Introduction to Discrete Simulation

Course tittle: Introduction to Discrete Simulation

Faculty: Jaume Barceló, Departament d’Estadística i Investigació Operativa, UPC.

Jaume Barceló professor at the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya. Doctor in Physics by  the  Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. Head researcher at many projects on transport simulation and other applications at inLab FIB. Author of more than 100 scientific publications. Associate editor in the transport section of the Journal of Operations Research, Journal of Computational Application and Transportation Research Part C-Emerging Technologies, among others. Narcís Monturiol Medal for Technological Innovation from the Catalan Government and Honour Mention, City of Barcelona Price for Technological Innovation.

Course language: English

Course schedule:
- June 30 from 11 to 2 p.m.
- July 1, 2 from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m.
- July 3 (from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m)

Place: room 002

Type of activity and class load: 15 hours classroom course.

Description:

Introductory remarks on systems modelling.

Approaches to simulate discrete stochastic systems.

Simulation as a numerical technique to deal with random dynamic systems.

Generating random data inputs to simulation models: generation of samples of random-variates.

Introductory examples on discrete event systems simulation.

Evaluation:
Practical exercise.