Operating Systems

The goal of this course is to teach the foundation about architecture and functionalities of modern operating systems. To this aim, the basic elements composing an operating system are analyzed together with the strategies used to make them interact with each other and with the hardware.

The student must be able to describe in a proper way the strategies adopted by an operating system for resource management and to put them in the context of the actual operating systems in use today. Moreover, the student must be able to describe and apply basic algorithms for memory, processes, and deadlock management.