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This course is meant to illustrate the conceptual foundations, the main features and the most relevant issues of today distributed computational systems. Also, the main technologies for constructing distributed systems are introduced, in terms of languages, middleware, and infrastructures. In particular, object-based, web-based, coordination-based and agent-based systems are used as the sources for case studies and for experiments in the laboratory.
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 metodologies 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
Paradigms 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 middleware
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
Sistemi distribuiti 2022/2023 • 
Coordination of Large-Scale Socio-Technical Systems: Challenges and Research Directions (WOA 2015, 18/06/2015) — Franco Zambonelli 
