• Activate your GMU e-mail account. Students must use their Mason email accounts - either the existing MEMO system or a new MASONLIVE account to receive important University information, including messages related to this class. See http://masonlive.gmu.edu for more information. All class-related communication will be sent to your GMU account.
• Resources: University Catalog and University Policies.
• Course office hours: Mondays from 3:00 to 4:00pm or by appointment. E-mail at all times.
• Errata for Lilja's book.
• Please have a memory stick always available for the class.
• Read the presentation by Daniel Menasce at a panel at the Workshop on Experimental Computer Science, San Diego, June 13-14, 2007.
• Generate 100 random numbers from a i) exponential distribution, ii) normal distribution, iii) lognormal distribution and compute the major statistics for your data. Compare the average (and in some cases the standard deviation) with that of the underlying theoretical distribution. Due date: September 12, 2016
• In class exercises: download the following MS Excel spreadsheets and do the assignments specified in them Estimation I, (Solutions to Estimation I), Estimation II (Solutions to Estimation II), Comparing Data Sets (Solutions to Comparing Data Sets), and System Comparison (Solution)
• In class exercise: download the following MS Excel spreadsheet and do the assignments specified in it: Determining Sample Size. ( Solution) .
• Study chapters 1-3 of the textbook for: September 26, 2016
• Do exercises 3.4, 3.5, and 3.6 of the textbook: September 26, 2016.
• Study chapter 4 of the textbook for TBD.
• Study chapter 5 of the textbook for
• Read remaining sections of the textbook for TBD.
• In class exercise: download the following MS Excel spreadsheet and do the assignment specified in it: Curve Fitting, (Solution)
• In class exercise: download the following MS Excel spreadsheet and do the assignment specified in it: Estimation III. (Solution)
• Project Proposal due October 3, 2016. Please describe in one page the problem you want to address, the experimental procedures you will carry out, and the methodology you intend to use.
• In class exercises: download the following MS Excel spreadsheet and do the assignment specified there: Regression Exercise I.
• In class exercises: download the following MS Excel spreadsheet and do the assignment specified there: Regression Exercise II and Multiple Linear Regression
• In class exercise: download the MS Excel spreadsheets and do the assignments specified there: Curvilinear Regression, (Solution), Curvilinear Regression II (Solutions).
• Midterm Review - (Solution) -
• In class exercise: download the MS Excel spreadsheets and do the assignments specified there: Hypothesis Testing (Solutions)
• In class exercise: download the MS Excel spreadsheets and do the assignments specified there: Single Factor Experimental Analysis. (Solution)
• In class exercise: download the MS Excel spreadsheet and do the assignments specified there: Experiment With Replication (Solution), Two Factor Experimental Analysis Example, (Solution)
• In class exercise: download the MS Excel spreadsheet and do the assignments specified there: Performance in Class. (Solution).
• In class exercise: download the MS Excel spreadsheet and do the assignment specified there: Simulation Exercise. (Solution)
• Exercise in class about message transmission experiment.
• QN exercise in class (Solution)
• Final Exam. Due: 12/12/2016.
• The project written report is due on December 5, 2016, the last day of classes.
• Optimization Example.
• Grid Cost Optimization Example and Grid Execution Time Optimization Example.

Last updated: November 30, 2016.