Master of Computer Science - University of Grenoble - France

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ACS - Adaptive Computing Systems

· Contact

· Description

· Agenda

· Lectures and practical work documents

· References

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Contact

· Sara Bouchenak

Associate Professor, SARDES research group, INRIA - LIG laboratory, Sara.Bouchenak@imag.fr

Description

Adaptive computing systems are systems that are able to adapt their behavior to changes in their usage, needs, workload, etc. It is an important feature in nowadays computing systems. For instance, an e-mail service faces a higher workload in the morning, when people arrive at work, than in the rest of the day. An e-commerce Web site faces a higher load during promotional periods.

The objective of this course is to introduce the principles of the design and implementation of autonomic and adaptive computing systems.
Practical implementations of adaptive systems will be illustrated through technologies such as aspect-oriented programming, JMX and feedback control of online systems.

Content

· Introduction to adaptive systems

· Techniques for adaptation and code instrumentation (e.g. AOP)

· Application adaptation with regard to low-level system aspects, e.g. security, dependability, logging

· Application adaptation with regard to high-level aspects, e.g. adapting online distributed systems, maintaining application performance within acceptable limits

· Case studies

Prerequisites: Java programming language

Agenda

Agenda available here.

Lectures and practical work documents

Lectures

• Introduction to adaptive computing systems

• Aspect-oriented programming
  

• Autonomic Computing: Overview & Case studies

Presentations

• Schedule of presentations
  

Practical work

• JMX - Java Management eXtension

• Introduction to AspectJ

• Logging aspect

• Security aspect

• Dependability aspect

Demonstrations

The schedule of demonstrations is available here: schedule

• Build a zip or tar.gz file that contains:
• a text or pdf file named report.txt or report.pdf, that describes the conducted work (4 pages maximum)
  
  
• one sub-directory per project, each project directory contains the following:
• the src/ directory that contains the Java source code
• the aspect/ directory that contains the AspectJ source code
• the doc/ directory that contains Javadoc
  
  
• Send the zip or tar.gz file by email the day of the demonstration
  
  

References

· G. Kiczales, J. Lamping, A. Mendhekar, C. Maeda, C. Videira Lopes, J.-M. Loingtier, J. Irwin. Aspect-Oriented Programming. 11th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP'97), Jyväskylä, Finland, June 1997.

· V. O. Safonov. Using Aspect-Oriented Programming for Trustworthy Software Development. Wiley, 2008.

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