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Volume 1, Number 1, Spring, 1969
Volume 1, Number 2, Autumn, 1969
Volume 2, Number 1, Spring, 1970
Volume 2, Number 2, Autumn, 1970
Volume 3, Number 1, Spring, 1971
Volume 3, Number 2, Autumn, 1971
Volume 4, Number 1, April, 1972
Volume 4, Number 2, August, 1972
Volume 4, Number 3, December, 1972
Volume 5, Number 1, April, 1973
Volume 5, Number 2, August, 1973
Volume 5, Number 3, December, 1973
Volume 6, Number 1, March, 1974
Volume 6, Number 2, June, 1974
Volume 6, Number 3, September, 1974
Volume 6, Number 4, December, 1974
Volume 7, Number 1, March, 1975
Volume 7, Number 2, June, 1975
Volume 7, Number 3, September, 1975
Volume 7, Number 4, December, 1975
Volume 8, Number 1, March, 1976
Volume 8, Number 2, June, 1976
Volume 8, Number 3, September, 1976
Volume 8, Number 4, December, 1976
Volume 9, Number 1, March, 1977
Volume 9, Number 2, June, 1977
Volume 9, Number 3, September, 1977
Volume 9, Number 4, December, 1977
Volume 10, Number 1, March, 1978
Volume 10, Number 2, June, 1978
Volume 10, Number 3, September, 1978
Volume 10, Number 4, December, 1978
Volume 11, Number 1, March, 1979
Volume 11, Number 2, June, 1979
Volume 11, Number 3, September, 1979
Volume 11, Number 4, December, 1979
Volume 12, Number 1, March, 1980
Volume 12, Number 2, June, 1980
Volume 12, Number 3, September, 1980
Volume 12, Number 4, December, 1980
Volume 13, Number 1, March, 1981
Volume 13, Number 2, June, 1981
Volume 13, Number 3, September, 1981
Volume 13, Number 4, December, 1981
Volume 14, Number 1, March, 1982
Volume 14, Number 2, June, 1982
Volume 14, Number 3, September, 1982
Volume 14, Number 4, December, 1982
Volume 15, Number 1, March, 1983
Volume 15, Number 2, June, 1983
Volume 15, Number 3, September, 1983
Volume 15, Number 4, December, 1983
Volume 16, Number 1, March, 1984
Volume 16, Number 2, June, 1984
Volume 16, Number 3, September, 1984
Volume 16, Number 4, December, 1984
Volume 17, Number 1, March, 1985
Volume 17, Number 2, June, 1985
Volume 17, Number 3, September, 1985
Volume 17, Number 4, December, 1985
Volume 18, Number 1, March, 1986
Volume 18, Number 2, June, 1986
Volume 18, Number 3, September, 1986
Volume 18, Number 4, December, 1986
Volume 19, Number 1, March, 1987
Volume 19, Number 2, June, 1987
Volume 19, Number 3, September, 1987
Volume 19, Number 4, December, 1987
Volume 20, Number 1, March, 1988
Volume 20, Number 2, June, 1988
Volume 20, Number 3, September, 1988
Volume 20, Number 4, December, 1988
Volume 21, Number 1, March, 1989
Volume 21, Number 2, June, 1989
Volume 21, Number 3, September, 1989
Volume 21, Number 4, December, 1989
Volume 22, Number 1, March, 1990
Volume 22, Number 2, June, 1990
Volume 22, Number 3, September, 1990
Volume 22, Number 4, December, 1990
Volume 23, Number 1, March, 1991
Volume 23, Number 2, June, 1991
Volume 23, Number 3, September, 1991
Volume 23, Number 4, December, 1991
Volume 24, Number 1, March, 1992
Volume 24, Number 2, June, 1992
Volume 24, Number 3, September, 1992
Volume 24, Number 4, December, 1992
Volume 25, Number 1, March, 1993
Volume 25, Number 2, June, 1993
Volume 25, Number 3, September, 1993
Volume 25, Number 4, December, 1993
Volume 26, Number 1, March, 1994
Volume 26, Number 2, June, 1994
Volume 26, Number 3, September, 1994
Volume 26, Number 4, December, 1994
Volume 27, Number 1, March, 1995
Volume 27, Number 2, June, 1995
Volume 27, Number 3, September, 1995
Volume 27, Number 4, December, 1995
Volume 28, Number 1, March, 1996
Volume 28, Number 2, June, 1996
Volume 28, Number 3, September, 1996
Volume 28, Number 4, December, 1996
Volume 29, Number 1, March, 1997
Volume 29, Number 2, June, 1997
Volume 29, Number 3, September, 1997
Volume 29, Number 4, December, 1997
Volume 30, Number 1, March, 1998
Volume 30, Number 2, June, 1998
Volume 30, Number 3, September, 1998
Volume 30, Number 4, December, 1998
Volume 31, Number 1, March, 1999
Volume 31, Number 2, June, 1999
Volume 31, Number 3, September, 1999
Volume 31, Number 4, December, 1999
Volume 32, Number 1, March, 2000
Volume 32, Number 2, June, 2000
Volume 32, Number 3, September, 2000
Volume 32, Number 4, December, 2000
Volume 33, Number 1, March, 2001
Volume 33, Number 2, June, 2001
Volume 33, Number 3, September, 2001
Volume 33, Number 4, December, 2001
Volume 34, Number 1, March, 2002
Volume 34, Number 2, June, 2002
Volume 34, Number 3, September, 2002
Volume 34, Number 4, December, 2002
Volume 35, Number 1, March, 2003
Volume 35, Number 2, June, 2003
Volume 35, Number 3, September, 2003
Volume 35, Number 4, December, 2003
Volume 36, Number 1, March, 2004
Volume 36, Number 2, June, 2004
Volume 36, Number 3, September, 2004
Volume 36, Number 4, December, 2004
Volume 37, Number 1, March, 2005
Volume 37, Number 2, June, 2005
Volume 37, Number 3, September, 2005
Volume 37, Number 4, December, 2005
Volume 38, Number 1, March, 2006
Volume 38, Number 2, June, 2006
Volume 38, Number 3, September, 2006
Volume 38, Number 4, December, 2006
Volume 39, Number 1, March, 2007
Volume 39, Number 2, June, 2007
Volume 39, Number 3, September, 2007
Volume 39, Number 4, December, 2007
Volume 40, Number 1, March, 2008
Volume 40, Number 2, June, 2008
Volume 40, Number 3, September, 2008
Volume 40, Number 4, December, 2008
Volume 41, Number 1, March, 2009
Volume 41, Number 2, June, 2009
Volume 41, Number 3, September, 2009
Volume 41, Number 4, December, 2009
Volume 42, Number 1, March, 2010
Volume 42, Number 2, June, 2010
Volume 42, Number 3, September, 2010
Volume 42, Number 4, December, 2010
Volume 43, Number 1, March, 2011
Volume 43, Number 2, June, 2011
Volume 43, Number 3, September, 2011
Volume 43, Number 4, December, 2011
Volume 44, Number 1, March, 2012
Volume 44, Number 2, June, 2012
Volume 44, Number 3, September, 2012
Volume 44, Number 4, December, 2012
Volume 45, Number 1, March, 2013
Volume 45, Number 2, June, 2013
Volume 45, Number 3, September, 2013
Volume 45, Number 4, December, 2013
Volume 46, Number 1, March, 2014
Volume 46, Number 2, June, 2014
Volume 46, Number 3, September, 2014
Volume 46, Number 4, December, 2014
Volume 47, Number 1, March, 2015
Volume 47, Number 2, June, 2015
Volume 47, Number 3, September, 2015
Volume 47, Number 4, December, 2015
Volume 48, Number 1, March, 2016
Volume 48, Number 2, June, 2016
Volume 48, Number 3, September, 2016
Volume 48, Number 4, December, 2016
Volume 49, Number 1, March, 2017
Volume 49, Number 2, June, 2017
Volume 49, Number 3, September, 2017
Volume 49, Number 4, December, 2017
Volume 50, Number 1, March, 2018
Volume 50, Number 2, June, 2018
Volume 50, Number 3, September, 2018
Volume 50, Number 4, December, 2018
Volume 50, Number A, December, 2018
Volume 51, Number 1, March, 2019
Volume 51, Number 2, June, 2019
Volume 51, Number 3, September, 2019
Volume 51, Number 4, December, 2019
Volume 52, Number 1, March, 2020
Volume 52, Number 2, June, 2020
Volume 52, Number 3, September, 2020
Volume 52, Number 4, December, 2020
Volume 53, Number 1, March, 2021
Volume 53, Number 2, June, 2021
Volume 53, Number 3, September, 2021
Volume 53, Number 4, December, 2021
Volume 54, Number 1, March, 2022
Volume 54, Number 2, June, 2022
Volume 54, Number 3, September, 2022
Volume 54, Number 4, December, 2022
Volume 55, Number 1, March, 2023
Volume 55, Number 2, June, 2023
Volume 55, Number 3, September, 2023
Volume 6, Number 2, August, 1969
Volume 15, Number 2, June, 1978
Volume 23, Number 1, March, 1986
Volume 268, Number 5214, May 26, 1995


Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 1, Number 1, Spring, 1969

                      E. Seneta   Functional Equations and the
                                  Galton--Watson Process . . . . . . . . . 1--42
               J. E. Littlewood   On the Probability in the Tail of a
                                  Binomial Distribution  . . . . . . . . . 43--72
                 P. A. P. Moran   A Second Note on Recent Research in
                                  Geometrical Probability  . . . . . . . . 73--89
                        J. Gani   Recent Advances in Storage and Flooding
                                  Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--110
                    P. D. Finch   Linear Least Squares Prediction in
                                  Non-Stochastic Time Series . . . . . . . 111--122
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 1, Number 2, Autumn, 1969

            Erhan Çinlar   Markov Renewal Theory  . . . . . . . . . 123--187
              Jeffrey J. Hunter   On the Moments of Markov Renewal
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188--210
                    R. E. Miles   Poisson Flats in Euclidean Spaces. Part
                                  I: A Finite Number of Random Uniform
                                  Flats  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--237
                  J. C. Gittins   Optimal Resource Allocation in Chemical
                                  Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238--270
                     P. Whittle   Sequential Decision Processes with
                                  Essential Unobservables  . . . . . . . . 271--287
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??


Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 2, Number 1, Spring, 1970

                   Harry Kesten   Quadratic Transformations: A Model for
                                  Population Growth. I . . . . . . . . . . 1--82
                    A. W. Davis   Some Generalizations of Bailey's Birth
                                  Death and Migration Model  . . . . . . . 83--109
                Marcel F. Neuts   Two Servers in Series, Studied in Terms
                                  of a Markov Renewal Branching Process    110--149
         Donald L. Iglehart and   
                     Ward Whitt   Multiple Channel Queues in Heavy
                                  Traffic. I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150--177
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 2, Number 2, Autumn, 1970

                   Harry Kesten   Quadratic Transformations: A Model for
                                  Population Growth. II  . . . . . . . . . 179--228
                 Takeo Maruyama   Stepping Stone Models of Finite Length   229--258
                    John Bather   Optimal Stopping Problems for Brownian
                                  Motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--286
                 T. Gergely and   
             I. N. Tsukanow and   
                   I. I. Yezhow   Markov Chains Governed by Complicated
                                  Renewal Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . 287--322
          Sidney I. Resnick and   
                Marcel F. Neuts   Limit Laws for Maxima of a Sequence of
                                  Random Variables Defined on a Markov
                                  Chain  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--343
            Lajos Takács   On the Distribution of the Maximum of
                                  Sums of Mutually Independent and
                                  Identically Distributed Random Variables 344--354
         Donald L. Iglehart and   
                     Ward Whitt   Multiple Channel Queues in Heavy
                                  Traffic. II: Sequences, Networks, and
                                  Batches  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--369
                     Ward Whitt   Multiple Channel Queues in Heavy
                                  Traffic. III: Random Server Selection    370--375
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??


Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 3, Number 1, Spring, 1971

                    R. E. Miles   Poisson Flats in Euclidean Spaces. Part
                                  II: Homogeneous Poisson Flats and the
                                  Complementary Theorem  . . . . . . . . . 1--43
                  E. F. Harding   The Probabilities of Rooted Tree-Shapes
                                  Generated by Random Bifurcation  . . . . 44--77
                Marcel F. Neuts   A Queue Subject to Extraneous Phase
                                  Changes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--119
       Edward C. Van Der Meulen   Three-Terminal Communication Channels    120--154
             Manfred Schäl   The Analysis of Queues with
                                  State-Dependent Parameters by Markov
                                  Renewal Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . 155--175
                    A. G. Pakes   Some Limit Theorems for the Total
                                  Progeny of a Branching Process . . . . . 176--192
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 3, Number 2, Autumn, 1971

                      Anonymous   [Introduction] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--193
                L. D. Meshalkin   Mathematical Methods of Chronic Diseases
                                  Study in 1970  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194--196
                    Petre Tautu   Structural Models in Epidemiology: An
                                  Introductory Investigation . . . . . . . 196--198
                 Tosio Kitagawa   Information Science Approach to
                                  Biomathematics and Its Implications to
                                  Ecology and Quantitative Epidemiology    198--200
               Norman C. Severo   Multidimensional Right-Shift Processes   200--201
                   John J. Gart   Mathematical Models in the
                                  Interpretation of the Interaction
                                  between Infective Agents . . . . . . . . 202--203
                        J. Gani   Recent Work in Epidemiology at Sheffield 204--206
                 V. P. Krus and   
                  L. A. Rvachev   The Mathematical Theory of Epidemics: A
                                  Study of the Evolution of Resistance in
                                  Microorganisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206--208
                    Klaus Dietz   Malaria Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208--210
            Trevor Williams and   
                  Rolf Bjerknes   Hyperplasia: The Spread of Abnormal
                                  Cells through a Plane Lattice  . . . . . 210--211
        Norman T. J. Bailey and   
              Anthony S. Thomas   The Estimation of Parameters from
                                  Population Data on the General
                                  Stochastic Epidemic  . . . . . . . . . . 211--214
                  H. E. Daniels   A Note on Perturbation Techniques for
                                  Epidemics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214--218
                George H. Weiss   On a Perturbation Method for the Theory
                                  of Epidemics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218--220
            George H. Weiss and   
                Menachem Dishon   Asymptotic Behavior of a Generalization
                                  of Bailey's Simple Epidemic  . . . . . . 220--221
                   A. V. Nagaev   Asymptotic Methods for Problems in the
                                  Mathematical Theory of Epidemics . . . . 222--223
                Trevor Williams   An Algebraic Proof of the Threshold
                                  Theorem for the General Stochastic
                                  Epidemic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--223
              O. V. Baroyan and   
              L. A. Rvachev and   
           U. V. Basilevsky and   
              V. V. Ermakov and   
                K. D. Frank and   
              M. A. Rvachev and   
                 V. A. Shashkov   Computer Modelling of Influenza
                                  Epidemics for the Whole Country (USSR)   224--226
               Lila R. Elveback   Simulation of Stochastic Discrete-Time
                                  Epidemic Models for Two Agents . . . . . 226--228
          David S. Reynolds and   
              I. Richard Savage   Random Wear Models in Reliability Theory 229--248
                   E. Kyprianou   The Virtual Waiting Time of the GI/G/1
                                  Queue in Heavy Traffic . . . . . . . . . 249--268
             Donald L. Iglehart   Functional Limit Theorems for the Queue
                                  GI/G/1 in Light Traffic  . . . . . . . . 269--281
               K. S. Fahady and   
                M. P. Quine and   
                  D. Vere-Jones   Heavy Traffic Approximations for the
                                  Galton--Watson Process . . . . . . . . . 282--300
                    A. G. Pakes   A Branching Process with a State
                                  Dependent Immigration Component  . . . . 301--314
             Julian Keilson and   
                   S. Subba Rao   A Process with Chain Dependent Growth
                                  Rate. Part II: The Ruin and Ergodic
                                  Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--338
                    J. Gani and   
                   D. R. McNeil   Joint Distributions of Random Variables
                                  and Their Integrals for Certain
                                  Birth--Death and Diffusion Processes . . 339--352
                    R. E. Miles   Isotropic Random Simplices . . . . . . . 353--382
                R. Ahlswede and   
                   J. Wolfowitz   Channels without Synchronization . . . . 383--403
               Howard G. Tucker   On Asymptotic Independence of the
                                  Partial Sums of Positive and Negative
                                  Parts of Independent Random Variables    404--425
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . ??


Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 4, Number 1, April, 1972

                  Eugene Lukacs   A Survey of the Theory of Characteristic
                                  Functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--38
                    J. E. Moyal   Particle Populations and Number
                                  Operators in Quantum Theory  . . . . . . 39--80
                 Georg Lindgren   Wave-Length and Amplitude in Gaussian
                                  Noise  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--108
                 Z. A. Lomnicki   Two-Terminal Series-Parallel Networks    109--150
                R. K. Milne and   
                    M. Westcott   Further Results for Gauss--Poisson
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--176
                     Mark Brown   Low Density Traffic Streams  . . . . . . 177--192
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 4, Number 2, August, 1972

                   Harry Kesten   Limit Theorems for Stochastic Growth
                                  Models. I  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--232
                 Denis Mollison   Possible Velocities for a Simple
                                  Epidemic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--257
                       E. Arjas   On a Fundamental Identity in the Theory
                                  of Semi-Markov Processes . . . . . . . . 258--270
                       E. Arjas   On the Use of a Fundamental Identity in
                                  the Theory of Semi-Markov Queues . . . . 271--284
              Sidney I. Resnick   Stability of Maxima of Random Variables
                                  Defined on a Markov Chain  . . . . . . . 285--295
            T. K. M. Wisniewski   Bivariate Stationary Point Processes,
                                  Fundamental Relations and First
                                  Recurrence Times . . . . . . . . . . . . 296--317
                    Mats Rudemo   Doubly Stochastic Poisson Processes and
                                  Process Control  . . . . . . . . . . . . 318--338
                    J. W. Cohen   The Suprema of the Actual and Virtual
                                  Waiting Times during a Busy Cycle of the
                                  K$_m$ /K$_n$ /1 Queueing System  . . . . 339--356
             Douglas P. Kennedy   Rates of Convergence for Queues in Heavy
                                  Traffic. I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--381
             Douglas P. Kennedy   Rates of Convergence for Queues in Heavy
                                  Traffic. II: Sequences of Queueing
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382--391
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 4, Number 3, December, 1972

                   Harry Kesten   Limit Theorems for Stochastic Growth
                                  Models. II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--428
                    M. P. Quine   The Multitype Galton--Watson Process
                                  with $ \rho $ near $1$ . . . . . . . . . 429--452
                  Robert Fildes   An Age Dependent Branching Process with
                                  Variable Lifetime Distribution . . . . . 453--474
                     Ilan Eshel   Evolution Processes with Continuity of
                                  Types  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475--507
                    G. Matheron   Ensembles Fermés Aléatoires, Ensembles
                                  Semi-Markoviens et Poly\`edres
                                  Poissoniens. (French) [Random Closed
                                  Sets, Semi-Markov Sets and Poissonian
                                  Polyhedra] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508--541
            Shaler Stidham, Jr.   Regenerative Processes in the Theory of
                                  Queues, with Applications to the
                                  Alternating-Priority Queue . . . . . . . 542--577
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . ??


Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 5, Number 1, April, 1973

                      Anonymous   [Introduction] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
                   E. Arjas and   
                    T. P. Speed   A Stopping Problem in Markov Additive
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--3
              A. A. Balkema and   
                     L. De Haan   Limit Laws for $ f(X_n) $, $f$
                                  Non-Decreasing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--5
                  N. H. Bingham   Maxima of Partial Sums of Random
                                  Variables and Suprema of Stable
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--6
                     Mark Brown   Statistical Inference for Stochastic
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--8
                    J. W. Cohen   Asymptotic Relations in Queueing Theory  8--9
            Herman Callaert and   
                 Julian Keilson   On Exponential Ergodicity and Spectral
                                  Structure for Birth--Death Processes . . 9--11
              Jos H. A. De Smit   Recent Results for Many Server Queues    11--12
             Donald L. Iglehart   Weak Convergence in Applied Probability  12--13
               Peter Jagers and   
                Torgny Lindvall   Three Theorems on the Thinning of Point
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--15
             J. H. B. Kemperman   On Poisson Type Stationary Mass
                                  Distributions in $ R^n $ . . . . . . . . 16--16
        Jacqueline Loris-Teghem   An Algebraic Approach to Some Waiting
                                  Time Problems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--17
                 Richard Morton   Optimal Control of Stationary Markov
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--19
                   N. U. Prabhu   Further Results on Wiener--Hopf
                                  Factorization  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--20
          Sidney I. Resnick and   
            Michael Rubinovitch   The Structure of Extremal Processes  . . 21--22
                  P. B. M. Roes   Two Finite Queues and Their Duals  . . . 22--24
             Manfred Schäl   Dynamic Programming under Continuity and
                                  Compactness Assumptions  . . . . . . . . 24--25
                  F. W. Steutel   Some Recent Results in Infinite
                                  Divisibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--27
                  Ryszard Syski   Examples of Martin Boundary  . . . . . . 27--29
               Jozef L. Teugels   Regular Variation in Renewal and Markov
                                  Renewal Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--31
       Edward C. Van Der Meulen   Multi-Terminal Communication Channels    32--33
            Pierre Van Moerbeke   On Optimal Stopping and Free Boundary
                                  Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--35
                    Wim Vervaat   Success Epochs in a Sequence of
                                  Bernoulli Trials . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--36
                  Norman Kaplan   A Continuous Time Markov Branching Model
                                  with Random Environments . . . . . . . . 37--54
                     Ilan Eshel   Evolution in Diploid Populations with
                                  Continuity of Gametic Types  . . . . . . 55--65
               J. F. C. Kingman   Homecomings of Markov Processes  . . . . 66--102
                   P. L. Davies   Everywhere Irregularity of Certain
                                  Classes of Random Processes with
                                  Stationary Gaussian Increments . . . . . 103--118
                    D. J. Scott   Central Limit Theorems for Martingales
                                  and for Processes with Stationary
                                  Increments Using a Skorokhod
                                  Representation Approach  . . . . . . . . 119--137
               S. G. Ghurye and   
                       I. Olkin   Identically Distributed Linear Forms and
                                  the Normal Distribution  . . . . . . . . 138--152
               J. H. A. De Smit   Some General Results for Many Server
                                  Queues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--169
               J. H. A. De Smit   On the Many Server Queue with
                                  Exponential Service Times  . . . . . . . 170--182
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 5, Number 2, August, 1973

              Samuel Karlin and   
                  Norman Kaplan   Criteria for Extinction of Certain
                                  Population Growth Processes with
                                  Interacting Types  . . . . . . . . . . . 183--199
           S. Leigh Phoenix and   
               Howard M. Taylor   The Asymptotic Strength Distribution of
                                  a General Fiber Bundle . . . . . . . . . 200--216
                   A. M. Walker   On the Estimation of a Harmonic
                                  Component in a Time Series with
                                  Stationary Dependent Residuals . . . . . 217--241
                  C. J. Preston   Generalized Gibbs States and Markov
                                  Random Fields  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242--261
                    Mats Rudemo   Point Processes Generated by Transitions
                                  of Markov Chains . . . . . . . . . . . . 262--286
          Sidney I. Resnick and   
            Michael Rubinovitch   The Structure of Extremal Processes  . . 287--307
                     A. J. Stam   Regular Variation of the Tail of a
                                  Subordinated Probability Distribution    308--327
                    John Bather   Optimal Decision Procedures for Finite
                                  Markov Chains. Part I: Examples  . . . . 328--339
               Rajat K. Deb and   
             Richard F. Serfozo   Optimal Control of Batch Service Queues  340--361
            Jerome Senturia and   
                   Prem S. Puri   A Semi-Markov Storage Model  . . . . . . 362--378
              Stig I. Rosenlund   On the Length and Number of Served
                                  Customers of the Busy Period of a
                                  Generalised M/G/1 Queue with Finite
                                  Waiting Room . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--389
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 5, Number 3, December, 1973

                      H. Hering   Asymptotic Behaviour of
                                  Immigration-Branching Processes with
                                  General Set of Types. I: Critical
                                  Branching Part . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--416
                Stuart P. Lloyd   An Index of Genealogical Relatedness . . 417--438
                    G. Matheron   The Intrinsic Random Functions and Their
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439--468
               Robert B. Davies   Asymptotic Inference in Stationary
                                  Gaussian Time-Series . . . . . . . . . . 469--497
                    D. J. Emery   Exit Problem for a Spectrally Positive
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498--520
                    John Bather   Optimal Decision Procedures for Finite
                                  Markov Chains. Part II: Communicating
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521--540
                    John Bather   Optimal Decision Procedures for Finite
                                  Markov Chains. Part III: General Convex
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541--553
                  N. H. Bingham   Limit Theorems in Fluctuation Theory . . 554--569
             Donald L. Iglehart   Weak Convergence in Queueing Theory  . . 570--594
         Donald L. Iglehart and   
              Austin J. Lemoine   Approximations for the Repairman Problem
                                  with Two Repair Facilities, I: No Spares 595--613
               N. B. Slater and   
                T. C. T. Kotiah   The Steady State of a Multi-Server Mixed
                                  Queue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 614--631
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 632--633
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 6, Number 1, March, 1974

                   M. G. Bulmer   A Model for Character Displacement Based
                                  on Competition between Species . . . . . 1--3
                    C. Cannings   Genetic Drift with Polygamy and
                                  Arbitrary Offspring Distribution . . . . 3--4
             Brian Charlesworth   The Hardy--Weinberg Law with Overlapping
                                  Generations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--6
                   R. N. Curnow   Selecting Crosses Using Information from
                                  a Diallel Cross  . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--7
                  D. Y. Downham   Models of Clines . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--10
               A. W. F. Edwards   On Kimura's Maximum Principle in the
                                  Genetical Theory of Natural Selection    10--13
                William G. Hill   Linkage Disequilibrium between Neutral
                                  Genes in Finite Populations  . . . . . . 13--15
            Jean Morissette and   
             Cedric A. B. Smith   The Hardy--Weinberg Law and Inbreeding   15--17
                   A. Robertson   The Validity of the Optimum Model  . . . 17--18
                Curtis Strobeck   Outcrossing and Heterozygosity . . . . . 18--20
              Andrew D. Barbour   On a Functional Central Limit Theorem
                                  for Markov Population Processes  . . . . 21--39
                       P. Mandl   Estimation and Control in Markov Chains  40--60
            Erhan Çinlar   Periodicity in Markov Renewal Theory . . 61--78
              Bert Fristedt and   
                    David Heath   Searching for a Particle on the Real
                                  Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--102
                   D. V. Little   A Third Note on Recent Research in
                                  Geometrical Probability  . . . . . . . . 103--130
            J. Aczél and   
                   B. Forte and   
                       C. T. Ng   Why the Shannon and Hartley Entropies
                                  Are `Natural'  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--146
         Donald L. Iglehart and   
              Austin J. Lemoine   Approximations for the Repairman Problem
                                  with Two Repair Facilities, II: Spares   147--158
              Austin J. Lemoine   Limit Theorems for Generalized Single
                                  Server Queues  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--174
                     Ward Whitt   The Continuity of Queues . . . . . . . . 175--183
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 6, Number 2, June, 1974

                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--186
                      Anonymous   Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--187
                 M. S. Bartlett   The Statistical Analysis of Spatial
                                  Pattern  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188--190
                    V. E. Benes   Composition and Invariance Methods for
                                  Solving Optimal Control Problems . . . . 190--191
              W. J. Bühler   On the Family Structure of Populations   192--193
                  H. E. Daniels   An Approximation Technique for a Curved
                                  Boundary Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . 194--196
                    C. C. Heyde   Limit Theory for Stationary Processes
                                  via Approximating Martingales  . . . . . 196--197
                     J. Keilson   Sojourn Times, Fluctuation and Rare
                                  Events; The Role of Jitter . . . . . . . 197--200
                         P. Ney   Age-Dependent Branching Processes  . . . 200--202
                   A. C. Offord   The Application of Stochastic Processes
                                  in Function Theory . . . . . . . . . . . 202--205
                   B. Picinbono   Properties and Applications of
                                  Stochastic Processes with Stationary
                                  Increments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--207
            Michael Rubinovitch   Queues with Random Service Output  . . . 207--208
              L. K. Schmetterer   Problems of Group Theory Related to
                                  Probability Theory . . . . . . . . . . . 209--210
                    W. L. Smith   Some Recent Work on Branching Processes
                                  in Random Environments . . . . . . . . . 210--212
             E. Sparre Andersen   Survey of Fluctuation Theory . . . . . . 213--214
             Igor Bazovsky, Jr.   On Generalizations of the Method of
                                  Stages to Ageing and Learning Phenomena  215--216
                   B. D. Craven   The Spectral Density of a Markov Process 216--217
                      T. J. Ott   Infinite Divisibility and Stability of
                                  Finite Semi-Markov Matrices  . . . . . . 217--218
              Bruce W. Turnbull   An Inequality for the Total Flow in a
                                  Dam with Non-Markovian Inputs  . . . . . 218--219
                   J.-P. Caubet   Dirac Equation and Dynamics of Brownian
                                  Motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--219
                     R. Coleman   Nearest Neighbour Distances for
                                  Equilibrium Renewal Processes  . . . . . 220--220
                   J. J. Hunter   Renewal Theory in Two Dimensions . . . . 220--221
                    M. Jacobsen   A Decomposition Result for Diffusions    222--223
                   J. W. Pitman   One-Dimensional Brownian Motion and the
                                  Three-Dimensional Bessel Process . . . . 223--224
                  P. B. M. Roes   Variance at Variance in Eddy Diffusion   224--225
                D. J. Daley and   
                       D. Oakes   Random Walk Point Processes  . . . . . . 225--226
                    R. K. Milne   Infinitely Divisible Bivariate Poisson
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226--227
                    M. Westcott   Asymptotic Results for Poisson Cluster
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--228
                     A. Agresti   Bounds on the Extinction Time
                                  Distributions of Some Branching
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228--229
              N. H. Bingham and   
                    R. A. Doney   Asymptotic Properties of the
                                  Supercritical Galton--Watson Process . . 229--230
                Miloslav Jirina   Breakage Mechanisms Branching Processes  230--230
                    T. Lindvall   Almost Sure Convergence of
                                  Galton--Watson Branching Processes in
                                  Varying and Random Environments  . . . . 231--231
               W. A. O'N. Waugh   Age Distribution in Some Size-Dependent
                                  Populations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232--232
                    C. Cannings   The Latent Roots of Some Genetic Drift
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232--233
                    D. Mollison   Percolation Processes and Tumour Growth  233--235
                       C. Rossi   Stochastic Model of Gene Decay . . . . . 236--236
                       P. Tautu   Random Systems of Locally Interacting
                                  Cells  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--237
                Trevor Williams   Evidence for Super-Critical Tumour
                                  Growth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--238
                    A. J. Woods   Epidemic Models in Non-Homogeneous
                                  Populations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--239
                   A. M. Walker   A Property of Asymptotic Least Squares
                                  Estimates for Moving Average Processes   239--240
                         A. Gut   Limit Theorems for Some First Passage
                                  Times  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--242
                     N. Keiding   Maximum Likelihood Estimation in the
                                  Birth-and-Death Process  . . . . . . . . 242--244
         J. H. B. Kemperman and   
                     J. C. Smit   Sharp Upper and Lower Bounds for the
                                  Moments of a Martingale  . . . . . . . . 244--245
              A. G. P. M. Nijst   Propagation of Sufficiency and Minimal
                                  Sufficiency in Stochastic Processes  . . 245--247
                     S. Resnick   Extremal Processes and Record Value
                                  Times  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--248
                  N. A. Cressie   A Two-Dimensional Random Walk in the
                                  Presence of a Partially Reflecting
                                  Barrier  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248--249
                  D. P. Kennedy   Random Walks Conditioned on the
                                  Proportion of Time Spent on the Positive
                                  Half-Line  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250--250
                      M. Rudemo   Conditional Probability Distributions
                                  for Partially Observed Markov Chains . . 250--251
                       R. Syski   On Keilson's Compensation Method . . . . 251--252
                    J. W. Cohen   Some Remarks on Stationary Distributions
                                  for the GI/G/1 Queue . . . . . . . . . . 252--253
               J. H. A. De Smit   The Many Server Queue in Discrete Time   253--253
                      N. Hadidi   A Basically Poisson Queue with
                                  Non-Poisson Output . . . . . . . . . . . 254--255
                     P. Le Gall   Stochastic Integral Equations Applied to
                                  Telecommunications Traffic without Delay 255--257
             D. G. Tambouratzis   Properties of Waiting Times of Queues
                                  under Various Queue Disciplines  . . . . 257--258
              E. J. Vanderperre   A Non-Homogeneous Hilbert Problem with
                                  Applications to Queueing Theory  . . . . 258--259
                    C. Cannings   The Latent Roots of Certain Markov
                                  Chains Arising in Genetics: A New
                                  Approach, I. Haploid Models  . . . . . . 260--290
                  Robert Fildes   An Age Dependent Branching Process with
                                  Variable Lifetime Distribution: The
                                  Generation Size  . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--308
                Torgny Lindvall   Limit Theorems for Some Functionals of
                                  Certain Galton--Watson Branching
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--321
                   Alan Agresti   Bounds on the Extinction Time
                                  Distribution of a Branching Process  . . 322--335
                 M. S. Bartlett   The Statistical Analysis of Spatial
                                  Pattern  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336--358
                    Meyer Dwass   Poisson Process and Distribution-Free
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--375
              Jeffrey J. Hunter   Renewal Theory in Two Dimensions: Basic
                                  Results  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376--391
              Sidney I. Resnick   Inverses of Extremal Processes . . . . . 392--405
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Volume 6, Number 3, September, 1974

                      Anonymous   [Introduction] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--407
                      E. Seneta   Regularly Varying Functions in the
                                  Theory of Simple Branching Processes . . 408--420
                    C. C. Heyde   On Estimating the Variance of the
                                  Offspring Distribution in a Simple
                                  Branching Process  . . . . . . . . . . . 421--433
                      Peter Ney   Critical Branching Processes . . . . . . 434--445
                  Edward Pollak   Survival Probabilities and Extinction
                                  Times for Some Multitype Branching
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446--462
                G. A. Watterson   The Sampling Theory of Selectively
                                  Neutral Alleles  . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--488
                A. C. Trajstman   On a Conjecture of G. A. Watterson . . . 489--493
                 Andris Abakuks   Optimal Immunisation Policies for
                                  Epidemics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494--511
                   B. Picinbono   Properties and Applications of
                                  Stochastic Processes with Stationary $n$
                                  th-Order Increments  . . . . . . . . . . 512--523
                 P. M. Robinson   Stochastic Difference Equations with
                                  Non-Integral Differences . . . . . . . . 524--545
              Jeffrey J. Hunter   Renewal Theory in Two Dimensions:
                                  Asymptotic Results . . . . . . . . . . . 546--562
                    G. Matheron   Hyperplans poissoniens et compacts de
                                  Steiner. (French) [Poissonian
                                  hyperplanes and Steiner compacts]  . . . 563--579
                 R. W. Shorrock   On Discrete Time Extremal Processes  . . 580--592
                Sheldon M. Ross   Dynamic Programming and Gambling Models  593--606
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 6, Number 4, December, 1974

                  H. E. Daniels   The Maximum Size of a Closed Epidemic    607--621
                  R. Morton and   
                 K. H. Wickwire   On the Optimal Control of a
                                  Deterministic Epidemic . . . . . . . . . 622--635
                   P. A. Jacobs   Functionals of an Infinite Particle
                                  System with Independent Motions,
                                  Creation, and Annihilation . . . . . . . 636--650
             David C. Heath and   
            William D. Sudderth   Continuous-Time Gambling Problems  . . . 651--665
                R. Schassberger   A Broad Analysis of Single Server
                                  Priority Queues with Two Independent
                                  Input Streams, One of Them Poisson . . . 666--688
                    M. J. Faddy   Optimal Control of Finite Dams:
                                  Continuous Output Procedure  . . . . . . 689--710
              N. H. Bingham and   
                    R. A. Doney   Asymptotic Properties of Supercritical
                                  Branching Processes I: The
                                  Galton--Watson Process . . . . . . . . . 711--731
                   B. D. Craven   Asymptotic Rate of a Markov Process  . . 732--746
                     J. Keilson   Sojourn Times, Exit Times and Jitter in
                                  Multivariate Markov Processes  . . . . . 747--756
                   R. K. Getoor   Some Remarks on a Paper of Kingman . . . 757--767
               Marek Kanter and   
                  W. L. Steiger   Regression and Autoregression with
                                  Infinite Variance  . . . . . . . . . . . 768--783
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 784--786
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 7, Number 1, March, 1975

           Bengt Olle Bengtsson   The Increase of Balanced Chromosome
                                  Mutations in Mammalian Populations . . . 1--3
                    C. Cannings   Drift in Haploid Models  . . . . . . . . 4--5
         Brian Charlesworth and   
             John A. Williamson   The Chance of Survival of an
                                  Advantageous Mutant in an Age-Structured
                                  Population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--7
          Marcus W. Feldman and   
               Ian Franklin and   
              Glenys J. Thomson   Selection with Three Loci  . . . . . . . 7--8
                     John Haigh   Game Theory and Evolution  . . . . . . . 8--11
                William G. Hill   Artificial Selection in Populations with
                                  Overlapping Generations  . . . . . . . . 11--14
                   John Rostron   A Non-Linear Function for Maximizing the
                                  Parent-Offspring Regression  . . . . . . 14--16
         Cedric A. B. Smith and   
                     Atam Vetta   Assortative Mating . . . . . . . . . . . 16--18
                      Jon Stene   Sampling of Pedigrees  . . . . . . . . . 18--23
                Curtis Strobeck   The Two Locus Model with Different
                                  Recombination Values in the Two Sexes    23--26
                 E. A. Thompson   Multiple Gene Identities . . . . . . . . 26--27
              Andrew D. Barbour   The Asymptotic Behaviour of Birth and
                                  Death and Some Related Processes . . . . 28--43
                     M. Aksland   A Birth, Death and Migration Process
                                  with Immigration . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--60
                Inge S. Helland   The Condition for Extinction with
                                  Probability One in a Birth, Death and
                                  Migration Process  . . . . . . . . . . . 61--65
              N. H. Bingham and   
                    R. A. Doney   Asymptotic Properties of Super-Critical
                                  Branching Processes II: Crump-Mode and
                                  Jirina Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--82
                   Odile Macchi   The Coincidence Approach to Stochastic
                                  Point Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--122
             Richard F. Serfozo   Functional Limit Theorems for Stochastic
                                  Processes Based on Embedded Processes    123--139
                 David A. Swick   Asymptotic Distribution of a Discrete
                                  Transform of an Arbitrarily Sampled
                                  Homogeneous Random Field . . . . . . . . 140--153
                N. U. Ahmed and   
                      K. L. Teo   Optimal Control of Stochastic Ito
                                  Differential Systems with Fixed Terminal
                                  Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--178
                David Griffeath   Ergodic Theorems for Graph Interactions  179--194
           Gary Lee Guthrie and   
                 Paul T. Holmes   On Record and Inter-Record Times for a
                                  Sequence of Random Variables Defined on
                                  a Markov Chain . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--214
                 A. L. Truslove   Queue Length for the E$_k$ /G/1 Queue
                                  with Finite Waiting Room . . . . . . . . 215--226
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 7, Number 2, June, 1975

                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--228
                      Anonymous   Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--229
            Erhan Çinlar   On the Structure of Semi-Markov
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230--230
                   D. A. Dawson   Quasi-Deterministic States for Markov
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--232
                        J. Gani   Some Stochastic Models in Linguistic
                                  Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232--234
                    C. C. Heyde   Martingale Methods in Estimation Theory  234--236
             Donald L. Iglehart   Conditioned Limit Theorems for Random
                                  Walks  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--237
                   Antole Joffe   Random Variables Indexed by a Tree . . . 237--238
                Marcel F. Neuts   Algorithmic Solutions of Queueing
                                  Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238--239
                    Ronald Pyke   Brownian Sheets: A Survey  . . . . . . . 239--240
              Sidney I. Resnick   Extremal Processes . . . . . . . . . . . 241--241
            Lajos Takács   Combinatorial and Analytic Methods in
                                  the Theory of Queues . . . . . . . . . . 241--241
                    Wim Vervaat   Strassen's Iterated Logarithm Law for
                                  Hilbert Space Valued Random Variables    242--244
                C. André   Two-Person Stopping Games  . . . . . . . 244--246
                      J. Kuelbs   The Law of the Iterated Logarithm for
                                  Banach Space Valued Random Variables . . 246--247
                  D. L. McLeish   A Generalization of Martingales and
                                  Mixing Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--249
                    Murad Taqqu   Weak Convergence to Fractional Brownian
                                  Motion and to the Rosenblatt Process . . 249--249
              J. L. Teugels and   
                 N. Veraverbeke   On the Approach to the Limit of
                                  Successive Maxima of Partial Sums  . . . 249--250
                W. G. Doubleday   Weak Convergence of Galton--Watson
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250--251
                   S. D. Durham   An Optimal Branching Migration Process   251--251
             P. D. M. Macdonald   Some Asymptotic Results for Multiphase
                                  Branching Processes  . . . . . . . . . . 251--251
                   T. H. Savits   Applications for Space-Time Harmonic
                                  Functions to Branching Processes . . . . 251--252
                   J. H. Abbott   Variations on the Three Series Theorem   252--252
                  A. A. Balkema   Invariance Properties for Weak Limits
                                  under Monotone Transformations . . . . . 252--253
             J. H. B. Kemperman   The Ergodic Behavior of a Class of
                                  Transformations including the a(tan x)+b
                                  Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254--254
                       R. Syski   Energy of Markov Chains  . . . . . . . . 254--255
                   A. Mukherjea   Random Walks on Semigroups . . . . . . . 255--256
                  Teunis J. Ott   Infinite Divisibility and Inbeddability
                                  of Semi-Markov Matrices on Certain
                                  Topological Groups . . . . . . . . . . . 256--257
                  F. W. Steutel   Simple Tools in Finite and Infinite
                                  Divisibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--259
            Stephen E. Fienberg   Stochastic Models for Single Neuron
                                  Firing Trains: A Survey  . . . . . . . . 259--260
           Irving I. Gringorten   On the Use of Stochastic Models of
                                  Simultaneous Critical Weather Conditions
                                  in an Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260--261
                   P. H. Peskun   Guidelines for Choosing the Transition
                                  Matrix in Monte Carlo Sampling Methods
                                  Using Markov Chains  . . . . . . . . . . 261--261
                       P. Tautu   A Stochastic Approach to the French Flag
                                  Problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262--263
                    C. Cannings   The Latent Roots of Certain Markov
                                  Chains Arising in Genetics: A New
                                  Approach, II. Further Haploid Models . . 264--282
               Thomas H. Savits   Space-Time Harmonic Functions and
                                  Age-Dependent Branching Processes  . . . 283--298
                    V. E. Benes   Composition and Invariance Methods for
                                  Solving Some Stochastic Control Problems 299--329
                  Ulrich Rieder   Bayesian Dynamic Programming . . . . . . 330--348
         Richard J. Kryscio and   
               Norman C. Severo   Computational and Estimation Procedures
                                  in Multidimensional Right-Shift
                                  Processes and Some Applications  . . . . 349--382
               John F. Reynolds   The Covariance Structure of Queues and
                                  Related Processes: A Survey of Recent
                                  Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--415
                 A. L. Truslove   The Busy Period of the E$_k$ /G/1 Queue
                                  with Finite Waiting Room . . . . . . . . 416--430
              Seymour M. Kwerel   Bounds on the Probability of the Union
                                  and Intersection of $m$ Events . . . . . 431--448
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Volume 7, Number 3, September, 1975

                 Roger Mead and   
               Peter Diggle and   
             Susannah Brown and   
             Philip Holgate and   
             Peter Clifford and   
                  Keith Ord and   
         Howard Ross-Parker and   
               Julian Besag and   
                 David Ford and   
              Ronald Martin and   
               Neil Arnason and   
             Denis Mollison and   
                   Eric Renshaw   Conference on Spatial Processes  . . . . 449--460
             D. R. Appleton and   
              H. E. Daniels and   
                 Tony Woods and   
                Kevin Gough and   
                John Steele and   
                 Rex Howell and   
            Peter J. Diggle and   
             Peter Clifford and   
               Byron Morgan and   
              Chris Preston and   
                  Joel E. Cohen   Conference on Stochastic Models in Space
                                  and Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461--467
                      H. Hering   Asymptotic Behaviour of
                                  Immigration-Branching Processes with
                                  General Set of Types. II: Supercritical
                                  Branching Part . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468--494
                    Carla Lipow   A Branching Model with Population Size
                                  Dependence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495--510
                James W. Pitman   One-Dimensional Brownian Motion and the
                                  Three-Dimensional Bessel Process . . . . 511--526
         James H. Gilchrist and   
                 John B. Thomas   A Shot Process with Burst Properties . . 527--541
                D. A. Evans and   
                   K. R. Clarke   Estimation of Embedded Particle
                                  Properties from Plane Section Intercepts 542--560
                M. Frank Norman   Limit Theorems for Stationary
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561--575
                    Bent Natvig   On the Input and Output Processes for a
                                  General Birth-and-Death Queueing Model   576--592
                Allan H. Marcus   Some Exact Distributions in Traffic
                                  Noise Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593--606
            Lajos Takács   Combinatorial and Analytic Methods in
                                  the Theory of Queues . . . . . . . . . . 607--635
                   John Dagsvik   The General Bulk Queue as a Matrix
                                  Factorisation Problem of the
                                  Wiener--Hopf Type. Part I  . . . . . . . 636--646
                   John Dagsvik   The General Bulk Queue as a Matrix
                                  Factorisation Problem of the
                                  Wiener--Hopf Type. Part II . . . . . . . 647--655
                   John H. Rath   Controlled Queues in Heavy Traffic . . . 656--671
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 7, Number 4, December, 1975

                   Trevor Lewis   A Model for the Parasitic Disease
                                  Bilharziasis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673--704
                  N. H. Bingham   Fluctuation Theory in Continuous Time    705--766
            Priscilla Greenwood   Wiener--Hopf Methods, Decompositions,
                                  and Factorisation Identities for Maxima
                                  and Minima of Homogeneous Random
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 767--785
             Béla Gyires   On an Extension of a Theorem of Linnik
                                  and Zinger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 786--800
                      John Rice   Estimated Factorisation of the Spectral
                                  Density of a Stationary Point Process    801--817
                    R. E. Miles   Direct Derivations of Certain Surface
                                  Integral Formulae for the Mean
                                  Projections of a Convex Set  . . . . . . 818--829
            Lajos Takács   A Storage Process with Semi-Markov Input 830--844
              P. Brémaud   Estimation de l'état d'une file d'attente
                                  et du temps de panne d'une machine par
                                  la méthode de semi-martingales. (French)
                                  [Estimating the state of a queue, and
                                  the downtime of a machine by the method
                                  of semi-martingales] . . . . . . . . . . 845--863
                  J. M. Pollard   Combinatorial Properties of a Queueing
                                  System with Limited Availability . . . . 864--877
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 878--880
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 8, Number 1, March, 1976

                    C. Cannings   Multitype Drift Models . . . . . . . . . 1--2
             Brian Charlesworth   Recombination Modification in a
                                  Fluctuating Environment  . . . . . . . . 2--4
              D. Y. Downham and   
                  S. M. M. Shah   A Sufficiency Condition for the
                                  Stability of an Equilibrium  . . . . . . 4--7
             Christa M. Fielden   Inbreeding Coefficients Derived from the
                                  Plenary Pedigree . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--10
                William G. Hill   Linkage Disequilibrium among Neutral
                                  Mutant Alleles in Finite Population  . . 10--12
               R. W. Hiorns and   
                   J. Kirby and   
                 G. A. Harrison   Selective Out-Migration: The Genetic
                                  Effects in Human Populations . . . . . . 12--15
                     P. Holgate   The Total Number of Heterozygotes before
                                  Fixation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--16
Jesús Alberto León   Selection and Senescence: A Variational
                                  Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--19
                   A. Robertson   Variation in Gene Frequency over
                                  Populations as a Test for Natural
                                  Selection  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--20
                     J. Rostron   A Multivariate Study of the Genetics of
                                  Dermal Ridges  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--22
                 C. F. Sing and   
                  E. D. Rothman   A Consideration of the Chi-Square Test
                                  of Hardy--Weinberg Equilibrium in a
                                  Non-Multinomial Situation  . . . . . . . 22--23
                       J. Stene   Analysis of Panmixia Based on Human
                                  Family Data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--27
                Curtis Strobeck   The Algebra of Recombination . . . . . . 27--29
             Byron J. T. Morgan   Stochastic Models of Grouping Changes    30--57
                   Harry Kesten   Recurrence Criteria for
                                  Multi-Dimensional Markov Chains and
                                  Multi-Dimensional Linear Birth and Death
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--87
                  John M. Holte   A Generalization of Goldstein's
                                  Comparison Lemma and the Exponential
                                  Limit Law in Critical
                                  Crump--Mode--Jagers Branching Processes  88--104
                  Jean-Guy Dion   Sur une caractérisation des vidanges
                                  fortes. (French) [On a characterization
                                  of strong drains]  . . . . . . . . . . . 105--126
               Philip C. Prorok   The Theory of Periodic Screening I: Lead
                                  Time and Proportion Detected . . . . . . 127--143
                    John Bather   Optimal Stationary Policies for
                                  Denumerable Markov Chains in Continuous
                                  Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144--158
                 D. R. Robinson   Markov Decision Chains with Unbounded
                                  Costs and Applications to the Control of
                                  Queues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--176
                   Rajat K. Deb   Optimal Control of Batch Service Queues
                                  with Switching Costs . . . . . . . . . . 177--194
             Stig. I. Rosenlund   Busy Periods in Time-Dependent M/G/1
                                  Queues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--208
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 8, Number 2, June, 1976

                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--210
                      Anonymous   Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--212
                   J. A. Bather   A Control Chart Model and a Generalised
                                  Stopping Problem for Brownian Motion . . 213--215
            A. T. Bharucha-Reid   Algebraic Models for Probability
                                  Measures on Banach Spaces  . . . . . . . 215--217
               C. L. Chiang and   
                      J. P. Hsu   On Multiple Transition Probabilities . . 217--219
                     J. Keilson   The Structure of Transient Distribution
                                  Functions for Time-Shared Computer
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--219
               M. R. Leadbetter   Point Processes: A Non-Topological View  219--221
            Lajos Takács   On Fluctuation Problems in the Theory of
                                  Queues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--222
                    Grace Wahba   The Approximate Solution of Linear
                                  Operator Equations When the Data Are
                                  Noisy  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222--223
                George H. Weiss   The Shot Noise Representation for Noise
                                  for a Free Traffic Stream  . . . . . . . 224--225
                   Alan F. Karr   Lévy Random Measures  . . . . . . . . . . 225--226
          Douglas R. Miller and   
            F. Dennis Sentilles   A Note on the Extension and Weak
                                  Convergence of Some Probability Measures 226--226
              F. W. Steutel and   
                    K. Van Harn   Interpolating between the
                                  Compound-Geometric and Compound-Poisson
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--228
               Vincenzo Capasso   A Semigroup Approach to the Study of a
                                  General Stochastic Epidemic  . . . . . . 228--229
                Robert D. Small   A Non-Markovian Population Growth Model
                                  with a Finite Limit Distribution and
                                  Bounded Variance . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--230
             Jean-Pierre Caubet   Relativistic Brownian Motion . . . . . . 230--231
    Göran Högnäs   Random Walks on Compact Semigroups . . . 231--232
                Miloslav Jirina   Extinction of Non-Homogeneous
                                  Galton--Watson Processes . . . . . . . . 233--233
                Benjamin Lepson   Statistical Fluctuations of Energy
                                  Losses of Charged Particles Passing
                                  through Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--234
                  Teunis J. Ott   The Covariance Function of Brownian
                                  Motion with Drift, Made Ergodic by a
                                  Reflecting Boundary  . . . . . . . . . . 234--235
            George H. Weiss and   
                Robert J. Rubin   The Ordered Spans of a Random Walk . . . 236--237
                   Larry George   Simulation of a Replacement Process and
                                  Complimentary Antithetic Variates  . . . 237--238
                Benjamin Lepson   Bounds for Skewness and Improved Moment
                                  Inequalities for Unimodal Distributions  238--239
           Domokos Szász   Renewal Theory and Multicomponent
                                  Reliability Systems  . . . . . . . . . . 239--240
                H. P. Edmundson   Statistical Estimation of the Inverse of
                                  a Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240--241
                      G. Farlay   Optimal Stochastic Control in Terms of
                                  Martingales  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--241
                 Percy H. Brill   A New Methodology for Modelling a Broad
                                  Class of Exponential Queues  . . . . . . 242--242
            Albert M. Liebetrau   Tests of Randomness Derived from an
                                  Estimator of the Variance-Time Curve of
                                  a Weakly Stationary Point Process  . . . 242--242
               J. H. A. De Smit   A Probabilistic Approach to Pollaczek's
                                  Integral Equations for the Many-Server
                                  Queue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--243
                      L. Kosten   Dynamic Behaviour of a Multi-Entry
                                  Buffer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--244
                Paul Schweitzer   Buffer Overflow Probabilities Using an
                                  Infinite-Capacity Model  . . . . . . . . 244--244
                    D. McDonald   Extensions to the Renewal Theorem  . . . 245--245
                R. Schassberger   On the Limiting Distribution of
                                  Generalized Semi-Markov Processes  . . . 245--246
                       R. Syski   On Last-Exit Time Distribution . . . . . 246--247
                   P. Todorovic   On the Structure of the Radon--Nikodym
                                  Derivative for a Markov Process  . . . . 247--248
                     J. Wessels   Markov Programming by Successive
                                  Approximations with Respect to Weighted
                                  Supremum Norms . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248--249
              M. N. Gopalan and   
               P. Venkatachalam   Probabilistic Analysis of a Two-Server
                                  $n$-Unit System Subject to Preventive
                                  Maintenance and Repair . . . . . . . . . 249--250
                  Nasser Hadidi   Appointment Scheme as Compared to Random
                                  Service and Arrival Times from Specific
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250--252
                Marcel F. Neuts   Algorithms for Waiting-Time
                                  Distributions under Various Queue
                                  Disciplines in the M/G/1 Queue with a
                                  Service-Time Distribution of Phase Type  252--252
                   R. T. Smythe   Multiparameter Subadditive Processes . . 252--254
                      Anonymous   Symposium on Statistical Techniques  . . 254--256
                  V. I. Kryukov   Wald's Identity and Random Walk Models
                                  for Neuron Firing  . . . . . . . . . . . 257--277
                    Michael Sze   Markov Processes Associated with
                                  Critical Galton--Watson Processes with
                                  Application to Extinction Probabilities  278--295
              Andrew D. Barbour   Quasi-Stationary Distributions in Markov
                                  Population Processes . . . . . . . . . . 296--314
               Martha J. Siegel   The Asymptotic Behavior of a Divergent
                                  Linear Birth and Death Process . . . . . 315--338
                W. Dunsmuir and   
                   E. J. Hannan   Vector Linear Time Series Models . . . . 339--364
                 P. Whittle and   
                    J. F. Rudge   Simultaneous Communication and Control   365--384
              P. Brémaud   Bang--Bang Controls of Point Processes   385--394
                    D. J. Daley   Queueing Output Processes  . . . . . . . 395--415
                    F. P. Kelly   Networks of Queues . . . . . . . . . . . 416--432
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 8, Number 3, September, 1976

             Gustav Feichtinger   On the Generalization of Stable Age
                                  Distributions to Gani-Type Person-Flow
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--445
                  J. D. Biggins   The First- and Last-Birth Problems for a
                                  Multitype Age-Dependent Branching
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446--459
               Philip C. Prorok   The Theory of Periodic Screening II:
                                  Doubly Bounded Recurrence Times and Mean
                                  Lead Time and Detection Probability
                                  Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460--476
                  David Mannion   Random Packing of an Interval  . . . . . 477--501
                     Harry Cohn   Finite Non-Homogeneous Markov Chains:
                                  Asymptotic Behaviour . . . . . . . . . . 502--516
                  Cristina Gzyl   Some Results about Markov Processes on
                                  Subsets of the State Space . . . . . . . 517--530
                   Esa Nummelin   Limit Theorems for $ \alpha $-Recurrent
                                  Semi-Markov Processes  . . . . . . . . . 531--547
            Lajos Takács   On Fluctuation Problems in the Theory of
                                  Queues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 548--583
              Andrew D. Barbour   Networks of Queues and the Method of
                                  Stages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 584--591
                   John Haslett   The Control of a Multipurpose Reservoir  592--609
                      Anonymous   Corrections to Prorok and Rosenlund  . . 610--611
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 8, Number 4, December, 1976

                    P. J. Avery   The Effect of Random Environments on
                                  Selection Schemes in Populations of a
                                  Finite Size  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613--616
               D. T. Bishop and   
                    C. Cannings   Models of Animal Conflict  . . . . . . . 616--621
                C. Cannings and   
             E. A. Thompson and   
                 H. H. Skolnick   The Recursive Derivation of Likelihoods
                                  on Complex Pedigrees . . . . . . . . . . 622--625
              D. Y. Downham and   
                  S. M. M. Shah   The Integral Equation Approach for
                                  Models of Clines . . . . . . . . . . . . 625--628
             Christa M. Fielden   Inbreeding: The Three-Locus Case . . . . 628--630
                      J. Hajnal   The Absolute Numbers of Consanguineous
                                  Marriages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 630--635
                William G. Hill   Effect of Family Structure in Small
                                  Populations on Selection Differentials
                                  and Correlation of Relatives'
                                  Performance for Quantitative Traits  . . 636--639
Jesús Alberto León and   
                B. Charlesworth   Ecological Versions of Fisher's
                                  Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection 639--641
             Cedric A. B. Smith   Matrix Calculations of Genetic
                                  Probabilities  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641--643
                      Jon Stene   A Model for Translocation Inheritance    643--645
               S. Tavaré   Sojourn Times for Conditioned Markov
                                  Chains in Genetics . . . . . . . . . . . 645--648
                 E. A. Thompson   A Paradox of Genealogical Inference  . . 648--650
          D. J. Bartholomew and   
              R. J. Bennett and   
               Julian Besag and   
                 Don McNeil and   
            Andrew D. Cliff and   
                  Keith Ord and   
            Pierre Delfiner and   
            Peter J. Diggle and   
            R. F. Galbraith and   
                  D. Walley and   
                 S. Gregory and   
              R. P. Haining and   
             R. J. Johnston and   
                    R. Mead and   
             Denis Mollison and   
                S. Openshaw and   
               Robin Sibson and   
               R. W. Thomas and   
             John Whitelegg and   
                   Neil Wrigley   Conference on Patterns and Processes in
                                  the Plane  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651--658
                 Stanley Sawyer   Branching Diffusion Processes in
                                  Population Genetics  . . . . . . . . . . 659--689
                Marcel F. Neuts   Moment Formulas for the Markov Renewal
                                  Branching Process  . . . . . . . . . . . 690--711
              Paul David Feigin   Maximum Likelihood Estimation for
                                  Continuous-Time Stochastic Processes . . 712--736
                  R. L. Tweedie   Criteria for Classifying General Markov
                                  Chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 737--771
               Arie Hordijk and   
         Donald L. Iglehart and   
              Rolf Schassberger   Discrete Time Methods for Simulating
                                  Continuous Time Markov Chains  . . . . . 772--788
                Robert J. Adler   On Generalising the Notion of
                                  Upcrossings to Random Fields . . . . . . 789--805
                B. W. Silverman   Limit Theorems for Dissociated Random
                                  Variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 806--819
           Dag Tjòstheim   On Random Processes That Are Almost
                                  Strict Sense Stationary  . . . . . . . . 820--830
            D. Tjòstheim   Spectral Generating Operators for
                                  Non-Stationary Processes . . . . . . . . 831--846
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 847--850
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 9, Number 1, March, 1977

              D. J. Bartholomew   Maintaining a Grade or Age Structure in
                                  a Stochastic Environment . . . . . . . . 1--17
                  Joel E. Cohen   Ergodicity of Age Structure in
                                  Populations with Markovian Vital Rates.
                                  II. General States . . . . . . . . . . . 18--37
               R. T. Smythe and   
                John C. Wierman   First-Passage Percolation on the Square
                                  Lattice. I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--54
                    P. Nash and   
                  J. C. Gittins   A Hamiltonian Approach to Optimal
                                  Stochastic Resource Allocation . . . . . 55--68
                   J. W. Pitman   Occupation Measures for Markov Chains    69--86
               P. A. Jacobs and   
                 P. A. W. Lewis   A Mixed Autoregressive-Moving Average
                                  Exponential Sequence and Point Process
                                  (EARMA 1, 1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--104
            Vera Dufková   On Controlled One-Dimensional Diffusion
                                  Processes with Unknown Parameter . . . . 105--124
              B. W. Conolly and   
                        J. Chan   Generalised Birth and Death Queueing
                                  Processes: Recent Results  . . . . . . . 125--140
                Marcel F. Neuts   Some Explicit Formulas for the
                                  Steady-State Behavior of the Queue with
                                  Semi-Markovian Service Times . . . . . . 141--157
                  Teunis J. Ott   The Covariance Function of the Virtual
                                  Waiting-Time Process in an M/G/1 Queue   158--168
                  Teunis J. Ott   The Stable M/G/1 Queue in Heavy Traffic
                                  and Its Covariance Function  . . . . . . 169--186
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 9, Number 2, June, 1977

