CMA6134 Computational Methods Coding Assignment 2026 | Multimedia University

CMA6134 Computational Methods Coding Assignment (20%)

Instructions:

1. This is a group assignment to be completed in teams of 4 to 5 students.
2. The submission deadline is Friday of Week 13. The assignment must be completed using FreeMat or Octave. A demo session will be held during Week 14, and attendance is compulsory for all group members. Demos will be scheduled by the respective tutors.
3. For the report, prepare a cover page, introduction including assumptions and criteria, elaborate the details of your simulation, construct the diagram such as flow-chart, provide the explanation for the implementation of some important source codes and print-screen the table (service time, inter-arrival time and simulation) and results (evaluation results). Give instruction on how to run your code and attach a sample simulation output using 20 customers.
4. Creativity and extra effort in the report or simulation will be rewarded with higher marks.
5. Plagiarism is not accepted under any circumstances. Any form of copying, including from peers, will result in a zero mark for the entire group.

Queue simulator

Create a simulator for customer arrivals at any service provider. Choose a service provider such as bank, post office, telecommucation, etc. The simulation system should be able to simulate a queuing system for at least three different types of services. Different types of services will be served by different counters. Each service type should have at least two serving counters. Table below shows the example of services provided by a bank:

Firstly display the above table at the beginning of the simulation. Secondly, generate and display the table of the service type, service time and inter-arrival time.

Service Type 1:

Service Type 2:

Service Type 3:

For generation of random numbers for the types of services, service time and inter-arrival time, you can consider rand function from FreeMat, linear congruential generators or other generators. User should be able to choose the type of random number generator to be used before the simulation. Use rand function to generate the seed number for the different generators. Adjust the range of random numbers so that they are within the appropriate range. For further details please refer to Chapter 4.

On top of this,

a)user should be able to select the number of customers,
b)exhibit the message for the counter operating status, arrival, departure of the customers and so on from time to time. For example:

Arrival of first customer at minute 0 and the queue number is 1001 Arrival of second customer at minute 3 and queue number is 2001 Departure of first customer at minute 4.
Service for second customer started at minute 3.

Counter 4 started operation at minute 3.

After the simulation, display the table of the simulation. Below is the example:

You can separate the simulation table based on the service type as follows:

Service Type 1:

Service Type 2:

Service Type 3:

Lastly evaluate the results of the simulation, for example average inter-arrival time, average waiting time, average time spent in system, probability that a customer has to wait in the queue, and average service time (refer to the example in the notes).