E0 240 : Modeling and Simulation
E0 240 : Modeling and Simulation
Term & Timing:
August - December 2025
Tuesday and Thursday : 11:30-1:00 PM
First class on 5th August 2025 (Tuesday) 11:30-1:00 PM
Venue: CSA Room 117 - CSA Lecture Hall (Ground Floor)
Instructor:
Assistant Professor,
Department of Computer Science and Automation
Indian Institute of Science Bangalore
Email: skmandal@iisc.ac.in
Office Hours: Friday 4-4:30 PM at CSA-213
Teaching Assistants:
Anuparna Ganguly : anuparnag@iisc.ac.in
Hemasri Sai Lella : hemasrisail@iisc.ac.in
Boppena Nagaraju : nagarajub@iisc.ac.in
Rathva Kaushik : kaushikkumar@iisc.ac.in
Savyasachi Deval : savyasachid@iisc.ac.in
Office Hours: TBD
About Course:
Course ID : E0 240
Credits : 3:01
Title of Course : Modeling and Simulation
This course introduces the students to the fundamental concepts and practical applications of modeling and Simulation. Modeling and Simulation are used to represent any system logically and generate data to predict the system.
Description -
Introduction to Probability theory, Random variables, commonly used continuous and discrete distributions. Introduction to Stochastic Process, Poisson process, Markov chains, steady stateand transient analysis. Psuedo random numbers: Methods of Generation and testing. Methods for generating continuous and discrete distributions. Methods for generating Poisson Process. Building blocks of Simulation, Data Structures and Algorithms. Introduction to Probabilistic modelling, Maximum Likelihood Variance reduction techniques: antithetic variates, control variates, common random numbers, importance sampling. Analysis of Simulation results: confidence intervals, design of experiments. Markov Chain Monte Carlo techniques.