Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences

Volume 19 : Issue 1

Table of Contents

• ONOFF STORAGE SYSTEMS WITH STATE-DEPENDENT INPUT, OUTPUT, AND SWITCHING RATES 
  Onno Boxma, Haya Kaspi, Offer Kella and David Perry
  Page 1-14
• A LOADING-DEPENDENT MODEL OF PROBABILISTIC CASCADING FAILURE 
  Ian Dobson, Benjamin A. Carreras and David E. Newman
  Page 15-32
• A NOTE ON THE INCREASING DIRECTIONALLY CONCAVE MONOTONICITY IN QUEUES 
  Tomasz Rolski
  Page 33-43
• OPTIMALITY OF FOUR-THRESHOLD POLICIES IN INVENTORY SYSTEMS WITH CUSTOMER RETURNS AND BORROWINGSTORAGE OPTIONS 
  Eugene A. Feinberg and Mark E. Lewis
  Page 45-71
• TRANSMISSION RATE CONTROL OVER RANDOMLY VARYING CHANNELS 
  Gauresh Rajadhyaksha and Vivek S. Borkar
  Page 73-82
• SIZE-BIASED PERMUTATION OF DIRICHLET PARTITIONS AND SEARCH-COST DISTRIBUTION 
  Javiera Barrera, Thierry Huillet and Christian Paroissin
  Page 83-97
• STOCHASTIC COMPARISONS OF GENERALIZED ORDER STATISTICS 
  Flix Belzunce, Jos-Angel Mercader and Jos-Mara Ruiz
  Page 99-120
• COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS OF STATIONARY WAITING-TIME DISTRIBUTIONS OF GI^XR1 AND GI^XD1 QUEUES 
  Mohan L. Chaudhry, Dae W. Choi and Kyung C. Chae
  Page 121-140