Cloud computing from a software engineering perspective course

This is the home page of the 2014 edition of the course. The course is held at Politecnico di Milano. The responsible instructors are Elisabetta Di Nitto and Danilo Ardagna.

Course calendar and material

The course is held in room Alfa (Via Golgi 40). The schedule is below. The material is available here

  • 15/5/2014 h 9.00-13.00
    • Introduction to Cloud Computing
    • Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
  • 21/5/2014 h 9.00-13.00
    • Platform as a Service (PaaS)
    • A new way to manage data: NoSQL databases
  • 30/5/2014 h 9.00-11.30
    • Promoting parallelism in data management: MapReduce
  • 11/6/2014 h 9.00-11.00
    • Model-driven design and solution space exploration
  • 18/6/2014 h 9.00-12.00
    • Students’ presentations on specific subjects
      • Amin 30 min
      • Giulia 30 min
      • Shima 30 min
      • Mahsa 30 min
      • Azadeh 30 min
      • Marco 30 min
  • 18/6/2014 h 14.00-16.00
    • Students’ presentations on specific subjects
      • Allyson Nguyen 40 min
      • Marco Luca 40 min
      • Claudia 30 min
  • 19/6/2014 h 9.00-11.00
    • Round table with industry (Mario Fontana, Microsoft; Vincenzo Gianferrari Pini, GoCloud; Giovanni Boniardi, IBM, …)

Your papers

As part of your tasks for this course you will write a paper on the topic you have selected. Please use the following format: IEEE conference, two columns. Papers should be max 8 pages long (Giulia and Claudia are allowed to use two extra-pages). They should be submitted here by the deadline we have defined (see below).

Important dates

  • Paper submission deadline 20-06
  • Peer review deadline 25-06
  • Final version 30-06