This is the home page for the course "Introduction to Simulation" in the winter term 2011/2012. General information on this course can be found here.

The description of this years Semester Assignment "Ocean's Eleven" is now available here.

Information

• The date for the repeat exam is tuesday the 24.7.2012, 10-12 Uhr in G29-307.

Slides and Assignments

The user name and password required to download the course material will be anounced in the first lecture only.

Simulation Models

Lecture Models

• Eulers Method (xlsx)
• Coffee Problem (xlsx)
• Leaky Bucket (xlsx)
• Fountain - Three Leaky Buckets (alp)
• M/M/1 Queue (alp)
• Lorenz Chaotic Equations (alp)
• Three Species Predator Prey Model (alp)

Exercise Models

• Sun and Earth (alp)
• Bungee Jumper (alp)
• Coffee Problem (alp)
• Two Bodies Stiff (alp)
• Epidemic (alp)
• The Bank(alp)
• Substance (alp)
• Two Class Medical Practice (alp)
• Medical Practice - A Business Perspective (alp)
• Inventory System (alp)
• Correlated Sampling (alp)

Course Material

• AnyLogic Instructions page
• Semester Assignment
  
• ItS Applets

Exam Preparation

• Preliminary Exam Questions for this year's exam (pdf)
• Last year's exam questions (pdf)
• Archive of Previous ItS Exams
• Possible questions for oral exams

Information on Probability Distributions

• Probability distributions
• More probability distributions
• Quantile-Quantile plot
• Chi-square test (Microsoft Excel)

References

• Banks, Carson, Nelson & Nicol: Discrete-Event System Simulation (BCNN), relevant chapters are listed in the corresponding lecture slides
• J.D. Lambert: Computational methods in ordinary differential equations (Lam), especially chapters 1.3, 2.2, 2.6, 2.7, 8.5, 8.6