Lecture Breakdown

There will be 10/11 lectures from me - the rest are from Professor Alex Gray - lecture topics are:

• Lecture 1: Introduction - setting the scene (themes)
• Lecture 2/3: Web technologies + collaborations. Compound document standards - XML, RDF, DOM - Emerging area of Web Services
• Lecture 4: Client/Server and Peer-to-Peer computing
• Lecture 5: RPC Services on Unix and WinNT - portmapper, netstat and other tools + synchronisation protocols and RPC reliability + Jave RMI
• Lecture 6: Naming Schemes in Distrbuted Systems (support for a location service)
• Lecture 7: Fault tolerance
• Lecture 8: Component architectures I: CORBA from OMG
• Lecture 9: Component architectures II: DCOM from Microsoft
• Lecture 10: Agents 1: Distributed MAS1
• Lecture 11: Agents 2: Distributed MAS2