Lecture 0: Overview of CIS 445/545
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Lecture 1: Introduction: Motivations and Contexts for Studying Modeling and Simulation (Chap. 1.1-1.2 & 1.8)
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Lecture 2: Types of Models & Simulations, Process of Simulation, Advantages & Disadvantages (Chap. 1.7, 1.9 & 5.1)
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Lecture 3: Discrete Event Simulation (Chap. 1.3-1.4 & Appendix 1A)
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Lecture 4: Running Simulations (Chap. 2.1, 2.3 & 2.4)
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Lecture 5: Data Structures used in implementation (Chap. 2.2 & 2.8)
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Lecture 6: Review of Basic Statistical Concepts (Chap. 4)
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Lecture 7: Selecting Input Probability Distributions (Chap. 6.1-6.2, 6.4-6.7)
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READING: Modeling bursts and heavy tails in human dynamics by Vazquez et al. (Physical Review 73, 036127 (2006) statistical study of web browsing and other human actions
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Lecture 8: Pseudo Random Number Generation: Types of Generators (Chap. 7.1-7.2 & 7.4)
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Lecture 9: Generating Probability Distribution Functions (Chap. 8.1, 8.3-8.4)
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Lecture 10: Output Analysis: Discrete Event Systems (Chap. Appendix 1.B.3 & 9.1-9.5)
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Lecture 11: Output Analysis: Queueing Systems (Chap. Appendix 1.B.1, Appendix 1.B.2,1.B.3)
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Lecture 12: Markov Models (Handout)
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Lecture 13: Comparing Alernative Systems (Chap. 10.1, 10.2)
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Lecture 14: Validation and Verification of Systems (Chap. 5.2-5.6)
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Lecture 15: Simulation Languages and Packages (Chap. 3)
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Lecture 17: Parallel & Distributed DES (Chap. 1.6)
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