                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--188
                      Anonymous   Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--189
                  A. A. Balkema   Norming Sequences for Partial Maxima . . 190--190
                    J. W. Cohen   On the Optimal Switching Level for an
                                  M/G/1 Queueing System  . . . . . . . . . 191--191
                  H. E. Daniels   The Advancing Wave in a Spatial Birth
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--192
               J. H. A. De Smit   Analytical and Numerical Methods for
                                  Many Server Queues . . . . . . . . . . . 192--193
                Aryeh Dvoretzky   Generalizations of Martingales . . . . . 193--194
                  Bert Fristedt   Local Behavior of Stable Subordinators   194--195
        Priscilla Greenwood and   
                   Moshe Shaked   Fluctuation Theory for Multidimensional
                                  Processes and Applications to Diverse
                                  Storage Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--195
                    C. C. Heyde   On the Rate of Convergence in the
                                  Martingale Convergence Theorem . . . . . 196--196
                    J. Horowitz   Occupation Times and Other Accumulation
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196--197
                   Peter Jagers   Branching Processes and Cell
                                  Proliferation: A Survey  . . . . . . . . 197--197
                    F. P. Kelly   Exact Results for the Moran Neutral
                                  Allele Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--201
                Marcel F. Neuts   Algorithms for the Steady-State Behavior
                                  of a Queueing Model Involving Several
                                  Types of Customers and Change-over Times 201--202
                M. B. Priestley   Applications of Multivariate Techniques
                                  in the Study of Multivariable Stochastic
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202--205
            Herbert Robbins and   
                 John Whitehead   Order Statistics and the Pólya urn
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--206
                 Gideon Schwarz   Mutual Applications of Ergodic Theory
                                  and Stochastic Processes . . . . . . . . 206--207
                       R. Syski   Ergodic Potential of a Markov Chain  . . 207--208
                   S. J. Taylor   The Asymmetric Cauchy Process  . . . . . 208--208
                  R. L. Tweedie   Criteria for Classifying General Markov
                                  Chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208--210
                    Moshe Zakai   Stochastic Integrals in the Plane  . . . 210--212
                  David Mejzler   Limit Distributions for the Extreme
                                  Order Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 212--213
                    Wim Vervaat   On a Stochastic Difference Equation  . . 213--215
       Frederick J. Beutler and   
               Benjamin Melamed   Decomposition and Customer Streams of
                                  Feedback Queueing Networks in
                                  Equilibrium  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--216
                  B. W. Conolly   Recently Discovered Properties of
                                  Generalised Birth and Death
                                  State-Dependent Queueing Systems . . . . 216--217
                   Guy Latouche   On the Trade-off between Queue Occupancy
                                  and Server's Reward  . . . . . . . . . . 217--218
                  I. Elishakoff   Random Vibrations of Orthotropic Plates
                                  Clamped or Simply Supported All round    218--219
                    Will Gersch   ARMA Model Eigenvalues and an Amount of
                                  Information Measure Features for
                                  Automatic Classification of Multivariate
                                  EEG's  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--219
                  Anatole Joffe   Remark on a Paper by S. Litvin . . . . . 219--220
             Varda Liberman and   
                   Uri Yechiali   On the Hotel Overbooking Problem: An
                                  Inventory System with Stochastic
                                  Cancellations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220--220
                 Neil Risch and   
                   Charles Louy   Laplace Transforms for Residual Waiting
                                  Times with an Application in Genetics    221--222
                    K. Wickwire   Optimal Immunisation Rules for an
                                  Epidemic with Recovery . . . . . . . . . 222--223
                Donald Ornstein   Mechanical Systems and Random Processes  223--224
                 Benjamin Weiss   What Is a Random Sequence? . . . . . . . 224--224
                    T. Leviatan   Functionals of Markov Processes  . . . . 224--226
                Robert J. Adler   On Generalising the Notion of
                                  Upcrossings to Random Fields . . . . . . 226--227
                 R. A. Horn and   
                  F. W. Steutel   Some Results for Infinitely Divisible
                                  Distributions in $n$ Variables . . . . . 227--227
Jean-François Mertens and   
                   Shmuel Zamir   The Maximal Variation of a Bounded
                                  Martingale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228--228
             Helmut Pruscha and   
               Radu Theodorescu   Functions of Event Variables of a Random
                                  System with Complete Connections . . . . 228--229
          Charles M. Newman and   
                    B. W. Stuck   Discriminating between Two Markov
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--230
                     Bo Ranneby   How to Prove Strong Consistency of
                                  Maximum Likelihood Estimates . . . . . . 230--230
                   Itzhak Ravid   Confidence Intervals and Acceptance
                                  Tests  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--231
                  Reuven Meidan   A Generalized Karhunen--Lo\`eve
                                  Expansion  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--232
                 Emanuel Parzen   Isomorphism between Time Series Analysis
                                  and Non-Parametric Statistical Inference 232--233
              K. M. Van Hee and   
                     J. Wessels   Strongly Excessive Functions in Markov
                                  Decision Theory  . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--235
                H. C. P. Berbee   A Limit Theorem for the Superposition of
                                  Renewal Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . 235--236
                Torgny Lindvall   A Probabilistic Proof of Blackwell's
                                  Renewal Theorem  . . . . . . . . . . . . 236--236
                   P. Todorovic   On the Structure of the Radon--Nikodym
                                  Derivate for a Point Process . . . . . . 237--237
         Peter L. Antonelli and   
                Curtis Strobeck   The Geometry of Random Drift I.
                                  Stochastic Distance and Diffusion  . . . 238--249
         Peter L. Antonelli and   
               Jared Chapin and   
            G. Mark Lathrop and   
                 Kenneth Morgan   The Geometry of Random Drift II. The
                                  Symmetry of Random Genetic Drift . . . . 250--259
         Peter L. Antonelli and   
             Kenneth Morgan and   
                G. Mark Lathrop   The Geometry of Random Drift III.
                                  Recombination and Diffusion  . . . . . . 260--267
                 Stanley Sawyer   Asymptotic Properties of the Equilibrium
                                  Probability of Identity in a
                                  Geographically Structured Population . . 268--282
                John C. Wierman   First-Passage Percolation on the Square
                                  Lattice, II  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--295
                 G. De Leve and   
              A. Federgruen and   
                    H. C. Tijms   A General Markov Decision Method I:
                                  Model and Techniques . . . . . . . . . . 296--315
                 G. De Leve and   
              A. Federgruen and   
                    H. C. Tijms   A General Markov Decision Method II:
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316--335
                  Eugene Lukacs   Stability Theorems . . . . . . . . . . . 336--361
          P. Brémaud and   
                       J. Jacod   Processus ponctuels et martingales:
                                  résultats récents sur la modélisation et le
                                  filtrage. (French) [Point processes and
                                  martingales: Recent results on modeling
                                  and filtering] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362--416
            J. Michael Harrison   The Supremum Distribution of a Lévy
                                  Process with No Negative Jumps . . . . . 417--422
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 9, Number 3, September, 1977

                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--423
                  D. G. Kendall   Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424--425
             R. V. Ambartzumian   Stochastic Geometry from the Standpoint
                                  of Integral Geometry . . . . . . . . . . 425--426
                R. Féron   Fuzzy Random Correspondences . . . . . . 426--427
                  E. Geciauskas   The Distribution Function of the
                                  Distance between Two Points in a Convex
                                  Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--428
                  D. G. Kendall   The Diffusion of Shape . . . . . . . . . 428--430
               J. F. C. Kingman   The Thrown String: An Unsolved Problem   431--431
                  K. Krickeberg   Statistics of Random Flats . . . . . . . 432--432
                  V. M. Maximov   An Ergodic Theorem for Random Products
                                  of Euclidean Motions . . . . . . . . . . 433--433
                  F. Papangelou   Conditional Intensities of Point
                                  Processes: Their Application to
                                  Davidson's Problem and to Entropy  . . . 434--434
                   B. D. Ripley   The Point Processes of Stochastic
                                  Geometry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434--435
                   K. V. Mardia   Distributions on Stiefel and Grassmann
                                  Manifolds, and Their Applications  . . . 435--436
                     J. T. Kent   Convolutions and Diffusions on
                                  Fractional-Dimensional Spheres, with
                                  Applications to the von Mises--Fisher
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436--437
                     K. Urbanik   Geometric Decomposability Properties of
                                  Probability Measures . . . . . . . . . . 437--439
                 B. Grigelionis   Random Point-Measures with Non-Random
                                  Dual Predictable Projections . . . . . . 439--440
                  D. König   Stochastic Processes with Basic
                                  Stationary Marked Point Processes  . . . 440--442
                       J. Mecke   A Characterization of the
                                  Probability-Generating Functional for
                                  Point Processes on Measurable Spaces . . 442--442
                V. I. Piterbarg   On the Regular Increase of the Variance
                                  of the Number of Random Points in
                                  Euclidean Space  . . . . . . . . . . . . 443--444
                R. L. Dobrushin   Point Fields from the Gibbsian Point of
                                  View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444--445
                     K. Matthes   Spatially Homogeneous Branching
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445--446
               X. X. Nguyen and   
                      H. Zessin   Integral and Differential
                                  Characterizations of the Gibbs Process   446--447
                  C. J. Preston   The Relation between Grand Canonical and
                                  Canonical Gibbs States . . . . . . . . . 447--447
                    M. J. Faddy   Stochastic Compartmental Models as
                                  Approximations to More General
                                  Stochastic Systems with the General
                                  Stochastic Epidemic as an Example  . . . 448--461
                  Joel E. Cohen   Ergodicity of Age Structure in
                                  Populations with Markovian Vital Rates,
                                  III: Finite-State Moments and Growth
                                  Rate; An Illustration  . . . . . . . . . 462--475
                  D. K. Pickard   Asymptotic Inference for an Ising
                                  Lattice. II  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 476--501
                   Jan Grandell   Point Processes and Random Measures  . . 502--526
              Jeffrey J. Hunter   Renewal Theory in Two Dimensions: Bounds
                                  on the Renewal Function  . . . . . . . . 527--541
                     Harry Cohn   Countable Non-Homogeneous Markov Chains:
                                  Asymptotic Behaviour . . . . . . . . . . 542--552
                      John Rice   On Generalized Shot Noise  . . . . . . . 553--565
        Priscilla Greenwood and   
                   Moshe Shaked   Fluctuations of Random Walk in $ R^d $
                                  and Storage Systems  . . . . . . . . . . 566--587
                Adrian Baddeley   Integrals on a Moving Manifold and
                                  Geometrical Probability  . . . . . . . . 588--603
                Marcel F. Neuts   The M/G/1 Queue with Several Types of
                                  Customers and Change-over Times  . . . . 604--644
                P. J. Brockwell   Stationary Distributions for Dams with
                                  Additive Input and Content-Dependent
                                  Release Rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645--663
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 9, Number 4, December, 1977

              A. K. Shahani and   
                   D. M. Crease   Towards Models of Screening for Early
                                  Detection of Disease . . . . . . . . . . 665--680
                H.-J. Schuh and   
                  A. D. Barbour   On the Asymptotic Behaviour of Branching
                                  Processes with Infinite Mean . . . . . . 681--723
               Robert B. Davies   Testing the Hypothesis That a Point
                                  Process Is Poisson . . . . . . . . . . . 724--746
              Burton Singer and   
              Seymour Spilerman   Trace Inequalities for Mixtures of
                                  Markov Chains  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 747--764
              Charles M. Goldie   Convergence Theorems for Empirical
                                  Lorenz Curves and Their Inverses . . . . 765--791
             R. V. Ambartzumian   Stochastic Geometry from the Standpoint
                                  of Integral Geometry . . . . . . . . . . 792--823
                Adrian Baddeley   A Fourth Note on Recent Research in
                                  Geometrical Probability  . . . . . . . . 824--860
                      Anonymous   Correction: Point Processes and Random
                                  Measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 861--861
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 862--866
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??


Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 10, Number 1, March, 1978

                F. A. Attia and   
                  D. Y. Downham   A Numerical Investigation of a Model of
                                  Moran  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--3
                P. J. Avery and   
                     W. G. Hill   The Effect of Linkage Disequilibrium on
                                  the Genetic Variance of a Quantitative
                                  Trait  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--6
               D. T. Bishop and   
                    C. Cannings   The Generalised War of Attrition . . . . 6--7
               Emilio Carbonell   A Model to Detect Maternal and Epistatic
                                  Effects  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--10
               R. N. Curnow and   
                    J. H. Roger   A Two-Locus Model for the Inheritance of
                                  Disease  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10
                     P. Holgate   Canonical Multiplication in the Genetic
                                  Algebra for Linked Loci  . . . . . . . . 10--11
                    A. Lomnicki   Group Selection for the Self-Regulation
                                  of Population Density  . . . . . . . . . 11--14
                        O. Mayo   The Existence and Stability of a
                                  Three-Locus Gametophytically-Determined
                                  Self-Incompatibility System  . . . . . . 14--15
               Elizabeth Stuart   Linkage and Mapping Functions in Human
                                  Genetics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--17
               S. Tavaré   Age Distributions for Markov Processes
                                  in Genetics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--19
                 E. A. Thompson   Impossible Gene Identity States  . . . . 19--22
                     Atam Vetta   Negative Assortative Mating for a
                                  Polygenic Trait  . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--25
                C. Cannings and   
             E. A. Thompson and   
                 M. H. Skolnick   Probability Functions on Complex
                                  Pedigrees  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--61
                  J. D. Biggins   The Asymptotic Shape of the Branching
                                  Random Walk  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--84
                 Denis Mollison   Markovian Contact Processes  . . . . . . 85--108
      Sòren Asmussen and   
                  Niels Keiding   Martingale Central Limit Theorems and
                                  Asymptotic Estimation Theory for
                                  Multitype Branching Processes  . . . . . 109--129
           Dag Tjòstheim   Statistical Spatial Series Modelling . . 130--154
               R. T. Smythe and   
                John C. Wierman   First-Passage Percolation on the Square
                                  Lattice. III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--171
               William E. Boyce   Approximate Solution of Random Ordinary
                                  Differential Equations . . . . . . . . . 172--184
                Marcel F. Neuts   Markov Chains with Applications in
                                  Queueing Theory, Which Have a
                                  Matrix-Geometric Invariant Probability
                                  Vector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--212
                   John Dagsvik   Stability and Heavy Traffic Results for
                                  the General Bulk Queue . . . . . . . . . 213--231
              E. El-Neweihi and   
                F. Proschan and   
                  J. Sethuraman   A Simple Model with Applications in
                                  Structural Reliability, Extinction of
                                  Species, Inventory Depletion and Urn
                                  Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232--254
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 10, Number 2, June, 1978

                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--258
                      Anonymous   Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--259
              Richard E. Barlow   Recent Developments in Reliability
                                  Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--262
            Erhan Çinlar   Markov Point Processes . . . . . . . . . 262--263
                   E. B. Dynkin   A Stochastic Model of Economic
                                  Equilibrium  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--263
                        J. Gani   Some Very Applied Problems in Applied
                                  Probability  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--265
                  Niels Keiding   Statistical Inference in Branching
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266--266
                   Harry Kesten   Branching Diffusion with Absorption  . . 267--267
                  K. Krickeberg   Statistics of Point Processes  . . . . . 267--268
                   J. W. Pitman   An Extension of de Finetti's Theorem . . 268--270
                 H.-J. Rossberg   Phragmén--Lindelöf (PL) Theorems in
                                  Probability Theory . . . . . . . . . . . 270--272
                 Yu. A. Rozanov   Stochastic Markov Fields . . . . . . . . 272--273
            Michael Rubinovitch   On Subordinates of Regenerative
                                  Phenomena  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--274
                     A. J. Stam   On Limit Theorems with Infinite Limiting
                                  Measure  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274--277
            Shaler Stidham, Jr.   Optimal Control of Stochastic Service
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--278
                  Mark Westcott   Records and Random Record Processes  . . 278--280
                  Martin Barlow   Honest Times and Splitting Times . . . . 280--280
            Peter Gaenssler and   
                Winifried Stute   On Some Criteria for the Realization of
                                  Stochastic Processes . . . . . . . . . . 281--281
                Thomas G. Kurtz   Applications of Multiparameter Stopping
                                  Times  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282--283
                    K. Van Harn   Degrees of Infinite Divisibility and
                                  $p$-Functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--285
            Stephen James Wolfe   On the Unimodality of Infinitely
                                  Divisible Distribution Functions . . . . 285--286
                D. Birnbaum and   
                     R. Serfozo   Convergence of Image Measures and
                                  Integrals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286--288
                    D. McDonald   Local Limit Theorems for Sums of
                                  Integer-Valued Independent Random
                                  Variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288--288
                  Joop Mijnheer   Limit Points of $ n^{-1 / \alpha } S_n $ 289--289
          Holger Rootzén   Limit Distributions for the Error in
                                  Approximations of Stochastic Integrals   290--290
                 Georg Lindgren   Prediction of Level Crossings for
                                  Processes Containing Non-Ergodic
                                  Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290--291
                      K. Sharpe   The Crossings Process Generated by a
                                  Stationary $ \chi^2 $ Process  . . . . . 291--291
              K. B. Athreya and   
                         P. Ney   Regeneration and Imbeddings for
                                  Recurrent Markov Chains on General State
                                  Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292--292
              K. B. Athreya and   
                         P. Ney   Limit Theorems for Semi-Markov Processes
                                  and Renewal Theory for Markov Chains on
                                  General State Spaces . . . . . . . . . . 292--293
                H. C. P. Berbee   Recurrence for Random Walks with
                                  Stationary Increments  . . . . . . . . . 293--294
               P. Greenwood and   
                     J. Teugels   Geometrically Stopped Random Walk  . . . 294--295
                 Thomas Kaijser   On Markov Chains Associated to Random
                                  Systems with Complete Connection . . . . 295--297
                 Talma Leviatan   Continuation of Multiplicative
                                  (Additive) Functionals . . . . . . . . . 297--299
                     W. Vervaat   A Relation between the Brownian Bridge
                                  and the Brownian Excursion . . . . . . . 299--299
                   J. Wijngaard   Quasi-Compactness of Embedded Markov
                                  Processes and Entry Processes  . . . . . 300--301
                    Mark Berman   Regenerative Multivariate Point
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--301
                 Paul D. Feigin   A Characterization of Point Processes
                                  with the Order Statistic Property  . . . 301--304
                      G. F. Yeo   On a Superposition of Alternating
                                  Renewal Processes in Traffic . . . . . . 304--304
                    H.-J. Schuh   On the Asymptotic Behaviour of Branching
                                  Processes with Infinite Mean . . . . . . 305--307
                   J. A. Bather   Sufficient Statistics for Markov
                                  Decision Processes . . . . . . . . . . . 307--308
              A. Federgruen and   
                    H. C. Tijms   The Optimality Equation in Average Cost
                                  Denumerable State Semi-Markov Decision
                                  Problems, Recurrency Conditions and
                                  Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308--308
              K. M. Van Hee and   
                 J. Van Der Wal   Strongly Convergent Dynamic Programming  308--309
            Gerhard Hübner   Some Tests for Non-Optimal Actions in
                                  Markov Decision Problems with Absorption 309--310
                    R. P. Kertz   On $ \epsilon $-Optimal Plans for a
                                  Non-Stationary Dynamic Programming Model
                                  with General Total Reward Function . . . 310--311
          J. A. E. E. Van Nunen   Successive Approximations for Markov
                                  Decision Processes . . . . . . . . . . . 311--312
                    R. Bergmann   On the Estimation of the Mean Waiting
                                  Time and Bounds for Waiting Time
                                  Parameters in GI/G/1 . . . . . . . . . . 313--314
                    O. J. Boxma   On the Distribution of the Supremum of
                                  the Service Times in a Busy Cycle of the
                                  M/G/1 Queueing System  . . . . . . . . . 314--315
                   G. Dalen and   
                    Bent Natvig   On the Transient Waiting Time for GI/M/1
                                  with a 'Head of the Line' Priority
                                  Discipline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--316
    F. A. Van Der Duyn Schouten   An M/G/1 Queueing Model with Vacation
                                  Times  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316--316
                 E. Gelenbe and   
               R. Yasnogorodsky   A Queue with Server of Walking Type
                                  (Autonomous Service) . . . . . . . . . . 317--317
                Dietrich Stoyan   Queueing Networks: Insensitivity and a
                                  Heuristic Approximation  . . . . . . . . 318--318
                H. C. Tijms and   
    F. A. Van Der Duyn Schouten   Inventory Control with Two Switch-over
                                  Levels for a Class of Finite Capacity
                                  M/G/1 Queueing Systems with Variable
                                  Arrival and Service Rate . . . . . . . . 319--319
          T. L. Török   Balance Equations in Queueing Networks   320--320
        J. Michael Harrison and   
              Sidney I. Resnick   The Stationary Distribution and
                                  Recurrence Classification of a Storage
                                  Process with General Release Rule  . . . 321--321
                   E. F. Kasper   Stochastic Lifecycle Forecasting
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--322
                 V. Capasso and   
           S. L. Paveri Fontana   Stochastic Compartmental Analysis  . . . 323--325
                   E. J. Balder   An Extension of the Usual Model in
                                  Statistical Decision Theory with
                                  Applications to Stochastic Optimization
                                  Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--326
         Luuk P. J. Groenewegen   Characterization of Optimal Controls . . 326--327
                        R. Neck   On Some Economic Applications of
                                  Stochastic Control Theory  . . . . . . . 327--327
                Alain Le Breton   Parameter Estimation and Design of
                                  Inputs in a Linear Dynamical System  . . 328--329
                     H. Pruscha   Statistical Analysis of a Non-Markovian
                                  Model with Applications to Behavioural
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--330
                      F. Streit   Optimality Properties of Statistical
                                  Tests for Poisson Point Processes  . . . 330--331
                 Ishay Weissman   Estimation of Parameters and Large
                                  Quantiles Based on the $K$ Largest
                                  Observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--332
                    P. Van Beek   Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332--333
                   A. Brandwajn   An Approach to the Numerical Solution of
                                  Some Queueing Networks . . . . . . . . . 333--333
              Paul Van Beek and   
                 Hubert Keuning   An Application of the Diffusion
                                  Approximation Technique to
                                  Store-and-Forward Computer Network
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334--334
                    J. W. Cohen   On a General Class of Processer Sharing
                                  Service Facilities . . . . . . . . . . . 334--335
                   R. B. Haugen   On the Busy Period of GI/G/1 Queue with
                                  Two Priority Levels and Feedbacks  . . . 335--336
                    J. Hoogwerf   Mean Sojourn Time of Packets in a
                                  Computer Communications Network  . . . . 336--337
                      L. Kosten   Parametrisation of Overflow Traffic in
                                  Telecommunication and Data Handling  . . 337--338
                  A. Kramli and   
                     J. Soltesz   On the Optimality of the 'Least
                                  Frequently Used' Page Replacement
                                  Algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338--338
                        R. Kohn   Asymptotic Properties of Time Domain
                                  Gaussian Estimators  . . . . . . . . . . 339--359
                M. Deistler and   
                W. Dunsmuir and   
                   E. J. Hannan   Vector Linear Time Series Models:
                                  Corrections and Extensions . . . . . . . 360--372
                     Ken Sharpe   Some Properties of the Crossings Process
                                  Generated by a Stationary $ \chi^2 $
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--391
                  Tomasz Rolski   A Rate-Conservative Principle for
                                  Stationary Piecewise Markov Processes    392--410
                    Mark Berman   Regenerative Multivariate Point
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411--430
                     Bo Bergman   Optimal Replacement under a General
                                  Failure Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431--451
                  A. Federgruen   On $N$-Person Stochastic Games with
                                  Denumerable State Space  . . . . . . . . 452--471
                    David Assaf   Invariant Problems in Discounted Dynamic
                                  Programming  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472--490
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 10, Number 3, September, 1978

             Denis Mollison and   
                F. P. Kelly and   
            B. W. Silverman and   
                P. J. Green and   
                A. D. Cliff and   
                 P. Haggett and   
               B. D. Ripley and   
                C. R. Orton and   
                 E. D. Ford and   
                P. A. Mason and   
               Isobel Clark and   
                D. A. Jones and   
                J. C. Gower and   
             W. G. McGinley and   
            Frank Critchley and   
               Robin Sibson and   
                  D. G. Kendall   Conference on the Analysis of Spatial
                                  Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491--498
                D. J. Gates and   
                    M. Westcott   Zone of Influence Models for Competition
                                  in Plantations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499--537
                   Ken-Iti Sato   Convergence to a Diffusion of a
                                  Multi-Allelic Model in Population
                                  Genetics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 538--562
             Peter L. Antonelli   The Geometry of Random Drift IV. Random
                                  Time Substitutions and Stationary
                                  Densities  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563--569
              James A. Cavender   Quasi-Stationary Distributions of
                                  Birth-and-Death Processes  . . . . . . . 570--586
                 I. W. Saunders   Locating Bright Spots in a Point Process 587--612
               Harry M. Pierson   On a Class of Random Motions of Point
                                  Processes Involving Interaction  . . . . 613--632
             Douglas P. Kennedy   On Sets of Countable Non-Negative
                                  Matrices and Markov Decision Processes   633--646
                 M. J. Phillips   Sums of Random Variables Having the
                                  Modified Geometric Distribution with
                                  Application to Two-Person Games  . . . . 647--665
                   M. Yadin and   
                       S. Zacks   Adaptation of the Service Capacity in a
                                  Queueing System Which Is Subjected to a
                                  Change in the Arrival Rate at Unknown
                                  Epoch  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 666--681
                Bharat T. Doshi   Optimal Control of the Service Rate in
                                  an M/G/1 Queueing System . . . . . . . . 682--701
                      Anonymous   Corrections to Cohen and Stuart  . . . . 702--702
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 10, Number 4, December, 1978

                   D. R. McNeil   [Introduction] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 703--703
                 M. S. Bartlett   A Note on Random Walks at Constant Speed 704--707
                  J. H. Pollard   Fluctuating Interest Rates . . . . . . . 707--711
              A. M. Hasofer and   
                      P. Petocz   The Envelope of an Oscillatory Process
                                  and Its Upcrossings  . . . . . . . . . . 711--716
                      E. Seneta   A Relaxation View of a Genetic Problem   716--720
                G. A. Watterson   Simulating Samples from a Genetic
                                  Population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 720--723
                    C. C. Heyde   On an Explanation for the Characteristic
                                  Clutch Size of Some Bird Species . . . . 723--725
                  J. V. Corbett   Probability in Quantum Mechanics . . . . 725--729
                    H. S. Green   Distribution of Arrival Times in Cosmic
                                  Ray Showers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 730--735
                C. R. Heathcote   On Parametric Density Estimators . . . . 735--740
                   E. J. Hannan   Rates of Convergence for Time Series
                                  Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 740--743
                       L. Edler   Strict Supercritical
                                  Generation-Dependent Crump--Mode--Jagers
                                  Branching Processes  . . . . . . . . . . 744--763
             J. N. McDonald and   
                    N. A. Weiss   An Infinite Particle System with
                                  Continual Input and Random Death . . . . 764--787
                   Bruce Ebanks   The Branching Property in Generalized
                                  Information Theory . . . . . . . . . . . 788--802
           Stanley S. Wasserman   Models for Binary Directed Graphs and
                                  Their Applications . . . . . . . . . . . 803--818
                      John Kent   Time-Reversible Diffusions . . . . . . . 819--835
                R. Schassberger   Insensitivity of Steady-State
                                  Distributions of Generalized Semi-Markov
                                  Processes with Speeds  . . . . . . . . . 836--851
                     A. J. Stam   Heavy Traffic Limit Theorems in
                                  Fluctuation Theory . . . . . . . . . . . 852--866
            B. D. Sivazlian and   
                  J. F. Mahoney   Group Replacement of a Multicomponent
                                  System Which Is Subject to Deterioration
                                  Only . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 867--885
            J. Michael Harrison   The Diffusion Approximation for Tandem
                                  Queues in Heavy Traffic  . . . . . . . . 886--905
                R. Schassberger   The Insensitivity of Stationary
                                  Probabilities in Networks of Queues  . . 906--912
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 913--918
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??


Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 11, Number 1, March, 1979

                    P. J. Avery   The Effect of Finite Population Size on
                                  Selection Results for Two Linked Loci    1--2
               A. W. F. Edwards   Parsing a Genealogy  . . . . . . . . . . 2--3
                     Ivar Heuch   Equilibrium Populations of Plants with
                                  Diplo-Diplo Incompatibility  . . . . . . 3--4
                 W. G. Hill and   
                    P. J. Avery   Variation in Quantitative Traits and
                                  Heterozygosity as Influenced by Linkage
                                  and Mating Structure . . . . . . . . . . 4--5
               Robert W. Hiorns   The Consequences of Intermixture in
                                  Human Populations  . . . . . . . . . . . 5--7
                   John Rostron   Genetic Colonising Distance and a
                                  Problem in Algebra . . . . . . . . . . . 7--8
             Cedric A. B. Smith   Searching for Heterozygotes in
                                  Quantitative Characters  . . . . . . . . 8--9
                      Jon Stene   Ascertainment of Family Data . . . . . . 9--10
               S. Tavaré   Time Reversion and Age Distributions . . 10--12
                 E. A. Thompson   Extinction Probabilities and Pedigree
                                  Structure  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--13
                G. A. Watterson   Estimating and Testing Selection: The
                                  Two-Alleles, Genic Selection Diffusion
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--30
               Anthony G. Pakes   Limit Theorems for the Simple Branching
                                  Process Allowing Immigration, I. The
                                  Case of Finite Offspring Mean  . . . . . 31--62
              A. D. Barbour and   
               Anthony G. Pakes   Limit Theorems for the Simple Branching
                                  Process Allowing Immigration, II. The
                                  Case of Infinite Offspring Mean  . . . . 63--72
                 Joshua B. Levy   Transience and Recurrence of
                                  State-Dependent Branching Processes with
                                  an Immigration Component . . . . . . . . 73--92
                 Georg Lindgren   Prediction of Level Crossings for Normal
                                  Processes Containing Deterministic
                                  Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--117
          B. D. O. Anderson and   
                     T. Kailath   Forwards and Backwards Models for
                                  Finite-State Markov Processes  . . . . . 118--133
      S. Christian Albright and   
                  Wayne Winston   A Birth--Death Model of Advertising and
                                  Pricing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134--152
               S. Leigh Phoenix   The Asymptotic Distribution for the Time
                                  to Failure of a Fiber Bundle . . . . . . 153--187
           P. J. Schweitzer and   
                  A. Federgruen   Geometric Convergence of Value-Iteration
                                  in Multichain Markov Decision Problems   188--217
               Benjamin Melamed   On Poisson Traffic Processes in
                                  Discrete-State Markovian Systems with
                                  Applications to Queueing Theory  . . . . 218--239
                    Per Hokstad   On the Steady-State Solution of the
                                  M/G/2 Queue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240--255
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 11, Number 2, June, 1979

                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--259
                 A. A. Borovkov   On the Rate of Convergence and Large
                                  Deviations in the Invariance Principle   260--261
                   R. B. Davies   Inference from Non-Ergodic Time Series   261--262
                        J. Gani   Some Interesting Current Directions in
                                  Epidemic Theory  . . . . . . . . . . . . 262--262
                   E. J. Hannan   Linear Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--264
               J. F. C. Kingman   Deterministic and Stochastic Models in
                                  Population Genetics  . . . . . . . . . . 264--264
                  K. Krickeberg   Filtering Spatial Processes  . . . . . . 265--266
               P. A. Jacobs and   
                 P. A. W. Lewis   Time Series Generated by Mixtures: The
                                  DARMA(p,q) Process . . . . . . . . . . . 266--267
                    Ronald Pyke   Recent Developments in Empirical
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--268
              V. V. Sazonov and   
                  V. V. Ulyanov   On the Speed of Convergence in the
                                  Central Limit Theorem  . . . . . . . . . 269--270
                      E. Seneta   Coefficients of Ergodicity: Structure
                                  and Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . 270--271
            R. C. Griffiths and   
                    R. K. Milne   A Class of Bivariate Poisson Processes   272--273
                  Yoshifusa Ito   Renewal Processes Decomposable into
                                  i.i.d. Components  . . . . . . . . . . . 273--273
             D. R. Manfield and   
                       T. Downs   An Application of Multivariate Point
                                  Processes in Teletraffic Systems . . . . 274--274
                  J. L. Teugels   On the Rate of Convergence of the
                                  Maximum of a Compound Poisson Process    274--275
                  K. B. Athreya   A Markov Process Approach to Systems of
                                  Renewal Equations  . . . . . . . . . . . 275--276
                    F. E. Binet   On Bartlett's Characterisation of the
                                  Pólya Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276--277
                     Harry Cohn   On the Invariant Events of a Convergent
                                  Markov Chain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--277
              R. W. Gibberd and   
                       H. Lewis   Properties of Aggregated Markov Chains   277--278
             Pekka Tuominen and   
             Richard L. Tweedie   The Recurrence Structure of General
                                  Markov Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--279
             Pekka Tuominen and   
             Richard L. Tweedie   Exponential Ergodicity of General Markov
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--280
                  C. W. Aisbett   The Relation between Pointwise and
                                  Uniform Convergence of the Empirical
                                  Distributions of Identically Distributed
                                  Real Data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280--281
                   Noel Cressie   Random Set Limit Theorems  . . . . . . . 281--282
             Paul Embrechts and   
          Charles M. Goldie and   
                 N. Veraverbeke   Subexponential Distribution Functions
                                  and Some Applications  . . . . . . . . . 283--283
                    C. C. Heyde   On Central Limit and Iterated Logarithm
                                  Results for Subadditive Processes  . . . 283--284
                 Makoto Maejima   Non-Uniform Estimates in the Local Limit
                                  Theorem for Densities  . . . . . . . . . 284--285
                Tomoichi Nakata   On an Estimate of the Remainder Term in
                                  the Central Limit Theorem  . . . . . . . 285--286
                     D. Pollard   Weak Convergence on Non-Separable Metric
                                  Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286--288
               Galen R. Shorack   Extensions of the Darling and Erd\Hos
                                  Theorem on the Maximum of Normalized
                                  Sums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288--289
                Robert J. Adler   Spheres, Cubes, and Brownian Motions . . 289--289
                 Janos Galambos   Extreme Value Theory in Applied
                                  Probability  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--290
                     Ken Sharpe   On the Use of Upcrossings to Test for a
                                  Gaussian Process . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--291
              Tetsuo Fujimagari   On the Extinction Time Distribution of a
                                  Branching Process in Varying
                                  Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--292
                    H.-J. Schuh   Some Results on the Structure of
                                  Irregular Branching Processes with
                                  Infinite Mean  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292--293
                Akinobu Shimizu   The Stepping-Stone Model and a
                                  Stochastic Differential Equation . . . . 293--294
                   S. R. Wilson   Associative Mating for Familial
                                  Disorders: Some Anomalies  . . . . . . . 294--295
                    M. J. Faddy   Partial Stochastic/Deterministic Models
                                  in Epidemic Theory . . . . . . . . . . . 295--297
                   R. K. Watson   Some Extensions of the Standard Epidemic
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--297
              B. D. O. Anderson   A Physical Basis for Krein's Prediction
                                  Formulas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--298
                  M. A. Cameron   A Model for Transients . . . . . . . . . 298--299
                    Alan J. Lee   Sampling Theorems for Non-Stationary
                                  Random Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--300
                   I. V. Basawa   Asymptotic Theory of Inference for a
                                  Certain Class of Stochastic Processes    300--301
                  John B. Moore   On Strong Consistency of Least Squares
                                  Identification Algorithms  . . . . . . . 302--302
                  C. S. Withers   Estimating the Variance of the Sample
                                  Mean for Time Series with Applications
                                  to Robust Tests  . . . . . . . . . . . . 302--303
                  D. B. Abraham   The Phase Transition in the Discrete
                                  Gaussian Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--304
              P. K. W. Chan and   
                       T. Downs   Discounted Cost Criterion for Imperfect
                                  Maintenance  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304--304
                  Nasser Hadidi   A Stochastic Model for the Emergence of
                                  Poets  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--305
              Jeffrey J. Hunter   Queueing and Storage Systems in Parallel 305--306
                   G. R. Sutton   A Stochastic Model of Acoustic Wave
                                  Propagation through the Ocean  . . . . . 306--307
                    M. Westcott   Zone of Influence Models for Competition
                                  in Plantations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--307
                  M. A. Ali and   
                       N. Singh   Control Problem under Uncertainty  . . . 308--308
                  G. F. Ledwich   Adaptive Regulator Convergence for
                                  Variable Set Point . . . . . . . . . . . 309--309
                R. C. Griffiths   A Transition Density Expansion for a
                                  Multi-Allele Diffusion Model . . . . . . 310--325
                R. C. Griffiths   Exact Sampling Distributions from the
                                  Infinite Neutral Alleles Model . . . . . 326--354
                Richard Durrett   An Infinite Particle System with
                                  Additive Interactions  . . . . . . . . . 355--383
             Thomas J. Lorenzen   Generalizing the Secretary Problem . . . 384--396
                   M. Yadin and   
                       R. Syski   Randomization of Intensities in a Markov
                                  Chain  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397--421
               Benjamin Melamed   Characterizations of Poisson Traffic
                                  Streams in Jackson Queueing Networks . . 422--438
                David Sonderman   Comparing Multi-Server Queues with
                                  Finite Waiting Rooms, I: Same Number of
                                  Servers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439--447
                David Sonderman   Comparing Multi-Server Queues with
                                  Finite Waiting Rooms, II: Different
                                  Numbers of Servers . . . . . . . . . . . 448--455
                      Anonymous   Corrections to Melamed and Schweitzer    456--456
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 11, Number 3, September, 1979

             Masao Nagasawa and   
                 Takeo Maruyama   An Application of Time Reversal of
                                  Markov Processes to a Problem of
                                  Population Genetics  . . . . . . . . . . 457--478
              Samuel Karlin and   
                   Uri Liberman   A Natural Class of Multilocus
                                  Recombination Processes and Related
                                  Measures of Crossover Interference . . . 479--501
             Peter L. Antonelli   The Geometry of Random Drift V.
                                  Axiomatic Derivation of the WFK
                                  Diffusion from a Variational Principle   502--509
          Wolfgang Mergenthaler   A Sufficient Criterion for Particles
                                  Performing a Diffusive Motion with
                                  State-Dependent Death Rate to Die with
                                  Probability One  . . . . . . . . . . . . 510--526
               Howard M. Taylor   The Time to Failure of Fiber Bundles
                                  Subjected to Random Loads  . . . . . . . 527--541
                       R. Syski   Energy of Markov Chains  . . . . . . . . 542--575
                      E. Seneta   Coefficients of Ergodicity: Structure
                                  and Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . 576--590
                  David Mannion   Random Packing of an Interval. II  . . . 591--602
              D. J. Bartholomew   The Control of a Grade Structure in a
                                  Stochastic Environment Using Promotion
                                  Control  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603--615
                    O. J. Boxma   On a Tandem Queueing Model with
                                  Identical Service Times at Both
                                  Counters, I  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 616--643
                    O. J. Boxma   On a Tandem Queueing Model with
                                  Identical Service Times at Both
                                  Counters, II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 644--659
                    E. Nummelin   A Conservation Property for General
                                  GI/G/1 Queues with an Application to
                                  Tandem Queues  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 660--672
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 11, Number 4, December, 1979

                    Norio Okada   On Convergence to Diffusion Processes of
                                  Markov Chains Related to Population
                                  Genetics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673--700
                    D. Siegmund   Corrected Diffusion Approximations in
                                  Certain Random Walk Problems . . . . . . 701--719
     Jacqueline Gianini-Pettitt   Optimal Selection Based on Relative
                                  Ranks with a Random Number of
                                  Individuals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 720--736
            Robert V. Foutz and   
               R. C. Srivastava   Statistical Inference for Markov
                                  Processes When the Model Is Incorrect    737--749
                    Wim Vervaat   On a Stochastic Difference Equation and
                                  a Representation of Non-Negative
                                  Infinitely Divisible Random Variables    750--783
             Pekka Tuominen and   
             Richard L. Tweedie   Exponential Decay and Ergodicity of
                                  General Markov Processes and Their
                                  Discrete Skeletons . . . . . . . . . . . 784--803
        Philip Heidelberger and   
             Donald L. Iglehart   Comparing Stochastic Systems Using
                                  Regenerative Simulation with Common
                                  Random Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 804--819
                   J. Elker and   
                 D. Pollard and   
                       W. Stute   Glivenko-Cantelli Theorems for Classes
                                  of Convex Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . 820--833
                   Shigeru Mase   Random Compact Convex Sets Which Are
                                  Infinitely Divisible with Respect to
                                  Minkowski Addition . . . . . . . . . . . 834--850
                   K. Balagopal   On Queues in Discrete Regenerative
                                  Environments, with Application to the
                                  Second of Two Queues in Series . . . . . 851--869
              Eckhardt Gallisch   On Monotone Optimal Policies in a
                                  Queueing Model of M/G/1 Type with
                                  Controllable Service Time Distribution   870--887
                      John Kent   Acknowledgement of Priority  . . . . . . 888--888
                      Anonymous   Correction: Transience and Recurrence of
                                  State-Dependent Branching Processes with
                                  an Immigration Component . . . . . . . . 889--889
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 890--893
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??


Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 12, Number 1, March, 1980

             Bengt O. Bengtsson   How Evolutionarily Stable Is the XX/XY
                                  Sex-Determination System?  . . . . . . . 1--3
                C. Cannings and   
                    D. Gardiner   A Dynamic Programming Approach to
                                  Evolutionarily Stable Strategy Theory    3--5
                Christa Fielden   Inbreeding with Multiple Loci  . . . . . 5--5
                    D. Gardiner   The Behaviour of Strategy-Frequencies in
                                  Parker's Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--7
                     John Haigh   Persistence Times of Populations Subject
                                  to Random Disasters  . . . . . . . . . . 7--7
                     Ivar Heuch   Further Investigations of
                                  Incompatibility Systems in Angiosperm
                                  Plants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--7
                 Philip Holgate   Inbreeding in Genetic Algebras . . . . . 8--8
             Cedric A. B. Smith   Estimation of the Correlation between
                                  Relatives  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--9
                 R. W. K. Odoni   The Algebraic Approach to Bernstein's
                                  Problem on Mendelian Models of
                                  Inheritance  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--9
                        P. Stam   The Distribution of Heterogeneity in
                                  Finite Random Mating Populations . . . . 9--10
                      Jon Stene   Detection of Regulation of Family Size
                                  after Births of Affected Children  . . . 10--10
                 E. A. Thompson   Sequential Sampling Schemes for Sibships 10--11
                     Atam Vetta   Proof of Fischer's Fundamental Theorem
                                  of Natural Selection . . . . . . . . . . 11--13
               S. N. Ethier and   
                Thomas Nagylaki   Diffusion Approximations of Markov
                                  Chains with Two Time Scales and
                                  Applications to Population Genetics  . . 14--49
         Peter L. Antonelli and   
               Jared Chapin and   
                 B. H. Voorhees   The Geometry of Random Genetic Drift VI.
                                  A Random Selection Diffusion Model . . . 50--58
              Erik A. Van Doorn   Stochastic Monotonicity of Birth--Death
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--80
                   B. Klein and   
             P. D. M. Macdonald   The Multitype Continuous-Time Markov
                                  Branching Process in a Periodic
                                  Environment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--93
                     P. Whittle   Polymerisation Processes with
                                  Intrapolymer Bonding. I. One Type of
                                  Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--115
                     P. Whittle   Polymerisation Processes with
                                  Intrapolymer Bonding. II. Stratified
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--134
                     P. Whittle   Polymerisation Processes with
                                  Intrapolymer Bonding. III. Several Types
                                  of Unit  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--153
            Gerhard Hübner   Bounds and Good Policies in Stationary
                                  Finite-Stage Markovian Decision Problems 154--173
                    John Bather   Randomised Allocation of Treatments in
                                  Sequential Trials  . . . . . . . . . . . 174--182
                        R. Kohn   On the Spectral Decomposition of
                                  Stationary Time Series Using Walsh
                                  Functions. I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--199
                      B. Natvig   Improved Bounds for the Availability and
                                  Unavailability in a Fixed Time Interval
                                  for Systems of Maintained,
                                  Interdependent Components  . . . . . . . 200--221
                   V. Ramaswami   The N/G/1 Queue and Its Detailed
                                  Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222--261
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 12, Number 2, June, 1980

                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--265
                   D. J. Aldous   A New Look at Weak Convergence . . . . . 266--267
                     Elja Arjas   Classes of Residual Lifetime
                                  Distributions Conditioned on Failure
                                  Histories  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--267
                     R. Durrett   Infinite Particle Systems  . . . . . . . 268--268
                David Griffeath   Some Remarks on the Basic Contact
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--269
                    Henryk Gzyl   Infinitesimal Generators of Time-Changed
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--270
            J. Michael Harrison   Martingales and Stochastic Integrals in
                                  the Theory of Securities Markets . . . . 270--271
             Donald L. Iglehart   Exploiting Stochastic Structure in the
                                  Simulation of Networks of Queues . . . . 271--271
                     Jean Jacod   On the Construction of a Markov Process
                                  up to a Change of Time . . . . . . . . . 271--271
                Olav Kallenberg   Path Decomposition at Backward Times in
                                  Regenerative Sets  . . . . . . . . . . . 272--273
                   Alan F. Karr   A Partially Observed Poisson Process . . 273--273
                 B. Maisonneuve   Topics on Regenerative Sets and
                                  Subordinators  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--274
                 Takeo Maruyama   On an Overdominant Model of Population
                                  Genetics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274--275
                Michel Metivier   $ \pi^*$-Processes and Stochastic
                                  Equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--276
                 Yu. A. Rozanov   On Multidirectional Markov Processes . . 276--276
                      E. Seneta   Computing the Stationary Distribution
                                  for Infinite Markov Chains . . . . . . . 276--277
                   M. J. Sharpe   Markov Properties of Co-Optional Times   277--278
               A. N. Shirayayev   Some Limit Theorems for Simple Point
                                  Processes: Martingale Approach . . . . . 278--279
              Jos H. A. De Smit   A Probabilistic Approach to the
                                  Multiple-Server Queue  . . . . . . . . . 279--279
              Lawrence D. Stone   Optimal Search for Moving Targets  . . . 279--280
                  N. H. Bingham   Random Walks and Number-Theoretic
                                  Densities  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280--281
                F. Thomas Bruss   A Counterpart of the Borel--Cantelli
                                  Lemma  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--282
                I. I. Kotlarski   On a Characterization of Probability
                                  Distributions in Some Stochastic
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--283
                       R. Syski   Energy of a Martingale in the Limit  . . 283--284
                 M. S. Ali Khan   Central Limit Theorem for Stochastic
                                  Processes and Its Application in the
                                  Theory of Dams . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284--285
                  Joop Mijnheer   An Approximation of Partial Sums of
                                  i.i.d. Random Variables with Infinite
                                  Variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--286
                  G. L. O'Brien   Scaling Transformations for 0,1-Valued
                                  Sequences  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286--286
            Stephen James Wolfe   On a Continuous Analogue of the
                                  Stochastic Difference Equation $ X_n =
                                  \rho X_{n - 1} + B_n $ . . . . . . . . . 286--286
                  F. W. Steutel   Stable Lattice Distributions and
                                  Continuous-Time Branching Processes  . . 286--288
                    N. U. Ahmed   Stochastic Control on Hilbert Space for
                                  Linear Evolution Equations with Random
                                  Operator-Valued Coefficients . . . . . . 288--288
     Václav E. Benes and   
               Ioannis Karatzas   Optimal Stationary Linear Control of the
                                  Wiener Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288--289
                 Marc A. Berger   Stochastic Derivatives and Integral
                                  Equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--290
                       R. Ahmad   Markov Functionals and Their Algebraic
                                  Structure  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290--291
        Priscilla Greenwood and   
                     Jim Pitman   Fluctuation Identities for Random Walk
                                  by Path Decomposition at the Maximum . . 291--293
                   Burton Simon   Equivalent Markov-Renewal Processes  . . 293--293
               G. Mazziotto and   
                   J. Szpirglas   Filtering for Two-parameter Doubly
                                  Stochastic Poisson Measure . . . . . . . 294--294
               Roy Saunders and   
         Richard J. Kryscio and   
                 Gerald M. Funk   Poisson Limits for a Hard-core
                                  Clustering Model . . . . . . . . . . . . 294--294
                Richard Serfozo   Thinnings of Random Cluster Fields . . . 294--295
                 Ward Whitt and   
                  Shlomo Halfin   A New Heavy-Traffic Limit Theorem for
                                  Many-Server Queues . . . . . . . . . . . 295--295
                  David Pollard   A New Proof of Prohorov's Theorem  . . . 295--296
                 Sidney Resnick   Weak Convergence, Point Processes and
                                  Regular Variation  . . . . . . . . . . . 296--296
                Wim Vervaat and   
                     J. C. Smit   A Conditioned Functional Limit Theorem   296--297
                J. W. Cohen and   
                G. Hooghiemstra   Brownian Excursion, Brownian Meander and
                                  Limit Theorems for the M/G/1 Queue . . . 297--298
                       W. Eberl   Asymptotic Absorption Distributions in
                                  Birth-and-Death Processes  . . . . . . . 298--299
        Martin I. Goldstein and   
                  Fred M. Hoppe   Minimal Convergence Conditions for
                                  Critical Age-Dependent Processes . . . . 299--300
                    W. Kliemann   Ergodic Theory of Stochastic Systems and
                                  Non-Linear Control . . . . . . . . . . . 300--301
        Anne-Marie De Meyer and   
                  J. L. Teugels   On the Asymptotic Behaviour of the
                                  Busy-Period Distribution in M/G/1 Queues 301--302
                     Bo Ranneby   The Ergodic Theorem for $ D_q $-Valued
                                  Random Elements  . . . . . . . . . . . . 302--303
                 S. W. Woolford   On Limit Theorems Associated with a
                                  Storage Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--304
                      L. Arnold   Mathematical Models of Chemical
                                  Reactions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304--304
            P. J. Brockwell and   
            N. Pacheco-Santiago   Invariant Imbedding and Dams with
                                  Markovian Input Rate . . . . . . . . . . 304--305
                  Neil Bromberg   Random Walk Models in Xerographic
                                  Development  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--306
                   Donald Geman   Confluent Brownian Motions . . . . . . . 306--306
                J. D. Griffiths   A Stochastic Model for Delays at a
                                  Non-Signalized Pedestrian Crossing . . . 307--307
             Haim Mendelson and   
                   Uri Yechiali   Performance Measures for Ordered Lists
                                  in Random-Access Files . . . . . . . . . 308--308
                  Nasser Hadidi   Partially Correlated Queues  . . . . . . 308--310
          Walter A. Rosenkrantz   Some Theorems for the Virtual Waiting
                                  Time Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310--311
                D. P. Gaver and   
                   P. A. Jacobs   On Combinations of Random Loads  . . . . 311--311
                Ramesh C. Gupta   Some Characterizations of Renewal
                                  Densities with Emphasis in Reliability   311--312
         Albert W. Marshall and   
                   Moshe Shaked   Univariate NBU Processes . . . . . . . . 312--313
                Y. M. El-Fattah   Recursive Algorithms for Adaptive
                                  Control of Finite Markov Chains  . . . . 313--313
             G. J. Foschini and   
                   M. I. Reiman   Controlling Tandem Processors  . . . . . 313--314
        Shaler Stidham, Jr. and   
                Jacob Wijngaard   Foward Recursion for Average Reward
                                  Markovian Decision Processes Which Are
                                  Skip-Free to the Right . . . . . . . . . 314--314
                    Will Gersch   Discrimination in Stationary and
                                  Non-Stationary Time Series . . . . . . . 314--315
                   J. Y. Kassab   Generalisation of Statistical
                                  Differentials with Applications to
                                  Estimation of Autocorrelation in General
                                  Linear Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--316
               Roy Saunders and   
               Purushottam Laud   Quantile and Contour Regions for
                                  Multivariate Distributions . . . . . . . 316--316
                  John S. White   The Distribution of the Serial
                                  Correlation Coefficient for a Stationary
                                  Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316--317
                   Gary L. Wise   The Non-Bandlimitedness of a Class of
                                  Random Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--317
               G. Arthur Mihram   Stochastic Simulation: Its Seed
                                  Virtually Precludes the Application of
                                  Regenerative Processes . . . . . . . . . 317--318
             Bengt Von Bahr and   
         Anders Martin-Löf   Threshold Limit Theorems for Some
                                  Epidemic Processes . . . . . . . . . . . 319--349
              Tetsuo Fujimagari   On the Extinction Time Distribution of a
                                  Branching Process in Varying
                                  Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350--366
                  L. Arnold and   
                M. Theodosopulu   Deterministic Limit of the Stochastic
                                  Model of Chemical Reactions with
                                  Diffusion  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--379
           David G. Kendall and   
             Wilfrid S. Kendall   Alignments in Two-Dimensional Random
                                  Sets of Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380--424
                    R. E. Miles   The Random Tangential Projection of a
                                  Surface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425--446
                Adrian Baddeley   A Limit Theorem for Statistics of
                                  Spatial Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447--461
                        R. Kohn   On the Spectral Decomposition of
                                  Stationary Time Series Using Walsh
                                  Functions. II  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462--474
           Robert Lugannani and   
                   Stephen Rice   Saddle Point Approximation for the
                                  Distribution of the Sum of Independent
                                  Random Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 475--490
                     Peter Hall   Estimating Probabilities for Normal
                                  Extremes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491--500
                     Do Le Minh   The GI/G/1 Queue with Uniformly Limited
                                  Virtual Waiting Times; The Finite Dam    501--516
             Patricia A. Jacobs   Heavy Traffic Results for Single-Server
                                  Queues with Dependent (EARMA) Service
                                  and Interarrival Times . . . . . . . . . 517--529
           S. K. Srinivasan and   
        C. Chudalaimuthu Pillai   Correlation Functions in the G/M/1
                                  System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530--540
                      Anonymous   Correction: The Insensitivity of
                                  Stationary Probabilities in Networks of
                                  Queues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541--541
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 12, Number 3, September, 1980

                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543--544
                       P. Tautu   Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545--546
             Renato Baserga and   
              Brian I. Lord and   
               R. Schofield and   
      Christopher S. Potten and   
              A. D. Barbour and   
      Robert Bartoszy\'nski and   
            John D. Biggins and   
         James M. Greenberg and   
         F. C. Hoppensteadt and   
              W. Jäger and   
               Harry Kesten and   
             Masao Nagasawa and   
                   G. Oster and   
             Werner Rittgen and   
          Henry C. Tuckwell and   
            Michael Turelli and   
          Arthur T. Winfree and   
                    Carla Wofsy   Proliferation, Spread and
                                  Reaction-Dispersal Processes . . . . . . 546--555
          Hans Föllmer and   
          Thomas M. Liggett and   
        Klaus Schürger and   
              Frank Spitzer and   
              Maury Bramson and   
            David Griffeath and   
          William A. Little and   
               A. Robertson and   
                       P. Tautu   Random Systems with Locally Interacting
                                  Objects  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555--559
       Hans-Peter Altenburg and   
    Wolfgang J. Bühler and   
          Donald G. Aronson and   
        Norman T. J. Bailey and   
          Konrad Bögel and   
               Odo Diekmann and   
                 P. C. Fife and   
             L. A. Peletier and   
             Denis Mollison and   
             F. H. Rijsdijk and   
               J. C. Zadoks and   
                   F. Rothe and   
             Stanley Sawyer and   
              K. Schumacher and   
            Horst R. Thieme and   
             Hans F. Weinberger   Spatial Models in Epidemiology and
                                  Genetics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559--566
               Wolfgang Alt and   
             George I. Bell and   
             Howard C. Berg and   
          Evelyn Fox Keller and   
         I. Richard Lapidus and   
        Michael Levandowsky and   
      Douglas Lauffenburger and   
                   Ralph Nossal   Models for Cell Motility . . . . . . . . 566--569
                 Halim Doss and   
                Thomas G. Kurtz   Stochastic versus Deterministic
                                  Approaches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569--570
                  C. Conley and   
               Joel Smoller and   
           J. M. Hammersley and   
           David G. Kendall and   
           Nguyen Xuan Xanh and   
     George C. Papanicolaou and   
               Robert T. Smythe   Further Mathematical Approaches and
                                  Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571--573
                David Stirzaker   Inheritance  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 574--590
                  A. D. Barbour   Equilibrium Distributions Markov
                                  Population Processes . . . . . . . . . . 591--614
                      J. Hutton   The Recurrence and Transience of
                                  Two-Dimensional Linear Birth and Death
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 615--639
                    Wulf Rehder   The Asymptotic Distribution of Random
                                  Molecules  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 640--654
               David K. Pickard   Unilateral Markov Fields . . . . . . . . 655--671
                  Yoshifusa Ito   Renewal Processes Decomposable into
                                  i.i.d. Components  . . . . . . . . . . . 672--688
                      M. Riedel   Characterization of Stable Processes by
                                  Identically Distributed Stochastic
                                  Integrals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 689--709
                        D. Wolf   Approximation of the Invariant
                                  Probability Measure of an Infinite
                                  Stochastic Matrix  . . . . . . . . . . . 710--726
                D. P. Gaver and   
                 P. A. W. Lewis   First-Order Autoregressive Gamma
                                  Sequences and Point Processes  . . . . . 727--745
                 Georg Lindgren   Extreme Values and Crossings for the $
                                  \chi^2$-Process and Other Functions of
                                  Multidimensional Gaussian Processes,
                                  with Reliability Applications  . . . . . 746--774
            Donald A. Berry and   
                  Bert Fristedt   Two-Armed Bandits with a Goal, I. One
                                  Arm Known  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 775--798
                    Per Hokstad   The Steady-State Solution of the M/K$_2$
                                  /m Queue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 799--823
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 12, Number 4, December, 1980

                   Gail Ivanoff   The Branching Random Field . . . . . . . 825--847
                   Harry Kesten   On the Time Constant and Path Length of
                                  First-Passage Percolation  . . . . . . . 848--863
                J. Theodore Cox   The Time Constant of First-Passage
                                  Percolation on the Square Lattice  . . . 864--879
                  J. Ansell and   
                 A. Bendell and   
                      S. Humble   Nested Renewal Processes . . . . . . . . 880--892
        Priscilla Greenwood and   
                     Jim Pitman   Fluctuation Identities for Lévy Processes
                                  and Splitting at the Maximum . . . . . . 893--902
                    S. Kotz and   
                 D. N. Shanbhag   Some New Approaches to Probability
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 903--921
                Peter Findeisen   Asymptotic Properties of a Certain Class
                                  of Bush-Mosteller Learning Models  . . . 922--941
              Shirish D. Chikte   Optimal Sequential Selection and
                                  Resource Allocation under Uncertainty    942--957
            Donald A. Berry and   
                  Bert Fristedt   Two-Armed Bandits with a Goal, II.
                                  Dependent Arms . . . . . . . . . . . . . 958--971
 Sòren Glud Johansen and   
            Shaler Stidham, Jr.   Control of Arrivals to a Stochastic
                                  Input-Output System  . . . . . . . . . . 972--999
                 J. Walrand and   
                     P. Varaiya   Sojourn Times and the Overtaking
                                  Condition in Jacksonian Networks . . . . 1000--1018
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 1019--1026
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 13, Number 1, March, 1981

               D. T. Bishop and   
                    C. Cannings   The War of Attrition with Random
                                  Rewards. II  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
                   R. N. Curnow   Progeny Testing Using Presence/Absence
                                  Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
                 K. P. Donnelly   Linkage, Complete Genetic Information
                                  and the Probability of Relationships
                                  Being Detectable . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--2
                   I. Heuch and   
                     M. Homleid   A Simple Model for Linked Loci with
                                  Recombination Values Depending on the
                                  Genotype at One Locus  . . . . . . . . . 3--3
                     W. G. Hill   Estimation of Effective Population Size
                                  from Data on Linked Genes  . . . . . . . 4--4
                     P. Holgate   Rates of First Fixation in Finite
                                  Multilocus Populations . . . . . . . . . 4--5
             Alan Robertson and   
                     W. G. Hill   The Estimation of the Inbreeding
                                  Coefficient from Deviations from
                                  Hardy--Weinberg Equilibrium  . . . . . . 5--5
                     J. Rostron   Genetic Parameter Estimation. A
                                  General-Purpose Maximum Likelihood
                                  Program  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
                  S. P. Simpson   Ascertainment When the Trait Has a
                                  Variable Age of Onset  . . . . . . . . . 6--7
                      Jon Stene   Comparisons of Assumptions for Different
                                  Ascertainment Models . . . . . . . . . . 7--8
                 E. A. Thompson   Impossible Combinations of Gene
                                  Correlations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--9
             Robert Thomson and   
             Cedric A. B. Smith   Estimating the Frequencies of Origins of
                                  Trisomics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--11
                     Atam Vetta   Fisher's Theory of Evolution of
                                  Dominance  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--12
    Angelika Wörz-Busekros   Remarks on Genetic Algebras  . . . . . . 13--13
            Klaus Schürger   A Class of Branching Processes on a
                                  Lattice with Interactions  . . . . . . . 14--39
                Colin McDiarmid   General Percolation and Random Graphs    40--60
                Richard Serfozo   Optimal Control of Random Walks, Birth
                                  and Death Processes, and Queues  . . . . 61--83
                 A. Fellous and   
                     J. Granara   Statistique des processus de Poisson
                                  stationnaires de sous-variétés linéaires
                                  affines. (French) [Statistical of
                                  stationary Poisson process of linear
                                  affine submanifolds] . . . . . . . . . . 84--92
              Samuel Karlin and   
                   Yosef Rinott   Entropy Inequalities for Classes of
                                  Probability Distributions I. The
                                  Univariate Case  . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--112
               Ibrahim A. Ahmad   The Exact Order of Normal Approximation
                                  in Bivariate Renewal Theory  . . . . . . 113--128
                W. Dunsmuir and   
                 P. M. Robinson   Parametric Estimators for Stationary
                                  Time Series with Missing Observations    129--146
                C. Atkinson and   
                 M. E. Thompson   Analysis of Two Parallel Queues with
                                  Common Exit Service and Infinite Queue
                                  Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--166
   Julian Köllerström   A Second-Order Heavy Traffic
                                  Approximation for the Queue GI/G/1 . . . 167--185
                H. C. Tijms and   
            M. H. Van Hoorn and   
                  A. Federgruen   Approximations for the Steady-State
                                  Probabilities in the M/G/c Queue . . . . 186--206
                     Ward Whitt   Comparing Counting Processes and Queues  207--220
                    E. Nummelin   Regeneration in Tandem Queues  . . . . . 221--230
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 13, Number 2, June, 1981

                  John B. Walsh   A Stochastic Model of Neural Response    231--281
       O. Barndorff-Nielsen and   
                  J. N. Darroch   A Stochastic Model for Sand Sorting in a
                                  Wind-Tunnel  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282--297
                John C. Wierman   Bond Percolation on Honeycomb and
                                  Triangular Lattices  . . . . . . . . . . 298--313
                 G. R. Grimmett   Critical Sponge Dimensions in
                                  Percolation Theory . . . . . . . . . . . 314--324
              Samuel Karlin and   
                   Yosef Rinott   Entropy Inequalities for Classes of
                                  Probability Distributions II. The
                                  Multivariate Case  . . . . . . . . . . . 325--351
                  John B. Walsh   Well-Timed Diffusion Approximations  . . 352--368
         Richard D. Bourgin and   
                 Robert Cogburn   On Determining Absorption Probabilities
                                  for Markov Chains in Random Environments 369--387
                     Harry Cohn   On a Paper by Doeblin on Non-Homogeneous
                                  Markov Chains  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388--401
          V. V. Kalashnikov and   
                 S. A. Anichkin   Continuity of Random Sequences and
                                  Approximation of Markov Chains . . . . . 402--414
           Mark Finkelstein and   
                 Robert Whitley   Optimal Strategies for Repeated Games    415--428
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 13, Number 3, September, 1981

