UNIVERSITÀ DI PISA

Dipartimento di Informatica

Master degree programme in

Data Science and Business Informatics
(2 years, 120 ECTS)

Study plan rules (“Regolamento”) and students’ guide

Starting from Academic Year 2022/23

Contact for information

[email protected]

Web site
https://www.di.unipi.it/en/education/mds

Last update: 7 December 2022

Notice: students enrolled up to A. Y.. 2021/22 must refer to this other document.
Preamble

The two years Master degree programme Data Science and Business Informatics
is designed to prepare graduates both to master the information technologies and to
understand the needs of organizations with a specific training in Business Intelligence
and Data Science for decision support.
Most of the courses of the Data Science and Business Informatics degree are taught
in English. A few courses are taught in Italian, namely those marked with an asterisk
in this document. For international students, the study plan will be entirely taught
in English. For Italian students, they must have a sufficient knowledge of English at
enrollment time, at least at B2 level.
The master programme requires a solid background, high motivation, and hard
working attitude. Concept abstraction, problem solving, formal modeling, mathe-
matical reasoning, and basic concepts on computer programming and databases are
essential characteristics that you should possess. Students shall not underestimate
this advice.
The assessment of a course consists usually of a written and an oral exam. In the
written exam, the student must demonstrate the use of knowledge of the course con-
tents to solve problems. During the oral exam the student must be able to demonstrate
knowledge of the course contents and be able to discuss the topics thoughtfully and
with propriety of expression.
Attendance at courses is not mandatory. Part-time students, however, experience
lower success rates in exams and longer time to graduate. We greatly recommend
students to regularly attend lectures and to complete the courses each semester.
Our graduates are highly sought after in the job market. Not only statistics show
that 100% of graduates are hired within one year from graduation, but also that they
are assigned a responsibility role. This is the reward for their commitment and moti-
vation.
Contents

1 Objectives and admission 7

1.1 Objectives of the study program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1.2 Curriculum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
1.3 Admission requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
1.4 Pre-requisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

2 Program overview 11
2.1 Study program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2.2 Precedences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
2.3 Study plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

3 Teaching and service organization 17

3.1 Teachings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
3.2 International mobility: Erasmus+ and double degree . . . . . . . . . 19
3.3 Service organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
3.4 Internship project and graduation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

A Courses in English for AY 2022/23 23

A.1 Compulsory subjects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Business process modeling (295AA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Data mining (420AA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Decision support systems (801AA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Optimization for data science (784AA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Statistics for data science (628PP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
A.2 Elective subjects from the GR1 group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Advanced databases (641AA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Algorithms and data structures for data science (751AA) . . . . . . 29
Databases (765AA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Distributed data analysis and mining (687AA) . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Geospatial analytics (783AA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Information retrieval (289AA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
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Machine learning (654AA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Programmatic advertising (634AA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Social network analysis (668AA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Technologies for web marketing (537AA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Text analytics (635AA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Visual analytics (602AA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
A.3 Elective subjects from the GR2 group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Fundamentals of business management (627PP) . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Management practice (629PP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Project design & management for data science (1075I) . . . . . . . 42
Strategic and competitive intelligence (787II) . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
A.4 Elective subjects from the GR3 group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Legal issues in data science (381NN) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Logistics (255AA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Model-driven decision-making methods (666AA) . . . . . . . . . . 47
Programming for data science (667AA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
A.5 Elective subjects from the Table 2.4 group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

B Corsi in Italiano per l’AA 2022/23 51

B.1 Attività formative a scelta del gruppo GR2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Analisi e gestione dei costi∗ (265PP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Diritto dell’informatica∗ (058NN) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Economia aziendale II∗ - Corso A - (018PP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Economia e gestione delle imprese∗ - Corso B - (049PP) . . . . . . 54
Organizzazione aziendale∗ - Corso A - (357PP) . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Pianificazione e controllo gestionale∗ (278PP) . . . . . . . . . . . 56
B.2 Attività formative a scelta del gruppo GR3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Decisioni in situazioni di complessità e di conflitto∗ (488AA) . . . . 57
Ingegneria del software∗ (271AA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

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Objectives and admission

1.1 Objectives of the study program

The two year graduate program in Data Science and Business Informatics has been
designed to meet the constant demand for professionals with an interdisciplinary skill
both in informatics and in business to satisfy the increasing demand by companies to
compete using analytics and data science methods. The graduate program is focused
on Business Intelligence and Data Science techniques to support decision making.
The interdisciplinary competence covered by the Data Science and Business Infor-
matics degree is intended to overcome the cultural divide between IT and manage-
ment. In fact, as reported by several studies and publications, there is a shortage of
trained professionals who can integrate the various skills and approaches necessary
to overcome the traditional distrust of managers in involving computer profession-
als in decision-making. This is because computer professionals tend to be regarded
as bearers of important but highly specialized knowledge, which may either seem
difficult to apply or which has little relevance to the needs of organizations.
The professional profile of graduates in Data Science and Business Informatics is
wider than traditional IT professionals with skills in areas such as operational infor-
mation systems to support business activities. The aim is to provide graduates with
specific professional skills that lead to an effective dialogue with managers to sup-
port tactical and strategic activities. To achieve this goal, key skills include Business
Intelligence and Data Science (e.g. data warehousing, machine learning and artifi-
cial intelligence, data mining, business process modeling, big data analytics, visual
analytics, text analytics). These technological skills are complemented by economic,
statistical, and managerial skills on decision-oriented rather than just operational and
management activities. In fact, the economic and business skills enable graduates to
understand the operational performances of an organization and the decision-making
criteria adopted by the management. The computer science skills enable them to
translate this understanding into models using the latest IT technologies, in order to
contribute significantly to an organization’s decision-making and to the systematic
innovation of products, processes and services. Finally, Data Science and Business
Informatics graduates will have the skills necessary to access more advanced lev-
els of university education, such as the PhD in Computer Science, PhD in Artificial
Intelligence, or the PhD in Data Science.
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1.2 Curriculum
Starting from A.Y. 2022/23, the graduate program in Data Science and Business In-
formatics is an inter-class program of LM-18 Informatics e LM-DATA Data Science.
LM-DATA Data Science is a new class of master programmes. LM-18 Informatics is
the classical Computer Science class, which allows, after graduation, for taking the
exam to access the Italian professional order of Computer Engineers. At enrolment
time, unless explicitly chosen by the student, the degree class is LM-18 (Computer
Science). Students who intend to change the class to LM-DATA, within the first year,
can do so by filling in the form available here and sending it to the Students’ Office
(att. Mrs Rosaria Mongini).
There is only one curriculum, indipendently from the classs students are enrolled
in, which includes an intensive study of in computer science topics, specifically data
science subjects, as well as topics in mathematical optimization and statistics, and
organization management. Students have a high freedom of choice in completing
their curriculum. Thesis can be done as a research project or as an internship in one
of the many companies that collaborate with the Department of Computer Science.

1.3 Admission requirements

Applicants must hold a first cycle degree in Computer Science (Italian class: L-31),
Computer Engineering (L-8), Statistics (L-41), Economics (L-18 or L-33), Physics
(L-30), Matematics (L-35) or in the same classes according to Italian Law D.M.
509/1999. Students are admitted also if they hold a Bachelor degree with at least 40
ECTS credits in the following areas: Management and Economics (SECS-P/*, ING-
IND/35), Informatics (INF/01, ING-INF/05), Physics (FIS/*), Mathematics (MAT/*),
Statistics (SECS-S/*). In the case of academic qualifications obtained abroad, excep-
tions may be made only with a resolution of the Admissions Committee, on the basis
of the specific background of the candidate.
Applicants must also be fluent in English, e.g., holding a certificate at level B2 or
higher of CEFR or an equivalent other certificate or holding one of the following:

– at least 6 ECTS of L-LIN/12 “Lingua e traduzione lingua Inglese”;

– proficiency certificate at level B2.1 rilasciato given by CLI (Centro Linguistico) of
the University of Pisa;
– IELTS with score at least 5.5;
– TOEFL iBT with score at least 72;
– First Certificate in English;
– B2 certification given by any (public or private) authorized body;
– any other studies and experiences to be assessed by an interview.

The Master degree has not a maximum quota of admitted Italian or EU students.
Extra-UE students. There are quotas on the number of extra-UE students that can
enroll. Information on how to apply for the Master Programme can be found at:

www.di.unipi.it/en/education/mds/enrollment-for-foreign-students

Pre-applications will undergo a selection process. For more information, follow

the link above.

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1.4 Pre-requisites
Basic knowledge on discrete mathematics, logics, computer programming, algorith-
mics, and data bases is required. Such topics are typically part of Bachelor programs
in Computer Science or in Computer Engineering. Students with other Bachelor
programs, if admitted, will learn such topics through one or more of the following
elective subjects (see Chp. 2):

– Programming for data science (12 ECTS),

– Algorithms and data structures for data science (9 ECTS),
– Databases (6 ECTS).

