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Volume 1, Number 1, January, 1987
Volume 1, Number 2, April, 1987
Volume 1, Number 3, July, 1987
Volume 1, Number 4, October, 1987
Volume 2, Number 1, January, 1988
Volume 2, Number 2, April, 1988
Volume 2, Number 3, July, 1988
Volume 2, Number 4, October, 1988
Volume 3, Number 1, January, 1989
Volume 3, Number 2, April, 1989
Volume 3, Number 3, July, 1989
Volume 3, Number 4, October, 1989
Volume 4, Number 1, January, 1990
Volume 4, Number 2, April, 1990
Volume 4, Number 3, July, 1990
Volume 4, Number 4, October, 1990
Volume 5, Number 1, January, 1991
Volume 5, Number 2, April, 1991
Volume 5, Number 3, July, 1991
Volume 5, Number 4, October, 1991
Volume 6, Number 1, January, 1992
Volume 6, Number 2, April, 1992
Volume 6, Number 3, July, 1992
Volume 6, Number 4, October, 1992
Volume 7, Number 1, January, 1993
Volume 7, Number 2, April, 1993
Volume 7, Number 3, July, 1993
Volume 7, Number 4, October, 1993
Volume 8, Number 1, January, 1994
Volume 8, Number 2, April, 1994
Volume 8, Number 3, July, 1994
Volume 8, Number 4, October, 1994
Volume 9, Number 1, January, 1995
Volume 9, Number 2, April, 1995
Volume 9, Number 3, July, 1995
Volume 9, Number 4, October, 1995
Volume 10, Number 1, January, 1996
Volume 10, Number 2, April, 1996
Volume 10, Number 3, July, 1996
Volume 10, Number 4, October, 1996
Volume 11, Number 1, January, 1997
Volume 11, Number 2, April, 1997
Volume 11, Number 3, July, 1997
Volume 11, Number 4, October, 1997
Volume 12, Number 1, January, 1998
Volume 12, Number 2, April, 1998
Volume 12, Number 3, July, 1998
Volume 12, Number 4, October, 1998
Volume 13, Number 1, January, 1999
Volume 13, Number 2, April, 1999
Volume 13, Number 3, July, 1999
Volume 13, Number 4, October, 1999
Volume 14, Number 1, January, 2000
Volume 14, Number 2, April, 2000
Volume 14, Number 3, July, 2000
Volume 14, Number 4, October, 2000
Volume 15, Number 1, January, 2001
Volume 15, Number 2, April, 2001
Volume 15, Number 3, July, 2001
Volume 15, Number 4, October, 2001
Volume 16, Number 1, January, 2002
Volume 16, Number 2, April, 2002
Volume 16, Number 3, July, 2002
Volume 16, Number 4, October, 2002
Volume 17, Number 1, January, 2003
Volume 17, Number 2, April, 2003
Volume 17, Number 3, July, 2003
Volume 17, Number 4, October, 2003
Volume 18, Number 1, January, 2004
Volume 18, Number 2, April, 2004
Volume 18, Number 3, July, 2004
Volume 18, Number 4, October, 2004
Volume 19, Number 1, January, 2005
Volume 19, Number 2, April, 2005
Volume 19, Number 3, July, 2005
Volume 19, Number 4, October, 2005
Volume 20, Number 1, January, 2006
Volume 20, Number 2, April, 2006
Volume 20, Number 3, July, 2006
Volume 20, Number 4, October, 2006
Volume 21, Number 1, January, 2007
Volume 21, Number 2, April, 2007
Volume 21, Number 3, July, 2007
Volume 21, Number 4, October, 2007
Volume 22, Number 1, January, 2008
Volume 22, Number 2, March, 2008
Volume 22, Number 3, July, 2008
Volume 22, Number 4, October, 2008
Volume 23, Number 1, January, 2009
Volume 23, Number 2, April, 2009
Volume 23, Number 3, July, 2009
Volume 23, Number 4, October, 2009
Volume 24, Number 1, January, 2010
Volume 24, Number 2, April, 2010
Volume 24, Number 3, July, 2010
Volume 24, Number 4, October, 2010
Volume 25, Number 1, January, 2011
Volume 25, Number 2, April, 2011
Volume 25, Number 3, July, 2011
Volume 25, Number 4, October, 2011
Volume 26, Number 1, January, 2012
Volume 26, Number 2, April, 2012
Volume 26, Number 3, July, 2012
Volume 26, Number 4, October, 2012
Volume 27, Number 1, January, 2013
Volume 27, Number 2, April, 2013
Volume 27, Number 3, July, 2013
Volume 27, Number 4, October, 2013
Volume 28, Number 1, January, 2014
Volume 28, Number 2, April, 2014
Volume 28, Number 3, July, 2014
Volume 28, Number 4, October, 2014
Volume 29, Number 1, January, 2015
Volume 29, Number 2, April, 2015
Volume 29, Number 3, July, 2015
Volume 29, Number 4, October, 2015
Volume 30, Number 1, January, 2016
Volume 30, Number 2, April, 2016
Volume 30, Number 3, July, 2016
Volume 30, Number 4, October, 2016
Volume 31, Number 1, January, 2017
Volume 31, Number 2, April, 2017
Volume 31, Number 3, July, 2017
Volume 31, Number 4, October, 2017
Volume 32, Number 1, January, 2018
Volume 32, Number 2, April, 2018
Volume 32, Number 3, July, 2018
Volume 32, Number 4, October, 2018
Volume 33, Number 1, January, 2019
Volume 33, Number 2, April, 2019
Volume 33, Number 3, July, 2019
Volume 33, Number 4, October, 2019
Volume 34, Number 1, January, 2020
Volume 34, Number 2, April, 2020
Volume 34, Number 3, July, 2020
Volume 34, Number 4, October, 2020
Volume 35, Number 1, January, 2021
Volume 35, Number 2, April, 2021
Volume 35, Number 3, July, 2021
Volume 35, Number 4, October, 2021
Volume 36, Number 1, January, 2022
Volume 36, Number 2, April, 2022
Volume 36, Number 3, July, 2022
Volume 36, Number 4, October, 2022
Volume 37, Number 1, January, 2023
Volume 37, April, 2023
Volume 37, Number 3, July, 2023
Volume 37, Number 4, October, 2023


Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 1, Number 1, January, 1987

                Sheldon M. Ross   Editorial  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
               Kenneth J. Arrow   The Demand for Information and the
                                  Distribution of Income . . . . . . . . . 3--13
             Persi Diaconis and   
            Mehrdad Shahshahani   The Subgroup Algorithm for Generating
                                  Uniform Random Variables . . . . . . . . 15--32
                   David Aldous   On the Markov Chain Simulation Method
                                  for Uniform Combinatorial Distributions
                                  and Simulated Annealing  . . . . . . . . 33--46
                 Michael Steele   Gibbs' Measures on Combinatorial Objects
                                  and the Central Limit Theorem for an
                                  Exponential Family of Random Trees . . . 47--59
                Sheldon M. Ross   Are Mass Extinctions Really Periodic?    61--64
                Sheldon M. Ross   Peaks from Random Data . . . . . . . . . 65--68
                 Mark Brown and   
                    Yi-Shi Shao   Identifying Coefficients in the Spectral
                                  Representation for First Passage Time
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--74
             A. M. Eikeboom and   
                    H. C. Tijms   Waiting-Time Percentiles in the
                                  Multi-server M$^x$ /G/c Queue with Batch
                                  Arrivals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--96
           E. Çinlar and   
                S. Özekici   Reliability of Complex Devices in Random
                                  Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--115
            Jan Van Der Wal and   
             Paul J. Schweitzer   Iterative Bounds on the Equilibrium
                                  Distribution of a Finite Markov Chain    117--131
                      Anonymous   PES volume 1 issue 1 Cover and Front
                                  matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . f1--f2
                      Anonymous   PES volume 1 issue 1 Cover and Back
                                  matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . b1--b2

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 1, Number 2, April, 1987

               Howard M. Taylor   A Model for the Failure Process of
                                  Semicrystalline Polymer Materials under
                                  Static Fatigue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--162
                Sheldon M. Ross   Approximations in Renewal Theory . . . . 163--173
           Philip J. Boland and   
             Frank Proschan and   
                     Y. L. Tong   Fault Diversity in Software Reliability  175--187
                 Rhonda Righter   The Stochastic Sequential Assignment
                                  Problem With Random Deadlines  . . . . . 189--202
         Laurence A. Baxter and   
                   Eui Yong Lee   An Inventory With Constant Demand and
                                  Poisson Restocking . . . . . . . . . . . 203--210
          M. C. van der Heijden   Interval Availability Distribution for A
                                  $1$-out-of-$2$ Reliability System with
                                  Repair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--223
   Jose Galvão Leite and   
                Jorge Oishi and   
Carlos Alberto de Bragança Pereira   Exact Maximum Likelihood Estimate of a
                                  Finite Population Size:
                                  Capture/Recapture Sequential Sample Data 225--236
               Cyrus Derman and   
        Gerald J. Lieberman and   
                Sheldon M. Ross   On Sampling Inspection in the Presence
                                  of Inspection Errors . . . . . . . . . . 237--249
                      Anonymous   PES volume 1 issue 2 Cover and Front
                                  matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . f1--f2
                      Anonymous   PES volume 1 issue 2 Cover and Back
                                  matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . b1--b2

