University of Utah

Department of Computer Science

Discrete Event Simulation


CS 4550

Spring Semester 2007

EMCB 110    TH 2:00-3:20

Instructor: Thomas C. Henderson


Overview of Course

Course Objectives

The following lists the goals for the course. Topics emphasized include:
 

Prerequisites

The prerequisite is successful completion of CS 3500, CS 3510. 

Course Description

The goal of the course is to provide an overview of techniques which allow one to simulate systems using a computer.   This will be a programming based course (in C) and will be based on solving simulation problems through implementation and simulation experiments.

Software Used to Support Class

Students will work in language of their choice.

Required Materials

We will use the text:

Sheldon M. Ross. Simulation, Fourth Edition,Academic Press, 2006 (required)

Projects and Assignments

Note: CS 6990 students are required to do an additional project which must be arranged with the instructor:
Each individual problem requires a Laboratory Report; see the Lab Report Format for details.  You are to submit your lab report, code, etc. before the due date passes.

Class Schedule and Assignments

The dates of the lectures and assignments will be done on demand as we progress through the quarter. Class attendance is mandatory.

Assignment
 Date Assigned
 Date Due
Weeks 1,2: Overview of Simulation
Jan 9,11,16,18: Chapters 1,2,3


 Jan 9: A1
 Jan 22: A1
Weeks 3,4,5,6: Modeling Complex Systems
Jan 23,25,30, Feb 1: Chapters 4,5,6

Jan 23: A2 Jan 29,Feb 5,12, 19: A2
Weeks 7,8,9,10: Statistics, Variance
Feb 20,22,27, Mar 1,6,8,13,15: Chapters 7,8


 Feb 20: A3 Feb 26, Mar 5, 16: A3 
Week 11: Spring Break!
Mar 12,22

Weeks 12,13: Validation
Mar 27,29, Apr 3,5: Chapter 9

 Mar 27: A4 Apr 2,9: A4
Weeks 14,15:  MCMC
Apr 10,12,17,19: Chapter 10

 Apr 10: A5 Apr 18,23: A5
Week 16: Review
Apr 24


27 April (noon): Grad Project
Final Exam

 1 May   1-3 pm
 1 May   1-3 pm  (regular classroom)

Instructor

   
  
Instructor:
Thomas C. Henderson, Professor
E-Mail:
tch@cs.utah.edu
Phone:
801-581-3601
Fax:
801-585-3743
Office Hours:
By appointment (arrange by email)

TA:     Junxing Zhang
           junxing@cs.utah.edu

Office Hours:   None

Grading Information

The grading distribution will be as follows:

 Undergraduate (CS 4550)                      Graduate (CS6969)

Problems:               60%                                   50%
Project:                                                             20%
In-Class:                10%                                   10%
Final:                      30%                                   20%


Assignment Due Time

Unless otherwise stated in an assignment, all assignments will be due by midnight on the assignment due date (usually a Monday). Lab reports (or problem solution writeups) must be emailed to tch@cs.utah.edu as PDF attachments.  The time used for the submission of an assignment is the time the email is sent.

Assignment Late Policy

Grades will suffer for late assignments.

Note, if you send an incomplete assignment, and then send a new version after the deadline, please include an explanation of the various versions.  An assignment may be submitted up to 2 days after the due date ( due by midnight), however, 1 letter grade will be deducted from the evaluation of the work.

Individual Work

The purpose of the assignments is to improve your skills at solving problems and demonstrating that you understand the class material. Collaboration with other class members is acceptable where explicitly assigned teamwork is involved. For any individual assignments or work, you must do your own work. Using someone else's work or giving someone else your work is considered plagiarism and will be dealt with using standard College and University procedures (i.e., failure of work and class).

Registration

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American with Disabilities Act (ADA)

The University conforms to all standards of the ADA. If you wish to qualify for exemptions under this act, notify the Center for Disabled Students Services, 160 Union.