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Program overview

The Master programme is offered by the Department of Computer Science, and it has
the following structure:

– Subjects with 48 ECTS credits from the Informatics area.

– Subject with 15 ECTS credits from the Mathematics and Statustics area.
– Subjects with 9 ECTS credits from the Business Economics and Business Law
areas.
– Subjects with 12 ECTS credits from the Business Economics, Business Law, Math-
ematics and Informatics areas.
– Elective subjects with 9 ECTS credits .
– A thesis with 27 ECTS credits, which can be associated with an internship in a
public institution or in a private company, both in Italy and abroad.

The effort for each subject is given in ECTS, which consists of (on average):

1 ECTS = 25 hours of study = 8 hours of teaching + 17 hours of study on your own.

Courses are organized in two semesters per year. Each course is taught in a specific
semester only (except for some annual courses taught over both semesters).

2.1 Study program

The study program depends on the applicant bachelor degree, but in all cases it will
be designed to give an interdisciplinary expertise in informatics, data science and
business.

Courses marked with an asterisk are offered in Italian.

Courses from the Informatics area (48 ECTS)

– Data mining (INF/01 ECTS 12 DM 420AA)

– Module I: Data mining: fundamentals (6 ECTS 1 Sem.)
– Module II: Data mining: advanced topics and applications (6 ECTS 2 Sem.)
– Business process modeling (INF/01 ECTS 6 BPM 295AA 1 Sem.)
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– Decision support systems (INF/01 ECTS 12 DSS 801AA)

– Module I: Decision support databases (6 ECTS 1 Sem.)
– Module II: Laboratory of data science (6 ECTS 1 Sem.)

Course Description
Area ECTS Abbr. Code Sem.
Area Informatica
Advanced databases INF/01 9 ADB 641AA 2
Algorithms and data structures for data science INF/01 9 ADS 751AA 2
Databases INF/01 6 DB 765AA 2
Distributed data analysis and mining INF/01 6 DDAM 687AA 1
Geospatial analytics INF/01 6 GSA 783AA 1
Information retrieval INF/01 6 IR 289AA 1
Machine learning INF/01 9 ML 654AA 1
Programmatic advertising INF/01 6 PRV 634AA 1
Social network analysis INF/01 6 SNA 668AA 2
Technologies for web marketing INF/01 6 TWM 537AA 2
Text analytics INF/01 6 TXA 635AA 1
Visual analytics INF/01 6 VA 602AA 2

Table 2.1 GR1 Group of choices.

Subjects from the Mathematics and Statistics area (15 ECTS)

– Optimization for data science (MAT/09 CFU 6 ODS 784AA 1 Sem.)

– Statistics for data science (SECS-S/01 CFU 9 SDS 628PP 2 Sem.)

Subjects from the Business Economics and Business Law areas (9 ECTS)

– Elective courses from Table 2.2 (9 ECTS)

Course Description
Area ECTS Abbr. Code Sem.
Business Economics area
Analisi e gestione dei costi∗ SECS-P/07 9 AGC 265PP 2
Fundamentals of business management SECS-P/07 9 FBM 627PP 1
Economia aziendale II∗ SECS-P/07 9 EA2 018PP 1
Economia e gestione delle imprese∗ SECS-P/08 9 EGI 049PP 2
Management practice SECS-P/08 6 MP 629PP 2
Organizzazione aziendale∗ SECS-P/10 9 OA 357PP 2
Pianificazione e controllo gestionale∗ SECS-P/07 9 PCG 278PP 1
Project design & management for data science ING-IND/35 6 PDM 1075I 1
Strategic and competitive intelligence ING-IND/35 6 SCI 787II 2
Business Law area
Diritto dell’informatica∗ IUS/01 6 DIR 058NN 1

Table 2.2 GR2 Group of choices.

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2.1. S TUDY PROGRAM

Elective courses from the Business Economics, Business Law,

Mathematics and Informatics areas (12 ECTS)

– Elective courses from Table 2.2 and/or Table 2.3 (12 ECTS)

Course Description
Area ECTS Abbr. Code Sem.
Informatics area
Ingegneria del software∗ INF/01 6 IS 271AA 1
Programming for data science INF/01 12 PDS 667AA 1-2
Mathematics area
Decisioni in situazioni di complessità MAT/09 6 DSC 636AA 2
e di conflitto∗
Logistics MAT/09 6 LOG 255AA 2
Model-driven decision making methods MAT/09 6 MDD 666AA 2
Business Law area
Legal issues in data science IUS/02 6 LDS 381NN 1

Table 2.3 GR3 Group of choices.

Elective subjects (9 ECTS)

– The student can choose one or two courses among the ones from GR1, GR2, GR3
or from Table 2.4 to reach 9 ECTS. Suggested courses depend on the Bachelor
degree program of the student.

Course Description
Area ECTS Code Sem.

Informatics area
Artificial Intelligence fundamentals INF/01 6 643AA 1
Continual learning INF/01 6 791AA 2
ICT risk assessment INF/01 9 303AA 2
Peer to peer systems and blockchains INF/01 6 261AA 2
Intelligent systems for pattern recognition INF/01 9 760AA 2

Table 2.4 GR4 Group of choices.

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2.2 Precedences
There is no formal precedence between courses. However, the following order should
be respected to be able to attend subjects with profit:

– for Algorithms and data structures for data science to have attended (or to at-
tend in parallel): Programming for data science;
– for Analisi e gestione dei costi to have attended: either Fundamentals of business
management or Economia aziendale II;
– for Decision support systems - Laboratory of data science to have attended:
Data mining.
– for Distributed data analysis and mining to have attended: Data mining;
– for Geospatial analytics to have attended: Data mining;
– for Information retrieval to have attended: Algorithms and data structures for
data science (if in the study plan);
– for Model-driven decision making methods to have attended: Optimization for
data science;
– for Pianificazione e controllo gestionale to have attended: Fundamentals of
business management or Economia aziendale II;
– for Statistics for data science to have attended: Optimization for data science;
– for Strategic and competitive intelligence to have attended: Fundamentals of
business management or to have a Bachelor in Economis.

This guidelines are especially relevant for students enrolled late in the first semester.

2.3 Study plan

A recommended pattern of study follows, based on the program requirements above.
The allocation of elective courses by each year/semester is only an indication. The
120 ECTS credits required for graduation can be earned in less than two years.
Student are required to submit the study plan within one month from enrollment. The
study plan may be updated annually from 1st September to 31st January.
Draft study plans specifically tailored to a few Bachelor degrees are available at the
web site of the Master degree.

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2.3. S TUDY PLAN

Year First semester CFU Second semester CFU

from GR2: 9 from GR1: 12

from GR2 or GR3: 6 from GR2 or GR3: 6

First Optimization for data science 6 Statistics for data science 9

Data mining 6 Data mining 6

Module I: Fundamentals Module II: Advanced topics and
applications
Total 27 33
Business Process Modeling 6 Thesis 27

Secondo Decision support systems 6

Module I: Decision support databases
Decision support systems 6
Module II: Laboratory of data science
from GR1: 6

from Elective subjects: 9

Total 33 27

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Teaching and service organization

The website of Master degree programme contains the updated information on the
overall organization as well as news and announcements:

https://www.di.unipi.it/en/education/mds

Some information related to course and services offered by the Department of Eco-
nomics and Management are described at the website:

https://www.ec.unipi.it/didattica/

3.1 Teachings
Academic calendar, timetable, and rooms

The academic calendar is organized over two semesters (September-December and

February-May), including each at least 12 weeks of teachings. The courses from
Table 3.1 may have a slightly different organization from the others, because they are
offered by the study programmes of the Department of Economics and Management.

Course
Business Economics area
Analisi e gestione dei costi∗
Economia aziendale II∗
Economia e gestione delle imprese∗
Organizzazione aziendale∗
Pianificazione e controllo gestionale∗
Business Law area
Diritto dell’informatica∗

Table 3.1 Courses offered by the Department of Economics and Management.

Timetable of courses is published on the website before the beginning of the semester.
Teaching rooms are located as follows:

– for the courses from Table 3.1 at the Department of Economics and Management,
via C. Ridolfi 10, Pisa;
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– for all other courses, at Polo Didattico L. Fibonacci, Largo B. Pontecorvo 3, Edifi-
cio B, Pisa.

Please, notice that the time slots for the courses from Table 3.1 (8:45-10:15,10:30-
12:00,12:15-14:00,14:15-15:45,16:00-17:30-17:45-19:15) are different from all the
other courses (9-11, 11-13, 14-16, 16-18).

Attendance

No course requires mandatory attendance.