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 1, Number 3, July, 1987

                Sheldon M. Ross   Approximating Transition Probabilities
                                  and Mean Occupation Times in
                                  Continuous-Time Markov Chains  . . . . . 251--264
            M. C. Bhattacharjee   The Time to Extinction of Branching
                                  Processes and Log-Convexity: I . . . . . 265--278
               Moshe Shaked and   
         J. George Shanthikumar   Characterization of Some First Passage
                                  Times Using Log-Concavity and
                                  Log-Convexity as Aging Notions . . . . . 279--291
                   D. Z. Du and   
                    F. K. Hwang   Reliabilities of Consecutive-2 Graphs    293--298
            Ramesh C. Gupta and   
        S. N. U. A. Kirmani and   
               Robert L. Launer   On Life Distributions Having Monotone
                                  Residual Variance  . . . . . . . . . . . 299--307
            Abdullah Alkaff and   
               Eginhard J. Muth   The Throughput Rate of Multistation
                                  Production Lines with Stochastic Servers 309--326
       J. C. W. Van Ommeren and   
                   A. G. de Kok   Asymptotic Results for Buffer Systems
                                  under Heavy Load . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--348
             Jaxk H. Reeves and   
               Ashim Mallik and   
           William P. McCormick   The Pricing Problem  . . . . . . . . . . 349--366
                      Anonymous   PES volume 1 issue 3 Cover and Front
                                  matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . f1--f2
                      Anonymous   PES volume 1 issue 3 Cover and Back
                                  matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . b1--b4

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 1, Number 4, October, 1987

             Julian Keilson and   
                 Ravi Ramaswamy   The Relaxation Time for Truncated
                                  Birth--Death Processes . . . . . . . . . 367--381
                 S. T. Chou and   
                      J. P. Hsu   Stochastic analysis of the Transient
                                  Behavior of an MSMPR Crystallizer:
                                  Effects of the Seed Size Distribution
                                  and Size- Dependent Growth Rate  . . . . 383--404
         Laurence A. Baxter and   
                   Eui Yong Lee   A Diffusion Model for a System Subject
                                  to Continuous Wear . . . . . . . . . . . 405--416
               S. C. Kochar and   
                    R. P. Gupta   Some Results on Weighted Distributions
                                  for Positive-Valued Random Variables . . 417--423
           Jane N. Hagstrom and   
                   King-Tim Mak   System Reliability Analysis in the
                                  Presence of Dependent Component Failures 425--440
              Miklos Santha and   
                   Yanjun Znang   Consecutive-2 systems on trees . . . . . 441--456
               Soo Kar Leow and   
            David F. Mcallister   Heuristic Assignments of Redundant
                                  Software Versions and Processors in
                                  Fault-tolerant Computer Systems for
                                  Maximum Reliability  . . . . . . . . . . 457--479
                R. D. Doverspik   A Terminal Bay Relief Strategy . . . . . 481--496
               Pinyuen Chen and   
                 Lifang Hsu and   
                   Milton Sobel   Entropy-based Optimal Group-testing
                                  Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497--509
                      Anonymous   PES volume 1 issue 4 Cover and Front
                                  matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . f1--f2
                      Anonymous   PES volume 1 issue 4 Cover and Back
                                  matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . b1--b7


Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 2, Number 1, January, 1988

                   David Aldous   Hashing with Linear Probing under
                                  Nonuniform Probabilities . . . . . . . . 1--14
               Cyrus Derman and   
                Showlong P. Koh   On the Comparison of two Software
                                  Reliability Estimators . . . . . . . . . 15--21
                  Y. C. Yao and   
                    F. K. Hwang   Individual Testing of Independent Items
                                  in Optimal Group Testing . . . . . . . . 23--29
                 J. M. McNamara   A Stochastic Differential Game with Safe
                                  and Risky Choices  . . . . . . . . . . . 31--39
             Michael Pinedo and   
                  Elias Rammouz   A Note on Stochastic Scheduling on a
                                  Single Machine Subject to Breakdown and
                                  Repair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--49
       Michael N. Katehakis and   
             Costis Melolidakis   Dynamic Repair Allocation for a
                                  $k$-out-of-$n$ System Maintained by
                                  Distinguishable Repairmen  . . . . . . . 51--62
                G. J. Chang and   
                    F. K. Hwang   Optimal Consecutive-$k$-out-of-$n$
                                  Systems under a Fixed Budget . . . . . . 63--73
              E. G. Coffman and   
                  L. Flatto and   
                 I. Mitrani and   
                L. A. Shepp and   
                      C. Knessl   Stochastic Models of Queue Storage . . . 75--93
                  Chi-Hyuck Jun   Heuristic Procedures for Simultaneous
                                  Estimation of Several Normal Means . . . 95--113
          Steven A. Lippman and   
                  John W. Mamer   When Many Wrongs Make a Right: An
                                  Asymptotic Analysis of Risk Aversion and
                                  Additive Risks . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--127
           Nico M. van Dijk and   
           Pantelis Tsoucas and   
                   Jean Walrand   Simple Bounds and Monotonicity: the Call
                                  Congestion of Finite Multiserver Delay
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--138
             Arvind K. Shah and   
                Robert D. Allen   Simpler Approximations for the Areas
                                  under the $t$ Distribution . . . . . . . 139--141
                      Anonymous   PES volume 2 issue 1 Cover and Front
                                  matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . f1--f2
                      Anonymous   PES volume 2 issue 1 Cover and Back
                                  matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . b1--b3

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 2, Number 2, April, 1988

                 David Avis and   
              Burgess Davis and   
              J. Michael Steele   Probabilistic Analysis of a Greedy
                                  Heuristic for Euclidean Matching . . . . 143--156
              D. P. Connors and   
                    P. R. Kumar   Balance of Recurrence Order in
                                  Time-Inhomogeneous Markov Chains with
                                  Application to Simulated Annealing . . . 157--184
                Peter Kubat and   
               Ushio Sumita and   
                 Yasushi Masuda   Dynamic Performance Evaluation of
                                  Communication/Computer Systems with
                                  Highly Reliable Components . . . . . . . 185--213
                Michael Shalmon   Analysis of the GI/GI/1 Queue and its
                                  Variations via the LCFS Preemptive
                                  Resume Discipline and Its Random Walk
                                  Interpretation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--230
                    P. H. Brill   Single-Server with Delay-Dependent
                                  Arrival Streams  . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--247
                 P. Whittle and   
                    N. Komarova   Policy Improvement and the
                                  Newton--Raphson Algorithm  . . . . . . . 249--255
          M. C. Van Der Heijden   On the Three-Moment Approximation of a
                                  General Distribution by a Coxian
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--261
                   Uri Yechiali   Sequencing an $N$-Stage Process with
                                  Feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--265
                Sheldon M. Ross   A Note on Approximating Mean Occupation
                                  Times of Continuous-Time Markov Chains   267--268
                      Anonymous   PES volume 2 issue 2 Cover and Front
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                      Anonymous   PES volume 2 issue 2 Cover and Back
                                  matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . b1--b2

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 2, Number 3, July, 1988

                   Gideon Weiss   Branching Bandit Processes . . . . . . . 269--278
                     P. Whittle   Approximation in Large-Scale
                                  Circuit-Switched Networks  . . . . . . . 279--291
               David Aldous and   
             Barry Flannery and   
      José Luis Palacios   Two Applications of Urn Processes The
                                  Fringe Analysis of Search Trees and The
                                  Simulation of Quasi-Stationary
                                  Distributions of Markov Chains . . . . . 293--307
                Sheldon M. Ross   Simulating Average Delay-Variance
                                  Reduction by Conditioning  . . . . . . . 309--312
                      Y. C. Yao   An Improvement Over the Information
                                  Lower Bound in Binomial Group Testing    313--320
         Laurence A. Baxter and   
                   Eui Yong Lee   Optimal Control of a Model for a System
                                  Subject to Continuous Wear . . . . . . . 321--328
           Abdulhamid A. Alzaid   Length-Biased Orderings with
                                  Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--341
           Philip J. Boland and   
            Emad El Neweihi and   
                 Frank Proschan   Active Redundancy Allocation in Coherent
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--353
             N. M. Van Dijk and   
                 J. P. Veltkamp   Product Forms for Stochastic
                                  Interference Systems . . . . . . . . . . 355--376
             Peter W. Glynn and   
             Donald L. Iglehart   Conditions Under Which a Markov Chain
                                  Converges to its Steady State in Finite
                                  Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--382
                Sheldon M. Ross   A Simple Proof of Instability of a
                                  Random-Access Communication Channel  . . 383--385
                      Anonymous   PES volume 2 issue 3 Cover and Front
                                  matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . f1--f2
                      Anonymous   PES volume 2 issue 3 Cover and Back
                                  matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . b1--b2

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 2, Number 4, October, 1988

        Michael F. Barnsley and   
             Marc A. Berger and   
           H. Meté Soner   Mixing Markov Chains and Their Images    387--414
               Jürg Kohlas   Conditional Belief Structures  . . . . . 415--433
              Peter J. Haas and   
              Gerald S. Shedler   Modeling Power of Stochastic Petri Nets
                                  for Simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435--459
               R. E. Barlow and   
                        S. Iyer   Computational Complexity of Coherent
                                  Systems and the Reliability Polynomial   461--469
               Nico M. van Dijk   A Note on Error Bounds for Approximating
                                  Transition Probabilities in
                                  Continuous-time Markov Chains  . . . . . 471--474
            Ramesh C. Gupta and   
            S. N. U. A. Kirmani   Closure and Monotonicity Properties of
                                  Nonhomogeneous Poisson Processes and
                                  Record Values  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475--484
                 M. S. Ali Khan   An Infinite Dam with a Time-Dependent
                                  Release Rule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485--500
            Ashim K. Mallik and   
                 Jaxk H. Reeves   Sequential Methods to Detect Material
                                  Losses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501--515
                      Anonymous   PES volume 2 issue 4 Cover and Front
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                      Anonymous   PES volume 2 issue 4 Cover and Back
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 3, Number 1, January, 1989

