COP5615 Syllabus
			   Spring 2007

Title: Operating System Principles
Time:  8th and 9th periods (3:00 - 4:55 pm) on Tuesday, 
       9th period (4:05 - 4:55 pm) on Thursday
Classroom:   CSE-107
Instructor:  Professor Richard Newman (nemo@cise.ufl.edu)
		346 CSE, (352) 392-1488
TAs: Zhan Zhang (zzhan@cise.ufl.edu), CSE-E309; 352-392-5770
Textbooks:  
Required: Distributed Operating Systems and Algorithms, 
	Chow & Johnson, Addison/Wesley
Reference: Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms, 
	Tanenbaum & Steen, Prentice Hall
Class websites: 
	www.cise.ufl.edu/class/cop5615sp07
	www.cise.ufl.edu/~nemo/cop5615/
Office hours:  
	Newman: W 3:00-4:00 pm, 
		R 1:30-11:30 am and 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm,
		and by appointment
	Zhang: TBA
			
Course objective:  
	To study design principles and computing paradigms for 
	modern distributed systems and their underlying distributed 
	and network operating systems.

Topic Outline: 
1. Fundamental OS concepts		1 week
2. Network and Distributed OS		2 weeks
3. Threads and client/server models	1 week
4. Group communication and naming	3 weeks
5. Distributed Processing		2 weeks
6. Distributed File Systems 		2 weeks
7. Distributed Shared Memory		2 weeks
8. Security				2 weeks
9. Review				1 week

Grading:
1. Examinations (8th and 15th weeks)	30% and 30%
2. Projects (3) 			30%
	(we will use Java and Unix)
3. Quizzes (10)				10%

Homeworks will not be graded, but will be assigned for your benefit.
There will be one quiz per week to test your preparation level.

Exam policy: 
	Exams will be closed book, closed notes, but you will be 
	permitted one 8.5"x11" crib sheet (two sides) per exam. 

Academic Honesty:
	*   UF Honor Code: We, the members of the University of 
	Florida community, pledge to hold ourselves and our peers 
	to the highest standards of honesty and integrity.
	*   Plagiarism will not be tolerated.

ADA: 
	Students requesting classroom accommodation must first 
	register with the Dean of Students Office. The Dean of 
	Students Office will provide documentation to the student 
	who must then provide this documentation to the Instructor 
	when requesting accommodation.

General Policies

Attendance: Attendance is required, but tapes are available for 
	viewing through EDGE.  Late arrivals are expected to enter 
	discretely and avoid interfering with the cameras.  
	Cell phones and pagers must be silent during class.

Communication: Students are required to check the class web pages 
	at least three times a week (MWF) for announcements/updates.  
	While we will not check that you do this, the web pages are 
	the authoritative source of information for the class, and 
	to obtain this information in a timely manner, you will want 
	to visit often.

Questions: Questions are encouraged - raise your hand to be 
	recognized.  Try to formulate the question before asking it, 
	and wait to see if it is answered in a few minutes so we can 
	maintain flow.  Lengthy discussions will be deferred to 
	office hours.

Program Grading: Programs will be graded based on documentation, good 
	programming practice, functionality, and performance.  You 
	must provide design and test documentation and interface 
	specifications for your components, document your programs 
	and give test results.

Collaborative work: you may work on registered teams for programming, 
	but the exams must be your own work.  You are encouraged to 
	discuss operating systems outside of class with your fellow 
	students.

Late submissions: Projects will be due at 4:59 pm on the date on 
	which they are due.  Late submissions will be discounted 
	10% per day for up to five days.

Regrade requests: we grade carefully the first time, but if you find 
	an error in grading or believe that you deserve more credit 
	for an answer, you must submit a regrade request via email 
	to the TAs and to me justifying your request within two weeks 
	from the time that the graded material was returned to the 
	class.  The email must include the specific part(s) that you 
	desire to have regraded and why you believe your answer 
	deserves more credit.