Notices


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).

. 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:

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: 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!

Last update on July 19, 2009