CODE | 98516 |
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ACADEMIC YEAR | 2022/2023 |
CREDITS |
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SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR | ING-INF/05 |
LANGUAGE | Italian |
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SEMESTER | Annual |
TEACHING MATERIALS | AULAWEB |
The course provides an introduction to the structure and organization on modern operating systems and to databases.
Students will be able to identify and describe the main functionalities of modern operating systems and an introduction to database design and management.
In particular, for databases, students will be able to use SQL for querying and managing data.
The course is divided in two parts: databases in the first semester and operating systems in the second one.
Lectures will be complemented with hands-on sessions
Databases
1. Objective of a DBMS
2. Information Modeling: what to model and how
3. The Object Data Model and the Relational Data Model
4. SQL: A Relational Database Language for data definition and query
5. DBMS in action: SQLite
Operating systems
1. Introduction to the structure of operating systems.
2. Processes and Threads
3. Inter-process communications (signal, pipe, socket, shared memory, ...). Mutual exclusion and synchronization. Dekker's algorithm, Peterson's Algorithm. Hardware support to mutual exlcusion. The Producer-Consumer Problem. Sempahors. Monitors. Message Passing. The Readers-Writers Problem.
4. Deadlock and Starvation. Dealing with deadlocks: Detection, Prevention and Avoidance. Resourse Allocation Graphs. The Dining Philosophers' Problem.
5. Memory Management. Physical Memory vs Virtual Memory. Paging vs Segmentation.
6. Uniprocessor Scheduling. Lont-term. medium-term and short-term scheduling: FCFC, Round Robin, SPN, SRT, HRRN, Feedback.
7. I/O Management. DMA, Disk Scheduling.
8. The file system. Structure and attributes of files and directories.
9. Access Control. Models, policies and mechanisms for access control. Access control in in Linux (ACL in Unix, setuid)
Databases
A. Albano, G. Ghelli, R. Orsini. Database essentials. http://fondamentidibasididati.it
Operating systems
Operating Systems: Internals and Design Principles. 8th edition di W. Stallings, Pearson
ALESSANDRO ARMANDO (President)
ALESSIO MERLO
DANIELE D'AGOSTINO (President Substitute)
All class schedules are posted on the EasyAcademy portal.
The exam is divided in two parts.
Databases: Project discussion or oral exam.
Operating systems: Written exam
Date | Time | Location | Type | Notes |
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20/12/2022 | 10:00 | GENOVA | Scritto + Orale | |
20/12/2022 | 10:00 | GENOVA | Esame su appuntamento | |
07/06/2023 | 10:00 | GENOVA | Scritto + Orale | |
07/06/2023 | 10:00 | GENOVA | Esame su appuntamento | |
21/06/2023 | 10:00 | GENOVA | Esame su appuntamento | |
21/06/2023 | 10:00 | GENOVA | Scritto + Orale | |
07/07/2023 | 10:00 | GENOVA | Scritto + Orale | |
07/07/2023 | 10:00 | GENOVA | Esame su appuntamento | |
08/09/2023 | 10:00 | GENOVA | Scritto + Orale | |
08/09/2023 | 10:00 | GENOVA | Esame su appuntamento |