SSE05 Course Plan

• All classes: Tuesdays 9:00-11:45 (note: used to start 10:00)
• Location: Seminar room at Maersk Institute, Campusvej (not Niels Bohr's Alle)
• Organization: The teacher will present topics at the beginning, students then present topics for each other.

Day	Activities	Reading / projects due
Tue Feb 5	Course introduction: overview of the course, introduction to topics, how to search for literature	Read the SSE05 web site
Tue Feb 12 (starts 9:00)	Course survival guide: how to do presentations, how to write your report, how to do experiments, etc. Ulrik will show a concrete example of presenting a paper and what to do for a project	Read Ulrik's example paper: Gazebo (reading the paper in advance will improve your learning) Select a project topic and get started
Tue Feb 19	Student survey presentations: Johann Gunnarsson (Spec#): The Spec# programming system: An overview; [slides] Claus Stovgaard (Performance evaluation of parallelization): Performance evaluation of task pools based on hardware synchronization Andrzej Olszak (Erlang): Designing collaborative agents with eXAT; [slides] Note: Anyone else whom I asked to do their presentation Feb 19 should instead do their presentation Feb 26.	Send Ulrik an email about your topic and when you will be presenting. Attendance in mandatory
Tue Feb 26	Student survey presentations: Jan Sørensen (Concurrency patterns): Active Object: An Object Behavioral Pattern for Concurrent Programming Nicholai Hansen (Sun Spot VM): Processes in KaffeOS: Isolation, Resource Management, and Sharing in Java Rune Søe-Knudsen and Daniel Kirkegaard (Sun Spot sensor network): Directed Diffusion: A Scalable and Robust Communication Paradigm for Sensor Networks Martin Rytter (traits and mixins?): Traits: A mechanism for fine-grained reuse	If you have not done so yet: send Ulrik an email about your topic and when you will be presenting. Attendance is mandatory
Tue Mar 4	Project progress update (plenary, sharing experiences so far) Student survey presentations: Jolanta Gniadek (patterns in Java, Perl and Python): Design patterns in Python Javier Casas (performance of agent platforms): Scalability and Performance of JADE Message Transport System Lasse Meyer and Hong Nguyen (agent-based baggage control): Dynamical Control in Large-scale Material Handling Systems through Agent Technology	Attendance is mandatory
Tue Mar 11	The structure of scientific writing: tips and tricks and how to apply them in both your reading and your writing. Guest lecturer Bridget Hallam. Slides: [1], [2], [3], [exercise]	Paper that will be used as an example: A Performance Evaluation of the Mobile Agent Paradigm Note: Pages 310 and 311 are in the wrong order (look at the section numbers).
Tue Mar 25	Writers' workshop: you will be working on your reports, to get full benefit from this class have the structure of your report ready as well as a paragraph of text.	Reports are due Monday 7th of April 12:00, as follows: One physical printout in Ulrik's mailbox in front of the secretary's office Email to Ulrik with an electronic copy, can include source code Please note that the first SSE04 lecture is scheduled for Friday 4th of April, and that it would be a bad idea to miss it. Keep in mind though that to get a good start for SSE04 it would be better for you to have finished up your SSE05 report before SSE04 starts...