Advanced Concepts in Distributed Systems Research

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, 7 March 2011	Individual discussion and project topic: Mirela Riveni	Specific discussion for research direction
14-15 pm, 11 March 2011	Individual discussion and project topic: Vitaliy Liptchinsky	Specific discussion on Social Compute Unit
17 March 2011	14-15 pm - Individual discussion and project topic: Mirela Riveni 15:30pm-16:30pm - Individual discussion and project topic: Muhammad Zuhri Catur Candra	Mirela Riveni: Social Computing Unit architecture and open research questions Muhammad Zuhri Catur Candra: Specific discussion for research direction
23 March 2011	11:00-12:00 - Individual discussion and project topic: Ognjen Scekic 16:00-17:00 - Individual discussion and project topic: Shaghayegh Sharif Nabavi	Specific discussion for research direction
9:00-11:00, 01 April, 2011	Assignment and Group discussion: Use cases and characteristics of Social Compute Unit	Group discussion with all participants
Day 5	Assignment and Group Discussion	Group discussion with all participants
Day 6	Individual discussion	Specific discussion sessions with individual students
Day 7	Individual discussion	Specific discussion sessions with individual students
Day 8	Assignment and Group discussion	Assignment and Group discussion
Day 9	Assignment and Group discussion	Assignment and Group discussion
Day 10	Project presentation	Project presentation and group discussion
Day 11	Project presentation	Project presentation and group discussion
Day 12	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