List of Topics (By Week): INTRODUCTION TO SIMULATION ( 4 weeks ) 1. - 4. discrete event simulation process oriented simulation simuation languages ( ASPOL, SLAM, SIMSCRIPT ) simulation of complex systems (time sharing system, multiteller bank system, a job-shop model) MODELING OF NONDETERMINISTIC SYSTEMS ( 6 weeks) 5. - 10. discrete and continous random variables moments and generating functions reliability, failure density, and hazard function conditional distributions and conditional expectation elementary stochastic processes statistical inference and data analysis APPLICATIONS TO COMPUTER SYSTEM ANALYSIS ( 5 weeks) 11. - 15. elementary queueing theory network of queues modeling of broadcast networks reliability models and fault-tolerant systems modeling of concurrency control in data bases modeling of central server systems (interactive systems, batch oriented systems, priority systems, transaction oriented systems, etc). analysis of some algorithms (searching, sorting, tree algorithms)