Goal of the Course 

This course is meant to illustrate the conceptual foundations and the main issues of modern 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 and coordination-based systems are used as the sources for case studies and for experiments in the laboratory.

History

• the course of Distributed Systems over the years

Teaching Materials 

• books 
  • book of the course 
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  • other useful books 
    • #pubAuthors("RichardsonRestfulws07"). #pubTitleLink("RichardsonRestfulws07").
• slides 
  • main content 
    • Introduction to the Course 
    • Introduction to Distributed Systems 
    • Software Architectures 
    • Processes in Distributed Systems 
    • Communication in Distributed Systems 
    • Naming in Distributed Systems 
    • Synchronisation in Distributed Systems 
    • Tuple-based Coordination 
  • Web technologies  
    • The Architecture of the World Wide Web 
    • XML Concepts 
    • XML Applications 
    • Introduction to Ajax 
    • Server-side technologies 
  • seminars 
    • From Distributed Objects to Multi-Agent Systems: Evolution of Middleware (Giovanni Rimassa)
    • Swarm Intelligence: Concepts & Applications (Franco Zambonelli, CAS Site)
• code & examples 
  • Ajax Examples
• papers 
  • Introduction to Distributed Systems 
    • #pubATVinline("NeumanScale94")
    • #pubATVinline("FosterGrid01")
    • #pubATVinline("GrimmPervasive04")
  • The Architecture of the World Wide Web 
    • #pubATVinline("FieldingPhdthesis00")
    • #pubATVinline("RestToit2")
  • Software Architectures 
    • #pubATVinline("AdaptiveswComputer37")
    • #pubATVinline("AutonomiccomputingComputer36")
    • #pubETVinline("SelfstarLncs3460")
  • Synchronisation 
    • #pubATVinline("LamportAcmcomm21")
    • Hypertext Transfer Protocol – HTTP/1.1. Internet RFC 2616
    • Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic syntax. Internet RFC 2396