Rescom TP instructions

Instuctions for the Lab on Markov chain modeling and MDP analysis, at the RESCOM2019 summer school

Objective

The goals of the Lab session is

• program the model of a discrete-time queue with impatience, batch size and finite capacity, using the marmoteCore library;
• program the same model with a control of admission in service, with the marmoteMDP library;
• compute the optimal service policy in this queue.

Steps

1. Preparation

The first step is to have the library installed on your computer. Two possibilities:

• using a virtual machine with virtualbox
  • download VM + instructions from this page
  • copy it from USB drive, available at the conference.
• using the compiled library (linux only)
  • tarball + instructions from marmoteCore's site

The instructions with virtualbox are then:

• install the virtualbox software from its web site
• launch virtualbox
• click on "Machine > Add"
• enter the location of the virtual machine that has been downloaded
• select the VM (Rescom2019_TP) in the right-hand pane and click on "Start"
• log in with username/password pierre/Rescom2019*
• you should see a desktop with two folders: TP_Marmote and TP_MDP

2. Instructions for building Markov Chains

• Click on the TP_Marmote folder
• click on the file "example1.cpp" (or right-click then select "geany")
• a command-line terminal should appear at the bottom

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