Course Objectives Knowledge and Understanding Upon successful completion for the course, students will be able to Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of: 1 Concurrency and interference among threads 2 Client Server models 3 Distributed Objects 4 Message Oriented Middleware 5 Distributed Databases and Transactions 6 Conceptual Models of Distributed Systems using State Machines 7 Verification...

The need for managing the conceptual representation of European law led to the development of the Legal Taxonomy Syllabus (LTS) and the related methodology. In this paper we consider further legal issues that emerged during the test and use phases, and outline the new features that we added to the new version, the LTS 2.0.

A new era of of human development is upon us. The rates of technological, economic, social and environmental change have dramatically increased since the 1950s; we live in a world that is characteristically different from the one all previous generations of humans experienced. On many fronts, humanity is presently navigating the unseen [23]. Despite a variety of undeniable achievements of our s...

The paper presents the assumptions of the course syllabus: GIS basics: parametric description of the urban space realised at the Architecture for the Society of Knowledge Master of Science degree program at the Faculty of Architecture, Warsaw University of Technology. The research conducted by students covered mapping of different aspects of urban phenomena and their relation with physical city...

This paper describes a graduate-level machine translation (MT) course taught at the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Most of the students in the course have a background in computer science. We discuss what we teach (the course syllabus), and how we teach it (lectures, homeworks, and projects). The course has evolved steadily over the past several years to incorpor...