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Dewey Class	519.2
Title	Stochastic-Process Limits ([EBook] :) : An Introduction to Stochastic-Process Limits and Their Application to Queues / / by Ward Whitt.
Author	Whitt, Ward
Other name(s)	SpringerLink (Online service)
Publication	New York, NY : : Springer New York, , 2002.
Physical Details	XXIII, 602 p. 4 illus. : online resource.
Series	Springer Series in Operations Research and Financial Engineering 1431-8598
ISBN	9780387217482
Summary Note	Stochastic Process Limits are useful and interesting because they generate simple approximations for complicated stochastic processes and also help explain the statistical regularity associated with a macroscopic view of uncertainty. This book emphasizes the continuous-mapping approach to obtain new stochastic-process limits from previously established stochastic-process limits. The continuous-mapping approach is applied to obtain heavy-traffic-stochastic-process limits for queueing models, including the case in which there are unmatched jumps in the limit process. These heavy-traffic limits generate simple approximations for complicated queueing processes and they reveal the impact of variability upon queueing performance. The book will be of interest to researchers and graduate students working in the areas of probability, stochastic processes, and operations research. In addition this book won the 2003 Lanchester Prize for the best contribution to Operation Research and Management in English, see: http://www.informs.org/Prizes/LanchesterPrize.html.:
Contents note	Experiencing Statistical Regularity -- Random Walks in Applications -- The Framework for Stochastic-Process Limits -- A Panorama of Stochastic-Process Limits -- Heavy-Traffic Limits for Fluid Queues -- Unmatched Jumps in the Limit Process -- More Stochastic-Process Limits -- Fluid Queues with On-Off Sources -- Single-Server Queues -- Multiserver Queues -- More on the Mathematical Framework -- The Space D -- Useful Functions -- Queueing Networks -- The Spaces E and F.
System details note	Online access to this digital book is restricted to subscription institutions through IP address (only for SISSA internal users)
Internet Site	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b97479
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Decision making . Mathematics . Operation Research/Decision Theory . Operations research . Probabilities . Probability theory and stochastic processes . Statistical Theory and Methods . Statistics . Authors: Whitt, Ward . Corporate Authors: SpringerLink (Online service) . Series: Springer Series in Operations Research and Financial Engineering . Classification: 519.2 .

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