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Tentative Schedule

Here is a preliminary schedule, but it will change over the course of the Semester, check everyday. Here is the presentation/reading assignment schedule (here).

--- Subject to Change ---

(there will be changes, we will also investigate stock market modeling/simulation)

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Week
Date Topics PDF Notes/Assignment
           
  Preliminaries and Overview of Simulation
1
P1, A1
08/14-16
  • Syllabus & Policies
  • Summaries & Technical Talks
  • Soccer Simulator Discussion
  • Simulation Motivation

[PDF]
[PDF]
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2012-2013 Academic Calendar

UG drop day (Thu, Aug 16)
UG add day (Fri, Aug 17)

HW 1: An Introduction

Project 1: Soccer Server

Please also write a message introducing yourself to the class listserv (see HW 1 an introduction)
       CS-PADS@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU

2 P2, A2 08/21-23
  • Discrete Event Simulation
  • Event Oriented View
  • Assign first few weeks of paper persentations (maybe done over email list)
  • Class Photo (bring name plate Wednesday).
    • individual pictures
    • group/class picture
  • Soccer Simulator discussion & progress graded in class (final grade on Tuesday 08/28), on both days bring laptop,run java soccer server (we will spend 20-25 minutes on this task).
  • Movie Trillion Dollar Bet (50 minutes)

[PDF]



Grad drop day (Mon, Aug 20)
Grad add day (Tue, Aug 21)

 

  Parallel Discrete Event Simualtion Preliminaries & Optimistic Simulation
3
08/28-30
  • Tuesday: Present & Vote on Class Soccer ServerVolunteers (6-8).
  • Wednesday -
    • Assign papers
    • Server Discussion (Ben & Tom)
    • Final Check Point Project 1 (must run on laptop for full credit)
  • Soccer Tournament (Th)
    • Submit one killer TEAM Thursday. Must be a .class file (not code) on the listserv.
 

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Project 2: Soccer Teams


4
09/04-07
  • Tue:
    • Code Names
    • Discrete Event Simulation & Process Orientation.
    • End of period: Final Soccer
  • Presentations (weekly from here and forward)
    • Presentations 1,2 - see link "here" above the schedule.
    • Turn in Summary by midnight
    • Hardcopy before class
    • Presenters please send slides to the list.


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09/03 Mon, Labor Day (does not impact our class)

You should have read the entire first two chapters (and part of Chapter 3 specifically 3.1, 3.2) in the textbook by the end of this week.

  • example1.doc
  • example2.doc
  • Note that although example2 is a nice write-up overall, the critique of the speaker (last paragraph) is 2/5 - as it did not mention or convey the coverage of particular concepts.


5   09/11-13
  • Null Messages (Chapter 3)
  • Assign rest of pressentations
  • Time Warp: Introduction to Local Control

[PDF]

[PDF]

Continue to read Chapter 3 up to Null Messages (3.1 and 3.2), next for Time Warp, you should skip forward to to Chapter 4 and read 4.1 and 4.2.

6
09/18-20
  • Global Virtual Time 1
  • Global Virtual Time 2
[PDF]
[PDF]

 

Project 3: The Path to Pong

Python Tutorial: [PDF]

Grades Project Soccer

Grades Summaries (does not include late (hard copies) turn-ins.

 

 

7
09/25-27
  • Biological or Market Simulation (Guest Speaker, this week or next week)
  • Wrap-up of Optimistic Techniques
[PDF]

 

Project 4: Walking Ants: From Pong to real Paths

HW2: Randomness of Data

 

 

8
10/02-04
  • Wrap-up of Optimistic Techniques
  • Exam 1 (tentative date)
[PDF]

HW3: Modeling a Trader.

10/04/2012 Thursday, Middle of Term

9

10/09-11
  • Wrap-UP Optimistic Simulation
  • Return Tests (Thursday)
 

 

Part 2: Exam Literature review ( pdf )

   
10
10/16-18
  • Odds & ends Optimistic Simulation
 

10/18 Thu, Withdrawal Deadline


11

 

10/23-25
  • SASSY (HW)
  • Th: Marketing Poject.
  • Phase 1: paper presentations end.
  • Dead Reckoning
[PDF]

10/26 Fri, Fall break (does not impact our class)

12   10/30-01
  • Final Project Proposal Discussion
  • Presentations & Discussion
  • Dead Reckoning continued
 

Final Project Discussion (final project projects and exercises will be assigned in parallel to regular projects - as the intitial milestones should not be heavy workload).

13
11/06-08
  • HLA Intro
  • HLA & RTI
  • HLA Time Management

.[PDF]
.[PDF]

Cole's SASSY

Tuesday: Submit proposal 'thread' on piazza

Thursday: Submit 5 constructive critiques (algorithm - pick the proposal with fewest number of critiques, and you may do more than 5 if you like).


14
11/13-15
  • HLA: Repeatability (Tu)
  • HLA: Data Distribution (Tu/We)
  • Thu: Final Project Progress Report (DUE 11/15 - before class)
  • Informal 5-10 presentation.
    • 4-(5) Slides
[PDF].
[PDF].

Zero Lookahead ( pdf )

Summary: Due Wednesday - Market Simulator project.

UGA Traffic (Daniel Reed's): ( link )
RePaST Traffic Simulator: ( link )

  11/20-22
 

Thanksgiving Holidays

15   11/27-29
  • Tue: Exam 2: Tuesday
  • Time Paralllel Simulation
  • Last week of our class.
[PDF].

11/29 - final day of instruction

Project 5 : Spreadhsheet portfolio

Project 6 : Market simulation

16   12/04-06
  • Thursday 12/06 , 12:00- 3:00 PM, Final Exam (Same as class room)
  • Piazzo
 

 

12/04 We don't have a Friday class, so there is class on 12/04.

12/05 Reading Day

Our Final Exam is on Thursday 12/06

@ 12:00 - 3 PM

UGA Final Exam Schedule

         


17
12/17

  

 

Grades Due Monday, 12/17, 5 PM

Grade Sheet: All Grades

Final Project: Comments
 
       

 

UGA Academic Calendar : here

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