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  title info:
    title: Introduction to Modeling and Analysis of Stochastic Systems
  name:
    name part: Kulkarni, V. G.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2011
    edition: 2.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIII, 313 p. online resource.
  abstract: This is an introductory-level text on stochastic modeling. It is suited for undergraduate students in engineering, operations research, statistics, mathematics, actuarial science, business management, computer science, and public policy. It employs a large number of examples to teach the students to use stochastic models of real-life systems to predict their performance, and use this analysis to design better systems. The book is devoted to the study of important classes of stochastic processes: discrete and continuous time Markov processes, Poisson processes, renewal and regenerative processes, semi-Markov processes, queueing models, and diffusion processes. The book systematically studies the short-term and the long-term behavior, cost/reward models, and first passage times. All the material is illustrated with many examples, and case studies. The book provides a concise review of probability in the appendix. The book emphasizes numerical answers to the problems. A collection of MATLAB programs to accompany the this book can be downloaded from http://www.unc.edu/~vkulkarn/Maxim/maxim.zip. A graphical user interface to access the above files can be downloaded from http://www.unc.edu/~vkulkarn/Maxim/maximgui.zip . The second edition incorporates several changes. First its title reflects the changes in content: the chapters on design and control have been removed. The book now contains several case studies that teach the design principles. Two new chapters have been added. The new chapter on Poisson processes gives more attention to this important class of stochastic processes than the first edition did. The new chapter on Brownian motion reflects its increasing importance as an appropriate model for a variety of real-life situations, including finance. V. G. Kulkarni is Professor in the Department of Statistics and Operations Research in the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He has authored a graduate-level text Modeling and Analysis of Stochastic Systems a…
  table of contents: Introduction -- Discrete-Time Markov Models -- Poisson Processes -- Continuous-Time Markov Models -- Generalized Markov Models -- Queueing Models -- Brownian Motion.
  note: by V. G. Kulkarni.
  subject:
    topic: Statistics
  subject:
    topic: Operations research
  subject:
    topic: Decision making
  subject:
    topic: Probabilities
  subject:
    topic: Statistics
  subject:
    topic: Statistics, general
  subject:
    topic: Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes
  subject:
    topic: Operation Research/Decision Theory
  classification: QA276-280
  classification: 519.5
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Springer Texts in Statistics
  identifier: 9781441917720
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1772-0
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