Advanced Concepts in Distributed Systems Research -- SS 2012

The goal of this course is to examine advanced concepts in distributed systems research that are strongly relevant to the PhD research plan of first year doctoral students in the area of distributed systems. In this course, we discuss theoretical foundations, technologies, architectures, standards and examples of recent developments to support students to identify their specific research directions and to develop their PhD research plan in the area of distributed systems. The course is highly customized for a limited number of PhD students in the area of distributed systems. Both specific discussion for individual participants and general discussions for the whole participants will be held, ensuring that an individual research plan will be developed, while all participants will benefit from the knowledge exchanged by others.

This is designed for PhD students in the Vienna PhD School of Informatics who plan to conduct his/her research in the domain of service-oriented computing, distributed systems, cloud computing, and automomic computing. Here is the course information in the TISS.

• Place: Distributed Systems Group, Argentinierstrasse 8/184-1, Seminar Room

• Schahram Dustdar
• Hong-Linh Truong

Dates	Topic	Form
13-15 pm, 6 March 2012	Individual discussion and project topic	Specific discussion for research direction
13-15 pm, 13 March 2012	Individual discussion and project topic	Specific discussion for research direction
13-15 pm, 20 March 2012	Individual discussion and project topic	Specific discussion for research direction
13-15pm, 27 March 2012	Individual discussion and project topic	Specific discussion for research direction
13-15pm: 3 April, 2012	Assignment and Group discussion	Group discussion with all participants
13-15pm: 10 April, 2012	Assignment and Group Discussion	Group discussion with all participants
13-15pm: 17 April, 2012	Individual discussion	Specific discussion sessions with individual students
13-15pm: 8 May, 2012	Individual discussion	Specific discussion sessions with individual students
13-15pm: 15 May, 2012	Assignment and Group discussion	Assignment and Group discussion
13-15pm: 29 May, 2012	Assignment and Group discussion	Assignment and Group discussion
13-15pm: 5 June, 2012	Project presentation	Project presentation and group discussion
13-15pm: 12 June, 2012	Project presentation	Project presentation and group discussion
13-15pm: 19 June, 2012	Final exam	Oral final exam

• Here is the list

• TBD

• Assignment 1: 15 points
• Assignment 2: 15 points
• Project : 40 points
• Final exam: 30 points

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