Introduction to Simulation

This is the home page for the course "Introduction to Simulation" in the winter term 2025/26. General information on this course can be found here.

Information

  • If you are interested in participating in Simulation Project 2026 you MUST pass Introduction to Simulation and attend the KickOff in the last ItS lecture.
  • Exam Date: 26.02.2026, 8:00-10:00
  • The lectures will be held in person. Recorded versions from a past term are accessible via mediasite.ovgu.de. Please use your OVGU-Account to log in. The links will be in the table below.
  • The exercise classes will be held in person. The recorded versions from a past winter term are also available via mediasite.ovgu.de.
  • The elarning course for short notice information: https://elearning.ovgu.de/course/view.php?id=19305
  • Time and place of the lecture:
    • Thursday 15-17 in G29-307 (Graham Horton)
  • Times of the exercises:
    • Monday 11-13 in G29-335 (Claudia Krull)
    • Tuesday 15-17 in G29-K058 (Pascal Krenckel)
  • The exercises will start after the second lecture:
    • Exercise classes start from 27.10.2025
  • NOTE: The exam will be in English, you may use a dictionary and answer in either German or English. The Exam format will be multiple-coice.
  • HINWEIS: Die Klausur ist auf Englisch, Wörterbücher sind erlaubt, ebenso wie Antworten auf Deutsch oder Englisch. Die Klausur ist Multiple-Choice.

The user name and password required to download the course material will be announced in the first lecture and exercise and if you missed that, you can ask for it via your ovgu email account.

You have two Semester Assignments to choose from:

Preliminary plan

NOTE: Slides and videos are from previous semesters, and might be updated prior to the actual exercise/lecture date. Videos will not be updated.

Video

Week Lecture Date Lecture Slides / Recordings
 Exercise Date Exercise Class Slides / Recodings
 Assignments
1 16.10.

 Organization Information /
 Introduction / Video

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2 23.10. Modelling of ODEs / Video 27.10. / 28.10. Introduction and Planetary Motion / Video Getting to know AnyLogic
3 30.10. Examples of ODEs / Video 03.11. / 04.11.

Continuous Modeling with Boundary Conditions / Video

  
4 06.11. Solving ODEs/ Video 10.11. / 11.11. Continuous Modelling Excercise / Video SIR and Infant Vaccinations
5 13.11. Discrete-Event Simulation / Video 17.11. / 18.11. Events in AnyLogic / Video Adding a Second Counter in the Bank
6 20.11. Random Variables and Random Numbers / Video 24.11. / 25.11. Process Modeling Library and Attributes / Video Glucose and Insulin
7 27.11. Input Modelling / Video 01.12. / 02.12. Input Modelling / Excel File / Video Input Data Analysis
8 04.12. Output Analysis / Video 08.12. / 09.12. Output Analysis / Video Output Analysis
9 11.12. Stochastic Petri Nets / Video 15.12. / 16.12. Stochastic Petri Nets / Video Stochastic Petri Nets
10 18.12. Agent-based Modelling and Simulation / Video 05.01. Agent-based Modelling and Simulation / Video Agent-based Modelling and Simulation
11 08.01. Markov Chains / Video 12.01. / 13.01. DTMCs / Video DTMCs
12 15.01. Verification and Validation / Video 19.01. / 20.01. Storage System / Video  
13 22.01. Comparing Systems / Video 26.01. / 27.01. Comparing Systems / Video  
14 29.01. Kickoff Simulation Project 2025  -  

Simulation Models

Lecture Models

Exercise Models

Course Material

Exam Preparation

Information on Probability Distributions

References

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