Course program and teaching material

The VALUTAMI web portal provides a list and several information on courses:
esami.unipi.it
For each course, there is a description of the learning objectives and course program,
which is a detail of the syllabus reported in Appendix A and B of this document.
Moreover, there may be a link to the course home page, maintained by the teacher
of the course, with additional informazione, such as: calendar of lessons, slides,
teaching material, exercises, audio-video recordings, etc. Course home pages are
normally hosted by one of the following portals:

– DidaWiki of the Department of Computer Science: didawiki.di.unipi.it

– Teams or Meet channel of the course (see later about virtual rooms)
– Moodle of the Department of Economics and Management: moodle.ec.unipi.it
– Moodle of the “Polo Informatico 2 del SID” (an IT Department of the University
of Pisa): elearning.di.unipi.it

The VALUTAMI web portal allows for searching virtual rooms where classes are
live-streamed (if this is the case) and/or for accessing recorder streams.
The official final program of a course is available at the website unimap.unipi.it, by
searching for the surname of the teacher, then the link “Attività didattica” and then
the link “Registro delle lezioni”.

Exams and mid-terms

Exams consist typically of a written test and/or a project and an oral test. Sometimes,
the written test cam be passed during the semester through mid-term tests, typically
one at the mid of the semester and one at the end of the semester. The academic
calendar states the periods when mid-terms can take place. The grades for passing an
exam are on a scale from 18 to 30 cum laude. The given grade can be declined by the
student: in such a case, the exam must be repeated from scratch. The enrollment to an
exam session (“appello”) must be done on the VALUTAMI web portal esami.unipi.it.
For a few categories of students, there are two additional exam sessions (“appelli
straordinari”), scheduled around the mid of each semester. Such categories are: stu-
dents enrolled from third year on (“fuori corso”), parents with children below eight
year old, pregnant students. See the following link for the procedure to apply for the
additional exam sessions: https://didattica.di.unipi.it/en/appelli-straordinari/.

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Student questionnaire

In the last weeks of each semester, students must fill a questionnaire for each course
attended during the semester (for courses over the whole academic year, this is re-
quired only in the second semester). Questionnaire can be filled on the web portal
VALUTAMI esami.unipi.it.
When enrolling to an exam session, the system will check if the questionnaire has
been filled. If not, before enrolling, the student will be forced to fill the questionnaire.
The answers are anonymized and no link is left between the student and the an-
swers. The questionnaire is extremely relevant to understand the feelings of the stu-
dents about the course contents, materials, and teacher(s). They will be thoroughly
considered for taking actions to improve the course in the following years.

3.2 International mobility: Erasmus+ and double degree

Students can apply for the Erasmus+ programme for a period (one semester, one year)
in a European university both for taking exams or for doing the thesis. Incoming
Erasmus+ students also regularly come to Pisa to attend the courses of the Master
degree programme in Data Science and Business Informatics.
A double degree program consists of a study program designed by two Universities.
The graduated student will have two titles of study, given by each of the Universities.
Students can enroll to a double degree program with the University of Paris-Dauphine
(France), offering the Master in Informatique des Organisations (parcours Informa-
tique pour la Dècision de la 1ère annèe de Master et parcours MIAGE Informatique
Dècisionnelle de la 2ème annèe de Master). There is a quota of five students per year
admitted to the double degree program.
For more information: https://didattica.di.unipi.it/en/master-programme-in-data-
science-and-business-informatics/studying-abroad-msc-in-data-science/.

3.3 Service organization

Office hours and tutoring

Contacts, office addresses and office hours (weekly or on appointment) of teachers

are available at the website unimap.unipi.it or directly at the web pages of courses.
Students are strongly suggested to take advantage of office hours for clarifying any
doubt about the topics of a course and the contents of each class, or for any other
inquiry about a course.
By the first semester of each year, each newly enrolled student is assigned a tutor
teacher, who can be contacted for general inquires about teaching. The assigned tutor
is published on the web site, and the tutor remains the same for the following years.
In the first semester, there also will be an au-pair tutoring service, in which students
of the second year provide information and guidance to newly enrolled students.

Computer labs, Wi-Fi and software licences

The computer labs at the Polo Didattico L. Fibonacci can be accessed outside of
the schedule classes. For logging in to computers or for connecting to the Wi/Fi
(name “Unipi”), students can use the credentials of Alice. Computer and information
services of the labs are managed by “Polo Informatico 2 del SID” (an IT Department

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of the University of Pisa), whose home page is: www.sid.unipi.it/polo2. Several

agreement allows for obtaining an academic licence of software and cloud services
(click on the name to be redirected):
– Microsoft Office 365
– Azure dev tools (OS, Visual Studio, SQL Server, etc.)
– MathWorks MatLab
– IBM on the hub
– Google GSuite (to active it click here).

Student secretariats

The student secretariat is located at Largo B. Pontecorvo 3, Edificio E. It is the pri-

mary reference for enrolling (through the International Office), for taxes, for obtain-
ing formal certificates, for applying for graduation. Most of such services can be
done online on the student web portal Alice: www.studenti.unipi.it.
The didactic unit of the Master Programme is located at Dipartimento di Informat-
ica, Largo B. Pontecorvo 3, Edificio C, II piano. It is the primary reference for the
admin papers for doing an internship, and for applying for graduation (you have to
apply both online and at the didactic unit).

Centro Linguistico Interdipartimentale

The Centro Linguistico Interdipartimentale (CLI) offers language courses, including

course of Italian for foreigner students.

Students with disabilities

Students with disabilities can be supported in several ways. Please contact USID -
Ufficio Servizi per l’Integrazione di studenti con Disabilità. The USID offices offer
technical and IT aids, tutoring, and other support facilities.
Students with Specific Learning Disorders can contact the sportello DSA, which
offers assistance, tutoring, and support to them.
The Servizio di Ascolto e Consulenza per Studenti Universitari aims at supporting
any student who need psychological assistance while studying at the University of
Pisa.

Questionnaire for the evaluation of services and organization

Students shall fill once a year a questionnaire about the quality of services and or-
ganization. The questionnaire is available at the VALUTAMI portal esami.unipi.it.
The VALUTAMI portal will prompt for filling the questionnaire (if not already filled)
when registering to an exam session.

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3.4 Internship project and graduation

Internship project (“Progetto formativo”)

An internship project (“Progetto formativo” in Italian) consists of an agreement among

the Department of Computer Science of the University of Pisa, a student preparing for
doing the thesis, and a company or public institution that is willing to host the student
for some period and with shared objectives. Students become part of a project team
in a company project focusing on topics of Data Science and Business Informatics
that have the potential to provide enough material for a Master thesis document. The
internship can be done in Italy or abroad, in private companies or in public institu-
tions. The student is supervised by a company tutor and by an academic tutor, who
will act as the thesis supervisor as well.
See https://didattica.di.unipi.it/en/master-programme-in-data-science-and-business-
informatics/internship/ for the ruling of the internship, for the list of companies with
an agreement, and for the list of available positions.

Graduation (“Laurea”)

Deadlines for graduation and instructions for applying are available at the web site of
the Master programme.
The final grade is determined as follows. First, the average of exam grades (30 cum
laude considered as 32), scaled to 110 and rounded to the nearest integer is computed.
Then an increment from 1 to 7 points is added, based on the evaluation of the thesis
defense by the defense committee (“Commissione di Laurea”). The 110 cum laude
might be attributed by the defence commitee if the above sum is at least 112 and the
increment is at least 5.

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Courses in English for AY 2022/23

This appendix reports the syllabus of the courses offered in English as well as the
links to the official program page (see esami.unipi.it) and the web page of each
course.

A.1 Compulsory subjects

Business process modeling (295AA) (6 ECTS)
Semester: 1
Contact Person: Prof. Roberto BRUNI ([email protected])
Program Page: esami.unipi.it
Web Page: didawiki.di.unipi.it/doku.php/magistraleinformaticaeconomia/mpb/

Objectives
The course presents techniques for Business Analytics according to the process-
driven view of Business Process Modeling. It presents the main concepts and prob-
lematic issues related to the process management, where processes are understood as
workflow over some basic activities, and to show some of the languages, conceptual
models and tools that can help to handle the main problems in a proper way. Dur-
ing the course, the students will become acquainted with the technical terminology
of the area, with several rigorous models that can be used to structure and compose
processes, with the logical properties that such processes can be required to satisfy
and with specific analysis and verification techniques. Moreover they will be given
the possibility to experiment with some advanced tools for the design and analysis of
business processes.

Syllabus
– Introduction to Key Issues in Business Process Management.
– Terminology and Classification.
– Process Modeling. Conceptual Models and Levels of Abstraction.
– Rigorous Workflow Models: Petri Nets and Workflow Nets.
– Tool-supported Workflow Design and Analysis: Experimentation with
Integrated Tools for Business Process Design, Analysis and Verification.
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Data mining (420AA) (12 ECTS)

Semester: 1, 2
Contact Person (1st sem.): Prof. Dino PEDRESCHI ([email protected])
Contact Person (2nd sem.): Prof. Riccardo GUIDOTTI ([email protected])
Program Page: esami.unipi.it
Web Page: didawiki.di.unipi.it/doku.php/dm/

Objectives
Recent tremendous technical advances in processing power, storage capacity, and in-
terconnectivity are creating unprecedented quantities of digital data. Data mining, the
science of extracting useful knowledge from such huge data repositories, has emerged
as an interdisciplinary field in computer science. Data mining techniques have been
widely applied to problems in industry, science, engineering and government, and it
is believed that data mining will have profound impact on our society. The course
is divided into two modules. The first presents an introduction to the basic concepts
of data mining and the knowledge discovery process, and associated analytical mod-
els and algorithms. The second module provides an account of advanced techniques
for analysis and mining of novel forms of data, and the main application areas and
prototypical case studies.

