08574 - Operating Systems

Academic Year 2019/2020

  • Moduli: Davide Sangiorgi (Modulo 1) Stefano Pio Zingaro (Modulo 2)
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Information Science for Management (cod. 8014)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, the student knows the fundamental concepts and algorithms in use in modern operating systems. The student also learns how to use programming languages, mainly those based on objects, to handle concurrency and distribution and to program services

Course contents

1: Introduction to operating systems (OS) 2: Summary of concepts of architecture of computing systems 3: General organisation of an OS 4: Processes and threads 5: Concurrency and communication 6: CPU Scheduling 7: Memory management 8: File systems 9: Concepts of distributed systems 10: Distributed comunication 11: Protection, security and cryptography

See the course web page, from the lecturer's web page, for more details.

Readings/Bibliography

Silberschatz, Galvin, and Gagne, Applied Operating Systems Concepts, John Wiley and Sons (various editions exist, all valid). Note: other books are well possible, discuss this with the lecturer

Concerning object-oriented programming in Java with concurrency and distribution, an excellent text is: "Oggetti concorrenza distribuzione. Programmare a diversi livelli di astrazione", Crafa Silvia, edizioni Esculapio, 2014 (there are several English text on the same topic)

Teaching methods

The integrated course consists of about 100 hours, of which 40% in the "Laboratory" module, where the topics exposes in the main lectures are further discussed with examples and exercises.

Assessment methods

A written exam; a project that is part of the "laboratory" module, with the final note that takes into account both the written exam and the project, although with a higher weight for the written exam. The goal of the written exam is to check the understanding of the concepts introduced in the lectures and the ability of being able to use them in concrete situations presented as short exercises.

An oral exam is possible too, both to allow  a student to improve on the  note of the written exam, and to permit a more precise evaluation of the written exam by the teacher.

Teaching tools

The slides used  during the lectures will be made available to the students via internet, and reachable from the course main web page (see the lecturer home page)

Links to further information

http://www.cs.unibo.it/~sangio/

Office hours

See the website of Davide Sangiorgi

See the website of Stefano Pio Zingaro