               S. N. Ethier and   
                Thomas G. Kurtz   The Infinitely-Many-Neutral-Alleles
                                  Diffusion Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . 429--452
             W. G. S. Hines and   
                    W. S. Moore   An Analysis of Sex in Random
                                  Environments, I  . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--463
                    David Tanny   On Multitype Branching Processes in a
                                  Random Environment . . . . . . . . . . . 464--497
                 B. R. Bhat and   
                     S. R. Adke   Maximum Likelihood Estimation for
                                  Branching Processes with Immigration . . 498--509
           Gregory Campbell and   
             Stephen M. Samuels   Choosing the Best of the Current Crop    510--532
                    R.-D. Reiss   Uniform Approximation to Distributions
                                  of Extreme Order Statistics  . . . . . . 533--547
                     L. Tierney   The Asymptotic Time to Failure of a
                                  Bundle of Fibers with Random Slacks  . . 548--566
             N. M. H. Smith and   
                      G. F. Yeo   On a General Storage Problem and Its
                                  Approximating Solution . . . . . . . . . 567--602
                  Tomasz Rolski   Queues with Non-Stationary Input Stream:
                                  Ross's Conjecture  . . . . . . . . . . . 603--618
                Yukio Takahashi   Asymptotic Exponentiality of the Tail of
                                  the Waiting-Time Distribution in a
                                  PH/PH/c Queue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619--630
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 13, Number 4, December, 1981

               W. A. O'N. Waugh   Application of the Galton--Watson
                                  Process to the Kin Number Problem  . . . 631--649
          Martin Härnqvist   Limit Theorems for Point Processes
                                  Generated in a General Branching Process 650--668
                 Elja Arjas and   
            Priscilla Greenwood   Competing Risks and Independent Minima:
                                  A Marked Point Process Approach  . . . . 669--680
           Anthony G. Pakes and   
            Simon Tavaré   Comments on the Age Distribution of
                                  Markov Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . 681--703
                   Harold Ruben   The Lifetimes of Configuration States in
                                  Statistical Physics  . . . . . . . . . . 704--719
              A. D. Barbour and   
                R. Schassberger   Insensitive Average Residence Times in
                                  Generalized Semi-Markov Processes  . . . 720--735
                  A. D. Barbour   Brownian Motion and a Sharply Curved
                                  Boundary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 736--750
            William F. Eddy and   
                  James D. Gale   The Convex Hull of a Spherically
                                  Symmetric Sample . . . . . . . . . . . . 751--763
                     P. Whittle   Risk-Sensitive Linear/Quadratic/Gaussian
                                  Control  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 764--777
            Yousri M. El-Fattah   Gradient Approach for Recursive
                                  Estimation and Control in Finite Markov
                                  Chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 778--803
                 M. E. Thompson   Estimation of the Parameters of a
                                  Semi-Markov Process from Censored
                                  Records  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 804--825
             A. J. Lawrance and   
                 P. A. W. Lewis   A New Autoregressive Time Series Model
                                  in Exponential Variables (NEAR(1)) . . . 826--845
                David Y. Burman   Insensitivity in Queueing Systems  . . . 846--859
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 860--862
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 14, Number 1, March, 1982

             K. N. Venkataraman   A Time Series Approach to the Study of
                                  the Simple Subcritical Galton--Watson
                                  Process with Immigration . . . . . . . . 1--20
                D. S. Freed and   
                    L. A. Shepp   A Poisson Process Whose Rate Is a Hidden
                                  Markov Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--36
           Jacques-Edouard Dies   Hendricks Libraries and Tsetlin Piles    37--55
             Dorit Hochbaum and   
              J. Michael Steele   Steinhaus's Geometric Location Problem
                                  for Random Samples in the Plane  . . . . 56--67
             D. Gary Harlow and   
               S. Leigh Phoenix   Probability Distributions for the
                                  Strength of Fibrous Materials under
                                  Local Load Sharing I: Two-Level Failure
                                  and Edge Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--94
                   Luke Tierney   Asymptotic Bounds on the Time to Fatigue
                                  Failure of Bundles of Fibers under Local
                                  Load Sharing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--121
            Hans-Joachim Langen   Applying the Method of Phases in the
                                  Optimization of Queuing Systems  . . . . 122--142
          Sòren Asmussen   Conditioned Limit Theorems Relating a
                                  Random Walk to Its Associate, with
                                  Applications to Risk Reserve Processes
                                  and the GI/G/1 Queue . . . . . . . . . . 143--170
                     Ward Whitt   On the Heavy-Traffic Limit Theorem for
                                  GI/G/$ \infty $ Queues . . . . . . . . . 171--190
                 Peter W. Glynn   On the Markov Property of the GI/G/$
                                  \infty $ Gaussian Limit  . . . . . . . . 191--194
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 14, Number 2, June, 1982

                    P. M. Allen   Modelling Dynamic Self-Organization in
                                  Complex Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--196
                  W. O. Friesen   Organization of Neural Networks in the
                                  Invertebrates  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196--197
                       H. Haken   Synergetics: An Approach to Complex
                                  Dynamic Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--197
                     A. I. Mees   Communication in Biological Cells  . . . 197--198
                  J. S. Nicolis   A Dynamic Approach to Language . . . . . 198--199
                     M. Peschel   Modelling of Evolution Processes with
                                  Powder-Product Driving Forces  . . . . . 199--200
             M. Rejmánek   Development of Structure at the
                                  Ecosystem Level: Succession and
                                  Stability  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200--201
                    P. Schuster   Competition and Cooperation of
                                  Biological Macromolecules: An
                                  Experimentally Testable Model of
                                  Darwinian Evolution  . . . . . . . . . . 201--202
                  N. Teodorescu   Connection, State and Phenomena in
                                  General Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . 202--203
                    J. Tonnelat   The Organization and Evolution of Living
                                  Systems as Normal Consequences of the
                                  Laws of Thermodynamics . . . . . . . . . 203--205
                     P. Whittle   The Emergence of Structure, and Critical
                                  Effects  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--205
                G. A. Watterson   Mutant Substitutions at Linked
                                  Nucleotide Sites . . . . . . . . . . . . 206--224
                R. C. Griffiths   The Number of Alleles and Segregating
                                  Sites in a Sample from the
                                  Infinite-Alleles Model . . . . . . . . . 225--239
                   Jan Grandell   Mathematical Models for the Variation of
                                  Air-Pollutant Concentrations . . . . . . 240--256
                D. J. Daley and   
                     J. Haslett   A Thermal Energy Storage Process with
                                  Controlled Input . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--271
            Gérard Letac   Les fonctions sphériques d'un couple de
                                  Gelfand symétrique et les cha\^\ines de
                                  Markov. (French) [Spherical functions of
                                  a symmetric Gelfand pair and Markov
                                  chains]  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272--294
                 G. Fayolle and   
              P. J. B. King and   
                     I. Mitrani   The Solution of Certain Two-Dimensional
                                  Markov Models  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--308
              Victor C. Pestien   An Extended Fatou Equation and
                                  Continuous-Time Gambling . . . . . . . . 309--323
              Jonathan P. Cohen   The Penultimate Form of Approximation to
                                  Normal Extremes  . . . . . . . . . . . . 324--339
          Joseph D. Petruccelli   Full-Information Best-Choice Problems
                                  with Recall of Observations and
                                  Uncertainty of Selection Depending on
                                  the Observation  . . . . . . . . . . . . 340--358
                 C. F. Klebaner   Branching Random Walk in Varying
                                  Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--367
                  R. L. Tweedie   Operator-Geometric Stationary
                                  Distributions for Markov Chains, with
                                  Application to Queueing Models . . . . . 368--391
            P. J. Brockwell and   
              S. I. Resnick and   
                  R. L. Tweedie   Storage Processes with General Release
                                  Rule and Additive Inputs . . . . . . . . 392--433
                      B. Natvig   Two Suggestions of How to Define a
                                  Multistate Coherent System . . . . . . . 434--455
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 14, Number 3, September, 1982

                   Tokuzo Shiga   Wandering Phenomena in Infinite-Allelic
                                  Diffusion Models . . . . . . . . . . . . 457--483
           S. K. Srinivasan and   
              C. R. Ranganathan   On the Parity of Individuals in Birth
                                  and Death Processes  . . . . . . . . . . 484--501
                    Bruce Hajek   Hitting-Time and Occupation-Time Bounds
                                  Implied by Drift Analysis with
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502--525
           Jacques-Edouard Dies   Sur la transience de certaines chaines
                                  de Markov sur les permutations . . . . . 526--542
          Richard J. Wilson and   
                Robert J. Adler   The Structure of Gaussian Fields near a
                                  Level Crossing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543--565
                   Yih-Shyh Yuh   Second-Order Corrections for Brownian
                                  Motion Approximations to First-Passage
                                  Probabilities  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566--581
                  Wolfgang Weil   Inner Contact Probabilities for Convex
                                  Bodies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 582--599
               Richard L. Smith   Uniform Rates of Convergence in
                                  Extreme-Value Theory . . . . . . . . . . 600--622
        Ludger Rüschendorf   Random Variables with Maximum Sums . . . 623--632
                    F. P. Kelly   The Throughput of a Series of Buffers    633--653
                T. C. Brown and   
                  P. K. Pollett   Some Distributional Approximations in
                                  Markovian Queueing Networks  . . . . . . 654--671
                    Hans Daduna   Passage Times for Overtake-Free Paths in
                                  Gordon--Newell Networks  . . . . . . . . 672--686
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 14, Number 4, December, 1982

                   R. H. Norden   On the Distribution of the Time to
                                  Extinction in the Stochastic Logistic
                                  Population Model . . . . . . . . . . . . 687--708
            P. J. Brockwell and   
                    J. Gani and   
                  S. I. Resnick   Birth, Immigration and Catastrophe
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 709--731
                    H.-J. Schuh   Seneta Constants for the Supercritical
                                  Bellman--Harris Process  . . . . . . . . 732--751
                 E. A. Thompson   Optimal Sampling for Pedigree Analysis:
                                  Tracing a Single Gene  . . . . . . . . . 752--762
             Knut Kristian Aase   Stochastic Continuous-Time Model
                                  Reference Adaptive Systems with
                                  Decreasing Gain  . . . . . . . . . . . . 763--788
                    Paul McGill   Markov Properties of Diffusion Local
                                  Time: A Martingale Approach  . . . . . . 789--810
               Simeon M. Berman   Sojourns and Extremes of a Diffusion
                                  Process on a Fixed Interval  . . . . . . 811--832
              Jonathan P. Cohen   Convergence Rates for the Ultimate and
                                  Pentultimate Approximations in
                                  Extreme-Value Theory . . . . . . . . . . 833--854
              Lennart Bondesson   On Simulation from Infinitely Divisible
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 855--869
                 J. B. G. Frenk   The Behavior of the Renewal Sequence in
                                  Case the Tail of the Waiting-Time
                                  Distribution Is Regularly Varying with
                                  Index $ - 1 $  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 870--884
               Michel Dehon and   
                   Guy Latouche   A Geometric Interpretation of the
                                  Relations between the Exponential and
                                  Generalized Erlang Distributions . . . . 885--897
          Michael L. Pinedo and   
                Sheldon M. Ross   Minimizing Expected Makespan in
                                  Stochastic Open Shops  . . . . . . . . . 898--911
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 912--914
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 15, Number 1, March, 1983

                   Marek Kimmel   The Point-Process Approach to Age- and
                                  Time-Dependent Branching Processes . . . 1--20
              Ester Samuel-Cahn   Simple Approximations to the Expected
                                  Waiting Time for a Cluster of Any Given
                                  Size, for Point Processes  . . . . . . . 21--38
                 Ed Waymire and   
                 Vijay K. Gupta   An Analysis of the Pólya Point Process    39--53
          Holger Rootzén   The Rate of Convergence of Extremes of
                                  Stationary Normal Sequences  . . . . . . 54--80
           B. L. S. Prakasa Rao   Characterization of Stochastic Processes
                                  by Stochastic Integrals  . . . . . . . . 81--98
                   Timo Ravaska   On Analytical Methods for Incomplete
                                  Markov Random Fields . . . . . . . . . . 99--112
                    Elias Masry   Non-Parametric Covariance Estimation
                                  from Irregularly-Spaced Data . . . . . . 113--132
                 Richard Holley   Two Types of Mutually Annihilating
                                  Particles  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--148
                Colin McDiarmid   General First-Passage Percolation  . . . 149--161
            Robert D. Foley and   
                Ralph L. Disney   Queues with Delayed Feedback . . . . . . 162--182
         Donald L. Iglehart and   
              Gerald S. Shedler   Statistical Efficiency of Regenerative
                                  Simulation Methods for Networks of
                                  Queues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--197
                     Terje Aven   Optimal Replacement under a Minimal
                                  Repair Strategy: A General Failure Model 198--211
              M. J. Buckley and   
                      E. Seneta   On Arnold's Treatment of Moran's Bounds  212--213
                Yves Derriennic   A Remark on the Time Constant in
                                  First-Passage Percolation  . . . . . . . 214--215
                    Gunnar Blom   The Mean Waiting Time to a Repetition    216--218
           Frederick J. Beutler   A Note on Multivariate Poisson Flows on
                                  Stochastic Processes . . . . . . . . . . 219--220
               K. D. Glazebrook   Some Reward-Penalty Rules for the
                                  Multi-Armed Bandit Problem Which Are
                                  Asymptotically Optimal . . . . . . . . . 221--222
                      Anonymous   Correction: The Lifetimes of
                                  Configuration States in Statistical
                                  Physics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--223
                      Anonymous   Correction: Two Suggestions of How to
                                  Define a Multistate Coherent System  . . 223--223
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 15, Number 2, June, 1983

               Ioannis Karatzas   A Class of Singular Stochastic Control
                                  Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--254
             Gerhard Becker and   
             Götz Kersting   Design Problems for the Pure Birth
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--273
               Arie Hordijk and   
 Frank A. Van Der Duyn Schouten   Average Optimal Policies in Markov
                                  Decision Drift Processes with
                                  Applications to a Queueing and a
                                  Replacement Model  . . . . . . . . . . . 274--303
               Richard L. Smith   Limit Theorems and Approximations for
                                  the Reliability of Load-Sharing Systems  304--330
         Wagner De Souza Borges   On the Limiting Distribution of the
                                  Failure Time of Fibrous Materials  . . . 331--348
              Jeffrey J. Hunter   Filtering of Markov Renewal Queues, I:
                                  Feedback Queues  . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--375
              Jeffrey J. Hunter   Filtering of Markov Renewal Queues, II:
                                  Birth--Death Queues  . . . . . . . . . . 376--391
              Jos H. A. De Smit   The Queue GI/M/s with Customers of
                                  Different Types or the Queue GI/H$_m$ /s 392--419
             Julian Keilson and   
                   Ushio Sumita   The Depletion Time for M/G/1 Systems and
                                  a Related Limit Theorem  . . . . . . . . 420--443
                  Thomas Kuczek   On the GA/G/$ \infty $ Queue . . . . . . 444--459
                 Peter Albrecht   A Note on a Limiting Behaviour of the
                                  Occurrence Times of a Mixed Poisson
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460--460
                 Magda Peligrad   A Note on Two Measures of Dependence and
                                  Mixing Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . 461--464
                J. Van Den Berg   A Counterexample to a Conjecture of J.
                                  M. Hammersley and D. J. A. Welsh
                                  concerning First-Passage Percolation . . 465--467
           Pantelis Tsoucas and   
                   Jean Walrand   A Note on the Processor-Sharing Queue in
                                  a Quasi-Reversible Network . . . . . . . 468--469
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 15, Number 3, September, 1983

              Samuel Karlin and   
                   Uri Liberman   Measuring Interference in the Chiasma
                                  Renewal Formation Process  . . . . . . . 471--487
                B. Gail Ivanoff   The Critical Branching Diffusion in a
                                  Varying Environment  . . . . . . . . . . 488--506
                  G. Bordes and   
                     B. Roehner   Application of Stieltjes Theory for
                                  $S$-Fractions to Birth and Death
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507--530
              Hermann Thorisson   The Coupling of Regenerative Processes   531--561
           Dag Tjòstheim   Statistical Spatial Series Modelling II:
                                  Some Further Results on Unilateral
                                  Lattice Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . 562--584
              A. D. Barbour and   
                 G. K. Eagleson   Poisson Approximation for Some
                                  Statistics Based on Exchangeable Trials  585--600
         Albert W. Marshall and   
                   Moshe Shaked   New Better than Used Processes . . . . . 601--615
                Kyung Y. Jo and   
            Shaler Stidham, Jr.   Optimal Service-Rate Control of M/G/1
                                  Queueing Systems Using Phase Methods . . 616--637
                F. P. Kelly and   
                  P. K. Pollett   Sojourn Times in Closed Queueing
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 638--656
                Mark Berman and   
                  Mark Westcott   On Queueing Systems with Renewal
                                  Departure Processes  . . . . . . . . . . 657--673
                   H. Kaspi and   
                       D. Perry   Inventory Systems of Perishable
                                  Commodities  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 674--685
            J. V. Deshpande and   
                   S. C. Kochar   Dispersive Ordering Is the Same as
                                  Tail-Ordering  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 686--687
                  B. W. Conolly   More Transient Results for Generalised
                                  State-Dependent Erlangian Queues . . . . 688--690
             Peter W. Hovey and   
                   Peter Purdue   An Inventory System with Both Delayed
                                  and Immediate Delivery . . . . . . . . . 691--694
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 15, Number 4, December, 1983

      Robert Bartoszy\'nski and   
                   Prem S. Puri   On Two Classes of Interacting Stochastic
                                  Processes Arising in Cancer Modeling . . 695--712
              F. W. Steutel and   
                 W. Vervaat and   
                    S. J. Wolfe   Integer-Valued Branching Processes with
                                  Immigration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 713--725
               C. M. Newman and   
                  Y. Rinott and   
                     A. Tversky   Nearest Neighbors and Voronoi Regions in
                                  Certain Point Processes  . . . . . . . . 726--751
                   W. Henderson   Insensitivity and Reversed Markov
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 752--768
                     P. Whittle   Relaxed Markov Processes . . . . . . . . 769--782
             James Pickands III   Extreme Order Statistics with Cost of
                                  Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 783--797
            Monique Pontier and   
              Jacques Szpirglas   Arrêt optimal avec contrainte. (French)
                                  [Optimal stopping with constraints]  . . 798--812
              Debasis Mitra and   
                 J. A. Morrison   Asymptotic Expansions of Moments of the
                                  Waiting Time in Closed and Open
                                  Processor-Sharing Systems with Multiple
                                  Job Classes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 813--839
                 J. Keilson and   
                      U. Sumita   Evaluation of the Total Time in System
                                  in a Preempt/Resume Priority Queue via a
                                  Modified Lindley Process . . . . . . . . 840--856
                    O. J. Boxma   The Cyclic Queue with One General and
                                  One Exponential Server . . . . . . . . . 857--873
              Masakiyo Miyazawa   The Derivation of Invariance Relations
                                  in Complex Queueing Systems with
                                  Stationary Inputs  . . . . . . . . . . . 874--885
                Dietmar Pfeifer   A Note on the Occurrence Times of a
                                  Pólya--Lundberg Process . . . . . . . . . 886--886
                 H. Künsch   Asymptotically Unbiased Inference for
                                  Ising Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 887--888
                James Lynch and   
            Gillian Mimmack and   
                 Frank Proschan   Dispersive Ordering Results  . . . . . . 889--891
                   Luke Tierney   The Hazards of Optimal Proofreading  . . 892--893
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 894--896
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 16, Number 1, March, 1984

                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
                      Anonymous   Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--4
             M. S. Bartlett and   
        Erhan Çinlar and   
                M. F. Neuts and   
                      P. Purdue   Keynote Addresses and Discussion . . . . 4--6
            David Y. Burman and   
            Donald R. Smith and   
            Ralph L. Disney and   
     Jagadeesh Chandramohan and   
          William A. Massey and   
            Marcel F. Neuts and   
                   E. Arjas and   
                   P. Haara and   
              R. L. Tweedie and   
                J. S. Baras and   
               A. J. Dorsey and   
             A. M. Makowski and   
          Jos H. A. De Smit and   
                Kyung Y. Jo and   
           Arnold Greenland and   
               P. K. Reeser and   
            David D. W. Yao and   
                 J. A. Buzacott   Recent Developments in Queueing  . . . . 6--9
                B. T. Dishi and   
                  H. Heffes and   
            Alan G. Konheim and   
               Guy Latouche and   
            Yukio Takahashi and   
      Sòren Asmussen and   
              Yoshifusa Ito and   
                    G. Koch and   
            P. J. C. Spreij and   
           F. J. Massey III and   
                   D. F. Miller   Computers and Simulation . . . . . . . . 10--13
                V. E. Benes and   
             M. H. A. Davis and   
         Wendell H. Fleming and   
           Ioannis Karatzas and   
           Steven E. Shreve and   
              C. A. Glasbey and   
             M. B. McGechan and   
              Gary Gottlieb and   
             Benny Levikson and   
                 A. Hordijk and   
F. A. Van Der Duyn Schouten and   
                 Domokos Vermes   Stochastic Control . . . . . . . . . . . 14--16
              J. W. Delleur and   
             Vijay K. Gupta and   
         R. N. Bhattacharya and   
                  V. Klemes and   
           Richard L. Smith and   
               P. Todorovic and   
          Stuart J. Deutsch and   
       José A. Ramos and   
       Van-Thanh-Van Nguyen and   
           David K. Pickard and   
              Elmer M. Tory and   
             James A. Smith and   
               Alan F. Karr and   
             Samuel W. Woolford   Stochastic Hydrology . . . . . . . . . . 17--23
      Robert Bartoszy\'nski and   
                M. J. Faddy and   
         P. D. M. MacDonald and   
            S. F. L. Gallot and   
              James H. King and   
              Joshua Chover and   
               Israel David and   
                   Uri Yechiali   General Models in Biology  . . . . . . . 23--25
                C. C. Heyde and   
         Richard J. Kryscio and   
          Douglas R. Miller and   
        Simon Tavaré and   
             Warren W. Esty and   
        Colm Art O'Cinneide and   
         R. R. Kocherlakota and   
           Rakesh K. Shukla and   
               R. C. Srivastava   Epidemic and Genetic Models  . . . . . . 26--29
                 F. C. Klebaner   On Population-Size-Dependent Branching
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--55
                 John L. Spouge   A Branching-Process Solution of the
                                  Polydisperse Coagulation Equation  . . . 56--69
        William S. Griffith and   
         Richard J. Kryscio and   
                   Peter Purdue   A Stochastic Model of Particle
                                  Shattering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--87
                 Gunnar Englund   Obtaining Remainder Term Estimates by an
                                  Inversion Technique  . . . . . . . . . . 88--110
           Joseph D. Petruccell   Best-Choice Problems Involving Recall
                                  and Uncertainty of Selection When the
                                  Number of Observations Is Random . . . . 111--130
               Gregory Campbell   Optimal Selection Based on Relative
                                  Ranks of a Sequence with Ties  . . . . . 131--146
                I. B. Gertsbakh   Asymptotic Methods in Reliability
                                  Theory: A Review . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--175
              William A. Massey   Open Networks of Queues: Their Algebraic
                                  Structure and Estimating Their Transient
                                  Behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176--201
                R. Schassberger   A New Approach to the M/G/1
                                  Processor-Sharing Queue  . . . . . . . . 202--213
                      U. Jensen   Some Remarks on the Renewal Function of
                                  the Uniform Distribution . . . . . . . . 214--215
                 P. G. Harrison   A Note on Cycle Times in Tree-like
                                  Queueing Networks  . . . . . . . . . . . 216--219
                      Anonymous   Correction: Statistical Spatial Series
                                  Modelling  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220--220
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 16, Number 2, June, 1984

               Peter Jagers and   
                    Olle Nerman   The Growth and Composition of Branching
                                  Populations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--259
             Shoichiro Seno and   
                   Tokuzo Shiga   Diffusion Models of Temporally Varying
                                  Selection in Population Genetics . . . . 260--280
                 Gilles A. Blum   A Limit Theorem for Discrete-Parameter
                                  Random Evolutions  . . . . . . . . . . . 281--292
               Leonard Gallardo   Comportement asymptotique des marches
                                  aléatoires associées aux polynômes de
                                  Gegenbauer et applications. (French)
                                  [Asymptotic behavior of random walks
                                  associated with Gegenbauer polynomials
                                  and applications]  . . . . . . . . . . . 293--323
              Wolfgang Weil and   
               John A. Wieacker   Densities for Stationary Random Sets and
                                  Point Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . 324--346
                      Eric Slud   Multivariate Dependent Renewal Processes 347--362
         J. G. Shanthikumar and   
                   Ushio Sumita   Distribution Properties of the System
                                  Failure Time in a General Shock Model    363--377
               A. G. De Kok and   
                H. C. Tijms and   
    F. A. Van Der Duyn Schouten   Approximations for the Single-Product
                                  Production-Inventory Problem with
                                  Compound Poisson Demand and
                                  Service-Level Constraints  . . . . . . . 378--401
                   H. Kaspi and   
                       D. Perry   Inventory Systems for Perishable
                                  Commodities with Renewal Input and
                                  Poisson Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402--421
              Jeffrey J. Hunter   Filtering of Markov Renewal Queues, III:
                                  Semi-Markov Processes Embedded in
                                  Feedback Queues  . . . . . . . . . . . . 422--436
            Ralph L. Disney and   
          Dieter König and   
                 Volker Schmidt   Stationary Queue-Length and Waiting-Time
                                  Distributions in Single-Server Feedback
                                  Queues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437--446
                    G. I. Falin   On Sufficient Conditions for Ergodicity
                                  of Multichannel Queueing Systems with
                                  Repeated Calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447--448
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 16, Number 3, September, 1984

                 M. S. Bartlett   Recent Investigations Involving
                                  Stochastic Population Models . . . . . . 449--470
            Ian W. Saunders and   
        Simon Tavaré and   
                G. A. Watterson   On the Genealogy of Nested Subsamples
                                  from a Haploid Population  . . . . . . . 471--491
               E. J. Hannan and   
                  L. Kavalieris   Multivariate Linear Time Series Models   492--561
                 Enzo Orsingher   Damped Vibrations Excited by White Noise 562--584
                   Shigeru Mase   Locally Asymptotic Normality of Gibbs
                                  Models on a Lattice  . . . . . . . . . . 585--602
                  Michael Stein   System Parameters Governed by Jump
                                  Processes: A Model for Removal of Air
                                  Pollutants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603--617
            Lajos Takács   Random Flights on Regular Graphs . . . . 618--637
              P. H. Roberts and   
                    D. E. Winch   On Random Rotations  . . . . . . . . . . 638--655
                  Bernard Ycart   L'application des representations au
                                  calcul explicite sur certaines
                                  cha\^\ines de Markov finies. (French)
                                  [The application of the representations
                                  to explicit calculation on some finite
                                  Markov chains] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 656--666
             J. G. Shanthikumar   Processes with New Better than Used
                                  First-Passage Times  . . . . . . . . . . 667--686
                    J. Gani and   
                       Pyke Tin   Immigration in the Two-Sex Population
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687--689
                J. Van Den Berg   Disproof of the Conjectured
                                  Subexponentiality of Certain Functions
                                  in Percolation Theory  . . . . . . . . . 690--691
                    Y. S. Sathe   A Comment on Star-Ordering and
                                  Tail-Ordering  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 692--692
                 D. J. Saunders   Dispersive Ordering of Distributions . . 693--694
                    G. I. Falin   Quasi-Input Process in the M/G/1/$
                                  \infty $ Queue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 695--696
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 16, Number 4, December, 1984

                K. V. Mitov and   
              V. A. Vatutin and   
                    N. M. Yanev   Continuous-Time Branching Processes with
                                  Decreasing State-Dependent Immigration   697--714
                D. P. Gaver and   
               P. A. Jacobs and   
                    G. Latouche   Finite Birth-and-Death Models in
                                  Randomly Changing Environments . . . . . 715--731
              Hans-Otto Georgii   On the Ferromagnetic and the Percolative
                                  Region of Random Spin Systems  . . . . . 732--765
                   S. P. Lalley   Limit Theorems for First-Passage Times
                                  in Linear and Non-Linear Renewal Theory  766--803
                Moshe Haviv and   
            Ludo Van Der Heyden   Perturbation Bounds for the Stationary
                                  Probabilities of a Finite Markov Chain   804--818
              K. F. Turkman and   
                   A. M. Walker   On the Asymptotic Distributions of
                                  Maxima of Trigonometric Polynomials with
                                  Random Coefficients  . . . . . . . . . . 819--842
                M. Deistler and   
            B. M. Pötscher   The Behaviour of the Likelihood Function
                                  for ARMA Models  . . . . . . . . . . . . 843--866
                    Hans Daduna   Burke's Theorem on Passage Times in
                                  Gordon--Newell Networks  . . . . . . . . 867--886
                F. Baccelli and   
                   P. Boyer and   
                   G. Hebuterne   Single-Server Queues with Impatient
                                  Customers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 887--905
                     Uwe Jansen   Conditional Expected Sojourn Times in
                                  Insensitive Queueing Systems and
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 906--919
                    P. Salminen   On Conditional Ornstein--Uhlenbeck
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 920--922
                I. B. Gertsbakh   Optimal Group Preventive Maintenance of
                                  a System with Observable State Parameter 923--925
           Pantelis Tsoucas and   
                   Jean Walrand   A Note on Stochastic Bounds for Queueing
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 926--928
                M. F. Ramalhoto   Bounds for the Variance of the Busy
                                  Period of the M/G/$ \infty $ Queue . . . 929--932
            N. Ravichandran and   
                      A. Gravey   Some Comments on the Simple Queue  . . . 933--935
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 936--940
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 17, Number 1, March, 1985

                     Frank Ball   Deterministic and Stochastic Epidemics
                                  with Several Kinds of Susceptibles . . . 1--22
           Anthony G. Pakes and   
                A. C. Trajstman   Some Properties of Continuous-State
                                  Branching Processes, with Applications
                                  to Bartoszy\'nski's Virus Model  . . . . 23--41
                P. J. Brockwell   The Extinction Time of a Birth, Death
                                  and Catastrophe Process and of a Related
                                  Diffusion Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--52
                  K. B. Athreya   Discounted Branching Random Walks  . . . 53--66
                 Wolfgang Woess   Random Walks and Periodic Continued
                                  Fractions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--84
              H. E. Daniels and   
                T. H. R. Skyrme   The Maximum of a Random Walk Whose Mean
                                  Path Has a Maximum . . . . . . . . . . . 85--99
                    D. McDonald   An Invariance Principle for Semi-Markov
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--126
     Jagadeesh Chandramohan and   
            Robert D. Foley and   
                Ralph L. Disney   Thinning of Point Processes: Covariance
                                  Analyses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--146
              A. D. Barbour and   
                 G. K. Eagleson   Multiple Comparisons and Sums of
                                  Dissociated Random Variables . . . . . . 147--162
             J. A. Morrison and   
                       D. Mitra   Heavy-Usage Asymptotic Expansions for
                                  the Waiting Time in Closed
                                  Processor-Sharing Systems with Multiple
                                  Classes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--185
                J. S. Baras and   
               A. J. Dorsey and   
                 A. M. Makowski   Two Competing Queues with Linear Costs
                                  and Geometric Service Requirements: The
                                  $ \mu c$-Rule Is Often Optimal . . . . . 186--209
                     Peter Hall   On Inference in a One-Dimensional Mosaic
                                  and an M/G/$ \infty $ Queue  . . . . . . 210--229
                    D. J. Daley   What Is a Two-Sex Population Process?    230--230
                Dietmar Pfeifer   An Average-Case Analysis for a
                                  Continuous Random Search Algorithm . . . 231--233
                    David Perry   An Inventory System for Perishable
                                  Commodities with Random Lifetime . . . . 234--236
                C. Buyukkoc and   
                 P. Varaiya and   
                     J. Walrand   The $ c \mu $ Rule Revisited . . . . . . 237--238
                    Mark Berman   A Simple Proof of a Result of Iglehart
                                  and Shedler  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--241
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 17, Number 2, June, 1985

               Peter Purdue and   
                        J. Gani   Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--244
                    C. C. Heyde   Lectures on Inference for Stochastic
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244--245
          Robert Bartoszy\'nski   On Metastatic Progression of Cancer  . . 245--246
                  Joel E. Cohen   Measuring the Uncertainty of Population
                                  Forecasts: A Comparison of Two
                                  Approaches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246--247
                  V. P. Godambe   Optimal Estimation for Finite Samples in
                                  Stochastic Processes . . . . . . . . . . 247--249
               Ioannis Karatzas   An Overview of Stochastic Filtering
                                  Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--251
                   Alan F. Karr   Inference for Stationary Point Processes 251--252
               John P. Lehoczky   Inference Problems for Random-Parameter
                                  Stochastic Processes . . . . . . . . . . 252--253
               David K. Pickard   Statistical Inference on Discrete Markov
                                  Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--254
              Richard Davis and   
                 Sidney Resnick   Tail Estimates Motivated by
                                  Extreme-Value Theory . . . . . . . . . . 254--256
                  C. Srinivasan   Estimation in a Galton--Watson Process   256--256
                 Lars Holst and   
          Jürg Hüsler   Sequential urn Schemes and Birth
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--279
               M. Aronowich and   
                    R. J. Adler   Behaviour of $ \chi^2 $ Processes at
                                  Extrema  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280--297
            Pravin K. Johri and   
           Michael N. Katehakis   Further Insight into the Structure of
                                  Bold and Timid Policies  . . . . . . . . 298--307
                  D. G. Kendall   Exact Distributions for Shapes of Random
                                  Triangles in Convex Sets . . . . . . . . 308--329
                     Peter Hall   Macroscopic Properties of a Linear
                                  Mosaic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330--346
               Ushio Sumita and   
         J. George Shanthikumar   A Class of Correlated Cumulative Shock
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--366
                    D. J. Gates   On the Optimal Composition of
                                  Electricity Grids with Unreliable Units:
                                  Solvable Models  . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--385
              Jeffrey J. Hunter   Filtering of Markov Renewal Queues, IV:
                                  Flow Processes in Feedback Queues  . . . 386--407
              Jewgeni Dshalalow   On the Multiserver Queue with Finite
                                  Waiting Room and Controlled Input  . . . 408--423
              A. Federgruen and   
                      P. Zipkin   Computing Optimal (s,S) Policies in
                                  Inventory Models with Continuous Demands 424--442
               Prem S. Puri and   
                 Eric S. Tollar   On the Limit Behavior of Certain
                                  Quantities in a Subcritical Storage
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443--459
                 John Haigh and   
               Richard P. Lewis   Conditional Probabilities in Moran's
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460--462
                  Fred M. Hoppe   A Note on Markov Branching Processes . . 463--464
           Bertrand Roehner and   
               Peter Winiwarter   Aggregation of Independent Paretian
                                  Random Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 465--469
                Dietmar Pfeifer   On a Relationship between Record Values
                                  and Ross's Model of Algorithm Efficiency 470--471
                J. Bartoszewicz   Dispersive Ordering and Monotone Failure
                                  Rate Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . 472--474
                      Anonymous   Correction: The Maximum of a Random Walk
                                  Whose Mean Path Has a Maximum  . . . . . 475--475
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 17, Number 3, September, 1985

         Gianpaolo Scalia-Tomba   Asymptotic Final-Size Distribution for
                                  Some Chain-Binomial Processes  . . . . . 477--495
           Thomas A. Darden and   
             Michael A. Resnick   DNA Fragment Mass Distributions
                                  Following Molecular Recombination  . . . 496--513
              Erik A. Van Doorn   Conditions for Exponential Ergodicity
                                  and Bounds for the Decay Parameter of a
                                  Birth--Death Process . . . . . . . . . . 514--530
            R. Mitchell Cox and   
               Ioannis Karatzas   Stationary Control of Brownian Motion in
                                  Several Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . 531--561
              Emmanuel Yashchin   On a Unified Approach to the Analysis of
                                  Two-Sided Cumulative Sum Control Schemes
                                  with Headstarts  . . . . . . . . . . . . 562--593
                  Ora E. Percus   Phase Transition in One-Dimensional
                                  Random Walk with Partially Reflecting
                                  Boundaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 594--606
                Leon Willenborg   The Thrown String: A Markov Field
                                  Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607--622
             Paul Embrechts and   
             Jens L. Jensen and   
             Makoto Maejima and   
                  J. L. Teugels   Approximations for Compound Poisson and
                                  Pólya Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623--637
            Espen Funnemark and   
                    Bent Natvig   Bounds for the Availabilities in a Fixed
                                  Time Interval for Multistate Monotone
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 638--665
                 K. S. Chan and   
                        H. Tong   On the Use of the Deterministic Lyapunov
                                  Function for the Ergodicity of
                                  Stochastic Difference Equations  . . . . 666--678
                John Seaman and   
                      Pat Odell   On Goldstein's Variance Bound  . . . . . 679--681
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 17, Number 4, December, 1985

               Ushio Sumita and   
                 Masaaki Kijima   The Bivariate Laguerre Transform and Its
                                  Applications: Numerical Exploration of
                                  Bivariate Processes  . . . . . . . . . . 683--708
            Lothar Heinrich and   
                 Volker Schmidt   Normal Convergence of Multidimensional
                                  Shot Noise and Rates of This Convergence 709--730
              Norman Kaplan and   
                  Thomas Darden   The Behavior of the Ratio of a
                                  Small-Noise Markov Chain to Its
                                  Deterministic Approximation  . . . . . . 731--747
                    T. K. Sheng   The Distance between Two Random Points
                                  in Plane Regions . . . . . . . . . . . . 748--773
                  Peter Waksman   Plane Polygons and a Conjecture of
                                  Blaschke's . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 774--793
          Charles M. Newman and   
                   Yosef Rinott   Nearest Neighbors and Voronoi Volumes in
                                  High-Dimensional Point Processes with
                                  Various Distance Functions . . . . . . . 794--809
             Jürgen Franke   ARMA Processes Have Maximal Entropy
                                  among Time Series with Prescribed
                                  Autocovariances and Impulse Responses    810--840
               Dominique Picard   Testing and Estimating Change-Points in
                                  Time Series  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 841--867
          V. V. Kalashnikov and   
                   S. T. Rachev   Characterization Problems in Queueing
                                  and Their Stability  . . . . . . . . . . 868--886
                    Per Hokstad   Relations for the Workload of the GI/G/s
                                  Queue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 887--904
           Chris A. J. Klaassen   Strong Unimodality . . . . . . . . . . . 905--907
                    D. J. Gates   Asymptotics of Two Integrals from
                                  Optimization Theory and Geometric
                                  Probability  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 908--910
            Gérard Letac   A Characterization of the Gamma
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 911--912
                    Y. S. Sathe   Improved Bounds for the Variance of the
                                  Busy Period of the M/G/$ \infty $ Queue  913--914
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 915--917
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 18, Number 1, March, 1986

             Peter Donnelly and   
            Simon Tavaré   The Ages of Alleles and a Coalescent . . 1--19
                   A. Joffe and   
                    M. Metivier   Weak Convergence of Sequences of
                                  Semimartingales with Applications to
                                  Multitype Branching Processes  . . . . . 20--65
              Sidney I. Resnick   Point Processes, Regular Variation and
                                  Weak Convergence . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--138
                   Boris Pittel   Paths in a Random Digital Tree: Limiting
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--155
                   G. S. Watson   The Shapes of a Random Sequence of
                                  Triangles  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156--169
                    Marc Hallin   Non-Stationary $q$-Dependent Processes
                                  and Time-Varying Moving-Average Models:
                                  Invertibility Properties and the
                                  Forecasting Problem  . . . . . . . . . . 170--210
                 Andreas Brandt   The Stochastic Equation $ Y_{n + 1} =
                                  A_n Y_n + B_n $ with Stationary
                                  Coefficients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--220
                Marcel F. Neuts   The Caudal Characteristic Curve of
                                  Queues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--254
                  Philippe Nain   On a Generalization of the Preemptive
                                  Resume Priority  . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--273
                   G. S. Watson   An Ordering Inequality for Exchangeable
                                  Random Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 274--276
            P. Capéra\`a   Caracterisation des lois fortement
                                  unimodales. (French) [Characterization
                                  of strongly unimodal laws] . . . . . . . 277--278
       Walter Katzenbeisser and   
                 Wolfgang Panny   A Note on the Higher Moments of the
                                  Random Variable $T$ Associated with the
                                  Number of Returns of a Simple Random
                                  Walk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--282
                     C. Fricker   Étude d'une file GI/G/1 \`a service
                                  autonome (avec vacances du serveur).
                                  (French) [Study of a GI/G/1 queue in
                                  standalone service (with server
                                  outages)]  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--286
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--287
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 18, Number 2, June, 1986

                     Frank Ball   A Unified Approach to the Distribution
                                  of Total Size and Total Area under the
                                  Trajectory of Infectives in Epidemic
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--310
                Robert P. Kertz   Comparison of Optimal Value and
                                  Constrained Maxima Expectations for
                                  Independent Random Variables . . . . . . 311--340
       Frederick J. Beutler and   
                  Keith W. Ross   Time-Average Optimal Constrained
                                  Semi-Markov Decision Processes . . . . . 341--359
                 R. J. Bhansali   A Derivation of the Information Criteria
                                  for Selecting Autoregressive Models  . . 360--387
                M. F. Schilling   Mutual and Shared Neighbor
                                  Probabilities: Finite- and
                                  Infinite-Dimensional Results . . . . . . 388--405
                   Alan F. Karr   Inference for Stationary Random Fields
                                  Given Poisson Samples  . . . . . . . . . 406--422
                James W. Drosen   Pure Jump Shock Models in Reliability    423--440
                Guy Fayolle and   
          Philippe Flajolet and   
                    Micha Hofri   On a Functional Equation Arising in the
                                  Analysis of a Protocol for a
                                  Multi-Access Broadcast Channel . . . . . 441--472
                    F. P. Kelly   Blocking Probabilities in Large
                                  Circuit-Switched Networks  . . . . . . . 473--505
                     Alan Weiss   A New Technique for Analyzing Large
                                  Traffic Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . 506--532
                Marcel F. Neuts   A New Informative Embedded Markov
                                  Renewal Process for the PH/G/1 Queue . . 533--557
                  D. R. Cox and   
                  Valerie Isham   The Virtual Waiting-Time and Related
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 558--573
             Richard F. Serfozo   Heredity of Stationary and Reversible
                                  Stochastic Processes . . . . . . . . . . 574--576
                    Bent Natvig   Improved Upper Bounds for the
                                  Availabilities in a Fixed Time Interval
                                  for Multistate Monotone Systems  . . . . 577--579
                      Anonymous   Correction: ARMA Processes Have Maximal
                                  Entropy among Time Series with
                                  Prescribed Autocovariances and Impulse
                                  Responses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 580--580
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 18, Number 3, September, 1986

                   Eric Renshaw   A Survey of Stepping-Stone Models in
                                  Population Dynamics  . . . . . . . . . . 581--627
               Anthony G. Pakes   Some Properties of a Branching Process
                                  with Group Immigration and Emigration    628--645
                Steven P. Ellis   A Limit Theorem for Spatial Point
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 646--659
        C. Radhakrishna Rao and   
                 D. N. Shanbhag   Recent Results on Characterization of
                                  Probability Distributions: A Unified
                                  Approach through Extensions of Deny's
                                  Theorem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 660--678
                    Ed McKenzie   Autoregressive Moving-Average Processes
                                  with Negative-Binomial and Geometric
                                  Marginal Distributions . . . . . . . . . 679--705
                     P. Whittle   Partial Balance, Insensitivity and Weak
                                  Coupling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 706--723
                W. J. R. Eplett   Continuous-Time Allocation Indices and
                                  Their Discrete-Time Approximation  . . . 724--746
              Debasis Mitra and   
                Fabio Romeo and   
Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli   Convergence and Finite-Time Behavior of
                                  Simulated Annealing  . . . . . . . . . . 747--771
            M. J. M. Posner and   
                   D. Zuckerman   Semi-Markov Shock Models with Additive
                                  Damage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 772--790
                R. Schassberger   Two Remarks on Insensitive Stochastic
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 791--814
           W\ladys\law Szczotka   Stationary Representation of Queues. I   815--848
           W\ladys\law Szczotka   Stationary Representation of Queues. II  849--859
                      E. Seneta   An Inequality from Genetics  . . . . . . 860--861
                  M. Naim Yunus   A Simple Derivation of an Approximation
                                  to the Transient Blocking Probability in
                                  a Loss System  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 862--863
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 18, Number 4, December, 1986

                  Svante Janson   Moments for First-Passage and Last-Exit
                                  Times, the Minimum, and Related
                                  Quantities for Random Walks with
                                  Positive Drift . . . . . . . . . . . . . 865--879
                  P. K. Pollett   Connecting Reversible Markov Processes   880--900
          Michael Aronowich and   
                Robert J. Adler   Extrema and Level Crossings of $ \chi^2
                                  $ Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 901--920
                Bent Natvig and   
         Skule Sòrmo and   
              Arne T. Holen and   
    Gutorm Hògåsen   Multistate Reliability Theory: A Case
                                  Study  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 921--932
                 M. S. Ali Khan   An Infinite Dam with Random Withdrawal
                                  Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 933--951
                Marcel F. Neuts   Generalizations of the
                                  Pollaczek--Khinchin Integral Equation in
                                  the Theory of Queues . . . . . . . . . . 952--990
                  V. Giorno and   
               A. G. Nobile and   
                L. M. Ricciardi   On Some Diffusion Approximations to
                                  Queueing Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 991--1014
             Hasse Carlsson and   
                    Olle Nerman   An Alternative Proof of Lorden's Renewal
                                  Inequality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1015--1016
                    J.-P. Imhof   On the Time Spent above a Level by
                                  Brownian Motion with Negative Drift  . . 1017--1018
                A. N. Ahmed and   
                  A. Alzaid and   
            J. Bartoszewicz and   
                   S. C. Kochar   Dispersive and Superadditive Ordering    1019--1022
                      Anonymous   Correction: The Ages of Alleles and a
                                  Coalescent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1023--1023
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 1024--1025
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 19, Number 1, March, 1987

             Murad S. Taqqu and   
               Walter Willinger   The Analysis of Finite Security Markets
                                  Using Martingales  . . . . . . . . . . . 1--25
               Bernhard Mellein   A Nucleation-Growth Process on the
                                  Integers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--43
                Kiyomasa Narita   Asymptotic Analysis for Interactive
                                  Oscillators of the van der Pol Type  . . 44--80
         Wilfrid S. Kendall and   
                  Mark Westcott   One-Dimensional Classical Scattering
                                  Processes and the Diffusion Limit  . . . 81--105
               Simeon M. Berman   Poisson and Extreme Value Limit Theorems
                                  for Markov Random Fields . . . . . . . . 106--122
               Moshe Shaked and   
         J. George Shanthikumar   Multivariate Hazard Rates and Stochastic
                                  Ordering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--137
                   S. G. Ghurye   Some Multivariate Lifetime Distributions 138--155
             M. H. A. Davis and   
          M. A. H. Dempster and   
                S. P. Sethi and   
                      D. Vermes   Optimal Capacity Expansion under
                                  Uncertainty  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156--176
         E. G. Coffman, Jr. and   
                  L. Flatto and   
                M. R. Garey and   
                    R. R. Weber   Minimizing Expected Makespans on Uniform
                                  Processor Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . 177--201
           Richard R. Weber and   
            Shaler Stidham, Jr.   Optimal Control of Service Rates in
                                  Networks of Queues . . . . . . . . . . . 202--218
                  Debasis Mitra   Asymptotic Analysis and Computational
                                  Methods for a Class of Simple,
                                  Circuit-Switched Networks with Blocking  219--239
                  Teunis J. Ott   On the Stationary Waiting-Time
                                  Distribution in the GI/G/1 Queue, I:
                                  Transform Methods and Almost-Phase-Type
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240--265
                  Teunis J. Ott   The Single-Server Queue with Independent
                                  GI/G and M/G Input Streams . . . . . . . 266--286
                Marcel F. Neuts   A Non-Renewal Process with Renewal
                                  Counting Distributions . . . . . . . . . 287--288
              Christine Fricker   Note sur un mod\`ele de file GI/G/1 \`a
                                  service autonome (avec vacances du
                                  serveur). (French) [Note on a model of
                                  GI/G/1 queue with standalone service
                                  (with server outages)] . . . . . . . . . 289--291
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 19, Number 2, June, 1987

              Samuel Karlin and   
                 Friedemann Ost   Counts of Long Aligned Word Matches
                                  among Random Letter Sequences  . . . . . 293--351
                Peter Kotelenez   Fluctuations near Homogeneous States of
                                  Chemical Reactions with Diffusion  . . . 352--370
                     Peter Hall   On the Amount of Detail That Can Be
                                  Recovered from a Degraded Signal . . . . 371--395
                   Igor Rychlik   Regression Approximations of Wavelength
                                  and Amplitude Distributions  . . . . . . 396--430
                  P. K. Pollett   Preserving Partial Balance in
                                  Continuous-Time Markov Chains  . . . . . 431--453
         E. G. Coffman, Jr. and   
                  L. Flatto and   
                    R. R. Weber   Optimal Selection of Stochastic
                                  Intervals under a Sum Constraint . . . . 454--473
                 Volker Schmidt   On Joint Queue-Length Characteristics in
                                  Infinite-Server Tandem Queues with Heavy
                                  Traffic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474--486
              O. Bronshtein and   
               I. Gertsbakh and   
                  B. Pittel and   
                      S. Shahaf   One-Node Closed Multichannel Service
                                  System: Several Types of Customers and
                                  Service Rates, and Random Pick-up from
                                  the Waiting Line . . . . . . . . . . . . 487--504
               Adrienne W. Kemp   The Moments of the Random Variable for
                                  the Number of Returns of a Simple Random
                                  Walk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505--507
              Elaine Recsei and   
                      E. Seneta   Bonferroni-Type Inequalities . . . . . . 508--511
                   John A. Lane   The Berry--Esseen Bound for the Poisson
                                  Shot-Noise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512--514
           Pantelis Tsoucas and   
                   Jean Walrand   On the Interchangeability and Stochastic
                                  Ordering of $ \cdot $ /M/1 Queues in
                                  Tandem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515--520
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 19, Number 3, September, 1987

              J. D. Biggins and   
                    C. Cannings   Markov Renewal Processes, Counters and
                                  Repeated Sequences in Markov Chains  . . 521--545
                Steven P. Ellis   Second-Order Approximation to the
                                  Characteristic Function of Certain
                                  Point-Process Integrals  . . . . . . . . 546--559
               Joseph Abate and   
                     Ward Whitt   Transient Behavior of Regulated Brownian
                                  Motion, I: Starting at the Origin  . . . 560--598
               Joseph Abate and   
                     Ward Whitt   Transient Behavior of Regulated Brownian
                                  Motion, II: Non-Zero Initial Conditions  599--631
               Ushio Sumita and   
                 Yasushi Masuda   Classes of Probability Density Functions
                                  Having Laplace Transforms with Negative
                                  Zeros and Poles  . . . . . . . . . . . . 632--651
                     K. Sobczyk   Stochastic Models for Fatigue Damage of
                                  Materials  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 652--673
Miklós Csörg\Ho and   
             Paul Deheuvels and   
           Lajos Horváth   An Approximation of Stopped Sums with
                                  Applications in Queueing Theory  . . . . 674--690
                  Tomasz Rolski   Approximation of Periodic Queues . . . . 691--707
                      X. R. Cao   Realization Probability in Closed
                                  Jackson Queueing Networks and Its
                                  Application  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708--738
                  J. D. Biggins   A Note on Repeated Sequences in Markov
                                  Chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 739--742
                   Tailen Hsing   On the Intensity of Crossings by a Shot
                                  Noise Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 743--745
               S. Papastavridis   A Limit Theorem for the Reliability of a
                                  Consecutive-$k$-out-of-$n$ System  . . . 746--748
             Thomas Kämpke   Necessary Optimality Conditions for
                                  Priority Policies in Stochastic Weighted
                                  Flowtime Scheduling Problems . . . . . . 749--750
             Betsy S. Greenberg   On Niu's Conjecture for Tandem Queues    751--753
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 19, Number 4, December, 1987

                 Frank Ball and   
                 Peter Donnelly   Interparticle Correlation in Death
                                  Processes with Application to
                                  Variability in Compartmental Models  . . 755--766
             Yasushi Masuda and   
                   Ushio Sumita   Analysis of a Counting Process
                                  Associated with a Semi-Markov Process:
                                  Number of Entries into a Subset of State
                                  Space  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 767--783
               A. Buonocore and   
               A. G. Nobile and   
                L. M. Ricciardi   A New Integral Equation for the
                                  Evaluation of First-Passage-Time
                                  Probability Densities  . . . . . . . . . 784--800
            Rocco Ballerini and   
              Sidney I. Resnick   Records in the Presence of a Linear
                                  Trend  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 801--828
                   Fu Chang and   
                  Tze Leung Lai   Optimal Stopping and Dynamic Allocation  829--853
         J. George Shanthikumar   Stochastic Majorization of Random
                                  Variables with Proportional Equilibrium
                                  Rates  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 854--872
                  Norbert Henze   On the Fraction of Random Points with
                                  Specified Nearest-Neighbour
                                  Interrelations and Degree of Attraction  873--895
           David G. Kendall and   
                     Hui-Lin Le   The Structure and Explicit Determination
                                  of Convex-Polygonally Generated
                                  Shape-Densities  . . . . . . . . . . . . 896--916
           Mohamed Abdel-Hameed   Inspection and Maintenance Policies of
                                  Devices Subject to Deterioration . . . . 917--931
             V. G. Kulkarni and   
               V. F. Nicola and   
                  K. S. Trivedi   The Completion Time of a Job on
                                  Multimode Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . 932--954
           K. D. Glazebrook and   
                      N. A. Fay   On the Scheduling of Alternative
                                  Stochastic Jobs on a Single Machine  . . 955--973
                  V. Giorno and   
               A. G. Nobile and   
                L. M. Ricciardi   On Some Time-Non-Homogeneous Diffusion
                                  Approximations to Queueing Systems . . . 974--994
          K. W. H. Van Beek and   
                     A. J. Stam   A Variant of the Ehrenfest Model . . . . 995--996
            P. R. Parthasarathy   A Transient Solution to an M/M/1 Queue:
                                  A Simple Approach  . . . . . . . . . . . 997--998
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 999--1001
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1002--1002
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??


Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 20, Number 1, March, 1988

                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
               S. M. Berman and   
                J. Galambos and   
                C. C. Heyde and   
           M. R. Leadbetter and   
                  E. Parzen and   
              S. I. Resnick and   
                  H. Taylor and   
       J. Tiago De Oliveira and   
                    I. Weissman   Invited Papers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--8
              A. A. Balkema and   
               R. Ballerini and   
            W. P. McCormick and   
                J. Beirlant and   
              H. A. Brozius and   
                J. P. Cohen and   
               P. Deheuvels and   
           Z. Govindarajulu and   
                  P. Purdue and   
                 L. De Haan and   
                I. Weissman and   
                   T. Hsing and   
                 A. Janssen and   
                R.-D. Reiss and   
                D. M. Mason and   
                 D. Pfeifer and   
                    S. Yakowitz   Contributed Papers . . . . . . . . . . . 8--13
        Michael F. Barnsley and   
                  John H. Elton   A New Class of Markov Processes for
                                  Image Encoding . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--32
             Keith N. Crank and   
                   Prem S. Puri   A Method of Approximating Markov Jump
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--58
       Reuven Y. Rubinstein and   
            Ferenc Szidarovszky   Convergence of Perturbation Analysis
                                  Estimates for Discontinuous Sample
                                  Functions: A General Approach  . . . . . 59--78
           Nico M. Van Dijk and   
             Martin L. Puterman   Perturbation Theory for Markov Reward
                                  Processes with Applications to Queueing
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--98
               Nico M. Van Dijk   Perturbation Theory for Unbounded Markov
                                  Reward Processes with Applications to
                                  Queueing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--111
                    F. P. Kelly   Routing in Circuit-Switched Networks:
                                  Optimization, Shadow Prices and
                                  Decentralization . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--144
               Joseph Abate and   
                     Ward Whitt   Transient Behavior of the M/M/1 Queue
                                  via Laplace Transforms . . . . . . . . . 145--178
               Martin I. Reiman   A Multiclass Feedback Queue in Heavy
                                  Traffic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--207
                 Eric S. Tollar   On the Limit Behavior of a
                                  Multicompartment Storage Model with an
                                  Underlying Markov Chain  . . . . . . . . 208--227
                      E. Seneta   Perturbation of the Stationary
                                  Distribution Measured by Ergodicity
                                  Coefficients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228--230
                 Mario Lefebvre   Utilisation de densités des premier
                                  passage en commande optimale
                                  stochastique. (French) [Using
                                  first-passage densities in stochastic
                                  optimal control] . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--234
                Rinya Takahashi   Characterizations of a Multivariate
                                  Extreme Value Distribution . . . . . . . 235--236
            A. M. Abouammoh and   
                    A. N. Ahmed   The New Better than Used Failure Rate
                                  Class of Life Distribution . . . . . . . 237--240
                  Srinivas Iyer   Asymptotic Performance of a Multistate
                                  Coherent System  . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--243
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244--244

Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 20, Number 2, June, 1988

                 M. L. Sturgeon   Probabilistic Profiles of Continuously
                                  Replenished Spherically Symmetric Clouds 245--260
               M. A. Berger and   
                  P. H. Roberts   On the Winding Number Problem with
                                  Finite Steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--274
              Stamatis Cambanis   Random Filters Which Preserve the
                                  Stability of Random Inputs . . . . . . . 275--294
                  Chen Zhao-Guo   Consistent Estimates for Hidden
                                  Frequencies in a Linear Process  . . . . 295--314
              Krzysztof Nowicki   Asymptotic Poisson Distributions with
                                  Applications to Statistical Analysis of
                                  Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--330
                     Harry Cohn   Limit Behaviour for Stochastic
                                  Monotonicity and Applications  . . . . . 331--347
                  David Mannion   A Markov Chain of Triangle Shapes  . . . 348--370
          Holger Rootzén   Maxima and Exceedances of Stationary
                                  Markov Chains  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--390
                Gerold Alsmeyer   Second-Order Approximations for Certain
                                  Stopped Sums in Extended Renewal Theory  391--410
                 Paavo Salminen   On the First Hitting Time and the Last
                                  Exit Time for a Brownian Motion to/from
                                  a Moving Boundary  . . . . . . . . . . . 411--426
               Moshe Shaked and   
         J. George Shanthikumar   Stochastic Convexity and Its
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--446
              Tze Leung Lai and   
                  Zhiliang Ying   Open Bandit Processes and Optimal
                                  Scheduling of Queueing Networks  . . . . 447--472
 Panagiotis Konstantopoulos and   
                   Jean Walrand   On the Weak Convergence of Stochastic
                                  Processes with Embedded Point Processes  473--475
                  D. P. Kennedy   A Note on Stochastic Search Methods for
                                  Global Optimization  . . . . . . . . . . 476--478
                        Lam Yeh   A Note on the Optimal Replacement
                                  Problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479--482
                    G. I. Falin   On a Multiclass Batch Arrival Retrial
                                  Queue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483--487
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488--488
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 20, Number 3, September, 1988

            R. C. Griffiths and   
               Anthony G. Pakes   An Infinite-Alleles Version of the
                                  Simple Branching Process . . . . . . . . 489--524
               S. N. Ethier and   
                Thomas Nagylaki   Diffusion Approximations of Markov
                                  Chains with Two Time Scales and
                                  Applications to Population Genetics, II  525--545
                 Frank Ball and   
                    Mark Sansom   Aggregated Markov Processes
                                  Incorporating Time Interval Omission . . 546--572
           Richard A. Davis and   
              Edward Mulrow and   
              Sidney I. Resnick   Almost Sure Limit Sets of Random Samples
                                  in $ R^d $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573--599
                  P. K. Pollett   Reversibility, Invariance and $ \mu
                                  $-Invariance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 600--621
                   J. L. Jensen   Uniform Saddlepoint Approximations . . . 622--634
                David Heath and   
                Robert P. Kertz   Leaving an Interval in Limited Playing
                                  Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 635--645
                  Debasis Mitra   Stochastic Theory of a Fluid Model of
                                  Producers and Consumers Coupled by a
                                  Buffer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 646--676
            U. Narayan Bhat and   
                        Ram Lal   Number of Successes in Markov Trials . . 677--680
               Richard L. Smith   A Counterexample concerning the Extremal
                                  Index  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 681--683
       Vratislav Horálek   A Note on the Time-Non-Homogeneous
                                  Johnson--Mehl Tessellation . . . . . . . 684--685
          Vanderlei Costa Bueno   A Note on the Component Lifetime
                                  Estimation of a Multistate Monotone
                                  System through the System Lifetime . . . 686--689
       Stavros G. Papastavridis   A Weibull Limit for the Reliability of a
                                  Consecutive $k$-within-$m$-out-of-$n$
                                  System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 690--692
                       R. Syski   Further Comments on the Solution of the
                                  M/M/1 Queue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 693--693
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 20, Number 4, December, 1988

           William G. Faris and   
                Robert S. Maier   Probabilistic Analysis of a Learning
                                  Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 695--705
          Charles M. Goldie and   
                 Sidney Resnick   Distributions That Are Both
                                  Subexponential and in the Domain of
                                  Attraction of an Extreme-Value
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 706--718
          Michael Aronowich and   
                Robert J. Adler   Sample Path Behaviour of $ \chi^2 $
                                  Surfaces at Extrema  . . . . . . . . . . 719--738
               Ushio Sumita and   
         J. George Shanthikumar   An Age-Dependent Counting Process
                                  Generated from a Renewal Process . . . . 739--755
              Richard J. Wilson   Model Fields in Crossing Theory: A Weak
                                  Convergence Perspective  . . . . . . . . 756--774
             Wilfrid S. Kendall   Symbolic Computation and the Diffusion
                                  of Shapes of Triads  . . . . . . . . . . 775--797
                H. W. Block and   
             N. A. Langberg and   
                  D. S. Stoffer   Bivariate Exponential and Geometric
                                  Autoregressive and Autoregressive Moving
                                  Average Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 798--821
                    Ed McKenzie   Some ARMA Models for Dependent Sequences
                                  of Poisson Counts  . . . . . . . . . . . 822--835
               K. D. Glazebrook   On a Reduction Principle in Dynamic
                                  Programming  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 836--851
                 H. R. Gail and   
              S. L. Hantler and   
                   B. A. Taylor   Analysis of a Non-Preemptive Priority
                                  Multiserver Queue  . . . . . . . . . . . 852--879
           J. C. W. Van Ommeren   Exponential Expansion for the Tail of
                                  the Waiting-Time Probability in the
                                  Single-Server Queue with Batch Arrivals  880--895
                   Guy Latouche   Perturbation Analysis of a Phase-Type
                                  Queue with Weakly Correlated Arrivals    896--912
      Sòren Asmussen and   
   Sòren Schock Petersen   Ruin Probabilities Expressed in Terms of
                                  Storage Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . 913--916
                      Anonymous   Acknowledgement  . . . . . . . . . . . . 917--917
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 918--920
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??


Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 21, Number 1, March, 1989

               H. R. Lerche and   
                    D. Siegmund   Approximate Exit Probabilities for a
                                  Brownian Bridge on a Short Time
                                  Interval, and Applications . . . . . . . 1--19
                  V. Giorno and   
               A. G. Nobile and   
            L. M. Ricciardi and   
                        S. Sato   On the Evaluation of First-Passage-Time
                                  Probability Densities via Non-Singular
                                  Integral Equations . . . . . . . . . . . 20--36
               J. Mòller   Random Tessellations in $ R^d $  . . . . 37--73
              A. D. Barbour and   
                     Lars Holst   Some Applications of the Stein--Chen
                                  Method for Proving Poisson Convergence   74--90
                      N. Mazars   Pseudo-Modular Decompositions and
                                  'Refined Bounds' for the Interval
                                  Reliability and the Availability for
                                  Binary Coherent Systems  . . . . . . . . 91--122
                David Perry and   
                 Benny Levikson   Continuous Production/Inventory Model
                                  with Analogy to Certain Queueing and Dam
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--141
                   A. J. Koning   On Single-Lane Roads . . . . . . . . . . 142--158
               Bhaskar Sengupta   Markov Processes Whose Steady State
                                  Distribution Is Matrix-Exponential with
                                  an Application to the GI/PH/1 Queue  . . 159--180
                     Xi-Ren Cao   Calculation of Sensitivities of
                                  Throughputs and Realization
                                  Probabilities in Closed Queueing
                                  Networks with Finite Buffer Capacities   181--206
                G. Bri\`ere and   
                 M. L. Chaudhry   Computational Analysis of Single-Server
                                  Bulk-Service Queues, M/G$^Y$ /1  . . . . 207--225
                     D. R. Grey   A Note on Explosiveness of Markov
                                  Branching Processes  . . . . . . . . . . 226--228
                     D. R. Grey   Persistent Random Walks May Have
                                  Arbitrarily Large Tails  . . . . . . . . 229--230
                 J. Hüsler   A Note on the Independence and Total
                                  Dependence of Max I.D. Distributions . . 231--232
                  Richard Cowan   The Division of Space and the Poisson
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--234
                       J. Mecke   A Note on Cowan's Process of Space
                                  Division . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--236
                    Bent Natvig   A Comment on the Steady-State
                                  Performance of Multistate Monotone
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--237
                  A. Rangan and   
                 R. Ester Grace   On the Replacement of Systems Subject to
                                  Shocks and Wear-Dependent Failure  . . . 238--240
            Robert D. Foley and   
              Peter C. Kiessler   Positive Correlations in a Three-Node
                                  Jackson Queueing Network . . . . . . . . 241--242
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 21, Number 2, June, 1989

               Anthony G. Pakes   Asymptotic Results for the Extinction
                                  Time of Markov Branching Processes
                                  Allowing Emigration, I. Random Walk
                                  Decrements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--269
                K. V. Mitov and   
                    N. M. Yanev   Bellman--Harris Branching Processes with
                                  a Special Type of State-Dependent
                                  Immigration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270--283
         Steven L. Beuerman and   
                Edward J. Coyle   State Space Expansions and the Limiting
                                  Behavior of Quasi-Birth-and-Death
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284--314
                  H. E. Daniels   The Maximum of a Gaussian Process Whose
                                  Mean Path Has a Maximum, with an
                                  Application to the Strength of Bundles
                                  of Fibres  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--333
                Robert J. Adler   Fluctuation Theory for Systems of Signed
                                  and Unsigned Particles with Interaction
                                  Mechanisms Based on Intersection Local
                                  Times  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334--356
                C. E. M. Pearce   Extended Continued Fractions, Recurrence
                                  Relations and Two-Dimensional Markov
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--375
             Awi Federgruen and   
                      Kut C. So   Optimal Time to Repair a Broken Server   376--397
               M. Rumsewicz and   
                   W. Henderson   Insensitivity with Age-Dependent Routing 398--408
               Arie Hordijk and   
                  Flos Spieksma   Constrained Admission Control to a
                                  Queueing System  . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--431
                 Sid Browne and   
                   Uri Yechiali   Dynamic Priority Rules for Cyclic-Type
                                  Queues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432--450
               Zhang Hanqin and   
                   Wang Rongxin   Heavy Traffic Limit Theorems for a
                                  Queueing System in Which Customers Join
                                  the Shortest Line  . . . . . . . . . . . 451--469
               Anthony G. Pakes   On the Asymptotic Behaviour of the
                                  Extinction Time of the Simple Branching
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470--472
     Panagiotis Konstantopoulos   A Comment on the Paper `\booktitleOn the
                                  Intensity of Crossings by a Shot Noise
                                  Process''  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473--474
               Brendan D. McKay   On Littlewood's Estimate for the
                                  Binomial Distribution  . . . . . . . . . 475--478
                    Gunnar Blom   Mean Transition Times for the Ehrenfest
                                  urn Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479--480
           Tetsuji Hirayama and   
                 Masaaki Kijima   An Extremal Property of FIFO Discipline
                                  in G/IFR/1 Queues  . . . . . . . . . . . 481--484
                    G. I. Falin   Periodic Queues in Heavy Traffic . . . . 485--487
                 Thomas M. Chen   On the Independence of Sojourn Times in
                                  Tandem Queues  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488--489
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 21, Number 3, September, 1989

                B. Gail Ivanoff   The Multitype Branching Random Walk:
                                  Temporal and Spatial Limit Theorems  . . 491--512
               Tailen Hsing and   
                  J. L. Teugels   Extremal Properties of Shot Noise
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513--525
                   Henk Brozius   Convergence in Mean of Some
                                  Characteristics of the Convex Hull . . . 526--542
                  Richard Cowan   Objects Arranged Randomly in Space: An
                                  Accessible Theory  . . . . . . . . . . . 543--569
                     Huiling Le   Random Spherical Triangles I:
                                  Geometrical Background . . . . . . . . . 570--580
                     Huiling Le   Random Spherical Triangles II: Shape
                                  Densities  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581--594
             Richard F. Serfozo   Poisson Functionals of Markov Processes
                                  and Queueing Networks  . . . . . . . . . 595--611
                      P. Taylor   Insensitivity in Processes with Zero
                                  Speeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 612--628
   François Baccelli and   
         Armand M. Makowski and   
                   Adam Shwartz   The Fork-Join Queue and Related Systems
                                  with Synchronization Constraints:
                                  Stochastic Ordering and Computable
                                  Bounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629--660
                     P. J. Hunt   Implied Costs in Loss Networks . . . . . 661--680
            Nicholas Bambos and   
                   Jean Walrand   On Stability of State-Dependent Queues
                                  and Acyclic Queueing Networks  . . . . . 681--701
                     K. S. Chan   A Note on the Geometric Ergodicity of a
                                  Markov Chain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 702--704
                   Dennis Rosen   Coverage of a Square Lattice by an
                                  Inclined Rectangle . . . . . . . . . . . 705--707
                 Philip Holgate   Some Power Series with Random Gaps . . . 708--710
                     Moshe Dror   Simple Proof for Goofspiel: The Game of
                                  Pure Strategy  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711--712
           Harshinder Singh and   
                   Kanchan Jain   Preservation of Some Partial Orderings
                                  under Poisson Shock Models . . . . . . . 713--716
                B. H. Joshi and   
            A. D. Dharmadhikari   Maximization of Availability of
                                  $1$-out-of-2:G Repairable Dependent
                                  System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 717--720
                 D. Fakinos and   
                  K. Sirakoulis   Product-Form Distributions for an M/G/k
                                  Group-Arrival Group-Departure Loss
                                  System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 721--724
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 21, Number 4, December, 1989

                  Eric Slud and   
                  Craig Hoesman   Moderate- and Large-Deviation
                                  Probabilities in Actuarial Risk Theory   725--741
               K. V. Mardia and   
                   I. L. Dryden   Shape Distributions for Landmark Data    742--755
                     J. Franchi   Produits semi-directs de diffusions
                                  reelles et lois asymptotiques. (French)
                                  [Semi-direct products of real diffusions
                                  and asymptotic laws] . . . . . . . . . . 756--769
             Enzo Orsingher and   
                   Bruno Bassan   On the Comparison of the Distribution of
                                  the Supremum of Random Fields
                                  Represented by Stochastic Integrals  . . 770--780
           Richard A. Davis and   
              Sidney I. Resnick   Basic Properties and Prediction of
                                  Max-ARMA Processes . . . . . . . . . . . 781--803
              I. B. Ziedins and   
                    F. P. Kelly   Limit Theorems for Loss Networks with
                                  Diverse Routing  . . . . . . . . . . . . 804--830
                 P. J. Hunt and   
                    F. P. Kelly   On Critically Loaded Loss Networks . . . 831--841
             John A. Gubner and   
                B. Gopinath and   
              S. R. S. Varadhan   Bounding Functions of Markov Processes
                                  and the Shortest Queue Problem . . . . . 842--860
                Zvi Rosberg and   
                 Parviz Kermani   Customer Routing to Different Servers
                                  with Complete Information  . . . . . . . 861--882
   François Baccelli and   
                       Zhen Liu   On the Stability Condition of a
                                  Precedence-Based Queueing Discipline . . 883--898
             Michael L. Wenocur   A Reliability Model Based on the Gamma
                                  Process and Its Analytic Theory  . . . . 899--918
             Henry W. Block and   
        William S. Griffith and   
               Thomas H. Savits   $L$-Superadditive Structure Functions    919--929
            Emad El-Neweihi and   
                    Fan C. Meng   The Number of Critical Connection
                                  Vectors of $L$-Superadditive Structure
                                  Functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 930--932
                L. C. G. Rogers   Ignatov's Theorem: An Abbreviation of
                                  the Proof of Engelen, Tommassen and
                                  Vervaat  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 933--934
                G. Hooghiemstra   Another Visit to Two Halflines . . . . . 935--937
                 Robert W. Chen   A Circular Property of the Occurrence of
                                  Sequence Patterns in the Fair
                                  Coin-Tossing Process . . . . . . . . . . 938--940
                Gunnar Blom and   
                     Lars Holst   Some Properties of Similar Pairs . . . . 941--944
             Mario Lefebvre and   
     Éric Léonard   On the First Hitting Place of the
                                  Integrated Wiener Process  . . . . . . . 945--948
                  A. Rangan and   
                R. Esther Grace   Optimal Replacement Policies for a
                                  Deteriorating System with Imperfect
                                  Maintenance  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 949--951
                   Yaakov Kogan   Exact Analysis for a Class of Simple,
                                  Circuit-Switched Networks with Blocking  952--955
               Bhaskar Sengupta   An Invariance Relationship for the G/G/1
                                  Queue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 956--957
                      Anonymous   Correction: \booktitleApplied
                                  Probability Author and Subject Index No.
                                  7, p. 50 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 958--958
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 959--961
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 22, Number 1, March, 1990

                   S. N. Ethier   The Infinitely-Many-Neutral-Alleles
                                  Diffusion Model with Ages  . . . . . . . 1--24
             Claude Lefevre and   
                Philippe Picard   A Non-Standard Family of Polynomials and
                                  the Final Size Distribution of
                                  Reed--Frost Epidemic Processes . . . . . 25--48
          Luis G. Gorostiza and   
          Jose A. Lopez-Mimbela   The Multitype Measure Branching Process  49--67
                   Michael Voit   Central Limit Theorems for a Class of
                                  Polynomial Hypergroups . . . . . . . . . 68--87
                 B. Chauvin and   
                     A. Rouault   A Stochastic Simulation for Solving
                                  Scalar Reaction-Diffusion Equations  . . 88--100
                   L. Sacerdote   On the Solution of the Fokker--Planck
                                  Equation for a Feller Process  . . . . . 101--110
              P. K. Pollett and   
                  A. J. Roberts   A Description of the Long-Term Behaviour
                                  of Absorbing Continuous-Time Markov
                                  Chains Using a Centre Manifold . . . . . 111--128
           Hans Arnfinn Karlsen   Existence of Moments in a Stationary
                                  Stochastic Difference Equation . . . . . 129--146
              Gordon E. Willmot   Asymptotic Tail Behaviour of Poisson
                                  Mixtures with Applications . . . . . . . 147--159
               Moshe Shaked and   
         J. George Shanthikumar   Convexity of a Set of Stochastically
                                  Ordered Random Variables . . . . . . . . 160--177
                     Xi-Ren Cao   Realization Factors and Sensitivity
                                  Analysis of Queueing Networks with
                                  State-Dependent Service Rates  . . . . . 178--210
             M. Ya. Kelbert and   
              R. P. Kopeika and   
             R. N. Shamsiev and   
                  Yu. M. Sukhov   Perturbation Theory Approach for a Class
                                  of Hybrid Switching Networks with Small
                                  Transit Flows  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--229
           W\ladys\law Szczotka   Exponential Approximation of Waiting
                                  Time and Queue Size for Queues in Heavy
                                  Traffic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230--240
              Fred M. Hoppe and   
                  Eugene Seneta   Bonferroni-Type Inequalities and the
                                  Methods of Indicators and Polynomials    241--246
                       Jian Liu   A Note on Causality and Invertibility of
                                  a General Bilinear Time Series Model . . 247--250
               Yuedong Wang and   
                     Jinhua Cao   New Kinds of Multidimensional IFR
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--253
            Nicholas Bambos and   
                   Jean Walrand   An Invariant Distribution for the G/G/1
                                  Queueing Operator  . . . . . . . . . . . 254--256
        Hirotaka Sakasegawa and   
                Ronald W. Wolff   The Equality of the Virtual Delay and
                                  Attained Waiting Time Distributions  . . 257--259
                 P.-J. Courtois   On the Total Loss Probability of Service
                                  Stages in Series . . . . . . . . . . . . 260--262
 Panagiotis Konstantopoulos and   
                   Jean Walrand   On the Ergodicity of Networks of $ \cdot
                                  $ /GI/1/N Queues . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--267
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 22, Number 2, June, 1990

            Philippe Picard and   
                 Claude Lefevre   A Unified Analysis of the Final Size and
                                  Severity Distribution in Collective
                                  Reed--Frost Epidemic Processes . . . . . 269--294
                 J. M. McNamara   The Policy Which Maximises Long-Term
                                  Survival of an Animal Faced with the
                                  Risks of Starvation and Predation  . . . 295--308
             Sidney Resnick and   
                     Rishin Roy   Multivariate Extremal Processes, Leader
                                  Processes and Dynamic Choice Models  . . 309--331
                 Peter Hall and   
                      Inge Koch   On Continuous Image Models and Image
                                  Analysis in the Presence of Correlated
                                  Noise  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332--349
               S. T. Rachev and   
            L. Rüschendorf   Approximation of Sums by Compound
                                  Poisson Distributions with Respect to
                                  Stop-Loss Distances  . . . . . . . . . . 350--374
               C. Donati-Martin   Le probl\`eme de Buffon--Synge pour une
                                  corde. (French) [The Buffon--Synge
                                  problem for a string]  . . . . . . . . . 375--395
         Douglas P. Kennedy and   
                Robert P. Kertz   Limit Theorems for Threshold-Stopped
                                  Random Variables with Applications to
                                  Optimal Stopping . . . . . . . . . . . . 396--411
              Gordon Simons and   
                   Yi-Ching Yao   Some Results on the Bomber Problem . . . 412--432
       Richard J. Boucherie and   
               Nico M. Van Dijk   Spatial Birth--Death Processes with
                                  Multiple Changes and Applications to
                                  Batch Service Networks and Clustering
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--455
                R. Schassberger   The Steady-State Appearance of the M/G/1
                                  Queue under the Discipline of Shortest
                                  Remaining Processing Time  . . . . . . . 456--479
                    M. J. Faddy   On Variation in Birth Processes  . . . . 480--483
                 Philip Holgate   Lattice Points in a Random Parallelogram 484--485
                L. C. G. Rogers   The Two-Sided Exit Problem for
                                  Spectrally Positive Lévy Processes  . . . 486--487
               Jacek Wesolowski   A Constant Regression Characterization
                                  of the Gamma Law . . . . . . . . . . . . 488--490
      Ourania Chryssaphinou and   
       Stavros G. Papastavridis   Limit Distribution for a
                                  Consecutive-$k$-out-of-$n$: $F$ System   491--493
                        Lam Yeh   A Repair Replacement Model . . . . . . . 494--497
     Dipankar Bandyopadhyay and   
                   Asit P. Basu   On a Generalization of a Model by
                                  Lindley and Singpurwalla . . . . . . . . 498--500
            Pushpa L. Gupta and   
                    R. D. Gupta   A Bivariate Random Environmental Stress
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501--503
                      Allan Gut   Cumulative Shock Models  . . . . . . . . 504--507
              Subhash C. Kochar   On Preservation of Some Partial
                                  Orderings under Shock Models . . . . . . 508--509
          Dieter König and   
                 Volker Schmidt   Extended and Conditional Versions of the
                                  PASTA Property . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510--512
                  T. Takine and   
                    T. Hasegawa   A Note on M/G/1 Vacation Systems with
                                  Waiting Time Limits  . . . . . . . . . . 513--518
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 22, Number 3, September, 1990

                   S. N. Ethier   The Distribution of the Frequencies of
                                  Age-Ordered Alleles in a Diffusion Model 519--532
             Lech S. Papiez and   
             George A. Sandison   A Diffusion Model with Loss of Particles 533--547
             W. J. Anderson and   
               P. M. McDunnough   On the Representation of Symmetric
                                  Transition Functions . . . . . . . . . . 548--563
          Roland Malhamé   A Jump-Driven Markovian Electric Load
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 564--586
           Dag Tjòstheim   Non-Linear Time Series and Markov Chains 587--611
                    Dawei Huang   On the Maximal Entropy Property for ARMA
                                  Processes and ARMA Approximation . . . . 612--626
                 Nader Ebrahimi   Binary Structure Functions with
                                  Dependent Components . . . . . . . . . . 627--640
            Wolfgang Stadje and   
                 Dror Zuckerman   Optimal Strategies for Some Repair
                                  Replacement Models . . . . . . . . . . . 641--656
              Keith W. Ross and   
                    Danny Tsang   Teletraffic Engineering for Product-Form
                                  Circuit-Switched Networks  . . . . . . . 657--675
         David M. Lucantoni and   
Kathleen S. Meier-Hellstern and   
                Marcel F. Neuts   A Single-Server Queue with Server
                                  Vacations and a Class of Non-Renewal
                                  Arrival Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . 676--705
                Offer Kella and   
                     Ward Whitt   Diffusion Approximations for Queues with
                                  Server Vacations . . . . . . . . . . . . 706--729
              M. A. Wortman and   
                Ralph L. Disney   Vacation Queues with Markov Schedules    730--748
               Nico M. Van Dijk   On a Simple Proof of Uniformization for
                                  Continuous and Discrete-State
                                  Continuous-Time Markov Chains  . . . . . 749--750
               R. N. Pillai and   
                     E. Sandhya   Distributions with Complete Monotone
                                  Derivative and Geometric Infinite
                                  Divisibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 751--754
                       Wei Qian   A Note on Asymptotic Inference for an
                                  Asymmetric Ising Model around a Torus    755--757
           B. S. El-Desouky and   
                   S. A. Hussen   A Generalization of a Waiting Time
                                  Problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 758--760
          Venkat Anantharam and   
               Pantelis Tsoucas   Stochastic Concavity of Throughput in
                                  Series of Queues with Finite Buffers . . 761--763
          Ludolf E. Meester and   
         J. George Shanthikumar   Concavity of the Throughput of Tandem
                                  Queueing Systems with Finite Buffer
                                  Storage Space  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 764--767
             Robert E. Stanford   On Queues with Impatience  . . . . . . . 768--769
                      Hydar Ali   Expected Number of Departures in M/M/1
                                  and GI/G/1 Queues  . . . . . . . . . . . 770--772
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 22, Number 4, December, 1990

               S. N. Ethier and   
                R. C. Griffiths   The Neutral Two-Locus Model as a
                                  Measure-Valued Diffusion . . . . . . . . 773--786
                J. Beirlant and   
                   E. Willekens   Rapid Variation with Remainder and Rates
                                  of Convergence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 787--801
                     Frank Ball   Aggregated Markov Processes with
                                  Negative Exponential Time Interval
                                  Omission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 802--830
                  David Mannion   Convergence to Collinearity of a
                                  Sequence of Random Triangle Shapes . . . 831--844
                  David Mannion   The Invariant Distribution of a Sequence
                                  of Random Collinear Triangle Shapes  . . 845--865
                Wolfgang Stadje   The Collector's Problem with Group
                                  Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 866--882
                  V. Giorno and   
               A. G. Nobile and   
                L. M. Ricciardi   On the Asymptotic Behaviour of
                                  First-Passage-Time Densities for
                                  One-Dimensional Diffusion Processes and
                                  Varying Boundaries . . . . . . . . . . . 883--914
                 Enzo Orsingher   Random Motions Governed by Third-Order
                                  Equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 915--928
        George D. Stamoulis and   
             John N. Tsitsiklis   On the Settling Time of the Congested
                                  GI/G/1 Queue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 929--956
               W. Katzenbeisser   On the Joint Distribution of the Number
                                  of Upper and Lower Records and the
                                  Number of Inversions in a Random
                                  Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 957--960
             Claude Lefevre and   
                 Xavier Milhaud   On the Association of the Lifelengths of
                                  Components Subjected to a Stochastic
                                  Environment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 961--964
                  Z. Khalil and   
                       G. Falin   A Star-like Circuit-Switching Network
                                  with Multistage Service  . . . . . . . . 965--967
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 969--971
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 23, Number 1, March, 1991

            Donald A. Berry and   
                Robert P. Kertz   Worth of Perfect Information in
                                  Bernoulli Bandits  . . . . . . . . . . . 1--23
             Robert A. Benhenni   Monotone Stopping-Allocation Problems    24--45
        Ludger Rüschendorf   On Conditional Stochastic Ordering of
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--63
           C. Y. Teresa Lam and   
               John P. Lehoczky   Superposition of Renewal Processes . . . 64--85
               K. D. Glazebrook   Strategy Evaluation for Stochastic
                                  Scheduling Problems with Order
                                  Constraints  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--104
            Thomas E. Stern and   
               Anwar I. Elwalid   Analysis of Separable Markov-Modulated
                                  Rate Models for Information-Handling
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--139
             Robert W. Chen and   
                 Larry A. Shepp   Synchronous Service on a Circle  . . . . 140--151
       Richard J. Boucherie and   
               Nico M. Van Dijk   Product Forms for Queueing Networks with
                                  State-Dependent Multiple Job Transitions 152--187
             Peter W. Glynn and   
                     Ward Whitt   A New View of the Heavy-Traffic Limit
                                  Theorem for Infinite-Server Queues . . . 188--209
          Cheng-Shang Chang and   
                Xiu Li Chao and   
                 Michael Pinedo   Monotonicity Results for Queues with
                                  Doubly Stochastic Poisson Arrivals:
                                  Ross's Conjecture  . . . . . . . . . . . 210--228
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 23, Number 2, June, 1991

             Peter Donnelly and   
                     Paul Joyce   Consistent Ordered Sampling
                                  Distributions: Characterization and
                                  Convergence  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--258
               I. L. Dryden and   
                   K. V. Mardia   General Shape Distributions in a Plane   259--276
                  P. K. Pollett   Invariant Measures for $Q$-Processes
                                  When $Q$ Is Not Regular  . . . . . . . . 277--292
                 William Rising   Applications of Generalized Inverses to
                                  Markov Chains  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--302
                Kiyomasa Narita   The Smoluchowski--Kramers Approximation
                                  for the Stochastic Liénard Equation with
                                  Mean-Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--316
                Kiyomasa Narita   Asymptotic Behavior of Velocity Process
                                  in the Smoluchowski--Kramers
                                  Approximation for Stochastic
                                  Differential Equations . . . . . . . . . 317--326
                 Charles Knessl   On the Transient Behavior of the
                                  Repairman Problem  . . . . . . . . . . . 327--354
                     S. Zachary   On Blocking in Loss Networks . . . . . . 355--372
                 Hideaki Takagi   Analysis of Finite-Capacity Polling
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--387
             Awi Federgruen and   
                      Kut C. So   Optimality of Threshold Policies in
                                  Single-Server Queueing Systems with
                                  Server Vacations . . . . . . . . . . . . 388--405
              Gunter Ritter and   
                  Ulrich Wacker   The Mean Waiting Time in a G/G/m/$
                                  \infty $ Queue with the LCFS-P Service
                                  Discipline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406--428
           Richard R. Weber and   
                   Gideon Weiss   Addendum to 'On an Index Policy for
                                  Restless Bandits'  . . . . . . . . . . . 429--430
     J. George Shanthikumar and   
                     Couchen Wu   On the Starshapeness of G/G/c Queueing
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431--435
                      Anonymous   Correction: Distributions with Complete
                                  Monotone Derivative and Geometric
                                  Infinite Divisibility  . . . . . . . . . 436--436
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 23, Number 3, September, 1991

             P. J. Donnelly and   
                W. J. Ewens and   
               S. Padmadisastra   Functionals of Random Mappings: Exact
                                  and Asymptotic Results . . . . . . . . . 437--455
                     Paul Joyce   Estimating the Frequency of the Oldest
                                  Allele: A Bayesian Approach  . . . . . . 456--475
                 Peter Hall and   
                  J. W. Kay and   
             D. M. Titterington   On Estimation of Noise Variance in
                                  Two-Dimensional Signal Processing  . . . 476--495
           Colin R. Goodall and   
                Kanti V. Mardia   A Geometrical Derivation of the Shape
                                  Density  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496--514
            Colm Art O'Cinneide   Phase-Type Distributions and Invariant
                                  Polytopes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515--535
              Mathew D. Penrose   On a Continuum Percolation Model . . . . 536--556
            Lajos Takács   A Bernoulli Excursion and Its Various
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557--585
           Chern-Ching Chao and   
               Norman C. Severo   Distributions of Ballot Problem Random
                                  Variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 586--597
                  N. H. Bingham   Fluctuation Theory for the Ehrenfest Urn 598--611
            F. Thomas Bruss and   
             James B. Robertson   `Wald's Lemma' for Sums of Order
                                  Statistics of i.i.d. Random Variables    612--623
          Lawrence A. Shepp and   
              Gordon Simons and   
                   Yi-Ching Yao   On a Problem of Ammunition Rationing . . 624--641
     J. George Shanthikumar and   
                   David D. Yao   Bivariate Characterization of Some
                                  Stochastic Order Relations . . . . . . . 642--659
                    J. W. Cohen   On the Attained Waiting Time . . . . . . 660--661
                    Karl Sigman   A Note on a Sample-Path Rate
                                  Conservation Law and Its Relationship
                                  with $ H = \lambda G $ . . . . . . . . . 662--665
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 23, Number 4, December, 1991

             J. M. McNamara and   
                   S. Merad and   
                  E. J. Collins   The Hawk--Dove Game as an Average-Cost
                                  Problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667--682
              Erik A. Van Doorn   Quasi-Stationary Distributions and
                                  Convergence to Quasi-Stationarity of
                                  Birth--Death Processes . . . . . . . . . 683--700
               D. A. Dawson and   
                 K. J. Hochberg   A Multilevel Branching Model . . . . . . 701--715
                 B. Chauvin and   
       P. Olivares-Rieumont and   
                     A. Rouault   Fluctuations of Spatial Branching
                                  Processes with Mean-Field Interaction    716--732
           Lajos Horváth   Weak Convergence of Discrete Scattering
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 733--750
                Clive R. Loader   Large-Deviation Approximations to the
                                  Distribution of Scan Statistics  . . . . 751--771
                 Frank Ball and   
             Robin K. Milne and   
                Geoffrey F. Yeo   Aggregated Semi-Markov Processes
                                  Incorporating Time Interval Omission . . 772--797
         György Terdik and   
                   Laurie Meaux   The Exact Bispectra for Bilinear
                                  Realizable Processes with Hermite Degree
                                  2  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 798--808
                     P. Whittle   A Stochastic Model of an Artificial
                                  Neuron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 809--822
                Dietmar Pfeifer   Some Remarks on Nevzorov's Record Model  823--834
        Michael R. Chernick and   
               Tailen Hsing and   
           William P. McCormick   Calculating the Extremal Index for a
                                  Class of Stationary Sequences  . . . . . 835--850
               Anant P. Godbole   Poisson Approximations for Runs and
                                  Patterns of Rare Events  . . . . . . . . 851--865
              Heikki Haario and   
                   Eero Saksman   Simulated Annealing Process in General
                                  State Space  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 866--893
                 M. T. Chao and   
                    James C. Fu   The Reliability of a Large Series System
                                  under Markov Structure . . . . . . . . . 894--908
             Rhonda Righter and   
                    Susan H. Xu   Scheduling Jobs on Non-Identical IFR
                                  Processors to Minimize General Cost
                                  Functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 909--924
          Cheng-Shang Chang and   
            Randolph Nelson and   
                 Michael Pinedo   Scheduling Two Classes of Exponential
                                  Jobs on Parallel Processors: Structural
                                  Results and Worst-Case Analysis  . . . . 925--944
                  Wim M. Nawijn   On a Random Interval Graph and the
                                  Maximum Throughput Rate in the System
                                  GI/G/1/0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 945--956
             Wen-Jang Huang and   
                   Prem S. Puri   A Queueing Process with the Possibility
                                  of Customers Becoming Servers  . . . . . 957--971
            Guillermo Ayala and   
             Juan Ferrandiz and   
               Francisco Montes   Random Set and Coverage Measure  . . . . 972--974
               You-Gan Wang and   
                   John Gittins   A Note on Gittins Indices for
                                  Pharmaceutical Research  . . . . . . . . 975--977
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 978--980
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 24, Number 1, March, 1992

                G. A. Watterson   The Mean Number of Alleles in Multigene
                                  Families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--19
                J. A. Bunge and   
                 H. N. Nagaraja   Exact Distribution Theory for Some Point
                                  Process Record Models  . . . . . . . . . 20--44
                Koji Kuroda and   
                Hideki Tanemura   Limit Theorem and Large Deviation
                                  Principle for the Voronoi Tessellation
                                  Generated by a Gibbs Point Process . . . 45--70
                   Igor Rychlik   The Two-Barrier Problem for Continuously
                                  Differentiable Processes . . . . . . . . 71--94
                 E. M. Tory and   
                  D. K. Pickard   Unilateral Gaussian Fields . . . . . . . 95--112
              Samuel Karlin and   
                     Amir Dembo   Limit Distributions of Maximal Segmental
                                  Score among Markov-Dependent Partial
                                  Sums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--140
                  Attila Csenki   The Joint Distribution of Sojourn Times
                                  in Finite Markov Processes . . . . . . . 141--160
           Philip J. Boland and   
            Emad El-Neweihi and   
                 Frank Proschan   Stochastic Order for Redundancy
                                  Allocations in Series and Parallel
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--171
      Sòren Asmussen and   
           Reuven Y. Rubinstein   The Efficiency and Heavy Traffic
                                  Properties of the Score Function Method
                                  in Sensitivity Analysis of Queueing
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172--201
                D. J. Daley and   
                      T. Rolski   Light Traffic Approximations in
                                  Many-Server Queues . . . . . . . . . . . 202--218
                    H. Tong and   
                       B. Cheng   A Note on One-Dimensional Chaotic Maps
                                  under Time Reversal  . . . . . . . . . . 219--220
                 Frank Ball and   
                 Paul Blackwell   A Finite Form for the Wrapped Poisson
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--222
               M. Manoharan and   
           Harshinder Singh and   
                   Neeraj Misra   Preservation of Phase-Type Distributions
                                  under Poisson Shock Models . . . . . . . 223--225
              M. S. Finkelstein   Some Notes on Two Types of Minimal
                                  Repair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226--228
               W. Henderson and   
                   P. G. Taylor   Discrete-Time Queueing Networks with
                                  Geometric Release Probabilities  . . . . 229--233
               Arie Hordijk and   
                      Ger Koole   The $ \mu c$-Rule Is Not Optimal in the
                                  Second Node of the Tandem Queue: A
                                  Counterexample . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234--237
           Harshinder Singh and   
             Rameshwar D. Gupta   On the Probability That the kth Customer
                                  Finds an M/M/1 Queue Empty . . . . . . . 238--239
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240--240
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 24, Number 2, June, 1992

         Douglas P. Kennedy and   
                Robert P. Kertz   Limit Theorems for Suprema,
                                  Threshold-Stopped Random Variables and
                                  Last Exits of i.i.d. Random Variables
                                  with Costs and Discounting, with
                                  Applications to Optimal Stopping . . . . 241--266
              Allen L. Roginsky   A Central Limit Theorem with Remainder
                                  Term for Renewal Processes . . . . . . . 267--287
               Assad Jalali and   
                 Alan G. Hawkes   The Distribution of Apparent Occupancy
                                  Times in a Two-State Markov Process in
                                  Which Brief Events Cannot Be Detected    288--301
               Assad Jalali and   
                 Alan G. Hawkes   Generalised Eigenproblems Arising in
                                  Aggregated Markov Processes Allowing for
                                  Time Interval Omission . . . . . . . . . 302--321
             A. A. Borovkov and   
                 G. Fayolle and   
                D. A. Korshunov   Transient Phenomena for Markov Chains
                                  and Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . 322--342
               Arie Hordijk and   
                 Flora Spieksma   On Ergodicity and Recurrence Properties
                                  of a Markov Chain with an Application to
                                  an Open Jackson Network  . . . . . . . . 343--376
      Pierre Brémaud and   
       Raghavan Kannurpatti and   
                  Ravi Mazumdar   Event and Time Averages: A Review  . . . 377--411
              Lennart Ljung and   
                    Bo Wahlberg   Asymptotic Properties of the
                                  Least-Squares Method for Estimating
                                  Transfer Functions and Disturbance
                                  Spectra  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412--440
            A. Di Crescenzo and   
                  V. Giorno and   
                   A. G. Nobile   On Some First-Crossing-Time
                                  Probabilities for a Two-Dimensional
                                  Random Walk with Correlated Components   441--454
                     P. Whittle   Random Fields on Random Graphs . . . . . 455--473
                 Derek Robinson   The Optimality of Fixed Channel
                                  Assignment Policies for Cellular Radio
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474--495
                     Zeng-Hu Li   A Note on the Multitype Measure
                                  Branching Process  . . . . . . . . . . . 496--498
                    J. P. Imhof   A Simple Proof of Pitman's 2M-X Theorem  499--501
            Fumiyasu Komaki and   
                  Yoshiaki Itoh   A Unified Model for Kakutani's Interval
                                  Splitting and Rényi's Random Packing  . . 502--505
             Rhonda Righter and   
         J. George Shanthikumar   Extension of the Bivariate
                                  Characterization for Stochastic Orders   506--508
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 24, Number 3, September, 1992

                       Marc Yor   On Some Exponential Functionals of
                                  Brownian Motion  . . . . . . . . . . . . 509--531
             Michael A. Zazanis   Analyticity of Poisson-Driven Stochastic
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532--541
               Sean P. Meyn and   
                  R. L. Tweedie   Stability of Markovian Processes I:
                                  Criteria for Discrete-Time Chains  . . . 542--574
                 Masaaki Kijima   Further Monotonicity Properties of
                                  Renewal Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . 575--588
             W. D. Sudderth and   
           A. P. N. Weerasinghe   A Bang--Bang Strategy for a Finite Fuel
                                  Stochastic Control Problem . . . . . . . 589--603
              Cheng-Shang Chang   A New Ordering for Stochastic
                                  Majorization: Theory and Applications    604--634
           K. D. Glazebrook and   
                Lyn R. Whitaker   Single-Machine Stochastic Scheduling
                                  with Dependent Processing Times  . . . . 635--652
             Sergei Grishechkin   On a Relationship between
                                  Processor-Sharing Queues and
                                  Crump--Mode--Jagers Branching Processes  653--698
                     C. N. Laws   Resource Pooling in Queueing Networks
                                  with Dynamic Routing . . . . . . . . . . 699--726
               Richard R. Weber   The Interchangeability of Tandem Queues
                                  with Heterogeneous Customers and
                                  Dependent Service Times  . . . . . . . . 727--737
         P. Konstantopoulos and   
             Michael A. Zazanis   Sensitivity Analysis for Stationary and
                                  Ergodic Queues . . . . . . . . . . . . . 738--750
                     Xiuli Chao   On the Departure Processes of M/M/1/N
                                  and GI/G/1/N Queues  . . . . . . . . . . 751--754
                     Ward Whitt   $ H = \lambda G $ and the Palm
                                  Transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 755--758
                      Anonymous   Correction: Paths in a Random Digital
                                  Tree: Limiting Distributions . . . . . . 759--759
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 24, Number 4, December, 1992

                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 761--761
               S. Tavaré   Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 762--763
               D. J. Aldous and   
              R. A. Arratia and   
              A. D. Barbour and   
         B. Bollobás and   
                P. Diaconis and   
             P. J. Donnelly and   
                 P. Erd\Hos and   
               L. H. Harper and   
                  B. Harris and   
              V. F. Kolchin and   
              A. M. Odlyzko and   
               J. W. Pitman and   
               B. G. Pittel and   
                L. A. Shepp and   
                 J. Spencer and   
           L. Takács and   
              V. A. Vatutin and   
              A. M. Vershik and   
               O. V. Viskov and   
                     H. S. Wilf   Invited Papers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 763--773
                W. J. Ewens and   
                B. Fristedt and   
              D. R. Gavelek and   
              A. P. Godbole and   
               J. C. Hansen and   
                   L. Holst and   
                   Z.-X. Hu and   
                J. Jaworski and   
                P. J. Joyce and   
             V. I. Khokhlov and   
                P. Matthews and   
                 E. Schmutz and   
                  W. Stadje and   
               J. M. Steele and   
                      P. Tetali   Contributed Papers . . . . . . . . . . . 773--777
               Anthony G. Pakes   Limit Theorems for the Numbers of Rare
                                  Mutants: A Branching Process Model . . . 778--794
           Pablo A. Ferrari and   
     Servet Martínez and   
                   Pierre Picco   Existence of Non-Trivial
                                  Quasi-Stationary Distributions in the
                                  Birth--Death Chain . . . . . . . . . . . 795--813
           Jesper Mòller   Random Johnson-Mehl Tessellations  . . . 814--844
              Tomasz Luczak and   
                  Joel E. Cohen   Giant Components in Three-Parameter
                                  Random Directed Graphs . . . . . . . . . 845--857
                T. Lehtonen and   
                    H. Nyrhinen   Simulating Level-Crossing Probabilities
                                  by Importance Sampling . . . . . . . . . 858--874
              P. K. Pollett and   
                    A. Vassallo   Diffusion Approximations for Some Simple
                                  Chemical Reaction Schemes  . . . . . . . 875--893
               Moshe Shaked and   
         J. George Shanthikumar   Optimal Allocation of Resources to Nodes
                                  of Parallel and Series Systems . . . . . 894--914
                    Susan H. Xu   On a Job Resequencing Issue in Parallel
                                  Processor Stochastic Scheduling  . . . . 915--933
               W. Henderson and   
            C. E. M. Pearce and   
              P. K. Pollett and   
                   P. G. Taylor   Connecting Internally Balanced
                                  Quasi-Reversible Markov Processes  . . . 934--959
           Alain Jean-Marie and   
                       Zhen Liu   Stochastic Comparisons for Queueing
                                  Models via Random Sums and Intervals . . 960--985
                 Paul E. Wright   Two Parallel Processors with Coupled
                                  Inputs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 986--1007
                Wolfgang Stadje   The Expected Value of the One-Sided
                                  Cusum Stopping Time  . . . . . . . . . . 1008--1009
                    T. Lindvall   A Simple Coupling of Renewal Processes   1010--1011
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 1012--1015
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 25, Number 1, March, 1993

                L. G. Hanin and   
               S. T. Rachev and   
                A. Yu. Yakovlev   On the Optimal Control of Cancer
                                  Radiotherapy for Non-Homogeneous Cell
                                  Populations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--23
          Claudia Neuhauser and   
                  Aidan Sudbury   The Biased Annihilating Branching
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--38
                 Frank Ball and   
                 Philip O'Neill   A Modification of the General Stochastic
                                  Epidemic Motivated by AIDS Modelling . . 39--62
             Claude Lefevre and   
                Philippe Picard   An Unusual Stochastic Order Relation
                                  with Some Applications in Sampling and
                                  Epidemic Theory  . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--81
                 M. G. Nair and   
                  P. K. Pollett   On the Relationship between $ \mu
                                  $-Invariant Measures and
                                  Quasi-Stationary Distributions for
                                  Continuous-Time Markov Chains  . . . . . 82--102
                Paul Glasserman   Stochastic Monotonicity and Conditional
                                  Monte Carlo for Likelihood Ratios  . . . 103--115
                Paul Glasserman   Regenerative Derivatives of Regenerative
                                  Sequences  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--139
                 V. A. Malyshev   Networks and Dynamical Systems . . . . . 140--175
            Nicholas Bambos and   
                   Jean Walrand   Scheduling and Stability Aspects of a
                                  General Class of Parallel Processing
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176--202
           W\ladys\law Szczotka   Asymptotic Stationarity of Multichannel
                                  Queues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--220
                F. Baccelli and   
              P. Brémaud   Virtual Customers in Sensitivity and
                                  Light Traffic Analysis via Campbell's
                                  Formula for Point Processes  . . . . . . 221--234
             Josep M. Ferrandiz   The BMAP/GI/1 Queue with Server Set-up
                                  Times and Server Vacations . . . . . . . 235--254
           Timothy C. Brown and   
                 Peter Donnelly   On Conditional Intensities and on
                                  Interparticle Correlation in Non-Linear
                                  Death Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--260
                      Anonymous   Correction: Exact Distribution Theory
                                  for Some Point Process Record Models . . 261--261
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 25, Number 2, June, 1993

                 D. R. Grey and   
                     Lu Zhunwei   The Asymptotic Behaviour of Extinction
                                  Probability in the Smith--Wilkinson
                                  Branching Process  . . . . . . . . . . . 263--289
                V. Ferretti and   
                     D. Sankoff   The Empirical Discovery of Phylogenetic
                                  Invariants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290--302
             Åke Svensson   Dynamics of an Epidemic in a Closed
                                  Population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--313
              E. J. Collins and   
                 J. M. McNamara   The Job-Search Problem with Competition:
                                  An Evolutionarily Stable Dynamic
                                  Strategy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314--333
           Anant P. Godbole and   
            Andrew A. Schaffner   Improved Poisson Approximations for Word
                                  Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334--347
                    T. Arak and   
                P. Clifford and   
                   D. Surgailis   Point-Based Polygonal Models for Random
                                  Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348--372
      Fernando Affentranger and   
                   Rex A. Dwyer   The Convex Hull of Random Balls  . . . . 373--394
              Ilya S. Molchanov   Limit Theorems for Convex Hulls of
                                  Random Sets  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--414
              Masakiyo Miyazawa   Insensitivity and Product-Form
                                  Decomposability of Reallocatable GSMP    415--437
                   K. Szajowski   Double Stopping by Two Decision-Makers   438--452
                 J. Keilson and   
                    L. D. Servi   The Matrix M/M/$ \infty $ System:
                                  Retrial Models and Markov Modulated
                                  Sources  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--471
      José Luis Palacios   Fluctuation Theory for the Ehrenfest Urn
                                  via Electric Networks  . . . . . . . . . 472--476
       Emad-Eldin A. A. Aly and   
              Subhash C. Kochar   On Hazard Rate Ordering of Dependent
                                  Variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477--482
                     T. Choukri   The Transient Blocking Probabilities in
                                  M/M/N Loss Systems via Large Deviations  483--486
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 25, Number 3, September, 1993

               Sean P. Meyn and   
                  R. L. Tweedie   Stability of Markovian Processes II:
                                  Continuous-Time Processes and Sampled
                                  Chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487--517
               Sean P. Meyn and   
                  R. L. Tweedie   Stability of Markovian Processes III:
                                  Foster--Lyapunov Criteria for
                                  Continuous-Time Processes  . . . . . . . 518--548
                      Yadong Wu   A Multilevel Birth--Death Particle
                                  System and Its Continuous Diffusion  . . 549--569
           C. Donati-Martin and   
                         M. Yor   On Some Examples of Quadratic
                                  Functionals of Brownian Motion . . . . . 570--584
                  C. Teresa Lam   Superposition of Markov Renewal
                                  Processes and Applications . . . . . . . 585--606
                D. J. Daley and   
                    L. D. Servi   A Two-Point Markov Chain Boundary-Value
                                  Problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607--630
            Sabyasachi Basu and   
             Gregory C. Reinsel   Properties of the Spatial Unilateral
                                  First-Order ARMA Model . . . . . . . . . 631--648
            Lawrence Markus and   
             Ananda Weerasinghe   Stochastic Non-Linear Oscillators  . . . 649--666
               Adam Shwartz and   
                     Alan Weiss   Induced Rare Events: Analysis via Large
                                  Deviations and Time Reversal . . . . . . 667--689
             Huei-Mei Liang and   
                 V. G. Kulkarni   Stability Condition for a Single-Server
                                  Retrial Queue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 690--701
              P. Leguesdron and   
              J. Pellaumail and   
                  G. Rubino and   
                    B. Sericola   Transient Analysis of the M/M/1 Queue    702--713
               K. D. Glazebrook   On a Family of Prior Distributions for a
                                  Class of Bayesian Search Models  . . . . 714--716
                      Anonymous   Correction: On the Relationship between
                                  $ \mu $-Invariant Measures and
                                  Quasi-Stationary Distributions for
                                  Continuous-Time Markov Chains  . . . . . 717--719
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 25, Number 4, December, 1993

                 Frank Ball and   
                  Damian Clancy   The Final Size and Severity of a
                                  Generalised Stochastic Multitype
                                  Epidemic Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 721--736
               Anthony G. Pakes   Explosive Markov Branching Processes:
                                  Entrance Laws and Limiting Behaviour . . 737--756
              J. D. Biggins and   
                  N. H. Bingham   Large Deviations in the Supercritical
                                  Branching Process  . . . . . . . . . . . 757--772
            Alison M. Etheridge   Limiting Behaviour of Two-Level
                                  Measure-Branching  . . . . . . . . . . . 773--782
           I. J. B. F. Adan and   
                 J. Wessels and   
                  W. H. M. Zijm   A Compensation Approach for
                                  Two-Dimensional Markov Processes . . . . 783--817
                   M. A. Guerry   The Probability of Attaining a Structure
                                  in a Partially Stochastic Model  . . . . 818--824
         Frans A. Boshuizen and   
      José M. Gouweleeuw   General Optimal Stopping Theorems for
                                  Semi-Markov Processes  . . . . . . . . . 825--846
               Ma\lgorzata Roos   Compound Poisson Approximations for the
                                  Numbers of Extreme Spacings  . . . . . . 847--874
                  Nahum Shimkin   Extremal Large Deviations in Controlled
                                  i.i.d. Processes with Applications to
                                  Hypothesis Testing . . . . . . . . . . . 875--894
                  Haijun Li and   
                   Moshe Shaked   Stochastic Majorization of
                                  Stochastically Monotone Families of
                                  Random Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 895--913
            Emad El-Neweihi and   
             Jayaram Sethuraman   Optimal Allocation under Partial
                                  Ordering of Lifetimes of Components  . . 914--925
                 Nader Ebrahimi   Modeling of Repairable Systems . . . . . 926--938
                Franco Pellerey   Partial Orderings under Cumulative
                                  Damage Shock Models  . . . . . . . . . . 939--946
      Dimitris J. Bertsimas and   
              Garrett Van Ryzin   Stochastic and Dynamic Vehicle Routing
                                  with General Demand and Interarrival
                                  Time Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . 947--978
               Arie Hordijk and   
                      Ger Koole   On the Optimality of LEPT and $ \mu c $
                                  Rules for Parallel Processors and
                                  Dependent Arrival Processes  . . . . . . 979--996
            Pawel Gazdzicki and   
         Ioannis Lambadaris and   
               Ravi R. Mazumdar   Blocking Probabilities for Large
                                  Multirate Erlang Loss Systems  . . . . . 997--1009
                  Aidan Sudbury   The Survival of Various Interacting
                                  Particle Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 1010--1012
                      Anonymous   Correction: On Preservation of Some
                                  Partial Orderings under Shock Models . . 1013--1013
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 1015--1017
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 26, Number 1, March, 1994

         E. B. Vedel Jensen and   
                  K. Kiêu   Unbiased Stereological Estimation of
                                  $d$-Dimensional Volume in $ R^n$ from an
                                  Isotropic Random Slice through a Fixed
                                  Point  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--12
                  K. J. Worsley   Local Maxima and the Expected Euler
                                  Characteristic of Excursion Sets of $
                                  \chi^2 $, $F$ and $t$ Fields . . . . . . 13--42
              Thomas H. Scheike   Anisotropic Growth of Voronoi Cells  . . 43--53
              Richard Cowan and   
             Albert K. L. Tsang   The Falling-Leaves Mosaic and Its
                                  Equilibrium Properties . . . . . . . . . 54--62
        O. E. Barndorff-Nielsen   A Note on Electrical Networks and the
                                  Inverse Gaussian Distribution  . . . . . 63--67
              P. K. Pollett and   
                  D. E. Stewart   An Efficient Procedure for Computing
                                  Quasi-Stationary Distributions of Markov
                                  Chains with Sparse Transition Structure  68--79
           Catherine Bouton and   
                 Gilles Pag\`es   Convergence in Distribution of the
                                  One-Dimensional Kohonen Algorithms When
                                  the Stimuli Are Not Uniform  . . . . . . 80--103
              Allen L. Roginsky   A Central Limit Theorem for Cumulative
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--121
         Stephen L. Rathbun and   
                   Noel Cressie   Asymptotic Properties of Estimators for
                                  the Parameters of Spatial Inhomogeneous
                                  Poisson Point Processes  . . . . . . . . 122--154
     Panayotis D. Sparaggis and   
                Don Towsley and   
         Christos G. Cassandras   Sample Path Criteria for Weak
                                  Majorization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--171
                  Z. Khalil and   
                    B. Dimitrov   The Service Time Properties of an
                                  Unreliable Server Characterize the
                                  Exponential Distribution . . . . . . . . 172--182
                    M. Aebi and   
               P. Embrechts and   
                     T. Mikosch   Stochastic Discounting, Aggregate
                                  Claims, and the Bootstrap  . . . . . . . 183--206
                         Jie Mi   Burn-in and Maintenance Policies . . . . 207--221
                   Zhen Liu and   
                    Don Towsley   Stochastic Scheduling in In-Forest
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222--241
       W\ladys\law Szczotka and   
             Krzysztof Topolski   Conditioned Limit Theorems for the
                                  Difference of Waiting Time and Queue
                                  Length . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242--257
      Dimitrios G. Pandelis and   
         Demosthenis Teneketzis   Optimal Multiserver Stochastic
                                  Scheduling of Two Interconnected
                                  Priority Queues  . . . . . . . . . . . . 258--279
                      Anonymous   Correction: Partial Orderings under
                                  Cumulative Damage Shock Models . . . . . 280--280
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 26, Number 2, June, 1994

          M. N. M. Van Lieshout   Stochastic Annealing for
                                  Nearest-Neighbour Point Processes with
                                  Application to Object Recognition  . . . 281--300
             Ilya Molchanov and   
                Dietrich Stoyan   Asymptotic Properties of Estimators for
                                  Parameters of the Boolean Model  . . . . 301--323
                     John Gates   Shape Distributions for Planar Triangles
                                  by Dual Construction . . . . . . . . . . 324--333
               K. V. Mardia and   
                   I. L. Dryden   Shape Averages and Their Bias  . . . . . 334--340
                 W. G. S. Hines   ESS Modelling of Diploid Populations I:
                                  Anatomy of One-Locus Allelic Frequency
                                  Simplices  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--360
                 W. G. S. Hines   ESS Modelling of Diploid Populations II:
                                  Stability Analysis of Possible
                                  Equilibria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--376
              G. Kallianpur and   
                       J. Xiong   Stochastic Models of Environmental
                                  Pollution  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--403
             Paul Embrechts and   
             Hanspeter Schmidli   Ruin Estimation for a General Insurance
                                  Risk Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404--422
              C. Teresa Lam and   
                      R. H. Yeh   Comparison of Sequential and Continuous
                                  Inspection Strategies for Deteriorating
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--435
               W. Henderson and   
            B. S. Northcote and   
                   P. G. Taylor   State-Dependent Signalling in Queueing
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436--455
                 J. A. Morrison   Loss Probabilities in a Simple
                                  Circuit-Switched Network . . . . . . . . 456--473
           Mark P. Van Oyen and   
         Demosthenis Teneketzis   Optimal Stochastic Scheduling of Forest
                                  Networks with Switching Penalties  . . . 474--497
           Wojciech Szpankowski   Stability Conditions for Some
                                  Distributed Systems: Buffered Random
                                  Access Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498--515
                  Gunter Ritter   On the Mean Sojourn Time of Jobs in
                                  Queues with General Service Disciplines  516--538
             Sergei Grishechkin   GI/G/1 Processor Sharing Queue in Heavy
                                  Traffic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539--555
         P. Konstantopoulos and   
                     M. Zazanis   Sensitivity Analysis for Stationary and
                                  Ergodic Queues: Additional Results . . . 556--560
        Peter Kirschenhofer and   
               Helmut Prodinger   The Higher Moments of the Number of
                                  Returns of a Simple Random Walk  . . . . 561--563
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 26, Number 3, September, 1994

                     S. N. Chiu   Mean-Value Formulae for the
                                  Neighbourhood of the Typical Cell of a
                                  Random Tessellation  . . . . . . . . . . 565--576
                  David Mannion   The Volume of a Tetrahedron Whose
                                  Vertices Are Chosen at Random in the
                                  Interior of a Parent Tetrahedron . . . . 577--596
              Vladimir P. Nosko   The Horizon of the Random Cone Field
                                  under a Trend  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597--615
             Mauro Piccioni and   
               Sergio Scarlatti   An Iterative Monte Carlo Scheme for
                                  Generating Lie Group-Valued Random
                                  Variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 616--628
                 Frank Ball and   
                 Philip O'Neill   Strong Convergence of Stochastic
                                  Epidemics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629--655
               Steven M. Butler   The Final State of an Epidemic in a
                                  Large Heterogeneous Population with a
                                  Large Initial Number of Infectives . . . 656--670
               Steven M. Butler   The Early and Final States of an
                                  Epidemic in a Large Heterogeneous
                                  Population with a Small Initial Number
                                  of Infectives  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671--689
      Håkan Andersson and   
               Boualem Djehiche   A Functional Limit Theorem for the Total
                                  Cost of a Multitype Standard Epidemic    690--697
                  J. C. D'Souza   The Rates of Growth of the
                                  Galton--Watson Process in Varying
                                  Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 698--714
             Peter Donnelly and   
                Peter Lloyd and   
                  Aidan Sudbury   Approach to Stationarity of the
                                  Bernoulli--Laplace Diffusion Model . . . 715--727
          Ioannis I. Gerontidis   Semi-Markov Replacement Chains . . . . . 728--755
            Dimitris N. Politis   Markov Chains in Many Dimensions . . . . 756--774
             Pekka Tuominen and   
             Richard L. Tweedie   Subgeometric Rates of Convergence of
                                  $f$-Ergodic Markov Chains  . . . . . . . 775--798
              Zhao-Guo Chen and   
             Oliver D. Anderson   The Representation and Decomposition of
                                  Integrated Stationary Time Series  . . . 799--819
      José Luis Palacios   Another Look at the Ehrenfest Urn via
                                  Electric Networks  . . . . . . . . . . . 820--824
                  C. R. Rao and   
               T. Sapatinas and   
                 D. N. Shanbhag   The Integrated Cauchy Functional
                                  Equation: Some Comments on Recent Papers 825--829
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 26, Number 4, December, 1994

     Jeffrey D. Helterbrand and   
               Noel Cressie and   
           Jennifer L. Davidson   A Statistical Approach to Identifying
                                  Closed Object Boundaries in Images . . . 831--854
                   Irene Hueter   The Convex Hull of a Normal Sample . . . 855--875
               K.-H. Küfer   On the Approximation of a Ball by Random
                                  Polytopes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 876--892
               K. V. Mardia and   
                   A. N. Walder   Size-and-Shape Distributions for Paired
                                  Landmark Data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 893--905
                   V. Weiss and   
                       W. Nagel   Second-Order Stereology for Planar Fibre
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 906--918
                 Frank Ball and   
             Robin K. Milne and   
                Geoffrey F. Yeo   Continuous-Time Markov Chains in a
                                  Random Environment, with Applications to
                                  Ion Channel Modelling  . . . . . . . . . 919--946
             D. J. Hartfiel and   
                      E. Seneta   On the Theory of Markov Set-Chains . . . 947--964
           Raymond W. Yeung and   
               Bhaskar Sengupta   Matrix Product-Form Solutions for Markov
                                  Chains with a Tree Structure . . . . . . 965--987
         Bernard Van Cutsem and   
                  Bernard Ycart   Renewal-Type Behavior of Absorption
                                  Times in Markov Chains . . . . . . . . . 988--1005
             Eckhard Platen and   
              Rolando Rebolledo   Pricing via Anticipative Stochastic
                                  Calculus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1006--1021
                   Xinhong Ding   A Limit Theorem for Certain Disordered
                                  Random Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1022--1043
                 Peter W. Glynn   Poisson's Equation for the Recurrent
                                  M/G/1 Queue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1044--1062
              Harold J. Kushner   Approximations of Large Trunk Line
                                  Systems under Heavy Traffic  . . . . . . 1063--1094
               Eitan Altman and   
                    Hanoch Levy   Queueing in Space  . . . . . . . . . . . 1095--1116
      Sòren Asmussen and   
                   Mogens Bladt   A Sample Path Approach to Mean Busy
                                  Periods for Markov-Modulated Queues and
                                  Fluids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1117--1121
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 27, Number 1, March, 1995

                    Paco Montes   Stereology and Image Analysis: In Honour
                                  of Professor L. A. Santaló  . . . . . . . 1--1
             A. J. Baddeley and   
               L. M. Cruz-Orive   The Rao--Blackwell Theorem in Stereology
                                  and Some Counterexamples . . . . . . . . 2--19
            Christina Bauer and   
                 Rolf Schneider   Extremal Problems for Geometric
                                  Probabilities Involving Convex Bodies    20--34
               David G. Kendall   How to Look at Objects in a
                                  Five-Dimensional Shape Space: Looking at
                                  Geodesics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--43
                     Huiling Le   Mean Size-and-Shapes and Mean Shapes: A
                                  Geometric Point of View  . . . . . . . . 44--55
                       J. Mecke   Inequalities for the Anisotropic Poisson
                                  Polytope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--62
              Ilya S. Molchanov   Statistics of the Boolean Model: From
                                  the Estimation of Means to the
                                  Estimation of Distributions  . . . . . . 63--86
            Eva B. Vedel Jensen   Rotational Versions of the Crofton
                                  Formula  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--96
              Richard A. Vitale   On the Volume of Parallel Bodies: A
                                  Probabilistic Derivation of the Steiner
                                  Formula  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--101
                  Wolfgang Weil   The Estimation of Mean Shape and Mean
                                  Particle Number in Overlapping Particle
                                  Systems in the Plane . . . . . . . . . . 102--119
               Anthony G. Pakes   Quasi-Stationary Laws for Markov
                                  Processes: Examples of an Always
                                  Proximate Absorbing State  . . . . . . . 120--145
             Lakhdar Aggoun and   
              Robert J. Elliott   Finite-Dimensional Models for Hidden
                                  Markov Chains  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146--160
Béla Bollobás and   
              Graham Brightwell   Random High-Dimensional Orders . . . . . 161--184
        Svetlozar T. Rachev and   
          Gennady Samorodnitsky   Limit Laws for a Stochastic Process and
                                  Random Recursion Arising in
                                  Probabilistic Modelling  . . . . . . . . 185--202
          Masakiyo Miyazawa and   
          Rolf Schassberger and   
                 Volker Schmidt   On the Structure of an Insensitive
                                  Generalized Semi-Markov Process with
                                  Reallocation and Point-Process Input . . 203--225
                  H. Daduna and   
                      R. Szekli   Dependencies in Markovian Networks . . . 226--254
                     P. J. Hunt   Loss Networks under Diverse Routing: The
                                  Symmetric Star Network . . . . . . . . . 255--272
                 N. G. Bean and   
              R. J. Gibbens and   
                     S. Zachary   Asymptotic Analysis of Single Resource
                                  Loss Systems in Heavy Traffic, with
                                  Applications to Integrated Networks  . . 273--292
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 27, Number 2, June, 1995

            Guillermo Ayala and   
             Amelia Simó   Bivariate Random Closed Sets and Nerve
                                  Fibre Degeneration . . . . . . . . . . . 293--305
   François Baccelli and   
              Maurice Klein and   
                   Sergei Zuyev   Perturbation Analysis of Functionals of
                                  Random Measures  . . . . . . . . . . . . 306--325
                   Viktor Benes   On Second-Order Formulas in Anisotropic
                                  Stereology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326--343
        J. Ferrándiz and   
                      F. Montes   On Statistical Inference for Random
                                  Closed Sets in Compact Subsets of $ R^d
                                  $  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344--349
                   Shigeru Mase   Stereological Estimation of Particle
                                  Size Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . 350--366
           Jesper Mòller   Generation of Johnson-Mehl Crystals and
                                  Comparative Analysis of Models for
                                  Random Nucleation  . . . . . . . . . . . 367--383
                   J. Ohser and   
                    F. Mucklich   Stereology for Some Classes of
                                  Polyhedrons  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384--396
                    R. E. Miles   A Heuristic Proof of a Long-Standing
                                  Conjecture of D. G. Kendall concerning
                                  the Shapes of Certain Large Random
                                  Polygons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397--417
                 Neil O'Connell   The Genealogy of Branching Processes and
                                  the Age of Our Most Recent Common
                                  Ancestor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418--442
             Silvia Heubach and   
                 Joseph Watkins   A Stochastic Model for the Movement of a
                                  White Blood Cell . . . . . . . . . . . . 443--475
          Venkat Anantharam and   
          Takis Konstantopoulos   A Functional Central Limit Theorem for
                                  the Jump Counts of Markov Processes with
                                  an Application to Jackson Networks . . . 476--509
                    Huan Li and   
                      Yixin Zhu   On M/G/1 Queues with Exhaustive Service
                                  and Generalized Vacations  . . . . . . . 510--531
           John S. Sadowsky and   
           Wojciech Szpankowski   The Probability of Large Queue Lengths
                                  and Waiting Times in a Heterogeneous
                                  Multiserver Queue I: Tight Limits  . . . 532--566
               John S. Sadowsky   The Probability of Large Queue Lengths
                                  and Waiting Times in a Heterogeneous
                                  Multiserver Queue II: Positive
                                  Recurrence and Logarithmic Limits  . . . 567--583
                      Anonymous   Corrections to Abdel-Hameed and Daley    584--584
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 27, Number 3, September, 1995

