Concurrent Data Structures Reading Course 2013

Paper selection

• We propose a set of initial papers.
• Each student selects 1-2 additional papers and extracts a few ideas, briefly underlying the main characteristics. These articles are proposed and discussed during the meeting and added to the set of papers from where each student can select one to present.

Before each meeting

The presenters post a short description of the paper and 1-2 questions regarding the most interesting aspects in the studied articles, minimum 3 days before the meeting.

Each student has to answer the questions on the course page. The answers are available to all the participants and are meant to be the starting point of the discussions during the next meeting.

Each student finds a new article, extracts the main ideas and proposes it during the meeting.

Meetings

Meetings are divided in three parts:

• 1-2 presentation(s) / meeting given in round-robin fashion by the students. The student is invited to conclude with a few ideas about how the work can be improved or adapted for other purposes (mainly for his/her own work). These ideas are meant to open further discussions.
• Open discussions regarding the pros and cons of the studied CDS; what can be useful, what can be improved and how. What are the target characteristics of the CDS: concurrency, scalability, performance, fairness for threads, no starvation, no dead-locks. Discuss by comparison with previous presentations.
• Suggest a few interesting papers and select 1-2 papers to be studied and presented during the next meetings. Each student is invited to suggest one paper in each meeting.

Students are encouraged to test the studied CDS or borrow ideas and implement them in the context of his/her work.

Schedule

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