                H. C. Tijms and   
           J. C. W. Van Ommeren   Asymptotic Analysis for Buffer Behavior
                                  in Communication Systems . . . . . . . . 1--12
        J. Robin B. Cockett and   
                Jalel Zrida and   
            J. Douglas Birdwell   Stochastic Decision Theory . . . . . . . 13--54
                     G. Yin and   
                      Y. M. Zhu   On W.P.1 Convergence of a Parallel
                                  Stochastic Approximation Algorithm . . . 55--75
               Joseph Abate and   
                     Ward Whitt   Spectral Theory for Skip-Free Markov
                                  Chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--88
              E. G. Coffman and   
                   M. Hofri and   
                       G. Weiss   Scheduling Stochastic Jobs with a
                                  Two-Point Distribution on Two Parallel
                                  Machines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--116
               Moshe Shaked and   
         J. George Shanthikumar   Some Replacement Policies in a Random
                                  Environment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--134
                F. K. Hwang and   
            S. G. Papastavridis   A Monotonicity Result for Inspecting
                                  Independent Items  . . . . . . . . . . . 135--140
                David A. Butler   A Random-Bit Generator for use in
                                  Simulating the Reliability of a Coherent
                                  System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--147
                     Shengwu He   Optimization Applications of
                                  Compensators of Poisson Random Measures  149--155
                  John E. Angus   Some Asymptotic Analysis of Resistant
                                  Rules For Outlier Labeling . . . . . . . 157--164
                      Anonymous   PES volume 3 issue 1 Cover and Front
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                      Anonymous   PES volume 3 issue 1 Cover and Back
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 3, Number 2, April, 1989

                      Y. C. Yao   On Optimal Consecutive $k$-out-of-$ n
                                  \colon {F}$ Systems Subject to a Fixed
                                  Product of Failure Probabilities . . . . 165--173
               Bok Sik Yoon and   
         J. George Shanthikumar   Bounds and Approximations for the
                                  Transient Behavior of Continuous-Time
                                  Markov Chains  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--198
                  N. A. Fay and   
               K. D. Glazebrook   A General Model for the Scheduling of
                                  Alternative Stochastic Jobs that may
                                  Fail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--221
                 Xiuli Chao and   
             Michael Pinedo and   
                    Karl Sigman   On the Interchangeability and Stochastic
                                  Ordering of Exponential Queues in Tandem
                                  with Blocking  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--236
         Laurence A. Baxter and   
                  Seung Min Lee   Further Properties of Reliability
                                  Importance for Continuum Structure
                                  Functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--246
                Linn I. Sennott   Average Cost Semi-Markov Decision
                                  Processes and the Control of Queueing
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--272
                   A. G. de Kok   A Moment-Iteration Method for
                                  Approximating the Waiting-Time
                                  Characteristics of the GI/G/1 Queue  . . 273--287
          Mel-Ling Ting Lee and   
                  Alan J. Gross   Properties of Conditionally Independent
                                  Generalized Gamma Distributions  . . . . 289--297
                      Anonymous   PES volume 3 issue 2 Cover and Front
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                      Anonymous   PES volume 3 issue 2 Cover and Back
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 3, Number 3, July, 1989

             Bennett L. Fox and   
                 Peter W. Glynn   Replication Schemes For Limiting
                                  Expectations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--318
                Sheldon M. Ross   Estimating the Mean Number of Renewals
                                  By Simulation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--321
             Rhonda Righter and   
         J. George Shanthikumar   Scheduling Multiclass Single Server
                                  Queueing Systems to Stochastically
                                  Maximize the Number of Successful
                                  Departures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--333
                 Tapan K. Nayak   Minimum Variance Unbiased Estimation of
                                  Software Reliability . . . . . . . . . . 335--340
Frank A. Van Der Duyn Schouten and   
                   Tjerk Ronner   Calculation of the Availability of a
                                  Two-Unit Parallel System With Cold
                                  Standby: An Illustration of the
                                  Embedding Technique  . . . . . . . . . . 341--353
           Philip J. Boland and   
             Frank Proschan and   
                     Y. L. Tong   Crossing Properties of Mixture
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--366
           Devendra Chhetry and   
           Allan R. Sampson and   
               George Kimeldorf   Concepts of Setwise Dependence . . . . . 367--380
        S. N. U. A. Kirmani and   
                Ramesh C. Gupta   On Repair Age Residual Repair Life in
                                  the Minimal Repair Process . . . . . . . 381--391
                 J. M. McNamara   Policy Improvement and the
                                  Newton--Raphson Algorithm for Renewal
                                  Reward Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--396
                     P. Whittle   A Class of Decision Processes Showing
                                  Policy-Improvement/Newton--Raphson
                                  Equivalence  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397--403
 Panagiotis Konstantopoulos and   
                   Jean Walrand   A Quasi-Reversibility Approach to the
                                  Insensitivity of Generalized Semi-Markov
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--415
          David L. Jagerman and   
               Bhaskar Sengupta   A Functional Equation Arising in a Queue
                                  With a Gating Mechanism  . . . . . . . . 417--433
                    Bajis Dodin   Approximating the Stochastic Network by
                                  its M Shortest Paths . . . . . . . . . . 435--451
                      Anonymous   PES volume 3 issue 3 Cover and Front
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 3, Number 4, October, 1989

     P. J. M. Van Laarhoven and   
           C. G. E. Boender and   
             E. H. L. Aarts and   
           A. H. G. Rinnooy Kan   A Bayesian Approach to Simulated
                                  Annealing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--475
           Kyle T. Siegrist and   
              Ashok T. Amin and   
                Peter J. Slater   The Central Limit Theorem and the Law of
                                  Large Numbers for Pair-Connectivity in
                                  Bernoulli Trees  . . . . . . . . . . . . 477--491
          George S. Fishman and   
             Tien-Yi Danny Shaw   Evaluating Reliability of Stochastic
                                  Flow Networks  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493--509
                      Mar Brown   On Two Problems Involving Partial Sums   511--516
                F. Baccelli and   
              E. G. Coffman and   
                  E. N. Gilbert   Tandem Conveyor Queues . . . . . . . . . 517--536
                 Leopold Flatto   The Longer Queue Model . . . . . . . . . 537--559
                   D. Perry and   
                M. J. M. Posner   Control Policies for Two Classes of
                                  Inventory Systems via a
                                  Duality-Equivalence Relationship . . . . 561--579
            A. M. Abouammah and   
              E. El-Neweihi and   
                    F. Proschan   Schur Structure Functions  . . . . . . . 581--591
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 4, Number 1, January, 1990

               Steven P. Lalley   Travelling Salesman with a Self-Similar
                                  Itinerary  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--18
        Costas Courcoubetis and   
               Richard R. Weber   The Move-to-Front Rule for Multiple
                                  Lists  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--27
          Cheng-Shang Chang and   
                 Xiuli Chao and   
                 Michael Pinedo   Integration of Discrete-Time Correlated
                                  Markov Processes in a TDM System . . . . 29--56
                F. K. Hwang and   
                      Y. C. Yao   On the Failure Rates of
                                  Consecutive-$k$-out-of-$n$ Systems . . . 57--71
                  S. Durham and   
                   J. Lynch and   
                  W. J. Padgett   $ {\rm TP}_2 $-Orderings and the IFR
                                  Property with Applications . . . . . . . 73--88
               Ushlo Sumita and   
                  Maria Rieders   A New Algorithm for Computing the
                                  Ergodic Probability Vector for Large
                                  Markov Chains  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--116
                 Shengwu He and   
                   Jiagang Wang   Thinning of Point Processes-Martingale
                                  Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--129
                 C. N. Laws and   
                    G. M. Louth   Dynamic Scheduling of a Four-Station
                                  Queueing Network . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--156
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 4, Number 2, April, 1990

             Persi Diaconis and   
               James Allen Fill   Examples for the Theory of Strong
                                  Stationary Duality with Countable State
                                  Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--180
                Shledon M. Ross   Processor Reordering Rules . . . . . . . 181--186
                Raphael Rom and   
                     Moshe Sidi   Message Delay Distribution in
                                  Generalized Time Division Multiple
                                  Access (TDMA)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--202
                   Peter B. Key   Optimal Control and Trunk Reservation in
                                  Loss Networks  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--242
                   Nam-Sook Wee   Optimal Maintenance Schedules of
                                  Computer Software  . . . . . . . . . . . 243--255
               F. T. Boesch and   
           A. Satyanarayana and   
                   C. L. Suffel   Some Alternate Characterizations of
                                  Reliability Domination . . . . . . . . . 257--276
             Haruhisa Takahashi   Coupled Processor: A Second-Order
                                  Continuous-State-Space Model . . . . . . 277--298
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 4, Number 3, July, 1990

                Sheldon M. Ross   Variance Reduction in Simulation via
                                  Random Hazards . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--309
                     S. Gal and   
                 E. J. Anderson   Search in a Maze . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--318
              Teunis J. Ott and   
         J. George Shanthikumar   On Maxima and Minima of Partial Sums of
                                  Strongly Interchangeable Random
                                  Variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--332
                    Vernon Rego   A Band and Bound Technique for Simple
                                  Random Algorithms  . . . . . . . . . . . 333--344
          Jerome R. Bretienbach   The Capacity of the White Gaussian Noise
                                  Channel  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--353
               S. D. Durham and   
                      K. F. Yu+   Randomized Play-the-Leader Rules for
                                  Sequential Sampling from Two Populations 355--367
               Piero Barone and   
              Arnolodo Frigessi   Improving Stochastic Relaxation for
                                  Gaussian Random Fields . . . . . . . . . 369--389
           Philip J. Boland and   
             Frank Proschan and   
                     Y. L. Tong   Linear Dependence in Consecutive
                                  $k$-out-of-$ n \colon {F}$ Systems . . . 391--397
             Lakdere Benkherouf   Optimal Stopping in Oil Exploration with
                                  Small and Large Oilfields  . . . . . . . 399--411
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 4, Number 4, October, 1990