Syllabus
Module 1: Foundations
– Concepts of Data Mining and the Knowledge Discovery Process.
– Data Preprocessing and Exploratory Data Analysis.
– Frequent Patterns and Associations Rules.
– Classification: Decision Trees and Bayesian Methods.
– Cluster Analysis: Partition-based, Hierarchical and Density-based Custering.
– Experiments with Data Mining Toolkits.
Module 2: Advanced topics and applications
– Mining Time-Series and Spatio-Temporal Data.
– Mining Sequential Data, Mining Large Graphs and Networks.
– Advanced Association, Correlation and Frequent Pattern Analysis.
– Advanced Classification, Cluster Analysis and Outlier Detection.
– Data Mining Languages, Standards and System Architectures.
– Ethical aspects of data mining.
– Privacy-Preserving Data Mining.
– Applications: Retail Industry, Marketing, CRM, Telecommunication Industry,
Financial Data Analysis, Risk Analysis, Fraud Detection,
Mobility and Transportation, Public Administration and Health.

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Decision support systems (801AA) (12 ECTS)

Semester: 1
Contact Person (Module I): Prof. Salvatore RUGGIERI ([email protected])
Contact Person (Module II): Prof. Anna MONREALE ([email protected])
Program Page: esami.unipi.it
Web Page: didawiki.di.unipi.it/doku.php/mds/dss/start

Objectives
The course presents the main methodological and technological approaches to the
design and implementation of decision support systems based on business intelli-
gence (datawarehousing, data mining, data science). The first module covers themes
such as conceptual and logical Data Warehouses design, data analysis using analytic
SQL, algorithms for selecting materialized views, data warehouse systems technol-
ogy (indexes, star query optimization, physical design, query rewrite methods to use
materialized views). The second module presents technologies and systems for data
access, for building and analyzing data warehouses, for reporting, and for knowledge
discovery in databases. The accent of the module is on the use of tools and on the
analysis of application problems by means of non-trivial samples and case studies.

Syllabus
Module I: Decision support databases
– Information systems and computer-based information systems in organizations.
– Decision Support System Based on Data Warehouses.
– Data Models for Data Warehouses and On-line Analytical Processing.
– Conceptual and logical design in Data Warehouses.
– Algorithms for Selecting Materialized Views.
– Data Warehouse Systems Technology: Indexes, Star Query Optimization,
– Physical Design, Query Rewrite Methods to Use Materialized Views.
– Case studies.
Module II: Laboratory of Data Science
– Introduction: Tools for data science and Business Intelligence.
– Data Access. Location, Format and API for Accessing Data in Text Files.
Standards for Data Connectivity.
– Extract Transform and Load. Tool for ETL. Case studies.
– Data Warehousing and OLAP. Tools for Dimensional Modeling. Case Studies.
– Tools for Reporting and Multidimensional Browsing. Case Studies
– Data Mining. Tools for Knowledge Discovery. Case Studies.

Important notice: this course merges the old courses Decision support databases
(662AA, 6 ECTS) and Laboratory of Data Science (664AA, 6 ECTS).

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Optimization for data science (784AA) (6 ECTS)

Semester: 1
Contact Person: Prof. Antonio FRANGIONI ([email protected])
Program Page: esami.unipi.it
Web Page: elearning.di.unipi.it/course/view.php?id=301

Objectives
The course aims at familiarising the students with the mathematical optimization
methodologies underpinning many Data Science approaches, as well as with their
use in combination with Data Science techniques to address relevant practical prob-
lems. The course will therefore carefully balance the methodological aspect, i.e., the
theory of constrained and unconstrained optimization and of the corresponding so-
lution algorithms, and the applicative aspect, i.e., the use of these methodologies to
address Data Science issues.

Syllabus
– Basics of optimization and modelling techniques.
– Unconstrained optimization: theory and algorithms.
– Constrained optimization: theory and algorithms.
– Applications to data science and business informatics.

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Statistics for data science (628PP) (9 ECTS)

Semester: 2
Contact Person: Prof. Salvatore RUGGIERI ([email protected])
Program Page: esami.unipi.it
Web Page: didawiki.di.unipi.it/doku.php/mds/sds/

Objectives
The course presents the main concepts and techniques of probability, statistics, and
time series, which can be useful for the data analysis and data science. After consoli-
dating the knowledge in probability theory, the course is aimed at presenting the main
methods and concepts of estimation theory and hypothesis testing. The second part
of the course focuses on statistical inference and validation of core data processing
tasks and machine learning models. Advanced topics will cover stochastic processes
and time series, focusing on the ARMA framework and Markov chains. The theoreti-
cal notions are interleaved with exercises and project work using the R programming
language.

Syllabus
– Brief review on probability theory, random variables and convergence
theorems for sequences of random variables.
– Exploratory data analysis: graphical and numerical summaries.
– Basic statistical models.
– The bootstrap method.
– Estimation: unbiased estimators, efficiency and mean squared error,
maximum likelihood, expectation maximization.
– Least squares estimation and regression.
– Confidence intervals and hypotheses testing.
– Sampling and imputation methods.
– Categorical data and inference for contingency tables.
– Classifier error rate estimation and calibration.
– Noise and robust statistics.
– Bayesian inference.
– Causal inference: structured causal model, potential outcome model.
– Brief introduction to stochastic processes and linear time series analysis.
– Markov Chains and Monte Carlo Markov Chain.

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A.2 Elective subjects from the GR1 group

Advanced databases (641AA) (9 ECTS)
Semester: 2
Contact Person: Prof. Giorgio GHELLI ([email protected])
Program Page: esami.unipi.it
Web Page: elearning.di.unipi.it/course/view.php?id=293

Objectives
The course provides advanced technical knowledge of the main issues related to the
implementation and performance optimization of both classical centralized relational
database systems for operational and OLAP processing and of recent advances in
non-relational data models (columnar, document, key-value, graph) and scalable dis-
tributed architectures.

Syllabus
– Internals of relational database management systems.
– Optimizations of Data Warehousing management systems
and On-Line Analytical Processing.
– Extract-Transform-Load and query/reporting in OLAP systems.
– Beyond SQL: NoSQL data management systems for big data.
– Distributed data processing and the Map-Reduce paradigm.

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Algorithms and data structures for data science (751AA) (9 ECTS)

Semester: 2
Contact Person: Prof. Rossano VENTURINI ([email protected])
Program Page: esami.unipi.it
Web Page: rossanoventurini.github.io/teaching/

Objectives
The course introduces basic data structures and algorithmic techniques that allow
students to solve computational problems on the most important data types, such as
sequences, sets, trees, and graphs. The lectures will be complemented by an intensive
activity in laboratory. Students will experiment with algorithms and data structures
by writing their own implementations or by using third-party libraries. The goal of
the class is to enable students to design and implement efficient algorithms, choosing
the most appropriate solutions in their future projects.

Syllabus
– Introduction and basic definitions: algorithm, problem, instance.
– Computational complexity analysis of algorithms.
– Sorting: Mergesort, Quicksort and Heapsort.
– Searching: Binary Search, Binary Search Tree, Trie, and Hashing.
– Algorithms on Trees: representation and traversals.
– Algorithms on Graphs: representation, traversals, and most important problems.
– External memory model: sorting and searching.

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Databases (765AA) (6 ECTS)

Semester: 2
Contact Person: Prof. Giorgio GHELLI ([email protected])
Program Page: esami.unipi.it
Web Page: elearning.di.unipi.it/course/view.php?id=286

Objectives
The management of information is the main use of computers in organizations of all
types and sizes.Information management is mostly based on data base technology.
The aim of the course is to present the features of thesesystems, in particular the
relational ones, their architecture and the principles they are inspired by, from the
point of view ofapplication designers.

Syllabus
– Data base and database management system: definition and functionalities.
– Database design: conceptual modeling using the object-oriented data model.
– The relational data model.
– Mapping of conceptual schemas onto relational logical schema.
– The SQL language, with a special emphasis on the query sublanguage
and its relationship with first order logic.
– Theory of relational database normalization.
– Database implementation: access plans and transaction management.
– NoSQL systems.

