ITEC 410
MODELING AND SIMULATION
ITEC 410.: Modeling and Simulation
Three hours lecture (3).
Prerequisite: ITEC 320 and STAT 410.
An introduction to mathematical modeling and the simulation of models using high-level programming languages. Students who have received credit for CPSC 410 may not receive credit for ITEC 410.
Demonstrates the process by which questions to problems are answered through the construction of models and the implementation and simulation of these models. Individual topics include:
1. Describing a system - taxonomy
2. Model development and validation
3. Basic probability theory
4. Simulation using Monte Carlo techniques
5. Discrete event simulation
6. Markov processes
7. Numerical integration techniques
8. Simulating continuous systems
9. Estimating model parameter values
10. Simulation validation and verification
11. Queueing model
12. Generate random variates
13. Applications to computer system performance (Optional)
These topics represent the fundamentals of simulation and modeling and are covered in virtually all introductory simulation text books.
By working on several simulation projects, students will see how models and computer program implementations of those models are developed, validated and verified. Each project will focus on a different way in which a model and/or its implementation as a computer program can be accomplished. These projects may be completed either individually or in groups.
To provide students with the necessary skills and knowledge to develop models for both physical and abstract systems and implement them in some simulation software.
Several projects in addition to at least 1 in-class exam and the final exam will serve to evaluate the students.
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DATE ACTION APPROVAL
Sept. 25, 2001 Updated John P. Helm, Chair