Notices
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This page contains general notices for
Simulation.
July 19, 2009 - Grades have been posted to Blackboard. You are
welcome (indeed, even encouraged) to come by my office to pick-up
your graded final exam and project. I wish everyone a good summer (or,
at least, what remains of it... before you know it we will all be back
in the groove with fall semester courses). I look forward to seeing you
in
Networks (EEL 4781) and/or
Senior Project (CIS 4910) this fall.
July 14, 2009 - How to properly cite "stuff"? See the IEEE-CS Style
Guide here.
July 13, 2009 - From reviewing early paper drafts I am seeing that some
of you are having trouble describing algorithms in pseudocode. A good place
to refresh on how to write pseudocode are these two Wikipedia entries:
Pseudocode and
Stuctured
English. It is also always useful to look at examples. Wikipedia has
many. For example,
here (scroll down) is an example showing how to generate Poisson distributed
random variables. And,
here another example (this for the Jacobi method to solve linear
equations).
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July 9, 2009 - Here is the solution to our day #18 in-class exercise,
Day #18 exercise solutions.
July 7, 2009 - The instructions as they will appear on the final
exam are:
Welcome to the Final Exam for Simulation (CIS 4930). Read each problem
carefully. There are ten required problems (each worth 10 points). There is also
an additional extra credit question worth 10 points. You may have with you a
calculator, pencils and/or pens, erasers, blank paper, and one 8.5 x 11 inch
"formula sheet". On this formula sheet you may have anything you want
(definitions, formulas, homework answers, old exam answers, etc.) as
handwritten by you in pencil or ink on both sides of the sheet.
Photocopies, scans, or computer generated and/or printed text are not allowed on
this sheet. Note to tablet PC users - you may not print-out your
handwritten text for the formula sheet. You have 120 minutes for the exam.
Please use a separate sheet of paper for the answer to each question.
Good luck and be sure to show your work! A table of T scores is included in this
exam for any problem that may ask you to calculate a confidence interval.
July 7, 2009 - Here is the solution to our day #17 in-class exercise,
and also the demonstration of the CLT.
July 2, 2009 - Here is the solution to our day #16 in-class exercise,
and also the disk drive model.
June 30, 2009 - Here is the solution to our day #15 in-class exercise,
and also the two "case study" models.
June 25, 2009 - Here is the solution to our day #14 in-class exercise
June 24, 2009 - Here is the solution to our day #13 in-class exercise
June 21, 2009 - For HW #5 there is a subtle bug (now fixed) in
2mm1_csim.c. For CSIM functions it is very important
to use arguments of the correct type. So, uniform(0,1) will not
work - the correct usage is uniform(0.0, 1.0) since the function
requires type double arguments. Thanks to two good students who
pointed this out to me.
June 18, 2009 - Here is the solution to our day #11 in-class exercise
June 11, 2009 - I have received several questions on what to make the
queue capaity (system capacity, or K) for problem #3 of assignment #4. Well...
you should make it something that is "interesting". If you make it, say,
10000 then you will likely never have any losses and you just have an M/M/1.
Boring. If you make it 1... well, you have a many/most customers lost. How
about making K = 10? You will have very few losses at low utilization with
an increase in losses as utilization increases. I used K = 10 in the
solutions.
June 9, 2009 - Here are two CSIM programs that you will need next
week:
June 9, 2009 - Here is the solution to our day #9 in-class exercise
June 4, 2009 - Here is the solution to our day #8 in-class exercise:
June 2, 2009 - Here is the solution to our day #7 in-class exercise
(thanks to the sharp students for catching the two major errors):
June 2, 2009 - The instructions as they will appear on Exam #1 are:
Welcome to the Mid-Term Exam for Simulation (CIS 4930). Read each problem
carefully. There are ten required problems (each worth 10 points). There is also
an additional extra credit question worth 10 points. You may have with you a
calculator, pencils and/or pens, erasers, blank paper, and one 8.5 x 11 inch
"formula sheet". On this formula sheet you may have anything you want
(definitions, formulas, homework answers, old exam answers, etc.) as
handwritten by you in pencil or ink on both sides of the sheet.
Photocopies, scans, or computer generated and/or printed text are not allowed on
this sheet. Note to tablet PC users - you may not print-out your
handwritten text for the formula sheet. You have 120 minutes for the exam.
Please use a separate sheet of paper for each question. Good luck and be
sure to show your work!
May 28, 2009 - CSIM19 (student edition) is now ready. You can order
it
here. CD-ROMS are being FedEx'ed to the USF bookstore (for those of you
who need to - or prefer to - purchase from the USF bookstore. I believe
that the bookstore will have the CD-ROMs early next week.
May 28, 2009 - Random.org is here.
Please review the material on this website.
May 28, 2009 - Here are the Day #6 in-class exercise solution and
the wireshark handout. The two papers we discussed are on the
reading page. The source code we discussed is on the
source code page.
May 27, 2009 - Here are solutions to our in-class exercises:
May 27, 2009 - Here are some class handouts in softcopy form
(for those of you who take/keep notes in softcopy):
May 22, 2009 - Please note that if you wish to do so, you can submit
your assignments in student pairs (that is, two of you sign and submit the
same assignment). This is also the case for the project. See the
syllabus for details.
May 18, 2009 - It is great that you some of your are getting a jump
on aquiring CSIM. However, the CSIM folks (Mesquite) are still fine tuning
the student version of CSIM... so please hold-off on order for another week
or two. Those of you that have ordered, Mesquite will replace your version
with an updated version. No problem. CSIM will support the Microsoft Visual
C++ Express Edition (free) compiler in Windows and gcc in Linux. We'll discuss
in class how to work with these environments.
May 17, 2009 - A quick reminder on how to get to digital libraires from
the USF library homepage is here. Please, not
everyone get their papers from MASCOTS for assignemnt #1. This would be very
boring. MASCOTS is but one of many conferences where simulation is a key tool
for addressing a question being asked.
May 14, 2009 - If you don't know about TED, you should check it out. A
talk by Kary Mullis on
On What Scientists Do... a history of the experiment.
May 14, 2009 - Lord Kelvin was probably the first person to develop
a performance model for a communications system to evaluate price-performance
trade-offs. Read about this
here.
May 12, 2009 - Not related to simulation, but we discussed
this in class today...
George P. Burdell is a Georgia Tech tradition. Traditions are one of
the fun things with going to an older school. What similar traditions do we
have here at USF? Are there even any secret socities on campus?
May 11, 2009 - Welcome to the 2009 summer semester!
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