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material relevant to the course. Please check this page regularly.
- 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: Tuesdays 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.
- Discussion on writing, publishing, research skills, and presentation.
- Technical writing in LaTeX
- Read the paper The Task of the Referee by Alan Jay Smith, IEEE Computer, April 1990 and apply the guidelines of that paper to write a one-page referee report for the
paper Design and Operational Analysis of a Green Data Center, by P. Sharma, et al., IEEE Internet Computing, Vol. 21, Issue 4, July/August 2017. This exercise will help you write papers that are well evaluated by a referee. Due: February 13, 2018
- Download the following files that will help you with learning to use LaTeX:
LaTeX-Example.pdf,
LaTeX-Example.tex,
Bibliography.bib, and
RC-v-T-exp-lambda.pdf
and do the Exercise described in the last section of the paper. Due: January 30, 2018.
- 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: February 6, 2018.
(Solution)
- 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: February 6, 2018.
- Do exercises 3.4, 3.5, and 3.6 of the textbook: February 20, 2018.
(Solutions)
- Study chapter 4 of the textbook for February 20, 2018.
- 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 March 20, 2018. 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.
(Solution)
- In class exercises: download the following MS Excel spreadsheet
and do the assignment specified there:
Regression Exercise II
(Solutions)
and
Multiple Linear Regression
(Solutions).
- In class exercise: download the MS Excel
spreadsheets and do the assignments specified there:
Curvilinear Regression,
(Solution),
Curvilinear Regression II
(Solutions).
- 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.
(Solutions).
- QN exercise in class
(Solution)
- Final Exam. Due: May 8, 2018 before 11:59pm.
- The project written report is due on May 5, 2018 electronically by 11:59pm or if in person at my office before 5pm. If you use electronic submission please name your file last-name-first-initial.pdf.
- Optimization Example.
- Grid Cost Optimization Example and
Grid Execution Time Optimization Example.
Last updated: April 28, 2018.