Name of qualification: Doctor of Computing
Structure of the Program
The language of teaching - Georgian
1. Study Component of the Doctoral Program - 60 credits, from where
· Required credits 40-45;
· Elective Courses and other activities 15-20 credits
2. Research Component: 120 credits.
The educational objectives of the Doctoral Program
The aim of the Doctoral programme “Computer Science” is to deepen knowledge in a special field of computing (computer science) to make research in this field.
Doctoral student can conduct research in the following areas (directions can be added):
A. Algorithms (ACM Computing Classification System - http://www.acm.org/about/class/ccs98-html:
F2. Analysis of Algorithms and Problem Complexity, F.2.1 Numerical Algorithms and Problems,
F.2.2. Nonnumerical Algorithms and Problems). In this direction, the main goal of the research is the development of both numerical and theoretical aspects of some actual problems of design and analysis of algorithms.
B. Information and Intelligent Systems (ACM Computing Classification System:
H1.-.Information Systems; H.1.1-Systems and Information Theory, General Systems Theory;
H4.-.Information Systems Apllication - Decision Support Systems, and others.
I.2.- Artificial Intelligence; I.2.8-Problem Solving, Control Methods; I.2.4-Knowledge Representation Formalizms and Methods; I.2.3-Deduction and theorem Proving; I.2.11-Distributed Artficial Intelligence. I.5-Pattern Recognition. I.6-Simulation and Modeling; I.6.1-Simulation Theory; I.6.7-Simulation Sopport Systems; I.6.8-Types of Simulation, K.3 Computers and Education, K.6-Management of Computing and Informtion Systems).
C. Applied Software (ACM Computing Classification System:
J. Computer Applications: J.2 Computer Sciences and Engineering, J.6 Computer Aided Engineering, Computer Aided Design (CAD), ComputerAided Manufacturing (CAM))
D. Information Assurance and Security (IAS) (ACM Computing Classification System:
E.3. Data Encryption, E.4. Coding and InformationTheory)
E. Clusters and grid networks (ACM Computing Classification System:
G.1.8.- Partial Differential Equations; Multigrid and multilevel methods; G.2.2 .- Graph Theory; Network problems; H.3.4.- Systems and Software ; Information networks; I.2.4.- Knowledge Representation Formalisms and Methods; Semantic networks)
Learning Outcomes
Doctorate holders will be able to do
• Independent scientific research in Informatics and related fields;
• State new research problems and develop methods to solve them;
• Analyze and estimate novel methods in Informatics;
• Publish research papers in renowned scientific journals;
• Organize and participate in scientific conferences;
• Participate in scientific projects in Informatics;
• Present scientific achievements to the CS society;
• Prepare Lecture notes and courses;
• Give high-quality lectures in Informatics at the bachelor, masters and PhD level;
• Prepare and realize IT projects.
