Manufacturingsystems have become increasingly complex over recent years. This...Manufacturing systems have become increasingly complex over recent years. This volume presents a collection of chapters which reflect the recent developments of probabilistic models and methodologies that have either been motivated by manufacturing...more
Qplex: A Computational ModelingandAnalysis Methodology for Stochastic System...Qplex: A Computational Modeling and Analysis Methodology for Stochastic Systemsmore
Manufacturing industries are devoted to producing high-quality products in the...Manufacturing industries are devoted to producing high-quality products in the most economical and timely manner. Quality economics and time not only indicate the customer-satisfaction level but also measure the manufacturing per- formance of a...more
This work considers Kronecker-based models with finite as well as countably in...This work considers Kronecker-based models with finite as well as countably infinite state spaces for multidimensional Markovian systems by paying particular attention to those whose reachable state spaces are smaller than their product state...more
Manufacturing industries are devoted to producing high-quality products in the...Manufacturing industries are devoted to producing high-quality products in the most economical and timely manner. Quality economics and time not only indicate the customer-satisfaction level but also measure the manufacturing per- formance of a...more
This book is designed for upper level undergraduate students and first year gr...This book is designed for upper level undergraduate students and first year graduates taking a first course in simulation. The author takes the approach of carrying common examples throughout the text and each chapter has a large number of exercises...more
This book is about stochastic-process limits -- limits in which a sequence of ...This book is about stochastic-process limits -- limits in which a sequence of stochastic processes converges to another stochastic process. These are useful and interesting because they generate simple approximations for complicated stochastic...more
This is an updated version of what is still the only text to address basic que...This is an updated version of what is still the only text to address basic questions about how to model uncertainty in mathematical programming including how to reformulate a deterministic model so that it can be analyzed in a stochastic setting....more
This book applies stochastic models and analytical techniques to such areas of...This book applies stochastic models and analytical techniques to such areas of manufacturing as facilities planning transportation and material handling systems production scheduling logistics supply chain management and productivity and quality...more
Stochastic petri nets have proven to be a useful tool for modelling and perfor...Stochastic petri nets have proven to be a useful tool for modelling and performance analysis of complex discrete-event stochastic systems such as those in telecommunications manufacturing transportation. This monograph centers on techniques for the...more
In this monograph the authors give a systematic approach to the probabilistic ...In this monograph the authors give a systematic approach to the probabilistic properties of the fixed point equation X=AX+B. A probabilistic study of the stochastic recurrence equation X_t=A_tX_{t-1}+B_t for real- and matrix-valued random variables...more
This volume originates from two workshops both focusing on themes that are ref...This volume originates from two workshops both focusing on themes that are reflected in the title of the volume. The first workshop took place at Eindhoven University of Technology April 24-26 2001 on the occasion of the University granting a...more
This volume originates from two workshops both focusing on themes that are ref...This volume originates from two workshops both focusing on themes that are reflected in the title of the volume. The first workshop took place at Eindhoven University of Technology April 24-26 2001 on the occasion of the University granting a...more
This book delivers a significant breakthrough in the study of cooperative stoc...This book delivers a significant breakthrough in the study of cooperative stochastic differential games. In particular a generalized theorem for the derivation of analytically tractable payoff distribution procedure of subgame consistent solution is...more
This book applies stochastic models and analytical techniques to such areas of...This book applies stochastic models and analytical techniques to such areas of manufacturing as facilities planning transportation and material handling systems production scheduling logistics supply chain management and productivity and quality...more