               Israel David and   
                   Uri Yechiali   Sequential Assignment Match Processes
                                  with Arrivals of Candidates and Offers   413--430
                      Dilip Roy   A Characterization of Lindley and
                                  Singpurwalla's Bivariate Lomax
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431--435
             C. A. Clarotti and   
                 F. Spizzichino   Bayes Burn-In Decision Procedures  . . . 437--445
       Coastas Courcoubetis and   
                  Richard Weber   Stability of On-Line Bin Packing with
                                  Random Arrivals and Long-Run-Average
                                  Constraints  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447--460
               Martin I. Reiman   Asymptotic Properties of a Recursive
                                  Procedure for Simultaneous Estimation    461--475
               Arie Hordijk and   
                      Ger Koole   On the Optimality of the Generalized
                                  Shortest Queue Policy  . . . . . . . . . 477--487
      José Luis Palacios   On a Result of Aleliunas et al.
                                  Concerning Random Walks on Graphs  . . . 489--492
        Albert G. Greenberg and   
            Robert J. Vanderbei   Quicker Convergence for Iterative
                                  Numerical Solutions to Stochastic
                                  Problems: Probabilistic Interpretations,
                                  Ordering Heuristics, and Parallel
                                  Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493--521
                    B. Chen and   
                   X. D. Hu and   
                    F. K. Hwang   Optimal Binomial Group Testing with a
                                  Test History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523--530
                  Jinn-Tyan Lin   Pocket-Calculator Approximation to the
                                  Normal Tail  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531--533
                  Jonn-Tyan Lin   Alternative to Koehler's Approximation
                                  for the Percentiles of the $t$
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535--537
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 5, Number 1, January, 1991

                Isaac Meilijson   Sharp Bounds on the Largest of some
                                  Linear Combinations of Random Variables
                                  with Given Marginal Distributions  . . . 1--14
                 F. M. Spieksma   Geometric Ergodicity of the ALOHA-system
                                  and a Coupled Processors Model . . . . . 15--42
          Masakiyo Miyazawa and   
         J. George Shanthikumar   Monotonicity of the Loss Probabilities
                                  of Single Server Finite Queues with
                                  Respect to Convex Order of Arrival or
                                  Service Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . 43--52
               Hosam M. Mahmoud   Limiting Distributions for Path Lengths
                                  in Recursive Trees . . . . . . . . . . . 53--59
               James Allen Fill   Time to Stationarity for a
                                  Continuous-Time Markov Chain . . . . . . 61--76
            Kevin D. Glazebrook   On Nonpreemptive Policies for Stochastic
                                  Single-Machine Scheduling with
                                  Breakdowns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--87
                David Assaf and   
                 Benny Levikson   Optimal Advertizing Policy for Selling a
                                  Single Asset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--100
            A. Korzeniowski and   
                  D. L. Hawkins   On Simulating Wiener Integrals and Their
                                  Expectations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--112
               T. K. Boehme and   
                  W. Preuss and   
                V. van der Wall   On a Simple Numerical Method for
                                  Computing Stieltjes Integrals in
                                  Reliability Theory . . . . . . . . . . . 113--128
                      Anonymous   Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--129
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 5, Number 2, April, 1991

                     Mark Brown   Spectral Analysis, without Eigenvectors,
                                  for Markov Chains  . . . . . . . . . . . 131--144
                F. Baccelli and   
                  N. Bambos and   
                     J. Walrand   On Flows in Stochastic Marked Graphs . . 145--157
                   Jie Ding and   
             Betsy S. Greenberg   Bowl Shapes Are Better with Buffers ---
                                  Sometimes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--169
                  A. Brandt and   
                     H. Sulanke   A Queueing Network Model for a
                                  Communication System with Channel
                                  Allocation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--183
              George S. Fishman   Sensitivity Analysis for the System
                                  Reliability Function . . . . . . . . . . 185--213
            Emad El Neweihi and   
             Jayaram Sethuraman   A Study of the Role of Modules in the
                                  Failure of Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 215--227
                     C. C. Chyu   Decomposable Probabilistic Influence
                                  Diagrams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--243
              Chung-Yee Lee and   
                   Chen-Sin Lin   Stochastic Flow-Shop Scheduling with
                                  Lateness-Related Performance Measures    245--254
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 5, Number 3, July, 1991

                F. K. Hwang and   
            Wen-Ching Winnie Li   Reliabilities of Double-Loop Networks    255--272
                 Mark Brown and   
              Marcia H. Flicker   Chi-Square Goodness of Fit: A Failure
                                  Rate Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--284
              Henk C. Tijms and   
  Michel C. T. Van De Coevering   A Simple Numerical Approach for
                                  Infinite-State Markov Chains . . . . . . 285--295
                 J. B. G. Frenk   A General Framework for Stochastic
                                  One-machine Scheduling Problems with
                                  Zero Release Times and No Partial
                                  Ordering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--315
                 J. B. G. Frenk   A Note on One-Machine Scheduling
                                  Problems with Imperfect Information  . . 317--331
                    Susan H. Xu   Stochastically Minimizing Total Delay of
                                  Jobs Subject to Random Deadlines . . . . 333--348
                 Esther Frostig   A Note on Stochastic Scheduling on a
                                  Single Machine Subject to Breakdown ---
                                  The Preemptive Repeat Model  . . . . . . 349--354
        Gerald J. Lieberman and   
                Sheldon M. Ross   On the Variance of the Hazard Estimator
                                  in Simulation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--359
        Charles J. Colbourn and   
           Michael V. Lomonosov   Renewal Networks: Connectivity and
                                  Reachability on a Time Interval  . . . . 361--368
              Viên Nguyen   On the Optimality of Trunk Reservation
                                  in Overflow Processes  . . . . . . . . . 369--390
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 5, Number 4, October, 1991

            Paul Glasserman and   
              Jian-Qiang Hu and   
          Stephen G. Strickland   Strongly Consistent Steady-State
                                  Derivative Estimates . . . . . . . . . . 391--413
             Bennett L. Fox and   
                Paul Glasserman   Estimating Derivatives Via Poisson's
                                  Equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415--428
                     P. J. Hunt   Asymptotic Behaviour of an Integrated
                                  Video-Data Network . . . . . . . . . . . 429--447
                   Jie Ding and   
             Betsy S. Greenberg   Optimal Order for Servers in Series with
                                  No Queue Capacity  . . . . . . . . . . . 449--461
                Linn I. Sennott   Constrained Discounted Markov Decision
                                  Chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--475
              Peter J. Haas and   
              Gerald S. Shedler   Stochastic Petri Nets: Modeling Power
                                  and Limit Theorems . . . . . . . . . . . 477--498
              E. G. Coffman and   
            A. A. Puhalskii and   
                   M. I. Reiman   Storage-Limited Queues in Heavy Traffic  499--522
            S. P. Mukherjee and   
                  A. Chatterjee   On Some Properties of the Multivariate
                                  Aging Classes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523--534
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 6, Number 1, January, 1992

     J. George Shanthikumar and   
                   David D. Yao   Spatiotemporal Convexity of Stochastic
                                  Processes and Applications . . . . . . . 1--16
                Karl Sigman and   
                 Genji Yamazaki   Fluid Models with Burst Arrivals: A
                                  Sample Path Analysis . . . . . . . . . . 17--27
           Mark P. Van Oyen and   
         Demosthenis Teneketzis   Optimal Scheduling of a Finite Capacity
                                  Shuttle under Delayed Information  . . . 29--61
               Arie Hordijk and   
                      Ger Koole   On the Shortest Queue Policy for the
                                  Tandem Parallel Queue  . . . . . . . . . 63--79
                 C. S. Chen and   
               Thomas H. Savits   Optimal Age and Block Replacement for a
                                  General Maintenance Model  . . . . . . . 81--98
       Christos Alexopoulos and   
              George S. Fishman   Capacity Expansion in Stochastic Flow
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--118
              Chi Hyuck Jun and   
                Sheldon M. Ross   System Reliability By Simulation: Random
                                  Hazards Versus Importance Sampling . . . 119--126
                 Masaaki Kijima   A Note on External Uniformization for
                                  Finite Markov Chains in Continuous Time  127--131
                  Jinn-Tyan Lin   Approximating the Student's $t$-Tail
                                  Probability and Its Inverse  . . . . . . 133--137
                     M. Kolonko   Generating Uniformly Distributed Random
                                  Numbers without Floating Point
                                  Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--145
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 6, Number 2, April, 1992

           A. E. Krzesinski and   
                R. Schassberger   Product Form Solutions for Multiserver
                                  Centers with Hierarchical Concurrency
                                  Constraints  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--156
           John S. Sadowsky and   
           Wojciech Szpankowski   Maximum Queue Length and Waiting Time
                                  Revisited: Multserver G/G/c Queue  . . . 157--170
          Chueng-Chiu Huang and   
                   Gideon Weiss   Preemptive Scheduling of Stochastic Jobs
                                  with a Two-Stage Processing Time
                                  Distribution on M + 1 Parallel Machines  171--191
                 Rhonda Righter   Loading and Sequencing on Parallel
                                  Machines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--199
              Masakiyo Miyazawa   Loss Probability of a Burst Arrival
                                  Finite Queue with Synchronized Service   201--216
                 Sid Browne and   
         E. G. Coffman, Jr. and   
              E. N. Gilbert and   
                 Paul E. Wright   Gated, Exhaustive, Parallel Service  . . 217--239
      Lakdére Benkherouf   Oil Exploration: Revisited . . . . . . . 241--243
        S. N. U. A. Kirmani and   
                Rmaesh C. Gupta   Some Moment Inequalities for the Minimal
                                  Repair Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--255
             A. V. Balakrishnan   Two Examples of Physically Realizable
                                  Processes Whose Spectral Density Is Not
                                  ``Physically Realizable''  . . . . . . . 257--259
              Dragan Banjevi\'c   On the Recurrent Solution of
                                  Renewal-Type Integral Equations  . . . . 261--270
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 6, Number 3, July, 1992

