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1st Year: 7500.00€

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1st Year: 12500.00 €

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Programme structure

2025/2026

Unidades curriculares	Semester	ECTS
Cybersecurity and Blockchain *	1	6.0
Digital Transformation *	1	6.0
Disruptive Technologies *	1	6.0
Leading Digital Transformation & Innovation *	1	6.0
Process Transformation and Automation *	1	6.0
Work Project in Digital Technologies for Business Final Work	2	30.0

* Mandatory course

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Mandatory Curricular Course

Cybersecurity and Blockchain

(KNOW)
OA1. Improve the mastery of widely used approaches, tools and techniques in the blockchain.
OA2. Acquire critical thinking about the constraints in conceiving, designing, implementing and exploring solutions for blockchain.
OA3. Increase the ability to integrate/associate the knowledge acquired in the various knowledge domains of distributed systems into this new reality of blockchain an associated concept (virtual coin, virtual identity, Wallet, smart contract).

(KNOW-HOW)
OA4. Improve the practical skills in core topics of the blockchain, through practical assignments illustrating/sedimenting these topics.
OA5. Understanding the reference/standard specifications, protocols and protocol stacks in the blockchain areas.

(SOFT-SKILLS)
OA6. Increase the capacity to deal with research and innovation through blockchain concepts and technologies and tools.
OA7. Train group work skills.

CP1 [Cryptography] ciphers, certificates and digital signatures, distribution of keys and certification authorities
CP2 [Cyber Security] Reference models, Risk management and the human factor
CP3 [Cybersecurity Context] Context awareness, management and sharing of information
CP4[Safety practices] routers, firewalls, IDS and traps.
CP5 [Security policies] security rules, policies and controls
CP6 [OSI Multi-Layer Communications Security] IPsec, IKEv2, SSL/TLS, SSH
CP7 [Introduction to Blockchain (BC)] Main concepts and an overview of: 1) Transactions; 2) Blocks; 3) Hashes; 4) Consensus; 5) Checking and confirming blocks.
CP8 [Distributed Ledger Technology (DLTs)]
CP9 [CryptoMoeda, Smart Contracts and Markets]
CP10 [Digital Identity and Credentialing] Personally Identifiable Information (PII), Verifiable Credentials (VC), Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs).
CP11 [BC applications]

Periodic evaluation: Individual work weighing 100% of the grade a deliver during the 1st season of exams.
Minimum score of 10 values.
Final evaluation: Individual work weighing 100% of the grade to be delivered during the second season.

Mandatory

Nathaniel Popper , Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money, Publisher: Harper Paperbacks; Reprint edition (May 24, 2016),ISBN-10: 006236250X
Daniel Drescher, Blockchain Basics: A Non-Technical Introduction in 25 Steps from Paperback, Publisher: Apress; 1st ed. edition (16 Mar. 2017), ISBN-10: 1484226038
William Stallings (2016) Cryptography and Network Security: Principles and Practice (7th Edition), Prentice-Hall, ISBN-13: 978-0134444284

