Course co-ordinator(s): Prof Mike Chantler (Edinburgh), Prof Hani Ragab Hassen (Dubai), Aiman Shariah (Dubai), Dr Timothy Yap (Malaysia).
Aims:
- For the Operating system part: To provide an introduction to operating systems, and their basic principles.
- For the Concurrency part: To introduce the theory and practice of concurrent software systems.
Detailed Information
Course Description: Link to Official Course Descriptor.
Pre-requisites: Good knowledge of OO programming, Data Structures and Algorithms (Java preferable).
Location: ALP, Dubai, Edinburgh, Malaysia.
Semester: 2.
Syllabus:
For the Operating system part: - Overview on operating systems concepts and structures. - Main operating system abstractions such as processes & threads, files, and address space. - CPU scheduling, memory management and disk management
For the Concurrency part: - multi-core systems, threads, inter-thread communication, synchronisation, - mutual exclusion, critical regions, - monitors, semaphores, and atomic variables
SCQF Level: 9.
Credits: 15.