Software design patterns mainly serve to design and develop software efficiently and effectively. Patterns are traditionally represented using UML notations and formal models. These are not always sufficient to analyze behavior. There are various problems related to visualization, abstracting, design to implementation mapping problems, etc. This paper promotes the use of Fundamental Modeling Co...

This paper describes a peer-to-peer system design and implementation assignment for a distributed systems course at an advanced undergraduate level, or a first-year graduate level. The assignment consists of four stages, and provides students a good, practical understanding of some of the key distributed computing concepts. These include issues of decentralization, managing distributed informat...