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Distributed data analysis and mining (687AA) (6 ECTS)

Semester: 1
Contact Person: Prof. Roberto TRASARTI ([email protected])
Program Page: esami.unipi.it
Web Page: didawiki.di.unipi.it/doku.php/mds/ddam/

Objectives
Mining with big data or big data mining has become an active research area. Running
current analytical methodologies and software tools on a single personal computer
cannot efficiently deal with very large datasets. Distributed computing platforms are
a scalable solution for big data mining, obtained by dividing a large problem into
smaller ones that are concurrently solved by many single processor/machine. This
course aims at teaching the basic theoretical concepts behind the MapReduce dis-
tributed computing paradigm, and Hadoop in particular, and at building expertise in
the practical usage of high performance computing tools for data engineering, anal-
ysis and mining. In particular the students will learn how the classical data min-
ing algorithms can be applied on Big Data using Hadoop (Spark). Real (and open
source) datasets will be used to present examples and to let the students build their
own projects. Half of the lessons will consists of practice (Lab), and half of lectures.

Syllabus
– Motivations: Distributed Data Mining in a Big Data Scenario
– Recall parallel and distributed computing notions
– Introduction to Hadoop
– Hadoop Ecosystem
– Interacting with HDFS (LAB)
– Map-Reduce Programming Patterns
– Recall Python programming (LAB)
– Basic Spark (LAB)
– Data Analysis with Spark (LAB)
– Data Mining and Machine Learning with Spark (LAB)
– SparkSQL (LAB)
– Example on how to prepare a project
– Real Case Studies

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Geospatial analytics (783AA) (6 ECTS)

Semester: 1
Contact Person: Prof. Luca PAPPALARDO ([email protected])
Program Page: esami.unipi.it
Web Page: didawiki.di.unipi.it/doku.php/geospatialanalytics/gsa/

Objectives
The analysis of geographic information, such as those describing human movements,
is crucial due to its impact on several aspects of our society, such as disease spread-
ing (e.g., the COVID-19 pandemic), urban planning, well-being, pollution, and more.
This course will teach the fundamental concepts and techniques underlying the anal-
ysis of geographic and mobility data, presenting data sources (e.g., mobile phone
records, GPS traces, geotagged social media posts), data preprocessing techniques,
statistical patterns, predicting and generative algorithms, and real-world applications
(e.g., diffusion of epidemics, traffic simulation, urban dynamics). The course will
also provide a practical perspective through the use of advanced geoanalytics Python
libraries.

Syllabus
– Spatial Reference Systems
– Data formats
– Trajectory and Flows
– Spatial Tessellations
– Open-source tools for geospatial analysis
– Digital spatial and mobility data
– Preprocessing mobility data
– Individual and collective mobility laws
– Next-location prediction
– Flow generation
– Applications

Important notice: this course is renamed from Big data analytics (599AA, 6 ECTS).
Students that have Big data analytics in their study program should contact the teach-
ers for information about the exam.

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Information retrieval (289AA) (6 ECTS)

Semester: 1
Contact Person: Prof. Paolo FERRAGINA ([email protected])
Program Page: esami.unipi.it
Web Page: didawiki.di.unipi.it/doku.php/magistraleinformatica/ir/

Objectives
Study, design and analysis of IR systems which are efficient and effective to process,
mine, search, cluster and classify documents, coming from textual as well as any
unstructured domain. In the lectures, we will:
– study and analyze the main components of a modern search engine: Crawler,
Parser, Compressor, Indexer, Query resolver, Query and Document annotator, Re-
sults Ranker;
– dig into some basic algorithmic techniques which are now ubiquitous in any IR
application for data compression, indexing and sketching;
– describe few other IR tools which are used either as a component of a search
engine or as independent tools and build up the previous algorithmic techniques,
such as: Classification, Clustering, Recommendation, Random Sampling, Locality
Sensitive Hashing.

Syllabus
– Search engines.
– Crawling, Text analysis, Indexing, Ranking.
– Storage of Web pages and (hyper-)link graph.
– Results processing and visualization.
– Other data types: XML, textual DBs.
– Data processing for IR tools.
– Data streaming.
– Data sketching.
– Data compression.
– Data clustering (sketch).

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Machine learning (654AA) (9 ECTS)

Semester: 1
Contact Person: Prof. Alessio MICHELI ([email protected])
Program Page: esami.unipi.it
Web Page: elearning.di.unipi.it/course/view.php?id=302

Objectives
We introduce the principles and the critical analysis of the main paradigms for learn-
ing from data and their applications. The course provides the Machine Learning
basis for both the aims of building new adaptive Intelligent Systems and powerful
predictive models for intelligent data analysis.

Syllabus
– Computational learning tasks for predictions, learning as function approximation,
generalization concept.
– Linear models and Nearest-Neighbors (learning algorithms and properties,
regularization).
– Neural Networks (MLP and deep models, SOM).
– Probabilistic graphical models.
– Principles of learning processes: elements of statistical learning theory,
model validation.
– Support Vector Machines and kernel-based models.
– Introduction to applications and advanced models.
– Application project: implementation and use of ML/NN models with emphasis
to the rigorous application of validation techniques.

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Programmatic advertising (634AA) (6 ECTS)

Semester 1
Contact Person Prof. Nicola CIARAMELLA ([email protected])
Program Page: esami.unipi.it
Web Page: didawiki.di.unipi.it/doku.php/mds/pa/

Objectives
The course aims at providing students with a conceptual framework and a toolbox for
optimization of online advertising campaigns (inside sites, apps, games). At the end
of the course the student should be able to design and possibly implement real-life
systems for optimization of campaigns performance, intended in financial and mar-
keting terms. The required mathematical background is limited to basic differential
calculus and probability theory. The treatment is quantitative and concepts will be
translated in formulas and algorithms. Nevertheless, focus will be on intuition and
business meaning more than on formal rigor.

Syllabus
– The online advertising ecosystem. Advertisers, publishers, business intermediaries,
technology providers, data providers. Trends and Programmatic Advertising.
– Online advertising campaign management: design, targeting, creation, monitoring,
optimization and reporting.
– Data about people and their behavior. Classical segmentation, micro-segmentation,
one-to-one relationships. Data management platforms.
– The publisher problem. Basic micro-economic concepts and decision theory:
expected utility, marginal utility, pricing, decision trees, value of information,
risk and uncertainty, opportunity cost, equilibrium and optimality.
– The advertiser problem. Market segmentation, customer profiling.
The advertisers-publishers game.
– Forecasting visitors and campaigns behavior. Classical methods: linear regression,
logistic regression, time series analysis. Factorization methods. Markovian methods.
– Learning and optimization. Facing uncertainty. The Exp-Exp dilemma.
Multi-armed bandits. Reinforcement learning.

Important notice: this course will NOT be given in A.Y. 2022/23. It will restart in
A.Y. 2023/24.

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Social network analysis (668AA) (6 ECTS)

Semester: 2
Contact Person: Prof. Dino PEDRESCHI ([email protected])
Program Page: esami.unipi.it
Web Page: elearning.di.unipi.it/course/view.php?id=289

Objectives
Over the past decade there has been a growing public fascination with the complex
“connectedness” of modern society. This connectedness is found in many contexts:
in the rapid growth of the Internet and the Web, in the ease with which global com-
munication now takes place, and in the ability of news and information as well as
epidemics and financial crises to spread around the world with surprising speed and
intensity. These are phenomena that involve networks and the aggregate behavior of
groups of people; they are based on the links that connect us and the ways in which
each of our decisions can have subtle consequences for the outcomes of everyone
else. This short course is an introduction to the analysis of complex networks, with
a special focus on social networks and the Web - its structure and function, and how
it can be exploited to search for information. Drawing on ideas from computing and
information science, applied mathematics, economics and sociology, the course de-
scribes the emerging field of study that is growing at the interface of all these areas,
addressing fundamental questions about how the social, economic, and technological
worlds are connected.

Syllabus
Graph theory and social networks
– Graphs.
– Social, information, biological and technological networks.
– Strong and weak ties.
– Networks in their surrounding context.
The World Wide Web
– The structure of the Web.
– Link analysis and Web search.
– Web mining and sponsored search markets.
Network dynamics
– Information cascades.
– Power laws and rich-get-richer phenomena.
– The small-world phenomenon.
– Epidemics.

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Technologies for web marketing (537AA) (6 ECTS)

Semester: 2
Contact Person: Prof. Lucia PASSARO ([email protected])
Program Page: esami.unipi.it
Web Page: luciacpassaro.github.io/teaching/twm.html

Objectives
Web analytics is the collection, measurement, analysis and reporting of Internet data
(web, mobile, social media, email) for purposes of deep customer and market un-
derstanding and for digital service optimization. The course presents web analytics
methods, algorithms, strategies and tools with applications to web personalization for
improving user experience, to web marketing and advertising for improving visibility,
to search engine optimization for improving ranking, and social media analysis for
improving reachability and understanding opinions. Students are required to know
basic data mining and data warehousing concepts.

Syllabus
– The mobile web.
– Tools: Google analytics.
– Web personalization and user segmentation.
– Recommender systems: collaborative filtering, content based, hybrid.
– Controlled experiments on the web.
– Search engine optimization and marketing.
– Social media analysis.
– Social media scoring and marketing.
– Real time analytics.
– Privacy, profiling and regulations.