Optional

Exploiting Ripple Transaction Ordering For Fun And Profit http://availableimagination.com/exploiting-ripple-transaction-ordering-for-fun-and-profit/
Ripple Consensus Whitepaper https://ripple.com/files/ripple_consensus_whitepaper.pdf
Mimblewimble. Poelstra. https://scalingbitcoin.org/papers/mimblewimble.pdf
Introduction to post-quantum cryptography. Bernstein. https://www.pqcrypto.org/www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/9783540887010-c1.pdf
A Fast and Scalable Payment Network with Bitcoin Duplex Micropayment Channels. Decker, et. al. http://www.tik.ee.ethz.ch/file/716b955c130e6c703fac336ea17b1670/duplex-micropayment-channels.pdf
Enabling Blockchain Innovations with Pegged Sidechains. Back, et. al. https://blockstream.com/sidechains.pdf
Scanning Live Ethereum Contracts for the "Unchecked-Send" Bug. Wen et. al. http://hackingdistributed.com/2016/06/16/scanning-live-ethereum-contracts-for-bugs/
To fork or not to fork. Wilcke. https://blog.ethereum.org/2016/07/15/to-fork-or-not-to-fork/
The Hard Fork: What's About to Happen to Ethereum and The DAO. Castillo. https://www.coindesk.com/hard-fork-ethereum-dao/
Ethereum Background. https://solidity.readthedocs.io/en/develop/introduction-to-smart-contracts.html
Ethereum: A Secure Decentralised Generalised Transaction Ledger. Wood. http://gavwood.com/paper.pdf.
A Next-Generation Smart Contract and Decentralized Application Platform. https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/White-Paper
Zerocash: Decentralized Anonymous Payments from Bitcoin. Ben-Sasson, et. al. http://zerocash-project.org/media/pdf/zerocash-extended-20140518.pdf
Zerocoin: Anonymous Distributed E-Cash from Bitcoin. Miers, et. al. http://spar.isi.jhu.edu/~mgreen/ZerocoinOakland.pdf
Bitcoin-NG: A Scalable Blockchain Protocol. Eyal et. al. https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/nsdi16/nsdi16-paper-eyal.pdf
March 2013 Chain Fork Post-Mortem. https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0050.mediawiki
Measuring the Longitudinal Evolution of the Online Anonymous Marketplace Ecosystem. Soska et. al. https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurity15/sec15-paper-soska.pdf
Majority is not Enough: Bitcoin Mining is Vulnerable. Eyal et. al. http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~ie53/publications/btcProcFC.pdf
Bitcoin and The Age of Bespoke Silicon. Taylor. http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~mbtaylor/papers/bitcoin_taylor_cases_2013.pdf
PATRICIA - Practical Algorithm to Retrieve Information Coded in Alphanumeric, Donald Morrison, Journal of the ACM, 15(4):514-534, October 1968
Is Bitcoin a Real Currency? An Economic Appraisal (download linked file): http://www.nber.org/papers/w19747
A Design Principle for Hash Functions, Damgard. Cluster pub directory: ~/mark/pub/56600/pfds/Damgard.A.Design.Principle.for.Hash.Functions.pdf
.Antonopoulos, Mastering Bitcoin: Programming the Open Blockchain, 2nd edO'Reilly, 2017. ISBN: 978-1491954386
Narayanan, et. al Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies: A Comprehensive Introduction,. Princeton, 2016. ISBN: 978-0691171692
Jeff Reed, Smart Contracts: The Essential Guide to Using Blockchain Smart Contracts for Cryptocurrency Exchange Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (October 11, 2016), ISBN-10: 1539457443
Saifedean Ammous, The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking Hardcover , Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (April 24, 2018), ISBN-10: 1119473861
Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Mastering Bitcoin: Programming the Open Blockchain, O?Reilly 2nd Edition, ISBN-13: 978-1491954386

Mandatory Curricular Course

Digital Transformation

LG1. Understand why digtal transformation (DT) is important and how it impacts organizations.
LG2. Understand why digtal strategy is important and how to implement it.
LG3. Understand the digital context since the first digital platform and the main predictions of digital evolution in a near future. Recognize the DT as a process.
LG4. Recognise the digital platforms and business models transformation. Know the main business for digital economy.
LG5. Know the reference models for DT an the main good practices.
LG6. Understand the main opportunities and threats of DT
LG7. Understand the DT under organizational management and corporate governance fields.
LG8. Know how to implement the DT as well as the importance to consider the change management and continual improvement fields.
LG9. Design a roadmap to improve maturity through DT. Use agile tools and practices.

This class has the following syllabus (CPs):

CP1 [Digital Strategy] ? Introduce the importance and main concepts to implement a digital strategy.

CP2 [Drivers for the Digital Transformation of Organizations]
Introduction to the main concepts of Digital Transformation.

CP3 [Main practices related to the digital transformation process]
Reference models and practices for the Digital Transformation of Organizations

CP4 [Models of Information and Technology Governance in Organizations]
Organization Models in the ontexto of Digital Transformation.

