Fundamentals of Concurrent Systems

Singapore University of Social Sciences

Fundamentals of Concurrent Systems (ICT331)

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Course Types: Modular Undergraduate Course

Language: English

Duration: 6 months

Fees: To be confirmed

Area of Interest: Science and Technology

Schemes: Alumni Continuing Education (ACE)

Funding: To be confirmed

School/Department: School of Science and Technology

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Synopsis

This course introduces you to the basic ideas in concurrent systems. It discusses the basic hardware and software for such systems and examines the nature of a concurrent process as well as multi-threading with a programming language. The course will also look into inter-process communications as concurrent processes inter among themselves. In particular, it will consider the important issue of accessing shared data.As this is a practical course, it will use Java, a programming language commonly used in the industry, for investigating topics such as multi-threading and accessing shared data

Level: 3
Credit Units: 5
Presentation Pattern: Every January

Topics

The nature of concurrent systems
Hardware and software support for concurrent systems
The concept of a process and concurrent processes
The fundamentals of distributed systems
Basic inter-process communications
Accessing shared data and shared implementations

Learning Outcome

Illustrate what is a concurrent system
Differentiate among concurrent, potentially concurrent and non-concurrent systems
Appraise the role of hardware and operating systems in concurrent processing
Discuss the characteristics and issues involved in distributed processing
Show the concurrent processing issues for shared memory systems
Construct programs involving multi-threading and synchronised concurrent processes