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Text analytics (635AA) (6 ECTS)

Semester: 1
Contact Person: Prof. Lucia PASSARO ([email protected])
Program Page: esami.unipi.it
Web Page: didawiki.di.unipi.it/doku.php/mds/txa/

Objectives
The course targets text analytics systems and applications to respond to business
problems by discovering and presenting knowledge that is otherwise locked in textual
form. The objective is to learn to recognize situations in which text analytics tech-
niques can solve information processing needs, to identify the analytic task/process
that best models the business problem, to select the most appropriate resources meth-
ods and tools, to collect text data and apply such methods to them. Several applica-
tions context will be presented: information extraction, sentiment analysis (what is
the nature of commentary on an issue), spam and fake posts detection, quantification
problems, summarization, etc.

Syllabus
– Disciplinary background: Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval
and Machine Learning.
– Mathematical background: Probability, Statistics and Algebra.
– Linguistic essentials: words, lemmas, morphology, PoS, syntax.
– Basic text processing: regular expression, tokenisation.
– Data gathering: twitter API, scraping.
– Basic modelling: collocations, language models.
– Libraries and tools: NLTK, Keras.
– Applications:
Classification/Clustering
Sentiment Analysis/Opinion Mining
Information Extraction/Relation Extraction
Entity Linking
Spam Detection: mail spam & phishing, blog spam, review spam.

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Visual analytics (602AA) (6 ECTS)

Semester: 2
Contact Person: Prof. Salvatore RINZIVILLO ([email protected])
Program Page: esami.unipi.it
Web Page: didawiki.di.unipi.it/doku.php/magistraleinformaticaeconomia/va/

Objectives
The availability of large data sources provides new opportunities for understanding
patterns and behaviors of modern society. The information from these sources re-
quires effective visualization methods to extract meaningful information from the
data and facilitate the interpretation of very complex phenomena. The objective of
the course is to present an overview of basic methods and visualization techniques
for effective presentation of information from different sources: structured data (rela-
tional hierarchies, trees), relational data (social networks), temporal data, spatial data
and data space-time. We will present and discuss several case study scenarios with
the existing methods and tools.

Syllabus
Visual Metaphors for Information
– Hierarchical and structured data.
– Relational and graph-based data.
– Temporal Data.
– Spatial data.
– Spatio-temporal data.
– Unstructured information (text).
Methods and Tools
– Overview of existing visual analytics environments.
Visual Analytics Process
– Definition of a Knowledge Discovery process.
– Framework for VA.
– Visual exploration and analytics of data.
– Case studies.

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A.3 Elective subjects from the GR2 group

Fundamentals of business management (627PP) (9 ECTS)
Semester: 1
Contact Person: Prof. Mariarita PIEROTTI ([email protected])
Program Page: esami.unipi.it
Web Page: elearning.di.unipi.it/course/view.php?id=321

Objectives
The course is designed to introduce students from different backgrounds (especially
from STEM disciplines) to the most relevant topics and concepts characterizing busi-
ness management, and to provide them with the ability to apply business manage-
ment knowledge to practical tasks. The topics proposed are relevant to a variety of
application sectors, and cover both theoretical concepts and relevant managerial im-
plications. The course will also introduce students to the basic concepts of financial
and managerial accounting, including concepts of costs, volumes and profits, and
their relationships, budgeting, performance measurement and evaluation. Students
will increase their familiarity with the accounting process, and will learn to read
and understand financial statements. The course will also discuss the economics and
management of strategic decisions and human capital.

Syllabus
– The firm and the market
– What is a firm?
– Theories of the firm
– The firm as a sustainable system
– Where does a firm work, interact and evolve?
– Value creation and firm’s objectives
– The competitive advantage and the entry strategies
– The firm’s functions
– Production, Research & Development, Accounting, Finance, Innovation
– Processes and techniques of marketing
– Operations management
– Procurement and logistics
– Finance
– Principles of financial accounting and budget
– Firm’s value, finance and capital structure
– Resources management, strategy, business models
– Economics and management of strategic decisions
– Governance, networking and strategic collaboration
– Human resources management practices

Notice: this course and Economia Aziendale II cannot be both present in the study
plan. Moreover, this course cannot be chosen if the student bachelor is from the
Economics area.

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Management practice (629PP) (6 ECTS)

Semester: 2
Contact Person: Prof. Paola CANTARELLI ([email protected])
Program Page: esami.unipi.it

Objectives
This advanced course aims at providing students with knowledge of the main topics
and management practices characterizing today’s competitive environment. A special
emphasis will be put on the role of enabling technologies and on management prac-
tices in innovative firms. The course will also introduce students to entrepreneurial
practices in information science (how to develop and bring to the market new prod-
ucts and services based on embedded systems and high-tech solutions).

Syllabus
1) The innovative firm: theoretical concepts and management implications
– Knowledge, invention and innovation.
– Technological paradigms: nature and evolution.
– Sources of innovation.
– Innovation typologies and dynamics.
– Innovation diffusion and market barriers.
– The innovative firm: resources, competencies and boundaries.
– Quantitative indicators of innovative activities.
– Innovation and firm growth.
– The geography of R&D: knowledge and innovation.
– Entrepreneurial practices in information science.
2) Management practices and enabling technologies
– Technological paradigms in information science.
– Architecture machine (r)evolution and firms’ organization.
– Software (r)evolution and firms’ key competencies evolution.
– Network (r)evolution and firms? boundaries.
– AI (r)evolution and Industry 4.0.

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Project design & management for data science (1075I) (6 ECTS)

Semester: 1
Contact Person: Prof. Filippo CHIARELLO ([email protected])
Program Page: esami.unipi.it

Objectives
The goal of the course is to introduce students to practical tools and methods to design
and manage data science driven projects. Students will learn and apply tools coming
from design theory, to be used in every DS phase,from problem understanding to re-
sults communication. The course will fill the existing gap in students? competences,
to be able to structure unstructured problems, similarly to what they will be asked in
their future job positions. Each topic will teach the students a clear tool to be used
from day 1 in their projects. The course will end with a series of “Design for” lessons
to place the content in a specific context (i.e. I4.0, sustainability, equality).

Syllabus
Project design module:
– Soft Skills: what they are and why are they important for a DS project.
The concept of not-so-soft skills.
– Business Problem Identification: Types of business problems, sources for
business problems identification.
– Research Questions Design: Types of RQs, writing proper RQs.
– Problem Setting: From questions to problems.
– Problem Solving: Tools and techniques for problem solving.
– Project Scoping: Define the scope of the analysis. Definition of stopping criteria.
– Goal Design: How to define goals.
– Measures Design: Process Indicators VS Result Indicators.
– Information Retrieval: Find the right information [Query Design].
– Team Design: Find and mix the right competencies for a DS Project [Bloom’s
Taxonomy].
– Design for I.4.0: what is industry 4.0, the main technologies, future developments.
– Design for Sustainability: how data can be used to design green products.
– Design for Gender Equality: avoid gender biases in DS.
The case of biased AI systems.
– Design for post COVID-19 word: How COVID-19 is reshaping DS.
Project management module:
– Fundamentals: projects and processes.
– Project planning and WBS.
– Scheduling techniques [GANTT, PERT, CPM].
– Project costing estimation.
– SCRUM & Agile methodologies for data science projects.

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Strategic and competitive intelligence (787II) (6 ECTS)

Semester: 2
Contact Person: Prof. Filippo CHIARELLO ([email protected])
Program Page: esami.unipi.it

Objectives
CI programs have goals such as proactively detecting opportunities or threats, elim-
inating or reducing blind-spots, risks and/or surprises; and reducing reaction time to
competitor and marketplace changes. The end product of any worthwhile CI activity
is what practitioners term actionable intelligence, i.e. intelligence that management
can act upon. It is more than analysing competitors: it is a process for gathering
information, converting it into intelligence (about products, customers, competitors,
and any aspect of the environment) and then using it in decision making. In this
sense, big data brings big change to CI. The course includes in-class seminars that
introduce the fundamentals of competitive intelligence, including systems and strate-
gic thinking. It provides many tools and techniques. Students will apply these tools
in groups when analysing a preselected case company. They are expected to present
early stage versions of their reports and, in the final workshop, they will present the
results of their CI analysis, which is then discussed in plenary.

Syllabus
Part 1: Foundations of competitive intelligence
– Systems thinking for management.
– CI process.
– Sources and collection techniques.
– CI professionals.
Part 2: Competitor and Market intelligence tools
– Competitive benchmarking (to assess competitive cost of operations, to analyze
the true capabilities of a rival, as well as its immediate future actions).
– Early warnings and blindspots.
– Business ecosystems (value network analysis).
– Advanced tools: scenario analysis, war gaming.
Part 3: Technology intelligence tools
– Intellectual Property Rights and patenting activity.
– Patent analysis and Bibliometrics analysis.
– Technology foresight.

