Content, progress and pedagogy of the module

Purpose:
The student should gain insight into a current research and   development problems in large, scalable, and distributed systems.
The student should be able to communicate and work with these problems to be able to formulate and make a thesis/report on this basis.

Reason:
University educations are research-based educations. On the master programmes, all students must achieve in-depth insight into current research issues and methods.

Learning objectives

Knowledge

• Demonstrate in-depth knowledge and overview of a current problem within the large, scalable, distributed systems in computer science.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the current tools and techniques within the area including, but not limited to, automation of system administration, (distributed) orchestration engines, distributes tracing, and automated distributed deployment.
• Demonstrate knowledge of how the research area (large, scalable, and distributed systems) can contribute to the market development and marketing strategies

Skills

• Use and reason about relevant concepts and techniques within large, scalable, and distributed systems
• Use and create theories within the discipline in the formulation and analysis of a problem within the research area
• Communicate a current problem within the area as well as the related concepts in the framework of the research area
• Reason about the business potential of novel solutions, tools or technologies within the research area
• Use and reason about the role of innovation and entrepreneurship in the software industry and how these concepts are used for market development

Competences

• Apply concepts and reasoning within the discipline to formulate and analyse a current open challenge within the research area
• Formulate a reasoned business case based on new or existing solutions to problems within large, scalable, and distributed systems.

Type of instruction

Project work, including:
• formulation and analysis of a problem in the research area
• reasoned reflection on solving this problem
• hands-on experience with state of the art tools for managing    large, scalable, and distributed systems

Extent and expected workload

It is expected that the student uses 30 hours per ECTS, which for this activity means 900 hours

Exam

Exams

Additional information

Contact: The Study board for Computer Science at cs-sn@cs.aau.dk or 9940 8854