Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences

Volume 22 : Issue 1

Table of Contents

• PRESERVATION OF RELIABILITY CLASSES UNDER MIXTURES OF RENEWAL PROCESSES 
  F. G. Badía and C. Sangüesa
  Page 1
• ON THE SIGNATURE OF COHERENT SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS 
  Ioannis S. Triantafyllou and Markos V. Koutras
  Page 19
• WEIGHT OF THE SHORTEST PATH TO THE FIRST ENCOUNTERED PEER IN A PEER GROUP OF SIZE m 
  P. Van Mieghem and S. Tang
  Page 37
• RENEWAL THEORY WITH EXPONENTIAL AND HYPERBOLIC DISCOUNTING 
  J. A. M. van der Weide, > Suyono and J. M. van Noortwijk
  Page 53
• ON THE LAW OF THE iTH WAITING TIME IN A BUSY PERIOD OF G/M/c QUEUES 
  Opher Baron
  Page 75
• M/G/ POLLING SYSTEMS WITH RANDOM VISIT TIMES 
  M. Vlasiou and U. Yechiali
  Page 81
• OPTIMAL CONTROL OF FLEXIBLE SERVERS IN TWO TANDEM QUEUES WITH OPERATING COSTS 
  Dimitrios G. Pandelis
  Page 107
• ON CLIMBING TRIES 
  Costas Christophi and Hosam Mahmoud
  Page 133
• COMPARISON OF DEPENDENCE IN FACTOR MODELS WITH APPLICATION TO CREDIT RISK PORTFOLIOS 
  Michel Denuit and Esther Frostig
  Page 151
• Uniform order statistics property and -spherical densities 
  Moshe Shaked, Fabio Spizzichino and Florentina Suter
  Page 161