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Sample-Path Analysis of Queueing Systems

by Muhammad El-Taha and Shaler Stidham, Jr.

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Awarded the 1999 Best Publication Award by the Applied Probability section of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS) for the outstanding contributions to the field of applied probability.

Selected Publications: (abstracts)

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
Sample-path stability conditions for multiserver input-output processes, with S. Stidham Jr., Journal of Applied Mathematics and Stochastic Analysis, 7, pp 437-456 (1994)
A note on sample-path stability conditions for input-output processes, with S. Stidham Jr., Operations Research Letters, 14, pp 1-7 (1993)
MVU estimation in a shifted gamma distribution with shape parameter a known integer, Communication in Statistics: Simulation and Computation, 22, pp 831-843 (1993)
Sample-path analysis of stochastic discrete-event dynamic systems, with S. Stidham Jr., Discrete Event Dynamic Systems, 3, pp 325-246 (1993)
Deterministic analysis of queueing systems with heterogeneous servers, with S. Stidham Jr., Theoretical Computer Science, 106, pp 243-264 (1992)
On conditional ASTA: a sample-path approach, Stochastic Models, 8, pp 157-177 (1992)
A Filtered ASTA property, with S. Stidham Jr., Queueing Systems, 11, pp 211-222 (1992)

            (Postscript)

litt196.ps , Fluid versions of Little's formula and extensions, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Southern Maine, (1996)
surv96.ps , Pathwise analysis of queueing models, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Southern Maine, (1996)
tg96.ps , Parameter estimation in a right-truncated gamma distribution, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Southern Maine, (1996)