO-Y1002 Practical Parallel Programming 3 credits [lecture: 12h, practical work: 18h] first term French

INFO-Y532 Higher order programming | Wolfgang DE MEUTER (Coordinator) 6 credits [lecture: 26h, tutorial classes: 26h] first term

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INFO-Y535 Capita selecta of programming language 6 credits [lecture: 26h, tutorial classes: 26h] first term English

Free elective coursesStudents have also the opportunity to choose courses among the courses of the 'transversal modules' of the School.

Up to ten credits chosen from the following

BIME-G5505 Interfaculty and interdisciplinary program in Healthcare Innovation | Hilde STEVENS (Coordinator) 5 credits [lecture: 40h, tutorial classes: 20h] second term English

EDUC-H601 Summer School | Johan GYSELINCK (Coordinator) 5 credits [personal assignments: 5h] academic year English

GEST-H502 Supply Chain Performance Analytics | Alassane Ballé NDIAYE (Coordinator) 5 credits [lecture: 24h] second term English

GEST-H509 Ethique de l'ingénieur | Céline KERMISCH (Coordinator) 3 credits [lecture: 12h, tutorial classes: 12h, practical work: 12h] second term French

GEST-S101 Comptabilité financière | Faska KHROUZ (Coordinator) 5 credits [lecture: 36h, tutorial classes: 8h] second term French

GEST-S318 Introduction to theoretical finance | Laurent GHEERAERT (Coordinator) 5 credits [lecture: 24h, tutorial classes: 24h] academic year English

GEST-S445 Marketing management | Catherine JANSSEN (Coordinator) 5 credits [lecture: 24h] second term French

LANG-H500 English for professional purposes | Gillian Lucy (Coordinator) 5 credits [tutorial classes: 48h, personal assignments: 12h] academic year English

PHYS-F517 How To Make (almost) Any Experiment Using Digital Fabrication | Denis TERWAGNE (Coordinator) 5 credits [lecture: 24h, practical work: 24h] second term French

PROJ-H421 Projet polydaire: expériences didactiques innovantes pour le secondaire | Simon-Pierre GORZA (Coordinator) 5 credits [project: 150h] academic year French

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MA-IRIF | M-IRIFB | 2020-2021

Master of science in Computer Science and EngineeringFocus Big Data Management and Analytics (Erasmus Mundus)

Bloc 1 | M-IRIFB | MA-IRIF

Business intelligence fundamentals - ULB - Block 1INFO-H415 Advanced databases | Esteban ZIMANYI (Coordinator)


INFO-H417 Database systems architecture | Stijn VANSUMMEREN (Coordinator) 5 credits [lecture: 24h, tutorial classes: 12h, practical work: 24h] first term English


INFO-H420 Business process management | Dimitrios SACHARIDIS (Coordinator) 5 credits [lecture: 24h, tutorial classes: 36h] first term English


INFO-H423 Data Mining | Dimitrios SACHARIDIS (Coordinator) 5 credits [lecture: 24h, tutorial classes: 12h, practical work: 24h] first term English


LANG-H400 Humanities 5 credits [tutorial classes: 48h] academic year French

Big data fundamentals - UPC - Block 1ETHI-Y400 Humanities : Debates on Ethics of Big Data

2 credits second term English

INFO-Y405 Big Data Management 6 credits second term English

INFO-Y406 Semantic Data Management 6 credits second term English

INFO-Y407 Cloud Computing 6 credits second term English

INFO-Y408 Big Data Seminar 2 credits second term English

INFO-Y508 Viability of business projects 6 credits second term English

LANG-Y402 Humanities : Foreign Language 2 credits second term English

European business intelligence and Big data summer school (summer) - Block 1Students will attend the summer school organised annualy by one partner institution. Presented by learning researchers in the field, it providesstudents with theoretical and practical skills in the domain. Industrial presentations will allow participants to understand the current product offer.

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MA-IRIF | M-IRIFB | 2020-2021

Master of science in Computer Science and EngineeringFocus Big Data Management and Analytics (Erasmus Mundus)

Bloc 2 | M-IRIFB | MA-IRIF

Choice of module - Block 2Large-Scale Data Analytics - TUB (DE)

INFO-Y005 Information Retrieval and Data Mining 3 credits academic year French

INFO-Y006 Big Data Analytic Projects 9 credits academic year

LANG-Y503 Humanities- language 6 credits academic year English

Choose two of the followings three courses

Two courses chosen from the following

INFO-Y540 Scalable Data Science 6 credits academic year English

INFO-Y541 Heterogeneous Distributed Information Systems 6 credits academic year English

INFO-Y542 Management of Data Streams 6 credits academic year English

Business Process Analytics - TU/E (NL)ETHI-Y500 Capita Selecta Analytics For Information Systems

5 credits academic year English

INFO-Y543 Process Modeling and Simulation 5 credits academic year English

INFO-Y544 Introducation to Process Mining 5 credits academic year English

INFO-Y545 Visualisation 5 credits academic year English

INFO-Y546 Applied Statistics 5 credits academic year French

INFO-Y547 Seminar Analytics for Information systems 5 credits academic year English

Decision Support and Data Analytics - Centrale Supélec (FR)INFO-Y565 Decision Modeling

5 credits second term French

INFO-Y566 Advanced Machine Learning 5 credits second term French

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INFO-Y567 Visual Analytics 5 credits second term French

INFO-Y568 Massive Graph Management & Analytics 5 credits second term French

INFO-Y569 Big Data Research Project 5 credits second term French

INFO-Y570 Business Innovation Management 5 credits second term French

Master's thesis - Block 2(In main or associated partner)MEMO-H511 Thesis

30 credits academic year English

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