Advanced Modules - UPM

Course: Biomedical Informatics
ID: UPM-BI
Authors: Victor Maojo Garcia
ECTS: 3
Classification: 2.7.3, 2.7.5
Description: The biomedical informatics tries to analyze the main problems of the medical practice and to look for the best solutions using information technology. In this area it is very important de data, information and knowledege management. This course gives an overview of the biomedical informatics, and it focus mainly on research aspects more than application development aspects.


Course: Natural Language Processing
ID: UPM-NLP
Authors: Ana Garcia Serrano
ECTS: 6
Classification: 2.7.4, 3.1
Description: This course covers the following issues: basic technologies, ontologies and knowledge representations; knowledge recovery; information agents for the semantic web; and automatic translation.


Course: Intelligent Agents and Multiagents systems
ID: UPM-MAS
Authors: Ana Garcia Serrano
ECTS: 6
Classification: 3.4, 3.5
Description: The first goal of this course is to present theorical aspects and the current state of the technology used for design and develop intelligent agents. The second goal is related to the differents forms of distribution and coordination which are used in multiagents systems. And the third goal is to present some applications on the area of agents and multiagents systems.


Course: Grid Computing
ID: UPM-Grid
Authors: Asuncion Gomez-Perez, Maria de los Santos Perez Hernandez, Pilar Herrero
ECTS: 3
Classification: 3.6
Description: The grid technology facilitates the resolution of problems too costly with respect to the computation and the management. The main advantages of the grid computing are the following one: unlimited power due to many computers on-line working together, and elimination of the bottleneck of some processes


Course: e-Commerce
ID: UPM-e-comm
Authors: Jose Luis Mate Hernandez
ECTS: 4.5
Classification: Unknown
Description: This course provides an overview of the e-commerce model on the web. The course is also focused on the market situation, real examples, and tools using in e-commerce.


Course: Design of Web Applications
ID: UPM-WebApp
Authors: Francisco M. Sanchez Moreno
ECTS: 6
Classification: Unknown
Description: The course is focused on instalation and configuration of web servers, language for publishing in the web, the web programming, XML/SOAP protocol, java servlets and applets, and e-commerce.