Educational guide 2015_16 Escola de Enxeñaría de Telecomunicación

Contents

Topic	Sub-topic
1. Transactions	1. Concurrency problems 2. Recoverability problems 3. Deadlocks 4. Optimistic concurrency control 5. Timestamps
2. Replication	1. System model and group communication 2. Fault-tolerant services 3. Case studies of high available services 4. Transactions with replicated data
3. Grid, Cluster, and Cloud computing	1. Basic concepts of grid computing 2. Basic concepts of cluster computing. 3. Basic concepts of cloud computing.
4. Distributed artificial intelligence	1. Intelligent agents and multiagent systems 2. Theory of games applied to multiagent systems: coordination, competition, negotiation, auctions, electronic trade 3. Complex distributed systems and auto-organised ones
5. Parallel and evolutionary computation	1. Distributed Computing and parallelization 2. Algorithms and evolutionary programming: genetics, memetics, differential evolution, intelligence of swarm. 3. Optimisation by means of evolutionary technics and parallelization