               Erol Gelenbe and   
              Rolf Schassberger   Stability of Product Form $G$-Networks   271--276
                     Henk Tijms   Heuristics for Finite-Buffer Queues  . . 277--285
                 Jingwen Li and   
                  Shun-Chen Niu   The Waiting-Time Distribution for the
                                  GI/G/1 Queue under the $D$-Policy  . . . 287--308
          George S. Fishman and   
                 David S. Rubin   Evaluating Best-Case and Worst-Case
                                  Coefficients of Variation when Bounds
                                  Are Available  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--322
              Keith W. Ross and   
                       Jie Wang   Monte Carlo Summation Applied to
                                  Product-Form Loss Networks . . . . . . . 323--348
            Hentry W. Block and   
               Tim Costigan and   
               Allan R. Sampson   Product-Type Probability Bounds of
                                  Higher Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--370
                Micha Hofri and   
                 Hadas Shachnai   The Application of Restricted Counter
                                  Schemes to Three Models of Linear Search 371--389
                Eckhaard Platen   Higher-Order Weak Approximation of Ito
                                  Diffusions by Markov Chains  . . . . . . 391--408
                  Jinn-Tyan Lin   A Pocket-Calculator Approximation to the
                                  Inverse Normal Tail Probability Function 409--411
               Nico M. Van Dijk   An Error-Bound Theorem for Approximate
                                  Markov Chains  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--424
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 6, Number 4, October, 1992

                   Steven Jaffe   The Equilibrium Distribution for a
                                  Clocked Buffered Switch  . . . . . . . . 425--438
                 P. J. Hunt and   
                     C. N. Laws   Least Busy Alternative Routing in
                                  Queueing and Loss Networks . . . . . . . 439--456
                 T. Elperin and   
               I. Gertsbakh and   
                   M. Lomonosov   An Evolution Model for Monte Carlo
                                  Estimation of Equilibrium Network
                                  Renewal Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . 457--469
                   Wuyi Yue and   
               Yutaka Matsumoto   Output and Delay Processes in a Slotted
                                  ALOHA Multichannel Packet Radio Network
                                  with Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471--493
               Arie Hordijk and   
                      Ger Koole   On the Assignment of Customers to
                                  Parallel Queues  . . . . . . . . . . . . 495--511
             Michael Pinedo and   
                Dequan Shaw and   
                     Xiuli Chao   On Optimal Permutation Scheduling in
                                  Stochastic Proportionate Flowshops . . . 513--523
            Stephan G. Vanneste   A Generalized Age-Replacement Model  . . 525--541
                  Ad Ridder and   
                   Jean Walrand   Some Large Deviations Results in Markov
                                  Fluid Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543--560
                    C. H. Hesse   Hitting-Time Densities of a
                                  Two-Dimensional Markov Process . . . . . 561--580
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 7, Number 1, January, 1993

           Indrajit Bardhan and   
                    Karl Sigman   Rate Conservation Law for Stationary
                                  Semimartingales  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--17
          Masakiyo Miyazawa and   
                     Henk Tijms   Comparison of Two Approximations for the
                                  Loss Probability in Finite-Buffer Queues 19--27
              Bong Dae Choi and   
           Kyung Hyune Rhee and   
                 Kwang Kyu Park   The M/G/1 Retrial Queue With Retrial
                                  Rate Control Policy  . . . . . . . . . . 29--46
                Linn I. Sennott   The Average Cost Optimality Equation and
                                  Critical Number Policies . . . . . . . . 47--67
                Linn I. Sennott   Constrained Average Cost Markov Decision
                                  Chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--83
      Apostolos N. Burnetas and   
           Michael N. Katehakis   On Sequencing Two Types of Tasks on a
                                  Single Processor under Incomplete
                                  Information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--119
                 Julia Abrahams   An Improved Lower Bound on the Minimum
                                  Expected Number of Binomial Group Tests  121--124
               Igor Rychlik and   
                 Georg Lindgren   CROSSREG --- A Technique for First
                                  Passage and Wave Density Analysis  . . . 125--148
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 7, Number 2, April, 1993

            Sheldon M. Ross and   
     J. George Shanthikumar and   
                    Xiang Zhang   Some Pitfalls of Black Box Queue
                                  Inference: The Case of State-Dependent
                                  Server Queues  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--157
        Albert G. Greenberg and   
              Otmar Schlunk and   
                     Ward Whitt   Using Distributed-Event Parallel
                                  Simulation to Study Departures from Many
                                  Queues in Series . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--186
                O. J. Boxma and   
           J. A. Weststrate and   
                    U. Yechiali   A Globally Gated Polling System with
                                  Server Interruptions, and Applications
                                  to the Repairman Problem . . . . . . . . 187--208
              E. G. Coffman and   
              Aleksandr Stolyar   Continuous Polling on Graphs . . . . . . 209--226
           Chern-Ching Chao and   
                Zhidong Bai and   
                   Wen-Qi Liang   Asymptotic Normality for Oscillation of
                                  Permutation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--235
              G. De Veciana and   
                 C. Olivier and   
                     J. Walrand   Large Deviations of Birth Death Markov
                                  Fluids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--255
              A. Federgruen and   
                    Y.-S. Zheng   Optimal Control Policies for Stochastic
                                  Inventory Systems with Endogenous Supply 257--272
      Dimitrios G. Pandelis and   
         Demosthenis Teneketzis   Stochastic Scheduling in Priority Queues
                                  with Strict Deadlines  . . . . . . . . . 273--289
                 Frank G. Forst   Stochastic Sequencing on One Machine
                                  with Earliness and Tardiness Penalties   291--300
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 7, Number 3, July, 1993

                 Xiuli Chao and   
                 Michael Pinedo   On Generalized Networks of Queues with
                                  Positive and Negative Arrivals . . . . . 301--334
                   Erol Gelenbe   $G$-Networks with Signals and Batch
                                  Removal  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--342
          Ludolf E. Meester and   
         J. George Shanthikumar   Regularity of Stochastic Processes: A
                                  Theory Based on Directional Convexity    343--360
                 R. W. Chen and   
                F. K. Hwang and   
                  Y. C. Yao and   
                        A. Zame   Some Monotone Almost Balanced Knockout
                                  Tournament Plans . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--368
                  Kyle Siegrist   Optimal Occupation in the Complete Graph 369--385
                 Shmuel Gal and   
                Dafna Sheinwald   Optimal Sampling for Identifying a
                                  Cluster: An Application in Sorting . . . 387--407
                  David Madigan   A Note on Equivalence Classes of
                                  Directed Acyclic Independence Graphs . . 409--412
             Pietro Muliere and   
        Giovanni Parmigiani and   
             Nicholas G. Polson   A Note on the Residual Entropy Function  413--420
            Franco Pellerey and   
                   Moshe Shaked   Stochastic Comparison of Some Wear
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--435
               Neeraj Misra and   
               M. Manoharan and   
               Harshinder Singh   Preservation of Some Ageing Properties
                                  by Order Statistics  . . . . . . . . . . 437--440
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 7, Number 4, October, 1993

              V. Anantharam and   
                 M. Benchekroun   A Technique for Computing Sojourn Times
                                  in Large Networks of Interacting Queues  441--464
                   David Aldous   A Note on Probabilistic Analysis of a
                                  Sparse Matrix Factorization Scheme and
                                  Random Graphs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465--469
                O. J. Boxma and   
               G. J. van Houtum   The Compensation Approach Applied to a 2
                                  $ \times $ 2 Switch  . . . . . . . . . . 471--493
                  Teunis J. Ott   A Versatile Packet Arrival Process and
                                  Its Second Order Properties  . . . . . . 495--513
                  Teunis J. Ott   A Queuing System with a Branching
                                  Process Arrival Stream, the Case of
                                  Short-Range Dependence . . . . . . . . . 515--528
              P. K. Pollett and   
                   P. G. Taylor   On the Problem of Establishing the
                                  Existence of Stationary Distributions
                                  for Continuous-Time Markov Chains  . . . 529--543
        Marco Dominé and   
                 Volkmar Pieper   First Passage Time Distribution of a
                                  Two-Dimensional Wiener Process with
                                  Drift  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545--555
                 Renata Rotondi   Tests of Randomness Based on the K-NN
                                  Distances for Data from a Bounded Region 557--569
           Shaul K. Bar-Lev and   
                    David Perry   Two-Stage Release Rule Procedure in a
                                  Regenerative Dam . . . . . . . . . . . . 571--588
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 8, Number 1, January, 1994

               Madhav Desai and   
                Sunil Kumar and   
                    P. R. Kumar   Quasi-Statically Cooled Markov Chains    1--19
             Rhonda Richter and   
         J. George Shanthikumar   Bounds for Stopping Times with
                                  Application to the Approximation of
                                  Distribution Functions . . . . . . . . . 21--31
     Panayotis D. Sparaggis and   
                    Don Towsley   Optimal Routing and Scheduling of
                                  Customers with Deadlines . . . . . . . . 33--49
                 Masaaki Kijima   On Separation for Birth--Death Processes 51--68
                       Y. Kebir   Laplace Transform Characterization of
                                  Probabilistic Orderings  . . . . . . . . 69--77
                  Fan Chin Meng   Comparing Criticality of Nodes via
                                  Minimal Cut (Path) Sets for Coherent
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--87
            A. M. Abouammoh and   
            Emad El-Neweihi and   
             Jayaram Sethuraman   The Role of a Group of Modules in the
                                  Failure of Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 89--101
          Lucia Caramellino and   
              Fabio Spizzichino   Dependence and Aging Properties of
                                  Lifetimes with Schur-Constant Survival
                                  Functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--111
                      Haijun Li   On a Class of Stochastic Arrangement
                                  Inequalities Arising in Optimal
                                  Allocation of Resources  . . . . . . . . 113--124
                       Y. Kebir   Order-Preserving Shock Models  . . . . . 125--134
                  Jinn-Tyan Lin   New Approximations for the Percentage
                                  Points of the Chi-Square Distribution    135--146
                 G. Kesidis and   
                     J. Walrand   Conservation Relations for Fully Shared
                                  ATM Buffers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--151
                      Anonymous   Corrections  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152--152
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 8, Number 2, April, 1994

