Course syllabus

Welcome to "Distributed Computing" at Dalarna University

The overall goal of the course is that students acquire knowledge and skills in collecting and processing data from a heterogeneous computerized environment.

The course is offered in online and hybrid formats. In this course, you will have lectures, guest lectures, workshops, labs, and assignments. You will be working in groups and individually. Each group may have up to 4 students, depending on the assignment.

These are some of the expected outcomes from this course:

Knowledge and Understanding

• Describe concepts related to software agents, multi-agent systems, and autonomous and distributed systems.
• Describe properties and concepts of distributed and parallel systems.
• Understand the concept of newly emerged computing models, like cloud and edge computing.

Skills and Abilities

• Implement software agents with the support of multi-agent frameworks.
• Configure, manage, and develop applications for computers with limited memory.
• Conduct data analysis related to distributed systems.
• Apply scientific approaches in the planning, design, implementation, and presentation of quantitative studies

	Course Syllabus			Contact information
	Reading List			Auday Al-Dulaimy Course Coordinator aay@du.se
				Vijay Paidi Teacher vpp@du.se
				Hans Jernberg Teacher hje@du.se