Instructor:
   Name: Prof. Azer Bestavros
  Email: best@cs.bu.edu
 Office: MCS-140E, 111 Cummington street (ext: 3-9726)
  Hours: Tue 5:00pm-6:30pm / Wed 1:30pm-3:00pm
         or by appointment arranged through email

Teaching Fellow:
   Name: Nahur Fonesca
  Email: nahur@cs.bu.edu
 Office: PSY-234, 64 Cummington street (ext: 8-2365)
  Hours: Tue 11:00am-12:30pm / Fri 9:30am-11:00am
         or by appointment arranged through email

Lectures:
  Place: GCB-207
   Time: Tue/Thu 3:30pm-5:00pm 

Sections:
   Time: Thu 7-8pm (CAS-212)/ Fri 11-12noon (GCB-203) / Fri 1-2pm (CAS-B25A)
         (students attend one of the above sessions each week)

Important Dates:   

        Last day to drop the class without a W grade is Fri 2/14/03

        Last day to drop the class with a W grade is Fri 3/7/03

        Exam dates are Thu 2/20/03, Tue 4/01/03, and Fri 5/09/03

Cyberspace Coordinates:
    URL: http://www.cs.bu.edu/~best/crs/cs350/S03
  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
• Tutoring Schedule
• 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)
  • [2003-01-14] Review of Computer Organization
  • [2003-01-16] Process Description and State Transitions
  • [2003-01-21] Performance Metrics of Computing Systems
  • [2003-01-23] Elementary Probability and Random Variables and Expectation
  • [2003-01-28] Basic Probability Distributions
  • [2003-01-30] Sampling and Confidence Intervals
  • [2003-02-04] M/M/1 Queuing System Analysis
  • [2003-02-11] Variations on the M/M/1 System
  • [2003-02-13] Multi-server Queues and Network of Queues
  • [2003-02-18] Queuing Analysis Examples
  • [2003-02-25] General Processor Sharing
  • [2003-03-18] Overview of Internet Architecture and Protocols (by Prof. Matta)
  • [2003-04-22] Transaction Processing
  • [2003-04-29] Course Grand Tour Slides  

   

• Homework Assignments:
  • [Due 2003-01-30] Problem Set #1 / Solution
  • [Due 2003-02-06] Problem Set #2 / Solution
  • [Due 2003-02-19] Problem Set #3 / Solution
  • [Due 2003-02-25] Problem Set #4 / Solution
  • [Due 2003-03-06] Problem Set #5 / Solution
  • [Due 2003-03-27] Problem Set #6 / Solution
  • [Due 2003-04-03] Problem Set #7 / Solution
  • [Due 2003-04-22] Problem Set #8
  • [Due 2003-04-29] Problem Set #9
  • [Due 2003-05-01] Problem Set #10 / Solution

   

• Quizzes and Additional Exercises:
  • Exercises on Background Materials
  • Exercises on Probabilistic Analysis
  • Exercises on Queuing Analysis
  • Exercises on Scheduling and Resource Management
  • Exercises on Concurrency and Synchronization
  • Scheduling Exercises Discussed in Section

   

• Other Handouts:
  • Official Course Syllabus (in PDF format)
  • Cheat sheet for some formulae
  • Grade Distribution for Quiz #1
  • Grade Distribution for Quiz #2
  • Grade Distribution for Final Exam  
  • Class Grade Distribution  

Created on: 1998-01-09
Updated on: 2003-05-13


© 1997-2003 Azer Bestavros