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SUMMARY:Quantitative Computer Simulation as a Paradigm of Scientific Inves
 tigations - Prof Krzysztof Pawlikowski\, University of Canterbury\, NZ
DTSTART:20110503T133000Z
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CONTACT:Andrew Rice
DESCRIPTION:Advances of computer technology initiated in the twentieth cen
 tury have resulted in\nadoption of computer simulation as the most popular
  tool of performance evaluation\nstudies of such complex stochastic dynami
 c systems as e.g. modern multimedia\ntelecommunication networks. Such wide
 -spread reliance on simulation studies raises the\nquestion of credibility
  of results from such studies. This question needs to be answered\nbefore 
 computer simulation can be objectively accepted as an independent\, self-s
 ufficient\nparadigm of scientific investigations.\nIn this talk\, having b
 riefly overviewed the main necessary conditions of any\ntrustworthy simula
 tion study conducted for performance evaluation of stochastic dynamic\nsys
 tems\, we will focus on simulation studies with on-line output data analys
 is. The perils\nand pitfalls of quantitative discrete-event computer simul
 ation will be considered\,\ntogether with its fast distributed version\, k
 nown as Multiple Replications in Parallel\,\nimplemented in Akaroa2\, a un
 ique controller of quantitative stochastic simulation.\n\n\nSpeaker Biogra
 phy\nKrzysztof Pawlikowski is a Professor in Computer Science & Software E
 ngineering at\nthe University of Canterbury\, in Christchurch\, New Zealan
 d. He received a Ph.D. degree\nin Computer Engineering from Gdansk Univers
 ity of Technology\, Poland\, and worked at\nthat university until February
  1983. The author of over 170 journal and conference\npapers and four book
 s has given invited lectures at over 80 universities and research\ninstitu
 tes in Asia\, Australia\, Europe and North America. He was the Alexander-v
 on-\nHumboldt Research Fellow (Germany) in 1983-84 and 1999\, and a Visiti
 ng Professor at\nuniversities in Austria\, Australia\, Italy\, Germany and
  the USA. His research interests\ninclude discrete-event computer simulati
 on\, performance modelling of multimedia\ntelecommunication networks\, on-
 line statistical analysis and modelling of teletraffic\, and\napplications
  of experimental networking facilities.\n
LOCATION:SS03\, William Gates Building
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