Welcome to the web page for CS 477. All notes, assignments, sample code, supplimental materials, etc. will be made available here.

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Syllabus (pdf, html)

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Lectures

• The chemostat
• Solving Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs) numerically
• Eigenvectors and values
• Particle Dynamics
• Agent Based Modeling
  

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Projects

• Project 1, Due 22 February and formal specifications and an interface specification (v1.1)
• Project 2, Due 21 March.
• Project 3, Due 21 April.
• Project 4, Due 8 May (5:00 pm) and paper to test.
  

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Demos

• Bounce:  source: bounce-1.0.257.tar.gz  docs: HTML
• Leap:  source: leap-1.0.256.tar.gz  docs: HTML
• Flex:  source: flex-1.0.410.tar.gz  docs: HTML

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Supplemental

• Download Netbeans here.
• The subversion server is
  svn://kluis.cs.umt.edu/comp-sim
• Assignment of tasks (updated 04/11/08)
• ERRATA: The project one specification state that JAVA 6 shall be used. Due to problems with OS X (Macintosh) we will use Java 1.4 instead.
• Free online subversion book.
• Verification data for the chemostat system. See inside file for parameters and initial conditions used.
• Numerical Recipies in C discussion and implementation of the adaptive Runge Kutta Fehlberg method.
• Nick McClure's talk on chemostats
  
• Verification data for models 1-4 for project 2. See inside file for parameters and initial conditions used.
• yEd is great free diagramming sofware (effective for making UML diagrams).
• Paper on food webs.
• Code for verification of food web.
• NetLogo will be used to implement the final simulation.