Organizational Information

• Contact Persons: Prof. Dr. Klaus Wehrle and assistants
• Assistants: Please contact Ismet Aktas for organizational issues
• 2 SWS
• ETCS Credits: 4
• Registration: Open January 7th through January 17th through the centralized system

Important Dates

• Kick-off Meeting:

  April 26st 2010 at 12:00h (Informatikzentrum - Ahornstraße 55, Building E1, Seminar Room of "Chair for Computer Science IV")

• Submission Date for for the draft version of the Paper:

  approx. begin of June 2010

• Submission Date for reviews:

  approx. end of June 2010

• Submission Date for final versions (camerady ready) of slides and papers:

  approx. begin of July 2010

• Seminar Talks

  first or second week of lecture-free time (approx. mid of July 2010)

  more information will be given in the kick-off meeting

Topics

All topics are supervised by staff members of the DS team.

The topics and slides of the seminar will be made available in the campus page of the seminar.

Seminar Details

The seminar provides a broad overview on existing distributed system and current research topics in the areas of peer-to-peer and sensor networks. It is our paramount interest to see that you gain a thorough understanding of your seminar topic and that you are able to convey this understanding to the other participants. For you to benefit from the presented knowledge, we encourage active participation and interaction between students. You will both synchronize with each other while preparing your talk as some topics overlap and discuss the contents after the talks themselves.

Your contribution to the seminar is twofold: you present your topic concisely in a 30-minute talk to the other seminarists and you supply a paper providing more detail on the topic than the talk. Furthermore, you are expected to engage in discussions about each talk. Plagiarism of any form is unacceptable and will lead to your immediate suspension from the seminar. The recommendations at http://www-i4.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/ -> Teaching -> Seminar are a good starting point for designing and writing your slides and your paper. Please adhere to them to avoid disappointment when discussing your work with your supervisor.

Talks

The goal of the talk is to give the audience a good understanding of the whole topic and to dive into a few interesting details of the subject matter. The ratio of one to the other depends on the topic and needs to be determined with your supervisor. Each talk is scheduled to be 30 minutes, with 25 and 35 minutes being hard lower and upper bounds, respectively. Ten minutes of discussion follow each talk.

Papers

While the talk focuses on the overview and details of interest, the paper allows you to discuss your topic in its full breadth and depth. It covers all aspects of the talk and provides additional insights to related work and specifics. For example, source code snippets or interface descriptions would not go into your talk but may well show up in your paper where applicable.

The papers are based on the official ACM conference style and are expected to be between eight and ten pages in length (hard limits). ACM provides official templates for a number of formats but we encourage you to use LaTeX for writing your paper.