Prof.
Dr. BÖSZÖRMÉNYI László (
Title: Advanced Topics in Distributed Systems
Period:
11-14 February, 2008 Southern Block, Room 00-115
February
11, Monday
February 12, Tuesday
February 13, Wednesday
February 14. Thursday
Course description:
-Introduction (rationale, notions, pros and cons)
-Processes and threads (optionally, using Java)
-Remote objects (Java RMI)
-Naming
-Synchronization (causality, mutual exclusion, election)
-Fault tolerant systems (groups, agreement, multicast)
-Replication (data and client based consistency models)
-Distributed file systems (NSF); CDN and P2P
-Mobile agents, mobile code
-CORBA (middleware standardization)
http://www-itec.uni-klu.ac.at/~laszlo/courses/DistSys_BP/index.htm.
Prof. Dr. Gerhard CHROUST (
Title: The Human Side of Systems Engineering
Period: February 25-29, 2008 Southern
Block, Room 00-115
February 25, Monday
16:00-18:00
February 26, Tuesday 18:00-20:00
February 27, Wednesday
16:00-18:00
February 28, Thursday 18:00-20:00
February 29, Friday 14:00-16:00
Course description:
This course focusses on human beings and their
behaviour in relation to the
development and usage of software-intensive systems. Systems Engineering is
largely a human-centered activity. Its success
depends mostly on human
involvement, ingenuity, motivation and team work. Systems are designed by
humans and are provided with interfaces which again provide communications
with humans. Both aspects by necessity are subject to sociological and
cultural influences. The course will create a basic understanding of the
issues involved in order to make both systems development and system usage
more human oriented.
The Course will be held in English using English foils and accompanying
handouts.
Overview of Topics
Part 1: Basics: human behaviour:
The Human as an Individual, Transactional Analysis, groups and teams, Group
Dynamics
Part 2: Cultural Differences:
Differences in different nations with respect to behaviour, social
Interaction and world view. Problems with respect to international
cooperative system development, adapting Software Products to different
cultures
Part 3: Human Aspects and system development
processes:
Motivation, user-oriented development methods, evaluation and critique
Part 4: User-adequate software-intensive Systems:
Consequences for user-
oriented development methods (e.g. agile methods)
Mag. Dipl.-Ing.
Dr. Michael SONNTAG (Univ. of Linz)
Title:
Computer forensics
Period: February 25-29, 2008 Southern Block, Room 00-115
February 25, Monday 18:00-20:00
February 26, Tuesday
16:00-18:00
February 27, Wednesday 18:00-20:00
February 28, Thursday 16:00-18:00
February 29, Friday
16:00-18:00
Course description:
Lecture:
Day 1: Lecture on theory of computer forensics
Day 2: Lecture on data retention
Day 3: Lecture on privacy
Day 4: Lecture on file systems and data hiding
Day 5: Practice hard drive investigation: deleted files, file slack
Practical:
In the practical part, the theoretical knowledge obtained in the lectures will
be applied to
practical problems: A (binary) hard drive image will be investigated for
deleted and hidden
files and data otherwise not directly accessible, e.g. in the file slack or in
unused sectors.
Asst. Prof. Ivanova
Pavlina (univ. of
Title: Introduction
to Computational Linguistics
Period: March 10-14, 2008 Southern
Block, György Hajós Room
1-820
March 10, Monday 16:00-18:00
March 11, Tuesday 16:00-18:00
March 12, Wednesday 16:00-18:00
March 13, Thursday 16:00-18:00
March 14, Friday 16:00-18:00
Course description:
This is an introductory course to the basics of
computational linguistics,
the primary concern of which is the study of human language from a
computational perspective. The class will cover models at the level of
morphological, syntactic and semantic processing. The emphasis will be on
methods and algorithms for morphological analysis, part-of-speech tagging and
parsing.
The course aims to give the students understanding of the fundamental
concepts and to introduce them to basic methods and algorithms for a natural
language processing as well as the use of these methods and models in a
variety applications including spell checking, information retrieval and
extraction, question answering, machine translation, etc.
Topics (tentative):
- regular expressions;
- finite-state automata and transducers;
- morphological analysis;
- tokenization and spelling;
- N-grams;
- part-of-speech tagging;
- formal grammars for natural language;
- parsing;
- representing meaning and semantic analysis;
- lexical semantics
- applications: machine translation, information retrieval and extraction,
question answering.
http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~martin/slp2.html
Prof. Dr. Baksay László, The Florida Institute of
Technology
Title: Informatics and fundamental research – the
case of physics
Period: every
Tuesday,
For decades informatics and fundamental research in the sciences
have been drivers of progress for each other. This
is especially true for physics. We will
look in parallel at some developments
in physics and informatics and their relations.
Starting from the 1960’s to the present we will review example
cases close to the author’s personal experience, especially in high-energy
physics research and technology development at laboratories such as
The interplay
between physics and informatics has led to a substantial flow of students
trained in one field into the other. Both fields have highly global mind-sets
and bases of operation. Thus many opportunities are opened up worldwide for
graduates.
The course is not
designed to give special detailed skills in some area of informatics but to
help students develop a ‘bigger picture’ of the field and to see connections to
other areas. In addition to intellectual satisfaction this will also help to
create many professional opportunities.