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Here are potential topics for the final. The review session will be Thursday, May 12 from 4-5pm in HRN 509.

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Here are potential topics for the midterm.

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Some comments on final projects. Here is a description of what a final project proposal should look like.

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Lectures and associated readings:

Date	Topic	Associated Reading	Slides
January 24	Lecture 1: Introduction to Distributed Systems	Couloris, Ch 1, Kurose & Ross, 2.5	Full size Printable
January 26	Lecture 2a: Principles of Distributed Systems	Couloris, Ch 1. Ford, et al, Comer, Ch 13, Bertsekas & Gallager, ch 1.	Full size Printable
January 26	Lecture 2b: TCP/IP overview	Ford, et al, Comer, Ch 13, Bertsekas & Gallager, ch 1.	Full size Printable
January 31	Lab 1: Cascading Style Sheets	Cascading Style Sheets, the Definitive Guide. 2nd Edition. Eric Meyer. (on safari)	Full size Printable
February 2	Lecture 3: logical clocks and causality, message ordering	Tanenbaum, 3.1. Mullender, Ch 4 (optional)	Full size Printable
February 7	Lab 2: XML	Learning XML. Erik T. Ray. (on Safari).	Full size Printable
February 9	Lecture 4: Distributed Computing Models	Couloris, Ch 2. Liu, Ch 2-3 (recommended)	Full size Printable
February 14	Lab 3: XML pt 2, XSLT.	Learning XSLT. Michael Fitzgerald. (on Safari.)	Full size Printable
February 17	Lecture 5: mutual exclusion, consensus, leader election	IEEE Computer article, Couloris, Ch 11.	Full size Printable
February 21	President's Day: No class.
February 23	Lab 4: RDF and FOAF	Practical RDF. Shelley Powers (on Safari)	Full size Printable
February 28	Lab 5: Web Services	Amazon's Web Services documentation	Full size Printable
March 3	Lecture 6: Replication.	Couloris, Ch. 14	Full size Printable
March 7	Lab 6: .NET	.NET Framework essentials. Hoang Lam and Thuan Thai (on Safari)
March 9	Lecture 7: P2P vs. Client-server. Architecture of P2P systems Project 1 out. (p2p client)	Peer-to-Peer: Harnessing the power of disruptive technologies. (on Safari). (as needed).	Full size Printable
March 14	Review Session
March 16	Midterm	n/a
March 21	Spring Break	n/a
March 23	Spring Break	n/a
March 28	No class	n/a
March 30	Lab 7: XUL. Also, Final project discussion.	XULPlanet tutorial	Full size Printable
April 4	Lecture 10: Intro to distributed problem solving.	distributed.net SETI@Home	Full size Printable
April 6.	Project proposals due. Guest Lecture - Brian Tierney, Lawrence Berkeley Lab. Grid Computing and large-scale performance monitoring.	n/a
April 11	Lecture 11: Distributed problem solving II	Algorithms for Distributed CSP: a review Makoto Yokoo, Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Vol.3, No.2, pp.189-212, 2000	Full size Printable
April 13	Class cancelled.
April 18	Lecture 13: Distributed Transactions	Couloris, Ch 13	Full size Printable
April 20	Guest Lecture: Martin Stoufer, LBL. Tools for large-scale distributed software development. Plus finish of transactions.	n/a	Full size Printable
April 25	Lecture 15: Multiagent systems: paradigms and approaches, cooperative systems.	Weiss, Ch 2.	Full size Printable
April 27	Lecture 16: Non-cooperative multiagent systems	Distributed Rational Decision Making Tuomas Sandholm. Chapter 5 in Multiagent Systems, Weiss, ed.	Full size Printable
May 2	Lecture 17: auctions and market-based computing	Market-oriented computing: some early lessons Michael Wellman. In S. Clearwater (ed.), Market-Based Control: A Paradigm for Distributed Resource Allocation. World Scientific, 1996	Full size Printable
May 4	Student presentations
May 9	Student presentations	n/a
May 11	Student presentations	n/a

Sample code:

.NET

See below under "links".

RDF

• Reading in RDF in Python
• Writing RDF in Python
• Brooks' FOAF data
• Java code for providing the FOAF namespace
• A simple Java example of reading RDF
• Jena documentation. LOTS of examples here.

XSLT

• An XML CD catalog
• XSLT for converting XML to text
• more XSLT for converting XML to text
• XSLT for converting XML to HTML
• more XSLT for converting XML to HTML
• XSLT for converting XML to XML (English to Spanish)
• more XSLT for converting XML to HTML
• XSLT for converting XML to XML (copying nodes)
• XSLT for converting XML to XML (including CSS)
• CSS for presenting the XML DB
• CSS for presenting the HTML version of the DB
• XSLT for sorting songs and displaying as XML
• An XML database containing a reference to an XSLT stylesheet
• sweater.xml Another XML file.
• sweater.xsl (shows how to use parameters)
• sweater2.py (shows how to run XSLT and pass parameters to the XSLT processor from Python)

XML

• The CD catalog example
• CSS for displaying the CD catalog
• The Tolkien example
• The Tolkien Schema
• A simple Java example of parsing with DOM
• A simple Python example of parsing with DOM
• (added 2/14) Python code for adding elements and subelements using the DOM

CSS

• A demonstration of some CSS markup.
• The corresponding CSS code
• A simple example of menus and banners without tables.
• The corresponding CSS.

Links:

.NET

• Pooja's FOAF code
• Notes on creating an Open Search Service.
• Sample Google Client API
• A Google Open Search Web Service
• A .NET wrapper for Feedster.

REST and Web Services

• Amazon's Web Services home page.
• Article on Google's choice of SOAP over REST.
• Nice overview of REST.
• A REST vs SOAP overview (by a REST advocate.)
• A REST article arguing about the usefulness of hyperlinks as a universal referencing mechanism.

RDF

• The W3C's RDF Primer
• A nice background article on RDF.
• RDFWeb - the FOAF developer site.
• The FOAF homepage
• FOAF-a-matic
• rdflib homepage.

Small-world networks

In lab 4, we're using FOAF to explore what's called a small-world network. Here's some fun links that explore the small-world effect:

• The Oracle of Bacon. Find a path from any actor to Kevin Bacon.
• The Oracle of Baseball. Find a path between any two baseball players.
• Find out how many coauthors separate you from mathematician Paul Erdos.
• An online version of a small-world experiment Find a set of friends that connect you to anyone in the world.

XML resources

• XML.com O'Reilly's XML portal.
• The W3C's resources on XML.
• The W3Schools page.
• Apache tools for dealing with XML.
• The MSDN page on XML.
• An XML Schema validator

CSS resources

• CSS info at w3schools.com
• The W3C's page on CSS. Lots of good info here.
• CSS Vault. Lots of good examples.
• Westciv . More good resources under "learning."

XUL resources

• XUL Planet
• XUL element reference
• Netscape's Javascript reference
• Mozilla's XUL homepage
• A nice introductory article from XML.com