SWE 622 Course Syllabus

SWE 622: Distributed Software Engineering
Fall 2014


Professor:	Paul Ammann
Office:	Nguyen Engineering Building 4428, 993-1660
Email:	pammann@gmu.edu
URL:	http://cs.gmu.edu/~pammann/622.html
Class Hours:	Tuesday 4:30 to 7:10, Art and Design Building L008
Prerequisite:	SWE Foundation Courses or equivalent; Strong Java programming skills
Office Hours:	Mondays and Thursdays 2-3PM; anytime electronically; after class; by appointment

Overview

This course conveys key concepts for designing and building distributed software systems. The course is geared towards software engineers that work mostly at the application-level, but need to understand the features and limitations of existing middleware for distributed systems. Additionally, the course covers some research topics related to currently open problems. Specifically, some of the topic that will be covered are as follows: definition and scope of distribution, principles of communication and computation, socket programming, remote method invocation, software architecture of distributed systems, middleware systems, service discovery, quality of service, adaptive systems, mobility, security, and fault tolerance.

Course Materials

Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms (2nd edition), Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Maarten Van Steen, 2007, ISBN 0-13-239227-5 Required.
Unfortunately, this text is not available electronically through Mason's Safari service.
Various papers; links available on the schedule page.

For more information, please see the 622 course web page.