CP5 [Definition of the roadmap for Digital Transformation]
Practical application of concepts and exercises to define strategies and roadmap for Digital Transformation

Periodic evaluation: individual project consisting of two parts
First(P) part - 50% of final grade

Second(S) part - 50% of final grade (1st season)
Final grade = P*0.5 + S*0.5

To be approved students need to have an average of 10 minimum values as a final grade.
Evaluation by exam: Final Project Delivery with 100% of the grade at the time of appeal

Mandatory

Sunil Gupta, Digtal Strategy: A Guide to Reimagining your Business, Harvard Business Review Press, Boston, Massachusetts, 2018
ISACA, COBIT 2019 Framework: Introduction and Methodology, USA, 2018
Neil Perkin and Peter Abraham, Building the Agile Business Through Digital Transformation, Kogan Paga Limited, London, 2017
Thomas M. Siebel, Digital Transformation, RosetaBooks, New York, 2019

Optional

Alexander Rauser, Digital Strategy: A Guide to Digital Business Transformation, CreateSpace ndependent Publishing Platform, North Charleston, South Carolina, 2016

Mandatory Curricular Course

Disruptive Technologies

(KNOW)
OA1. To deepen the mastery of the most widely used approaches, technologies, standards, tools and techniques in IoT, applications, communications, virtual reality and 3D printing, augmented reality and social networks, identified as disruptive technologies (DTs).
OA2. Acquire a critical spirit regarding constraints in the design, implementation and exploration of solutions within the context of DTs.
OA3. Increase the capacity to integrate / associate the knowledge acquired in the various fields of knowledge of DTs.

(KNOW HOW)
OA4. To improve knowledge in the area of disruptive technologies, through practical tasks illustrating these topics.
OA5. To understand the reference / standard specifications, protocols and protocol stacks in the areas of disruptive technologies.

(TRANSVERSAL COMPETENCES)
OA6. To increase the capacity to deal with research and innovation through concepts, technologies and tools in the area of disruptive technologies
OA7. Train group work skills.

CP1 [IoT Systems] General concepts IoT systems, layers IoT systems, Edge concepts, Fog and Cloud Computing.
CP2 [IoT Communications] 5G and low power long range. Concepts, operation and implementation
CP3 [Data Analysis and Knowledge Extraction] Main concepts, selection, organization and presentation of data. Dashboards, knowledge extraction. Identification of standards.
CP4 [Human Sensing] Social Network, Text Mining, Opinion Mining.
CP5 [Augmented and Virtual Reality and 3D Printing] Concepts, operation and application cases.
CP6 [Building Information Modelling and Game Engines] Concepts, operation and application cases.
CP7 [SmartAnything] Smart Cities, Smart Grids, Industry 4.0, Smart Health, Precision Farming, Smart Construction. Concepts, operation, challenges and application cases.

Periodic evaluation: Individual work weighing 100% of the grade to be delivered during the 1st season of exams.
Minimum score of 10 values.
Evaluation by exam: Who doesn't get approved in the 1st season can deliver new work in the 2nd season.

Mandatory

Karen A. Wager, Frances W. Lee, John P. Glaser. Health Care Information Systems: A Practical Approach for Health Care Management 4th Edition (2
Jamil Y. Khan and Mehmet R. Yuce (2019). Internet of Things (IoT): Systems and Applications, Jenny Stanford Publishing ISBN-13: 978-9814800297
Germaine Halegoua. Smart Cities (2020) .MIT Press Essential Knowledge series ISBN-10: 0262538059
Jesse Glover, Jonathan Linowes (2019). Complete Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Development with Unity: Leverage the power of Unity and become a pro at creating mixed reality applications ISBN-10: 1838648186
Puneet Mathur (2020). IoT Machine Learning Applications in Telecom, Energy, and Agriculture: With Raspberry Pi and Arduino Using Python, Apress, ISBN-13: 978-1484255483
Perry Lea (2018). Internet of Things for Architects: Architecting IoT solutions by implementing sensors, communication infrastructure, edge computing, analytics, and security, Packt Publishing, ISBN-10: 1788470591

