MSIM 602: Computer Science Concepts for Simulation

Spring 2007 Semester
Class Material

Announcements:

Study Guide Added. See below.

Final Exam Date is April 26, 2007 at 7:10 till 9:50 . This differs from the schedule and is a week earlier. So summer comes one week sooner for this class!

The description of program 2 has been modified as dicussed in class; and "end" message has been added as a fourth message type. Please see the assignment (link below) for details.

Programming Assignment 2 is available with a due date of Feb . 22. See below.

One of the Java files for assignment 1 had several typos which I had forgotten about. A new version of TDIncData.java is provided below.
Please let me know if you have any problems with it; it compiles fine for me.

Note that slide 51 of the first slide set has a typo in my e-mail address. It should be cmo@cs.odu.edu

Information on programming assignment 1 has been added. See below.

Syllabus:

Word, pdf

Study Guide for Final Exam:

Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10

Sample Code:

TDIncDate:

TDIncDate.java
Date.java
IncDate.java

Programming Assignments

1. Due midnight, Thursday, Feb. 1, 2007, Requirements
2. Due midnight, Thursday, Feb. 22, 2007, Requirements
3. Due midnight, Thursday, Mar. 29, 2007, Requirements
4. Due midnight, Thursday, April 19, 2007. Requirements

Lectures/Slides:

1. Intro:, Powerpoint
2. Definitions, Powerpoint
3. Dale, chapter 1. Powerpoint
4. Intro to Sim Implementations. Powerpoint
5. Dale, chapter 2, StringLogs, Lists. Powerpoint
6. Dale, chapter 3, Data Stacks. Powerpoint
7. Dale, chapter 4, Recursion. Powerpoint
8. Dale, chapter 5, The Queue ADT Powerpoint
9. Dale, chapter 6, Lists, Binary Trees Powerpoint
10. Dale, chapter 7, More Lists Powerpoint
10. Dale, chapter 8, Binary Search Trees Powerpoint
11. Parallel and Distributed Simulation, A History Powerpoint
12. Dale, chapter 9, Priority Queues and Qraphs Powerpoint
13. Dale, chapter 10, Sorting, Hashing Powerpoint

Supplemental Readings:

1. Short tutorial on Packages in BlueJ by Dr. Schmidt, Kansas State University: web page
2. More complete tutorila on BlueJ by Michael Koelling, Maersk Institue, Univ. of Southern Denmark PDF
3. Paper: Distributed Simulation and Industry: Potential Pitfalls Dist Sim Panel Discussion (PDF format)