Scientific Material

Introduction to Distributed Systems

• Ian Foster, Carl Kesselman, Steven Tuecke. The Anatomy of the Grid: Enabling Scalable Virtual Organizations. International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications 15(3), August 2001
• Robert Grimm, Janet Davis, Eric Lemar, Adam Macbeth, Steven Swanson, Thomas Anderson, Brian Bershad, Gaetano Borriello, Steven Gribble, David Wetherall. System Support for Pervasive Applications. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems 22(4), November 2004
• B. Clifford Neuman. Scale in Distributed Systems. Readings in Distributed Computing Systems, 1994

Software Architectures

• Ozalp Babaoglu, Márk Jelasity, Alberto Montresor, Christof Fetzer, Stefano Leonardi, Aad van Moorsel, Maarten van Steen (eds.). Self-star Properties in Complex Information Systems: Conceptual and Practical Foundations. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3460, 2005
• Jeffrey O. Kephart, David M. Chess. The Vision of Autonomic Computing. IEEE Computer 36(1), January 2003
• Philip K. McKinley, Seyed Masoud Sadjadi, Eric P. Kasten, Betty H.C. Cheng. Composing Adaptive Software. IEEE Computer 37(7), 2004

The Architecture of the World Wide Web

• Roy Thomas Fielding. Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures.
• Roy Thomas Fielding, Richard N. Taylor. Principled Design of the Modern Web Architecture. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology 2(2), May-June 2002

Processes in Distributed Systems

• Alfonso Fuggetta, Gian Pietro Picco, Giovanni Vigna. Understanding Code Mobility. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 24(5), May 1998
• Dejan S. Milojicic, Fred Douglis, Yves Paindaveine, Richard Wheeler, Songnian Zhou. Process Migration. ACM Computing Surveys 32(3), September 2000

Synchronisation

• Leslie Lamport. Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System. Communications of the ACM 21(7), 1978

Coordination-based Distributed Systems

• George A. Papadopoulos, Farhad Arbab. Coordination Models and Languages. The Engineering of Large Systems, Advances in Computers 46, 1998