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Muhammad El-Taha

Graduate Program Director and Professor,
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Office: 302-B Payson Smith
Phone: (207) 780-4564
e-mail: math@usm.maine.edu, eltaha@usm.maine.edu
Personal Web Page: www.usm.maine.edu/~eltaha

Education

B.S., Mathematics, Haigazian College, 1978
M.S., Statistics, American University of Beirut , 1980
Ph.D., Operations Research, North Carolina State University , 1987

Courses

STA/OPR 564 Queueing Networks
STA/OPR 562 Stochastic Modeling in Operations Research
STA/MAT/OPR 563 System Modeling and Simulation
MAT211: Probability
MAT 212: Statistics
MAT 120D: Introduction to Statistics

Research Interest

Sample-Path Analysis
Queueing Networks
Stochastic Systems
Communication Networks

Selected Publications

Book. Sample-Path Analysis of Queueing Systems , with S. Stidham Jr., Kluwer Academic Publishing, Boston, August (1998)

Traffic overflow in loss systems with selective trunk reservation, with John Heath. Performance Evaluation (2000)

Generation of correlated Logistic-Normal random variates for medical decision trees, with D. Clark, Methods of Information in Medicine (1998)

Sample-path insensitivity of symmetric queues in discrete-time, with S. Stidham Jr. and R. Anand, Nonlinear Analysis: Theory, Methods and Applications, 30, pp 1099-1110 (1997)

Pathwise rate-stability for input-output processes, Queueing Systems,22, pp 47-63 (1997)

Overflow traffic in closed queueing models, with John Heath, Stochastic Models, 12, pp 493-506 (1996)

Sample-path techniques in queueing theory, with S. Stidham Jr., Advances in Queueing: Models, Methods, and Problems (CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1995) 119-166