Networked Systems Seminar (NSS) [Summer 2025]

Networking independent systems allows for fulfilling a specific task in a coordinated fashion. The underlying message exchange needs to be specified correctly and in many cases needs to also provide non-functional aspects such as robustness, dependability and performance to a certain degree. This seminar will cover such topics in a conference-style setup.

Organization

Audience: B.Sc. and M.Sc. students enrolled in one of the Faculty of Computer Science’s study programs
Language of Instruction: English
Supervisor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Steffen Bondorf
Course credits: 3 CP
Grading Scheme

Learning goals:

Students will learn to work with a either a technical or a scientific paper, understand its contents and its context, critically reflect on it, and will learn to present their findings in a concise fashion.

Workflow:

get one of the eight place via the faculty’s central allocation system, you will then be enrolled in this seminar’s Moodle course
kick-off meeting
first common meeting where each participant gives a very brief overview over the assigned paper (approx. two weeks after kickoff meeting)
individual meetings with supervisor during the semester (at least one of which will be mandatory)
deliverables at the end of the lecture period: survey (text document) and presentation (slides and / or poster)
conference day (i.e., seminar presentation day, second common meeting) in the lecture-free period

Meeting Schedule

2025-04-10: 1st common meeting: Kickoff in MC 1/30 at 2pm
2025-04-24: 2nd common meeting: Overview presentations in MC 1/30 at 2pm
Between 2025-05-22 and 2025-06-06: Individual meeting
2025-07-20: Submission of final deliverables
Between 2025-08-21 and 2025-09-05: 3rd common meeting: Presentation Day (one full day, TBD)

Topic: research papers by Philipp H. Kindt