        Catherine B. Hurley and   
               Hosam M. Mahmoud   Analysis of an Algorithm for Random
                                  Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--168
                     J. Preater   A Multiple Stopping Problem  . . . . . . 169--177
          Cheng-Shang Chang and   
               Arie Hordijk and   
             Rhonda Righter and   
                   Gideon Weiss   The Stochastic Optimality of SEPT in
                                  Parallel Machine Scheduling  . . . . . . 179--188
             Robert W. Chen and   
                F. K. Hwang and   
            Wen-Ching Winnie Li   A Reversible Model for
                                  Consecutive-$2$-out-of-$ n \colon {F}$
                                  Systems with Node and Link Failures  . . 189--200
                  Craig Kollman   Deep-Penetration Calculations for
                                  Scattering Neutrons by Importance
                                  Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--211
                     Xiuli Chao   A Note on Queueing Networks with Signals
                                  and Random Triggering Times  . . . . . . 213--219
            Frank N. Gouweleeuw   The Loss Probability in Finite-Buffer
                                  Queues with Batch Arrivals and Complete
                                  Rejection  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--227
            Nicholas Bambos and   
                   Shou C. Chen   Optimality Aspects of Greedy Schemes in
                                  Parallel Processing of Random
                                  Graph-Structured Jobs  . . . . . . . . . 229--243
                   M. Lomonosov   On Monte Carlo Estimates in Network
                                  Reliability  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--264
             Georg Lindgren and   
                 Weine Eriksson   Clicks in Zero-Crossing-Detecting FM
                                  Receivers: Theory and Experiments  . . . 265--285
               Todd Strauss and   
                    Shmuel Oren   Priority Ordering in Interruptible
                                  Electric Power Service with Irreversible
                                  Early Notification . . . . . . . . . . . 287--290
                    N. M. Temme   A Set of Algorithms for the Incomplete
                                  Gamma Functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--307
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 8, Number 3, July, 1994

            Paul Glasserman and   
                  Pirooz Vakili   Comparing Markov Chains Simulated in
                                  Parallel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--326
               Eltan Altman and   
                   Uri Yechiali   Polling in a Closed Network  . . . . . . 327--343
            Jayant Rajgopal and   
            Mainak Mazumdar and   
               Thomas H. Savits   Some Properties of the Poisson
                                  Distribution with an Application to
                                  Reliability Testing  . . . . . . . . . . 345--354
              Michael C. Fu and   
                  Jian-Qiang Hu   ( s, S ) Inventory Systems with Random
                                  Lead Times: Harris Recurrence and Its
                                  Implications in Sensitivity Analysis . . 355--376
                  D. P. Kennedy   On the Regularity of Skip-Free Markov
                                  Chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--384
               Zhaoben Fang and   
                Taizhong Hu and   
                      Harry Joe   On the Decrease in Dependence with Lag
                                  for Stationary Markov Chains . . . . . . 385--401
         Vidyadhar Kulkarni and   
                  Tomasz Rolski   Fluid Model Driven by an
                                  Ornstein--Uhlenbeck Process  . . . . . . 403--417
                 A. Hordijk and   
                G. M. Koole and   
                    J. A. Loeve   Analysis of a Customer Assignment Model
                                  with No State Information  . . . . . . . 419--429
                  Thore Egeland   When Is a System Better Than the Average
                                  of Its Components? . . . . . . . . . . . 431--434
                  Fan Chin Meng   Optimal Allocation of Components in
                                  $k$-out-of-$R$ Parallel Modules Systems  435--441
                  Jinn-Tyan Lin   A Direct Approximation for the
                                  Percentiles of the $t$ Distribution  . . 443--448
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 8, Number 4, October, 1994

         Erol A. Peköz and   
                Sheldon M. Ross   Improving Poisson Approximations . . . . 449--462
         Eugene A. Feinberg and   
               Martin I. Reiman   Optimality of Randomized Trunk
                                  Reservation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--489
      Dimitrios G. Pandelis and   
         Demosthenis Teneketzis   Optimal Stochastic Dynamic Scheduling in
                                  Multi-Class Queues with Tardiness and/or
                                  Earliness Penalties  . . . . . . . . . . 491--509
                   D. Z. Du and   
                    F. K. Hwang   Optimal Assemblies of Consecutive-2 Link
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511--520
                     Amie Elcan   Optimal Customer Return Rate for an
                                  M/M/1 Queueing System with Retrials  . . 521--539
          William A. Massey and   
                     Ward Whitt   A Stochastic Model to Capture Space and
                                  time Dynamics in Wireless Communication
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541--569
           H. Edwin Romeijn and   
                Robert L. Smith   Simulated Annealing and Adaptive Search
                                  in Global Optimization . . . . . . . . . 571--590
         Gabriele Danninger and   
              Walter J. Gutjahr   Test Point Optimization in a
                                  Branching-Process-Based Reliability
                                  Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591--609
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 9, Number 1, January, 1995

           Albert H. Bowker and   
               Ingram Olkin and   
              Arthur F. Veinott   Gerald J. Lieberman  . . . . . . . . . . 3--26
                 T. W. Anderson   Goodness-of-Fit Tests for Probability
                                  Distributions and Spectral Distributions 27--37
            Peter J. Bickel and   
                  Ya'acov Ritov   An Exponential Inequality for
                                  $U$-Statistics with Applications to
                                  Testing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--52
                   D. Blackwell   Minimax vs. Bayes Prediction . . . . . . 53--58
               Cyrus Derman and   
                   Sheldon Ross   Reliability for a System with Dependent
                                  Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--63
            B. Curtis Eaves and   
              Uriel G. Rothblum   A Discounted-Cost Continuous-Time
                                  Flexible Manufacturing and Operator
                                  Scheduling Model Solved by
                                  Deconvexification Over Time  . . . . . . 65--98
                 Ying Huang and   
              Arthur F. Veinott   Markov Branching Decision Chains with
                                  Interest-Rate-Dependent Rewards  . . . . 99--121
             Peter W. Glynn and   
             Donald L. Iglehart   A Martingale Approach to Regenerative
                                  Simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--131
               Ingram Olkin and   
              Irwin Guttman and   
                 Robert Philips   Estimating the Number of Aberrant
                                  Laboratories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--150
               Matthew J. Sobel   Lot Sizes in Serial Manufacturing with
                                  Random Yields  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--157
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 9, Number 2, April, 1995

              I. M. MacPhee and   
                   B. P. Jordan   Optimal Search for a Moving Target . . . 159--182
           Hosam M. Mahmoud and   
               Ratko Orlandi\'c   Toward a Formal Derivation of the
                                  Expected Behavior of Prefix B-Trees  . . 183--192
                 Charles Du and   
                 Michael Pinedo   A Convexity Property of a
                                  Markov-Modulated Queueing Loss System    193--199
  Krishnamurthi Ravishankar and   
                   Suresh Singh   Central Limit Theorem for Time to
                                  Broadcast in Radio Networks  . . . . . . 201--209
                I. H. Dinwoodie   A Bound on the Rate of Convergence for
                                  the Discrete Gibbs Sampler . . . . . . . 211--215
                 Lirong Cui and   
             Alan G. Hawkes and   
                   Assad Jalali   The Increasing Failure Rate Property of
                                  Consecutive-$k$-out-of-$n$ Systems . . . 217--225
                Taizhong Hu and   
                      Harry Joe   Monotonicity of Positive Dependence with
                                  Time for Stationary Reversible Markov
                                  Chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--237
                    S. C. Borst   A Globally Gated Polling System with a
                                  Dormant Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--254
    Süleyman \`Ozekici and   
                 Jingwen Li and   
                  Fee Seng Chou   Waiting Time in M/G/1 Queues with
                                  Impolite Arrival Disciplines . . . . . . 255--267
              Ulrich Rieder and   
          Jürgen Weishaupt   Customer Scheduling with Incomplete
                                  Information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--284
        Costas Courcoubetis and   
                  Richard Weber   Effective Bandwidths for Stationary
                                  Sources  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--296
             Michel Mandjes and   
                      Ad Ridder   Finding the Conjugate of Markov Fluid
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--315
                  Jinn-Tyan Lin   A Simple Approximation for the Bivariate
                                  Normal Integral  . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--321
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 9, Number 3, July, 1995

                 N. G. Bean and   
                   P. G. Taylor   Maximal Profit Dimensioning and
                                  Tariffing of Loss Networks . . . . . . . 323--340
                 Xiuli Chao and   
                 Michael Pinedo   On Queueing Networks with Signals and
                                  History-Dependent Routing  . . . . . . . 341--354
          Shoichi Nishimura and   
                     Yong Jiang   An M/G/l Vacation Model with Two Service
                                  Modes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--374
           Arthur W. Berger and   
                     Ward Whitt   Maximum Values in Queueing Processes . . 375--409
               Cyrus Derman and   
                   Sheldon Ross   An Improved Estimator of $ \sigma $ in
                                  Quality Control  . . . . . . . . . . . . 411--415
              Michael C. Fu and   
                  Jian-Qlang Hu   Sensitivity Analysis for Monte Carlo
                                  Simulation of Option Pricing . . . . . . 417--446
                 John Bruno and   
          Edward G. Coffman and   
                   Peter Downey   Scheduling Independent Tasks to Minimize
                                  the Makespan on Identical Machines . . . 447--456
           Janice Kim Winch and   
            Benjamin Avi-Itzhak   Ordering of Tandem Constant-Service
                                  Stations to Minimize In-Process Stock
                                  Cost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457--473
                   Israel David   A Sequential Assignment Match Process
                                  with General Renewal Arrival Times . . . 475--492
                Sheldon M. Ross   Extending Blackwell's Strengthening of
                                  Azuma's Martingale Inequality  . . . . . 493--496
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 9, Number 4, October, 1995

