This course will be offered on Monday afternoon from 14:00 to 18:00. There will be lectures and exercises about which information will be provided through the course website.

Though this course is a project cluster, there will be some initial lectures on the most important topics included in the course, tutorials for helping the students to learn some of the technologies to be used, and exercises to help students to apply the knowledge and gain skills and experience that can be useful for them to perform well on the project tasks. Obviously, there will be less formal lecture classes for this courses compared with a regular course, and there is no homework assignments.

Most of the learning happens through exercises and project work in a team of 4-5 students. Each team will be expected to carry out a different project, with slightly different scope, requirements, and expectations. For the project, the team will explore the viability of a software for migrating to cloud computing, designing the execution strategy and implementIng the action for migrating the system to cloud. Alternatively you can also explore to design and implement a new project baed on the known requirements of cloud computing for a particular ares, e.g., Smart grid or high performance computing of eReseaarch.

The project part of the course accounts for about 70%-80% of the workload.

In order to achieve the stated goals of the course, the students will be expected to learn different technologies related to cloud computing (Such as hyperwiser, and standards), learn/know the special application areas of cloud computing such as mobile applications, Healthcare, and Energy.

Since the cloud computing technologies and infrastructure provided will vary from one group to another, it is highly recommended that the students are expected to work on their own computing machine. However, it would be possible to use the computers provided by ITU for accessing cloud-bssed infrastructure

The course's goals and design expect the students to do the critical and evaluative readings of the papers given to you for preparation of different topics in this course. To achieve the goals, you will need to study a significant amount of related literature (papers, books), learn new things and possibilities about cloud computing, meet up regularly for supervision meetings, and co-author a research quality paper for submission to your supervisor.

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Registering in the project base:

This is being offered as a project cluster that is why you not only need to sign up for this project cluster as if it were a normal course but also you need to enter your project agreement for a 7,5 ECTS project in the project base where it will be assessed by the supervisor and the Board of Studies.
The project cluster will not appear on your diploma but the project that you register in the project base will appear once you have successfully completed this course. 

Each project team in this course will have to submit an article, written like a research paper, that strictly adhere to the guidelines to be provided by the lecturer on the course website. The article must be, at the maximum,15 pages in length, conforming to the Springer LNCS formatting guidelines (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) without making any changes in the template.

The articles will be evaluated by taking into account: clarity of the problem definition, problem significance, significance of the contribution of the work, quality of the evaluation (argument for validity of the work), study of existing literature, potential impact, and adherence to formatting guidelines.