                 A. J. Cabo and   
                 A. J. Baddeley   Line Transects, Covariance Functions and
                                  Set Convergence  . . . . . . . . . . . . 585--605
         R. V. Ambartzumian and   
                  V. K. Oganian   Measure Generation by Euler Functionals  606--626
                 Jason J. Brown   A Bootstrap Algorithm for the Isotropic
                                  Random Sphere  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627--641
                 Jason J. Brown   A Central Limit Theorem for the
                                  Isotropic Random Sphere  . . . . . . . . 642--651
                   Harry Kesten   A Ratio Limit Theorem for (Sub) Markov
                                  Chains on $ 1, 2, \ldots $; with Bounded
                                  Jumps  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 652--691
                     P. Whittle   Large-Deviation Expressions for the
                                  Distribution of First-Passage
                                  Coordinates  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 692--710
          Ioannis I. Gerontidis   Markov Population Replacement Processes  711--740
                     Xi-Ren Cao   Event Coupling and Performance
                                  Sensitivity Analysis of Generalized
                                  Semi-Markov Processes  . . . . . . . . . 741--769
               S. T. Rachev and   
            L. Rüschendorf   Probability Metrics and Recursive
                                  Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 770--799
                   B. Forte and   
                   E. R. Vrscay   Solving the Inverse Problem for Measures
                                  Using Iterated Function Systems: A New
                                  Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 800--820
                   Gideon Weiss   On Almost Optimal Priority Rules for
                                  Preemptive Scheduling of Stochastic Jobs
                                  on Parallel Machines . . . . . . . . . . 821--839
                  M. Martin and   
                 J. R. Artalejo   Analysis of an M/G/1 Queue with Two
                                  Types of Impatient Units . . . . . . . . 840--861
          Fabrice Guillemin and   
                 Alain Simonian   Transient Characteristics of an M/M/$
                                  \infty $ System  . . . . . . . . . . . . 862--888
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 27, Number 4, December, 1995

                     S. N. Chiu   Limit Theorems for the Time of
                                  Completion of Johnson--Mehl
                                  Tessellations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 889--910
             Nancy Lopes Garcia   Birth and Death Processes as Projections
                                  of Higher-Dimensional Poisson Processes  911--930
          Ilya S. Molchanov and   
                Edward Omey and   
            Eugene Kozarovitzky   An Elementary Renewal Theorem for Random
                                  Compact Convex Sets  . . . . . . . . . . 931--942
                  K. J. Worsley   Boundary Corrections for the Expected
                                  Euler Characteristic of Excursion Sets
                                  of Random Fields, with an Application to
                                  Astrophysics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 943--959
                 Philip O'Neill   Epidemic Models Featuring Behaviour
                                  Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 960--979
              Leonid Mytnik and   
                Robert J. Adler   Bisexual Branching Diffusions  . . . . . 980--1018
             Peter W. Glynn and   
                Pierre L'Ecuyer   Likelihood Ratio Gradient Estimation for
                                  Stochastic Recursions  . . . . . . . . . 1019--1053
                 Rajeev Agrawal   Sample Mean Based Index Policies with
                                  O(log n) Regret for the Multi-Armed
                                  Bandit Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1054--1078
               Moshe Shaked and   
                 Ryszard Szekli   Comparison of Replacement Policies via
                                  Point Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1079--1103
         Gagan L. Choudhury and   
               Kin K. Leung and   
                     Ward Whitt   An Algorithm to Compute Blocking
                                  Probabilities in Multi-Rate Multi-Class
                                  Multi-Resource Loss Models . . . . . . . 1104--1143
      Kimon P. Kontovasilis and   
              Nikolas M. Mitrou   Markov-Modulated Traffic with Nearly
                                  Complete Decomposability Characteristics
                                  and Associated Fluid Queueing Models . . 1144--1185
Rafael Pérez-Ocón and   
M. Luz Gámiz-Pérez   On the HNBUE Property in a Class of
                                  Correlated Cumulative Shock Models . . . 1186--1188
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 28, Number 1, March, 1996

               John T. Kent and   
            Kanti V. Mardia and   
             Alistair N. Walder   Conditional Cyclic Markov Random Fields  1--12
                    G. Last and   
                R. Schassberger   A Flow Conservation Law for Surface
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--28
          Mathew D. Penrose and   
               Agoston Pisztora   Large Deviations for Discrete and
                                  Continuous Percolation . . . . . . . . . 29--52
            Craig L. Zirbel and   
            Erhan Çinlar   Dispersion of Particle Systems in
                                  Brownian Flows . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--74
               Joseph Abate and   
                     Ward Whitt   An Operational Calculus for Probability
                                  Distributions via Laplace Transforms . . 75--113
                 H. R. Gail and   
              S. L. Hantler and   
                   B. A. Taylor   Spectral Analysis of M/G/1 and G/M/1
                                  Type Markov Chains . . . . . . . . . . . 114--165
Sigrún Andradóttir and   
           Daniel P. Heyman and   
                  Teunis J. Ott   Potentially Unlimited Variance Reduction
                                  in Importance Sampling of Markov Chains  166--188
                Fumiyasu Komaki   Homogeneous Gaussian Markov Processes on
                                  General Lattices . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--206
                 J. Bertoin and   
                    R. A. Doney   Some Asymptotic Results for Transient
                                  Random Walks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--226
       Reinhard Bürger and   
              Immanuel M. Bomze   Stationary Distributions under
                                  Mutation-Selection Balance: Structure
                                  and Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--251
         Rudolf Grübel and   
                Uwe Rösler   Asymptotic Distribution Theory for
                                  Hoare's Selection Algorithm  . . . . . . 252--269
               L. Sacerdote and   
                  F. Tomassetti   On Evaluations and Asymptotic
                                  Approximations of First-Passage-Time
                                  Probabilities  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270--284
         Leandros Tassiulas and   
             Anthony Ephremides   Throughput Properties of a Queueing
                                  Network with Distributed Dynamic Routing
                                  and Flow Control . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--307
          Masakiyo Miyazawa and   
                Ronald W. Wolff   Symmetric Queues with Batch Departures
                                  and Their Networks . . . . . . . . . . . 308--326
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 28, Number 2, June, 1996

                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--327
             E. B. Vedel Jensen   Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328--328
              X. Gual Arnau and   
               L. M. Cruz-Orive   Consistency in Systematic Sampling for
                                  Stereology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--330
            Guillermo Ayala and   
             Amelia Simó   Correlations in Bivariate Point
                                  Processes: Some Biological Applications  330--330
              Richard Cowan and   
                    Simone Chen   The Random Division of Faces in a Planar
                                  Graph  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--331
                  Richard Cowan   Shapes of Prisms after Repeated Random
                                  Division . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--331
                Paul Goodey and   
            Markus Kiderlen and   
                  Wolfgang Weil   Section Means, Integral Transforms, and
                                  Boolean Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332--333
   Martin Bògsted Hansen   Bayes Type Estimators for the Empty
                                  Space Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--333
            Lothar Heinrich and   
              Ilya S. Molchanov   Central Limit Theorem for a Class of
                                  Random Measures Associated with
                                  Germ-Grain Models  . . . . . . . . . . . 333--334
             E. B. Vedel Jensen   An Induction Proof of the Generalized
                                  Blaschke-Petkantschin Formula  . . . . . 334--334
             Wilfrid S. Kendall   A Diffusion Model for Bookstein Triangle
                                  Shape  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334--335
                Markus Kiderlen   On Projected Thick Sections of
                                  Stationary Point Processes and Boolean
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--335
      Kiên Kiêu and   
                  Marianne Mora   Estimating the Reduced Moments of a
                                  Random Measure . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--336
          Ch. Lantuéjoul   Conditional Simulation of a Boolean
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336--336
                     Huiling Le   On Procrustean Mean Shapes and the Shape
                                  of the Means . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336--337
  Vicent J. Martínez and   
María Jesús Pons-Bordería   Statistical Studies of the Spatial
                                  Distribution of Galaxies . . . . . . . . 337--338
                   Joseph Mecke   Inequalities for the Cells of Mixed
                                  Stationary Poisson Hyperplane
                                  Tessellations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338--338
             Roger E. Miles and   
          Margaret S. Mackisack   Further Random Tessellations with the
                                  Classic Poisson Polygon Distributions    338--339
              Joachim Ohser and   
                   Werner Nagel   Stereological Estimation of the Size
                                  Distribution for Systems of Random
                                  Convex Polyhedrons . . . . . . . . . . . 340--341
                      Jan Rataj   Mixed Curvature Measures and a
                                  Translative Integral Formula . . . . . . 341--341
              Konrad Sandau and   
                     Haymo Kurz   Some Properties of a 2D Arterial Tree
                                  Simulated by a Stochastic Growth Model   341--342
                Katja Schladitz   Estimation of the Intensity of
                                  Stationary Flat Processes  . . . . . . . 342--342
              Masaharu Tanemura   Methods of Simulating Random Patterns of
                                  Non-Spherical Objects and Their
                                  Application  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342--343
              Edward C. Waymire   Multiscaling and Random Cascades . . . . 343--344
             Martina Zähle   Dimensions of Measures under Orthogonal
                                  Projections  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344--345
             A. J. Baddeley and   
      M. N. M. Van Lieshout and   
               J. Mòller   Markov Properties of Cluster Processes   346--355
                 S. N. Chiu and   
         R. Van De Weygaert and   
                      D. Stoyan   The Sectional Poisson Voronoi
                                  Tessellation Is Not a Voronoi
                                  Tessellation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356--376
              Richard Cowan and   
                    Simone Chen   The Random Division of Faces in a Planar
                                  Graph  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--383
          Lutz Dümbgen and   
           Günther Walther   Rates of Convergence for Random
                                  Approximations of Convex Sets  . . . . . 384--393
                      Jan Rataj   Estimation of Oriented Direction
                                  Distribution of a Planar Body  . . . . . 394--404
              D. S. Poskitt and   
                  Shin-Ho Chung   Markov Chain Models, Time Series
                                  Analysis and Extreme Value Theory  . . . 405--425
          Charles M. Goldie and   
                 Ross A. Maller   A Point-Process Approach to Almost-Sure
                                  Behaviour of Record Values and Order
                                  Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426--462
          Charles M. Goldie and   
             Rudolf Grübel   Perpetuities with Thin Tails . . . . . . 463--480
                 Oleg Seleznjev   Large Deviations in the Piecewise Linear
                                  Approximation of Gaussian Processes with
                                  Stationary Increments  . . . . . . . . . 481--499
           Carlos E. Puente and   
     Miguel M. López and   
     Jorge E. Pinzón and   
          José M. Angulo   The Gaussian Distribution Revisited  . . 500--524
                     Jim Pitman   Random Discrete Distributions Invariant
                                  under Size-Biased Permutation  . . . . . 525--539
          Peter G. Harrison and   
                   Edwige Pitel   The M/G/1 Queue with Negative Customers  540--566
                     Qi-Ming He   Queues with Marked Customers . . . . . . 567--587
         Dimitris Bertsimas and   
             Georgia Mourtzinou   A Unified Method to Analyze Overtake
                                  Free Queueing Systems  . . . . . . . . . 588--625
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 28, Number 3, September, 1996

                  C. A. Glasbey   Inference on Binary Images from Binary
                                  Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627--640
               K. V. Mardia and   
              Colin Goodall and   
                Alistair Walder   Distributions of Projective Invariants
                                  and Model-Based Machine Vision . . . . . 641--661
       Jesper Mòller and   
                   Sergei Zuyev   Gamma-Type Results and Other Related
                                  Properties of Poisson Processes  . . . . 662--673
                Li-Xing Zhu and   
                 Ping Cheng and   
                   Gang Wei and   
                     Pei-De Shi   A Stopping Time concerning Sphere Data
                                  and Its Applications . . . . . . . . . . 674--686
             Marvin K. Nakayama   General Conditions for Bounded Relative
                                  Error in Simulations of Highly Reliable
                                  Markovian Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . 687--727
                 O. Stramer and   
            P. J. Brockwell and   
                  R. L. Tweedie   Continuous-Time Threshold AR(1)
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 728--746
               M. Menshikov and   
                 R. J. Williams   Passage-Time Moments for Continuous
                                  Non-Negative Stochastic Processes and
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 747--762
                   Terence Chan   Some Diffusion Models for the Mabinogion
                                  Sheep Problem of Williams  . . . . . . . 763--783
                I-Jeng Wang and   
          Edwin K. P. Chong and   
            Sanjeev R. Kulkarni   Equivalent Necessary and Sufficient
                                  Conditions on Noise Sequences for
                                  Stochastic Approximation Algorithms  . . 784--801
             Susan M. Pitts and   
         Rudolf Grübel and   
                 Paul Embrechts   Confidence Bounds for the Adjustment
                                  Coefficient  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 802--827
                David Assaf and   
              Ester Samuel-Cahn   The Secretary Problem: Minimizing the
                                  Expected Rank with i.i.d. Random
                                  Variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 828--852
            Philippe Picard and   
               Claude Lef\`evre   First Crossing of Basic Counting
                                  Processes with Lower Non-Linear
                                  Boundaries: A Unified Approach through
                                  Pseudopolynomials (I)  . . . . . . . . . 853--876
           Claude Lef\`evre and   
                Philippe Picard   Abelian-Type Expansions and Non-Linear
                                  Death Processes (II) . . . . . . . . . . 877--894
           Ingemar Nåsell   The Quasi-Stationary Distribution of the
                                  Closed Endemic SIS Model . . . . . . . . 895--932
                J. C. Whittaker   The Allocation of Resources in a
                                  Multiple-Trial War of Attrition Conflict 933--964
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 28, Number 4, December, 1996

                 S. G. Foss and   
                    S. A. Zuyev   On a Voronoi Aggregative Process Related
                                  to a Bivariate Poisson Process . . . . . 965--981
              X. Gual Arnau and   
               L. M. Cruz-Orive   Consistency in Systematic Sampling . . . 982--992
      Margaret S. Mackisack and   
                 Roger E. Miles   Homogeneous Rectangular Tessellations    993--1013
                     P. Vallois   The Range of a Simple Random Walk on $
                                  \mathbb {Z} $  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1014--1033
J. Alfredo López-Mimbela and   
              Anton Wakolbinger   Clumping in Multitype-Branching Trees    1034--1050
                 Mike Steel and   
            Larry Goldstein and   
            Michael S. Waterman   A Central Limit Theorem for the
                                  Parsimony Length of Trees  . . . . . . . 1051--1071
           Jean-Claude Fort and   
                 Gilles Pag\`es   Convergence of Stochastic Algorithms:
                                  From the Kushner--Clark Theorem to the
                                  Lyapounov Functional Method  . . . . . . 1072--1094
              Igor Pikovsky and   
               Ioannis Karatzas   Anticipative Portfolio Optimization  . . 1095--1122
               K. D. Glazebrook   On the Undiscounted Tax Problem with
                                  Precedence Constraints . . . . . . . . . 1123--1144
                 Sid Browne and   
                     Ward Whitt   Portfolio Choice and the Bayesian Kelly
                                  Criterion  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1145--1176
                   Tao Yang and   
                 M. L. Chaudhry   On Steady-State Queue Size Distributions
                                  of the Discrete-Time GI/G/1 Queue  . . . 1177--1200
                Susan H. Xu and   
                Y. Quennel Zhao   Dynamic Routing and Jockeying Controls
                                  in a Two-Station Queueing System . . . . 1201--1226
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 29, Number 1, March, 1997

                 Sven Erick Alm   On the Distributions of Scan Statistics
                                  of a Two-Dimensional Poisson Process . . 1--18
                 T. Bedford and   
                J. Van Den Berg   A Remark on the Van Lieshout and
                                  Baddeley $J$-Function for Point
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--25
                  Richard Cowan   Shapes of Rectangular Prisms after
                                  Repeated Random Division . . . . . . . . 26--37
              J. C. D'Souza and   
                   B. M. Hambly   On the Survival Probability of a
                                  Branching Process in a Random
                                  Environment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--55
                 Frank Ball and   
             Robin K. Milne and   
                Ian D. Tame and   
                Geoffrey F. Yeo   Superposition of Interacting Aggregated
                                  Continuous-Time Markov Chains  . . . . . 56--91
                 Frank Ball and   
                     Sue Davies   Clustering of Bursts of Openings in
                                  Markov and Semi-Markov Models of Single
                                  Channel Gating . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--113
                Linn I. Sennott   The Computation of Average Optimal
                                  Policies in Denumerable State Markov
                                  Decision Chains  . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--137
                 Roland Perfekt   Extreme Value Theory for a Class of
                                  Markov Chains with Values in $ R^d $ . . 138--164
               Marc Chesney and   
Monique Jeanblanc-Picqué and   
                       Marc Yor   Brownian Excursions and Parisian Barrier
                                  Options  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--184
                  M. Kijima and   
                 M. G. Nair and   
              P. K. Pollett and   
                E. A. Van Doorn   Limiting Conditional Distributions for
                                  Birth--Death Processes . . . . . . . . . 185--204
            P. J. Brockwell and   
                 R. J. Williams   On the Existence and Application of
                                  Continuous-Time Threshold
                                  Autoregressions of Order Two . . . . . . 205--227
                   Alain Latour   The Multivariate GINAR(p) Process  . . . 228--248
              Jacques Istas and   
               Catherine Laredo   Estimating Functionals of a Stochastic
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--270
             Sidney Resnick and   
        C\uat\ualin St\uaric\ua   Smoothing the Hill Estimator . . . . . . 271--293
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 29, Number 2, June, 1997

            Robert J. Adler and   
                       Ron Pyke   Scanning Brownian Processes  . . . . . . 295--326
             J. Quintanilla and   
                    S. Torquato   Clustering in a Continuum Percolation
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--336
                Yiping Chen and   
          Nozer D. Singpurwalla   Unification of Software Reliability
                                  Models by Self-Exciting Point Processes  337--352
                  Quansheng Liu   Sur une équation fonctionnelle et ses
                                  applications: une extension du théor\`eme
                                  de Kesten--Stigum concernant des
                                  processus de branchement. (French) [On a
                                  functional equation and its
                                  applications: an extension of the
                                  theorem of Kesten--Stigum concerning
                                  branching processes] . . . . . . . . . . 353--373
                V. Cekanavicius   Asymptotic Expansions in the Exponent: A
                                  Compound Poisson Approach  . . . . . . . 374--387
               Eitan Altman and   
                   Arie Hordijk   Applications of Borovkov's Renovation
                                  Theory to Non-Stationary Stochastic
                                  Recursive Sequences and Their Control    388--413
             Alfred Müller   Stochastic Orders Generated by
                                  Integrals: A Unified Study . . . . . . . 414--428
             Alfred Müller   Integral Probability Metrics and Their
                                  Generating Classes of Functions  . . . . 429--443
                  Jean Mairesse   Products of Irreducible Random Matrices
                                  in the (max, +) Algebra  . . . . . . . . 444--477
            J. V. Deshpande and   
                    S. R. Karia   Bounds for the Joint Survival and
                                  Incidence Functions through Coherent
                                  System Data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478--497
                   Hanqin Zhang   Strong Approximations of Irreducible
                                  Closed Queueing Networks . . . . . . . . 498--522
          Masakiyo Miyazawa and   
                Peter G. Taylor   A Geometric Product-Form Distribution
                                  for a Queueing Network with Non-Standard
                                  Batch Arrivals and Batch Transfers . . . 523--544
              Naoto Miyoshi and   
             Toshiharu Hasegawa   Smoothed Perturbation Analysis for
                                  Single-Server Queues with Some General
                                  Service Disciplines  . . . . . . . . . . 545--566
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 29, Number 3, September, 1997

         Martin J. B. Appel and   
                 Ralph P. Russo   The Maximum Vertex Degree of a Graph on
                                  Uniform Points in $ [0, 1]^d $ . . . . . 567--581
         Martin J. B. Appel and   
                 Ralph P. Russo   The Minimum Vertex Degree of a Graph on
                                  Uniform Points in $ [0, 1]^d $ . . . . . 582--594
            Lev B. Klebanov and   
            Svetlozar T. Rachev   Computer Tomography and Quantum
                                  Mechanics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595--606
                L. G. Hanin and   
               S. T. Rachev and   
             A. D. Tsodikov and   
                A. Yu. Yakovlev   A Stochastic Model of Carcinogenesis and
                                  Tumor Size at Detection  . . . . . . . . 607--628
                Fengzhu Sun and   
            Michael S. Waterman   Whole Genome Amplification and Branching
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629--668
                      M. Cramer   Stochastic Analysis of `Simultaneous
                                  Merge-Sort'  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669--694
                      C. D. Fuh   Corrected Diffusion Approximations for
                                  Ruin Probabilities in a Markov Random
                                  Walk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 695--712
               Shiowjen Lee and   
                       J. Lynch   Total Positivity of Markov Chains and
                                  the Failure Rate Character of Some First
                                  Passage Times  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 713--732
                 H. R. Gail and   
              S. L. Hantler and   
                   B. A. Taylor   Non-Skip-Free M/G/1 and G/M/1 Type
                                  Markov Chains  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 733--758
             Paul D. Feigin and   
              Sidney I. Resnick   Linear Programming Estimators and
                                  Bootstrapping for Heavy Tailed Phenomena 759--805
                A. Simonian and   
              J. W. Roberts and   
         F. Théberge and   
                    R. Mazumdar   Asymptotic Estimates for Blocking
                                  Probabilities in a Large Multi-Rate Loss
                                  Network  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 806--829
                Laurent Truffet   Near Complete Decomposability: Bounding
                                  the Error by a Stochastic Comparison
                                  Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 830--855
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 29, Number 4, December, 1997

                    D. J. Gates   Stationary States of a Directed Planar
                                  Growth Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . 857--877
                   Anish Sarkar   Co-Existence of the Occupied and Vacant
                                  Phase in Boolean Models in Three or More
                                  Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 878--889
                  Wolfgang Weil   On the Mean Shape of Particle Processes  890--908
                     Frank Ball   Empirical Clustering of Bursts of
                                  Openings in Markov and Semi-Markov
                                  Models of Single Channel Gating
                                  Incorporating Time Interval Omission . . 909--946
         Valeri T. Stefanov and   
                Geoffrey F. Yeo   Explicit Asymptotic Results for Open
                                  Times in Ion Channel Models  . . . . . . 947--964
            Jostein Paulsen and   
        Håkon K. Gjessing   Ruin Theory with Stochastic Return on
                                  Investments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 965--985
                       D. Huang   Stochastic FM Models and Non-Linear Time
                                  Series Analysis  . . . . . . . . . . . . 986--1003
                    Wei Shi Lim   A Rendezvous-Evasion Game on Discrete
                                  Locations with Joint Randomization . . . 1004--1017
               James Ledoux and   
                 Gerardo Rubino   Simple Formulae for Counting Processes
                                  in Reliability Models  . . . . . . . . . 1018--1038
                   Vinod Sharma   Approximations of General Discrete Time
                                  Queues by Discrete Time Queues with
                                  Arrivals Modulated by Finite Chains  . . 1039--1059
                   Chia-Li Wang   Light Traffic Approximations for
                                  Regenerative Queueing Processes  . . . . 1060--1080
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 30, Number 1, March, 1998

       Jesper Mòller and   
    Rasmus Plenge Waagepetersen   Markov Connected Component Fields  . . . 1--35
                    G. Last and   
                R. Schassberger   On the Distribution of the Spherical
                                  Contact Vector of Stationary Germ-Grain
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--52
                     Huiling Le   On the Consistency of Procrustean Mean
                                  Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--63
           Håvard Rue and   
          Anne Randi Syversveen   Bayesian Object Recognition with
                                  Baddeley's Delta Loss  . . . . . . . . . 64--84
                  Quansheng Liu   Fixed Points of a Generalized Smoothing
                                  Transformation and Applications to the
                                  Branching Random Walk  . . . . . . . . . 85--112
                Andreas Rudolph   A Central Limit Theorem for Random
                                  Coefficient Autoregressive Models and
                                  ARCH/GARCH Models  . . . . . . . . . . . 113--121
              E. J. Collins and   
                 J. M. McNamara   Finite-Horizon Dynamic Optimisation When
                                  the Terminal Reward Is a Concave
                                  Functional of the Distribution of the
                                  Final State  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--136
              Odile Brandi\`ere   The Dynamic System Method and the Traps  137--151
                  Helmut Willie   Periodic Steady State of Loss Systems
                                  with Periodic Inputs . . . . . . . . . . 152--166
                 Robert Illsley   The Moments of the Number of Exits from
                                  a Simply Connected Region  . . . . . . . 167--180
              P. S. Griffin and   
                   R. A. Maller   On the Rate of Growth of the Overshoot
                                  and the Maximum Partial Sum  . . . . . . 181--196
         Anthony W. Ledford and   
               Jonathan A. Tawn   Concomitant Tail Behaviour for Extremes  197--215
                     Sid Browne   The Return on Investment from
                                  Proportional Portfolio Strategies  . . . 216--238
            Rainer Buckdahn and   
                        Ying Hu   Hedging Contingent Claims for a Large
                                  Investor in an Incomplete Market . . . . 239--255
                  Carlos A. Sin   Complications with Stochastic Volatility
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256--268
                      Anonymous   Correction: Homogeneous Gaussian Markov
                                  Processes on General Lattices  . . . . . 269--269
                      Anonymous   Correction: Convergence of Stochastic
                                  Algorithms: From the Kushner--Clark
                                  Theorem to the Lyapounov Functional
                                  Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270--270
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 30, Number 2, June, 1998

                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--271
             Luis M. Cruz-Orive   Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272--272
             A. J. Baddeley and   
                      R. Turner   Practical Maximum Pseudolikelihood for
                                  Spatial Point Patterns . . . . . . . . . 273--273
                   Viktor Benes   Marginal Problems in Stereology  . . . . 273--274
         Joël Chadoeuf and   
            Rachid Senoussi and   
                  Jian-Feng Yao   Parametric Estimation in Boolean Segment
                                  Processes by a Restoration-Estimation
                                  Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274--275
                 Rodney Coleman   The Crossing of Random Secants . . . . . 275--276
             Luis M. Cruz-Orive   The Rods Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . 276--277
               Robert T. Dehoff   Topological and Metric Changes during
                                  Tessellation Evolution in Two
                                  Dimensional Grain Growth . . . . . . . . 277--278
                Richard D. Gill   Coarsening at Random . . . . . . . . . . 278--279
                       Ute Hahn   Estimation of Local Density in Gradient
                                  Surface and Fibre Processes  . . . . . . 279--280
           Hans-Karl Hummel and   
                  Joachim Ohser   Flow through a Random Tessellation . . . 280--281
        Eva B. Vedel Jensen and   
        Linda Stougaard Nielsen   Transformations of Markov Point
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--281
                Markus Kiderlen   Blaschke Section Means of Stationary
                                  Random Sets and Particle Processes . . . 281--282
          Kiên Kiêu   Precision of Systematic Sampling of
                                  Spatial Structures . . . . . . . . . . . 282--283
                Jorge Mateu and   
               Francisco Montes   A Comparative Study of Simulation
                                  Methods for Marked Gibbs Processes . . . 283--284
                   T. Mattfeldt   Scale and First-Order Effects in the
                                  Deterministic Analysis of Stationary
                                  Isotropic Volume Processes . . . . . . . 284--284
                   Joseph Mecke   On Moments of Anisotropic Poisson
                                  Polygons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--285
                 Roger E. Miles   A Large Class of Random Tessellations
                                  with the Classic Poisson Polygon
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--285
             Ilya Molchanov and   
                   Sergei Zuyev   Variational Analysis of Functionals of a
                                  Poisson Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . 286--286
               Werner Nagel and   
                    Viola Weiss   Interdependence of Directional
                                  Quantities of Planar Tessellations . . . 286--287
          Jòrgen Nielsen   The Distribution of Volume Reduction
                                  Induced by Isotropic Projections . . . . 287--288
              Joachim Ohser and   
                   Martin Nippe   On Stereological Estimation of Particle
                                  Size Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . 288--288
                      Jan Rataj   Determination of Spherical Area Measures
                                  by Means of Dilation Volumes . . . . . . 289--289
                  Konrad Sandau   Estimating Parameters of Point Process
                                  Models Using the $f$L-Function . . . . . 289--290
            Katja Schladitz and   
             Adrian J. Baddeley   A Third Order Point Process
                                  Characteristic . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290--290
             A. Simó and   
                      E. De Ves   Markov Models in Image Analysis. An
                                  Ophthalmic Application . . . . . . . . . 290--291
                M. Tanemura and   
         E. B. Vedel Jensen and   
               J. Mòller   Random Tessellation Network and Some
                                  Inference Problems . . . . . . . . . . . 291--292
                  Wolfgang Weil   Integral Formulas for Support Functions
                                  and Their Use in the Analysis of Boolean
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292--293
               Helen Wilson and   
               Peter Diggle and   
               C. Vyvyan Howard   Methods for the Analysis of Replicated
                                  Spatial Point Patterns in Clinical
                                  Neuro-Anatomy  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--294
             H. Bräker and   
                   T. Hsing and   
                  N. H. Bingham   On the Hausdorff Distance between a
                                  Convex Set and an Interior Random Convex
                                  Hull . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--316
             Wilfrid S. Kendall   A Diffusion Model for Bookstein Triangle
                                  Shape  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--334
                   Marius Stoka   On a Random Variable Related to a System
                                  of Convex Bodies in the Euclidean Space
                                  $ E_n $  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--341
           Howard M. Taylor and   
             Dennis E. Sweitzer   On the Current Enhancement at the Edge
                                  of a Crack in a Lattice of Resistors . . 342--364
            Yiqiang Q. Zhao and   
                     Wei Li and   
                  W. John Braun   Infinite Block-Structured Transition
                                  Matrices and Their Properties  . . . . . 365--384
            Servet Martinez and   
               Pierre Picco and   
        Jaime San Martín   Domain of Attraction of Quasi-Stationary
                                  Distributions for the Brownian Motion
                                  with Drift . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--408
    O. E. Barndorff-Nielsen and   
                   A. E. Koudou   Trees with Random Conductivities and the
                                  (Reciprocal) Inverse Gaussian
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--424
          Mohamed Ben Alaya and   
                 Gilles Pag\`es   Rate of Convergence for Computing
                                  Expectations of Stopping Functionals of
                                  an $ \alpha $-Mixing Process . . . . . . 425--448
              A. D. Barbour and   
                    Sergey Utev   Solving the Stein Equation in Compound
                                  Poisson Approximation  . . . . . . . . . 449--475
                     Tuhao Chen   Optimal Lower Bounds for Bivariate
                                  Probabilities  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 476--492
                  M. Möhle   A Convergence Theorem for Markov Chains
                                  Arising in Population Genetics and the
                                  Coalescent with Selfing  . . . . . . . . 493--512
                  M. Möhle   Coalescent Results for Two-Sex
                                  Population Models  . . . . . . . . . . . 513--520
              Raphaël Cerf   Asymptotic Convergence of Genetic
                                  Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521--550
            Rajendran Rajan and   
                 Rajeev Agrawal   Concavity of Queueing Systems with NBU
                                  Service Times  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551--567
                  Sem Borst and   
                  Debasis Mitra   Asymptotically Achievable Performance in
                                  ATM Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568--585
          R. D. Van Der Mei and   
                        H. Levy   Expected Delay Analysis of Polling
                                  Systems in Heavy Traffic . . . . . . . . 586--602
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 30, Number 3, September, 1998

                Lothar Heinrich   Contact and Chord Length Distribution of
                                  a Stationary Voronoi Tessellation  . . . 603--618
        Gérard Letac and   
                 Marco Scarsini   Random Nested Tetrahedra . . . . . . . . 619--627
              Mathew D. Penrose   Extremes for the Minimal Spanning Tree
                                  on Normally Distributed Points . . . . . 628--639
                    Katy Paroux   Quelques théor\`emes centraux limites
                                  pour les processus poissoniens de
                                  droites dans le plan. (French) [Some
                                  central limit theorems for Poissonian
                                  processes of lines in the plane] . . . . 640--656
                     Zeng-Hu Li   Immigration Processes Associated with
                                  Branching Particle Systems . . . . . . . 657--675
                     Xi-Ren Cao   The Maclaurin Series for Performance
                                  Functions of Markov Chains . . . . . . . 676--692
         Krishna B. Athreya and   
                 Hye-Jeong Kang   Some Limit Theorems for Positive
                                  Recurrent Branching Markov Chains: I . . 693--710
         Krishna B. Athreya and   
                 Hye-Jeong Kang   Some Limit Theorems for Positive
                                  Recurrent Branching Markov Chains: II    711--722
                      Eike Born   A Point Process Model with Stochastic
                                  Intensities for a Branching Population
                                  of Two Dependent Types . . . . . . . . . 723--739
               Anthony G. Pakes   A Limit Theorem for the Maxima of the
                                  Para-Critical Simple Branching Process   740--756
                Artur Lopes and   
            Sílvia Lopes   Parametric Estimation and Spectral
                                  Analysis of Piecewise Linear Maps of the
                                  Interval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 757--776
      Dmitrii S. Silvestrov and   
               Jozef L. Teugels   Limit Theorems for Extremes with Random
                                  Sample Size  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 777--806
            Rebecca A. Betensky   A Boundary Crossing Probability for the
                                  Bessel Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . 807--830
                Wolfgang Stadje   Asymptotic Probabilities in a Sequential
                                  Urn Scheme Related to the Matchbox
                                  Problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 831--849
           Michel Bena\"\im and   
           Jean-Claude Fort and   
                 Gilles Pag\`es   Convergence of the One-Dimensional
                                  Kohonen Algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . . 850--869
                 D. Fakinos and   
                    A. Economou   Overall Station Balance and
                                  Decomposability for Non-Markovian
                                  Queueing Networks  . . . . . . . . . . . 870--887
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 30, Number 4, December, 1998

            Ximo Gual Arnau and   
             Luis M. Cruz-Orive   Variance Prediction under Systematic
                                  Sampling with Geometric Probes . . . . . 889--903
                   Ute Hahn and   
                Dietrich Stoyan   Unbiased Stereological Estimation of the
                                  Surface Area of Gradient Surface
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 904--920
                       J. Mecke   Inequalities for Mixed Stationary
                                  Poisson Hyperplane Tessellations . . . . 921--928
                   Anish Sarkar   Finite Clusters in High Density Boolean
                                  Models with Balls of Varying Sizes . . . 929--947
                   C. Jacob and   
                     J. Peccoud   Estimation of the Parameters of a
                                  Branching Process from Migrating
                                  Binomial Observations  . . . . . . . . . 948--967
            P. H. Baxendale and   
              R. Z. Khasminskii   Stability Index for Products of Random
                                  Transformations  . . . . . . . . . . . . 968--988
    O. E. Barndorff-Nielsen and   
               J. L. Jensen and   
             M. Sòrensen   Some Stationary Processes in Discrete
                                  and Continuous Time  . . . . . . . . . . 989--1007
                 Harri Nyrhinen   Rough Descriptions of Ruin for a General
                                  Class of Surplus Processes . . . . . . . 1008--1026
                Philippe Picard   A Semi-Hybrid Model for Malaria with
                                  Limited Superinfection . . . . . . . . . 1027--1057
      Nozer D. Singpurwalla and   
                Simon P. Wilson   Failure Models Indexed by Two Scales . . 1058--1072
                     Wei Li and   
              W. John Braun and   
                Yiqiang Q. Zhao   Stochastic Scheduling on a Repairable
                                  Machine with Erlang Uptime Distribution  1073--1088
           Günter Last and   
                 Ryszard Szekli   Asymptotic and Monotonicity Properties
                                  of Some Repairable Systems . . . . . . . 1089--1110
          Hideaki Yamashita and   
              Masakiyo Miyazawa   Geometric Product Form Queueing Networks
                                  with Concurrent Batch Movements  . . . . 1111--1129
                  Noah Gans and   
              Garrett Van Ryzin   Optimal Dynamic Scheduling of a General
                                  Class of Parallel-Processing Queueing
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1130--1156
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 1157--1160
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 31, Number 1, March, 1999

         Francis K. C. Chen and   
                  Richard Cowan   Invariant Distributions for Shapes in
                                  Sequences of Randomly-Divided Rectangles 1--14
           Martin B. Hansen and   
         Adrian J. Baddeley and   
                Richard D. Gill   First Contact Distributions for Spatial
                                  Patterns: Regularity and Estimation  . . 15--33
                   Irene Hueter   The Convex Hull of Samples from
                                  Self-Similar Distributions . . . . . . . 34--47
      Kiên Kiêu and   
                  Marianne Mora   Estimating the Reduced Moments of a
                                  Random Measure . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--62
                 Rolf Schneider   A Duality for Poisson Flats  . . . . . . 63--68
              Elke Thönnes   Perfect Simulation of Some Point
                                  Processes for the Impatient User . . . . 69--87
          Klaus Fleischmann and   
            Vladimir A. Vatutin   Reduced Subcritical Galton--Watson
                                  Processes in a Random Environment  . . . 88--111
            Jostein Paulsen and   
                      Arne Hove   Markov Chain Monte Carlo Simulation of
                                  the Distribution of Some Perpetuities    112--134
                Jinwoo Choe and   
                 Ness B. Shroff   On the Supremum Distribution of
                                  Integrated Stationary Gaussian Processes
                                  with Negative Linear Drift . . . . . . . 135--157
         Vladimir Piterbarg and   
                   Igor Rychlik   Central Limit Theorem for
                                  Wave-Functionals of Gaussian Processes   158--177
         Frans A. Boshuizen and   
                Robert P. Kertz   Smallest-Fit Selection of Random Sizes
                                  under a Sum Constraint: Weak Convergence
                                  and Moment Comparisons . . . . . . . . . 178--198
             J. M. C. Clark and   
                   V. Katsouros   Stably Coalescent Stochastic Froths  . . 199--219
               Mikael Andersson   The Asymptotic Final Size Distribution
                                  of Multitype Chain-Binomial Epidemic
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220--234
              Tomasz Rolski and   
            Sabine Schlegel and   
                 Volker Schmidt   Asymptotics of Palm-Stationary Buffer
                                  Content Distributions in Fluid Flow
                                  Queues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--253
          Cheng-Shang Chang and   
               David D. Yao and   
                      Tim Zajic   Large Deviations, Moderate Deviations,
                                  and Queues with Long-Range Dependent
                                  Input  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254--278
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 31, Number 2, June, 1999

                 Y. C. Chin and   
                 A. J. Baddeley   On Connected Component Markov Point
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--282
            Lothar Heinrich and   
              Ilya S. Molchanov   Central Limit Theorem for a Class of
                                  Random Measures Associated with
                                  Germ-Grain Models  . . . . . . . . . . . 283--314
              W. S. Kendall and   
      M. N. M. Van Lieshout and   
                 A. J. Baddeley   Quermass-Interaction Processes:
                                  Conditions for Stability . . . . . . . . 315--342
                   A. M. Mathai   Random $p$-Content of a
                                  $p$-Parallelotope in Euclidean $n$-Space 343--354
                   Sergei Zuyev   Stopping Sets: Gamma-Type Results and
                                  Hitting Properties . . . . . . . . . . . 355--366
           Robert M. Burton and   
                David C. Plaehn   One-Dimensional Kohonen Maps Are
                                  Super-Stable with Exponential Rate . . . 367--393
    Predrag R. Jelenkovi\'c and   
                 Aurel A. Lazar   Asymptotic Results for Multiplexing
                                  Subexponential On-off Processes  . . . . 394--421
      Sòren Asmussen and   
         Hanspeter Schmidli and   
                 Volker Schmidt   Tail Probabilities for Non-Standard Risk
                                  and Queueing Processes with
                                  Subexponential Jumps . . . . . . . . . . 422--447
               Hsien-Kuei Hwang   Asymptotics of Poisson Approximation to
                                  Random Discrete Distributions: An
                                  Analytic Approach  . . . . . . . . . . . 448--491
              Jose A. Adell and   
            Ana Perez-Palomares   Stochastic Orders in Preservation
                                  Properties by Bernstein-Type Operators   492--509
                  I-Ping Tu and   
                 David Siegmund   The Maximum of a Function of a Markov
                                  Chain and Application to Linkage
                                  Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510--531
           Claude Lef\`evre and   
                Philippe Picard   Abel-Gontcharoff Pseudopolynomials and
                                  the Exact Final Outcome of SIR Epidemic
                                  Models (III) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532--550
                     Sid Browne   Reaching Goals by a Deadline: Digital
                                  Options and Continuous-Time Active
                                  Portfolio Management . . . . . . . . . . 551--577
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 31, Number 3, September, 1999

                         J. Cao   The Size of the Connected Components of
                                  Excursion Sets of $ \chi^2 $, $t$ and
                                  $F$ Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579--595
              T. K. Chalker and   
              A. P. Godbole and   
               P. Hitczenko and   
                J. Radcliff and   
                    O. G. Ruehr   On the Size of a Random Sphere of
                                  Influence Graph  . . . . . . . . . . . . 596--609
                D. J. Daley and   
                  H. Stoyan and   
                      D. Stoyan   The Volume Fraction of a Poisson Germ
                                  Model with Maximally Non-Overlapping
                                  Spherical Grains . . . . . . . . . . . . 610--624
               Tilmann Gneiting   Isotropic Correlation Functions on
                                  $d$-Dimensional Balls  . . . . . . . . . 625--631
                K. McGivney and   
                   J. E. Yukich   Asymptotics for Geometric Location
                                  Problems over Random Samples . . . . . . 632--642
               David Vere-Jones   On the Fractal Dimensions of Point
                                  Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643--663
                Viola Weiss and   
                   Werner Nagel   Interdependences of Directional
                                  Quantities of Planar Tessellations . . . 664--678
  Konstantin E. Avrachenkov and   
               Jean B. Lasserre   The Fundamental Matrix of Singularly
                                  Perturbed Markov Chains  . . . . . . . . 679--697
Miklós Csörg\Ho and   
                         Hao Yu   Weak Approximations for Empirical Lorenz
                                  Curves and Their Goldie Inverses of
                                  Stationary Observations  . . . . . . . . 698--719
                     Hans Garmo   Asymptotic Properties of the
                                  Connectivity Number of Random Railways   720--741
            Philippe Picard and   
               Claude Lef\`evre   On the Algebraic Structure in Markovian
                                  Processes of Death and Epidemic Types    742--757
                    B. Beck and   
            A. R. Dabrowski and   
                 D. R. McDonald   A Unified Approach to Fast Teller Queues
                                  and ATM  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 758--787
           W\ladys\law Szczotka   Tightness of the Stationary Waiting Time
                                  in Heavy Traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . 788--794
                 Murat Alanyali   Three Management Policies for a Resource
                                  with Partition Constraints . . . . . . . 795--818
                  D. Crisan and   
               P. Del Moral and   
                    T. J. Lyons   Interacting Particle Systems
                                  Approximations of the
                                  Kushner-Stratonovitch Equation . . . . . 819--838
                  Aidan Sudbury   Hunting Submartingales in the Jumping
                                  Voter Model and the Biased Annihilating
                                  Branching Process  . . . . . . . . . . . 839--854
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 31, Number 4, December, 1999

    Kalle Åström and   
                  Anders Heyden   Stochastic Analysis of Image
                                  Acquisition, Interpolation and
                                  Scale-Space Smoothing  . . . . . . . . . 855--894
             Etienne Bertin and   
        Jean-Michel Billiot and   
                 Remy Drouilhet   Existence of `Nearest-Neighbour' Spatial
                                  Gibbs Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 895--909
    Bartlomiej Blaszczyszyn and   
              Christian Rau and   
                 Volker Schmidt   Bounds for Clump Size Characteristics in
                                  the Boolean Model  . . . . . . . . . . . 910--928
                    Anders Brix   Generalized Gamma Measures and
                                  Shot-Noise Cox Processes . . . . . . . . 929--953
              Richard Cowan and   
             Francis K. C. Chen   Four Interesting Problems concerning
                                  Markovian Shape Sequences  . . . . . . . 954--968
                   Sungchul Lee   The Central Limit Theorem for Euclidean
                                  Minimal Spanning Trees II  . . . . . . . 969--984
          Jòrgen Nielsen   The Distribution of Volume Reductions
                                  Induced by Isotropic Random Projections  985--994
                Katja Schladitz   Surprising Optimal Estimators for the
                                  Area Fraction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 995--1001
                Joseph T. Chang   Recent Common Ancestors of All
                                  Present-Day Individuals  . . . . . . . . 1002--1026
             Peter Donnelly and   
               Carsten Wiuf and   
                 Jotun Hein and   
         Montgomery Slatkin and   
                W. J. Ewens and   
               J. F. C. Kingman   Discussion: Recent Common Ancestors of
                                  All Present-Day Individuals  . . . . . . 1027--1035
                Joseph T. Chang   Reply to Discussants: Recent Common
                                  Ancestors of All Present-Day Individuals 1036--1038
               J. M. Angulo and   
              M. D. Ruiz-Medina   Multi-Resolution Approximation to the
                                  Stochastic Inverse Problem . . . . . . . 1039--1057
               Jean-Luc Prigent   Incomplete Markets: Convergence of
                                  Options Values under the Minimal
                                  Martingale Measure . . . . . . . . . . . 1058--1077
               Bruno Bassan and   
              Fabio Spizzichino   Stochastic Comparisons for Residual
                                  Lifetimes and Bayesian Notions of
                                  Multivariate Ageing  . . . . . . . . . . 1078--1094
               Hyun-Soo Ahn and   
               Izak Duenyas and   
                Rachel Q. Zhang   Optimal Stochastic Scheduling of a
                                  Two-Stage Tandem Queue with Parallel
                                  Servers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1095--1117
                  Duan-Shin Lee   On the Optimality and the Asymptotic
                                  Optimality of the Smallest Weighted
                                  Available Buffer Policy  . . . . . . . . 1118--1150
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 32, Number 1, March, 2000

                F. Baccelli and   
          K. Tchoumatchenko and   
                       S. Zuyev   Markov Paths on the Poisson--Delaunay
                                  Graph with Applications to Routeing in
                                  Mobile Networks  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--18
              A. D. Barbour and   
         Marianne Månsson   Compound Poisson Approximation and the
                                  Clustering of Random Points  . . . . . . 19--38
       Olle Häggström   Markov Random Fields and Percolation on
                                  General Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--66
               Andrew Hayen and   
                  Malcolm Quine   The Proportion of Triangles in a
                                  Poisson--Voronoi Tessellation of the
                                  Plane  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--74
       S. Rao Jammalamadaka and   
              Mathew D. Penrose   Poisson Limits for Pairwise and Area
                                  Interaction Point Processes  . . . . . . 75--85
             Wilfrid S. Kendall   Stationary Countable Dense Random Sets   86--100
                 Huiling Le and   
                    Alfred Kume   The Fréchet Mean Shape and the Shape of
                                  the Means  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--113
                Katja Schladitz   Estimation of the Intensity of
                                  Stationary Flat Processes  . . . . . . . 114--139
                   Seiji Hiraba   Jump-Type Fleming--Viot Processes  . . . 140--158
                Markus Bachmann   Limit Theorems for the Minimal Position
                                  in a Branching Random Walk with
                                  Independent Logconcave Displacements . . 159--176
                K. S. Chong and   
              Richard Cowan and   
                     Lars Holst   The Ruin Problem and Cover Times of
                                  Asymmetric Random Walks and Brownian
                                  Motions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--192
   François Baccelli and   
                      Dohy Hong   Analyticity of Iterates of Random
                                  Non-Expansive Maps . . . . . . . . . . . 193--220
                    A. P. Zwart   A Fluid Queue with a Finite Buffer and
                                  Subexponential Input . . . . . . . . . . 221--243
                   V. Dumas and   
                    A. Simonian   Asymptotic Bounds for the Fluid Queue
                                  Fed by Sub-Exponential On/Off Sources    244--255
                 Charles Knessl   Exact and Asymptotic Solutions to a PDE
                                  That Arises in Time-Dependent Queues . . 256--283
                 Xiuli Chao and   
              Masakiyo Miyazawa   Queueing Networks with Instantaneous
                                  Movements: A Unified Approach by
                                  Quasi-Reversibility  . . . . . . . . . . 284--313
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 32, Number 2, June, 2000

               Noel Cressie and   
               Andrew B. Lawson   Hierarchical Probability Models and
                                  Bayesian Analysis of Mine Locations  . . 315--330
            Peter J. Diggle and   
                Jorge Mateu and   
                Helen E. Clough   A Comparison between Parametric and
                                  Non-Parametric Approaches to the
                                  Analysis of Replicated Spatial Point
                                  Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--343
              Asger Hobolth and   
            Eva B. Vedel Jensen   Modelling Stochastic Changes in Curve
                                  Shape, with an Application to Cancer
                                  Diagnostics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344--362
             Marie-Ange Remiche   Asymptotic Independence of Counts in
                                  Isotropic Planar Point Processes of
                                  Phase-Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--375
      Sòren Asmussen and   
                    Offer Kella   A Multi-Dimensional Martingale for
                                  Markov Additive Processes and Its
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376--393
                  J.-F. Yao and   
                   J.-G. Attali   On Stability of Nonlinear AR Processes
                                  with Markov Switching  . . . . . . . . . 394--407
              F. Champagnat and   
                       J. Idier   On the Correlation Structure of
                                  Unilateral AR Processes on the Plane . . 408--425
                Karl Sigman and   
                     Reade Ryan   Continuous-Time Monotone Stochastic
                                  Recursions and Duality . . . . . . . . . 426--445
 Christiane Cocozza-Thivent and   
              Michel Roussignol   A General Framework for Some Asymptotic
                                  Reliability Formulas . . . . . . . . . . 446--467
            Marcel F. Neuts and   
Rafael Pérez-Ocón and   
       Inmaculada Torres-Castro   Repairable Models with Operating and
                                  Repair Times Governed by Phase Type
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468--479
                         G. Yin   Convergence of a Global Stochastic
                                  Optimization Algorithm with Partial Step
                                  Size Restarting  . . . . . . . . . . . . 480--498
          Jens Ledet Jensen and   
     Anne-Mette Krabbe Pedersen   Probabilistic Models of DNA Sequence
                                  Evolution with Context Dependent Rates
                                  of Substitution  . . . . . . . . . . . . 499--517
                David Assaf and   
          Yuliy Baryshnikov and   
                Wolfgang Stadje   Optimal Strategies in a Risk Selection
                                  Investment Model . . . . . . . . . . . . 518--539
            Paul Glasserman and   
                       Hui Wang   Discretization of Deflated Bond Prices   540--563
            A. A. Puhalskii and   
                   M. I. Reiman   The Multiclass GI/PH/N Queue in the
                                  Halfin--Whitt Regime . . . . . . . . . . 564--595
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 32, Number 3, September, 2000

                 Y. C. Chin and   
                 A. J. Baddeley   Markov Interacting Component Processes   597--619
                 S. N. Chiu and   
                      C. C. Yin   The Time of Completion of a Linear
                                  Birth-Growth Model . . . . . . . . . . . 620--627
            Ximo Gual-Arnau and   
             Luis M. Cruz-Orive   Systematic Sampling on the Circle and on
                                  the Sphere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 628--647
                Yukinao Isokawa   Poisson--Voronoi Tessellations in
                                  Three-Dimensional Hyperbolic Spaces  . . 648--662
                Alfred Kume and   
                     Huiling Le   Estimating Fréchet Means in Bookstein's
                                  Shape Space  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 663--674
             Bruno Massé   On the LLN for the Number of Vertices of
                                  a Random Convex Hull . . . . . . . . . . 675--681
               Jeffrey D. Picka   Variance Reducing Modifications for
                                  Estimators of Standardized Moments of
                                  Random Sets  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 682--700
          Andrew D. Barbour and   
                Andrea Pugliese   On the Variance-to-Mean Ratio in Models
                                  of Parasite Distributions  . . . . . . . 701--719
             Dimitris Gatzouras   On the Lattice Case of an Almost-Sure
                                  Renewal Theorem for Branching Random
                                  Walks  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 720--737
                  Yung-Pin Chen   Which Design Is Better? Ehrenfest Urn
                                  versus Biased Coin . . . . . . . . . . . 738--749
          Philippe Flajolet and   
              Fabrice Guillemin   The Formal Theory of Birth-and-Death
                                  Processes, Lattice Path Combinatorics
                                  and Continued Fractions  . . . . . . . . 750--778
   Ole E. Barndorff-Nielsen and   
           Fred Espen Benth and   
              Jens Ledet Jensen   Markov Jump Processes with a Singularity 779--799
                    Y. Feng and   
                        B. Xiao   Revenue Management with Two Market
                                  Segments and Reserved Capacity for
                                  Priority Customers . . . . . . . . . . . 800--823
           Balaji Prabhakar and   
            Nicholas Bambos and   
                T. S. Mountford   The Synchronization of Poisson Processes
                                  and Queueing Networks with Service and
                                  Synchronization Nodes  . . . . . . . . . 824--843
         Wilfrid S. Kendall and   
           Jesper Mòller   Perfect Simulation Using Dominating
                                  Processes on Ordered Spaces, with
                                  Application to Locally Stable Point
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 844--865
    S. Chadjiconstantinidis and   
          D. L. Antzoulakos and   
                  M. V. Koutras   Joint Distributions of Successes,
                                  Failures and Patterns in Enumeration
                                  Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 866--884
        Vsevolod K. Malinovskii   Probabilities of Ruin When the Safety
                                  Loading Tends to Zero  . . . . . . . . . 885--923
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 924--924
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 32, Number 4, December, 2000

         John E. Hutchinson and   
        Ludger Rüschendorf   Random Fractals and Probability Metrics  925--947
                R. Senoussi and   
                J. Chadoeuf and   
                      D. Allard   Weak Homogenization of Point Processes
                                  by Space Deformations  . . . . . . . . . 948--959
               Tilmann Gneiting   Addendum to 'Isotropic Correlation
                                  Functions on $d$-Dimensional Balls'  . . 960--961
                 C. N. Laws and   
                      Y. C. Teh   Alternative Routeing in Fully Connected
                                  Queueing Networks  . . . . . . . . . . . 962--982
                  M. Möhle   Total Variation Distances and Rates of
                                  Convergence for Ancestral Coalescent
                                  Processes in Exchangeable Population
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 983--993
              Michel Denuit and   
           Claude Lef\`evre and   
                   Moshe Shaked   On $s$-Convex Approximations . . . . . . 994--1010
              Jaap L. Geluk and   
                 Liang Peng and   
             Casper G. De Vries   Convolutions of Heavy-Tailed Random
                                  Variables and Applications to Portfolio
                                  Diversification and MA(1) Time Series    1011--1026
                M. P. Quine and   
                    W. Szczotka   A General Linear Birth and Growth Model  1027--1050
                D. J. Daley and   
                  T. Rolski and   
                    Rein Vesilo   Long-Range Dependent Point Processes and
                                  Their Palm--Khinchin Distributions . . . 1051--1063
     F. Javier López and   
     Servet Martínez and   
                   Gerardo Sanz   Stochastic Domination and Markovian
                                  Couplings  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1064--1076
               J. M. Angulo and   
          M. D. Ruiz-Medina and   
                  V. V. Anh and   
                    W. Grecksch   Fractional Diffusion and Fractional Heat
                                  Equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1077--1099
               Anthony G. Pakes   The Number and Sum of Near-Maxima for
                                  Thin-Tailed Populations  . . . . . . . . 1100--1116
                R. A. Doney and   
                   R. A. Maller   Random Walks Crossing Curved Boundaries:
                                  A Functional Limit Theorem, Stability
                                  and Asymptotic Distributions for Exit
                                  Times and Positions  . . . . . . . . . . 1117--1149
             Michel Mandjes and   
                      Sem Borst   Overflow Behavior in Queues with Many
                                  Long-Tailed Inputs . . . . . . . . . . . 1150--1167
           Nikolay Likhanov and   
               Ravi R. Mazumdar   Loss Asymptotics in Large Buffers Fed by
                                  Heterogeneous Long-Tailed Sources  . . . 1168--1189
               Dominique Jeulin   Obituary: Georges Matheron . . . . . . . 1190--1192
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 33, Number 1, March, 2001

              A. D. Barbour and   
                     V. Schmidt   On Laslett's Transform for the Boolean
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--5
                Markus Kiderlen   Non-Parametric Estimation of the
                                  Directional Distribution of Stationary
                                  Line and Fibre Processes . . . . . . . . 6--24
                 Rolf Schneider   On the Mean Normal Measures of a
                                  Particle Process . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--38
                  Wolfgang Weil   Densities of Mixed Volumes for Boolean
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--60
                David Perry and   
                Wolfgang Stadje   Disasters in a Markovian Inventory
                                  System for Perishable Items  . . . . . . 61--75
   José Niño-Mora   Restless Bandits, Partial Conservation
                                  Laws and Indexability  . . . . . . . . . 76--98
                 Frank Ball and   
                   Owen D. Lyne   Stochastic Multitype SIR Epidemics among
                                  a Population Partitioned into Households 99--123
                   A. Khorunzhy   Sparse Random Matrices: Spectral Edge
                                  and Statistics of Rooted Trees . . . . . 124--140
                 Robert Illsley   The Excursions of a Stationary Gaussian
                                  Process outside a Large Two-Dimensional
                                  Region . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--159
   Ole E. Barndorff-Nielsen and   
               Jan Pedersen and   
                   Ken-Iti Sato   Multivariate Subordination,
                                  Self-Decomposability and Stability . . . 160--187
     Servet Martínez and   
                  Bernard Ycart   Decay Rates and Cutoff for Convergence
                                  and Hitting Times of Markov Chains with
                                  Countably Infinite State Space . . . . . 188--205
              Xiaoyue Jiang and   
               Viliam Makis and   
           Andrew K. S. Jardine   Optimal Repair/Replacement Policy for a
                                  General Repair Model . . . . . . . . . . 206--222
                Daniel Dufresne   The Integral of Geometric Brownian
                                  Motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--241
                F. Mendivil and   
              R. Shonkwiler and   
                  M. C. Spruill   Restarting Search Algorithms with
                                  Applications to Simulated Annealing  . . 242--259
             Michel Mandjes and   
                  Jeong-Han Kim   Analysis of a Phase Transition
                                  Phenomenon in Packet Networks  . . . . . 260--280
              Hailiang Yang and   
                 Lianzeng Zhang   Spectrally Negative Lévy Processes with
                                  Applications in Risk Theory  . . . . . . 281--291
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 33, Number 2, June, 2001

   François Baccelli and   
        Bartlomiej Blaszczyszyn   On a Coverage Process Ranging from the
                                  Boolean Model to the Poisson--Voronoi
                                  Tessellation with Applications to
                                  Wireless Communications  . . . . . . . . 293--323
                     Huiling Le   Locating Fréchet Means with Application
                                  to Shape Spaces  . . . . . . . . . . . . 324--338
      M. N. M. Van Lieshout and   
                 E. W. Van Zwet   Exact Sampling from Conditional Boolean
                                  Models with Applications to Maximum
                                  Likelihood Inference . . . . . . . . . . 339--353
              Richard A. Vitale   Intrinsic Volumes and Gaussian Processes 354--364
                 R. T. Dunn and   
               K. D. Glazebrook   The Performance of Index-Based Policies
                                  for Bandit Problems with Stochastic
                                  Machine Availability . . . . . . . . . . 365--390
                    Didier Piau   Processus de Branchement en Champ Moyen
                                  et Réaction PCR. (French) [Branching
                                  processes in mean field and the PCR
                                  reaction]  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--403
                       Hui Wang   Some Control Problems with Random
                                  Intervention Times . . . . . . . . . . . 404--422
            Laura M. Morato and   
                     Paola Siri   A Stochastic Algorithm to Compute
                                  Optimal Probabilities in the Chaos Game  423--436
   József Bukszár   Upper Bounds for the Probability of a
                                  Union by Multitrees  . . . . . . . . . . 437--452
                E. Di Nardo and   
               A. G. Nobile and   
                 E. Pirozzi and   
                L. M. Ricciardi   A Computational Approach to
                                  First-Passage-Time Problems for
                                  Gauss--Markov Processes  . . . . . . . . 453--482
             Pieter Allaart and   
              Michael Monticino   Optimal Stopping Rules for Directionally
                                  Reinforced Processes . . . . . . . . . . 483--504
               James Ledoux and   
                Laurent Truffet   Markovian Bounds on Functions of Finite
                                  Markov Chains  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505--519
                O. J. Boxma and   
                  I. A. Kurkova   The M/G/1 Queue with Two Service Speeds  520--540
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 33, Number 3, September, 2001

           Martin B. Hansen and   
               Erik W. Van Zwet   Nonparametric Estimation of the Chord
                                  Length Distribution  . . . . . . . . . . 541--558
 Salme Kärkkäinen and   
            Antti Penttinen and   
         Nikolai G. Ushakov and   
          Alexandra P. Ushakova   Estimation of Orientation Characteristic
                                  of Fibrous Material  . . . . . . . . . . 559--575
               Joseph Mecke and   
                Dietrich Stoyan   The Specific Connectivity Number of
                                  Random Networks  . . . . . . . . . . . . 576--583
                Eugene Spodarev   On the Rose of Intersections of
                                  Stationary Flat Processes  . . . . . . . 584--599
            Prakash Gorroochurn   Post-Data Inference of Coalescence Times
                                  and Segregating-Site Distribution in a
                                  Two-Island Model with Symmetric
                                  Migration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 600--616
           Tilmann Gneiting and   
Zoltán Sasvári and   
               Martin Schlather   Analogies and Correspondences between
                                  Variograms and Covariance Functions  . . 617--630
      Filemon Ramirez-Perez and   
                Robert Serfling   Shot Noise on Cluster Processes with
                                  Cluster Marks, and Studies of Long Range
                                  Dependence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 631--651
              Cheng-Der Fuh and   
                  Tze Leung Lai   Asymptotic Expansions in
                                  Multidimensional Markov Renewal Theory
                                  and First Passage Times for Markov
                                  Random Walks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 652--673
          Gordon E. Willmot and   
                    Jun Cai and   
                 X. Sheldon Lin   Lundberg Inequalities for Renewal
                                  Equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 674--689
           Antonio Di Crescenzo   On Random Motions with Velocities
                                  Alternating at Erlang-Distributed Random
                                  Times  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 690--701
           Estate Khmaladze and   
             Eka Shinjikashvili   Calculation of Noncrossing Probabilities
                                  for Poisson Processes and Its
                                  Corollaries  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 702--716
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 33, Number 4, December, 2001

