Grading

Details:

• Programming assignments: These assignments will give you hands-on experience with essential real-time systems problems such as real-time scheduling, real-time communications, priority inversion, etc. These assignments are to be performed individually and students have to deliver source code plus a report including documentation and compilation/execution instructions.
• Course project: The goal of this component is to give you the opportunity to get hands-on experience with a concrete problem related to real-time and fault-tolerant computing. The project will be performed individually or in teams of 2 students (depending on the total number of students in this course) during the second half of the semester. Each student/team will prepare a project proposal in consultation with the lecturer. Further, the teams will be responsible for frequent progress reports, demos, a term paper, and a final presentation. The projects can cover a variety of problems, ranging from real-time operating systems, to real-time scheduling and communication, to robotics and mobile computing systems. The grade for this component consists of the following deliverables: proposal: 3%, progress reports: 5%, draft of term paper: 3%, peer review process: 4%, final paper: 5%, project presentation and demo: 5%.
• Homework assignments: The homework assignments (or "take-home exams") will be essential to practice the principles and concepts discussed in the lectures. There will be 3-4 such homeworks with short deadlines (typically one week) and they are due by the time class starts on the day specified in the assignments. For each day after the due date, 15% are lost, however, after 4 days, no credit is given.
• Participation: Participation includes paper presentations, participation in paper discussions, paper summaries, project presentations and demos, etc.