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58260 - Distributed Systems

Academic Year 2022/2023

                
                        Docente:
                        Andrea Omicini
                    
                        Credits:
                        6
                    
                        SSD:
                        ING-INF/05
                    
                        Language:
                        Italian
                    
                        Moduli:
                        
                            Andrea Omicini
                            (Modulo 1)
                        
                            Giovanni Ciatto
                            (Modulo 2)
                        
                        Teaching Mode:
                        
                                    Traditional lectures (Modulo 1)
                                
                                    Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
                                
                            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

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

SDGs

This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.