Optional

Stephanie Torta, Jonathan Torta (2018). 3D Printing: An Introduction, Mercury Learning & Information, ISBN-10: 1683922093
McKinsey Global Institute (2017). Reinventing Construction: A Route To Higher Productivity. https://www.mckinsey.com/~/media/McKinsey/Industries/Capital%20Projects%20and%20Infrastructure/Our%20Insights/Reinventing%20construction%20through%20a%20productivity%20revolution/MGI-Reinventing-construction-A-route-to-higher-productivity-Full-report.ashx
Joel José P.C. Rodrigues, Sandra Sendra Compte, Isabel de la Torra Diez. e-Health Systems (2016), https://doi.org/10.1016/C2015-0-01240-0.
Subramanian Vadari (2018). Smart Grid Redefined: Transformation of the Electric Utility, Artech House, ISBN-10: 9781630814762
Annamaria Castrignano, Gabriele Buttafuoco, Raj Khosla, Abdul Mouazen, Dimitrios Moshou, Olivier Naud (2020). Agricultural Internet of Things and Decision Support for Precision Smart Farming, Academic Press, ISBN-13: 978-0128183731
Bharat S. Chaudhari, Marco Zennaro (2020). LPWAN Technologies for IoT and M2M Applications, Academic Press, ISBN-13: 978-0128188804
Stefan Rommer, Peter Hedman, Magnus Olsson , Lars Frid, Shabnam Sultana, Catherine Mulligan (2019). 5G Core Networks: Powering Digitalization, Academic Press, ISBN-10: 0081030096
Charu C. Aggarwal (2018), Machine Learning for Text, Springer, ISBN-10: 3319735306
Isak Karabegovi, Ahmed Kovaevi, Lejla Banjanovi-Mehmedovi, Predrag Dai (2020). Handbook of Research on Integrating Industry 4.0 in Business and Manufacturing, IGI Global; ISBN-13: 978-1799827252

Mandatory Curricular Course

Leading Digital Transformation & Innovation

Students who successfully complete this course will be able to:

LG1 - Describe and compare theories on leadership and organizational innovation
LG2 - To know and critically evaluate the psychosocial processes that influence leadership and innovation in organizations
LG3 - Using methods and techniques to diagnose and intervene in the main problems related with digital transformation and innovation in organizations.

1. Main drivers of digital disruptions in organizations
2. Innovation and change in organizations dynamics
3. Leading teams and innovation in organizations
4. Psychosocial processes in leading and implementing a digital transformation strategy
5. Design Thinking

Evaluation continues: Individual work with weight of 100% of the grade to deliver during the 1st season of exams.
Minimum score of 10 values.
Evaluation by exam: Who doesn't get pass in the 1st season can deliver new work in the 2nd season worth 100%.

Mandatory

Tidd, J., & Bessant, J.R. (2018). Managing innovation: Integrating technological, market and organizational change. New York: Wiley.
Salas, E., Goodwin, G. F. & Burke, C. S. (Eds.). (2009). Team effectiveness in complex organizations. Cross-disciplinary perspectives and approaches. New York: Psychology Press.
Cobb, A. T. (2012). Leading project teams: The basics of project management and team leadership. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, Inc.
Cameron, E. & Green, M. (2012). Making sense of change management - A complete guide to the models, tools and techniques of organizational change. Kogan Page.
Burke, W.W. (2014). Organization Change - Theory and Practice. Sage.
Anderson, D. L. (2012). Organizational Development - The Process of Leading Organizational Change. Sage

Optional

Marks, M. A., Mathieu, J. E., & Zaccaro, S. J. (2001). A temporally based framework and taxonomy of team processes. Academy of Management Review, 26, 356-376.
Ferreira, A. I. & Martinez, L. F. (2008). Manual de Diagnóstico e Mudança Organizacional. Lisboa: Edit. RH.
De Cremer,D. & Pillutla, M. M. (2012). Making negotiations predictable - what science tell us?. New York: Palgrave MacMillan.
Costa, C. G., Zhou, Q., & Ferreira, A. I. (2018). The impact of anger on creative process engagement: The role of social contexts. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 39(4), 495?506.
Burke, C. S., Shuffler, M. L., & Wiese, C. W. (2018). Examining the behavioral and structural characteristics of team leadership in extreme environments. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 39(6), 716?730.
Baldé, M., Ferreira, A. I., & Maynard, T. (2018). SECI driven creativity: the role of team trust and intrinsic motivation. Journal of Knowledge Management, 22(8), 1688?1711. https://doi.org/10.1108/JKM-06-2017-0241
Anderson, N., Potocnik, K., & Zhou, J. (2014). Innovation and creativity in organizations a state-of-the-science review, prospective commentary, and guiding framework. J. of Management, 40(5), 1297-1333.

