Advanced Distributed Computing

Mar 2007- Jun 2007

(http://admis.fudan.edu.cn/member/sgzhou/courses/adc-2007s/2007adc.htm)

1. Instructor

  2. Course Objectives

  • nIntroduces recent achievements of theories, technologies and applications in distributed computing areas

  • nExplores research trends in distributed computing areas

  • nPromotes research activities of distributed computing in DCSE

  • nDistils some research topics for publishing papers or writing theses

 3. Major Topics

  • nPeer-to-Peer Computing

  • Sensor Networks

  • Web Services

  • Grid Computingn

  • Semantic Web

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 4. Textbook and References

  • nNo textbook for the time being
  • nI’m planning to write a textbook……
  • nLecture contents will be mainly based on papers from
    • nA. Oram (ed.). Peer-to-Peer: Harnessing the Power of Disruptive Technologies. O'Reilly and Associates, Sebastopol, CA, USA, 2001
    • nLatest international journals, and
    • nRecent international conferences, symposiums and workshops on P2P, Sensor Network, Web Services, Semantic Web and Grid computing
  • Lecture materials

5. Workload

  • nClass attendance
  • nClass presentations & discussions
  • nOne research or survey paper (in Chinese or English)

6. Evaluation Scheme

  • nClass attendance/presentation/discussion (20%)
  • nStudents are required to attend instructor’s lectures, student presentations, and take part in discussions
  • nPaper (80%)
  • nAt least 5000 words in Chinese or English
  • nWill be evaluated based on technical innovation, completeness and thoroughness of the work, and presentation

7. Punishment Policy

  • nOnce Plagiarism is founded in your course work delivered, your grade will definitely be set to zero!
  • nAny course work delivered later than June 29 will be directly rejected!

8. Course Schedule 

 
March 9
Course introduction/
Introduction to P2P Computing
March 16
Major P2P Protocols
March 23
IR in P2P
March 30
Student presentations & discussions
April 6
Query processing in P2P
April 13
Other Issues of P2P System
April 20
Student presentations & discussions
April 27
Intro. to sensor networks; Routing protocol in sensor networks 
May 4
Data aggregation and query processing
May 11
Advanced query processing
May 18
Student presentations & discussions
May 25
Web Services
June 1
Semantic Web
June 8
Grid Computing
June 15
Student presentations & discussions
June 22/29
paper delivery and presentation

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