Modelling and Simulation

The results of the project are now published. You should see in your personal status a new point 'Project' together with a comment 'passed' or 'not passed' and a grade '0.0', '0.3' or '0.7'. This grade is a modifier that will improve your final grade. Note that this modifier only improves your grade if you pass the course. Furthermore you cannot get a better grade than 1.0 and your final grade will be rounded to '.0', '.3' or '.7'.

We re-scheduled the re-exam according to the doodle-poll to

April 9th, 14:00

The exam will take place in lecture hall HS001, E1 3.

• The results and the gradescale of the exam are now online and visible.
• There will be a written re-exam on the 17th of April. If you passed the exam last Friday, you can take the re-exam and the better grade (out of exam and re-exam) will count for your final grade. If you did not pass the exam last Friday, you can pass the re-exam to pass the course. The grade of the re-exam will then determine your final grade (maybe + a bonus).
• If you passed the exam or if you will pass the re-exam and you want to improve your grade, you can get a bonus from your project. Very good projects will get a bonus of 0.3/0.4 to your final grade. Extraordinary projects can also get a bonus of 0.6/0.7 to your final grade.
• If you want to inspect your exam or if you have any questions, write an e-mail to Thilo.

 

The following is the official assignment for all projects. You will find it also in the materials section. Please read it carefully. You find here the conditions with which you will pass successfully this assignment:

1.) Start by solving exercises a) and b) of the projects. For a), plot all observables that can be plotted and write down the remaining ones. If you don't have explicitly given observables find meaningful ones. Give also the code of your calculations. Document your code!
For b) Give the same observables as for a) for the given domain. Again, hand in your documented code. For a) and b) write a text about what you have done (derivation of the equations/CTMC, problems during simulation etc.)

If you have done everything, submit your solution as zip-file as usual until

February 3rd, 23:59.

You will get feedback, if you passed this first step directly or not. If not, you have one week more to submit a version that let you pass this first step. Note that if you submit the new version in 2 days, you will have a third possibility to hand in a correct version within the 7 days. You will get exact information on the new deadlines in the feedback mail after you submitted the first part.

2.) If you passed part 1, start to solve exercise c). Write down your strategy and hand it in together with meaningful plots that you got when solving this exercise. Again, hand in your documented code.

Submit your solution to the complete assignment. Again you will get feedback and suggestions, what you can change to pass this step. Note that it can last up to 3 working days before you get the feedback. You can repeat these steps as often as you wish, but take care of the deadline below. As soon as your feedback says that you passed the project, you are done. If you could not manage to hand in a solution that passes until

March 3rd, 23: 59,

you will fail the project and therefore the whole course.

Remarks:
- If you have questions on how everything works, send a mail to thilo@dennis.cs.uni-saarland.de and ask.
- The deadlines are strict, start to work on the project early
- If you manage to hand in part 1) much earlier than February 3rd, you will have more time for the following steps.

Unfortunately, we have to cancel again the lecture tomorrow. 

Again, you will find a recorded version of the lecture in the materials section.

Since due to weather reasons almost nobody could make it to the tutorial today, we offer a tutorial in the slot of the lecture:

Tomorrow, Thursday, December 4th: 12:15 pm in room 328, E1 3, there will be a tutorial about exercise sheet 5!

We are offering you to hand in your solutions to the compulsory exercises in groups of up to two students. This means that you should not work in groups of more than two, for example in groups of three. This should be obvious.

If you are taking the course as a group of three, we suggest that the role of the third one, who has to work alone, should change each week. However, we recommend to use the board to find somebody else to work with.

We still have to decide the distribution of points for the last exercise sheet 3. In any case, we will definitively take into account obvious plagiarism from the current exercise sheet 4 on.

The registration for the exams is now possible in HISPOS. You must register to take the exams. Note that you can withdraw until one week before the first exam takes place. In our course, this will be most likely the project. If you have any problems, please send an e-mail to Thilo (thilo@dennis.cs.uni-saarland.de)

 

The tutorials of Modelling and Simulation will take place Wednesdays, 10:15 (as pronounced before) in seminar-room 016, E1 3. For those of you who cannot take part due to collisions: participation at the tutorials is not mandatory, so please use the discussion board instead if you have questions. We try to offer example solutions and maybe videos of parts of the tutorials.

The deadline for the submission of the solutions to the compulsory assignment(s) is therefore Wednesdays at 8:15 am.

As announced in the lecture today, we prepared a Doodle poll to find the best time slot for the tutorial. Since the impression after the short survey at the beginning of the lecture was not so good, we propose all possible time slots to find the best one. Please answer this poll as quick as possible, we want to try to find a room for the best time slot soon. Thanks!

http://doodle.com/ripcuarnizedmrar