English

If sufficient demand

The goal of the course is to give knowledge about advanced mechanisms, design principles, and libraries for concurrent programming, for application in interactive and parallel systems.

The course topics include: thread safety, shared objects, robust utilization of parallelism, responsiveness in interactive systems, liveness, performance, testing, explicit locks, atomic variables, non-blocking algorithms, and custom synchronization.

have knowledge about mechanisms and libraries for concurrent programming in Java.

understand the design principles for concurrent programming in Java.

be able to design, implement and test concurrent Java programs.

demonstrate the ability to critically evaluate and compare concurrency mechanisms and libraries for different quality characteristics.

Seminars

Exercises

Written assignments

Seminars given by participants

The students will present parts of the material to their peers, create new exercises to illustrate mechanisms and design principles, and actively participate at the seminars.

Failed, pass

Proficiency in sequential object-oriented programming. Basic knowledge on concurrent programming (e.g., from the course EDA040).

Goetz, B.: Java Concurrency in Practice. Addison-Wesley, 2006. ISBN 0321349601.

In addition, articles will be used.

EDA015F

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FN1/Anders Gustafsson