Logistics

Instructor:

Professor Edward A. Lee, eal@eecs.berkeley.edu.

Office hours: Wednesdays 11:30-12:30, Thursdays 3:30-4:30 545Q (call 3-3728 for access).

Schedule:

• Lectures: Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:30-11:00AM, 540 Cory
• Reading Discussion Group: Wednesdays 2-3PM, 293 Cory (no meeting the first week)
• Office hours: Wednesdays 11:30-12:30, Thursdays 3:30-4:30 545Q (call 3-3728 for access)

Required reading:

• Claudius Ptolemaeus, Editor, System Design, Modeling, and Simulation, Ptolemy.org, 2014 (free download).
• Edward A. Lee (2011), Concurrent Models of Computation: An Actor-Oriented Approach (Draft version, provided by chapter).
• Modelica by Example (Links to an external site.), by Michael Tiller (free online).

Technology:

We will use Ptolemy II as an experimental framework. Please download the development version. Chapter 2 of System Design, Modeling, and Simulation is a tutorial on using Ptolemy II.

Requirements:

• The course requires project with a final paper and presentation (50%)
• Critical review of peer's project papers (5%)
• Homework assignments (25%)
• Reading Study Group (20% each)