The certificates of successful participation ("Scheine") are likely to be available from the
department secretary starting Sep 25.
If you have further questions, please do not hesitate to contact Matthias Bender.
Contents of the Seminar
Peer-to-peer information systems (P2PIS) are Internet-based systems for distributed
data management that operate in a completely decentralized manner,
aiming at unlimited scalability with millions of nodes,
continuous availability regardless of node and network failures,
self-stabilization in the presence of rapidly evolving participation of
nodes and potentially selfish node behavior, and high robustness with
respect to
denial-of-service attacks and other traffic anomalies. P2PIS have
become popular with file-sharing applications like Napster, Gnutella,
KaZaA, etc., but their potential applications are much broader
including, for example, massive-scale publish-subscribe systems or
completely decentralized collaborative variants of a Google-style Web
search engine.
The seminar discusses scientific conference and journal papers on the
state of the art, recent research results, and the open challenges in
the P2PIS field. Topics covered include scalable systems for P2P data
management,
distributed hash tables and other algorithms for object localization
and request routing, load management, performance analysis and
characterization of dynamic behavior, and various forms of information search
ranging from name-based file lookups to Google-style Web search and
SQL-based querying of large collections of databases.
Requirements for the Certificate
Attend all talks - not just your own. We will keep track of participation! If you are sick, please let us know in advance by writing a short mail.
Read your paper and other related literature
Prepare a 60-min talk about your topic that introduces the matter to your fellow students. Both the slides and the presentation itself must be given in English. Otherwise, some students will not be able to follow all talks, which is one of the main purposes of the seminar. After the presentations, there will be a discussion in which all fellow students are encouraged to ask questions. We will keep track of your participation (i.e., if you ask questions) and, of course, the answers of the presenter.
There might be a short (15 min or so) additional oral exam at the end of the semester - mainly about your own paper, but also about the basics of the other papers.
In other words: Your final grade will be influenced by the following components: Your oral presentation, the knowledge about your topic (your answers to questions after the presentation), your general participation in the seminar, and possibly by a short oral exam.
May 30: Data Synopses
Initially accepted speaker: Raileanu Ciprian (cancelled)
New speaker:tba Tutor: Thomas Neumann Compressed Bloom Filters ( Michael Mitzenmacher)
