Instructor:
   Name: Prof. Azer Bestavros
  Email: best@cs.bu.edu
 Office: MCS-276 or MCS-140E (ext: 3-9726)
  Hours: Mon 12:30pm-2:00pm and Thu 5:00pm-6:30pm
         or by appointment arranged through email

Teaching Fellow:
   Name: Sumit Mehrotra
  Email: sumit@cs.bu.edu
 Office: MCS-B46 (ext: 3-3326)
  Hours: Tue 5:00pm-6:00pm and Wed 5:00pm-6:00pm
         or by appointment arranged through email

Lectures:
  Place: CAS 224
   Time: Tue 3:30pm-05:00pm / Thu 3:30pm-05:00pm 

Sections:
  Place: Check with Teaching Fellow for Location
   Time: Tue 6-7pm / Wed 10-11am / Wed 1-2pm / Wed 4-5pm
         (students attend one of the above sessions each week)

Cyberspace Coordinates:
    URL: http://www.cs.bu.edu/~best/crs/cs350/S01
  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: (in PDF format)
  • [2001.01.16] Review of Computer Organization
  • [2001.01.18] Processes and Their State Transitions
  • [2001.01.22] Performance Metrics
  • [2001.01.25] Introduction to Probability
  • [2001.01.30] Introduction to Probability Distributions
  • [2001.02.01] Introduction to Statistics
  • [2001.02.06] Elementary Queuing System Analysis
  • [2001.02.13] Multi-server Queuing System Analysis
  • [2001.02.15] Queuing Analysis: Case Studies
  • [2001.04.02] Real-Time Scheduling Slides [a] [b] [c] [d] [e]
  • [2001.04.26] The concept of Transactions

   

• Homework Assignments:
  • [Due: 2001.01.25] Homework #1 / [Solution]
  • [Due: 2001.02.01] Homework #2 / [Solution]
  • [Due: 2001.02.15] Homework #3 / [Solution]
  • [Due: 2001.02.27] Homework #4 / [Solution]
  • [Due: 2001.03.22] Homework #5 / [Solution]
  • [Due: 2001.04.05] Homework #6 / [Solution]
  • [Due: 2001.04.12] Homework #7 / [Solution]
  • [Due: 2001.04.26] Homework #8
  • [Due: 2001.05.03] Homework #9

   

• Additional Exercises (Augmented Frequently)

  • Additional problems on Probability and Statistics  
  • Additional problems on Queuing Analysis 

   

• Other Handouts:
  • Official Course Syllabus (in PDF format)

Created on: 1998-01-09
Updated on: 2001-05-02


© 1997-2001 Azer Bestavros