Assignment

Commentary requirement
There is no specific form in the format of commentar as long as you cover the main points, limitation and relate the paper to your personal knowledge and other topics. A recommended form is:
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Commentary
Paper: Name of the paper
First paragraph: summarize the main points of the pape
Second paragraph: point out the limitation of the paper
Third paragraph: Relate this paper to your personal knowledge or related topics.
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The length of the commentary should be fit into one page.



Date	Assignment	Papers	Due time	Requirement
8/24	Assignment 1	select two white papers from the Microsoft collection of e-commerce white papers and write commentary for one of them	Aug 25 midnight	put "cs4803enc: commentary-8/24" in the title"
8/30	Assignment 2	Internet Web Servers: Workload Characterization and Performance Implications A short version titled "Web Server Workload Characterization: The Search for Invariants	Aug 30 midnight	put "cs4803enc: commentary-8/30" in the title"
8/31	Assignment 3	Infosphere Project: System Support for Information Flow Applications	Sep 3 midnight	put "cs4803enc: commentary-9/3" in the title"
9/1	Assignment 4	Operational Information System	Sep 6 midnight	put "cs4803enc: commentary-9/6" in the title"
9/7	Assignment 5	The Notions of Consistency and Predicate Locks in a Database System	Sep 10 midnight	put "cs4803enc: commentary-9/10" in the title"
9/15	Assignment 6	Concurrency Control and Recovery in Database Systems Chapter 6, sections 6.1, 6.2, and 6.3, with the rest of the chapter optional reading.	Sep 17 midnight	put "cs4803enc: commentary-9/17" in the title"
9/16	Assignment 7	Adaptable, Efficient, and Modular Coordination of Distributed Extended Transactions	Sep 20 midnight	put "cs4803enc: commentary-9/20" in the title"
9/21	Assignment 8	Reflective Transaction Framework (VLDB'95 paper)	Sep 24 midnight	put "cs4803enc: commentary-9/24" in the title"
9/23	Assignment 9	Transactional Activity Model for E-Commerce	Sep 27 midnight	put "cs4803enc: commentary-9/27" in the title"
9/28	Assignment 10	Conquer: A Continual Query System for Update Monitoring in the WWW	Oct 1 midnight	put "cs4803enc: commentary-10/1" in the title"
11/9	Assignment 11	Please choose one of two papers below and write commentary for it. PeerCQ: A Decentralized and Self-Con guring Peer-to-Peer Information Monitoring System PeerTrust: Supporting Reputation-Based Trust for Peer-to-Peer Electronic Communities	Nov 15 midnight	put "cs4803enc: commentary-11/15" in the title"

Announcement

Date	Contents
8/31	IBM websphere performance report info were put at the section of additional link
9/1	Info: GTISC Distinguished Lecture Series
9/2	Commentary sample was put on swiki: sample page
9/6	Project Proposal reference link
9/9	Today's lecture is changed to attend GTISC distinguished lecture "Creating and Maintaining Software that Resists Malicious Attack" David Aucsmith: Security Architect, Chief Technology Officer -- Security and Business Unit, Microsoft 3:00 pm, Clary Auditorium, Student Success Center, Georgia Tech
9/16	Project Proposal Due today by midnight. Send electronic version to Galen(zorn@cc.gatech.edu) and Prof Calton Pu(calton@cc.gatech.edu)
9/17	Enterprise Computing lab
10/07	Today's lecture is changed to attend GTISC distinguished lecture "Rethinking PKI: What's Trust Got to Do With It?" Steve Kent: Vice President and Chief Scientist -- Information Security, BBN Technologies 3:00 pm, Technology Square Research Building, Georgia Tech

Tentative Course Schedule

Weeks 1,2 (Aug 17 - 26) Basics of Enterprise Computing

• 1-A (8/17): class introduction, explanations of course content and evaluation criteria.
Lecture slides
• 1-B (8/19, Ada Gavrilovska): practical challenges in enterprise computing, demonstration of enterprise software in the Enterprise Computing Lab (CCB 153).
  • No reading assignment this week.
    
• 2-A (8/24, Li Xiong): database app servers, their architecture and examples. Oracle Application Server
  • Reading assignment: select two white papers from the Microsoft collection of e-commerce white papers.
    
• 2-B (8/26, Ling Liu): application servers, their architecture and examples. Application Server Lecture
  • Reading assignment: Internet Web Servers: Workload Characterization and Performance Implications Arlitt and Williamson, ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking, 5(5):631-645, Oct. 1997. A short version titled "Web Server Workload Characterization: The Search for Invariants", appeared in ACM SIGMETRICS Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, May 1996.

