Faculté des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC)

Objectifs

This course offers a comprehensive introduction to emerging distributed architectures and their supporting middleware, and explains how these architectures impact the design of today's information systems.

Contenus

Distributed architectures and their supporting middleware have evolved from traditional information systems, following several directions: mobility & ubiquity, peer-to-peer communication, web deployment, etc. In this course, students will learn how to design and deploy such architectures on practical examples. To help students better grasp theoretical concepts, they will incrementally build an application based on such architectures, throughout the semester, using the Java platform.

This course will address the subjects listed below.

• Web multitier architectures & middleware.
• Distributed components, separation of concerns.
• Peer-to-peer communication, mobile multi-media.
• Ad hoc networks, pervasive Internet.

The evaluation is based on three mandatory exercises during the semester, and an exam at the end of the semester. For the retake, a new exam takes place and the evaluation of the three mandatory exercises during the semester is reused to compute the final mark.

The course and the course material are in English. French-speaking students can however ask questions and be answered in French.

Références

Distributed Systems - Concept and Design, 4th Edition. G. Coulouris, J. Dollimore, T. Kindberg. 2005. Addison Wesley.

Evaluation

1ère tentative

Examen:

Ecrit 3h00 heures

Documentation:

Non autorisée

Calculatrice:

Non autorisée

Evaluation:

The final mark is computed based on the exam and on the three exercises marked during the semester.

Rattrapage

Examen:

Ecrit 3h00 heures

Documentation:

Non autorisée

Calculatrice:

Non autorisée

Evaluation:

The final mark is computed based on the exam and on the three exercises marked during the semester.