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For Fall 2001
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Final GradesI have submitted final grades online, and I believe that they will be available to you sometime this evening. Please let me know if you have any questions.
posted 7:19 PM
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Remember Projects are Due SoonI will be changing my office hours this afternoon to 3:45-5:00. I will be leaving at 5:00 on the dot. I also have office hours on Tuesday. 1:00-3:45.
posted 7:59 AM
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No class on Thursday
We will not have class on Thursday. I will be in my office during
class period and I will be available for you to consult with me on
your projects. I would recommend that you meet at that time and work
on the projects. Today, we will discuss the final and then you will
have the rest of the time to work on the projects.Final Exam
The final exam will be in the normal room from 4:30-6:30 on Thursday,
Dec. 13th. It will be a closed book exam. You may bring two standard
sized pages of notes with you if you like. You may not under any
circumstances consult with other resources or other people during the
exam. There will be no warnings for cheating. You will be dismissed
from the class with a zero on the exam and an F in the class. You will
be expected to know the material from the first half of the class, and
the new material that we covered.This includes things like the steps to performing a simulation. For
instance, I will want you to know how validation, verification and
credibility relate to simulations. You should be able to define these
terms.You will need to understand how to handle entity transfers, and how to
model balking and renegging in a simulation using Arena. Chapters 6, 7,
and 8.There will be more emphasis on Arena in the final. I will ask you to
describe which module you would use to model a certain situation and
how you might set the module's parameters. Being able to design and
set up a model will be important.I will also expect you to understand the generation of random numbers and what traits we look for in a random number generator.
You should look at the models from the previous assignments and from
class.
posted 3:25 PM
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Final Assignment Discrete SimulationThere have been a couple of changes for the groups on the project. If you were in Pizza Shop or Testing these changes affect you. The changes appear at the bottom of the page.
posted 6:07 PM
Class on Nov 27We discussed 7.4, 8.1 and part of 8.3. We will do 8.2, 8.3 and 8.4 on Thursday. We also did course evaluations as well.
I will be available for extended office hours on both Wednesday and Friday from 10-12 in the morning.
For the rest of the semester we will cover the rest of Chap. 8 and then perhaps some of chapter 12.
posted 5:43 PM
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Arena in BL225I have re-installed Arena in BL225 on all but two computers in there and also on the three windows machines in the grad lab. I will hopefully get the two remaining machines next week.
The academic version allows up to 150 modules and I'm expecting many of the project simulations to get close to that.
posted 3:37 PM
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Final Assignment Discrete SimulationFinal project for Discrete Simulation. This will be worth 25% of your final grade. Some parts of the project will require the use of conveyors which we will discuss today and next Tuesday. Also, I will be updating the Arena versions in BL225 to use the academic version rather than the demo version during Thanksgiving break.
posted 1:17 PM
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Third Assignment Discrete Simulation
posted 4:12 PM
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Final ExamWill be in the normal room at 4:30 on Thursday, Dec. 13th.
posted 4:16 PM
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Class for Nov. 6I do not believe that I will have the exams graded by tomorrow night, so we will likely just start working on Chapter 7, or perhaps look at some other material in different chapters or something from the alternative, Law/Kelton text.
I will be giving out a homework assignment on Nov. 8th that will be due Nov. 20th.
No Class on Nov. 15th
I will be defending my dissertation in Iowa that day, so we will not have class. But I will be giving out an assignment that will be due on Nov. 20th, so that would be a good time to work in the lab.
posted 11:59 AM
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Mid-term Exam
Expectations for the Mid-term
The mid-term will be Nov. 1, 2001 and will be in our usual room. It
will be a closed book exam. You may bring two standard sized pages of
notes with you if you like. You may not under any circumstances
consult with other resources or other people during the exam. There
will be no warnings for cheating. You will be dismissed from the
class with a zero on the exam and an F in the class.Any of the topics we covered from chapters 1 to 6 may be covered on
the exam. The list below may not be complete, but will provide a good
start to the topics that may be covered.Topics
Chapter 1 - Uses of simulation, why it is necessary, types of simulators
Chapter 2 - Other analysis options, pieces of a simulation model
Chapter 3 - the various Arena modules and their characteristics and
their parameters, Basic probability theory, some basic understanding
of what a probability distribution is, reasons for animationChapter 4 - Building a model, running the model and viewing the
results, deterministic vs. random inputs, fitting data distributions,
what to do in case of no dataChapter 5 - you should understand the new parts of the call center
model, analysis of data using various techniques, using optquest and
other outcome analyzers in ArenaChapter 6 - steady-state analysis, routing, warm-up times, batching
and truncationGeneral - you should be able to describe the parts of a simple model
when given a system descriptionThe test will be a combination of short answer (maybe true/false or
definitions) and longer problems or modeling problems. Short, concise
answers will be preferred to long, rambling, unclear answers.
posted 11:19 AM
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Second Assignment Discrete SimulationIn the last few classes, we have been completing chapter 5 and we will do that again today. I will then give you a little time to work on the homework set given.
posted 11:16 AM
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Sorry for the delay in posts. We are now going through chapter 5. We are dealing with more complicated simulations and have a number of new features we can use. We also discussed debugging somewhat. We will continue on with chapter 5 and may have a homework set when we return from Fall Break. I should have your homework graded when you return from fall break.
posted 5:39 PM
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Problem 4.8Use a constant interarrival time of 9.8 minutes.
posted 1:50 PM
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Homework ReportsWe haven't been able to figure out why the mdb file is not being created for the report database. This is being looked into by the folks at Arena. Until that time, you can still get data out of your model. The model is creating a .out file, which is a text output of the various parameters being studied. Using this you can find out all of the data you need to answer the questions for the homework. Here is an example from the problem 4.1.
This will be created in the same folder that your model resides.
posted 11:46 AM
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