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58260 - Distributed Systems

Academic Year 2017/2018

                
                        Docente:
                        Andrea Omicini
                    
                        Credits:
                        6
                    
                        SSD:
                        ING-INF/05
                    
                        Language:
                        Italian
                    
                        Teaching Mode:
                        Traditional lectures
                        
                            Campus:
                            Cesena
                        
                            Corso:
                            Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
                            Computer Science and Engineering (cod. 8614)

                            Teaching resources on Virtuale

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, students got acquainted with the fundamental issues of distributed systems, the computational models capturing their essence, and the technologies currently helping facing them in the most systematic and effective way. In particular, students become familiar with the fittest solutions, technologies, architectures, and methodologies to design distributed systems, and is capable of

devising out the most critical aspects of distributed systems coming from physical distribution
determining the most proper methodological approaches
selecting the fittest technologies for implementing the solutions detected

Course contents

General Issues of Distributed Systems

Roots of Distributed Systems: Space, Time & Computation
Goals & Issues of Distributed Systems
Sorts of Distributed Systems

Core Issues of Distributed Systems

Software Architectures
Middleware
Computing with Time
Computing with Space
Features of Distribution

Paradigms for Distributed Systems

Distributed Logic Programming / Logic & Computation
Agent-Oriented Computing / Agents & Multi-Agent Systems
Coordination-based Systems / Coordination of Distributed Systems

Technologies for Distributed Systems

Logic Programming in Prolog with tuProlog
Agents & Multi-Agent Systems with Jade
Tuple-based Coordination with TuCSoN
Programming Interaction with ReSpecT
Standard Services for Distributed Systems: Web Services
Computing without Space: Cloud Computing

Readings/Bibliography

The bibliography is made available through the course web site.

Teaching methods

Lessons with slides
Examples discussed and built by the teacher and by experts from the field
Lab activity

Assessment methods

Oral test
Possible discussion of an individual/group project

Teaching tools

Web site of the teacher
Web page of the course with slides (PDF), other materials and useful links

Links to further information

http://apice.unibo.it/xwiki/bin/view/Courses/Sd

Office hours

See the website of Andrea Omicini