Centrale Lille Course Catalogue

Markov chains and waiting lines

Course label : Markov chains and waiting lines
Teaching departement : MIN / Applied Mathematics and General Computing
Teaching manager : Mister AUGUSTIN MOUZE / Mister PIERRE-ANTOINE THOUVENIN
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Code and label (hp) : SMD_SDI_CMF - Chaînes de Markov fil attente

Education team

Teachers : Mister AUGUSTIN MOUZE / Mister PIERRE-ANTOINE THOUVENIN / Mister OLIVIER GOUBET
External contributors (business, research, secondary education): various temporary teachers

Summary

The lecture introduces the most important notions associated to discrete-time Markov chains (transition matrix, recurrent and transient states, invariant measure, convergence in large times), and then presents a few applications: queuing theory (with generalization in continuous time), Metropolis-Hastings algorithm and Simulated Annealing algorithm. 1. Markov Chains in discrete time 2. Poisson Processes and Queues 3. Monte Carlo Methods

Educational goals

- Be able to analyze a discrete-time Markov chains, its characteristics and its large time behavior. Simulate Markov chains in Python. - Compute the invariant measure associated to a queue process, and analyze its behavior - Implement Metropolis-Hastings algorithm and Simulated Annealing algorithm

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Knowledge control procedures

Continuous Assessment
Comments: 1 homework, 2 graded lab reports, final exam

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Sequencing / learning methods

Number of hours - Lectures : 14
Number of hours - Tutorial : 10
Number of hours - Practical work : 0
Number of hours - Seminar : 0
Number of hours - Half-group seminar : 0
Number of student hours in TEA (Autonomous learning) : 0
Number of student hours in TNE (Non-supervised activities) : 0
Number of hours in CB (Fixed exams) : 0
Number of student hours in PER (Personal work) : 0
Number of hours - Projects : 0

Prerequisites

Notions in probability and Python programming.

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