CS 682 Resources

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Here is a table mapping the chapter names in the syllabus to the names assigned by the Library.

Date	Topic	Associated Reading	Slides
Jan 23	Introduction, Lab 0: (X)HTML	Singh & Huhns, Chapter 1 HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 6th Edition, Kennedy and Musciano. Kurose and Ross, Chapter 2	Slides (full size) Slides (printable)
Jan 25	Introduction to distributed systems	Couloris, Chapter 1 Kurose and Ross, Chapter 2 Mullender, Chapter 3.	Slides (full size) Slides (printable)
Jan 30	Lab 1: CSS	Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide by Eric Meyer	Slides (full size) Slides (printable)
Feb 1	Distributed Computing Models	Couloris, Chapter 2 Liu, Chapter 3 Mullender, Chapter 4	Slides (full size) Slides (printable)
Feb 6	Lab 2: XML - structure and parsing	Singh and Huhns, Appendix A. Learning XML, 2nd edition by Erik Ray	Slides (full size) Slides (printable)
Feb 8	Mutual exclusion, consensus, leader election	Couloris, Ch 11	Slides (full size) Slides (printable)
Feb 13	Lab 3: XML Schema, DTDs	Singh and Huhns, Appendix A XML Schema by Eric van der Vlist	Slides (full size) Slides (printable)
Feb 15	Replication and mirroring	Couloris, Chapter 14	Slides (full size) Slides (printable)
Feb 20	Lab 4: XSLT	Learning XSLT by Michael Fitzgerald XSLT Cookbook, 2nd edition	Slides (full size) Slides (printable)
Feb 22	Web services and Service-oriented computing	Singh and Huhns, Chapter 2, 3	Slides (full size) Slides (printable)
Feb 27	Lab 5: REST	Singh and Huhns, Chapter 3 Second Generation Web Services
March 1	Integration, Interoperation, and Use Cases in Services	Singh and Huhns, Chapter 4, 5	Slides (full size) Slides (printable)
March 6	Lab 6: SOAP	Singh and Huhns, Chapter 3
March 8	Midterm	n/a
March 13	Spring Break	n/a
March 15	Spring Break	n/a
March 20	P2P: Lecture 1	Kurose and Ross, Chapter 2.6 Peer-to-Peer Computing D. Milojicic, V. Kalogeraki, R. Lukose, K. Nagaraja, J. Pruyne, B. Richard, S. Rollins, and Z, Xu, HP Labs Technical Report HPL-2002-57, March 2002.	Slides (full size) Slides (printable)
March 22	P2P Lecture 2 also, Project 1 discussion	Kurose and Ross, Chapter 2.6 Peer-to-Peer Computing D. Milojicic, V. Kalogeraki, R. Lukose, K. Nagaraja, J. Pruyne, B. Richard, S. Rollins, and Z, Xu, HP Labs Technical Report HPL-2002-57, March 2002.	Slides (full size) Slides (printable)
March 27	P2P lecture 3	Ion Stoica, Robert Morris, David Karger, M. Frans Kaashoek, and Hari Balakrishnan, Chord: A Scalable Peer-to-peer Lookup Service for Internet Applications, ACM SIGCOMM 2001, San Diego, CA, August 2001, pp. 149-160.	Slides (full size) Slides (printable)
March 29	P2P lecture 4	Sylvia Ratnasamy (University of California at Berkeley and ACIRI), Paul Francis (Tahoe Networks), Mark Handley (ACIRI), Richard Karp (U.C. Berkeley and ACIRI), Scott Shenker (ACIRI) A Scalable Content-Addressable Network. ACM SIGCOMM 2001.	Slides (full size) Slides (printable)
April 3	Information and ontology sharing	Singh and Huhns, Chapter 9	Slides (full size) Slides (printable)
April 5	Lab 7: RDF	Singh and Huhns, Chapter 7 An Introduction to the Resource Description Framework
April 10	Distributed transactions	Singh and Huhns, Chapter 11, Couloris, Chapter 13	Slides (full size) Slides (printable)
April 12	Programming assignment 1 due. Demos. Programming Assignment 2 out.	n/a
April 17	Web Engineering (Guest Lecture: Bebo White)		Slides
April 19	Distributed Problem Solving 1	SETI@home: An Experiment in Public-Resource Computing David Anderson, et al. Space Sciences Laboratory, UC Berkeley.	Slides (full size) Slides (printable)
April 24	Distributed Problem Solving 2	Algorithms for Distributed CSP: a review Makoto Yokoo, Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Vol.3, No.2, pp.189-212, 2000 Weiss, Chapter 4.	Slides (full size) Slides (printable)
April 26	Cooperative Multiagent Systems I	Singh and Huhns, Chapter 17, 20	Slides (full size) Slides (printable)
May 1	Self-interested MAS I	Singh and Huhns, Chapter 17, 20 Weiss, Chapter 5.	Slides (full size) Slides (printable)
May 3	Summary, review		Slides (full size) Slides (printable)
May 8	Final Exam	n/a

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.

REST and Web Services

• Amazon's Web Services home page.
• Documentation for the Amazon E-Commerce Service.
• The "Amazon Hacks" book on Safari is useful (althoguh slightly out-of-date)
• 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.

XSLT

Processors

• Xalan , a Java-based XSLT processor.
• 4suite - Python tools for XML processing, including XSLT.
• ruby-xslt

Example code

• 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 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.
• CSS Zen Garden Some nice advanced exampes of what can be done with CSS.
• Westciv . More good resources under "learning."

Sample Code

XML

• A XML Schema for the book example
• The CD catalog example
• CSS for displaying the CD catalog
• The Tolkien example
• A simple Java example of parsing with DOM
• A simple Python example of parsing with DOM
• A simple Python example of parsing with SAX
• Python code for adding elements and subelements using the DOM