Subject Matter

The seminar deals with basic problems of mobile services and their solutions. Participants are expected to elaborate on selected chapters of the book "Distributed Systems" (A.S. Tanenbaum) and other additional literature concerned with problems of mobility.

Research talks and Research Papers

At WIT Vienna they had a very nice talk about "How to give a great research talk? How to write a great research paper?" held by Simon Peyton Jones from Microsoft Research in Cambridge. Please find further information here:
http://www.wit.at/events/peyton-jones/index.html

The slides for the presenation can be downloaded here:
Research talk: pdf
Research paper: pdf

Schedule

ProgrammeMaterial

Oct 13, 2004

Preliminary Discussion

Nov 3, 2004

4: Naming (> Manuel Brunner)
Nov 3, 2004 5: Locating Mobile Entities (> Maximilian Eger)

Nov 10, 2004

10: CORBA (> Robert Binna)
Nov 10, 2004

11: DCOM (> Florian Fischer)

Nov 17, 2004

17a: Mobile Service Frameworks 1: Centaurus (> Melanie Plattner)

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Nov 17, 2004 18: Mobile Service Frameworks 2: Ninja, OSGI (> Bernhard Leschinger)

Nov 24, 2004

2: Message-oriented vs. Stream-oriented Communication (> Stefan Jürgen Witting)
Nov 24, 2004 6: Clock and State Synchronization (> Philipp Rene Ruff)

Dec 1, 2004

8: Consistency (> Harald Kapferer)
Dec 1, 2004

7: Transactions (> Maximilian Eger)

Dec 15, 2004

16: Service Location Protocols 4: GSD, Bluetooth SDP (> Hansi Weissensteiner )

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Dec 15, 2004 12: WAP & WML (> Simon Ostermann)
Jan 12, 2005 3: Agent Systems and Code Migration (> Manuel Simoni )
Jan 12, 2005 17b: Mobile Service Frameworks 1: MOCA (> Melanie Plattner)

Additional Information

In case you need advice, do not hesitate to contact Thomas Strang or Kerstin Zimmermann.

Each talk is supposed to last 30 minutes + discussion. The slides of the talks must reviewed by the supervisor (Thomas Strang, Kerstin Zimmermann) one week prior to the talk! Each paper should comprise around 20 pages and is to be handed in before the 26th of January 2005.

Copies of chapters of the book "Distributed Systems" are availabe for participants in the DERI office (Architekturgebäude Keller).

Unfortunately it is not possible to enroll for this seminar anymore. The following topics would have been still available:

Replication Remote Procedure Calls and Remote Method Invocation Service Location Protocols 1: SLP, UPnP Service Location Protocols 2: Salutation, UDDI Service Location Protocols 3: Jini, DNS-SD

Lecturer

Thomas Strang
thomas.strang@deri.org