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A.4 Elective subjects from the GR3 group

Legal issues in data science (381NN) (6 ECTS)
Semester: 2
Contact Person: Prof. Giovanni COMANDÈ ([email protected])
Program Page: esami.unipi.it

Objectives
The digital economy and the digital society harness the power of big data, compu-
tational capacity, innovation and interconnection. Every human activity is mediated
by information technologies. Today’s technologies enable unprecedented exploita-
tion of information, being it small or big data, for any thinkable purpose, but mostly
in business and surveillance with the ensuing legal and ethical anxieties and con-
straints. Algorithms are regularly used for mining data, offering unexplored patterns
and deep non-causal analyses to those businesses able to exploit these advances. Yet,
these innovations need to be properly framed in the existing legal background, fit in
the existing set of guarantees of fundamental rights and freedoms, coherently policy
related to reap the richness of big and open data and administration while empow-
ering equally all players. For these aims data protection plays a significant role The
course aims at enabling students to work on algorithms and data mining techniques in
ways that are compliant to the applicable legal framework and aware of the interplay
between techniques and normative rules.
Syllabus
The Algorithmic Society: the Classifying Society
– Background and Overview, Surveillance Society
– Big Other, Networks of Control, Predicting Behavior
– People Analytics, Behavioural “Nudging”
– New Emerging Human Rights in the age of Behavioral Data Science and Neurotechnologies
– Towards “Mental Privacy” and “Decision Integrity”
– Legal and ethical implication of computational capacity.
Building Legally-Compliant Algorithms:
– Legal Pitfalls of Algorithms, The Problems of Personalization, Data Handling & Sharing,
– Deploying Algorithms for Human Rights: Complications & Challenges
– Classification of Algorithms in the Information Society
– Legal Implications and Business Applications, Exploitation of Public Sector Data
– Competition Law in the Age of Algorithms, Transparency
– Accountability and traceability of algorithm based decision-making
– Accountability in the Machine Learning Context
– Technical and Legal Options to Enhance Transparency & Accountability
– Legal Liability for Algorithm Autocomplete (ISP Liability)
– Open Data Governance, Data Ethics.
General principles of privacy law: The American approach, The European approach.
The General Data Protection Regulation:
– Notions and principles, GDPR global reach and compliance
– Google Spain Decision
– Invalidation of Data Retention Directive (US Safe Harbour Decision)/Schrems.
Privacy in operation
– Privacy-by-Design, GDPR Solutions: The Right to an Explanation, etc.
– Notions of Privacy in the Algorithmic Age, Privacy from the Government
– Surveillance Capitalism, Governance by Proxy, Privacy from Private Entities
– Privacy from Platforms, Privacy from Employers, Privacy from our Devices (IoT).
Comparative Perspectives & Crossborder Issues:

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– Comparative Privacy and security Regimes: GDPR vs. USA

– Comparative Privacy and security Regimes: GDPR vs. China.

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Logistics (255AA) (6 ECTS)

Semester: 2
Contact Person: Prof. Maria Grazia SCUTELLÀ ([email protected])
Program Page: esami.unipi.it
Web Page: didawiki.di.unipi.it/doku.php/magistraleinformaticaeconomia/log/

Objectives
The course presents the structure and functions of logistics systems, analyzing major
decision problems arising in the medium/long term (tactical/strategic decisions). Af-
ter an introduction to the main characteristics of logistics systems, with emphasis on
distribution logistics, optimization models for decision support are discussed. Some
relevant models and methods are then illustrated with the aid of appropriate software
tools, and logistics case studies are presented.

Syllabus
– Introduction to Supply Chain.
– Models and Methods for Location Problems.
– Models and Methods for Transportation Problems.
– Models and Methods for the Design and Management of Distribution Centers.
– Models and Methods for Inventory Management.

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Model-driven decision-making methods (666AA) (6 ECTS)

Semester: 2
Contact Person: Prof. Bartosz FILIPECKI ([email protected])
Program Page: esami.unipi.it

Objectives
The course will enable the student to produce and/or appropriately use software tools
for the support to complex decisions (mainly at the corporate/industrial level) based
on mathematical optimization techniques. The course is focussed on practical as-
pects of these tools. The main aim is to familiarize the students with the specific
computer science aspects of these activities, such as data preparation and validation,
the development of complex mathematical models, the knowledgeable use of the cor-
responding solution algorithms, the impact on this process of data uncertainty and the
available methodologies to tackle this problem.

Syllabus
– Decision theory, decision processes.
– Architecture of decision support systems.
– Reminds to the theory of Linear Programming and
Integer Linear Programming problems.
– Solvers of Linear Programming and Integer Linear Programming problems.
– Methodologies for improving performances of the algorithms.
– Data uncertainty issues within optimization methods.

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Programming for data science (667AA) (12 ECTS)

Semester: 1-2
Contact Person (1st sem): Prof. Salvatore TRANI ([email protected])
Contact Person (2nd sem): Prof. Laura SEMINI ([email protected])
Program Page: esami.unipi.it
Web Page: didawiki.di.unipi.it/doku.php/mds/pds/

Objectives
This is an introductory course to computer programming and related mathemati-
cal/logic background for students without a Bachelor in Computer Science or in
Computer Engineering. The objective is to smoothly introduce the student to the
programming concepts and tools needed for typical data processing and data analysis
tasks. The course consists of lectures and practice in computer labs.

Syllabus
– Sets, relations, functions, combinatorics, grammars, automata.
– Propositional and first order logic.
– Induction and recurrence relations.
– Imperative programming.
– Object oriented programming.
– Programming stack and development tools.

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A.5 Elective subjects from the Table 2.4 group

The subjects from Table 2.4 of the Informatics area are offered by the Master Degree
program in Computer Science. Detailed information will be available at the website:

www.di.unipi.it/en/education/mcs

Important notice: the timetable of these subjects will not be included in the of-
ficial timetable of the Data Science and Business Informatics programme. Please,
check the website above for timetables.

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Corsi in Italiano per l’AA 2022/23

This appendix reports the syllabus of the courses offered in Italian as well as the links
to the official program page (see esami.unipi.it) and the web page of each course.

B.1 Attività formative a scelta del gruppo GR2

Analisi e gestione dei costi∗ (265PP) (9 ECTS)
Title in English: Cost Analysis and Management
Semester: 2
Contact Person: Prof. Riccardo GIANNETTI ([email protected])
Program Page: esami.unipi.it
Lesson Log: unimap.unipi.it

Obiettivi
Il corso ha lo scopo di approfondire alcuni aspetti della determinazione dei costi e
di trattare le principali logiche e tecniche per la gestione dei costi a supporto delle
decisioni.

Syllabus
– L’analisi e la gestione dei costi e il processo decisionale.
– Approfondimenti sull’ActivityBased Costing.
– L’ActivityBased Management.
– La gestione della profittabilita’ del cliente.
– I costi ambientali.
– I costi della qualita’.
– Il target costing.
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Diritto dell’informatica∗ (058NN) (6 ECTS)

Title in English: Law and Computer Science
Semester: 1
Contact Person: Prof. Francesca CRISTIANI ([email protected])
Program Page: esami.unipi.it
Lesson Log: unimap.unipi.it

Obiettivi
L’avvento delle tecnologie informatiche ha sollevato problemi per la regolamen-
tazione giuridica delle attivita’ compiute loro tramite. Il corso si propone di analiz-
zare queste problematiche, considerando sia le regole giuridiche specifiche per l’era
digitale sia la possibilita’ di impiego del diritto generale. In particolare, il corso si
propone di esaminare, tra alcune grandi tematiche del diritto nell’era digitale, quelle
piu’ proprie del contesto aziendale, ossia la contrattazione telematica, il documento
informatico, il trattamento dei dati personali e le responsabilita’ in Internet.

Syllabus
– Il commercio elettronico. Conclusione, validita’, forma e prova del contratto concluso
via email e tramite point and click: applicabilita’ delle regole generali, deroghe
e regole speciali. La Direttiva europea sul commercio elettronico e la sua attuazione:
il d.lgs. n. 70/2003. I contratti ad oggetto informatico.
– La tutela del consumatore e il regime delle informazioni in rete: informazioni
generali, commerciali e pubblicitarie non sollecitate (”spamming”). Le informazioni
pubblicitarie nelle professioni regolamentate.
– La disciplina del trattamento
dei dati personali (d.lgs. n. 196/2003). Il trattamento dei dati personali: nozione di
trattamento, dato personale, titolare, responsabile, incaricato, interessato.
L’informativa e il consenso. Il trattamento effettuato con l’ausilio degli strumenti
elettronici. La sicurezza dei dati: il documento programmatico sulla sicurezza e il
disciplinare tecnico. Il regime sanzionatorio civile, amministrativo e penale.
Il trattamento in outsourcing dei dati personali.
– Firma digitale, firma elettronica e documento informatico: questioni di forma,
validita’ e prova. La posta elettronica certificata. La trasmissione telematica dei
documenti. I certificatori.
– I domain names. I nomi di dominio aziendali. Le regole della Registration Authority.
– Gli illeciti in Internet e la responsabilita’ dei providers.
– La tutela del software. Software libero e software proprietario. Il diritto di autore
all’epoca di Internet.
– L’elaboratore e l’adempimento dell’obbligazione: la moneta elettronica e i mezzi
di pagamento in Internet.

