Course Unit Page
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Teacher Andrea Omicini
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Learning modules Andrea Omicini (Modulo 1)
Giovanni Ciatto (Modulo 2)
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Credits 6
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SSD ING-INF/05
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Teaching Mode Traditional lectures (Modulo 1)
Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
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Language Italian
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Campus of Cesena
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Degree Programme Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Computer Science and Engineering (cod. 8614)
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Course Timetable from Sep 20, 2022 to Dec 19, 2022
Course Timetable from Sep 22, 2022 to Dec 15, 2022
SDGs
This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.
Academic Year 2022/2023
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
Case Studies
- CAP Theorem
- Distributed Consensus
- Distributed Ledger Technology: Blockchain as Middleware
General Issues of Distributed Systems
- Roots of Distributed Systems: Space, Time & Computation
- Goals & Issues of Distributed Systems
- Sorts of Distributed Systems
- Modelling Distributed Systems: (a) Process Algebra, (b) Software & System Architectures
- Features of Distribution
- Computing with Time
- Computing with Space
Models and Technologies for Distributed Systems
- Agents & Multi-Agent Systems
- Cloud, Fog, Edge Computing
- Web Services
Readings/Bibliography
The bibliography is made available through the course web site.
Teaching methods
- Lessons with slides
- Examples discussed and built by the teachers
- Lab activity
Assessment methods
- Oral 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
https://apice.unibo.it/xwiki/bin/view/Courses/Series/Sd/
Office hours
See the website of Andrea Omicini
See the website of Giovanni Ciatto
Alumni