CPE741: Distributed Systems Course Project

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CPE741 Distributed SystemsCourse Project

• Collaborative Family Tree Organizer

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Introduction

• This project gives the student the opportunity to
  get hands-on experience in the design,
  implementation and evaluation of distributed
  systems.
• The students should design and implement this
  projects efficiently based on what he/she learns
  in the class.

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Objective

• The objective of this project is to develop a
  collaborative distributed system for organizing
  family trees. This system should enable
  authenticated users to enter the following
  information
• Family name and family hierarchy
• Member name, gender, birth and death dates,
  contact information, and a free description
  field.
• Member photo
• The application should allow the authenticated
  users to maintain the tree and allow any user to
  view its information efficiently. Moreover, any
  user should be able to get professional,
  high-resolution, hard copies.

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Technology

• The student can select the development language
  and development environment he/she wishes, but it
  is preferred to use free and portable software.