Week 3 (Aug 31 - Sept 2) New Middleware Example

• 3-A (8/31): new middleware and applications, Infosphere overview. Lecture slides
• Reading assignment: Infosphere Project: System Support for Information Flow Applications, by C. Pu, K. Schwan, J. Walpole. ACM SIGMOD Record, Volume 30, Number 1, pp 25-34, (March 2001).
  
• 3-B (9/2, Greg et al): enterprise middleware, publish/subscribe, reliable queues.
  
  • Reading assignment: Operational Information System An Example from the Airline Industry. In First Workshop on Industrial Experiences with Systems Software (WIESS), 2000.

Week 4,6(Sept 7 - 23) Core Enterprise Computing Techniques

• 4-A (9/7): atomic transactions, serializability, concurrency control. Lecture slides
• K. P. Eswaran, Jim Gray , R. Lorie , I. Traiger : The Notions of Consistency and Predicate Locks in a Database System. CACM 19 (11): 624-633 (1976).  Also see some reference books below. 
• 4-B (9/9): GTISC distinguished lecture "Creating and Maintaining Software that Resists Malicious Attack"
• 5-A (9/14): crash recovery Lecture slides
  • Reading assignment: Concurrency Control and Recovery in Database Systems
    Chapter 6, sections 6.1, 6.2, and 6.3, with the rest of the chapter optional reading.
• 5-B (9/16): two-phase commit and distributed transactions Lecture slides.
• Reading assignment: Adaptable, Efficient, and Modular Coordination of Distributed Extended Transactions by Tong Zhou, Calton Pu, Ling Liu
• Supplementary reading is from Bernstein book Concurrency Control and Recovery in Database Systems section 3.10 (distributed 2PL) and chapter 7 (sections 7.1 through 7.4).
• 6-A (9/21): TP monitors and Reflective Transaction Framework Lecture slides.
  
• Reading assignment: Reflective Transaction Framework (VLDB'95 paper)
  
• Optional reading: TP Monitors (CACM 1990 article)
  
• 6-B (9/23): Workflow and Transactional Activity Model.
  
• Reading assignment: Transactional Activity Model for E-Commerce
• Optional reading: Tutorial on Workflow (Mohan, 1999)
  

Weeks 7,8 (Sept 28 - Oct 7) Advanced Enterprise Computing Techniques

• 7-A (9/28): continual queries, event monitoring, automated content analysis
  • Reading assignment: Conquer: A Continual Query System for Update Monitoring in the WWW, by Ling Liu, Calton Pu, Wei Tang, and Wei Han, International Journal of Computer Systems Science and Engineering, volume 14, number 2, pp 99-112, special issue on Web Semantics, June 1999.
• 7-B (9/30): web services
  
• 8-A (10/5, Qinyi Wu): web services and transactions
  
• 8-B (10/7): GTISC Distinguished Lecture: Kent on "Rethinking PKI: What's Trust Got to Do With It?"
  

 Weeks 9 (Oct 12 - 14) Enterprise Transformation

• 9-A (10/12, Li Xiong): ERP software: SAP's R3 and mySAP. ppt
  
• 9-B (10/14): case study 1: Cisco and discussions on enterprise transformation
  

Weeks 10,11 (Oct 21 - 28) New Research Topics and Technology Issues

• (10/19-20): midterm recess.
• 10-B (10/21, Galen Swint): Infopipe software toolkit,WSLA and QoS, new software technologies such as code generation.
  
  • Code Generation for WSLAs Using AXpect by Galen S. Swint and Calton Pu
  • Packaging Quality of Service Control Behaviors for Reuse by Richard Schantz, Joseph Loyall, Michael Atighetchi, Partha Pal
• 11-A (10/26, Christopher Klaus): Invited Lecture on Internet Security Systems (past
  
• 11-B (10/28): digital cash, micropayments, etc
  

Weeks 12-14 ( Nov 2 - 18) Other Research Issues TBA

• 12-A (11/2): Open source software (MySQL, JBoss)
  
• 12-B (11/4): GTISC Distinguished Lecture: Callahan on "Information Security: Addressing Surety for Various Communities"
• 13-A (11/9, Bugra Gedik):  Research topics: PeerCQ
  
  • PeerCQ: A Decentralized and Self-Con guring Peer-to-Peer Information Monitoring System by Bugra Gedik and Ling Liu
• 13-B (11/11, Li Xiong): Research Topics: PeerTrust
  
