If you'd like to view your exam paper, you can drop into my office (608/K17) between 12noon-1pm on Thur 6 July.
The exam and final results are now available, and you can check them from the course website.
The exam marks that you see on the system have been scaled. I used this scaled mark together with your coursework marks (coming from adding the assignment and project marks) to obtain the final mark. The only mark that I adjusted is the exam mark, all the other marks have not been adjusted.
The final mark is computed using a harmonic mean formula and you can find the formula in the course outline. If your final mark is 50 or more, then you have passed the course. Otherwise, you have unfortunately not made it.
The CSE supplementary policy says that if you have attended the exam, you will not be granted a supplementary exam. You can find this policy at:
https://www.engineering.unsw.edu.au/computer-scien...
I will make a time slot available on Thur 6 July for viewing your exam paper without an appointment. I'll make an announcement when I know the time.
It's been a pleasure teaching you all. I hope you enjoyed the course and have learnt something useful. All the best.
The marks for the project is now available. You can check your mark via the course web site. The class did quite well for the project with an average mark of 15.2. The project was marked according to the requirements set out in Section 4.2 of the project specifications. Some common places where marks were lost are:
1. Some students did not provide evidence that they had verified their simulation code. The specifications ask you to use test cases.
2. Some students did not justify the number of replications they chose. You need to connect the number of replications to the confidence intervals you are getting.
3. Some students did not compute confidence intervals.
4. Some students made their choice of the number of servers based on the mean response time. This is not statistically sound. The decision has to be made by comparing confidence interval. You can either use the visual test to compare the confidence interval or you can use the paired t-test.
5. Continuing on Point #4 above. Some students used mean response time to narrow down the number of servers to a subset (e.g. 6, 7 or 8 servers) and then use confidence intervals to determine the exact number of servers. The first part which is based on mean response time is not statistically sound.
The times for pre-exam consultations are:
Both consultations are in 608/K17.
Unfortunately I need to cut short the consultation on 25 May 2017. I will only be available for consultation during 11-11:30am for that day.
Unfortunately I need to cut short the consultation on 18 May 2017. I will only be available for consultation during 11-11:30am for that day.
The lectures in Week 10-12 will be on optimisation. You will be learning how to formulate optimisation for network design. The lecture materials for Week 10 have already been uploaded.
We will be using AMPL software. You can get a demo version of AMPL from
http://ampl.com/try-ampl/download-a-free-demo/
The demo version has some limitations but is good enough for what we want to do in our course.
Please make sure that you check the project page for possible updates. There were corrections to the project specs last week.
The assignment marks are now available. You can check your marks by logging onto your CSE account and type the following command at the prompt:
9334 classrun 17s1 -sturec
The average mark for the assignment is 13.8 with a standard deviation of 2. I've added an assignment feedback page under the Course Work menu on the left. The feedback page tells you some common mistakes that were made.
The project specs have been released. See the menu on the left: Course Work > Project.
Please note that the assignment specs have been updated. The changes are in Question 1.
Please note that the time for my consultation on Thur 13 April has been changed to 9:15-10:15am. Location remains at 608/K17.
Please note that the assignment specs have been updated. There was an ambiguity in Question 3. The updated specs can be found on the course website under "Assignment". The changed text is typeset in blue and is on Page 4.
Please note that the assignment is now available at the course website. From the menu on the left: Course Work > Assignment.
Please note the lecturer's weekly consultation is on Thur 10:30-11:30am in 608/K17. You can drop in to ask questions without making an appointment. Note that this consultation time may change due to the lecturer's other commitment. If this is the case, it will be announced here.
The lecture notes for Week 3 have been posted. Please note that there are two pre-lecture exercises (on Pages 2-4) for you to complete before the lecture. Both exercises have something to do with probability and it would be great if you try them out before the lecture.
We didn't finish all the lecture materials from Week 2 and we will start from there first. See you Thur.
For COMP9334 this session, you can get lecture recordings in two different ways.
You can get lecture recording via Echo360. You need to go through the COMP9334 Moodle site to get access. Unfortunately, there seems to be something wrong with the recordings in the first two weeks, only the voice was recorded and you can only see a green screen.
The Faculty of Engineering has provided two student helpers to record the COMP9334 lectures this session. These helpers capture my laptop screen as well as record the board using a video camera. You can also see these videos on the Moodle COMP9334 site. After you have navigated to the Moodle COMP9334 site, you should see a clickable link called "Lecture recording (Screen + Board)" near the top of the main frame on the right-hand side. The recording for Week 1 is now available. I will get the recording for Week 2 up as soon as it's available. I hope to make the video available as soon as it's ready after the lecture. This is a new initiative from the Faculty so it took a bit of time to get it set up in the beginning.
This week's lecture notes have been posted.
In the last section of the lecture, we will be studying the arrival process and we will start to use more probability from this week. You should make sure you know about: random variables (discrete and continuous), probability mass functions and probability density function. For revising probability, you can go through Chapter 3 of the text by Harcol-Balter. Alternatively, the following unit from Khan Academy on "Discrete and continuous random variables and probability models" is also helpful.
For this session, we have two student helpers to video record the COMP9334 lectures for us. If you were at the lecture today, you would have seen a video camera inside the lecture theatre. The recording will have two visual streams, capturing the laptop screen and the boards/lecturer. This is a new Faculty of Engineering initiative. Once the Faculty IT staff has made the video recording available to me, I will let all of you know how to access it.
Welcome to the COMP9334 for 17s1!
The course website is at: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~cs9334
The lecture notes for Week 1 have been posted. You can get them from the "Lectures" menu on the left.
The lectures will be on Thur 12-3pm in Webster B. See you on Thur.