Definitions and issues of distributed systems, and their goals: resource availability, transparency, openness, scalability and situatedness.
course of the deck
used in the lectures
same deck in other editions
reference publication
Self-aware Pervasive Service Ecosystems (paper in proceedings, 2011) — Franco Zambonelli, Gabriella Castelli, Laura Ferrari, Marco Mamei, Alberto Rosi, Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, Matteo Risoldi, Akla-Esso Tchao, Simon Dobson, Graeme Stevenson, Juan Ye, Elena Nardini, Andrea Omicini, Sara Montagna, Mirko Viroli, Alois Ferscha, Sascha Maschek, Bernhard Wally