Practical aspects of simulation

Course tittle: Practical aspects of simulation

Faculty: Pau Fonseca, Klaus Langohr and Oxana Zamyatina, Departament d’Estadística i Investigació Operativa, UPC and Institute of Cybernetics, Tomsk, Russia.

Pau Fonseca Professor of the Department of Statistics and Operations Research and Researcher of the inLab FIB at Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya – BarcelonaTech (UPC). Owns a Ph.D. in statistics and operations research and M.S. in computer science. Owns an extensive experience in the transfer of simulation technology to the industry, being involved several competitive projects such as the simulation of the Barcelona Airport or the plant expedition of Almirall Prodesfarma. His main research interests are on environmental and social Simulation, and formal representation of simulation models; this interest has led him to collaborate with the ITU-T in the definition of the new version of the Specification and Description Language (SDL-2010).

Klaus Langohr he holds a degree in statistics for the University of Dortmund (Germany) and a Ph.D. by the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). He works as a professor in the Department of Statistics and Operations Research of the UPC and collaborates with the neuroscience research program of the medical research Institute of the Hospital del Mar.

Oxana Zamyatina, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Institute of Cybernetics. Her research and PhD thesis are in area of modelling and analysis of business processes. She is an author and editor of textbooks “Modelling and Simulation”, “Network Simulation”.

Course language: English

Course schedule:
- July 10, 11, 14, from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. 
- July 15, from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.

Place: room PC2

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


Description:

Basic concepts of R: creation and manipulation of vectors and matrices.

Using R for simulations.

Introduction to Process interaction simulation tools.

Arena: Basic models.