Mandatory Curricular Course

Process Transformation and Automation

LG1. Understand why is the management of business processes important
LG2. Get the capability to criticize the alignment between business processes and business strategy
LG3. Acquire the knowledge to model business processes
LG4. Acquire the knowledge to redesign business processes
LG5. Acquire the knowledge to automate business processes
LG6. Automate business processes

This UC has the following program contents (PCs):

PC1 [Frame and Motivation]
Global vision of business process management and benefits

PC2 [BPMN]
Introduce the main notation to model business processes

PC3 [Processes? Context]
Understand how the process analysis is influenced by processes? context

PC4 [Techniques of redesign]
Introduce the main techniques to redesign a business process

PC5 [Manage Process Automation]
Explain the main concerns and techniques to have into consideration during process automation

PERIODIC EVALUATION
Two works

First(P): 50% of the grade
Presentation(A): 10% of the note
Minimum grade (*): 10 values

Second(S): 40% of the grade (1st season)
Final grade = P*0.5 + A*0.1 + S*0.4

Students with an average of less than 10 can improve their first job (P) in the 2nd season.
Given the nature of the UC there is no final exam modality.

Mandatory

Business Process Management Cases: Digital Innovation and Business Transformation in Practice, J., Brocke and J., Mendling, 2017
Fundamentals of Business Process Management; Dumas, M., La Rosa, M., Mendling, J., Reijers, H., 2018
Slides de transformação e automação de processos, Rúben Pereira, disponíveis na plataforma e-learning

Optional

Business Process Management: Concepts, Languages, Architectures; Weske, M., 2012

Mandatory Curricular Course

Work Project in Digital Technologies for Business

OA1: Know how to systematically review relevant literature in a given technical-scientific field, including technical reports, standards, white papers or tutorials, to substantiate a problem and propose a solution.

OA2: Have selected one or more methodological approaches to achieve the project?s objectives, resulting in one or more technical-scientific contributions.

OA3: Know how to validate the artifacts that constitute the solution to the chosen problem and identify the corresponding validity threats.

OA4: Have learned how to prepare a master's project with quality, both in form and content.

OA5: To be able to present a technical-scientific problem and its motivation, to describe the project carried out to produce a solution for the same and to argue about the validity of the same

CP1 [Introduction to applied projects] Science and Research: general issues, literature review.
It involves the revision of technical-scientific literature, guided by a protocol and its conclusions must be confirmed by experts in the field. This step should clarify the relevance of the problem and the preliminary design of its solution

CP2 [Writing of scientific article and project]. References, methodology

CP3 [Training for the presentation of technical-scientific papers]
Periodic presentations of work progress

CP4 [Implementation and validation of the proposed solution
The implementation implies the refinement of the design. Validation implies the fulfilment of the stages of the methodological approach(s) adopted and the confrontation of the proposed solution with the state of the art, and/or its dissemination in technical-scientific forum(s) with peer review 1111

[20%, UC project evaluation continues]
Evaluation of chapters 1 (motivation to the problem) and 2 (preliminary design of the solution) of the project report in the official format and presentation and discussion of a poster at an ISTAR-IUL workshop.

[80%, Final defense]
Public defense of the project, where the report delivered, its presentation, argumentation capacity, autonomy and eventual dissemination will be evaluated.

Mandatory

J. Venable, J. Pries-Heje, R. Baskerville, FEDS: a framework for evaluation in design science research, European Journal of Information Systems, 2016
S. Gregor, A. Hevner, Positioning and presenting design science research for maximum impact, MIS Quarterly, 2013
K. Peffers, T. Tuunanen, M. Rothenberger, S. Chartterjee, A design science research methodology for information systems research, Journal of Management Information Systems, 2007
A. Hevner, A three cycle view of design science research, Scandinavian journal of information systems, 2007

Optional

Kock, Ned (2007). Information Systems Action Research: An Applied View of Emerging Concepts and Methods. Springer.
Punch, F. Keith (2016), Developing effective research proposals, Sage Publications.

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