Sigrún Andradóttir and   
            James M. Calvin and   
                 Peter W. Glynn   Accelerated Regeneration for Markov
                                  Chain Simulations  . . . . . . . . . . . 497--523
      Apostolos N. Burnetas and   
           Michael N. Katehakis   Computing Optimal Policies for Markovian
                                  Decision Processes Using Simulation  . . 525--537
           R. Schaßberger   Stability of Polling Networks with
                                  State-Dependent Server Routing . . . . . 539--550
          Stephen J. Herschkorn   On the Modular Value and Fractional Part
                                  of a Random Variable . . . . . . . . . . 551--562
               Moshe Shaked and   
                    Tityik Wong   Preservation of Stochastic Orderings
                                  under Random Mapping by Point Processes  563--580
               Joseph Abate and   
                     Ward Whitt   Limits and Approximations for the
                                  Busy-Period Distribution in
                                  Single-Server Queues . . . . . . . . . . 581--602
               Nico M. van Dijk   A Simple Performability Estimate for
                                  Jackson Networks with an Unreliable
                                  Output Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603--614
                  John E. Angus   A Coupling Proof of the Asymptotic
                                  Normality of the Permutation Oscillation 615--621
                   Ivo Adan and   
          Michel van Eenige and   
                 Jacques Resing   Fitting Discrete Distributions on the
                                  First Two Moments  . . . . . . . . . . . 623--632
                 Esther Frostig   Optimal Allocation of Machines to
                                  Distinguishable Repairmen in Order to
                                  Maximize Some Reward Functions . . . . . 633--645
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 10, Number 1, January, 1996

      Sòren Asmussen and   
                    Karl Sigman   Monotone Stochastic Recursions and their
                                  Duals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--20
      Stephen J. Herschkorn and   
            Erol Peköz and   
                Sheldon M. Ross   Policies without Memory for the
                                  Infinite-Armed Bernoulli Bandit under
                                  the Average-Reward Criterion . . . . . . 21--28
               Arie Hordijk and   
                      Ger Koole   On Suboptimal Policies in Multiclass
                                  Tandem Models  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--39
            Mitsushi Tamaki and   
         J. George Shanthikumar   A Full-Information Best-Choice Problem
                                  with Allowance . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--56
         Eugene A. Feinberg and   
                    Dong J. Kim   Bicriterion Optimization of an M/G/1
                                  Queue with A Removable Server  . . . . . 57--73
              Subhash C. Kochar   Some Results on Interarrival Times of
                                  Nonhomogeneous Poisson Processes . . . . 75--85
               Israel Cidon and   
         Roch Guréin and   
               Asad Khamisy and   
                     Moshe Sidi   On Queues with Interarrival Times
                                  Proportional to Service Times  . . . . . 87--107
         Georgia-Ann Klutke and   
          Martin A. Wortman and   
                  Hayriye Ayhan   The Availability of Inspected Systems
                                  Subject to Random Deterioration  . . . . 109--118
           Scott A. Vander Wiel   Optimal Discrete Adjustments for Short
                                  Production Runs  . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--151
                   Kaisheng Fan   On a New Approach to the Solution of the
                                  Nonlinear Filtering Equation of Jump
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--163
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 10, Number 2, April, 1996

             Peter W. Glynn and   
                 Eugene W. Wong   Efficient Simulation via Coupling  . . . 165--186
      Héctor Cancela and   
             Mohamed El Khadiri   An Improvement to the Total Hazard
                                  Method for System Reliability Simulation 187--196
      Sòren Asmussen and   
                   Chia-Li Wang   Variance Reduction for Simulating
                                  Transient GI/G/1 Behavior  . . . . . . . 197--205
              John E. Angus and   
                      Xiao Hong   On the Rate of Convergence of the Ross
                                  Approximation to the Renewal Function    207--211
           Jean B. Lasserre and   
                     Henk Tijms   Invariant Probabilities with Geometric
                                  Tail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--221
              Refael Hassin and   
                    Moshe Haviv   On Optimal and Equilibrium Retrial Rates
                                  in a Queueing System . . . . . . . . . . 223--227
                 Rhonda Righter   Optimal Scheduling of Multiclass
                                  Stochastic Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 229--241
               Glen K. Takahara   Fixed Point Approximations for Retrial
                                  Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--259
       Richard J. Boucherie and   
                  Onno J. Boxma   The Workload in the M/G/1 Queue with
                                  Work Removal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--277
            K. M. Wasserman and   
                Nicholas Bambos   Optimal Server Allocation to Parallel
                                  Queues with Finite-Capacity Buffers  . . 279--285
           Richard J. Boucherie   Batch Routing Queueing Networks with
                                  Jump-Over Blocking . . . . . . . . . . . 287--297
               Nico M. Van Dijk   A Note on Time Monotonicity for
                                  Performability Models  . . . . . . . . . 299--310
             Laurence A. Baxter   Book Review: \booktitleChaos, Fractals,
                                  and Noise: Stochastic Aspects of
                                  Dynamics, Second Edition, 1994, by
                                  Lasota Andrzej and Mackey Michael C.,
                                  Applied Mathematical Sciences, vol. 97
                                  (New York: Springer-Verlag), xiv + 472
                                  pp.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--313
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 10, Number 3, July, 1996

             Frank K. Hwang and   
                   Dan Trietsch   A Simple Relation between the Pattern
                                  Probability and the Rate of False
                                  Signals in Control Charts  . . . . . . . 315--323
                 Mario Lefebvre   First-Passage Distributions of
                                  Bidimensional Processes  . . . . . . . . 325--339
               Indrajit Bardhan   Diffusion Limits for Open Networks of
                                  Finite-Buffer Queues . . . . . . . . . . 341--361
                    Scott Berry   Discrete Search for an Intelligent
                                  Object: The Leprechaun's Problem . . . . 363--375
      Dimitrios G. Pandelis and   
         Demosthenis Teneketzis   Optimal Sequencing in Multiserver
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--396
                   Ilze Ziedins   Optimal Admission Controls for Erlang's
                                  Loss System with Phase-Type Arrivals . . 397--414
             M. L. Chaudhry and   
                    U. C. Gupta   On the Analysis of the Discrete-Time
                                  Geom(n)/G(n)/1/N Queue . . . . . . . . . 415--428
              Woo-Yong Choi and   
                  Chi-Hyuck Jun   Analysis of a Discrete-Time Queueing
                                  System with a Markov-Modulated input
                                  Process and constant service Rate  . . . 429--441
            Olga S. Yoshida and   
       José G. Leite and   
               Heleno Bolfarine   Bayes' Estimation of the Number of
                                  Component Processes of a Superimposed
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443--461
                Paul Schweitzer   Book Review: \booktitleStochastic
                                  Models, an Algorithmic Approach, by
                                  Tijms Henk C. (Chichester: Wiley, 1994),
                                  375 pages, paperback . . . . . . . . . . 463--464
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 10, Number 4, October, 1996

                     Ilan Sadeh   Universal Data Compression Algorithm
                                  Based on Approximate String Matching . . 465--486
               B. Prabhakar and   
            T. S. Mountford and   
                      N. Bambos   Convergence of Departures in Tandem
                                  Networks of $ \cdot $ /GI/$ \infty $
                                  Queues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487--500
                 Michel Mandjes   Overflow Asymptotics for large
                                  Communications Systems with General
                                  Markov Fluid Sources . . . . . . . . . . 501--518
                Gautam Jain and   
                    Karl Sigman   Generalizing the Pollaczek-Khintchine
                                  Formula to Account for Arbitrary Work
                                  Removal  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519--531
           Chern-Ching Chao and   
              Lincheng Zhao and   
                   Wen-Qi Liang   Estimating the Error of a Permutational
                                  Central Limit Theorem  . . . . . . . . . 533--541
               Bruno Bassan and   
              Monica Brezzi and   
                 Marco Scarsini   Information in Continuous Time Decision
                                  Models with Many Agents  . . . . . . . . 543--555
             Tian-Shyug Lee and   
             Georgia-Ann Klutke   Minimizing the Makespan and Flowtime in
                                  Two-Machine Stochastic Open Shops  . . . 557--567
               Florin Avram and   
                Fikri Karaesmen   A Method for Computing Double Band
                                  Policies for Switching between Two
                                  Diffusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569--590
            Pushpa L. Gupta and   
                Ramesh C. Gupta   Ageing Characteristics of the Weibull
                                  Mixtures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591--600
              Irwin Guttman and   
             Ulrich Menzefricke   Predictive Distributions in the Presence
                                  of Measurement Errors  . . . . . . . . . 601--611
                 Michel Mandjes   Book Review: \booktitleLarge Deviations
                                  for Performance Analysis: Queues,
                                  Communications, and Computing, Shwartz
                                  Adam and Weiss Alan (New York: Chapman
                                  and Hall, 1995)  . . . . . . . . . . . . 613--614
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 11, Number 1, January, 1997

                Torgny Lindvall   Stochastic Monotonicities in Jackson
                                  Queueing Networks  . . . . . . . . . . . 1--9
                  Jihong Ou and   
                 Jingwen Li and   
     Süleyman Özekici   Approximating a Cumulative Distribution
                                  Function by Generalized Hyperexponential
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--18
              Walter J. Gutjahr   Importance Sampling of Test Cases in
                                  Markovian Software Usage Models  . . . . 19--36
                  John E. Angus   The Improved Estimation of $ \sigma $ in
                                  Quality Control, Revisited . . . . . . . 37--42
                 James D. Lynch   When Is a Renewal Process Convexly
                                  Parameterized in Its Mean
                                  Parameterization?  . . . . . . . . . . . 43--48
                  Masahiro Sato   On Optimal Ammunition Usage When Hunting
                                  Fleeing Targets  . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--64
           Takashi Ishikida and   
                    Yat-wah Wan   Scheduling Jobs That Are Subject to
                                  Deterministic Due Dates and Have
                                  Deteriorating Expected Rewards . . . . . 65--78
                   Zhen Liu and   
                 Rhonda Righter   Optimal Scheduling on Parallel
                                  Processors with Precedence Constraints
                                  and General Costs  . . . . . . . . . . . 79--93
                  Sem Borst and   
                 John Bruno and   
              E. G. Coffman and   
                Steven Phillips   Scheduling Two-Point Stochastic Jobs to
                                  Minimize the Makespan on Two Parallel
                                  Machines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--105
                 Yossi Aviv and   
                 Awi Federgruen   Stochastic Inventory Models with Limited
                                  Production Capacity and Periodically
                                  Varying Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . 107--135
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 11, Number 2, April, 1997

