58260 - Distributed Systems

Academic Year 2015/2016

  • Docente: Andrea Omicini
  • Credits: 9
  • 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)

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

  • Generality on distributed systems
    • Basic problems and definitions
    • Software architectures
  • Examples
    • The architecture of Web-based systems, REST & ROA
    • Web Services
    • The Cloud
  • Basics of distributed systems
    • Communication
    • Naming
    • Synchronisation
    • Consistency & replication
    • Fault tolerance
  • Pardigms and technologies for distributed systems
    • Distributed object-based systems: models and middleware
    • From objects to agents: models, languages, and middleware
    • Coordination of distributed systems: the role of interaction, models, and middlware
  • Experiments in the lab
    • JADE: Java Agent DEvelopment Framework
    • TuCSoN: Tuple Centres Spread over the Network

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

Links to further information

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

Office hours

See the website of Andrea Omicini