InhaltsangabeFactorization properties for a MAP-modulated fluid flow model under server vacation policies.- A compressed cyclic reduction for QBDs with low rank upper and lower transitions.- Bilateral matrix-exponential distribution.- AutoCAT: Automated Product-Form Solution of Stochastic Models.- Markovian trees subject to catastrophes: Would they survive forever?.- Majorization and Extremal PH-Distributions.- Acceptance-rejection methods for generating random variates from matrix exponential distributions and rational arrival processes.- Revisit to the tail asymptotics of the double QBD process: Refinement and complete solutions for the coordinate and diagonal directions.- Two-dimensional fluid queues with temporary assistance.- A Fluid Introduction To Brownian Motion & Stochastic Integration.- The impact of dampening demand variability in a production/inventory system with multiple retailers.

Guy Latouche, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Vaidyanathan Ramaswami, AT&T Labs Research, USAJay Sethuraman, Columbia University, USAKarl Sigman, Columbia University, USA Mark S. Squillante, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USADavid D. Yao, Columbia University, USA