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.

  1. January 4, 2010. Introduction to the course.
  2. January 6, 2010. Overview of Performance Evaluation. Ch. 1 & 2.
  3. January 8, 2010. Abstraction. Ch. 2.2.
  4. January 11, 2010. Example of Abstraction. I. System description.
  5. January 13, 2010. Example of Abstraction. II. Performance Metrics. Ch. 2.2 & 3.
  6. January 15, 2010. Assignment 1, Modelling Performance Metrics
  7. January 18, 2010. Little's Law. Section 30.3.
  8. January 20, 2010. Applying Little's Law. Section 33.3 to 33.6.

    Hand in assignment 1

  9. January 22, 2010. Measuring Performance. Ch. 7 & 8
  10. January 25, 2010. Exploratory Data Analysis
  11. January 27, 2010. Analysing Data I. Ch 20 & 22
  12. January 29, 2010. Analysing Data II. Ch 20 & 22
  13. February 1, 2010. Analysing Data III. Ch 20 & 22
  14. February 3, 2010. Experimental Design.
  15. February 5, 2010. Abstraction for Simulation. Chapter 24.
  16. February 8, 2010. Discrete Event Simulation. Sections 24.5 & 24.6.

    Additional material on Discrete Event Simulation.

  17. February 10, 2010. Simulation Examples I.
  18. February 12, 2010. Simulation Examples II.
    Hand in assignment 2
  19. February 22, 2010. A Final Simulation Example
    Hand in part IV of assignment 2.

    February 23, 2010. Mid-term Examination.

  20. February 24, 2010. Random Variables Chapters 12, 28 & 29
  21. February 26, 2010. Binomial Distributions, Poisson Processes
  22. March 1, 2010.
  23. March 3, 2010. Random number generators. Chapters 26 & 27
  24. March 5, 2010. Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.
  25. March 8, 2010. Analytic Queueing Theory. Chapters 30 & 31
  26. March 10, 2010. Statistical mechanics.
  27. March 12, 2010. Assignment 3. Birth & Death Processes
  28. March 15, 2010. Birth & Death Examples
  29. March 17, 2010. More Birth & Death Examples
  30. March 19, 2010.
  31. March 22, 2010. More General Markov Processes, Queueing Networks Chapters 32 & 33
  32. March 24, 2010. Queueing Networks: operational analysis. pdf
    March 26, 2010. Class cancelled for fourth year projects.
  33. March 29, 2010. Queueing Networks: operational analysis. Also pdf.
  34. March 31, 2010. Queueing Networks: Markovian analysis
    Hand in assignment
  35. April 5, 2010.
    Hand in Assignment 3

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