       Amparo Baíllo and   
                 Antonio Cuevas   On the Estimation of a Star-Shaped Set   717--726
              A. D. Barbour and   
                         A. Xia   The Number of Two-Dimensional Maxima . . 727--750
                 S. N. Chiu and   
                    M. P. Quine   Central Limit Theorem for
                                  Germination-Growth Models in $ R^d $
                                  with Non-Poisson Locations . . . . . . . 751--755
           Estate Khmaladze and   
                  N. Toronjadze   On the Almost Sure Coverage Property of
                                  Voronoi Tessellation: The $ R^1 $ Case   756--764
          Tomás Mrkvicka   Estimation Variances for Poisson
                                  Processes of Compact Sets  . . . . . . . 765--772
               Keith J. Worsley   Testing for Signals with Unknown
                                  Location and Scale in a $ \chi^2 $
                                  Random Field, with an Application to
                                  fMRI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773--793
             Carl Chiarella and   
              Sara Pasquali and   
        Wolfgang J. Runggaldier   On Filtering in Markovian Term Structure
                                  Models: An Approximation Approach  . . . 794--809
                Craig L. Zirbel   Lagrangian Observations of Homogeneous
                                  Random Environments  . . . . . . . . . . 810--835
                 Han S. Kim and   
                 Ness B. Shroff   On the Asymptotic Relationship between
                                  the Overflow Probability and the Loss
                                  Ratio  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 836--863
          Raúl Gouet and   
     F. Javier López and   
              Miguel San Miguel   A Martingale Approach to Strong
                                  Convergence of the Number of Records . . 864--873
                  Julien Barral   Generalized Vector Multiplicative
                                  Cascades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 874--895
                K. V. Mitov and   
                    N. M. Yanev   Limit Theorems for Alternating Renewal
                                  Processes in the Infinite Mean Case  . . 896--911
               M. Menshikov and   
            V. Sidoravicius and   
                M. Vachkovskaia   A Note on Two-Dimensional Truncated
                                  Long-Range Percolation . . . . . . . . . 912--929
                    R. L. Paige   Classification and Lumpability in the
                                  Stochastic Hopfield Model  . . . . . . . 930--943
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 34, Number 1, March, 2002

         Martin J. B. Appel and   
       Christopher A. Najim and   
                 Ralph P. Russo   Limit Laws for the Diameter of a Random
                                  Point Set  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--10
                 Wilfried Gille   The Set Covariance of a Dead Leaves
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--20
                 Daniel Hug and   
           Günter Last and   
                  Wolfgang Weil   Generalized Contact Distributions of
                                  Inhomogeneous Boolean Models . . . . . . 21--47
                  Rahul Roy and   
                Hideki Tanemura   Critical Intensities of Boolean Models
                                  with Different Underlying Convex Shapes  48--57
             Kavita Ramanan and   
           Anirvan Sengupta and   
               Ilze Ziedins and   
                   Partha Mitra   Markov Random Field Models of
                                  Multicasting in Tree Networks  . . . . . 58--84
              Vincent Dumas and   
          Fabrice Guillemin and   
                Philippe Robert   A Markovian Analysis of
                                  Additive-Increase
                                  Multiplicative-Decrease Algorithms . . . 85--111
           Henrik Fagerholm and   
    Göran Högnäs   Stability Classification of a Ricker
                                  Model with Two Random Parameters . . . . 112--127
       Ananda P. N. Weerasinghe   Stationary Stochastic Control for Itô
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--140
                Paul Dupuis and   
                       Hui Wang   Optimal Stopping with Random
                                  Intervention Times . . . . . . . . . . . 141--157
      Takis Konstantopoulos and   
          Gregory S. Richardson   Conditional Limit Theorems for
                                  Spectrally Positive Lévy Processes  . . . 158--178
                 Alwin Stegeman   Extremal Behavior of Heavy-Tailed
                                  ON-Periods in a Superposition of ON/OFF
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--204
          P. Brémaud and   
            L. Massoulié   Power Spectra of General Shot Noises and
                                  Hawkes Point Processes with a Random
                                  Excitation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--222
              A. D. Barbour and   
                S. Y. Novak and   
                         A. Xia   Compound Poisson Approximation for the
                                  Distribution of Extremes . . . . . . . . 223--240
      Félix Belzunce and   
    Eva-María Ortega and   
            José M. Ruiz   On Ageing Properties of First-Passage
                                  Times of Increasing Markov Processes . . 241--259
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 34, Number 2, June, 2002

               Gabriele Bianchi   Determining Convex Polygons from Their
                                  Covariograms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--266
                Anders Brix and   
             Wilfrid S. Kendall   Simulation of Cluster Point Processes
                                  without Edge Effects . . . . . . . . . . 267--280
                   A. Hayen and   
                    M. P. Quine   Areas of Components of a Voronoi Polygon
                                  in a Homogeneous Poisson Process in the
                                  Plane  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--291
            M. V. Menshikov and   
             K. A. Rybnikov and   
                   S. E. Volkov   The Loss of Tension in an Infinite
                                  Membrane with Holes Distributed
                                  According to a Poisson Law . . . . . . . 292--312
            Nicole Bäuerle   Optimal Control of Queueing Networks: An
                                  Approach via Fluid Models  . . . . . . . 313--328
                    Bin Liu and   
             Attahiru Sule Alfa   A Fluid Model with Data Message
                                  Discarding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--348
       Michael V. Boutsikas and   
            Eutichia Vaggelatou   On the Distance between Convex-Ordered
                                  Random Variables, with Applications  . . 349--374
      Nadine Guillotin-Plantard   Large Deviations for a Markov Chain in a
                                  Random Landscape . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--393
                Edward Omey and   
                 Jef L. Teugels   Weighted Renewal Functions: A
                                  Hierarchical Approach  . . . . . . . . . 394--415
                   Ulrich Horst   Asymptotics of Locally-Interacting
                                  Markov Chains with Global Signals  . . . 416--440
                Luc Devroye and   
                Ralph Neininger   Density Approximation and Exact
                                  Simulation of Random Variables That Are
                                  Solutions of Fixed-Point Equations . . . 441--468
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 34, Number 3, September, 2002

            Ximo Gual-Arnau and   
             Luis M. Cruz-Orive   Variance Prediction for Pseudosystematic
                                  Sampling on the Sphere . . . . . . . . . 469--483
              Asger Hobolth and   
            Eva B. Vedel Jensen   A Note on Design-Based versus
                                  Model-Based Variance Estimation in
                                  Stereology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484--490
                   H. Ishii and   
                      T. Mikami   A Two-Dimensional Random Crystalline
                                  Algorithm for Gauss Curvature Flow . . . 491--504
                Markus Kiderlen   Determination of the Mean Normal Measure
                                  from Isotropic Means of Flat Sections    505--519
               Tomasz Schreiber   Variance Asymptotics and Central Limit
                                  Theorems for Volumes of Unions of Random
                                  Closed Sets  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520--539
                 Eckhard Platen   Arbitrage in Continuous Complete Markets 540--558
                   Haiyan Huang   Error Bounds on Multivariate Normal
                                  Approximations for Word Count Statistics 559--586
                Henrik Hult and   
                 Filip Lindskog   Multivariate Extremes, Aggregation and
                                  Dependence in Elliptical Distributions   587--608
               N. Papadatos and   
               V. Papathanasiou   Poisson Approximation for a Sum of
                                  Dependent Indicators: An Alternative
                                  Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609--625
         A. Gómez-Corral   On a Tandem $G$-Network with Blocking    626--661
                     G. Yin and   
                   Hanqin Zhang   Countable-State-Space Markov Chains with
                                  Two Time Scales and Applications to
                                  Queueing Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 662--688
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 34, Number 4, December, 2002

             Etienne Bertin and   
        Jean-Michel Billiot and   
          Rémy Drouilhet   Continuum Percolation in the Gabriel
                                  Graph  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 689--701
                   Pierre Calka   The Distributions of the Smallest Disks
                                  Containing the Poisson--Voronoi Typical
                                  Cell and the Crofton Cell in the Plane   702--717
     Marianne Månsson and   
                    Mats Rudemo   Random Patterns of Nonoverlapping Convex
                                  Grains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 718--738
              Mathew D. Penrose   Focusing of the Scan Statistic and
                                  Geometric Clique Number  . . . . . . . . 739--753
           K. D. Glazebrook and   
        J. Niño-Mora and   
                   P. S. Ansell   Index Policies for a Class of Discounted
                                  Restless Bandits . . . . . . . . . . . . 754--774
               Andrew L. Rukhin   Distribution of the Number of Words with
                                  a Prescribed Frequency and Tests of
                                  Randomness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 775--797
      Aleksander M. Iksanov and   
              Zbigniew J. Jurek   On Fixed Points of Poisson Shot Noise
                                  Transforms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 798--825
          Subhash C. Kochar and   
                  Xiaohu Li and   
                   Moshe Shaked   The Total Time on Test Transform and the
                                  Excess Wealth Stochastic Orders of
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 826--845
               Laurent Gauthier   Excursions Height- and Length-Related
                                  Stopping Times, and Application to
                                  Finance  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 846--868
                   Axel Lehmann   Smoothness of First Passage Time
                                  Distributions and a New Integral
                                  Equation for the First Passage Time
                                  Density of Continuous Markov Processes   869--887
         Petteri Mannersalo and   
               Ilkka Norros and   
                Rudolf H. Riedi   Multifractal Products of Stochastic
                                  Processes: Construction and Some Basic
                                  Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 888--903
                T. Mylläri   Limit Distributions for the Number of
                                  Leaves in a Random Forest  . . . . . . . 904--922
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 35, Number 1, March, 2003

            Eva B. Vedel Jensen   Joseph Mecke: An Appreciation  . . . . . 1--3
          Paul G. Blackwell and   
           Jesper Mòller   Bayesian Analysis of Deformed
                                  Tessellation Models  . . . . . . . . . . 4--26
             Annoesjka Cabo and   
                Adrian Baddeley   Estimation of Mean Particle Volume Using
                                  the Set Covariance Function  . . . . . . 27--46
                 S. N. Chiu and   
                I. S. Molchanov   A New Graph Related to the Directions of
                                  Nearest Neighbours in a Point Process    47--55
              Richard Cowan and   
              Malcolm Quine and   
                   Sergei Zuyev   Decomposition of Gamma-Distributed
                                  Domains Constructed from Poisson Point
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--69
                 Daniel Hug and   
           Günter Last and   
                  Wolfgang Weil   Distance Measurements on Processes of
                                  Flats  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--95
              W. S. Kendall and   
                   R. G. Wilson   Ising Models and Multiresolution
                                  Quad-Trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--122
               Werner Nagel and   
                    Viola Weiss   Limits of Sequences of Stationary Planar
                                  Tessellations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--138
                 Rolf Schneider   Nonstationary Poisson Hyperplanes and
                                  Their Induced Tessellations  . . . . . . 139--158
          Michael Schröder   On the Integral of Geometric Brownian
                                  Motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--183
         Hiroyuki Matsumoto and   
                       Marc Yor   On Dufresne's Relation between the
                                  Probability Laws of Exponential
                                  Functionals of Brownian Motions with
                                  Different Drifts . . . . . . . . . . . . 184--206
                 Daming Lin and   
                   Viliam Makis   Recursive Filters for a Partially
                                  Observable System Subject to Random
                                  Failure  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--227
            V. Cekanavicius and   
                     Y. H. Wang   Compound Poisson Approximations for Sums
                                  of Discrete Nonlattice Variables . . . . 228--250
               B. M. Hambly and   
                    O. D. Jones   Thick and Thin Points for Random
                                  Recursive Fractals . . . . . . . . . . . 251--277
            F. Thomas Bruss and   
               Guy Louchard and   
                 John W. Turner   On the $N$-Tower Problem and Related
                                  Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278--294
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 35, Number 2, June, 2003

          Stephan Böhm and   
                 Volker Schmidt   Palm Representation and Approximation of
                                  the Covariance of Random Closed Sets . . 295--302
                  Maria Deijfen   Asymptotic Shape in a Continuum Growth
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--318
                   Ute Hahn and   
        Eva B. Vedel Jensen and   
 Marie-Colette Van Lieshout and   
        Linda Stougaard Nielsen   Inhomogeneous Spatial Point Processes by
                                  Location-Dependent Scaling . . . . . . . 319--336
               Roland Maier and   
                 Volker Schmidt   Stationary Iterated Tessellations  . . . 337--353
              Julien Michel and   
                    Katy Paroux   Local Convergence of the Boolean Shell
                                  Model Towards the Thick Poisson
                                  Hyperplane Process in the Euclidean
                                  Space  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354--361
                      Anonymous   Correction: Exact Sampling from
                                  Conditional Boolean Models with
                                  Applications to Maximum Likelihood
                                  Inference  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362--362
              F. M. Dekking and   
                  L. E. Meester   An Almost Sure Result for Path Lengths
                                  in Binary Search Trees . . . . . . . . . 363--376
                   Amke Caliebe   Symmetric Fixed Points of a Smoothing
                                  Transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--394
                A. Gefferth and   
                  D. Veitch and   
                 I. Maricza and   
           S. Molnár and   
                       I. Ruzsa   The Nature of Discrete Second-Order
                                  Self-Similarity  . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--416
                R. A. Doney and   
                  P. S. Griffin   Overshoots over Curved Boundaries  . . . 417--448
                     G. Yin and   
                   Q. Zhang and   
                    G. Badowski   Discrete-Time Singularly Perturbed
                                  Markov Chains: Aggregation, Occupation
                                  Measures, and Switching Diffusion Limit  449--476
                Thierry Huillet   Energy Cascades as Branching Processes
                                  with Emphasis on Neveu's Approach to
                                  Derrida's Random Energy Model  . . . . . 477--503
                  S. G. Kou and   
                       Hui Wang   First Passage Times of a Jump Diffusion
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504--531
    Håkon K. Gjessing and   
               Odd O. Aalen and   
                 Nils Lid Hjort   Frailty Models Based on Lévy Processes    532--550
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 35, Number 3, September, 2003

                   Pierre Calka   Precise Formulae for the Distributions
                                  of the Principal Geometric
                                  Characteristics of the Typical Cells of
                                  a Two-Dimensional Poisson--Voronoi
                                  Tessellation and a Poisson Line Process  551--562
                Thierry Huillet   Random Covering of the Circle: The Size
                                  of the Connected Components  . . . . . . 563--582
            Markus Kiderlen and   
            Eva B. Vedel Jensen   Estimation of the Directional Measure of
                                  Planar Random Sets by Digitization . . . 583--602
               Karsten Koch and   
              Joachim Ohser and   
                Katja Schladitz   Spectral Theory for Random Closed Sets
                                  and Estimating the Covariance via
                                  Frequency Space  . . . . . . . . . . . . 603--613
           Jesper Mòller   Shot Noise Cox Processes . . . . . . . . 614--640
                  S. C. Kou and   
                      S. G. Kou   Modeling Growth Stocks via Birth--Death
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641--664
     Hilde M. Wilkinson-Herbots   Coalescence Times and $ F_{ST} $ Values
                                  in Subdivided Populations with Symmetric
                                  Structure  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665--690
             Francesca Arrigoni   Deterministic Approximation of a
                                  Stochastic Metapopulation Model  . . . . 691--720
                Philippe Naveau   Almost Sure Relative Stability of the
                                  Maximum of a Stationary Sequence . . . . 721--736
           Remigijus Leipus and   
              Donatas Surgailis   Random Coefficient Autoregression,
                                  Regime Switching and Long Memory . . . . 737--754
           Thierry Duchesne and   
           Jeffrey S. Rosenthal   On the Collapsibility of Lifetime
                                  Regression Models  . . . . . . . . . . . 755--772
            Ronald W. Wolff and   
                   Chia-Li Wang   Idle Period Approximations and Bounds
                                  for the GI/G/1 Queue . . . . . . . . . . 773--792
                  Sem Borst and   
                     Bert Zwart   A Reduced-Peak Equivalence for Queues
                                  with a Mixture of Light-Tailed and
                                  Heavy-Tailed Input Flows . . . . . . . . 793--805
                  Sem Borst and   
             Michel Mandjes and   
             Miranda Van Uitert   Generalized Processor Sharing Queues
                                  with Heterogeneous Traffic Classes . . . 806--845
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 35, Number 4, December, 2003

    Bartlomiej Blaszczyszyn and   
             René Schott   Approximate Decomposition of Some
                                  Modulated-Poisson Voronoi Tessellations  847--862
                   Pierre Calka   An Explicit Expression for the
                                  Distribution of the Number of Sides of
                                  the Typical Poisson--Voronoi Cell  . . . 863--870
           Marco Dall'Aglio and   
                 Marco Scarsini   Zonoids, Linear Dependence, and
                                  Size-Biased Distributions on the Simplex 871--884
                Alfred Kume and   
                     Huiling Le   On Fréchet Means in Simplex Shape Spaces  885--897
             Ilya Molchanov and   
               Vadim Scherbakov   Coverage of the Whole Space  . . . . . . 898--912
               Tomasz Schreiber   Asymptotic Geometry of High-Density
                                  Smooth-Grained Boolean Models in Bounded
                                  Domains  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 913--936
                Sandeep R. Shah   A Note on Stochastic Domination and
                                  Conditional Thinning . . . . . . . . . . 937--940
              Daniel Berend and   
                     Luba Sapir   Between the Expert and Majority Rules    941--960
                   Ulrich Horst   Stability of Linear Stochastic
                                  Difference Equations in Strategically
                                  Controlled Random Environments . . . . . 961--981
                V. Cekanavicius   Infinitely Divisible Approximations for
                                  Discrete Nonlattice Variables  . . . . . 982--1006
               J.-P. Raoult and   
                       R. Worms   Rate of Convergence for the Generalized
                                  Pareto Approximation of the Excesses . . 1007--1027
                   Johan Segers   Functionals of Clusters of Extremes  . . 1028--1045
           Bernd Heidergott and   
                   Arie Hordijk   Taylor Series Expansions for Stationary
                                  Markov Chains  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1046--1070
                 Amaury Lambert   Coalescence Times for the Branching
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1071--1089
          Hans-Otto Georgii and   
                    Ellen Baake   Supercritical Multitype Branching
                                  Processes: The Ancestral Types of
                                  Typical Individuals  . . . . . . . . . . 1090--1110
             Andrew G. Hart and   
     Servet Martínez and   
        Jaime San Martín   The $ \lambda $-Classification of
                                  Continuous-Time Birth-and-Death
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1111--1130
             Attahiru Sule Alfa   Algorithmic Analysis of the BMAP/D/k
                                  System in Discrete Time  . . . . . . . . 1131--1152
                 S. Leorato and   
               E. Orsingher and   
                     M. Scavino   An Alternating Motion with Stops and the
                                  Related Planar, Cyclic Motion with Four
                                  Directions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1153--1168
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 36, Number 1, March, 2004

               Siva Athreya and   
                  Rahul Roy and   
                   Anish Sarkar   On the Coverage of Space by Random Sets  1--18
             Abhay G. Bhatt and   
                      Rahul Roy   On a Random Directed Spanning Tree . . . 19--42
            Anuj Srivastava and   
                   Eric Klassen   Bayesian and Geometric Subspace Tracking 43--56
                   A. Bobrowski   Quasi-Stationary Distributions of a Pair
                                  of Markov Chains Related to Time
                                  Evolution of a DNA Locus . . . . . . . . 57--77
                  M. Möhle   The Time Back to the Most Recent Common
                                  Ancestor in Exchangeable Population
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--97
           James U. Gleaton and   
                 James D. Lynch   On the Distribution of the Breaking
                                  Strain of a Bundle of Brittle Elastic
                                  Fibers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--115
               Yonit Barron and   
             Esther Frostig and   
                 Benny Levikson   Analysis of $R$-out-of-$N$ Repairable
                                  Systems: The Case of Phase-Type
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--138
               Hyun-Soo Ahn and   
               Izak Duenyas and   
                Rachel Q. Zhang   Optimal Control of a Flexible Server . . 139--170
           Céline Lacaux   Series Representation and Simulation of
                                  Multifractional Lévy Motions  . . . . . . 171--197
                Assaf Zeevi and   
                 Peter W. Glynn   Estimating Tail Decay for Stationary
                                  Sequences via Extreme Values . . . . . . 198--226
             A. A. Borovkov and   
                     A. Hordijk   Characterization and Sufficient
                                  Conditions for Normed Ergodicity of
                                  Markov Chains  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--242
     Sòren F. Jarner and   
                  Wai Kong Yuen   Conductance Bounds on the $ L^2 $
                                  Convergence Rate of Metropolis
                                  Algorithms on Unbounded State Spaces . . 243--266
                 Anyue Chen and   
               Hanjun Zhang and   
                    Kai Liu and   
                 Keith Rennolls   Birth--Death Processes with Disaster and
                                  Instantaneous Resurrection . . . . . . . 267--292
            Nicholas Bambos and   
             George Michailidis   Queueing and Scheduling in Random
                                  Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--317
            Laura M. Morato and   
                     Paola Siri   Addendum to 'A Stochastic Algorithm to
                                  Compute Optimal Probabilities in the
                                  Chaos Game': A New Convergence Criterion 318--323
                      Anonymous   Correction: Countable-State-Space Markov
                                  Chains with Two Time Scales and
                                  Applications to Queueing Systems . . . . 324--324
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 36, Number 2, June, 2004

               Codina Cotar and   
               Stanislav Volkov   A Note on the Lilypond Model . . . . . . 325--339
             Antonio Cuevas and   
 Alberto Rodríguez-Casal   On Boundary Estimation . . . . . . . . . 340--354
          Kalyan Chatterjee and   
                    Susan H. Xu   Technology Diffusion by Learning from
                                  Neighbours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--376
                 Esther Frostig   Upper Bounds on the Expected Time to
                                  Ruin and on the Expected Recovery Time   377--397
             Stephen M. Samuels   Why Do These Quite Different Best-Choice
                                  Problems Have the Same Solutions?  . . . 398--416
             Maria De Iorio and   
            Robert C. Griffiths   Importance Sampling on Coalescent
                                  Histories. I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--433
             Maria De Iorio and   
            Robert C. Griffiths   Importance Sampling on Coalescent
                                  Histories. II: Subdivided Population
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434--454
    Jean-Bernard Gravereaux and   
                   James Ledoux   Poisson Approximation for Some Point
                                  Processes in Reliability . . . . . . . . 455--470
               Günter Last   Ergodicity Properties of Stress Release,
                                  Repairable System and Workload Models    471--498
                 Anyue Chen and   
                   Eric Renshaw   Markovian Bulk-Arriving Queues with
                                  State-Dependent Control at Idle Time . . 499--524
          Fabrice Guillemin and   
            Philippe Robert and   
                     Bert Zwart   Tail Asymptotics for Processor-Sharing
                                  Queues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525--543
              J. D. Biggins and   
                A. E. Kyprianou   Measure Change in Multitype Branching    544--581
                   N. Lalam and   
                       C. Jacob   Estimation of the Offspring Mean in a
                                  Supercritical or Near-Critical
                                  Size-Dependent Branching Process . . . . 582--601
                   N. Lalam and   
                   C. Jacob and   
                      P. Jagers   Modelling the PCR Amplification Process
                                  by a Size-Dependent Branching Process
                                  and Estimation of the Efficiency . . . . 602--615
                     T. Sakurai   Numerical Inversion for Laplace
                                  Transforms of Functions with
                                  Discontinuities  . . . . . . . . . . . . 616--642
             Gopal K. Basak and   
              Kwok-Wah Remus Ho   Level-Crossing Probabilities and
                                  First-Passage Times for Linear Processes 643--666
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 36, Number 3, September, 2004

                 Daniel Hug and   
          Matthias Reitzner and   
                 Rolf Schneider   Large Poisson--Voronoi Cells and Crofton
                                  Cells  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667--690
          Mathew D. Penrose and   
                 Andrew R. Wade   Random Minimal Directed Spanning Trees
                                  and Dickman-Type Distributions . . . . . 691--714
                       J. Rataj   On Estimation of the Euler Number by
                                  Projections of Thin Slabs  . . . . . . . 715--724
               F. B. Knight and   
                 J. L. Steichen   An Interference Problem with Application
                                  to Crystal Growth  . . . . . . . . . . . 725--746
                Daniel Dufresne   The Log-Normal Approximation in
                                  Financial and Other Computations . . . . 747--773
                Tim Bedford and   
                Bo H. Lindqvist   The Identifiability Problem for
                                  Repairable Systems Subject to Competing
                                  Risks  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 774--790
        Anna Maria Paganoni and   
              Piercesare Secchi   Interacting Reinforced-Urn Systems . . . 791--804
          Gennady Samorodnitsky   Maxima of Continuous-Time Stationary
                                  Stable Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . 805--823
               B. M. Hambly and   
                Jonathan Jordan   A Random Hierarchical Lattice: The
                                  Series-Parallel Graph and Its Properties 824--838
               Eitan Altman and   
  Konstantin E. Avrachenkov and   
Rudesindo Núñez-Queija   Perturbation Analysis for Denumerable
                                  Markov Chains with Application to
                                  Queueing Models  . . . . . . . . . . . . 839--853
               Sung-Seok Ko and   
             Richard F. Serfozo   Response Times in M/M/s Fork-Join
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 854--871
                  Naoto Miyoshi   On the Subexponential Properties in
                                  Stationary Single-Server Queues: A
                                  Palm-Martingale Approach . . . . . . . . 872--892
               Do Young Eun and   
                 Ness B. Shroff   Network Decomposition in the
                                  Many-Sources Regime  . . . . . . . . . . 893--918
        Benjamin Avi-Itzhak and   
                    Hanoch Levy   On Measuring Fairness in Queues  . . . . 919--936
                 S. Leorato and   
                   E. Orsingher   Bose--Einstein-Type Statistics, Order
                                  Statistics and Planar Random Motions
                                  with Three Directions  . . . . . . . . . 937--970
                      Anonymous   Correction: \booktitleThe Multiclass
                                  GI/PHA/V Queue in the Halfin--Whitt
                                  Regime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 971--971
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 36, Number 4, December, 2004

              Maria Deijfen and   
       Olle Häggström   Coexistence in a Two-Type Continuum
                                  Growth Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 973--980
               Steven Finch and   
                   Irene Hueter   Random Convex Hulls: A Variance
                                  Revisited  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 981--986
                 Jan Hansen and   
              Matthias Reitzner   Electromagnetic Wave Propagation and
                                  Inequalities for Moments of Chord
                                  Lengths  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 987--995
                Thierry Huillet   On a Deposition Process on the Circle
                                  with Disorder  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 996--1020
          Sanjay Shakkottai and   
                 R. Srikant and   
           Alexander L. Stolyar   Pathwise Optimality of the Exponential
                                  Scheduling Rule for Wireless Channels    1021--1045
      Remco van der Hofstad and   
                 Marten J. Klok   Improving the Performance of
                                  Third-Generation Wireless Communication
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1046--1084
              Stilian Stoev and   
                 Murad S. Taqqu   Stochastic Properties of the Linear
                                  Multifractional Stable Motion  . . . . . 1085--1115
                David Assaf and   
            Larry Goldstein and   
              Ester Samuel-Cahn   Two-Choice Optimal Stopping  . . . . . . 1116--1147
                R. A. Doney and   
                  P. S. Griffin   Overshoots over Curved Boundaries. II    1148--1174
             Samuel R. Buss and   
                    Peter Clote   Solving the Fisher--Wright and
                                  Coalescence Problems with a Discrete
                                  Markov Chain Analysis  . . . . . . . . . 1175--1197
                   James Ledoux   Linear Dynamics for the State Vector of
                                  Markov Chain Functions . . . . . . . . . 1198--1211
                 Daming Lin and   
                   Viliam Makis   Filters and Parameter Estimation for a
                                  Partially Observable System Subject to
                                  Random Failure with Continuous-Range
                                  Observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1212--1230
          Masakiyo Miyazawa and   
                Yiqiang Q. Zhao   The Stationary Tail Asymptotics in the
                                  GI/G/1-Type Queue with Countably Many
                                  Background States  . . . . . . . . . . . 1231--1251
            Rosario Delgado and   
     F. Javier López and   
                   Gerardo Sanz   Local Conditions for the Stochastic
                                  Comparison of Particle Systems . . . . . 1252--1277
                  Qihe Tang and   
           Gurami Tsitsiashvili   Finite- and Infinite-Time Ruin
                                  Probabilities in the Presence of
                                  Stochastic Returns on Investments  . . . 1278--1299
                      Anonymous   Correction: Taylor Series Expansions for
                                  Stationary Markov Chains . . . . . . . . 1300--1300
                      Anonymous   Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 1301--1304
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 37, Number 1, March, 2005

              Paul Balister and   
Béla Bollobás and   
              Amites Sarkar and   
                   Mark Walters   Connectivity of Random
                                  $k$-Nearest-Neighbour Graphs . . . . . . 1--24
            Lothar Heinrich and   
            Hendrik Schmidt and   
                 Volker Schmidt   Limit Theorems for Stationary
                                  Tessellations with Random Inner Cell
                                  Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--47
       Jesper Mòller and   
          Giovanni Luca Torrisi   Generalised Shot Noise Cox Processes . . 48--74
                Laura Pontiggia   Two-Person Red-and-Black with
                                  Bet-Dependent Win Probabilities  . . . . 75--89
               S. N. Ethier and   
                 David A. Levin   On the Fundamental Theorem of Card
                                  Counting, with Application to the Game
                                  of \booktitleTrente et Quarante  . . . . 90--107
             M. Ya. Kelbert and   
             N. N. Leonenko and   
              M. D. Ruiz-Medina   Fractional Random Fields Associated with
                                  Stochastic Fractional Heat Equations . . 108--133
            J.-P. Lepeltier and   
                A. Matoussi and   
                          M. Xu   Reflected Backward Stochastic
                                  Differential Equations under
                                  Monotonicity and General Increasing
                                  Growth Conditions  . . . . . . . . . . . 134--159
               Juan Alvarez and   
                    Bruce Hajek   A Queue with Semiperiodic Traffic  . . . 160--184
               Antonis Economou   Generalized Product-Form Stationary
                                  Distributions for Markov Chains in
                                  Random Environments with Queueing
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--211
         Francisco J. Piera and   
           Ravi R. Mazumdar and   
           Fabrice M. Guillemin   On Product-Form Stationary Distributions
                                  for Reflected Diffusions with Jumps in
                                  the Positive Orthant . . . . . . . . . . 212--228
                Nariyuki Minami   On the Number of Vertices with a Given
                                  Degree in a Galton--Watson Tree  . . . . 229--264
               Nicolas Lanchier   Phase Transitions and Duality Properties
                                  of a Successional Model  . . . . . . . . 265--278
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 37, Number 2, June, 2005

                       L. Muche   The Poisson--Voronoi Tessellation:
                                  Relationships for Edges  . . . . . . . . 279--296
                 Daniel Hug and   
              Matthias Reitzner   Gaussian Polytopes: Variances and Limit
                                  Theorems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--320
             Michael Drmota and   
               Hsien-Kuei Hwang   Profiles of Random Trees: Correlation
                                  and Width of Random Recursive Trees and
                                  Binary Search Trees  . . . . . . . . . . 321--341
                C. C. Heyde and   
                 N. N. Leonenko   Student Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . 342--365
               J. M. Angulo and   
                  V. V. Anh and   
                R. McVinish and   
              M. D. Ruiz-Medina   Fractional Kinetic Equations Driven by
                                  Gaussian or Infinitely Divisible Noise   366--392
            Janet Heffernan and   
                 Sidney Resnick   Hidden Regular Variation and the Rank
                                  Transform  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--414
                 Kais Hamza and   
                 Saul Jacka and   
                  Fima Klebaner   The Equivalent Martingale Measure
                                  Conditions in a General Model for
                                  Interest Rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415--434
                 Vadim Linetsky   On the Transition Densities for
                                  Reflected Diffusions . . . . . . . . . . 435--460
                   A. C. Brooms   On the Nash Equilibria for the FCFS
                                  Queueing System with Load-Increasing
                                  Service Rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461--481
                Quan-Lin Li and   
                Yiqiang Q. Zhao   Heavy-Tailed Asymptotics of Stationary
                                  Probability Vectors of Markov Chains of
                                  GI/G/1 Type  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482--509
                Yiqing Chen and   
                  Kai W. Ng and   
                      Qihe Tang   Weighted Sums of Subexponential Random
                                  Variables and Their Maxima . . . . . . . 510--522
           M. Ispány and   
                     G. Pap and   
           M. C. A. Van Zuijlen   Fluctuation Limit of Branching Processes
                                  with Immigration and Estimation of the
                                  Means  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523--538
               A. B. Dieker and   
                     M. Mandjes   On Asymptotically Efficient Simulation
                                  of Large Deviation Probabilities . . . . 539--552
               Jean Bertoin and   
         Servet Martínez   Fragmentation Energy . . . . . . . . . . 553--570
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 37, Number 3, September, 2005

           Ery Arias-Castro and   
            David L. Donoho and   
               Xiaoming Huo and   
                 Craig A. Tovey   Connect the Dots: How Many Random Points
                                  Can a Regular Curve Pass Through?  . . . 571--603
             Daryl J. Daley and   
               Günter Last   Descending Chains, the Lilypond Model,
                                  and Mutual-Nearest-Neighbour Matching    604--628
       Jesper Mòller and   
             Jakob G. Rasmussen   Perfect Simulation of Hawkes Processes   629--646
         Michael G. B. Blum and   
        Olivier François   Minimal Clade Size and External Branch
                                  Length under the Neutral Coalescent  . . 647--662
           Victor F. Araman and   
                 Peter W. Glynn   Diffusion Approximations for the Maximum
                                  of a Perturbed Random Walk . . . . . . . 663--680
              J. D. Biggins and   
             A. Rahimzadeh Sani   Convergence Results on Multitype,
                                  Multivariate Branching Random Walks  . . 681--705
                   Chunsheng Ma   Spatio-Temporal Variograms and
                                  Covariance Models  . . . . . . . . . . . 706--725
                 Harri Nyrhinen   Power Estimates for Ruin Probabilities   726--742
             Boris Buchmann and   
       Claudia Klüppelberg   Maxima of Stochastic Processes Driven by
                                  Fractional Brownian Motion . . . . . . . 743--764
            N. Balakrishnan and   
                A. G. Pakes and   
                    A. Stepanov   On the Number and Sum of Near-Record
                                  Observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 765--780
                 Raul Gouet and   
     F. Javier López and   
                   Gerardo Sanz   Central Limit Theorems for the Number of
                                  Records in Discrete Models . . . . . . . 781--800
             Richard F. Serfozo   Reversible Markov Processes on General
                                  Spaces and Spatial Migration Processes   801--818
                    Jun Cai and   
                  Hailiang Yang   Ruin in the Perturbed Compound Poisson
                                  Risk Process under Interest Force  . . . 819--835
               Shuanming Li and   
            José Garrido   On a General Class of Renewal Risk
                                  Process: Analysis of the Gerber--Shiu
                                  Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 836--856
              Richard Cowan and   
                     S. N. Chiu   Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 857--858
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 37, Number 4, December, 2005

               Werner Nagel and   
                    Viola Weiss   Crack STIT Tessellations:
                                  Characterization of Stationary Random
                                  Tessellations Stable with Respect to
                                  Iteration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 859--883
               Tomasz Schreiber   Random Dynamics and Thermodynamic Limits
                                  for Polygonal Markov Fields in the Plane 884--907
               David Vere-Jones   A Class of Self-Similar Random Measure   908--914
          E. L. Örmeci and   
                    A. Burnetas   Dynamic Admission Control for Loss
                                  Systems with Batch Arrivals  . . . . . . 915--937
           Sergio Albeverio and   
                 Shuji Kawasaki   On a Localization Property of Wavelet
                                  Coefficients for Processes with
                                  Stationary Increments, and Applications.
                                  I. Localization with Respect to Shift    938--962
                Martin Jacobsen   The Time to Ruin for a Class of Markov
                                  Additive Risk Process with Two-Sided
                                  Jumps  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 963--992
                    Vicky Fasen   Extremes of Regularly Varying Lévy-Driven
                                  Mixed Moving Average Processes . . . . . 993--1014
              Saul D. Jacka and   
               Zorana Lazic and   
                     Jon Warren   Conditioning an Additive Functional of a
                                  Markov Chain to Stay Nonnegative. I.
                                  Survival for a Long Time . . . . . . . . 1015--1034
              Saul D. Jacka and   
               Zorana Lazic and   
                     Jon Warren   Conditioning an Additive Functional of a
                                  Markov Chain to Stay Nonnegative. II.
                                  Hitting a High Level . . . . . . . . . . 1035--1055
                 Anyue Chen and   
               Phil Pollett and   
               Hanjun Zhang and   
                     Ben Cairns   Uniqueness Criteria for Continuous-Time
                                  Markov Chains with General Transition
                                  Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1056--1074
                Quan-Lin Li and   
                Yiqiang Q. Zhao   Light-Tailed Asymptotics of Stationary
                                  Probability Vectors of Markov Chains of
                                  GI/G/1 Type  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1075--1093
               David Aldous and   
                    Lea Popovic   A Critical Branching Process Model for
                                  Biodiversity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1094--1115
      Pierre Brémaud and   
   Laurent Massoulié and   
                 Andrea Ridolfi   Power Spectra of Random Spike Fields and
                                  Related Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . 1116--1146
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 38, Number 1, March, 2006

                  Z. D. Bai and   
               Sungchul Lee and   
              Mathew D. Penrose   Rooted Edges of a Minimal Directed
                                  Spanning Tree on Random Points . . . . . 1--30
          Charles Bordenave and   
              Yann Gousseau and   
         François Roueff   The Dead Leaves Model: A General
                                  Tessellation Modeling Occlusion  . . . . 31--46
               Pierre Calka and   
               Tomasz Schreiber   Large Deviation Probabilities for the
                                  Number of Vertices of Random Polytopes
                                  in the Ball  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--58
               Ilkka Norros and   
                   Hannu Reittu   On a Conditionally Poissonian Graph
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--75
                Ursa Pantle and   
             Volker Schmidt and   
               Evgueni Spodarev   Central Limit Theorems for Functionals
                                  of Stationary Germ-Grain Models  . . . . 76--94
           K. D. Glazebrook and   
               C. Kirkbride and   
              D. Ruiz-Hernandez   Spinning Plates and Squad Systems:
                                  Policies for Bi-Directional Restless
                                  Bandits  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--115
   Einar Andreas Ròdland   Exact Distribution of Word Counts in
                                  Shuffled Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . 116--133
                Henrik Hult and   
                 Filip Lindskog   On Regular Variation for Infinitely
                                  Divisible Random Vectors and Additive
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134--148
        Cécile Mercadier   Numerical Bounds for the Distributions
                                  of the Maxima of Some One- and
                                  Two-Parameter Gaussian Processes . . . . 149--170
           Aglaia Vasileiou and   
             P.-C. G. Vassiliou   An Inhomogeneous Semi-Markov Model for
                                  the Term Structure of Credit Risk
                                  Spreads  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--198
         X. Fan-Orzechowski and   
                 E. A. Feinberg   Optimality of Randomized Trunk
                                  Reservation for a Problem with a Single
                                  Constraint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--220
                 Onno Boxma and   
                David Perry and   
            Wolfgang Stadje and   
               Shelemyahu Zacks   A Markovian Growth-Collapse Model  . . . 221--243
          Maxim Finkelstein and   
              Veronica Esaulova   Asymptotic Behavior of a General Class
                                  of Mixture Failure Rates . . . . . . . . 244--262
             Nelson Antunes and   
          Christine Fricker and   
          Fabrice Guillemin and   
                Philippe Robert   Perturbation Analysis of a Variable
                                  M/M/1 Queue: A Probabilistic Approach    263--283
                David Stirzaker   Three-Handed Gambler's Ruin  . . . . . . 284--286
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 38, Number 2, June, 2006

              Maria Deijfen and   
                 Ronald Meester   Generating Stationary Random Graphs on
                                  $Z$ with Prescribed Independent,
                                  Identically Distributed Degrees  . . . . 287--298
          Stephan Huckemann and   
                Herbert Ziezold   Principal Component Analysis for
                                  Riemannian Manifolds, with an
                                  Application to Triangular Shape Spaces   299--319
            Victor M. Panaretos   The Diffusion of Radon Shape . . . . . . 320--335
          Mathew D. Penrose and   
                 Andrew R. Wade   On the Total Length of the Random
                                  Minimal Directed Spanning Tree . . . . . 336--372
           Bernardo D'Auria and   
              Sidney I. Resnick   Data Network Models of Burstiness  . . . 373--404
            Robert C. Griffiths   Coalescent Lineage Distributions . . . . 405--429
                 Georg Lindgren   Slepian Models for the Stochastic Shape
                                  of Individual Lagrange Sea Waves . . . . 430--450
           T. J. Kozubowski and   
          M. M. Meerschaert and   
            K. Podgórski   Fractional Laplace Motion  . . . . . . . 451--464
                    Didier Piau   Harmonic Moments of Inhomogeneous
                                  Branching Processes  . . . . . . . . . . 465--486
                   C. Bordenave   Stability of Spatial Queueing Systems    487--504
            Antonis Dimakis and   
                   Jean Walrand   Sufficient Conditions for Stability of
                                  Longest-Queue-First Scheduling:
                                  Second-Order Properties Using Fluid
                                  Limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505--521
            Allan J. Motyer and   
                Peter G. Taylor   Decay Rates for Quasi-Birth-and-Death
                                  Processes with Countably Many Phases and
                                  Tridiagonal Block Generators . . . . . . 522--544
      Sòren Asmussen and   
                 Dirk P. Kroese   Improved Algorithms for Rare Event
                                  Simulation with Heavy Tails  . . . . . . 545--558
                 P. Doukhan and   
                  A. Latour and   
                     D. Oraichi   A Simple Integer-Valued Bilinear Time
                                  Series Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559--578
                      Anonymous   Correction: Connect the Dots: How Many
                                  Random Points Can a Regular Curve Pass
                                  Through? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579--579
                      Anonymous   Correction: Exact Distribution of Word
                                  Counts in Shuffled Sequences . . . . . . 580--580
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 38, Number 3, September, 2006

                  Richard Cowan   A More Comprehensive Complementary
                                  Theorem for the Analysis of Poisson
                                  Point Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . 581--601
               Günter Last   Stationary Partitions and Palm
                                  Probabilities  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602--620
               Hyun-Soo Ahn and   
                 Rhonda Righter   Dynamic Load Balancing with Flexible
                                  Workers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 621--642
           K. D. Glazebrook and   
          D. Ruiz-Hernandez and   
                   C. Kirkbride   Some Indexable Families of Restless
                                  Bandit Problems  . . . . . . . . . . . . 643--672
                     Jun Sekine   A Note on Long-Term Optimal Portfolios
                                  under Drawdown Constraints . . . . . . . 673--692
              A. D. Barbour and   
                      Aihua Xia   Normal Approximation for Random Sums . . 693--728
           Christian Bender and   
              John Schoenmakers   An Iterative Method for Multiple
                                  Stopping: Convergence and Stability  . . 729--749
                  M. Möhle   On the Number of Segregating Sites for
                                  Populations with Large Family Sizes  . . 750--767
                   A. B. Dieker   Applications of Factorization Embeddings
                                  for Lévy Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . 768--791
         Zbigniew Palmowski and   
                  Tomasz Rolski   On the Exact Asymptotics of the Busy
                                  Period in GI/G/1 Queues  . . . . . . . . 792--803
              Kei Kobayashi and   
            Hideki Kawasaki and   
              Akimichi Takemura   Parallel Matching for Ranking All Teams
                                  in a Tournament  . . . . . . . . . . . . 804--826
             Raphael Hauser and   
     Servet Martínez and   
             Heinrich Matzinger   Large Deviations-Based Upper Bounds on
                                  the Expected Relative Length of Longest
                                  Common Subsequences  . . . . . . . . . . 827--852
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 38, Number 4, December, 2006

      Hermine Biermé and   
                   Anne Estrade   Poisson Random Balls: Self-Similarity
                                  and X-Ray Images . . . . . . . . . . . . 853--872
            Peter McCullagh and   
           Jesper Mòller   The Permanental Process  . . . . . . . . 873--888
          M. N. M. Van Lieshout   Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Random
                                  Sequential Adsorption  . . . . . . . . . 889--898
               Daniel Barry and   
                 Caroline Lynch   The Minimax Bookie: The Two-Horse Case   899--915
              Albrecht Irle and   
                 Jörn Sass   Optimal Portfolio Policies under Fixed
                                  and Proportional Transaction Costs . . . 916--942
                     Peter Neal   Stochastic and Deterministic Analysis of
                                  SIS Household Epidemics  . . . . . . . . 943--968
          Michael Schröder   On Ladder Height Densities and Laguerre
                                  Series in the Study of Stochastic
                                  Functionals. I. Basic Methods and
                                  Results  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 969--994
          Michael Schröder   On Ladder Height Densities and Laguerre
                                  Series in the Study of Stochastic
                                  Functionals. II. Exponential Functionals
                                  of Brownian Motion and Asian Option
                                  Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 995--1027
                    E. Omey and   
                  F. Mallor and   
                      J. Santos   Multivariate Subexponential
                                  Distributions and Random Sums of Random
                                  Vectors  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1028--1046
             K. A. Borovkov and   
                  V. A. Vatutin   On the Asymptotic Behaviour of Random
                                  Recursive Trees in Random Environments   1047--1070
             Andrew G. Hart and   
     Servet Martínez and   
                Leonardo Videla   A Simple Maximization Model Inspired by
                                  Algorithms for the Organization of
                                  Genetic Candidates in Bacterial DNA  . . 1071--1097
             Ronald Meester and   
                 Pieter Trapman   Estimation in Branching Processes with
                                  Restricted Observations  . . . . . . . . 1098--1115
                   Bara Kim and   
                Khosrow Sohraby   Tail Behavior of the Queue Size and
                                  Waiting Time in a Queue with Discrete
                                  Autoregressive Arrivals  . . . . . . . . 1116--1131
                  Teunis J. Ott   Rate of Convergence for the 'Square Root
                                  Formula' in the Internet Transmission
                                  Control Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . 1132--1154
             Suhasini Subba Rao   On Some Nonstationary, Nonlinear Random
                                  Processes and Their Stationary
                                  Approximations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1155--1172
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 39, Number 1, March, 2007

                  Felix Ballani   The Surface Pair Correlation Function
                                  for Stationary Boolean Models  . . . . . 1--15
           Volker Baumstark and   
               Günter Last   Some Distributional Results for
                                  Poisson--Voronoi Tessellations . . . . . 16--40
         Marianne Månsson   A Connection between the Volume
                                  Fractions of the Stienen Model and the
                                  Dead Leaves Model  . . . . . . . . . . . 41--52
         Leandro P. R. Pimentel   Multitype Shape Theorems for First
                                  Passage Percolation Models . . . . . . . 53--76
       Chantal Labbé and   
               Andrew J. Heunis   Convex Duality in Constrained
                                  Mean-Variance Portfolio Optimization . . 77--104
             Francisco Vera and   
                    James Lynch   General Convex Stochastic Orderings and
                                  Related Martingale-Type Structures . . . 105--127
            Etienne Roquain and   
                 Sophie Schbath   Improved Compound Poisson Approximation
                                  for the Number of Occurrences of Any
                                  Rare Word Family in a Stationary Markov
                                  Chain  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--140
                   L. Rigal and   
                     L. Truffet   A New Genetic Algorithm Specifically
                                  Based on Mutation and Selection  . . . . 141--161
              Julien Barral and   
         Stéphane Seuret   Renewal of Singularity Sets of Random
                                  Self-Similar Measures  . . . . . . . . . 162--188
            Christian Y. Robert   Stochastic Stability of Some
                                  State-Dependent Growth-Collapse
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--220
              Denis Denisov and   
                Vsevolod Shneer   Local Asymptotics of the Cycle Maximum
                                  of a Heavy-Tailed Random Walk  . . . . . 221--244
          Michael Schröder   Continuous-Time Methods in the Study of
                                  Discretely Sampled Functionals of Lévy
                                  Processes. I. The Positive Process Case  245--270
                 Qi-Ming He and   
                   Hanqin Zhang   On Matrix Exponential Distributions  . . 271--292
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 39, Number 2, June, 2007

             K. A. Borovkov and   
                    D. A. Odell   On Spatial Thinning-Replacement
                                  Processes Based on Voronoi Cells . . . . 293--306
          Lars Michael Hoffmann   Intersection Densities of Nonstationary
                                  Poisson Processes of Hypersurfaces . . . 307--317
              Hermann Thorisson   The Palm-Duality for Random Subsets of
                                  $d$-Dimensional Grids  . . . . . . . . . 318--325
                 Andrew R. Wade   Explicit Laws of Large Numbers for
                                  Random Nearest-Neighbour-Type Graphs . . 326--342
                        Jun Cai   On the Time Value of Absolute Ruin with
                                  Debit Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--359
      Ugur Tuncay Alparslan and   
          Gennady Samorodnitsky   Ruin Probability with Certain Stationary
                                  Stable Claims Generated by Conservative
                                  Flows  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360--384
             Susan M. Pitts and   
            Konstadinos Politis   Approximations for the Gerber--Shiu
                                  Expected Discounted Penalty Function in
                                  the Compound Poisson Risk Model  . . . . 385--406
                  Kurt Majewski   Large Deviation Properties of Constant
                                  Rate Data Streams Sharing a Buffer with
                                  Long-Range Dependent Traffic in Critical
                                  Loading  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--428
             Thu-Ha Dao-Thi and   
                  Jean Mairesse   Zero-Automatic Queues and Product Form   429--461
              Daren B. H. Cline   Stability of Nonlinear Stochastic
                                  Recursions with Application to Nonlinear
                                  AR--GARCH Models . . . . . . . . . . . . 462--491
               Claude Lef\`evre   First-Crossing and Ballot-Type Results
                                  for Some Nonstationary Sequences . . . . 492--509
                 P. Barrieu and   
                     N. Bellamy   Optimal Hitting Time and Perpetual
                                  Option in a Non-Lévy Model: Application
                                  to Real Options  . . . . . . . . . . . . 510--530
        Jeannette H. C. Woerner   Inference in Lévy-Type Stochastic
                                  Volatility Models  . . . . . . . . . . . 531--549
                      C. Dombry   A Weighted Random Walk Model, with
                                  Application to a Genetic Algorithm . . . 550--568
               Peter Jagers and   
           Fima C. Klebaner and   
                  Serik Sagitov   Markovian Paths to Extinction  . . . . . 569--587
               E. Orsingher and   
                 A. De Gregorio   Random Motions at Finite Velocity in a
                                  Non-Euclidean Space  . . . . . . . . . . 588--611
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 39, Number 3, September, 2007

           Gennadiy Averkov and   
               Gabriele Bianchi   Retrieving Convex Bodies from Restricted
                                  Covariogram Functions  . . . . . . . . . 613--629
                  Richard Cowan   Identities Linking Volumes of Convex
                                  Hulls  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 630--644
               Xianping Guo and   
Onésimo Hernández-Lerma   Zero-Sum Games for Continuous-Time Jump
                                  Markov Processes in Polish Spaces:
                                  Discounted Payoffs . . . . . . . . . . . 645--668
                Jostein Paulsen   Optimal Dividend Payments until Ruin of
                                  Diffusion Processes When Payments Are
                                  Subject to Both Fixed and Proportional
                                  Costs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669--689
             Giacomo Aletti and   
               Caterina May and   
              Piercesare Secchi   On the Distribution of the Limit
                                  Proportion for a Two-Color, Randomly
                                  Reinforced Urn with Equal Reinforcement
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 690--707
                  D. A. Croydon   The Hausdorff Dimension of a Class of
                                  Random Self-Similar Fractal Trees  . . . 708--730
                    Martin Raic   CLT-Related Large Deviation Bounds Based
                                  on Stein's Method  . . . . . . . . . . . 731--752
              Tze Leung Lai and   
               Yi-Ching Yao and   
                Farid Aitsahlia   Corrected Random Walk Approximations to
                                  Free Boundary Problems in Optimal
                                  Stopping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 753--775
           Niels Richard Hansen   Asymptotics for Local Maximal Stack
                                  Scores with General Loop Penalty
                                  Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 776--798
              Chingfer Chen and   
                  Samuel Karlin   $r$-Scan Statistics of a Poisson Process
                                  with Events Transformed by Duplications,
                                  Deletions, and Displacements . . . . . . 799--825
                  Cheng-Der Fuh   Asymptotic Expansions on Moments of the
                                  First Ladder Height in Markov Random
                                  Walks with Small Drift . . . . . . . . . 826--852
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 39, Number 4, December, 2007

            Ayalvadi Ganesh and   
                       Feng Xue   On the Connectivity and Diameter of
                                  Small-World Networks . . . . . . . . . . 853--863
          Lars Michael Hoffmann   On Weak Stationarity and Weak Isotropy
                                  of Processes of Convex Bodies and
                                  Cylinders  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 864--882
                   Viktor Olsbo   On the Correlation between the Volumes
                                  of the Typical Poisson Voronoi Cell and
                                  the Typical Stienen Sphere . . . . . . . 883--892
                   Emmanuel Roy   Bartlett Spectrum and Mixing Properties
                                  of Infinitely Divisible Random Measures  893--897
               Idriss Maoui and   
              Hayriye Ayhan and   
                Robert D. Foley   Congestion-Dependent Pricing in a
                                  Stochastic Service System  . . . . . . . 898--921
                Tom Britton and   
              Svante Janson and   
         Anders Martin-Löf   Graphs with Specified Degree
                                  Distributions, Simple Epidemics, and
                                  Local Vaccination Strategies . . . . . . 922--948
                 Frank Ball and   
                    Tom Britton   An Epidemic Model with
                                  Infector-Dependent Severity  . . . . . . 949--972
  Pedro J. Fernández and   
           Pablo A. Ferrari and   
          Sebastian P. Grynberg   Perfectly Random Sampling of Truncated
                                  Multinormal Distributions  . . . . . . . 973--990
            Frosso S. Makri and   
       Andreas N. Philippou and   
          Zaharias M. Psillakis   Success Run Statistics Defined on an Urn
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 991--1019
              Sofia Åberg   Wave Intensities and Slopes in
                                  Lagrangian Seas  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1020--1035
             F. C. Klebaner and   
             U. Rösler and   
                     S. Sagitov   Transformations of Galton--Watson
                                  Processes and Linear Fractional
                                  Reproduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1036--1053
                     I. Rahimov   Functional Limit Theorems for Critical
                                  Processes with Immigration . . . . . . . 1054--1069
                J. Blanchet and   
                       P. Glynn   Uniform Renewal Theory with Applications
                                  to Expansions of Random Geometric Sums   1070--1097
              Eitan Bachmat and   
              Daniel Berend and   
                 Luba Sapir and   
                  Steven Skiena   Optimal Boarding Policies for Thin
                                  Passengers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1098--1114
                      Anonymous   Correction: [``\booktitleStability of
                                  Nonlinear Stochastic Recursions with
                                  Application to Nonlinear AR--GARCH
                                  Models]  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1115--1116
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 40, Number 1, March, 2008

            David J. Aldous and   
             Wilfrid S. Kendall   Short-Length Routes in Low-Cost Networks
                                  VIA Poisson Line Patterns  . . . . . . . 1--21
           Jennie C. Hansen and   
               Eric Schmutz and   
                       Li Sheng   Covering Random Points in a Unit Disk    22--30
                Markus Kiderlen   Estimation of the Mean Normal Measure
                                  from Flat Sections . . . . . . . . . . . 31--48
               Joseph Mecke and   
               Werner Nagel and   
                    Viola Weiss   The Iteration of Random Tessellations
                                  and a Construction of a Homogeneous
                                  Process of Cell Divisions  . . . . . . . 49--59
           Bernardo D'Auria and   
              Sidney I. Resnick   The Influence of Dependence on Data
                                  Network Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--94
                 Junping Li and   
                     Anyue Chen   Decay Property of Stopped Markovian
                                  Bulk-Arriving Queues . . . . . . . . . . 95--121
        A. J. E. M. Janssen and   
   J. S. H. Van Leeuwaarden and   
                       B. Zwart   Gaussian Expansions and Bounds for the
                                  Poisson Distribution Applied to the
                                  Erlang $B$ Formula . . . . . . . . . . . 122--143
               Elisa Al\`os and   
         Christian-Oliver Ewald   Malliavin Differentiability of the
                                  Heston Volatility and Applications to
                                  Option Pricing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144--162
           Shek-Keung Tony Wong   The Generalized Perpetual American
                                  Exchange-Option Problem  . . . . . . . . 163--182
           Jennie C. Hansen and   
                 Jerzy Jaworski   Local Properties of Random Mappings with
                                  Exchangeable In-Degrees  . . . . . . . . 183--205
               Alex Iksanov and   
              Martin Möhle   On the Number of Jumps of Random Walks
                                  with a Barrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206--228
        Elizabeth S. Allman and   
   Cécile Ané and   
                 John A. Rhodes   Identifiability of a Markovian Model of
                                  Molecular Evolution with
                                  Gamma-Distributed Rates  . . . . . . . . 229--249
        Santanu Chakraborty and   
Jose Alfredo López-Mimbela   Nonexplosion of a Class of Semilinear
                                  Equations via Branching Particle
                                  Representations  . . . . . . . . . . . . 250--272
              Bruno Casella and   
              Gareth O. Roberts   Exact Monte Carlo Simulation of Killed
                                  Diffusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--291
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                                  Probability and Advances in Applied
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 40, Number 2, June, 2008

          Charles Bordenave and   
          Giovanni Luca Torrisi   Monte Carlo Methods for Sensitivity
                                  Analysis of Poisson-Driven Stochastic
                                  Systems, and Applications  . . . . . . . 293--320
       Jesper Mòller and   
       Katerina Helisová   Power Diagrams and Interaction Processes
                                  for Unions of Discs  . . . . . . . . . . 321--347
Beatriz Pateiro-López and   
 Alberto Rodríguez-Casal   Length and Surface Area Estimation under
                                  Smoothness Restrictions  . . . . . . . . 348--358
            C. Charalambous and   
                  J. C. Gittins   Optimal Selection Policies for a
                                  Sequence of Candidate Drugs  . . . . . . 359--376
              Savas Dayanik and   
              Warren Powell and   
             Kazutoshi Yamazaki   Index Policies for Discounted Bandit
                                  Problems with Availability Constraints   377--400
             Christoph Frei and   
               Martin Schweizer   Exponential Utility Indifference
                                  Valuation in Two Brownian Settings with
                                  Stochastic Correlation . . . . . . . . . 401--423
          Lucia Caramellino and   
           Barbara Pacchiarotti   Large Deviation Estimates of the
                                  Crossing Probability for Pinned Gaussian
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424--453
                Ivan Gentil and   
         Bruno Rémillard   Using Systematic Sampling Selection for
                                  Monte Carlo Solutions of Feynman--Kac
                                  Equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454--472
        Robert C. Griffiths and   
            Paul A. Jenkins and   
                    Yun S. Song   Importance Sampling and the Two-Locus
                                  Model with Subdivided Population
                                  Structure  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473--500
           Jonathan Touboul and   
               Olivier Faugeras   A Characterization of the First Hitting
                                  Time of Double Integral Processes to
                                  Curved Boundaries  . . . . . . . . . . . 501--528
         Francisco J. Piera and   
           Ravi R. Mazumdar and   
           Fabrice M. Guillemin   Boundary Behavior and Product-Form
                                  Stationary Distributions of Jump
                                  Diffusions in the Orthant with
                                  State-Dependent Reflections  . . . . . . 529--547
             David Gamarnik and   
             Petar Momcilovi\'c   Steady-State Analysis of a Multiserver
                                  Queue in the Halfin--Whitt Regime  . . . 548--577
        Nicole Bäuerle and   
             Rudolf Grübel   Multivariate Risk Processes with
                                  Interacting Intensities  . . . . . . . . 578--601
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 40, Number 3, September, 2008

            Gunnar Hellmund and   
  Michaela Prokesová and   
            Eva B. Vedel Jensen   Lévy-Based Cox Point Processes  . . . . . 603--629
         Claudia Lautensack and   
                   Sergei Zuyev   Random Laguerre Tessellations  . . . . . 630--650
        Dominic Schuhmacher and   
                      Aihua Xia   A New Metric between Distributions of
                                  Point Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . 651--672
                 Takashi Tamura   Maximization of the Long-Term Growth
                                  Rate for a Portfolio with Fixed and
                                  Proportional Transaction Costs . . . . . 673--695
             Matthias Degen and   
                 Paul Embrechts   EVT-Based Estimation of Risk Capital and
                                  Convergence of High Quantiles  . . . . . 696--715
              Hyun Suk Park and   
                    Ross Maller   Moment and MGF Convergence of Overshoots
                                  and Undershoots for Lévy Insurance Risk
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 716--733
                 Adam Bobrowski   Asymptotic Behavior of a Feller
                                  Evolution Family Involved in the
                                  Fisher--Wright Model . . . . . . . . . . 734--758
                         Xin Qi   A Functional Central Limit Theorem for
                                  Spatial Birth and Death Processes  . . . 759--797
                Erik Broman and   
                 Ronald Meester   Survival of Inhomogeneous Galton--Watson
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 798--814
                K. Borovkov and   
                        G. Last   On Level Crossings for a General Class
                                  of Piecewise-Deterministic Markov
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 815--834
                 Eunju Sohn and   
                 Charles Knessl   The Distribution of Wasted Spaces in the
                                  M/M/$ \infty $ Queue with Ranked Servers 835--855
             Charles Knessl and   
         Diego Ernesto Dominici   Asymptotic Analysis of a Fluid Model
                                  Modulated by an M/M/1 Queue  . . . . . . 856--881
               David Vere-Jones   A Limit Theorem with Application to
                                  Båth's Law in Seismology  . . . . . . . . 882--896
                  Hongsheng Dai   Perfect Sampling Methods for Random
                                  Forests  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 897--917
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 40, Number 4, December, 2008

             Kasra Alishahi and   
            Mohsen Sharifitabar   Volume Degeneracy of the Typical Cell
                                  and the Chord Length Distribution for
                                  Poisson--Voronoi Tessellations in High
                                  Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 919--938
                  Rama Cont and   
                 Emily Tanimura   Small-World Graphs: Characterization and
                                  Alternative Constructions  . . . . . . . 939--965
                   Archis Ghate   Decentralized Search on Spheres Using
                                  Small-World Markov Chains: Expected
                                  Hitting Times and Structural Properties  966--978
                 Kari Heine and   
                     Dan Crisan   Uniform Approximations of Discrete-Time
                                  Filters  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 979--1001
          John K. McSweeney and   
                Boris G. Pittel   Expected Coalescence Time for a
                                  Nonuniform Allocation Process  . . . . . 1002--1032
       José A. Adell and   
        José M. Anoz and   
                Alberto Lekuona   Exact Values and Sharp Estimates for the
                                  Total Variation Distance between
                                  Binomial and Poisson Distributions . . . 1033--1047
                   Anne Fey and   
      Remco Van Der Hofstad and   
                 Marten J. Klok   Large Deviations for Eigenvalues of
                                  Sample Covariance Matrices, with
                                  Applications to Mobile Communication
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1048--1071
      Takis Konstantopoulos and   
       Andreas E. Kyprianou and   
             Paavo Salminen and   
             Marina Sirviö   Analysis of Stochastic Fluid Queues
                                  Driven by Local-Time Processes . . . . . 1072--1103
           Jose H. Blanchet and   
                   Jingchen Liu   State-Dependent Importance Sampling for
                                  Regularly Varying Random Walks . . . . . 1104--1128
                  V. V. Anh and   
        Nikolai N. Leonenko and   
               Narn-Rueih Shieh   Multifractality of Products of Geometric
                                  Ornstein--Uhlenbeck-Type Processes . . . 1129--1156
      Winfried K. Grassmann and   
                 Javad Tavakoli   Stochastic and Substochastic Solutions
                                  for Infinite-State Markov Chains with
                                  Applications to Matrix-Analytic Methods  1157--1173
                Lorens A. Imhof   Multiple-Trial Conflicts and Stochastic
                                  Evolutionary Game Dynamics . . . . . . . 1174--1197
              Donatas Surgailis   A Quadratic ARCH($ \infty $) Model with
                                  Long Memory and Lévy Stable Behavior of
                                  Squares  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1198--1222
                      Yaming Yu   On an Inequality of Karlin and Rinott
                                  concerning Weighted Sums of I.I.D.
                                  Random Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 1223--1226
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 41, Number 1, March, 2009

              Paul Balister and   
Béla Bollobás and   
              Amites Sarkar and   
                   Mark Walters   A Critical Constant for the
                                  $k$-Nearest-Neighbour Model  . . . . . . 1--12
           Zakhar Kabluchko and   
                Evgeny Spodarev   Scan Statistics of Lévy Noises and Marked
                                  Empirical Processes  . . . . . . . . . . 13--37
                   Nathan Shank   Nearest-Neighbor Graphs on the Cantor
                                  Set  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--62
             G. N. Milstein and   
                M. V. Tretyakov   Monte Carlo Methods for Backward
                                  Equations in Nonlinear Filtering . . . . 63--100
Jean-François Chassagneux   A Discrete-Time Approximation for Doubly
                                  Reflected BSDEs  . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--130
            F. Thomas Bruss and   
                   Guy Louchard   The Odds Algorithm Based on Sequential
                                  Updating and Its Performance . . . . . . 131--153
             Hsiao-Chi Chen and   
                 Yunshyong Chow   Evolutionary Prisoner's Dilemma Games
                                  with One-Dimensional Local Interaction
                                  and Imitation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--176
                  R. Bekker and   
                O. J. Boxma and   
                J. A. C. Resing   Lévy Processes with Adaptable Exponent    177--205
                C. C. Heyde and   
                 Dingcheng Wang   Finite-Time Ruin Probability with an
                                  Exponential Lévy Process Investment
                                  Return and Heavy-Tailed Claims . . . . . 206--224
              Serik Sagitov and   
Maria Conceição Serra   Multitype Bienaymé--Galton--Watson
                                  Processes Escaping Extinction  . . . . . 225--246
                Maude Gathy and   
               Claude Lef\`evre   From Damage Models to SIR Epidemics and
                                  Cascading Failures . . . . . . . . . . . 247--269
                   Hua Zhou and   
                  Kenneth Lange   Composition Markov Chains of Multinomial
                                  Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270--291
                James C. Fu and   
                Brad C. Johnson   Approximate Probabilities for Runs and
                                  Patterns in I.I.D. and Markov-Dependent
                                  Multistate Trials  . . . . . . . . . . . 292--308
                      Anonymous   Correction: A characterization of the
                                  first hitting time of double integral
                                  processes to curved boundaries . . . . . 309--309
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 41, Number 2, June, 2009

Inés Armendáriz and   
             Antonio Cuevas and   
                Ricardo Fraiman   Nonparametric Estimation of Boundary
                                  Measures and Related Functionals:
                                  Asymptotic Results . . . . . . . . . . . 311--322
              Paul Balister and   
Béla Bollobás and   
                   Mark Walters   Random Transceiver Networks  . . . . . . 323--343
             J. Díaz and   
                 D. Mitsche and   
 X. Pérez-Giménez   On the Probability of the Existence of
                                  Fixed-Size Components in Random
                                  Geometric Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . 344--357
          H. S. Harutyunyan and   
                  V. K. Ohanyan   The Chord Length Distribution Function
                                  for Regular Polygons . . . . . . . . . . 358--366
                      Shai Covo   One-Dimensional Distributions of
                                  Subordinators with Upper Truncated Lévy
                                  Measure, and Applications  . . . . . . . 367--392
                Vicky Fasen and   
          Gennady Samorodnitsky   A Fluid Cluster Poisson Input Process
                                  Can Look Like a Fractional Brownian
                                  Motion Even in the Slow Growth
                                  Aggregation Regime . . . . . . . . . . . 393--427
           Claudia Brachner and   
                Vicky Fasen and   
              Alexander Lindner   Extremes of Autoregressive Threshold
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428--451
               Brice Franke and   
                Tatsuhiko Saigo   The Extremes of Random Walks in Random
                                  Sceneries  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452--468
                Zhaolei Cui and   
                Yuebao Wang and   
                   Kaiyong Wang   Asymptotics for the Moments of the
                                  Overshoot and Undershoot of a Random
                                  Walk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469--494
                    Jun Cai and   
               Runhuan Feng and   
              Gordon E. Willmot   On the Expectation of Total Discounted
                                  Operating Costs Up to Default and Its
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495--522
         Valeri T. Stefanov and   
                     Frank Ball   Reward Distributions Associated with
                                  Some Block Tridiagonal Transition
                                  Matrices with Applications to Identity
                                  by Descent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523--545
                  Yusik Kim and   
             Rhonda Righter and   
                   Ronald Wolff   Job Replication on Multiserver Systems   546--575
                     Yuqiang Li   The Speed of Extinction for Some
                                  Generalized Ji\vrina Processes . . . . . 576--599
            Philippe Robert and   
                Florian Simatos   Occupancy Schemes Associated to Yule
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 600--622
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 41, Number 3, September, 2009

    Bartlomiej Blaszczyszyn and   
                 D. Yogeshwaran   Directionally Convex Ordering of Random
                                  Measures, Shot Noise Fields, and Some
                                  Applications to Wireless Communications  623--646
                 Hock Peng Chan   Maxima of Moving Sums in a Poisson
                                  Random Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647--663
                 David Dereudre   The Existence of Quermass-Interaction
                                  Processes for Nonlocally Stable
                                  Interaction and Nonbounded Convex Grains 664--681
                 Rolf Schneider   Weighted Faces of Poisson Hyperplane
                                  Tessellations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 682--694
      René Caldentey and   
           Edward H. Kaplan and   
                   Gideon Weiss   FCFS Infinite Bipartite Matching of
                                  Servers and Customers  . . . . . . . . . 695--730
              Stephanie Leocard   Selective Sweep and the Size of the
                                  Hitchhiking Set  . . . . . . . . . . . . 731--764
                 Frank Ball and   
                 David Sirl and   
                 Pieter Trapman   Threshold Behaviour and Final Outcome of
                                  an Epidemic on a Random Network with
                                  Household Structure  . . . . . . . . . . 765--796
            Abhimanyu Mitra and   
              Sidney I. Resnick   Aggregation of Rapidly Varying Risks and
                                  Asymptotic Independence  . . . . . . . . 797--828
             Giacomo Aletti and   
               Caterina May and   
              Piercesare Secchi   A Central Limit Theorem, and Related
                                  Results, for a Two-Color Randomly
                                  Reinforced Urn . . . . . . . . . . . . . 829--844
                Wlodek Bryc and   
                David Minda and   
              Sunder Sethuraman   Large Deviations for the Leaves in Some
                                  Random Trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 845--873
          Ugur Tuncay Alparslan   Exceedance of Power Barriers for
                                  Integrated Continuous-Time Stationary
                                  Ergodic Stable Processes . . . . . . . . 874--892
  David Márquez-Carreras   Generalized Fractional Kinetic
                                  Equations: Another Point of View . . . . 893--910
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 41, Number 4, December, 2009

           Volker Baumstark and   
               Günter Last   Gamma Distributions for Stationary
                                  Poisson Flat Processes . . . . . . . . . 911--939
               Pierre Calka and   
              Julien Michel and   
                    Katy Paroux   Refined Convergence for the Boolean
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 940--957
              Mark L. Huber and   
              Robert L. Wolpert   Likelihood-Based Inference for Matérn
                                  Type-III Repulsive Point Processes . . . 958--977
          Mathew D. Penrose and   
              Vadim Shcherbakov   Maximum Likelihood Estimation for
                                  Cooperative Sequential Adsorption  . . . 978--1001
              Richard Cowan and   
                    R. E. Miles   LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Convex hulls on a
                                  hemisphere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1002--1004
                  Mark Fackrell   An Alternative Characterization for
                                  Matrix Exponential Distributions . . . . 1005--1022
               Robb Koether and   
         Marcus Pendergrass and   
                  John Osoinach   The Lying Oracle Game with a Biased Coin 1023--1040
            Abba M. Krieger and   
              Ester Samuel-Cahn   The Secretary Problem of Minimizing the
                                  Expected Rank: a Simple Suboptimal
                                  Approach with Generalizations  . . . . . 1041--1058
                Vincent Bansaye   Cell Contamination and Branching
                                  Processes in a Random Environment with
                                  Immigration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1059--1081
                  F. Freund and   
                  M. Möhle   On the Number of Allelic Types for
                                  Samples Taken from Exchangeable
                                  Coalescents with Mutation  . . . . . . . 1082--1101
        Marina Axelson-Fisk and   
       Olle Häggström   Conditional Percolation on
                                  One-Dimensional Lattices . . . . . . . . 1102--1122
                Luc Devroye and   
        Joachim Gudmundsson and   
                      Pat Morin   On the Expected Maximum Degree of
                                  Gabriel and Yao Graphs . . . . . . . . . 1123--1140
                 A. A. Borovkov   Insurance with Borrowing: First- and
                                  Second-Order Approximations  . . . . . . 1141--1160
José Figueroa-López   Nonparametric Estimation of Time-Changed
                                  Lévy Models Under High-Frequency Data . . 1161--1188
                 Vitali Wachtel   Transition Phenomena for Ladder Epochs
                                  of Random Walks with Small Negative
                                  Drift  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1189--1214
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??


Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 42, Number 1, March, 2010

              Paul Balister and   
Béla Bollobás and   
              Amites Sarkar and   
                   Mark Walters   Sentry Selection in Wireless Networks    1--25
                  Richard Cowan   New Classes of Random Tessellations
                                  Arising from Iterative Division of Cells 26--47
                       L. Muche   Contact and Chord Length Distribution
                                  Functions of the Poisson--Voronoi
                                  Tessellation in High Dimensions  . . . . 48--68
                      Terry Soo   Translation-Equivariant Matchings of
                                  Coin Flips on $ \mathbb {Z}^d $  . . . . 69--82
                Jan Kallsen and   
                   Arnd Pauwels   Variance-Optimal Hedging in General
                                  Affine Stochastic Volatility Models  . . 83--105
        Mariana Olvera-Cravioto   On the Distribution of the Nearly
                                  Unstable $ {\rm AR}(1) $ Process with
                                  Heavy Tails  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--136
                Wei Biao Wu and   
              Yinxiao Huang and   
                      Wei Zheng   Covariances Estimation for Long-Memory
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--157
                Kurt Helmes and   
         Richard H. Stockbridge   Construction of the Value Function and
                                  Optimal Rules in Optimal Stopping of
                                  One-Dimensional Diffusions . . . . . . . 158--182
              Arka P. Ghosh and   
     Alexander Roitershtein and   
             Ananda Weerasinghe   Optimal Control of a Stochastic
                                  Processing System Driven by a Fractional
                                  Brownian Motion Input  . . . . . . . . . 183--209
               P. G. Taylor and   
                   B. Van Houdt   On the Dual Relationship Between Markov
                                  Chains of Gi/M/1 and M/G/1 Type  . . . . 210--225
           Adam L. Kinnison and   
             Peter Mörters   Simultaneous Multifractal Analysis of
                                  the Branching and Visibility Measure on
                                  a Galton--Watson Tree  . . . . . . . . . 226--245
             Andreas Brandt and   
                 Manfred Brandt   Insensitive Bounds for the Moments of
                                  the Sojourn Times in M/Gi Systems Under
                                  State-Dependent Processor Sharing  . . . 246--267
                  O. Hryniv and   
                   M. Menshikov   Long-Time Behaviour in a Model of
                                  Microtubule Growth . . . . . . . . . . . 268--291
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 42, Number 2, June, 2010

            Robert J. Adler and   
      Gennady Samorodnitsky and   
             Jonathan E. Taylor   Excursion Sets of Three Classes of
                                  Stable Random Fields . . . . . . . . . . 293--318
                Jonathan Jordan   Degree Sequences of Geometric
                                  Preferential Attachment Graphs . . . . . 319--330
                      H. Le and   
                      D. Barden   On the Induced Distribution of the Shape
                                  of the Projection of a Randomly Rotated
                                  Configuration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--346
       Jesper Mòller and   
       Frederic Paik Schoenberg   Thinning Spatial Point Processes into
                                  Poisson Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . 347--358
                   Yi-Ching Yao   On Variances of Partial Volumes of the
                                  Typical Cell of a Poisson--Voronoi
                                  Tessellation and Large-Dimensional
                                  Volume Degeneracy  . . . . . . . . . . . 359--370
                   Anna Rusinek   Mean Reversion for HJMM Forward Rate
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--391
               Achim Klenke and   
                   Lutz Mattner   Stochastic Ordering of Classical
                                  Discrete Distributions . . . . . . . . . 392--410
               Guus Balkema and   
                  Natalia Nolde   Asymptotic Independence for Unimodal
                                  Densities  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411--432
          Federico Bassetti and   
             Irene Crimaldi and   
                Fabrizio Leisen   Conditionally Identically Distributed
                                  Species Sampling Sequences . . . . . . . 433--459
               Anthony G. Pakes   Critical Markov Branching Process Limit
                                  Theorems Allowing Infinite Variance  . . 460--488
                    G. Lindgren   Slope Distribution in Front--Back
                                  Asymmetric Stochastic Lagrange Time
                                  Waves  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489--508
        Donata Puplinskaite and   
              Donatas Surgailis   Aggregation of a Random-Coefficient $
                                  {\rm AR}(1) $ Process with Infinite
                                  Variance and Idiosyncratic Innovations   509--527
                  D. A. Croydon   Scaling Limits for Simple Random Walks
                                  on Random Ordered Graph Trees  . . . . . 528--558
           Emilio De Santis and   
          Fabrizio Grandoni and   
           Alessandro Panconesi   Low Degree Connectivity of Ad-Hoc
                                  Networks Via Percolation . . . . . . . . 559--576
             Yana Volkovich and   
                   Nelly Litvak   Asymptotic Analysis for Personalized Web
                                  Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577--604
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??

Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 42, Number 3, September, 2010

    I. Bárány and   
                   F. Fodor and   
                 V. Vígh   Intrinsic Volumes of Inscribed Random
                                  Polytopes in Smooth Convex Bodies  . . . 605--619
                 Y. Davydov and   
                  A. Nagaev and   
                    A. Philippe   On the Peeling Procedure Applied to a
                                  Poisson Point Process  . . . . . . . . . 620--630
            Bhupender Gupta and   
               Srikanth K. Iyer   Criticality of the Exponential Rate of
                                  Decay for the Largest Nearest-Neighbor
                                  Link in Random Geometric Graphs  . . . . 631--658
          Mathew D. Penrose and   
                 Andrew R. Wade   Limit Theorems for Random Spatial
                                  Drainage Networks  . . . . . . . . . . . 659--688
                   Lijun Bo and   
               Yongjin Wang and   
                    Xuewei Yang   An Optimal Portfolio Problem in a
                                  Defaultable Market . . . . . . . . . . . 689--705
            Shankar Bhamidi and   
      Remco Van Der Hofstad and   
            Gerard Hooghiemstra   Extreme Value Theory, Poisson--Dirichlet
                                  Distributions, and First Passage
                                  Percolation on Random Networks . . . . . 706--738
                Shoou-Ren Hsiau   Selecting the Last Consecutive Record in
                                  a Record Process . . . . . . . . . . . . 739--760
                K. Pakdaman and   
               M. Thieullen and   
                     G. Wainrib   Fluid Limit Theorems for Stochastic
                                  Hybrid Systems with Application to
                                  Neuron Models  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 761--794
               Jay Bartroff and   
            Larry Goldstein and   
               Yosef Rinott and   
              Ester Samuel-Cahn   On Optimal Allocation of a Continuous
                                  Resource Using an Iterative Approach and
                                  Total Positivity . . . . . . . . . . . . 795--815
               Takayuki Osogami   A Fluid Limit for a Cache Algorithm with
                                  General Request Processes  . . . . . . . 816--833
         Lasse Leskelä and   
            Philippe Robert and   
                Florian Simatos   Interacting Branching Processes and
                                  Linear File-Sharing Networks . . . . . . 834--854
                 Yizao Wang and   
               Stilian A. Stoev   On the Structure and Representations of
                                  Max-Stable Processes . . . . . . . . . . 855--877
            Samuel N. Cohen and   
          Robert J. Elliott and   
           Charles E. M. Pearce   A General Comparison Theorem for
                                  Backward Stochastic Differential
                                  Equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 878--898
             Lamia Belhadji and   
          Daniela Bertacchi and   
                    Fabio Zucca   A Self-Regulating and Patch Subdivided
                                  Population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 899--912
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                Daryl Daley and   
         Wilfrid S. Kendall and   
             Ilya Molchanov and   
               Eva Vedel Jensen   Dietrich Stoyan: a Tribute on the
                                  Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday  . . ??

Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 42, Number 4, December, 2010

           Tomasz Schreiber and   
           Christoph Thäle   Second-Order Properties and Central
                                  Limit Theory for the Vertex Process of
                                  Iteration Infinitely Divisible and
                                  Iteration Stable Random Tessellations in
                                  the Plane  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 913--935
               Florian Voss and   
         Catherine Gloaguen and   
                 Volker Schmidt   Scaling Limits for Shortest Path Lengths
                                  Along the Edges of Stationary
                                  Tessellations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 936--952
               Xianping Guo and   
                       Liuer Ye   New Discount and Average Optimality
                                  Conditions for Continuous-Time Markov
                                  Decision Processes . . . . . . . . . . . 953--985
        Muhamad Azfar Ramli and   
                    Gerard Leng   The Stationary Probability Density of a
                                  Class of Bounded Markov Processes  . . . 986--993
               Hosam M. Mahmoud   Gaussian Phases in Generalized Coupon
                                  Collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 994--1012
                  J. Valero and   
     M. Pérez-Casany and   
                     J. Ginebra   On Zero-Truncating and Mixing Poisson
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1013--1027
         Alessandro De Gregorio   Stochastic Velocity Motions and
                                  Processes with Random Time . . . . . . . 1028--1056
    Predrag R. Jelenkovi\'c and   
        Mariana Olvera-Cravioto   Information Ranking and Power Laws on
                                  Trees  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1057--1093
                    Sen Tan and   
                      Aihua Xia   On Customer Flows in Jackson Queueing
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1094--1101
                 Nigel Bean and   
                   Guy Latouche   Approximations to Quasi-Birth-and-Death
                                  Processes with Infinite Blocks . . . . . 1102--1125
                  Jinzhu Li and   
                  Qihe Tang and   
                        Rong Wu   Subexponential Tails of Discounted
                                  Aggregate Claims in a Time-Dependent
                                  Renewal Risk Model . . . . . . . . . . . 1126--1146
        Martin Hutzenthaler and   
              Jesse Earl Taylor   Time Reversal of Some Stationary Jump
                                  Diffusion Processes from Population
                                  Genetics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1147--1171
                R. McVinish and   
                  P. K. Pollett   Limits of Large Metapopulations with
                                  Patch-Dependent Extinction Probabilities 1172--1186
      Remco Van Der Hofstad and   
        A. J. E. M. Janssen and   
    Johan S. H. Van Leeuwaarden   Critical Epidemics, Random Graphs, and
                                  Brownian Motion with a Parabolic Drift   1187--1206
                      Anonymous   Back Matter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??


Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 43, Number 1, March, 2011

              J. D. Biggins and   
               B. M. Hambly and   
                    O. D. Jones   Multifractal Spectra for Random
                                  Self-Similar Measures Via Branching
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--39
              R. Lachi\`eze-Rey   Mixing Properties for STIT Tessellations 40--48
              Daren B. H. Cline   Irreducibility and Continuity
                                  Assumptions for Positive Operators with
                                  Application to Threshold GARCH Time
                                  Series Models  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--76
               Zhimin Zhang and   
              Hailiang Yang and   
                        Hu Yang   On the Absolute Ruin in a Map Risk Model
                                  with Debit Interest  . . . . . . . . . . 77--96
     Christian-Oliver Ewald and   
                     Yajun Xiao   Information: Price and Impact on General
                                  Welfare and Optimal Investment. An
                                  Anticipative Stochastic Differential
                                  Game Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--120
               Jay Bartroff and   
              Ester Samuel-Cahn   The Fighter Problem: Optimal Allocation
                                  of a Discrete Commodity  . . . . . . . . 121--130
   François Baccelli and   
    Bartlomiej Blaszczyszyn and   
       Mir-Omid Haji-Mirsadeghi   Optimal Paths on the Space-Time SINR
                                  Random Graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--150
               Cecilia Holmgren   A Weakly $1$-Stable Distribution for the
                                  Number of Random Records and Cuttings in
                                  Split Trees  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--177
             Nicolas Curien and   
                  Adrien Joseph   Partial Match Queries in Two-Dimensional
                                  Quadtrees: a Probabilistic Approach  . . 178--194
             Martin Larsson and   
       Johanna Neslehová   Extremal Behavior of Archimedean Copulas 195--216
            Laurens De Haan and   
                      Chen Zhou   Extreme Residual Dependence for Random
                                  Vectors and Processes  . . . . . . . . . 217--242
              A. Al Hanbali and   
                 M. Mandjes and   
               Y. Nazarathy and   
                       W. Whitt   The Asymptotic Variance of Departures in
                                  Critically Loaded Queues . . . . . . . . 243--263
            Jing-Sheng Song and   
                    Paul Zipkin   An Approximation for the Inverse First
                                  Passage Time Problem . . . . . . . . . . 264--275
                     M. Richard   Limit Theorems for Supercritical
                                  Age-Dependent Branching Processes with
                                  Neutral Immigration  . . . . . . . . . . 276--300

Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 43, Number 2, June, 2011

      François Caron and   
           Pierre Del Moral and   
              Arnaud Doucet and   
                   Michele Pace   On the Conditional Distributions of
                                  Spatial Point Processes  . . . . . . . . 301--307
                 Daniel Hug and   
                 Rolf Schneider   Faces with Given Directions in
                                  Anisotropic Poisson Hyperplane Mosaics   308--321
       Jesper Mòller and   
                   Man Lung Yiu   Probabilistic Results for a Mobile
                                  Service Scenario . . . . . . . . . . . . 322--334
             Ronald Meester and   
                 Pieter Trapman   Bounding Basic Characteristics of
                                  Spatial Epidemics with a New Percolation
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--347
         Clément Foucart   Distinguished Exchangeable Coalescents
                                  and Generalized Fleming--Viot Processes
                                  with Immigration . . . . . . . . . . . . 348--374
      Clément Dombry and   
            Christian Mazza and   
                Vincent Bansaye   Phenotypic Diversity and Population
                                  Growth in a Fluctuating Environment  . . 375--398
            Ali Devin Sezer and   
            Ferruh Özbudak   Approximation of Bounds on Mixed-Level
                                  Orthogonal Arrays  . . . . . . . . . . . 399--421
                 Raul Gouet and   
     F. Javier López and   
                   Gerardo Sanz   Asymptotic Normality for the Number of
                                  Records from General Distributions . . . 422--436
            Thierry Huillet and   
                Servet Martinez   Duality and Intertwining for Discrete
                                  Markov Kernels: Relations and Examples   437--460
                 Yizao Wang and   
               Stilian A. Stoev   Conditional Sampling for Spectrally
                                  Discrete Max-Stable Random Fields  . . . 461--483
                  Hongsheng Dai   Exact Monte Carlo Simulation for
                                  Fork-Join Networks . . . . . . . . . . . 484--503
              Yann Demichel and   
               Anne Estrade and   
                Marie Kratz and   
          Gennady Samorodnitsky   How Fast Can the Chord Length
                                  Distribution Decay?  . . . . . . . . . . 504--523
                Amr Elmasry and   
                  Hosam Mahmoud   Analysis of Swaps in Radix Selection . . 524--544
          Leila Setayeshgar and   
                       Hui Wang   Large Deviations for a Feed-Forward
                                  Network  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545--571
      Bernt Òksendal and   
              Agn\`es Sulem and   
                  Tusheng Zhang   Optimal Control of Stochastic Delay
                                  Equations and Time-Advanced Backward
                                  Stochastic Differential Equations  . . . 572--596

Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 43, Number 3, September, 2011

         Sebastian Carstens and   
             Thomas Richthammer   The Two-Type Continuum Richardson Model:
                                  Nondependence of the Survival of Both
                                  Types on the Initial Configuration . . . 597--615
            Amites Dasgupta and   
                  Rahul Roy and   
                   Anish Sarkar   Geometry of the Poisson Boolean Model on
                                  a Region of Logarithmic Width in the
                                  Plane  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 616--635
          Mathew D. Penrose and   
              Vadim Shcherbakov   Asymptotic Normality of the Maximum
                                  Likelihood Estimator for Cooperative
                                  Sequential Adsorption  . . . . . . . . . 636--648
                      S. Qu and   
                  J. C. Gittins   A Forwards Induction Approach to
                                  Candidate Drug Selection . . . . . . . . 649--665
             Ilya Molchanov and   
                Michael Schmutz   Exchangeability-Type Properties of Asset
                                  Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 666--687
              Anita Diana Behme   Distributional Properties of Solutions
                                  of $ d v_T = V_T - d u_T + d l_T $ with
                                  Lévy Noise  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688--711
          Philip S. Griffin and   
                 Ross A. Maller   Stability of the Exit Time for Lévy
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 712--734
                   Sandro Gallo   Chains with Unbounded Variable Length
                                  Memory: Perfect Simulation and a Visible
                                  Regeneration Scheme  . . . . . . . . . . 735--759
                Mitsushi Tamaki   Maximizing the Probability of Stopping
                                  on Any of the Last $m$ Successes in
                                  Independent Bernoulli Trials with Random
                                  Horizona . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 760--781
                    M. Jara and   
                  T. Komorowski   Limit Theorems for Some Continuous-Time
                                  Random Walks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 782--813
            Angelos Dassios and   
                  Hongbiao Zhao   A Dynamic Contagion Process  . . . . . . 814--846
                Chihoon Lee and   
             Ananda Weerasinghe   Stationarity and Control of a Tandem
                                  Fluid Network with Fractional Brownian
                                  Motion Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 847--874
            Larry Goldstein and   
                  Haimeng Zhang   A Berry--Esseen Bound for the Lightbulb
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 875--898

Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 43, Number 4, December, 2011

           Nicolas Bonichon and   
  Jean-François Marckert   Asymptotics of Geometrical Navigation on
                                  a Random Set of Points in the Plane  . . 899--942
           Günter Last and   
                 Ryszard Szekli   Comparisons and Asymptotics for Empty
                                  Space Hazard Functions of Germ--Grain
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 943--962
                Viola Weiss and   
                  Richard Cowan   Topological Relationships in Spatial
                                  Tessellations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 963--984
             Osman T. Akgun and   
             Rhonda Righter and   
                   Ronald Wolff   Multiple-Server System with Flexible
                                  Arrivals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 985--1004
             Tu\ugrul Dayar and   
            Werner Sandmann and   
              David Spieler and   
                    Verena Wolf   Infinite Level-Dependent QBD Processes
                                  and Matrix-Analytic Solutions for
                                  Stochastic Chemical Kinetics . . . . . . 1005--1026
                O. Hössjer   Coalescence Theory for a General Class
                                  of Structured Populations with Fast
                                  Migration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1027--1047
              Frank G. Ball and   
            Edward S. Knock and   
              Philip D. O'Neill   Threshold Behaviour of Emerging
                                  Epidemics Featuring Contact Tracing  . . 1048--1065
                        Fang Xu   The Sampling Formula and Laplace
                                  Transform Associated with the
                                  Two-Parameter Poisson--Dirichlet
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1066--1085
             Andreas Faller and   
        Ludger Rüschendorf   On Approximative Solutions of Optimal
                                  Stopping Problems  . . . . . . . . . . . 1086--1108
               Martin Moser and   
                 Robert Stelzer   Tail Behavior of Multivariate
                                  Lévy--Driven Mixed Moving Average
                                  Processes and SupOU Stochastic
                                  Volatility Models  . . . . . . . . . . . 1109--1135
               E. H. A. Dia and   
                   D. Lamberton   Connecting Discrete and Continuous
                                  Lookback Or Hindsight Options in
                                  Exponential Lévy Models . . . . . . . . . 1136--1165
 Andrea Kvitkovicová and   
            Victor M. Panaretos   Asymptotic Inference for Partially
                                  Observed Branching Processes . . . . . . 1166--1190


Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 44, Number 1, March, 2012

                 B. Galerne and   
                    Y. Gousseau   The Transparent Dead Leaves Model  . . . 1--20
           Srikanth K. Iyer and   
                 D. Yogeshwaran   Percolation and Connectivity in ``Ab''
                                  Random Geometric Graphs  . . . . . . . . 21--41
       Jesper Mòller and   
           Kasper K. Berthelsen   Transforming Spatial Point Processes
                                  into Poisson Processes Using Random
                                  Superposition  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--62
                 Frank Ball and   
                     David Sirl   An SIR Epidemic Model on a Population
                                  with Random Network and Household
                                  Structure, and Several Types of
                                  Individuals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--86
                Markus Kuba and   
                Alois Panholzer   Limiting Distributions for a Class of
                                  Diminishing Urn Models . . . . . . . . . 87--116
             Irmingard Eder and   
       Claudia Klüppelberg   Pareto Lévy Measures and Multivariate
                                  Regular Variation  . . . . . . . . . . . 117--138
               Kaisheng Lin and   
                 Gesine Reinert   Joint Vertex Degrees in the
                                  Inhomogeneous Random Graph Model $
                                  \mathcal {G}(n, \{ p_{ij} \}) $  . . . . 139--165
        Aristides V. Doumas and   
       Vassilis G. Papanicolaou   The Coupon Collector's Problem
                                  Revisited: Asymptotics of the Variance   166--195
          Adrien Brandejsky and   
   Benoîte De Saporta and   
         François Dufour   Numerical Methods for the Exit Time of a
                                  Piecewise-Deterministic Markov Process   196--225
                 Anyue Chen and   
                 Junping Li and   
                Yiqing Chen and   
                  Dingxuan Zhou   Extinction Probability of Interacting
                                  Branching Collision Processes  . . . . . 226--259
     Christopher S. Withers and   
             Saralees Nadarajah   The Distribution of Foschini's Lower
                                  Bound for Channel Capacity . . . . . . . 260--269
               Michael Falk and   
                    Diana Tichy   Asymptotic Conditional Distribution of
                                  Exceedance Counts  . . . . . . . . . . . 270--291
               J. Gåsemyr   Bounds for the Availabilities of
                                  Multistate Monotone Systems Based on
                                  Decomposition into Stochastically
                                  Independent Modules  . . . . . . . . . . 292--308
                      Anonymous   Correction: Stochastic and Deterministic
                                  Analysis of SIS Household Epidemics  . . 309--310

Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 44, Number 2, June, 2012

                  A. Cuevas and   
                 R. Fraiman and   
        B. Pateiro-López   On Statistical Properties of Sets
                                  Fulfilling Rolling-Type Conditions . . . 311--329
                Piet Groeneboom   Convex Hulls of Uniform Samples from a
                                  Convex Polygon . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330--342
                Fraser Daly and   
           Claude Lef\`evre and   
                    Sergey Utev   Stein's Method and Stochastic Orderings  343--372
           Shaul K. Bar-Lev and   
            Gérard Letac   Increasing Hazard Rate of Mixtures for
                                  Natural Exponential Families . . . . . . 373--390
              Anand Bhaskar and   
                    Yun S. Song   Closed-Form Asymptotic Sampling
                                  Distributions Under the Coalescent with
                                  Recombination for an Arbitrary Number of
                                  Loci . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--407
              Anand Bhaskar and   
               John A. Kamm and   
                    Yun S. Song   Approximate Sampling Formulae for
                                  General Finite-Alleles Models of
                                  Mutation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408--428
           Hosam M. Mahmoud and   
               Robert T. Smythe   On the Joint Behavior of Types of
                                  Coupons in Generalized Coupon Collection 429--451
              Cheng-Der Fuh and   
                 Tian-Xiao Pang   A Self-Normalized Central Limit Theorem
                                  for Markov Random Walks  . . . . . . . . 452--478
                      L. Beghin   Fractional Relaxation Equations and
                                  Brownian Crossing Probabilities of a
                                  Random Boundary  . . . . . . . . . . . . 479--505
               Guus Balkema and   
                  Natalia Nolde   Asymptotic Dependence for Light-Tailed
                                  Homothetic Densities . . . . . . . . . . 506--527
    Predrag R. Jelenkovi\'c and   
        Mariana Olvera-Cravioto   Implicit Renewal Theory and Power Tails
                                  on Trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528--561
           Mathieu Feuillet and   
                Philippe Robert   On the Transient Behavior of Ehrenfest
                                  and Engset Processes . . . . . . . . . . 562--582
            Steffen Dereich and   
       Christian Mönch and   
             Peter Mörters   Typical Distances in Ultrasmall Random
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583--601

Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 44, Number 3, September, 2012

                 F. Ballani and   
               Z. Kabluchko and   
                   M. Schlather   Random Marked Sets . . . . . . . . . . . 603--616
        Victor Falgas-Ravry and   
                   Mark Walters   Sharpness in the $k$-Nearest-Neighbours
                                  Random Geometric Graph Model . . . . . . 617--634
       Christoph Thäle and   
                Viola Weiss and   
                   Werner Nagel   Spatial STIT Tessellations:
                                  Distributional Results for $I$-Segments  635--654
              Savas Dayanik and   
                 Masahiko Egami   Optimal Stopping Problems for Asset
                                  Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 655--677
               Claudia Ceci and   
                 Katia Colaneri   Nonlinear Filtering for Jump Diffusion
                                  Observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 678--701
               Sanaa Kholfi and   
               Hosam M. Mahmoud   The Class of Tenable Zero-Balanced Pólya
                                  Urn Schemes: Characterization and
                                  Gaussian Phases  . . . . . . . . . . . . 702--728
                  Uwe Franz and   
          Volkmar Liebscher and   
                  Stefan Zeiser   Piecewise-Deterministic Markov Processes
                                  As Limits of Markov Jump Processes . . . 729--748
          Alexandre Genadot and   
            Mich\`ele Thieullen   Averaging for a Fully Coupled
                                  Piecewise-Deterministic Markov Process
                                  in Infinite Dimensions . . . . . . . . . 749--773
     François Dufour and   
               M. Horiguchi and   
               A. B. Piunovskiy   The Expected Total Cost Criterion for
                                  Markov Decision Processes Under
                                  Constraints: a Convex Analytic Approach  774--793
         Rajat Subhra Hazra and   
                Krishanu Maulik   Tail Behavior of Randomly Weighted Sums  794--814
               Jingchen Liu and   
                      Xuan Yang   The Convergence Rate and Asymptotic
                                  Distribution of the Bootstrap Quantile
                                  Variance Estimator for Importance
                                  Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 815--841
                      Zhiyi Chi   On Exact Sampling of Nonnegative
                                  Infinitely Divisible Random Variables    842--873
             Michel Dekking and   
                    Derong Kong   A Simple Stochastic Kinetic Transport
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 874--885
                 Jiaqin Wei and   
              Rongming Wang and   
                  Hailiang Yang   On the Optimal Dividend Strategy in a
                                  Regime-Switching Diffusion Model . . . . 886--906

Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 44, Number 4, December, 2012

           Ery Arias-Castro and   
            Bruno Pelletier and   
                   Pierre Pudlo   The Normalized Graph Cut and Cheeger
                                  Constant: from Discrete to Continuous    907--937
                M. Reitzner and   
                E. Spodarev and   
                 D. Zaporozhets   Set Reconstruction by Voronoi Cells  . . 938--953
               M. Riplinger and   
                      M. Spiess   Asymptotic Properties of the Approximate
                                  Inverse Estimator for Directional
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 954--976
           Joaquin Fontbona and   
Hél\`ene Guérin and   
                Florent Malrieu   Quantitative Estimates for the Long-Time
                                  Behavior of an Ergodic Variant of the
                                  Telegraph Process  . . . . . . . . . . . 977--994
               Souvik Ghosh and   
                Soumyadip Ghosh   A Strong Law for the Rate of Growth of
                                  Long Latency Periods in a Cloud
                                  Computing Service  . . . . . . . . . . . 995--1017
        Alessandro Andreoli and   
        Francesco Caravenna and   
              Paolo Dai Pra and   
                  Gustavo Posta   Scaling and Multiscaling in Financial
                                  Series: a Simple Model . . . . . . . . . 1018--1051
                  Michael Kelly   A Hierarchical Probability Model of
                                  Colon Cancer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1052--1083
       Christoph Czichowsky and   
               Martin Schweizer   Convex Duality in Mean-Variance Hedging
                                  Under Convex Trading Constraints . . . . 1084--1112
                Rafal Kulik and   
               Philippe Soulier   Limit Theorems for Long-Memory
                                  Stochastic Volatility Models with
                                  Infinite Variance: Partial Sums and
                                  Sample Covariances . . . . . . . . . . . 1113--1141
        Mariana Olvera-Cravioto   Asymptotics for Weighted Random Sums . . 1142--1172
             Hock Peng Chan and   
               Shaojie Deng and   
                  Tze-Leung Lai   Rare-Event Simulation of Heavy-Tailed
                                  Random Walks by Sequential Importance
                                  Sampling and Resampling  . . . . . . . . 1173--1196


Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 45, Number 1, March, 2013

             James Burridge and   
              Richard Cowan and   
                       Isaac Ma   Full- and Half-Gilbert Tessellations
                                  with Rectangular Cells . . . . . . . . . 1--19
                  C. Hirsch and   
          D. Neuhäuser and   
                     V. Schmidt   Connectivity of Random Geometric Graphs
                                  Related to Minimal Spanning Forests  . . 20--36
               Jinghai Shao and   
                   Xiuping Wang   Estimates of the Exit Probability for
                                  Two Correlated Brownian Motions  . . . . 37--50
           K. D. Glazebrook and   
                D. J. Hodge and   
                   C. Kirkbride   Monotone Policies and Indexability for
                                  Bidirectional Restless Bandits . . . . . 51--85
                   E. H. A. Dia   Error Bounds for Small Jumps of Lévy
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--105
    Predrag R. Jelenkovi\'c and   
                       Jian Tan   Characterizing Heavy-Tailed
                                  Distributions Induced by Retransmissions 106--138
              Bikramjit Das and   
            Abhimanyu Mitra and   
                 Sidney Resnick   Living on the Multidimensional Edge:
                                  Seeking Hidden Risks Using Regular
                                  Variation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--163
            Pavel V. Gapeev and   
             Albert N. Shiryaev   Bayesian Quickest Detection Problems for
                                  Some Diffusion Processes . . . . . . . . 164--185
          Sidney I. Resnick and   
                    David Zeber   Asymptotics of Markov Kernels and the
                                  Tail Chain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186--213
           Nikolaos Limnios and   
             Anatoliy Swishchuk   Discrete-Time Semi-Markov Random
                                  Evolutions and Their Applications  . . . 214--240
               Fenglong Guo and   
                 Dingcheng Wang   Finite- and Infinite-Time Ruin
                                  Probabilities with General Stochastic
                                  Investment Return Processes and
                                  Bivariate Upper Tail Independent and
                                  Heavy-Tailed Claims  . . . . . . . . . . 241--273
                   F. Avram and   
        A. J. E. M. Janssen and   
       J. S. H. Van Leeuwaarden   Loss Systems with Slow Retrials in the
                                  Halfin--Whitt Regime . . . . . . . . . . 274--294

Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 45, Number 2, June, 2013

                  Richard Cowan   Line segments in the isotropic planar
                                  STIT tessellation  . . . . . . . . . . . 295--311
            Lothar Heinrich and   
                   Malte Spiess   Central limit theorems for volume and
                                  surface content of stationary Poisson
                                  cylinder processes in expanding domains  312--331
             Johan Tykesson and   
                   Pierre Calka   Asymptotics of visibility in the
                                  hyperbolic plane . . . . . . . . . . . . 332--350
              Ana Bu\vsi\'c and   
                Varun Gupta and   
                  Jean Mairesse   Stability of the bipartite matching
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--378
                  Shui Feng and   
                      Jie Xiong   Asymptotic behavior of the Moran
                                  particle system  . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--397
               Jingchen Liu and   
                     Gongjun Xu   On the density functions of integrals of
                                  Gaussian random fields . . . . . . . . . 398--424
           James Allen Fill and   
                Takehiko Nakama   Distributional convergence for the
                                  number of symbol comparisons used by
                                  QuickSelect  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425--450
                 Esther Frostig   A Markov additive risk process with a
                                  dividend barrier . . . . . . . . . . . . 451--489
               Xianping Guo and   
            Mantas Vykertas and   
                       Yi Zhang   Absorbing continuous-time Markov
                                  decision processes with total cost
                                  criteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490--519
                       M. Jirak   Limit theorems for aggregated linear
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520--544
                F. E. Benth and   
                         L. Vos   Cross-commodity spot price modeling with
                                  stochastic volatility and leverage for
                                  energy markets . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545--571
                F. E. Benth and   
                         L. Vos   Pricing of forwards and options in a
                                  multivariate non-Gaussian stochastic
                                  volatility model for energy markets  . . 572--594

Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 45, Number 3, September, 2013

              Mikko Kuronen and   
             Lasse Leskelä   Hard-core thinnings of germ--grain
                                  models with power-law grain sizes  . . . 595--625
   Ond\vrej \vSedivý and   
               Jakub Stanek and   
Bla\vzena Kratochvílová and   
                 Viktor Bene\vs   Sliced inverse regression and
                                  independence in random marked sets with
                                  covariates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 626--644
               Guodong Pang and   
                   David D. Yao   Heavy-traffic limits for a many-server
                                  queueing network with switchover . . . . 645--672
             Osman T. Akgun and   
             Rhonda Righter and   
                   Ronald Wolff   Partial flexibility in routeing and
                                  scheduling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673--691
                H. K. Alexander   Conditional distributions and waiting
                                  times in multitype branching processes   692--718
            Gerold Alsmeyer and   
       Sören Gröttrup   A host-parasite model for a two-type
                                  cell population  . . . . . . . . . . . . 719--741
             G. N. Milstein and   
                M. V. Tretyakov   Probabilistic methods for the
                                  incompressible Navier--Stokes equations
                                  with space periodic conditions . . . . . 742--772
                  S. Juneja and   
                     M. Mandjes   Overlap problems on the circle . . . . . 773--790
                Soufiane Aazizi   Discrete-time approximation of decoupled
                                  forward--backward stochastic
                                  differential equations driven by pure
                                  jump Lévy processes . . . . . . . . . . . 791--821
              Pierre Collet and   
     Servet Martínez and   
Sylvie Méléard and   
        Jaime San Martín   Stochastic models for a chemostat and
                                  long-time behavior . . . . . . . . . . . 822--837
     François Dufour and   
               A. B. Piunovskiy   The expected total cost criterion for
                                  Markov decision processes under
                                  constraints  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 837--859
               Martin Forde and   
             Andrey Pogudin and   
                Hongzhong Zhang   Hitting times, occupation times,
                                  trivariate laws and the forward
                                  Kolmogorov equation for a
                                  one-dimensional diffusion with memory    860--875
                    Nathan Ross   Power laws in preferential attachment
                                  graphs and Stein's method for the
                                  negative binomial distribution . . . . . 876--893

Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 45, Number 4, December, 2013

   François Baccelli and   
              David Coupier and   
                  Viet Chi Tran   Semi-infinite paths of the
                                  two-dimensional radial spanning tree . . 895--916
               Christian Buchta   Exact formulae for variances of
                                  functionals of convex hulls  . . . . . . 917--924
Ó. Thórisdóttir and   
                    M. Kiderlen   Wicksell's problem in local stereology   925--944
          Konrad Abramowicz and   
                 Oleg Seleznjev   Piecewise-multilinear interpolation of a
                                  random field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 945--959
              Ana Bu\vsi\'c and   
              Jean Mairesse and   
              Ir\`ene Marcovici   Probabilistic cellular automata,
                                  invariant measures, and perfect sampling 960--980
              A. D. Barbour and   
                     G. Reinert   Asymptotic behaviour of gossip processes
                                  and small-world networks . . . . . . . . 981--1010
              Jorge Navarro and   
     Francisco J. Samaniego and   
                N. Balakrishnan   Mixture representations for the joint
                                  distribution of lifetimes of two
                                  coherent systems with shared components  1011--1027
                Mitsushi Tamaki   Optimal stopping rule for the
                                  no-information duration problem with
                                  random horizon . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1028--1048
                     Bin Li and   
                   Xiaowen Zhou   The joint Laplace transforms for
                                  diffusion occupation times . . . . . . . 1049--1067
              S. Hautphenne and   
                G. Latouche and   
                      G. Nguyen   Extinction probabilities of branching
                                  processes with countably infinitely many
                                  types  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1068--1082
                Sergey Foss and   
                   Stan Zachary   Stochastic sequences with a regenerative
                                  structure that may depend both on the
                                  future and on the past . . . . . . . . . 1083--1110
             Irene Crimaldi and   
       Antonio Di Crescenzo and   
          Antonella Iuliano and   
             Barbara Martinucci   A generalized telegraph process with
                                  velocity driven by random trials . . . . 1111--1136
              Saul C. Leite and   
             Marcelo D. Fragoso   Reducing response time in fork-join
                                  systems under heavy traffic via
                                  imbalance control  . . . . . . . . . . . 1137--1156
                    N. Lanchier   Stochastic spatial model of
                                  producer-consumer systems on the lattice 1157--1181
                    N. Lanchier   The role of dispersal in interacting
                                  patches subject to an Allee effect . . . 1182--1197
                      Anonymous   \booktitleAdvances in Applied
                                  Probability Volume 45 (2013): Index
                                  General Applied Probability  . . . . . . 1198--1200
                      Anonymous   \booktitleAdvances in Applied
                                  Probability Volume 45 (2013): Index
                                  Stochastic Geometry and Statistical
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1201


Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 46, Number 1, March, 2014

  Bart\lomiej B\laszczyszyn and   
                 D. Yogeshwaran   On comparison of clustering properties
                                  of point processes . . . . . . . . . . . 1--20
              Kaspar Stucki and   
            Dominic Schuhmacher   Bounds for the probability generating
                                  functional of a Gibbs point process  . . 21--34
               Anne Marie Svane   Local digital estimators of intrinsic
                                  volumes for Boolean models and in the
                                  design-based setting . . . . . . . . . . 35--58
        Matthieu Jonckheere and   
                    Seva Shneer   Stability of multi-dimensional
                                  birth-and-death processes with
                                  state-dependent $0$-homogeneous jumps    59--75
             Maria Remerova and   
                Sergey Foss and   
                     Bert Zwart   Random fluid limit of an overloaded
                                  polling model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--101
                    Jukka Lempa   Bounded variation control of Itô
                                  diffusions with exogenously restricted
                                  intervention times . . . . . . . . . . . 102--120
              Ulrich Rieder and   
                Marc Wittlinger   On optimal terminal wealth problems with
                                  random trading times and drawdown
                                  constraints  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--138
             Masahiko Egami and   
             Kazutoshi Yamazaki   On the continuous and smooth fit
                                  principle for optimal stopping problems
                                  in spectrally negative Lévy models  . . . 139--167
                  Toshio Nakata   The number of collisions for the
                                  occupancy problem with unequal
                                  probabilities  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168--185
            Laura Sacerdote and   
              Ottavia Telve and   
                 Cristina Zucca   Joint densities of first hitting times
                                  of a diffusion process through two
                                  time-dependent boundaries  . . . . . . . 186--202
              Ravi Kalpathy and   
                  Hosam Mahmoud   Perpetuities in fair leader election
                                  algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--216
                Yan-Xia Ren and   
                      Ting Yang   Multitype branching Brownian motion and
                                  traveling waves  . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--240
                     Peter Neal   Endemic behaviour of SIS epidemics with
                                  general infectious period distributions  241--255
          Daniela Bertacchi and   
Fábio Prates Machado and   
                    Fabio Zucca   Local and global survival for
                                  nonhomogeneous random walk systems on
                                  $Z$  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256--278
          Alexandros Beskos and   
              Dan O. Crisan and   
                 Ajay Jasra and   
                  Nick Whiteley   Error bounds and normalising constants
                                  for sequential Monte Carlo samplers in
                                  high dimensions  . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--306

Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 46, Number 2, June, 2014

                    Ge Chen and   
              Changlong Yao and   
                     Tiande Guo   The asymptotic size of the largest
                                  component in random geometric graphs
                                  with some applications . . . . . . . . . 307--324
            L. Decreusefond and   
                  E. Ferraz and   
        H. Randriambololona and   
                      A. Vergne   Simplicial homology of random
                                  configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--347
           Günter Last and   
          Mathew D. Penrose and   
           Matthias Schulte and   
           Christoph Thäle   Moments and central limit theorems for
                                  some multivariate Poisson functionals    348--364
         Masahiro Kobayashi and   
              Masakiyo Miyazawa   Tail asymptotics of the stationary
                                  distribution of a two-dimensional
                                  reflecting random walk with unbounded
                                  upward jumps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--399
          Daniela Bertacchi and   
                    Fabio Zucca   Strong local survival of branching
                                  random walks is not monotone . . . . . . 400--421
             Galin L. Jones and   
          Gareth O. Roberts and   
           Jeffrey S. Rosenthal   Convergence of conditional
                                  Metropolis--Hastings samplers  . . . . . 422--445
                  Camille Coron   Stochastic modeling of density-dependent
                                  diploid populations and the extinction
                                  vortex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446--477
          Sebastian Engelke and   
       Alexander Malinowski and   
              Marco Oesting and   
               Martin Schlather   Statistical inference for max-stable
                                  processes by conditioning on extreme
                                  events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478--495
           Alexander Gnedin and   
          Alexander Iksanov and   
         Alexander Marynych and   
              Martin Möhle   On asymptotics of the beta coalescents   496--515
           Mathieu Feuillet and   
                Philippe Robert   A scaling analysis of a transient
                                  stochastic network . . . . . . . . . . . 516--535
         Alessandro Arlotto and   
              J. Michael Steele   Optimal online selection of an
                                  alternating subsequence: a central limit
                                  theorem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 536--559
                    Eric Foxall   Convergence and monotonicity for a model
                                  of spontaneous infection and
                                  transmission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 560--584
               Li-Xin Zhang and   
                 Feifang Hu and   
            Siu Hung Cheung and   
                   Wai Sum Chan   Asymptotic properties of multicolor
                                  randomly reinforced Pólya urns  . . . . . 585--602

Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 46, Number 3, September, 2014

                 D. Coupier and   
                    Yu. Davydov   Random symmetrizations of convex bodies  603--621
        Julia Hörrmann and   
                     Daniel Hug   On the volume of the zero cell of a
                                  class of isotropic Poisson hyperplane
                                  tessellations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 622--642
     Servet Martínez and   
                   Werner Nagel   STIT tessellations have trivial tail $
                                  \sigma $-algebra . . . . . . . . . . . . 643--660
              Olivier Garet and   
         Régine Marchand   Growth of a population of bacteria in a
                                  dynamical hostile environment  . . . . . 661--686
       Elisabeth Bauernschubert   Recurrence and transience of critical
                                  branching processes in random
                                  environment with immigration and an
                                  application to excited random walks  . . 687--703
                   Rui Chen and   
                Ollivier Hyrien   On classes of equivalence and
                                  identifiability of age-dependent
                                  branching processes  . . . . . . . . . . 704--718
   Ole E. Barndorff-Nielsen and   
           Fred Espen Benth and   
            Almut E. D. Veraart   Modelling electricity futures by ambit
                                  fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 719--745
          Erik Ekström and   
                        Bing Lu   The optimal dividend problem in the dual
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 746--765
                   Ning Cai and   
                  S. G. Kou and   
                   Zongjian Liu   A two-sided Laplace inversion algorithm
                                  with computable error bounds and its
                                  applications in financial engineering    766--789
           Dominic Edelmann and   
            Cornelia Wichelhaus   Nonparametric inference for queueing
                                  networks of GEOM$^X$ /G/$ \infty $
                                  queues in discrete time  . . . . . . . . 790--811
               E. S. Badila and   
                O. J. Boxma and   
            J. A. C. Resing and   
               E. M. M. Winands   Queues and risk models with simultaneous
                                  arrivals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 812--831
              Naoto Miyoshi and   
                Tomoyuki Shirai   A cellular network model with Ginibre
                                  configured base stations . . . . . . . . 832--845
                    Vicky Fasen   Limit theory for high frequency sampled
                                  MCARMA models  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 846--877
Mátyás Barczy and   
           Leif Döring and   
                  Zenghu Li and   
                      Gyula Pap   Stationarity and ergodicity for an
                                  affine two-factor model  . . . . . . . . 878--898

Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 46, Number 4, December, 2014

                   F. Fodor and   
                   P. Kevei and   
                 V. Vígh   On random disc polygons in smooth convex
                                  discs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 899--918
                 Daniel Hug and   
                 Rolf Schneider   Approximation properties of random
                                  polytopes associated with Poisson
                                  hyperplane processes . . . . . . . . . . 919--936
                 Daniel Hug and   
           Günter Last and   
       Zbyn\bök Pawlas and   
                  Wolfgang Weil   Statistics for Poisson models of
                                  overlapping spheres  . . . . . . . . . . 937--962
                      Zhiyi Chi   Nonnormal small jump approximation of
                                  infinitely divisible distributions . . . 963--984
          Emilie Coupechoux and   
                   Marc Lelarge   How clustering affects epidemics in
                                  random networks  . . . . . . . . . . . . 985--1008
            Robert C. Griffiths   The $ \Lambda $--Fleming--Viot process
                                  and a connection with Wright--Fisher
                                  diffusion  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1009--1035
       Lo\"\ic Hervé and   
                   James Ledoux   Spectral analysis of Markov kernels and
                                  application to the convergence rate of
                                  discrete random walks  . . . . . . . . . 1036--1058
                 Qifan Song and   
                  Mingqi Wu and   
                   Faming Liang   Weak convergence rates of population
                                  versus single-chain stochastic
                                  approximation MCMC algorithms  . . . . . 1059--1083
              Ieva Grublyte and   
              Donatas Surgailis   Projective stochastic equations and
                                  nonlinear long memory  . . . . . . . . . 1084--1105
         Ma\lgorzata Kuchta and   
                 Michal Morayne   Monotone case for an extended process    1106--1125
           Alberto Chiarini and   
                 Markus Fischer   On large deviations for small noise Itô
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1126--1147
                    Ji Hwan Cha   Characterization of the generalized Pólya
                                  process and its applications . . . . . . 1148--1171
          Alexander D. Kolesnik   Probability distribution function for
                                  the Euclidean distance between two
                                  telegraph processes  . . . . . . . . . . 1172--1193
                      Anonymous   Advances in Applied Probability Volume
                                  46 (2014): Index General Applied
                                  Probability  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
                      Anonymous   Advances in Applied Probability Volume
                                  46 (2014): Index Stochastic Geometry and
                                  Statistical Applications . . . . . . . . ??


Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 47, Number 1, March, 2015

          Venkat Anantharam and   
       François Baccelli   Capacity and error exponents of
                                  stationary point processes under random
                                  additive displacements . . . . . . . . . 1--26
           Stefan Steinerberger   New bounds for the traveling salesman
                                  constant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--36
       Louigi Addario-Berry and   
                        Tao Lei   The mixing time of the Newman--Watts
                                  small-world model  . . . . . . . . . . . 37--56
           Michael Grinfeld and   
           Stanislav Volkov and   
                 Andrew R. Wade   Convergence in a multidimensional
                                  randomized Keynesian beauty contest  . . 57--82
              Hiroyuki Masuyama   Error bounds for augmented truncations
                                  of discrete-time block-monotone Markov
                                  chains under geometric drift conditions  83--105
     François Dufour and   
           Alexei B. Piunovskiy   Impulsive control for continuous-time
                                  Markov decision processes  . . . . . . . 106--127
Kamille Sofie Tågholt Gad and   
           Jesper Lund Pedersen   Variance optimal stopping for geometric
                                  Lévy processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--145
              Hironobu Sakagawa   Persistence probability for a class of
                                  Gaussian processes related to random
                                  interface models . . . . . . . . . . . . 146--163
           Ghurumuruhan Ganesan   Infection spread in random geometric
                                  graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164--181
                 Daniel Ahlberg   Asymptotics of first-passage percolation
                                  on one-dimensional graphs  . . . . . . . 182--209
                Hongzhong Zhang   Occupation times, drawdowns, and drawups
                                  for one-dimensional regular diffusions   210--230
                D. J. Daley and   
Johan S. H. Van Leeuwaarden and   
                 Yoni Nazarathy   BRAVO for many-server QED systems with
                                  finite buffers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--250
                  A. L. Stolyar   Diffusion-scale tightness of invariant
                                  distributions of a large-scale flexible
                                  service system . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--269
                  Xiaohu Li and   
                    Yinping You   Permutation monotone functions of random
                                  vectors with applications in financial
                                  and actuarial risk management  . . . . . 270--291
            Richard Arratia and   
                Stephen DeSalvo   On the random sampling of pairs, with
                                  pedestrian examples  . . . . . . . . . . 292--305

Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 47, Number 2, June, 2015

            Linda V. Hansen and   
 Thordis L. Thorarinsdottir and   
            Evgeni Ovcharov and   
           Tilmann Gneiting and   
                Donald Richards   Gaussian random particles with flexible
                                  Hausdorff dimension  . . . . . . . . . . 307--327
                  C. Hirsch and   
          D. Neuhäuser and   
                C. Gloaguen and   
                     V. Schmidt   First passage percolation on random
                                  geometric graphs and an application to
                                  shortest-path trees  . . . . . . . . . . 328--354
                       Qian Lin   Nash equilibrium payoffs for stochastic
                                  differential games with two reflecting
                                  barriers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--377
                B. Eriksson and   
                M. R. Pistorius   American option valuation under
                                  continuous-time Markov chains  . . . . . 378--401
                Pawel Lorek and   
                 Ryszard Szekli   Computable bounds on the spectral gap
                                  for unreliable Jackson networks  . . . . 402--424
    Predrag R. Jelenkovi\'c and   
            Evangelia D. Skiani   Distribution of the number of
                                  retransmissions of bounded documents . . 425--449
        A. J. E. M. Janssen and   
       J. S. H. van Leeuwaarden   Staffing many-server systems with
                                  admission control and retrials . . . . . 450--475
          Amarjit Budhiraja and   
             Vladas Pipiras and   
                  Xiaoming Song   Admission control for multidimensional
                                  workload input with heavy tails and
                                  fractional Ornstein--Uhlenbeck process   476--505
                Ji Hwan Cha and   
              Gianpaolo Pulcini   Burn-in procedure based on a dependent
                                  covariate process  . . . . . . . . . . . 506--529
              Serik Sagitov and   
Maria Conceição Serra   Skeletons of near-critical
                                  Bienaym\'e--Galton--Watson branching
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530--544
              Sana Louhichi and   
                  Bernard Ycart   Exponential growth of bifurcating
                                  processes with ancestral dependence  . . 545--564
            Jonathan Jordan and   
                 Andrew R. Wade   Phase transitions for random geometric
                                  preferential attachment graphs . . . . . 565--588
István Kolossváry and   
   Júlia Komjáthy   First passage percolation on
                                  inhomogeneous random graphs  . . . . . . 589--610

Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 47, Number 3, September, 2015

              Bruno Galerne and   
         Raphael Lachi\`eze-Rey   Random measurable sets and covariogram
                                  realizability problems . . . . . . . . . 611--639
               Werner Nagel and   
                   Eike Biehler   Consistency of constructions for cell
                                  division processes . . . . . . . . . . . 640--651
                D. J. Hodge and   
               K. D. Glazebrook   On the asymptotic optimality of greedy
                                  index heuristics for multi-action
                                  restless bandits . . . . . . . . . . . . 652--667
                N. Lanchier and   
                      N. Taylor   Galam's bottom-up hierarchical system
                                  and public debate model revisited  . . . 668--692
Jean-Stéphane Dhersin and   
                  Linglong Yuan   On the total length of external branches
                                  for beta-coalescents . . . . . . . . . . 693--714
                Florian Simatos   State space collapse for critical
                                  multistage epidemics . . . . . . . . . . 715--740
                    Xinxin Chen   A necessary and sufficient condition for
                                  the nontrivial limit of the derivative
                                  martingale in a branching random walk    741--760
              Jose Blanchet and   
                      Jing Dong   Perfect sampling for infinite server and
                                  loss systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 761--786
                  Xiaoou Li and   
                   Jingchen Liu   Rare-event simulation and efficient
                                  discretization for the supremum of
                                  Gaussian random fields . . . . . . . . . 787--816
              Huei-Wen Teng and   
            Ming-Hsuan Kang and   
                  Cheng-Der Fuh   On spherical Monte Carlo simulations for
                                  multivariate normal probabilities  . . . 817--836
           Antoine Jacquier and   
                  Matthew Lorig   From characteristic functions to implied
                                  volatility expansions  . . . . . . . . . 837--857
       Nicholas R. Peterson and   
                   Boris Pittel   Distance between two random $k$-out
                                  digraphs, with and without preferential
                                  attachment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 858--879
              Bernard Bercu and   
                  Adrien Richou   Large deviations for the
                                  Ornstein--Uhlenbeck process with shift   880--901
                Huijie Qiao and   
                   Jinqiao Duan   Nonlinear filtering of stochastic
                                  dynamical systems with Lévy noises  . . . 902--918

Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 47, Number 4, December, 2015

               Nicolas Privault   Laplace transform identities for the
                                  volume of stopping sets based on Poisson
                                  point processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . 919--933
                  Aihua Xia and   
                   J. E. Yukich   Normal approximation for statistics of
                                  Gibbsian input in geometric probability  934--972
          Emilie Coupechoux and   
                   Marc Lelarge   Contagions in random networks with
                                  overlapping communities  . . . . . . . . 973--988
                     P. Vis and   
                  R. Bekker and   
              R. D. van der Mei   Heavy-traffic limits for polling models
                                  with exhaustive service and non-FCFS
                                  service order policies . . . . . . . . . 989--1014
               A. B. Dieker and   
                         T. Suk   Randomized longest-queue-first
                                  scheduling for large-scale buffered
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1015--1038
          Stephen B. Connor and   
             Wilfrid S. Kendall   Perfect simulation of M/G/c queues . . . 1039--1063
               Xianping Guo and   
           Xiangxiang Huang and   
                  Yonghui Huang   Finite-horizon optimality for
                                  continuous-time Markov decision
                                  processes with unbounded transition
                                  rates  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1064--1087
                    H. Blok and   
                 F. M. Spieksma   Countable state Markov decision
                                  processes with unbounded jump rates and
                                  discounted cost: optimality equation and
                                  approximations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1088--1107
   Claudia Klüppelberg and   
                  Muneya Matsui   Generalized fractional Lévy processes
                                  with fractional Brownian motion limit    1108--1131
        Grigori N. Milstein and   
              John Schoenmakers   Uniform approximation of the
                                  Cox--Ingersoll--Ross process . . . . . . 1132--1156
               Jafar Ahmadi and   
       Antonio Di Crescenzo and   
               Maria Longobardi   On dynamic mutual information for
                                  bivariate lifetimes  . . . . . . . . . . 1157--1174
          Raúl Gouet and   
     F. Javier López and   
                   Gerardo Sanz   Records from stationary observations
                                  subject to a random trend  . . . . . . . 1175--1189
              A. D. Barbour and   
                   K. Hamza and   
                 Haya Kaspi and   
                 F. C. Klebaner   Escape from the boundary in Markov
                                  population processes . . . . . . . . . . 1190--1211
           Erik J. Baurdoux and   
                   Nan Chen and   
             Budhi A. Surya and   
             Kazutoshi Yamazaki   Optimal double stopping of a Brownian
                                  bridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1212--1234
                      Anonymous   Advances in Applied Probability Volume
                                  47 (2015): Index General Applied
                                  Probability  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1235--1237
                      Anonymous   Advances in Applied Probability Volume
                                  47 (2015): Index Stochastic Geometry and
                                  Statistical Applications . . . . . . . . 1238


Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 48, Number 1, March, 2016

                  Amites Sarkar   Secrecy coverage in two dimensions . . . 1--12
           R. J. Maillardet and   
                   P. G. Taylor   Queues with advanced reservations: an
                                  infinite-server proxy for the bookings
                                  diary  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--31
                    Eric Foxall   Duality and complete convergence for
                                  multi-type additive growth models  . . . 32--51
                Mitsushi Tamaki   Optimal stopping rule for the
                                  full-information duration problem with
                                  random horizon . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--68
             Hock Peng Chan and   
            Chiang-Wee Heng and   
                     Ajay Jasra   Theory of segmented particle filters . . 69--87
     Francisco J. Samaniego and   
                  Jorge Navarro   On comparing coherent systems with
                                  heterogeneous components . . . . . . . . 88--111
                    Zi Ding and   
                 Ilya O. Ryzhov   Optimal learning with non-Gaussian
                                  rewards  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--136
           Alberto Gandolfi and   
                Lorenzo Cecconi   SIR epidemics on a scale-free spatial
                                  nested modular network . . . . . . . . . 137--162
               Panpan Zhang and   
                  Hosam Mahmoud   The degree profile and weight in
                                  Apollonian networks and $k$-trees  . . . 163--175
                Hans Daduna and   
                 Ryszard Szekli   Correlation formulas for Markovian
                                  network processes in a random
                                  environment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176--198
   Werner R. W. Scheinhardt and   
                 Dirk P. Kroese   A comparison of random walks in
                                  dependent random environments  . . . . . 199--214
                 Ross G. Pinsky   The speed of a random walk excited by
                                  its recent history . . . . . . . . . . . 215--234
                   G. Huang and   
               H. M. Jansen and   
                 M. Mandjes and   
                  P. Spreij and   
                    K. De Turck   Markov-modulated Ornstein--Uhlenbeck
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--254
           Bernd Heidergott and   
           Haralambie Leahu and   
        Andreas Löpker and   
                    Georg Pflug   Perturbation analysis of inhomogeneous
                                  finite Markov chains . . . . . . . . . . 255--273
Hél\`ene Guérin and   
    Jean-François Renaud   Joint distribution of a spectrally
                                  negative Lévy process and its occupation
                                  time, with step option pricing in view   274--297
            Giorgio Ferrari and   
                 Paavo Salminen   Irreversible investment under Lévy
                                  uncertainty: an equation for the optimal
                                  boundary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298--314

Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 48, Number 2, June, 2016

            Ruslan Krenzler and   
                Hans Daduna and   
                    Sonja Otten   Jackson networks in nonautonomous random
                                  environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--331
            Bo H. Lindqvist and   
     Francisco J. Samaniego and   
                 Arne B. Huseby   On the equivalence of systems of
                                  different sizes, with applications to
                                  system comparisons . . . . . . . . . . . 332--348
       Michael A. Kouritzin and   
                 Samira Sadeghi   Marcinkiewicz law of large numbers for
                                  outer products of heavy-tailed,
                                  long-range dependent data  . . . . . . . 349--368
      Jérôme Casse   Probabilistic cellular automata with
                                  general alphabets possessing a Markov
                                  chain as an invariant distribution . . . 369--391
                 Iker Perez and   
                David Hodge and   
                     Huiling Le   Markov decision process algorithms for
                                  wealth allocation problems with
                                  defaultable bonds  . . . . . . . . . . . 392--405
                 Jinxia Zhu and   
                  Hailiang Yang   Optimal financing and dividend
                                  distribution in a general diffusion
                                  model with regime switching  . . . . . . 406--422
              Kristian Buchardt   Continuous affine processes:
                                  transformations, Markov chains and life
                                  insurance  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--442
                Ji Hwan Cha and   
           Massimiliano Giorgio   On a class of multivariate counting
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443--462
           Alexandre Boumezoued   Population viewpoint on Hawkes processes 463--480
             Enzo Orsingher and   
        Costantino Ricciuti and   
                   Bruno Toaldo   Population models at stochastic times    481--498
              Ningyuan Chen and   
        Mariana Olvera-Cravioto   Coupling on weighted branching trees . . 499--524
   François Baccelli and   
Héctor A. Chang-Lara and   
                    Sergey Foss   Shape theorems for Poisson hail on a
                                  bivariate ground . . . . . . . . . . . . 525--543
          Nicolas Chenavier and   
                   Ross Hemsley   Extremes for the inradius in the Poisson
                                  line tessellation  . . . . . . . . . . . 544--573
             James Burridge and   
                  Richard Cowan   Planar tessellations that have the
                                  half-Gilbert structure . . . . . . . . . 574--584
          Hüseyin Acan and   
                Pawel Hitczenko   On a memory game and preferential
                                  attachment graphs  . . . . . . . . . . . 585--609
            Ilie Grigorescu and   
                   Yi-Ching Yao   Maximizing the variance of the time to
                                  ruin in a multiplayer game with
                                  selection  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 610--630

Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 48, Number 3, September, 2016

              Gary Froyland and   
                Robyn M. Stuart   Cheeger inequalities for absorbing
                                  Markov chains  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 631--647
              Mauro Mariani and   
               Lorenzo Zambotti   Large deviations for the empirical
                                  measure of heavy-tailed Markov renewal
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 648--671
                         Hui He   Marcinkiewicz law of large numbers for
                                  outer products of heavy-tailed,
                                  long-range dependent data  . . . . . . . 672--690
               Luisa Beghin and   
                  Claudio Macci   Multivariate fractional Poisson
                                  processes and compound sums  . . . . . . 691--711
                Marie Kratz and   
                   Werner Nagel   On the capacity functional of excursion
                                  sets of Gaussian random fields on $ R^2
                                  $  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 712--725
                Mitsushi Tamaki   Urn sampling distributions giving
                                  alternate correspondences between two
                                  optimal stopping problems  . . . . . . . 726--743
           Clifford Hurvich and   
                      Josh Reed   Series expansions for the all-time
                                  maximum of $ \alpha $-stable random
                                  walks  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 744--767
           Claude Lef\`evre and   
           Massimiliano Giorgio   SIR epidemics with stages of infection   768--791
                J. Blanchet and   
                   P. Glynn and   
                       S. Zheng   Analysis of a stochastic approximation
                                  algorithm for computing quasi-stationary
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 792--811
               Guodong Pang and   
                    Yuhang Zhou   G/G/$ \infty $ queues with renewal
                                  alternating interruptions  . . . . . . . 812--831
                      R. Martyr   Dynamic programming for discrete-time
                                  finite-horizon optimal switching
                                  problems with negative switching costs   832--847
             J. Díaz and   
                 D. Mitsche and   
                G. Perarnau and   
 X. Pérez-Giménez   On the relation between graph distance
                                  and Euclidean distance in random
                                  geometric graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . 848--864
István Kolossváry and   
Júlia Komjáthy and   
       Lajos Vágó   Degrees and distances in random and
                                  evolving Apollonian networks . . . . . . 865--902
                 Harri Nyrhinen   On real growth and run-off companies in
                                  insurance ruin theory  . . . . . . . . . 903--925
               Yan Dolinsky and   
                     Yuri Kifer   Risk minimization for game options in
                                  markets imposing minimal transaction
                                  costs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 926--946

Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 48, Number 4, December, 2016

                  Bruno Galerne   Random fields of bounded variation and
                                  computation of their variation intensity 947--971
                   Etienne Adam   Criterion for unlimited growth of
                                  critical multidimensional stochastic
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 972--988
            Gugan C. Thoppe and   
             D. Yogeshwaran and   
                Robert J. Adler   On the evolution of topology in dynamic
                                  clique complexes . . . . . . . . . . . . 989--1014
    Rudger Rüschendorf and   
          Alexander Schnurr and   
                    Victor Wolf   Comparison of time-inhomogeneous Markov
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1015--1044
                 Steven Kou and   
                   Haowen Zhong   First-passage times of two-dimensional
                                  Brownian motion  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1045--1060
           Christian Hirsch and   
            Benedikt Jahnel and   
                Paul Keeler and   
         Robert I. A. Patterson   Large deviation principles for
                                  connectable receivers in wireless
                                  networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1061--1094
        Grigori N. Milstein and   
              John Schoenmakers   Uniform approximation of the
                                  Cox--Ingersoll--Ross process via exact
                                  simulation at random times . . . . . . . 1095--1116
       Alexander Goldenschluger   Nonparametric estimation of the service
                                  time distribution in the M/G/$ \infty $
                                  queue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1117--1138
                 Onno Boxma and   
                 Rim Essifi and   
      Augustus J. E. M. Janssen   A queueing/inventory and an insurance
                                  risk model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1139--1160
                  Shangzhen Luo   A stochastic differential game for
                                  quadratic--linear diffusion processes    1161--1182
            Vincent Bansaye and   
Sylvie Méléard and   
                Richard Mathieu   Speed of coming down from infinity for
                                  birth-and-death processes  . . . . . . . 1183--1210
                   Irene Hueter   Branching processes in generalized
                                  autoregressive conditional environments  1211--1234
                Daniel Va\vsata   On long-range dependence of random
                                  measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1235--1255
               Michael Schrempp   The limit distribution of the largest
                                  interpoint distance for distributions
                                  supported by a $d$-dimensional ellipsoid
                                  and generalizations  . . . . . . . . . . 1256--1270


Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 49, Number 1, March, 2017

         Christoph Hofer-Temmel   Shearer's point process, the hard-sphere
                                  model, and a continuum Lovász local lemma 1--23
          Alexandros Beskos and   
                 Dan Crisan and   
                 Ajay Jasra and   
             Kengo Kamatani and   
                       Yan Zhou   A stable particle filter for a class of
                                  high-dimensional state-space models  . . 24--48
                  Anshui Li and   
             Tobias Müller   On the treewidth of random geometric
                                  graphs and percolated grids  . . . . . . 49--60
                  A. L. Stolyar   Large-scale heterogeneous service
                                  systems with general packing constraints 61--83
              Pierre Hodara and   
            Eva Löcherbach   Hawkes processes with variable length
                                  memory and an infinite number of
                                  components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--107
                    Harry Crane   Generalized Markov branching trees . . . 108--133
        I. Papastathopoulos and   
                K. Strokorb and   
                 J. A. Tawn and   
                      A. Butler   Extreme events of Markov chains  . . . . 134--161
            Chang-Song Deng and   
   René L. Schilling and   
                  Yan-Hong Song   Subgeometric rates of convergence for
                                  Markov processes under subordination . . 162--181
              Masakiyo Miyazawa   A unified approach for large queue
                                  asymptotics in a heterogeneous
                                  multiserver queue  . . . . . . . . . . . 182--220
               Florin Avram and   
                  Andreea Minca   On the central management of risk
                                  networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--237
     Sören Christensen and   
                 Paavo Salminen   Impulse control and expected suprema . . 238--257
             P. Alonso-Ruiz and   
                    E. Spodarev   Estimation of entropy for Poisson marked
                                  point processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . 258--278
      Rebekka Brink-Spalink and   
                 Charline Smadi   Genealogies of two linked neutral loci
                                  after a selective sweep in a large
                                  population of stochastically varying
                                  size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--326
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 49, Number 2, June, 2017

                 Arka Ghosh and   
               Steven Noren and   
         Alexander Roitershtein   On the range of the transient frog model
                                  on $ \mathbb {Z} $ . . . . . . . . . . . 327--343
                Elma Nassar and   
                Etienne Pardoux   On the large-time behaviour of the
                                  solution of a stochastic differential
                                  equation driven by a Poisson point
                                  process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344--367
            Erol Peköz and   
         Adrian Röllin and   
                    Nathan Ross   Joint degree distributions of
                                  preferential attachment random graphs    368--387
            Philip A. Ernst and   
                Ilie Grigorescu   Asymptotics for the time of ruin in the
                                  war of attrition . . . . . . . . . . . . 388--410
             Ross A. Maller and   
              Peter C. Schmidli   Small-time almost-sure behaviour of
                                  extremal processes . . . . . . . . . . . 411--429
                 Natalie Attard   Nash equilibrium in nonzero-sum games of
                                  optimal stopping for Brownian motion . . 430--445
                 Dan Pirjol and   
                  Lingjiong Zhu   Asymptotics for the discrete-time
                                  average of the geometric Brownian motion
                                  and Asian options  . . . . . . . . . . . 446--480
                Yunpeng Sun and   
     Rafael Mendoza-Arriaga and   
                 Vadim Linetsky   Marshall-Olkin distributions,
                                  subordinators, efficient simulation, and
                                  applications to credit risk  . . . . . . 481--514
    Hansjörg Albrecher and   
                Pablo Azcue and   
                     Nora Muler   Optimal dividend strategies for two
                                  collaborating insurance companies  . . . 515--548
                 Bertrand Cloez   Limit theorems for some branching
                                  measure-valued processes . . . . . . . . 549--580
                  Shui Feng and   
                 Fuqing Gao and   
                   Youzhou Zhou   Limit theorems associated with the
                                  Pitman--Yor process  . . . . . . . . . . 581--602
           Ramtin Pedarsani and   
               Jean Walrand and   
                     Yuan Zhong   Robust scheduling for flexible
                                  processing networks  . . . . . . . . . . 603--628
          Christine Fricker and   
          Fabrice Guillemin and   
            Philippe Robert and   
             Guilherme Thompson   Allocation schemes of resources with
                                  downgrading  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629--651
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 49, Number 3, September, 2017

Christophette Blanchet-Scalliet and   
         Caroline Hillairet and   
                      Ying Jiao   Successive enlargement of filtrations
                                  and application to insider information   653--685
           Lennart Gulikers and   
               Marc Lelarge and   
       Laurent Massoulié   A spectral method for community
                                  detection in moderately sparse
                                  degree-corrected stochastic block models 686--721
                  Timo Hirscher   Overly determined agents prevent
                                  consensus in a generalized Deffuant
                                  model on $ \mathbb {Z} $ with dispersed
                                  opinions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 722--744
       Herbert Edelsbrunner and   
            Anton Nikitenko and   
              Matthias Reitzner   Expected sizes of Poisson--Delaunay
                                  mosaics and their discrete Morse
                                  functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 745--767
               Nicolas Gast and   
                   Bruno Gaujal   Computing absorbing times via fluid
                                  approximations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 768--790
             Joris Bierkens and   
                  Andrew Duncan   Limit theorems for the zig-zag process   791--825
               Prasenjit Mondal   On zero-sum two-person undiscounted
                                  semi-Markov games with a multichain
                                  structure  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 826--849
  Miklós Bóna and   
                   Boris Pittel   On a random search tree: asymptotic
                                  enumeration of vertices by distance from
                                  leaves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 850--876
                 Erich Baur and   
                   Jean Bertoin   Weak limits for the largest
                                  subpopulations in Yule processes with
                                  high mutation probabilities  . . . . . . 877--902
              Raphaël Cerf   The quasispecies regime for the simple
                                  genetic algorithm with roulette wheel
                                  selection  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 903--926
                 Han L. Gan and   
         Adrian Röllin and   
                    Nathan Ross   Dirichlet approximation of equilibrium
                                  distributions in Cannings models with
                                  mutation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 927--959
                 A. Griffin and   
              P. A. Jenkins and   
              G. O. Roberts and   
               S. E. F. Spencer   Simulation from quasi-stationary
                                  distributions on reducible state spaces  960--980
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 49, Number 4, December, 2017

                Paul Dupuis and   
                   Dane Johnson   Moderate deviations-based importance
                                  sampling for stochastic recursive
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 981--1010
                Zimeng Wang and   
             David J. Hodge and   
                     Huiling Le   Conjugate duality in stochastic controls
                                  with delay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1011--1036
        Krzysztof D\kebicki and   
          Enkelejd Hashorva and   
                       Peng Liu   Uniform tail approximation of
                                  homogeneous functionals of Gaussian
                                  fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1037--1066
Nicolás García Trillos and   
              Dejan Slepcev and   
               James von Brecht   Estimating perimeter using graph cuts    1067--1090
           Christian Hirsch and   
            Benedikt Jahnel and   
                Paul Keeler and   
         Robert I. A. Patterson   Traffic flow densities in large
                                  transport networks . . . . . . . . . . . 1091--1115
     Sören Christensen and   
              Albrecht Irle and   
                 Andreas Ludwig   Optimal portfolio selection under
                                  vanishing fixed transaction costs  . . . 1116--1143
                   Peng Jin and   
               Jonas Kremer and   
           Barbara Rüdiger   Exponential ergodicity of an affine
                                  two-factor model based on the $ \alpha
                                  $-root process . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1144--1169
                 Dan Crisan and   
   Joaquín Míguez   Uniform convergence over time of a
                                  nested particle filtering scheme for
                                  recursive parameter estimation in
                                  state-space Markov models  . . . . . . . 1170--1200
              Onur Gün and   
                  Atilla Yilmaz   Fluid limit for the Poisson
                                  encounter-mating model . . . . . . . . . 1201--1229
            Ramesh C. Gupta and   
               David M. Bradley   Asymptotic failure rates for a general
                                  class of frailty models  . . . . . . . . 1230--1259
           Günter Last and   
              Sebastian Ziesche   On the Ornstein--Zernike equation for
                                  stationary cluster processes and the
                                  random connection model  . . . . . . . . 1260--1287
                Evita Nestoridi   A non-local random walk on the hypercube 1288--1299
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 50, Number 1, March, 2018

                R. D. Foley and   
                 D. R. McDonald   Yaglom limits can depend on the starting
                                  state  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--34
          Nicolas Chenavier and   
              Olivier Devillers   Stretch factor in a planar
                                  Poisson-Delaunay triangulation with a
                                  large intensity  . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--56
                     Hui Xu and   
             Fengyang Cheng and   
                Yuebao Wang and   
                   Dongya Cheng   A necessary and sufficient condition for
                                  the subexponentiality of the product
                                  convolution  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--73
          Viktor Bezborodov and   
             Luca Di Persio and   
               Tyll Krueger and   
               Mykola Lebid and   
               Tomasz Oza\'nski   Asymptotic shape and the speed of
                                  propagation of continuous-time
                                  continuous-space birth processes . . . . 74--101
                   Thomas Flynn   Forward sensitivity analysis for
                                  contracting stochastic systems . . . . . 102--130
               Hiroaki Hata and   
                Shuenn-Jyi Sheu   An optimal consumption and investment
                                  problem with partial information . . . . 131--153
       Thi Ngoc Minh Nguyen and   
           Sylvain Le Corff and   
                  Eric Moulines   On the two-filter approximations of
                                  marginal smoothing distributions in
                                  general state-space models . . . . . . . 154--177
         Nicolas Champagnat and   
              Denis Villemonais   Uniform convergence of conditional
                                  distributions for absorbed
                                  one-dimensional diffusions . . . . . . . 178--203
     Rolando Cavazos-Cadena and   
Daniel Hernández-Hernández   Vanishing discount approximations in
                                  controlled Markov chains with
                                  risk-sensitive average criterion . . . . 204--230
               Pierre Houdebert   Percolation results for the continuum
                                  random cluster model . . . . . . . . . . 231--244
             Matthew I. Roberts   The probability of unusually large
                                  components in the near-critical
                                  Erd\Hos--Rényi graph  . . . . . . . . . . 245--271
             David Aristoff and   
                  Lingjiong Zhu   On the phase transition curve in a
                                  directed exponential random graph model  272--301
          Thomas M. M. Meyfroyt   Degree-dependent threshold-based random
                                  sequential adsorption on random trees    302--326
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 50, Number 2, June, 2018

                 David Stenlund   On the Mabinogion urn model  . . . . . . 327--346
         Tiziano De Angelis and   
                Giorgio Ferrari   Stochastic nonzero-sum games: a new
                                  connection between singular control and
                                  optimal stopping . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--372
        Dmitri Finkelshtein and   
                  Pasha Tkachov   Kesten's bound for subexponential
                                  densities on the real line and its
                                  multi-dimensional analogues  . . . . . . 373--395
                    Huijie Qiao   Uniqueness for measure-valued equations
                                  of nonlinear filtering for stochastic
                                  dynamical systems with Lévy noise . . . . 396--413
          Philip Kennerberg and   
               Stanislav Volkov   Jante's law process  . . . . . . . . . . 414--439
              Daniel Paulin and   
                 Ajay Jasra and   
                 Dan Crisan and   
              Alexandros Beskos   On concentration properties of partially
                                  observed chaotic systems . . . . . . . . 440--479
      Rémi Lemonnier and   
               Kevin Scaman and   
                Nicolas Vayatis   Spectral bounds in random graphs applied
                                  to spreading phenomena and percolation   480--503
                Gautam Iyer and   
             Nicholas Leger and   
                 Robert L. Pego   Coagulation and universal scaling limits
                                  for critical Galton--Watson processes    504--542
           Lo\"\ic Chaumont and   
            Thi Ngoc Anh Nguyen   On mutations in the branching model for
                                  multitype populations  . . . . . . . . . 543--564
                     Hui He and   
               Jingning Liu and   
                      Mei Zhang   On Seneta--Heyde scaling for a stable
                                  branching random walk  . . . . . . . . . 565--599
             Elena Perfilev and   
                 Vitali Wachtel   Local asymptotics for the area under the
                                  random walk excursion  . . . . . . . . . 600--620
            Christian Bayer and   
                 Hilmar Mai and   
              John Schoenmakers   Forward-reverse expectation-maximization
                                  algorithm for Markov chains: convergence
                                  and numerical analysis . . . . . . . . . 621--644
               Yuanyuan Liu and   
                       Wendi Li   Error bounds for augmented truncation
                                  approximations of Markov chains via the
                                  perturbation method  . . . . . . . . . . 645--669
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 50, Number 3, September, 2018

            Giorgio Ferrari and   
                   Shuzhen Yang   On an optimal extraction problem with
                                  regime switching . . . . . . . . . . . . 671--705
                 Julie Fournier   Identification and isotropy
                                  characterization of deformed random
                                  fields through excursion sets  . . . . . 706--725
              Wissem Jedidi and   
             Stavros Vakeroudis   Windings of planar processes,
                                  exponential functionals and Asian
                                  options  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 726--742
                N. Lanchier and   
                        S. Reed   The role of cooperation in spatially
                                  explicit economical systems  . . . . . . 743--758
            Matthew Coulson and   
            Robert E. Gaunt and   
                 Gesine Reinert   Compound Poisson approximation of
                                  subgraph counts in stochastic block
                                  models with multiple edges . . . . . . . 759--782
              Yonghui Huang and   
              Zhaotong Lian and   
                   Xianping Guo   Risk-sensitive semi-Markov decision
                                  processes with general utilities and
                                  multiple criteria  . . . . . . . . . . . 783--804
                 Bohan Chen and   
             Chang-Han Rhee and   
                     Bert Zwart   Importance sampling of heavy-tailed
                                  iterated random functions  . . . . . . . 805--832
            Romain Aza\"\is and   
             Bernard Delyon and   
        François Portier   Integral estimation based on Markovian
                                  design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 833--857
            Alexey Medvedev and   
              Gábor Pete   Speeding up non-Markovian first-passage
                                  percolation with a few extra edges . . . 858--886
        Krzysztof D\kebicki and   
                       Peng Liu   Extremes of nonstationary Gaussian fluid
                                  queues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 887--917
             R. I. Oliveira and   
                 R. Ribeiro and   
                     R. Sanchis   Disparity of clustering coefficients in
                                  the Holme--Kim network model . . . . . . 918--943
              Tanguy Cabana and   
            Jonathan D. Touboul   Large deviations for randomly connected
                                  neural networks: I. Spatially extended
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 944--982
              Tanguy Cabana and   
            Jonathan D. Touboul   Large deviations for randomly connected
                                  neural networks: II. State-dependent
                                  interactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 983--1004
                 C.-S. Deng and   
            R. L. Schilling and   
                     Y.-H. Song   Subgeometric rates of convergence for
                                  Markov processes under subordination ---
                                  Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1005
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 50, Number 4, December, 2018

                  Xiaoou Li and   
               Jingchen Liu and   
                        Shun Xu   A multilevel approach towards unbiased
                                  sampling of random elliptic partial
                                  differential equations . . . . . . . . . 1007--1031
               K. L. Helmes and   
          R. H. Stockbridge and   
                         C. Zhu   A weak convergence approach to inventory
                                  control using a long-term average
                                  criterion  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1032--1074
             Daniel Ahlberg and   
                 Johan Tykesson   Gilbert's disc model with geostatistical
                                  marking  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1075--1094
            Markus Kiderlen and   
                      Jan Rataj   Dilation volumes of sets of finite
                                  perimeter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1095--1118
            Bartosz Kolodziejek   On perpetuities with light tails . . . . 1119--1154
              Marco Oesting and   
               Kirstin Strokorb   Efficient simulation of Brown--Resnick
                                  processes based on variance reduction of
                                  Gaussian processes . . . . . . . . . . . 1155--1175
        Antar Bandyopadhyay and   
                  Gursharn Kaur   Linear de-preferential urn models  . . . 1176--1192
               Sabrina Kombrink   Renewal theorems for processes with
                                  dependent interarrival times . . . . . . 1193--1216
     Servet Martínez and   
                   Werner Nagel   Regenerative processes for Poisson zero
                                  polytopes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1217--1226
                  N. Turchi and   
                       F. Wespi   Limit theorems for random polytopes with
                                  vertices on convex surfaces  . . . . . . 1227--1245
                   Yonit Barron   A threshold policy in a Markov-modulated
                                  production system with server vacation:
                                  the case of continuous and batch
                                  supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1246--1274
          M. N. M. van Lieshout   Nearest-neighbour Markov point processes
                                  on graphs with Euclidean edges . . . . . 1275--1293
               Jean Bertoin and   
              Aser Cortines and   
                Bastien Mallein   Branching-stable point measures and
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1294--1314
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 50, Number A, December, 2018

                   Peter Jagers   Applied probability as theoretical
                                  science: 50 years in the applied
                                  probability community  . . . . . . . . . 1--2
                    Olle Nerman   Peter Jagers: a collegial perspective    3--9
                  Eugene Seneta   Peter Jagers: some reminiscences on his
                                  retirement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--12
            Guillaume Achaz and   
             Amaury Lambert and   
             Emmanuel Schertzer   The sequential loss of allelic diversity 13--29
                Gerold Alsmeyer   Ladder epochs and ladder chain of a
                                  Markov random walk with discrete driving
                                  chain  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--46
      Sòren Asmussen and   
                    Sergey Foss   Regular variation in a fixed-point
                                  problem for single- and multi-class
                                  branching processes and queues . . . . . 47--61
             Krishna B. Athreya   On powers of likelihood functions of
                                  random walks on $ \mathbb {Z} $  . . . . 63--66
                   J. Baker and   
               P. Chigansky and   
                   K. Hamza and   
                 F. C. Klebaner   Persistence of small noise and random
                                  initial conditions . . . . . . . . . . . 67--81
               D. A. Dawson and   
                L. G. Gorostiza   Random systems in ultrametric spaces . . 83--97
            Philip A. Ernst and   
               Marek Kimmel and   
              Monika Kurpas and   
                      Quan Zhou   Heavy-tailed distributions in branching
                                  process models of secondary cancerous
                                  tumors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--114
                  Allan Gut and   
         Anders Martin-Löf   An asymmetric St. Petersburg game with
                                  trimming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--129
                S. Hallmann and   
             U. Rösler and   
                        M. Wnuk   All solutions of the stochastic fixed
                                  point equation of the Quicksort process  131--140
                  Svante Janson   Asymptotics of fluctuations in
                                  Crump-Mode--Jagers processes: the
                                  lattice case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--171
                Olav Kallenberg   On the genealogy of branching
                                  populations and their diffusion limits   173--176
         Götz Kersting and   
              Anton Wakolbinger   The time to absorption in $ \Lambda
                                  $-coalescents  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--190
                 Timo Koski and   
                 Brita Jung and   
    Göran Högnäs   Exit times for ARMA processes  . . . . . 191--195
                Thomas G. Kurtz   Genealogical constructions and
                                  asymptotics for continuous-time Markov
                                  and continuous-state branching processes 197--209
             Kosto V. Mitov and   
           Nikolay M. Yanev and   
                Ollivier Hyrien   Multitype branching processes with
                                  inhomogeneous Poisson immigration  . . . 211--228
              Serik Sagitov and   
                   Jonas Jagers   Rank-dependent Galton--Watson processes
                                  and their pathwise duals . . . . . . . . 229--239
                  Eugene Seneta   The weak law of large numbers for
                                  nonnegative summands . . . . . . . . . . 241--252


Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 51, Number 1, March, 2019

      Christina Goldschmidt and   
             Eleonora Kreaci\'c   The spread of fire on a random
                                  multigraph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--40
          Amarjit Budhiraja and   
               Eric Friedlander   Diffusion approximations for load
                                  balancing mechanisms in cloud storage
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--86
                Yi-Shen Lin and   
                   Yi-Ching Yao   One-sided solutions for optimal stopping
                                  problems with logconcave reward
                                  functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--115
                 Daniel Hug and   
                  Wolfgang Weil   Determination of Boolean models by
                                  densities of mixed volumes . . . . . . . 116--135
               Stephan Eckstein   Extended Laplace principle for empirical
                                  measures of a Markov chain . . . . . . . 136--167
                 Qi-Ming He and   
Gábor Horváth and   
Illés Horváth and   
            Miklós Telek   Moment bounds of PH distributions with
                                  infinite or finite support based on the
                                  steepest increase property . . . . . . . 168--183
                   Naoki Kubota   Deviation bounds for the first passage
                                  time in the frog model . . . . . . . . . 184--208
                    Ye Chen and   
                 Ilya O. Ryzhov   Complete expected improvement converges
                                  to an optimal budget allocation  . . . . 209--235
                    Xiucai Ding   Singular vector distribution of sample
                                  covariance matrices  . . . . . . . . . . 236--267
                 Andrew Daw and   
                   Jamol Pender   New perspectives on the Erlang-A queue   268--299
       Melda Ormeci Matoglu and   
         John H. Vande Vate and   
                      Haiyue Yu   The economic average cost Brownian
                                  control problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . 300--337
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 51, Number 2, June, 2019

               Weiyong Ding and   
                   Rui Fang and   
                      Peng Zhao   Reliability analysis of $k$-out-of-$n$
                                  systems based on a grouping of
                                  components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--357
         Tobias Müller and   
                  Merlijn Staps   The diameter of KPKVB random graphs  . . 358--377
              Oliver Cooley and   
      Tobias Kapetanopoulos and   
             Tamás Makai   The sharp threshold for jigsaw
                                  percolation in random graphs . . . . . . 378--407
               Florin Avram and   
                  Matija Vidmar   First passage problems for upwards
                                  skip-free random walks via the scale
                                  functions paradigm . . . . . . . . . . . 408--424
              S. Hamad\`ene and   
                  R. Martyr and   
                    J. Moriarty   A probabilistic verification theorem for
                                  the finite horizon two-player zero-sum
                                  optimal switching game in continuous
                                  time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425--442
              Pierre-O. Goffard   Fraud risk assessment within blockchain
                                  transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443--467
                Ji Hwan Cha and   
                 Sophie Mercier   Transformed Lévy processes as
                                  state-dependent wear models  . . . . . . 468--486
            Nabil Kazi-Tani and   
              Didier Rulli\`ere   On a construction of multivariate
                                  distributions given some
                                  multidimensional marginals . . . . . . . 487--513
          Ayan Bhattacharya and   
            Krishanu Maulik and   
         Zbigniew Palmowski and   
                  Parthanil Roy   Extremes of multitype branching random
                                  walks: heaviest tail wins  . . . . . . . 514--540
               Bojan Basrak and   
       Olivier Wintenberger and   
                    Petra Zugec   On the total claim amount for marked
                                  Poisson cluster models . . . . . . . . . 541--569
              Luciano Campi and   
                 Claude Martini   On the support of extremal martingale
                                  measures with given marginals: the
                                  countable case . . . . . . . . . . . . . 570--605
                Tom Britton and   
               Ka Yin Leung and   
                 Pieter Trapman   Who is the infector? General multi-type
                                  epidemics and real-time susceptibility
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 606--631
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 51, Number 3, September, 2019

             Mauricio Junca and   
    Harold A. Moreno-Franco and   
José Luis Pérez and   
             Kazutoshi Yamazaki   Optimality of refraction strategies for
                                  a constrained dividend problem . . . . . 633--666
        Riccardo Passeggeri and   
            Almut E. D. Veraart   Limit theorems for multivariate Brownian
                                  semistationary processes and feasible
                                  results  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667--716
           Adriana Uquillas and   
                Adilson Simonis   First displacement time of a tagged
                                  particle in a stochastic cluster in a
                                  simple exclusion process with random
                                  slow bonds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 717--744
 Gabriel Zayas-Cabán and   
             Stefanus Jasin and   
                    Guihua Wang   An asymptotically optimal heuristic for
                                  general nonstationary finite-horizon
                                  restless multi-armed, multi-action
                                  bandits  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 745--772
                 F. Aurzada and   
                     S. Schwinn   Scaling limits for a random boxes model  773--801
           Nicholas G. Tawn and   
              Gareth O. Roberts   Accelerating parallel tempering:
                                  Quantile tempering algorithm (QuanTA)    802--834
                 Yuqing Pan and   
         Konstantin A. Borovkov   The exact asymptotics of the large
                                  deviation probabilities in the
                                  multivariate boundary crossing problem   835--864
               Wenyuan Wang and   
                   Zhimin Zhang   Optimal loss-carry-forward taxation for
                                  Lévy risk processes stopped at general
                                  draw-down time . . . . . . . . . . . . . 865--897
      Alessandro Garavaglia and   
                Clara Stegehuis   Subgraphs in preferential attachment
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 898--926
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 51, Number 4, December, 2019

                     Yan Qu and   
            Angelos Dassios and   
                  Hongbiao Zhao   Efficient simulation of Lévy-driven point
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 927--966
Jorge I. González Cázares and   
     Aleksandar Mijatovi\'c and   
    Gerónimo Uribe Bravo   Exact simulation of the extrema of
                                  stable processes . . . . . . . . . . . . 967--993
     Aleksandar Mijatovi\'c and   
                   Jure Vogrinc   Asymptotic variance for random walk
                                  Metropolis chains in high dimensions:
                                  logarithmic growth via the Poisson
                                  equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 994--1026
     Thirupathaiah Vasantam and   
         Arpan Mukhopadhyay and   
               Ravi R. Mazumdar   Insensitivity of the mean field limit of
                                  loss systems under SQ($d$) routeing  . . 1027--1066
              Svante Janson and   
             Subhabrata Sen and   
                   Joel Spencer   Preferential attachment when stable  . . 1067--1108
          James D. Cordeiro and   
       Jeffrey P. Kharoufeh and   
                  Mark E. Oxley   On the ergodicity of a class of
                                  level-dependent quasi-birth-and-death
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1109--1128
                      S. Jansen   Cluster Expansions for Gibbs Point
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1129--1178
              Jose Blanchet and   
                  Yanan Pei and   
                    Karl Sigman   Exact sampling for some
                                  multi-dimensional queueing models with
                                  renewal input  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1179--1208
                M. Ferreira and   
                D. Pinheiro and   
                    S. Pinheiro   Two-player zero-sum stochastic
                                  differential games with random horizon   1209--1235
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 52, Number 1, March, 2020

              Takashi Owada and   
               Andrew M. Thomas   Limit theorems for process-level Betti
                                  numbers for sparse and critical regimes  1--31
             Roland De Haan and   
           Ahmad Al Hanbali and   
       Richard J. Boucherie and   
           Jan-Kees Van Ommeren   Transient analysis for exponential
                                  time-limited polling models under the
                                  preemptive repeat random policy  . . . . 32--60
                  Daniel Lacker   A non-exponential extension of Sanov's
                                  theorem via convex duality . . . . . . . 61--101
                 Lirong Cui and   
                Alan Hawkes and   
                          He Yi   An elementary derivation of moments of
                                  Hawkes processes . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--137
            Vincent Lemaire and   
   MichÉle Thieullen and   
                 Nicolas Thomas   Thinning and multilevel Monte Carlo
                                  methods for piecewise deterministic
                                  (Markov) processes with an application
                                  to a stochastic Morris--Lecar model  . . 138--172
             Joris Bierkens and   
       Frank van der Meulen and   
                 Moritz Schauer   Simulation of elliptic and hypo-elliptic
                                  conditional diffusions . . . . . . . . . 173--212
             Thomas Mikosch and   
                    Jorge Yslas   Gumbel and Fréchet convergence of the
                                  maxima of independent random walks . . . 213--236
      Vytaute Pilipauskaite and   
          Viktor Skorniakov and   
              Donatas Surgailis   Joint temporal and contemporaneous
                                  aggregation of random-coefficient AR(1)
                                  processes with infinite variance . . . . 237--265
                    G. Berzunza   The existence of a giant cluster for
                                  percolation on large Crump--Mode--Jagers
                                  trees  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266--290
                      He Yi and   
 Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan and   
                     Lirong Cui   On the multi-state signatures of ordered
                                  system lifetimes . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--318
               Hakjin Chung and   
               Hyun-Soo Ahn and   
                 Rhonda Righter   The potentially negative effects of
                                  cooperation in service systems . . . . . 319--347
            Nil Kamal Hazra and   
                   Neeraj Misra   On relative ageing of coherent systems
                                  with dependent identically distributed
                                  components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348--376
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 52, Number 2, June, 2020

                 Axel Finke and   
              Arnaud Doucet and   
               Adam M. Johansen   Limit theorems for sequential MCMC
                                  methods  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--403
              Irmina Czarna and   
           Adam Kaszubowski and   
                     Shu Li and   
             Zbigniew Palmowski   Fluctuation identities for Omega-killed
                                  spectrally negative Markov additive
                                  processes and dividend problem . . . . . 404--432
        Victor Falgas-Ravry and   
               Joel Larsson and   
            Klas Markström   Speed and concentration of the covering
                                  time for structured coupon collectors    433--462
                Seva Shneer and   
              Alexander Stolyar   Stability and moment bounds under
                                  utility-maximising service allocations:
                                  Finite and infinite networks . . . . . . 463--490
               Guus Balkema and   
                  Natalia Nolde   Samples with a limit shape, multivariate
                                  extremes, and risk . . . . . . . . . . . 491--522
           Phillippe Briand and   
              Abir Ghannoum and   
           Céline Labart   Mean reflected stochastic differential
                                  equations with jumps . . . . . . . . . . 523--562
                  Idir Arab and   
        Milto Hadjikyriakou and   
         Paulo Eduardo Oliveira   Failure rate properties of parallel
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563--587
           Zakhar Kabluchko and   
             Dmitry Zaporozhets   Absorption probabilities for Gaussian
                                  polytopes and regular spherical
                                  simplices  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 588--616
          Davit Martirosyan and   
                Philippe Robert   The equilibrium states of large networks
                                  of Erlang queues . . . . . . . . . . . . 617--654
                Isaac Gibbs and   
                     Linan Chen   Asymptotic properties of random Voronoi
                                  cells with arbitrary underlying density  655--680
            Angelos Dassios and   
                      Luting Li   Explicit asymptotics on first passage
                                  times of diffusion processes . . . . . . 681--704
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 52, Number 3, September, 2020

      Giovanni Luca Torrisi and   
                Emilio Leonardi   Almost sure central limit theorems in
                                  stochastic geometry  . . . . . . . . . . 705--734
             Christel Geiss and   
       Céline Labart and   
                    Antti Luoto   Mean square rate of convergence for
                                  random walk approximation of
                                  forward-backward SDEs  . . . . . . . . . 735--771
             Leonardo A. Videla   Out-of-equilibrium random walks  . . . . 772--797
                 Jiaming Xu and   
                     Yuan Zhong   Improved queue-size scaling for
                                  input-queued switches via graph
                                  factorization  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 798--824
             Martin Friesen and   
                   Peng Jin and   
               Jonas Kremer and   
           Barbara Rüdiger   Ergodicity of affine processes on the
                                  cone of symmetric positive semidefinite
                                  matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 825--854
                   Johan Segers   One- versus multi-component regular
                                  variation and extremes of Markov trees   855--878
                Manon Costa and   
                Carl Graham and   
          Laurence Marsalle and   
                  Viet Chi Tran   Renewal in Hawkes processes with
                                  self-excitation and inhibition . . . . . 879--915
                 Fuqing Gao and   
                    Yujing Wang   Functional central limit theorems and
                                  moderate deviations for Poisson cluster
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 916--941
                 Ajay Jasra and   
                    Fangyuan Yu   Central limit theorems for coupled
                                  particle filters . . . . . . . . . . . . 942--1001
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 52, Number 4, December, 2020

              Jose Blanchet and   
                      Fan Zhang   Exact simulation for multivariate Itô
                                  diffusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1003--1034
      Remco van der Hofstad and   
          Pim van der Hoorn and   
               Nelly Litvak and   
                Clara Stegehuis   Limit theorems for assortativity and
                                  clustering in null models for scale-free
                                  networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1035--1084
           Michael A. Klatt and   
                 Steffen Winter   Geometric functionals of fractal
                                  percolation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1085--1126
                Jie Yen Fan and   
                 Kais Hamza and   
               Peter Jagers and   
               Fima C. Klebaner   Limit theorems for multi-type general
                                  branching processes with population
                                  dependence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1127--1163
               Wenyuan Wang and   
                   Xiaowen Zhou   Draw-down Parisian ruin for spectrally
                                  negative Lévy processes . . . . . . . . . 1164--1196
                 M. Hashemi and   
                       M. Asadi   On component failure in coherent systems
                                  with applications to maintenance
                                  strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1197--1223
                  Svante Janson   Mean and variance of balanced Pólya urns  1224--1248
           Masatoshi Kimura and   
                 Tetsuya Takine   Characterization of the conditional
                                  stationary distribution in Markov chains
                                  via systems of linear inequalities . . . 1249--1283
                 Mads Stehr and   
                Markus Kiderlen   Asymptotic variance of Newton--Cotes
                                  quadratures based on randomized sampling
                                  points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1284--1307
            Alexey Muravlev and   
             Mikhail Zhitlukhin   A Bayesian sequential test for the drift
                                  of a fractional Brownian motion  . . . . 1308--1324
                  V. Bezborodov   Corrigendum to: Asymptotic shape and the
                                  speed of propagation of continuous-time
                                  continuous-space birth processes . . . . 1325--1327
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 53, Number 1, March, 2021

           Ari Arapostathis and   
               Guodong Pang and   
                       Yi Zheng   Exponential ergodicity and steady-state
                                  approximations for a class of Markov
                                  processes under fast regime switching    1--29
           Beatrice Acciaio and   
        Alexander M. G. Cox and   
                Martin Huesmann   Model-independent pricing with insider
                                  information: a Skorokhod embedding
                                  approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--56
           Andrew M. Thomas and   
                  Takashi Owada   Functional limit theorems for the Euler
                                  characteristic process in the critical
                                  regime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--80
               Christopher King   The fluid limit of a random graph model
                                  for a shared ledger  . . . . . . . . . . 81--106
             Tomasz Rychlik and   
              Fabio Spizzichino   Load-Sharing Reliability Models with
                                  Different Component Sensitivities to
                                  Other Components' Working States . . . . 107--132
           Krzysztof Burdzy and   
                     Soumik Pal   Can Coherent Predictions be
                                  Contradictory? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--161
        Krzysztof Bartoszek and   
              Torkel Erhardsson   Normal approximation for mixtures of
                                  normal distributions and the evolution
                                  of phenotypic traits . . . . . . . . . . 162--188
            Pavel V. Gapeev and   
              Peter M. Kort and   
             Maria N. Lavrutich   Discounted Optimal Stopping Problems for
                                  Maxima of Geometric Brownian Motions
                                  With Switching Payoffs . . . . . . . . . 189--219
               Zorana Grbac and   
                David Krief and   
                   Peter Tankov   Long-Time Trajectorial Large Deviations
                                  and Importance Sampling for Affine
                                  Stochastic Volatility Models . . . . . . 220--250
Adrián González Casanova and   
          Juan Carlos Pardo and   
  José Luis Pérez   Branching processes with interactions:
                                  subcritical cooperative regime . . . . . 251--278
Mónica B. Carvajal Pinto and   
                Kees van Schaik   Optimally Stopping at a Given Distance
                                  from the Ultimate Supremum of a
                                  Spectrally Negative Lévy Process  . . . . 279--299
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 53, Number 2, June, 2021

                    Xin Guo and   
             Aiko Kurushima and   
          Alexey Piunovskiy and   
                       Yi Zhang   On gradual-impulse control of
                                  continuous-time Markov decision
                                  processes with exponential utility . . . 301--334
            Christian Meier and   
                 Lingfei Li and   
                  Gongqiu Zhang   Markov chain approximation of
                                  one-dimensional sticky diffusions  . . . 335--369
              Yuguang Ipsen and   
             Ross A. Maller and   
           Soudabeh Shemehsavar   A generalised Dickman distribution and
                                  the number of species in a negative
                                  binomial process model . . . . . . . . . 370--399
      Luis H. R. Alvarez E. and   
         Sören Christensen   A class of solvable multidimensional
                                  stopping problems in the presence of
                                  Knightian uncertainty  . . . . . . . . . 400--424
          Mathieu Rosenbaum and   
                    Mehdi Tomas   From microscopic price dynamics to
                                  multidimensional rough volatility models 425--462
               Chia-Li Wang and   
                Ronald W. Wolff   Kelly and Jackson networks with
                                  interchangeable, cooperative servers . . 463--483
           Claude Lef\`evre and   
                 Matthieu Simon   Ruin problems for epidemic insurance . . 484--509
            Quentin Le Gall and   
  Bart\lomiej B\laszczyszyn and   
           Élie Cali and   
             Taoufik En-Najjary   Continuum line-of-sight percolation on
                                  Poisson--Voronoi tessellations . . . . . 510--536
             Romain Abraham and   
    Jean-François Delmas   Exact simulation of the genealogical
                                  tree for a stationary branching
                                  population and application to the
                                  asymptotics of its total length  . . . . 537--574
       Konstantinos Karatapanis   One-dimensional system arising in
                                  stochastic gradient descent  . . . . . . 575--607
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 53, Number 3, September, 2021

              Reza Rastegar and   
         Alexander Roitershtein   Avalanches in a short-memory excitable
                                  network  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609--648
              Nigel G. Bean and   
    Ma\lgorzata M. O'Reilly and   
             Zbigniew Palmowski   Yaglom limit for stochastic fluid models 649--686
                 Iker Perez and   
                Giuliano Casale   Variational inference for Markovian
                                  queueing networks  . . . . . . . . . . . 687--715
          Julien Chevallier and   
             Anna Melnykova and   
                Irene Tubikanec   Diffusion approximation of multi-class
                                  Hawkes processes: Theoretical and
                                  numerical analysis . . . . . . . . . . . 716--756
               Mayank Manjrekar   On spatial matchings: The
                                  first-in-first-match case  . . . . . . . 757--800
                  Adam Bowditch   Non-Gaussian fluctuations of randomly
                                  trapped random walks . . . . . . . . . . 801--838
                 Sarat Moka and   
             Sandeep Juneja and   
                 Michel Mandjes   Rejection- and importance-sampling-based
                                  perfect simulation for Gibbs hard-sphere
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 839--885
                   Chen Jia and   
              Da-Quan Jiang and   
                     Youming Li   Detailed balance, local detailed
                                  balance, and global potential for
                                  stochastic chemical reaction networks    886--922
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 53, Number 4, December, 2021

 Celia García-Pareja and   
                Henrik Hult and   
                     Timo Koski   Exact simulation of coupled
                                  Wright--Fisher diffusions  . . . . . . . 923--950
              Youssef Rahme and   
                   Pascal Moyal   A stochastic matching model on
                                  hypergraphs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 951--980
             Jeffrey Negrea and   
           Jeffrey S. Rosenthal   Approximations of geometrically ergodic
                                  reversible Markov chains . . . . . . . . 981--1022
Mátyás Barczy and   
               Sandra Palau and   
                      Gyula Pap   Asymptotic behavior of projections of
                                  supercritical multi-type
                                  continuous-state and continuous-time
                                  branching processes with immigration . . 1023--1060
      Remco van der Hofstad and   
Júlia Komjáthy and   
          Viktória Vadon   Random intersection graphs with
                                  communities  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1061--1089
               Peter Gracar and   
       Lukas Lüchtrath and   
             Peter Mörters   Percolation phase transition in
                                  weight-dependent random connection
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1090--1114
              Nicolas Meyer and   
           Olivier Wintenberger   Sparse regular variation . . . . . . . . 1115--1148
              Jean-Jil Duchamps   Fragmentations with self-similar
                                  branching speeds . . . . . . . . . . . . 1149--1189
                      Bo Li and   
                   Guodong Pang   Shot noise processes with randomly
                                  delayed cluster arrivals and dependent
                                  noises in the large-intensity regime . . 1190--1221
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 54, Number 1, March, 2022

           Paul Thévenin   Random stable-type minimal
                                  factorizations of the n -cycle . . . . . 1--63
          Amarjit Budhiraja and   
            Nicolas Fraiman and   
                 Adam Waterbury   Asymptotics of quasi-stationary
                                  distributions of small noise stochastic
                                  dynamical systems in unbounded domains   64--110
                  Ion Grama and   
           Ronan Lauvergnat and   
           Émile Le Page   Limit theorems for critical branching
                                  processes in a finite-state-space
                                  Markovian environment  . . . . . . . . . 111--140
                Sergey Foss and   
           Timofei Prasolov and   
                    Seva Shneer   Limit theorems and structural properties
                                  of the cat-and-mouse Markov chain and
                                  its generalisations  . . . . . . . . . . 141--166
                   Lijun Bo and   
                     Huafu Liao   Probabilistic analysis of
                                  replicator-mutator equations . . . . . . 167--201
               Ilkka Norros and   
               Hannu Reittu and   
   Fülöp Bazsó   On model selection for dense stochastic
                                  block models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202--226
            Benedikt Jahnel and   
András Tóbiás   SINR percolation for Cox point processes
                                  with random powers . . . . . . . . . . . 227--253
            Amitabha Bagchi and   
         Iqra Altaf Gillani and   
                Pooja Vyavahare   A stochastic process on a network with
                                  connections to Laplacian systems of
                                  equations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254--278
             Luca Ganassali and   
               Marc Lelarge and   
       Laurent Massoulié   Spectral alignment of correlated
                                  Gaussian matrices  . . . . . . . . . . . 279--310
                  Linglong Yuan   Kingman's model with random mutation
                                  probabilities: convergence and
                                  condensation I . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--335
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 54, Number 2, June, 2022

  Miklós Bóna and   
                   Boris Pittel   On a random search tree: asymptotic
                                  enumeration of vertices by distance from
                                  leaves --- Corrigendum . . . . . . . . . 337--339
                 Andrew Daw and   
                   Jamol Pender   An ephemerally self-exciting point
                                  process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340--403
     Sören Christensen and   
      Kristoffer Lindensjö   Moment-constrained optimal dividends:
                                  precommitment and consistent planning    404--432
                   Yue Yang and   
                       Xiang Yu   Optimal entry and consumption under
                                  habit formation  . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--459
              Michael Baake and   
                  Jeremy Sumner   On equal-input and monotone Markov
                                  matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460--492
          B. Cooper Boniece and   
                 Gustavo Didier   On operator fractional Lévy motion:
                                  integral representations and
                                  time-reversibility . . . . . . . . . . . 493--535
    Christian Houdré and   
                 George Kerchev   Normal Approximation for Functions of
                                  Hidden Markov Models . . . . . . . . . . 536--569
          Venkat Anantharam and   
       François Baccelli   Nash equilibrium structure of Cox
                                  process Hotelling games  . . . . . . . . 570--598
     Clément Foucart and   
                 Chunhua Ma and   
                  Linglong Yuan   Limit theorems for continuous-state
                                  branching processes with immigration . . 599--624
             Randall Martyr and   
              John Moriarty and   
                Magnus Perninge   Discrete-time risk-aware optimal
                                  switching with non-adapted costs . . . . 625--655
         Erol A. Peköz and   
                Sheldon M. Ross   Fair gambler's ruin stochastically
                                  maximizes playing time . . . . . . . . . 656--659
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 54, Number 3, September, 2022

                 Ajay Jasra and   
             Kody J. H. Law and   
                    Fangyuan Yu   Unbiased filtering of a class of
                                  partially observed diffusions  . . . . . 661--687
              Natalia Nolde and   
          Jennifer L. Wadsworth   Linking representations for multivariate
                                  extremes via a limit set . . . . . . . . 688--717
              Tiandong Wang and   
              Sidney I. Resnick   Measuring reciprocity in a directed
                                  preferential attachment network  . . . . 718--742
               Mark Kelbert and   
        Harold A. Moreno-Franco   On a mixed singular/switching control
                                  problem with multiple regimes  . . . . . 743--782
           Victoria Knopova and   
             Zbigniew Palmowski   Subexponential potential asymptotics
                                  with applications  . . . . . . . . . . . 783--807
         Barbara Martinucci and   
           Alessandra Meoli and   
               Shelemyahu Zacks   Some results on the telegraph process
                                  driven by gamma components . . . . . . . 808--848
             Giacomo Aletti and   
                 Irene Crimaldi   The rescaled Pólya urn: local
                                  reinforcement and chi-squared
                                  goodness-of-fit test . . . . . . . . . . 849--879
      Wasiur R. Khudabukhsh and   
           Casper Woroszylo and   
       Grzegorz A. Rempa\la and   
                   Heinz Koeppl   A functional central limit theorem for
                                  SI processes on configuration model
                                  graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 880--912
        Céline Duval and   
                 Ester Mariucci   Non-asymptotic control of the cumulative
                                  distribution function of Lévy processes   913--944
          Francesca Biagini and   
                  Yinglin Zhang   Extended reduced-form framework for
                                  non-life insurance . . . . . . . . . . . 945--973
                    Ji Hwan Cha   An extended class of univariate and
                                  multivariate generalized Pólya processes  974--997
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 54, Number 4, December, 2022

  S. Val\`ere Bitseki Penda and   
    Jean-François Delmas   Central limit theorem for bifurcating
                                  Markov chains under $ L^2 $-ergodic
                                  conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 999--1031
              Takashi Owada and   
                 D. Yogeshwaran   Sub-tree counts on hyperbolic random
                                  geometric graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . 1032--1069
               Nicolas Privault   Moments of Markovian growth-collapse
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1070--1093
          Vladimir Fomichov and   
          Sandro Franceschi and   
              Jevgenijs Ivanovs   Probability of total domination for
                                  transient reflecting processes in a
                                  quadrant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1094--1138
                 Dan Crisan and   
           Pierre Del Moral and   
                 Ajay Jasra and   
                 Hamza Ruzayqat   Log-normalization constant estimation
                                  using the ensemble Kalman--Bucy filter
                                  with application to high-dimensional
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1139--1163
            Nima Akbarzadeh and   
                 Aditya Mahajan   Conditions for indexability of restless
                                  bandits and an $ \mathcal {O}(K^3) $
                                  algorithm to compute Whittle index . . . 1164--1192
        Manuel D. de la Iglesia   Spectral analysis of bilateral
                                  birth-death processes: some new explicit
                                  examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1193--1221
            Giorgio Ferrari and   
                   Hanwu Li and   
                   Frank Riedel   Optimal consumption with
                                  Hindy--Huang--Kreps preferences under
                                  nonlinear expectations . . . . . . . . . 1222--1251
              Anna Gusakova and   
           Zakhar Kabluchko and   
           Christoph Thäle   The $ \beta $-Delaunay tessellation:
                                  Description of the model and geometry of
                                  typical cells  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1252--1290
               Ronald W. Butler   Exponential and gamma form for tail
                                  expansions of first-passage
                                  distributions in semi-Markov processes   1291--1319
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 55, Number 1, March, 2023

              Hiroyuki Masuyama   A new matrix-infinite-product-form
                                  solution for upper block-Hessenberg
                                  Markov chains and its quasi-algorithmic
                                  constructibility . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--28
           Bernd Heidergott and   
                     Yijie Peng   Gradient estimation for smooth stopping
                                  criteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--55
                Anita Behme and   
             David Oechsler and   
          René Schilling   On $q$-scale functions of spectrally
                                  negative Lévy processes . . . . . . . . . 56--84
          Sarath Yasodharan and   
              Rajesh Sundaresan   Large-time behaviour and the second
                                  eigenvalue problem for finite-state
                                  mean-field interacting particle systems  85--125
                 Andrew Daw and   
                   Jamol Pender   Matrix calculations for moments of
                                  Markov processes . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--150
                       Hanwu Li   Optimal multiple stopping problem under
                                  nonlinear expectation  . . . . . . . . . 151--178
              Sabine Jansen and   
          Leonid Kolesnikov and   
                  Kilian Matzke   The direct-connectedness function in the
                                  random connection model  . . . . . . . . 179--222
           Emilio De Santis and   
              Fabio Spizzichino   Construction of aggregation paradoxes
                                  through load-sharing models  . . . . . . 223--244
              Alexander Stolyar   Large-scale behavior of a particle
                                  system with mean-field interaction:
                                  Traveling wave solutions . . . . . . . . 245--274
             Irene Crimaldi and   
          Pierre-Yves Louis and   
                 Ida G. Minelli   Interacting nonlinear reinforced
                                  stochastic processes: Synchronization or
                                  non-synchronization  . . . . . . . . . . 275--320
                  Chuang Xu and   
      Mads Christian Hansen and   
                   Carsten Wiuf   Full classification of dynamics for
                                  one-dimensional continuous-time Markov
                                  chains with polynomial transition rates  321--355
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 55, Number 2, June, 2023

              Matthias Kirchner   Critical cluster cascades  . . . . . . . 357--381
Miklós Rásonyi and   
                   Kinga Tikosi   Convergence of the Kiefer--Wolfowitz
                                  algorithm in the presence of
                                  discontinuities  . . . . . . . . . . . . 382--406
                     Tejas Iyer   Degree distributions in recursive trees
                                  with fitnesses . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--443
           Branda Goncalves and   
            Thierry Huillet and   
            Eva Löcherbach   On decay-surge population models . . . . 444--472
             Adam Gustafson and   
            Hariharan Narayanan   John's walk  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473--491
             Sanket Agrawal and   
               Dootika Vats and   
    Krzysztof Latuszy\'nski and   
              Gareth O. Roberts   Optimal scaling of MCMC beyond
                                  Metropolis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492--509
                Yan-Xia Ren and   
               Renming Song and   
                       Fan Yang   Branching Brownian motion in a periodic
                                  environment and uniqueness of pulsating
                                  traveling waves  . . . . . . . . . . . . 510--548
                 Onno Boxma and   
             Esther Frostig and   
             Zbigniew Palmowski   A dual risk model with additive and
                                  proportional gains: ruin probability and
                                  dividends  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549--580
                 Jan Czajkowski   Thin-ended clusters in percolation in $
                                  \mathbb {H}^d $  . . . . . . . . . . . . 581--610
           Erik J. Baurdoux and   
         José M. Pedraza   Predicting the last zero before an
                                  exponential time of a spectrally
                                  negative Lévy process . . . . . . . . . . 611--642
         Yevgeniy Kovchegov and   
                 Guochen Xu and   
                  Ilya Zaliapin   Invariant Galton--Watson trees: metric
                                  properties and attraction with respect
                                  to generalized dynamical pruning . . . . 643--671
        William Oçafrain   An ergodic theorem for asymptotically
                                  periodic time-inhomogeneous Markov
                                  processes, with application to
                                  quasi-stationarity with moving
                                  boundaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672--700
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Advances in Applied Probability
Volume 55, Number 3, September, 2023

           Fernando Cordero and   
Grégoire Véchambre   Moran models and Wright--Fisher
                                  diffusions with selection and mutation
                                  in a one-sided random environment  . . . 701--767
                        Mei Yin   Parking functions: interdisciplinary
                                  connections  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 768--792
      Remco van der Hofstad and   
          Pim van der Hoorn and   
                Neeladri Maitra   Local limits of spatial inhomogeneous
                                  random graphs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 793--840
                  Svante Janson   Asymptotic normality for $ \boldsymbol
                                  {m} $ -dependent and constrained $
                                  \boldsymbol {U} $ -statistics, with
                                  applications to pattern matching in
                                  random strings and permutations  . . . . 841--894
                 Frank Ball and   
                     Peter Neal   The size of a Markovian SIR epidemic
                                  given only removal data  . . . . . . . . 895--926
            Giulia Di Nunno and   
             Yuliya Mishura and   
      Anton Yurchenko-Tytarenko   Sandwiched SDEs with unbounded drift
                                  driven by Hölder noises . . . . . . . . . 927--964
           Annemarie Bitter and   
             Robert Stelzer and   
              Bennet Ströh   Continuous-time locally stationary time
                                  series models  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 965--998
          Abraham Gutierrez and   
      Sebastian Müller and   
                  Stjepan Sebek   On asymptotic fairness in voting with
                                  greedy sampling  . . . . . . . . . . . . 999--1032
             Eckhard Platen and   
                   Stefan Tappe   No arbitrage and multiplicative special
                                  semimartingales  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1033--1074
 Gabriel Zayas-Cabán and   
               Jiaxin Liang and   
             Stefanus Jasin and   
                    Guihua Wang   An asymptotically optimal heuristic for
                                  general nonstationary finite-horizon
                                  restless multi-armed, multi-action
                                  bandits: Corrigendum . . . . . . . . . . 1075--1083
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Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 6, Number 2, August, 1969

                  Samuel Litwin   The Distribution of Radioactive Recovery
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Journal of Applied Probability
Volume 15, Number 2, June, 1978

                  Jean-Guy Dion   Sur Une Caractérisation Des Vidanges
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Volume 23, Number 1, March, 1986

               Michael L. Hogan   Comment on ``\booktitleCorrected
                                  Diffusion Approximations in Certain
                                  Random Walk Problems'' . . . . . . . . . 89--96


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                R. L. Dorit and   
                  H. Akashi and   
                     W. Gilberg   Absence of polymorphism at the ZFY locus
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