Instructor:
   Name: Prof. Azer Bestavros
  Email: best@cs.bu.edu
 Office: MCS-140E (ext: 3-9726)
  Hours: Mon 11:00am-1:00pm and Wed 2:00pm-3:00pm
         or by appointment arranged through email

Teaching Fellow:
   Name: Mina Guirgis
  Email: msg@cs.bu.edu
 Office: TBA (ext: TBA)
  Hours: Tue 11:30am-1:30pm and Thu 4:00pm-6:00pm
         or by appointment arranged through email

Lectures:
  Place: SCI 115
   Time: Mon/Wed/Fri at 1:00pm-2:00pm 

Sections:
  Place: B31
   Time: Mon 11am-12noon / Fri 3pm-4pm / Fri 4pm-5pm
         (students attend one of the above sessions each week)

Cyberspace Coordinates:
    URL: http://www.cs.bu.edu/~best/crs/cs350/F01
  Email: cs350@cs.bu.edu 
         To add yourself type "csmail -a cs350" from your csa account
         (Click here for details)

Course Administration and Policies:

• Overview of Course
• About the Course Staff
• Lectures and Discussion Sections
• Grading and Grade Breakdown
• Homework Assignments
• Exams and Quizes
• From Collaboration to Plagiarism
• Grade Reporting Instructions
• Textbook and References
• The Web Page for BACI software
• Class Schedule

Course Intranet: (Username/Password Required)

• Course Mail Log:
  • By Date
  • By Author
  • By Subject
  • By Thread

     

• Lecture Notes for Materials not in the Textbooks: (in PDF format)
  • [2001-09-05] Review of Computer Organization
  • [2001-09-07] Processes and their State Transitions
  • [2001-09-10] Performance Metrics of Computing Systems
  • [2001-09-12] Introduction to Probability  
  • [2001-09-21] Introduction to Probability Distributions
  • [2001-09-24] Introduction to Statistics  
  • [2001-10-03] Elementary Queuing Analysis I 
  • [2001-10-09] Elementary Queuing Analysis II  
  • [2001-10-11] Elementary Queuing Analysis III  
  • [2001-10-31] Elementary Queuing Analysis IV

  • [2001-10-11] Elementary Queuing Analysis: Case Studies  

  • [2001-11-12] Real-Time Scheduling Slides  

     

• Homework Assignments:
  • [Due 2001-09-17] Homework #1 / Solution
  • [Due 2001-09-24] Homework #2 / Solution
  • [Due 2001-10-09] Homework #3 / Solution
  • [Due 2001-10-19] Homework #4
  • [Due 2001-10-22] Homework #5 / Solution
  • [Due 2001-11-12] Homework #6 / Solution
  • [Due 2001-11-20] Homework #7 / Solution  
  • [Due 2001-12-03] Homework #8 / Solution 
  • [Due 2001-12-10] Homework #9
  • [Due 2001-12-17] Extra Credit Make-up

     

• Quizzes and Additional Exercises:

  • Exercises on Background Materials  

  • Exercises on Probabilistic Analysis

  • Exercises on Queuing Analysis

  • Exercises on Resource Management  

  • Exercises on Synchronization

  • Quiz #1
  • Quiz #2
  • Quiz #3  

     

• Other Handouts:
  • Official Course Syllabus (in PDF format)
  • Topics Covered in Discussion Sections
  • Quiz #1 Grade Distribution
  • Quiz #2 Grade Distribution
  • Quiz #3 Grade Distribution
  • Final Exam Grade Distribution
  • Class Grade Distribution

Created on: 1998-01-09
Updated on: 2005-07-22


© 1997-2001 Azer Bestavros