Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences

Volume 20 : Issue 1

Table of Contents

• NUMERICAL TRANSFORM INVERSION USING GAUSSIAN QUADRATURE 
  Peter den Iseger
  Page 1
• RARE EVENT SIMULATION 
  Agns Lagnoux
  Page 45
• MONOTONICITY AND CONVEXITY OF SOME FUNCTIONS ASSOCIATED WITH DENUMERABLE MARKOV CHAINS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS TO QUEUING SYSTEMS 
  Hai-Bo Yu, Qi-Ming He and Hanqin Zhang
  Page 67
• AN ASYMPTOTIC EXPANSION FOR THE INSPECTION PARADOX 
  J. E. Angus
  Page 87
• CONDITIONAL POISSON DISTRIBUTIONS 
  M. Zhou, D. Yang, Y. Wang and S. Nadarajah
  Page 95
• ASYMPTOTIC RUIN PROBABILITIES IN FINITE HORIZON WITH SUBEXPONENTIAL LOSSES AND ASSOCIATED DISCOUNT FACTORS 
  Qihe Tang
  Page 103
• PREDICTION OF WEATHER-RELATED FAILURES OF OVERHEAD DISTRIBUTION FEEDERS 
  Yujia Zhou, Anil Pahwa and Sanjoy Das
  Page 117
• APPLICATION OF MARKOV CHAIN MODELS FOR SHORT-TERM GENERATION ASSETS VALUATION 
  Wang Yu, Gerald B. Shebl and Manuel Antnio Matos
  Page 127
• USE OF THE PAR(p) MODEL IN THE STOCHASTIC DUAL DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING OPTIMIZATION SCHEME USED IN THE OPERATION PLANNING OF THE BRAZILIAN HYDROPOWER SYSTEM 
  M. E. P. Maceira and J. M. Damzio
  Page 143
• CHARACTERIZATION OF STATE ESTIMATION BIASES 
  A. P. Sakis Meliopoulos and George K. Stefopoulos
  Page 157
• EFFECTS OF MEASUREMENT AND PARAMETER UNCERTAINTIES ON THE POWER TRANSFER DISTRIBUTION FACTORS 
  Cansin Y. Evrenosoglu and Ali Abur
  Page 175
• MAINTENANCE OPTIMIZATION OF EQUIPMENT BY LINEAR PROGRAMMING 
  Archana Jayakumar and Sohrab Asgarpoor
  Page 183