CIS 455/555:  Internet and Web Systems
Tentative Schedule of Topics - Spring 2010
Dates	Topics	Detailed Topics	Reading
13-Jan	Introduction	Principles of building systems	Lampson
		Project management & debugging tips
18-Jan		MLK Day (no class)
20-Jan	Server Architectures	Common server types:  Web, application, content management	Krishnamurthy/Rexford Ch 4
25-Jan		Architectures:  Client-server, P2P, multi-tier, sensor networks	HTTP Made Really Easy
		Threads	Tanenbaum 3.1
		Monitors, signals, producer-consumer, thread pools, even-driven programming	Tanenbaum "Modern OS" 2.3
		Homework 1:  Servlet engine
27-Jan	Naming & Locating Resources	Naming and directories, URIs	Wikipedia.org: DNS
1-Feb		Search strategies	Marshall LDAP intro
3-Feb		Content-based addressing	Heydon & Najork (web crawling)
		Document indexing
		Publish-subscribe
		Homework 1 Milestone 1 due Feb. 3
8-Feb	Representing Data	Data representations	Doan et al. Chapter 8
15-Feb		Schemas	XSLT Tutorial
		JPEG, MP3, and QT	Altinel and Franklin
17-Feb		XML and XPath
22-Feb		XSLT
		Homework 1 Milestone 2 due Feb. 15
		Homework 2: Crawling and transforms
24-Feb	Storing, Distributing, and Retrieving Data	Partitioning	Stoica et al.  (Chord)
1-Mar		Global coordination/directories	Dean & Ghemawat: MapReduce
		Cloud file systems	Olston: Pig Latin
15-Mar		Peer-to-peer and consistent hashing	Ghemawat et al: Google File System
		Homework 2 Milestone 1 due March 1
		Form project groups
17-Mar	Code Interoperability	Remote procedure calls	Tanenbaum 4.2, 10.3 (RPC, RMI)
		Web services , SOAP, WSDL, REST	SOAP tutorial
		UDDI	WSDL tutorial
		Service composition
		Form project groups
8-Mar - 12-Mar		Spring break (no class)
22-Mar	Data Exchange	Views as abstractions and mappings	Doan et al. Chapters 2/3
		Data integration + warehousing
		Homework 2 Milestone 2 due Mar. 15
		Homework 3:  Distributed hash tables, caching, mash-ups
	Documents and Ranking	Simple pattern recognizers - regexps	Baeza-Yates Chapter 2
24-Mar		Information retrieval models	Baeza-Yates Chapter 8
29-Mar		Web connectivity	Kleinberg et al.
5-Apr		Ranking	Brin & Page: PageRank
7-Apr		Web crawlers	Brin & Page: Anatomy
		Collaborative filtering
		Homework 3 due April 5
		Begin project planning
31-Mar		MIDTERM
12-Apr	Transactions & Security	Application server and TP monitor architectures	Weikum Ch. 19
14-Apr		ACID properties	Lewis Ch. 27
		Two-phase commit	Silberschatz et al. Sections 6.5-6.7 Tanenbaum 9.1-9.4
		Views, access control lists, capabilities
		Secure transactions and SSL
		Initial project plan due
	Caching & Replication	Proxies	Krishnamurthy/Rexford Ch. 3, 11
19-Apr		Replication and web caching	Tanenbaum 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5
		Consensus for consistency	Cooper et al.: PNUTS
26-Apr	Second Midterm	Second midterm
		Code complete deadline
3-May - 11-May		Project demos and reports
		(Final Exam week)