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Economia aziendale II∗ - Corso A - (018PP) (9 ECTS)

Title in English: Business Administration
Semester: 1
Contact Person: Prof. Riccardo GIANNETTI ([email protected])
Program Page: esami.unipi.it
Lesson Log: unimap.unipi.it

Obiettivi
L’obiettivo formativo è di favorire l’acquisizione di conoscenze di base mirate alla
costruzione ed all’interpretazione del bilancio di esercizio, nonche’ al controllo della
gestione aziendale.

Syllabus
– Bilancio di esercizio: ruolo e finalita’, normativa civilistica, schemi di redazione,
– criteri di valutazione, informazioni integrative diffuse agli stakeholder.
– Dinamiche dei processi di pianificazione e controllo.
– Il ruolo, le finalita’ e le caratteristiche essenziali dei principali strumenti
– di programmazione e controllo della gestione aziendale, come il budget, i costi,
– l’analisi delle performance.

Note
Questo corso e Fundamentals of Business Management non possono essere entrambi
presenti nel piano di studi.

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Economia e gestione delle imprese∗ - Corso B - (049PP) (9 ECTS)

Title in English: Business Management
Semester: 2
Contact Person: Prof.ssa Antonella ANGELINI ([email protected])
Program Page: esami.unipi.it
Lesson Log: unimap.unipi.it

Obiettivi
Il corso fornisce gli elementi analitici di base per comprendere il comportamento
d’impresa. Tratta le principali tematiche economicomanageriali, le logiche di base e
gli strumenti relativi alla gestione strategica delle imprese e all’analisi dell’ambiente
competitivo. Gli obiettivi formativi sono:

– Conoscere le principali teorie che spiegano i fattori che influenzano la redditivita’

di impresa.
– Acquisire una conoscenza introduttiva delle dinamiche di organizzazione della
produzione industriale, e di come essa sia cambiata nel tempo.
– Acquisire conoscenze di base degli strumenti di marketing che le imprese hanno a
disposizione per aumentare la propria competitivita’.
– Sviluppare o rafforzare la capacita’ critica e di pensiero individuale. Il corso in-
tende infatti evitare l’apprendimento passivo e acritico dei temi oggetto di studio.

Syllabus
Parte I (L’analisi di settore e del sistema competitivo)
– L’analisi di settore.
– L’analisi dei concorrenti.
– I gruppi strategici.
– Le risorse e le competenze nella formulazione strategica.
– L’analisi del vantaggio competitivo (il vantaggio di costo e di differenziazione).

Parte II (L’analisi dell’impresa e delle sue funzioni.

Un focus su produzione e marketing)
– Produzione.
– Strategia innovativa e flessibilita’ dell’impresa.
– Il modello di flessibilita’ dei sistemi tecnicoproduttivi.
– Marketing.
– Il processo di marketing management.
– La segmentazione del mercato.
– Il marketing mix (prodotto, promozione, distribuzione e prezzo).

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Organizzazione aziendale∗ - Corso A - (357PP) (9 ECTS)

Title in English: Business Organization
Semester: 2
Contact Person: Prof. Marco GIANNINI ([email protected])
Program Page: esami.unipi.it
Lesson Log: unimap.unipi.it

Obiettivi
Lo scopo di questo corso è di fornire una spiegazione realistica di come funziona una
moderna organizzazione. L’obiettivo formativo e’ di sviluppare un pensiero critico,
un atteggiamento interrogativo e una capacita’ analitica riguardo ai problemi orga-
nizzativi.

Syllabus
– Strategia e risposte all’incertezza ambientale.
– Variabili strutturali per la progettazione organizzativa in differenti contesti empirici.
– Relazioni interorganizzative.
– Impatto della tecnologia sull’organizzazione.
– Ciclo di vita di una organizzazione.
– Meccanismi di controllo organizzativo.
– Cultura ed etica organizzativa.

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Pianificazione e controllo gestionale∗ (278PP) (9 ECTS)

Title in English: Management Control
Semester: 1
Contact Person: Prof. Nicola Giuseppe CASTELLANO ( [email protected])
Program Page: esami.unipi.it
Lesson Log: unimap.unipi.it

Obiettivi
Il corso si propone di approfondire le caratteristiche della pianificazione e controllo
evidenziando tanto l’evoluzione nella dottrina che nella strumentazione operativa a
supporto del management.

Syllabus
– Il sistema di controllo.
– Il processo, i meccanismi operativi e lo stile di controllo.
– Le variabili del controllo.
– Il processo di budgeting.
– L’analisi degli scostamenti.
– I contenuti ed il processo di reporting.
– L’analisi reddituale e patrimoniale.
– La leva operativa e la leva finanziaria.
– La simulazione economico-finanziaria.
– Il processo di simulazione: le simulazioni di efficienza e di struttura.
– Gli aspetti evolutivi del budget.
– Il modello di previsione, simulazione e pianificazione SISMA.
– Casi aziendali.

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B.2 Attività formative a scelta del gruppo GR3

Decisioni in situazioni di complessità e di conflitto∗ (488AA) (6 ECTS)
Title in English: Decisions, complexity and conflicts
Semester: 2
Contact Person: Prof. Laura GALLI ([email protected])
Program Page: esami.unipi.it
Web Page: elearning.humnet.unipi.it/enrol/index.php?id=3229
Lesson Log: unimap.unipi.it

Obiettivi
Fornire strumenti formali, di tipo sia quantitativo che qualitativo, per affrontare prob-
lemi decisionali e gestionali in sistemi complessi di tipo sociale, politico, ambientale
o economico. Ci si propone di sviluppare negli studenti e studentesse che seguiranno
il corso la capacità di formulare e strutturare, utilizzando un approccio sistemico,
un problema, di costruirne dei modelli, di analizzare e valutare le possibili soluzioni
alternative, e di gestire le attività necessarie alla messa in atto delle decisioni prese.

Syllabus
Problemi e loro strutturazione
– Processi decisionali
– Analisi dei sistemi e pensiero sistemico
– Analisi dinamica dei sistemi.
– Cicli causali, variabili di flusso e di livello.
La Dinamica dei Sistemi
– Il linguaggio della dinamica dei sistemi.
– Livelli, flussi e ritardi.
– Esempi (sostenibilita ambientale, processi di azione-reazione, un modello di ”guerra dei prezzi”, . . . ).
Cooperazione, competizione e sfruttamento
– Un modello di produzione ed allocazione di risorse.
– Cenni di teoria dei giochi, equilibrio di Nash.
– Il dilemma del prigioniero.
– La tragedia dei Commons.
“Social Choice” e votazioni
– Ordinamenti e preferenze.
– Metodi di Condorcet e di Borda e loro varianti.
– Il teorema di impossibilita’ di Arrow e sue conseguenze.
– Il metodo del consenso.
Sistemi elettorali
– Distribuzione dei seggi fra liste e distretti (metodi dei resti, metodi del divisore, ...).
– Definizione dei distretti elettorali.
– Alcuni paradossi.
– Analisi di alcuni sistemi elettorali.
Valutazione di progetti
– Analisi costi benefici: varianti e limiti.
– Analisi costi efficacia.
– Analisi multicriteria.
– Metodo ELECTRE.
Indici e misure
– Qualita’, incertezza e soggettivita’ nelle misure.
– Indici di sviluppo.
– Indici di disuguaglianza.
– Indice dello sviluppo umano.

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Note. L’insegnamento è erogato dal Corso di Laurea Triennale in Scienze per la Pace.
Il calendario accademico delle lezioni e degli esami potrebbe differire lievemente.

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Ingegneria del software∗ (271AA) (6 ECTS)

Title in English: Software Engineering
Semester: 2
Contact Person: Prof.ssa Laura SEMINI ([email protected])
Program Page: esami.unipi.it
Web Page: didawiki.di.unipi.it/doku.php/informatica/is-a

Obiettivi
Fornire le metodologie e strumenti per la progettazione, realizzazione, verifica, vali-
dazione e misurazione di sistemi software.

Syllabus
– Processo di sviluppo software: problemi della produzione del software, modelli di
ciclo di vita.
– Analisi del dominio: modelli statici (classi e associazioni) e dinamici (attivit a,
macchine a stati).
– Analisi dei requisiti: modello statico (casi d’uso) e dinamici (narrative,
diagrammi di robustezza).
– Progettazione architettonica: modelli statici (viste strutturali e logistiche)
e dinamici (vista componenti/connettori).
– Progettazione di dettaglio: modello statico delle componenti (strutture composite)
e modello dinamico (interazioni).
– Verifiche e prove: obiettivi e pianificazione delle verifiche,
progettazione e valutazione delle prove.

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