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The Distributed Systems Group is part of the Department of Informatics of the Universidade do Minho. The team consists of faculty members, PhD and MSc students.
The group´s research activities have been focused on dependable distributed systems, mobile computing, distributed objects and operating systems. Research has been conducted on fundamental and applied research on models, algorithms and tools enabling to build dependable services and applications on large-scale networks. Complementary, effort has been put on research in theoretical and systems support to weak consistency file replication and versioning. The group´s research has been partially funded by several FCT and EU projects.
The GSD provides several undergraduate courses in the ESI, MCC and ECOM programmes, as well as several MSc. courses. In particular, the group is responsible for the operating systems, distributed systems, and system administration courses.
