CS457 - System Performance Evaluation - Winter 2010
Lecture Notes
Here you will find the lecture notes that I use when teaching. They are
telegraphic, so they are not a substitute for the lectures.
But, if you attend the lecture they will most likely be a good memory
prosthetic. At present - January 3, 2010 - there is nothing here; although
the lecture titles from last term remain they will certainly be somewhat
rearranged during the term. I fill in this page as the course proceeds, so
that you will find all the lecture notes here at the end of the term.
Where there is a corresponding chapter or section in the textbook I will
indicate it. Where there are pdfs I have written there will be a link to them
either here or in the lecture notes.
- January 4, 2010. Introduction to the
course.
- January 6, 2010. Overview of Performance
Evaluation. Ch. 1 & 2.
- January 8, 2010. Abstraction. Ch. 2.2.
- January 11, 2010. Example of Abstraction. I.
System description.
- January 13, 2010. Example of Abstraction. II.
Performance Metrics. Ch. 2.2 & 3.
- January 15, 2010. Assignment 1, Modelling
Performance Metrics
- January 18, 2010. Little's Law. Section
30.3.
- January 20, 2010. Applying Little's Law. Section
33.3 to 33.6.
Hand in assignment 1
- January 22, 2010. Measuring Performance. Ch. 7
& 8
- January 25, 2010. Exploratory Data Analysis
- January 27, 2010. Analysing Data I. Ch 20 &
22
- January 29, 2010. Analysing Data II. Ch 20 &
22
- February 1, 2010. Analysing Data III. Ch 20
& 22
- February 3, 2010. Experimental Design.
- February 5, 2010. Abstraction for Simulation.
Chapter 24.
- February 8, 2010. Discrete Event Simulation.
Sections 24.5 & 24.6.
Additional material on Discrete Event
Simulation.
- February 10, 2010. Simulation Examples I.
- February 12, 2010. Simulation Examples II.
Hand in assignment 2
- February 22, 2010. A Final Simulation Example
Hand in part IV of assignment 2.
February 23, 2010. Mid-term Examination.
- February 24, 2010. Random Variables Chapters 12,
28 & 29
- February 26, 2010. Binomial Distributions,
Poisson Processes
- March 1, 2010.
- March 3, 2010. Random number generators.
Chapters 26 & 27
- March 5, 2010. Entia non sunt multiplicanda
praeter necessitatem.
- March 8, 2010. Analytic Queueing Theory.
Chapters 30 & 31
- March 10, 2010. Statistical mechanics.
- March 12, 2010. Assignment 3. Birth & Death
Processes
- March 15, 2010. Birth & Death Examples
- March 17, 2010. More Birth & Death
Examples
- March 19, 2010.
- March 22, 2010. More General Markov Processes,
Queueing Networks Chapters 32 & 33
- March 24, 2010. Queueing Networks: operational
analysis. pdf
March 26, 2010. Class cancelled for fourth year projects.
- March 29, 2010. Queueing Networks: operational
analysis. Also pdf.
- March 31, 2010. Queueing Networks: Markovian analysis
Hand in assignment
- April 5, 2010.
Hand in Assignment 3
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