  • PeerTrust: Supporting Reputation-Based Trust for Peer-to-Peer Electronic Communities Li Xiong and Ling Liu, Member, IEEE Computer Society by Li Xiong and Ling Liu lecture ppt
• 14-A (11/16, Bill Rouse): enterprise transformation
  

Weeks 15-16 (Nov 23 - Dec 2) Project Presentations

• 14-B (11/18) project presentation 1 (and discussion on a research topic)
  
• 15-A (11/23) project presentations 2-4
  
• (11/25) Thanksgiving recess
• 16-A (11/30) project presentations 5-7
  
• 16-B (12/2) project presentations 8-10
  

Grading

The main component of the course grade is the project (10% proposal, 20% final presentation, 50% concrete deliverables - see below).  The written commentaries on the papers and student participation  form the remaining 20%.  Student presentation and discussion of research papers carry bonus points. 

Projects

The main deliverable of the course is a self-proposed project.  Students (individually or teams of maximum 3) will design, propose, and implement a project relevant to the enterprise computing theme.  Typically, this will be the construction of some system component supporting enterprise computing (e.g., electronic commerce or supply chain) or an enterprise application.  Other ideas are certainly possible.  You are encouraged to discuss your ideas with the instructor before proceeding to the proposal stage.  Since this is the first time the course is being offered, there are no previous examples of project proposals.  However, you may want to look at the project proposals for the course CS8803H (Sp’04) Advanced Internet Application Development (see <http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~lingliu/courses/cs8803/project>).  You may find examples that give you an idea of the format and length of typical project proposals.  Some ideas for projects follow.

• Mainstream EComm software.  (1.A) Download one of the application servers (e.g., WebLogic or Websphere) and use it to build an ecommerce service; run a simulated or real workload to evaluate its performance.  (1.B) Take an existing ecommerce service and implement it on a different platform (e.g., take a service based on Websphere and implement a subset on .NET), then compare their complexity and performance.  (1.C) Add support for wireless (e.g., cell phone) access to some ecommerce service.
• Research topics: (2.A) Evaluate the privacy guarantees given by various ecommerce sites and how they are implemented.  (2.B) Evaluate the strategies the large ecommerce sites are using to defend themselves against denial-of-service attacks. 

Exceptional projects may be expanded as research projects for additional credit.

Project Requirement

Project Reports
Report
You will need to submit a project report as a capstone to your project work for this course. The report ties together your contributions and serves as a "map" or "root document" to guide us through the corpus of your group's work. We will use the requirements from last Spring's 8803 Internet Applications course (here).
Content: Your report should include the objectives of your project, the research problems you are addressing, the approach/methods you took for evaluation of your results, the architecture and functional components of your prototype system, three most interesting contributions of your project design and/or implementation. (Much of this can come from your proposal.) You are also expected to summarize

• what you have learned through the hand-on experience of doing this project, and
• what concepts and techniques you learned in class are used in the current project design,
• and (c) what concepts and techniques you learned in class can be considered for extension of your current project.

Format: I expect the report to be well written and documented with references. The presentation style and quality (syntax and grammar) are an important part of the evaluation and grading of your final project. As the length of the reports, there is no specific rules, and quality is more important than quantity. However, as a general guideline we'll be expecting report lengths of 5 to 10 pages.

Additional Links

Fall 2002 course web site

Books that may be useful

P.A. Bernstein and E. Newcomer, Principles of Transaction Processing, Morgan-Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco, 1996, 358 pp.

Philip A. Bernstein, Vassos Hadzilacos, Nathan Goodman, Concurrency Control and Recovery in Database Systems (free download)

J. Gray, A. Reuter, Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques,  1992 Morgan Kaufmann, San Mateo, CA.

Alonso, G., Casati, F., Kuno, H., Machiraju, V. Web Services Concepts, Architectures and Applications, 2004

IBM websphere performance report info

find the main WebSphere performance page of interest: 

http://www.ibm.com/software/webservers/appserv/was/performance.html







On the right side under downloads you'll find "WebSphere Benchmark Sample Download (Trade3)", or directly at 



http://www.ibm.com/software/webservers/appserv/was/benchmark3.html



to download Trade3.







download the Seneca app (i.e. the photo contest), go to 



http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/edgecomputing







and the related paper is at 



http://www7b.software.ibm.com/wsdd/library/techarticles/0310_haberkorn/haberkorn.html

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