            Madhav P. Desai and   
                  Vasant B. Rao   Finite-Time Behavior of Slowly Cooled
                                  Annealing Chains . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--176
                 Dinah W. Cheng   Line Reversibility of Multiserver
                                  Systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--188
          Masakiyo Miyazawa and   
               Nico M. van Dijk   A Note on Bounds and Error Bounds for
                                  Nonexponential Batch Arrival Systems . . 189--201
        Nicole Bäuerle and   
                  Ulrich Rieder   Comparison Results for Markov-Modulated
                                  Recursive Models . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--217
               Mark P. Van Oyen   Monotonicity of Optimal Performance
                                  Measures for Polling Systems . . . . . . 219--228
                 Peter Buchholz   An Aggregation/Disaggregation Algorithm
                                  for Stochastic Automata Networks . . . . 229--253
                Alexander Dudin   Optimal Control for an M$^x$ /G/1 Queue
                                  with Two Operation Modes . . . . . . . . 255--265
            Erol Peköz and   
                Sheldon M. Ross   Estimating the Mean Cover Time of a
                                  Semi-Markov Process via Simulation . . . 267--271
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 11, Number 3, July, 1997

                 Ilan Adler and   
                Sheldon M. Ross   Distribution of the Time of the First
                                  $k$-Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--278
                 M. Kolonko and   
                     M. T. Tran   Convergence of Simulated Annealing with
                                  Feedback Temperature Schedules . . . . . 279--304
       Richard J. Boucherie and   
              Onno J. Boxma and   
                    Karl Sigman   A Note on Negative Customers, GI/G/1
                                  Workload, and Risk Processes . . . . . . 305--311
           Ronald Buitenhek and   
       Geert-Jan van Houtum and   
           Jan-Kees van Ommeren   On First-Come First-Served Versus Random
                                  Service Discipline in Multiclass Closed
                                  Queueing Networks  . . . . . . . . . . . 313--326
                  Bruce Calvert   The Downs-Thomson Effect in a Markov
                                  Process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--340
                     Mark Brown   Estimation of an Exponential
                                  Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--359
                    David Perry   A Double Band Control Policy of a
                                  Brownian Perishable Inventory System . . 361--373
         Marcel A. J. Smith and   
                 Rommert Dekker   On the $ (S - 1, S) $ Stock Model for
                                  Renewal Demand Processes: Poisson's
                                  poison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--386
                 Peter J. Smith   Sequences of Linear Birth, Death, and
                                  Immigration Processes with Applications
                                  to Cascades of Optical Amplifiers  . . . 387--394
              Jorge Navarro and   
             Felix Belzunce and   
                   Jose M. Ruiz   New Stochastic Orders Based on Double
                                  Truncation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--402
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 11, Number 4, October, 1997

                Moshe Haviv and   
                Jan van der Wal   Equilibrium Strategies for Processor
                                  Sharing and Random Queues with Relative
                                  Priorities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403--412
               Janice Kim Winch   Branch and Bound Algorithm for Ordering
                                  of Tandem Constant-Service Stations  . . 413--439
          Hiroshi Toyoizumi and   
     J. George Shanthikumar and   
                Ronald W. Wolff   Two Extremal Autocorrelated Arrival
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441--450
             Marcel A. J. Smith   An Approximation of the Interval
                                  Availability Distribution  . . . . . . . 451--467
                 E. B. Diks and   
          M. C. van der Heijden   Modeling Stochastic Lead Times in
                                  Multi-Echelon Systems  . . . . . . . . . 469--485
       William P. McCormick and   
                   YouSung Park   An Analysis of Poisson Moving-Average
                                  Processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487--507
          Shalabh Bhatnagar and   
                Vivek S. Borkar   Multiscale Stochastic Approximation for
                                  Parametric Optimization of Hidden Markov
                                  Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509--522
             Tian-Shyug Lee and   
               Kwang-Chow Chang   An Alternative Proof for a known Result
                                  of Noncentral Wishart Distribution . . . 523--529
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 12, Number 1, January, 1998

               Moshe Shaked and   
         J. George Shanthikumar   Two Variability Orders . . . . . . . . . 1--23
                  Ger Koole and   
                       Zhen Liu   Stochastic Bounds for Queueing Systems
                                  with Multiple On-Off Sources . . . . . . 25--48
               Serguei Foss and   
               Günter Last   On the Stability of Greedy Polling
                                  Systems with General Service Policies    49--68
             Henry W. Block and   
           Thomas H. Savits and   
               Harshinder Singh   The Reversed Hazard Rate Function  . . . 69--90
                 Tsuyoshi Saito   Optimal Stopping Problem with Controlled
                                  Recall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--108
           Stephen R. E. Turner   The Effect of Increasing Routing Choice
                                  on Resource Pooling  . . . . . . . . . . 109--124
              Bong Dae Choi and   
                  Yutae Lee and   
                    Doo Il Choi   Geo$^{X_1}$, Geo$^{X_2}$ /D/c HOL
                                  Priority Queueing System with Random
                                  Order Selection within Each Priority
                                  Class  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--139
             Alfred Müller   On a Conjecture of Koole . . . . . . . . 141--142
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 12, Number 2, April, 1998

           Pär Johannesson   Rainflow Cycles for Switching Processes
                                  with Markov Structure  . . . . . . . . . 143--175
               Kazuyoshi Wakuta   Discounted Cost Markov Decision
                                  Processes with a Constraint  . . . . . . 177--187
                     Ilan Sadeh   Bounds on Data Compression Ratio with a
                                  Given Tolerable Error Probability  . . . 189--210
                 Rhonda Righter   Optimal Computer Disk Access . . . . . . 211--220
                 J. P. C. Blanc   The Power-Series Algorithm for Polling
                                  Systems with Time Limits . . . . . . . . 221--237
             Helge Langseth and   
             Bo Henry Lindqvist   Uncertainty Bounds for a Monotone
                                  Multistate System  . . . . . . . . . . . 239--260
              Hongsheng Gao and   
                 Peter J. Smith   Exact SINR Calculations for Optimum
                                  Linear Combining in Wireless Systems . . 261--281
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 12, Number 3, July, 1998

               James Allen Fill   The Move-to-Front Rule: A Case Study for
                                  two Perfect Sampling Algorithms  . . . . 283--302
                 S. G. Foss and   
              R. L. Tweedie and   
                 J. N. Corcoran   Simulating the Invariant Measures of
                                  Markov Chains Using Backward Coupling at
                                  Regeneration Times . . . . . . . . . . . 303--320
                Mitsushi Tamaki   A Note on the Distribution of the Time
                                  of the First $k$-Record Index  . . . . . 321--323
               Frans Schalekamp   Simulation of the Matching Problem of
                                  Montmort . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--328
           Sridhar Seshadri and   
                 Michael Pinedo   Bounds on the Mean Delay in Multiclass
                                  Queueing Networks under Shortfall-Based
                                  Priority Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--350
               David D. Yao and   
                  Shaohui Zheng   Markov Decision Programming for Process
                                  Control in Batch Production  . . . . . . 351--371
              E. G. Coffman and   
          Philippe Flajolet and   
             Leopold Flatto and   
                    Micha Hofri   The Maximum of a Random Walk and Its
                                  Application to Rectangle Packing . . . . 373--386
               Jean B. Lasserre   A Lyapunov Criterion for Invariant
                                  Probabilities with Geometric Tail  . . . 387--391
               Bruno Bassan and   
                   Claudia Ceci   An Optimal Stopping Problem Arising from
                                  a Decision Model with Many Agents  . . . 393--408
       S. Rao Jammalamadaka and   
                    Eun-Soo Lee   Testing for Harmonic New Better than
                                  used in Expectation  . . . . . . . . . . 409--416
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 12, Number 4, October, 1998

               Lester E. Dubins   Discrete Red-and-Black with
                                  Fortune-Dependent Win Probabilities  . . 417--424
                 Mark Brown and   
         J. George Shanthikumar   Comparing the Variability of Random
                                  Variables and Point Processes  . . . . . 425--444
                Sheldon M. Ross   Using the Importance Sampling Identity
                                  to Bound Tail Probabilities  . . . . . . 445--452
             Rhonda Righter and   
         J. George Shanthikumar   Independently Expiring Multiarmed
                                  Bandits  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--468
              Ginger Rowell and   
                  Kyle Siegrist   Relative Aging of Distributions  . . . . 469--478
      Anatolii A. Puhalskii and   
                     Ward Whitt   Functional Large Deviation Principles
                                  for Waiting and Departure Processes  . . 479--507
                    Weiguo Yang   The Asymptotic Equipartition Property
                                  for a Nonhomogeneous Markov Information
                                  Source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509--518
          Shalabh Bhatnagar and   
                Vivek S. Borkar   A two Timescale Stochastic Approximation
                                  Scheme for Simulation-Based Parametric
                                  Optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519--531
             Perwez Shahabuddin   Book Review: \booktitleReliability
                                  Engineering, 1996, by Elsayed Elsayed A.
                                  (Reading, Mass.: Addison Wesley Longman,
                                  Inc.), 737 pp. ISBN 0-201-63481-3  . . . 533--534
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 13, Number 1, January, 1999

                Sheldon M. Ross   The mean waiting time for a pattern  . . 1--9
             Benny Levikson and   
              Tomasz Rolski and   
                   Gideon Weiss   On a Poisson hyperbolic staircase  . . . 11--31
                 James D. Lynch   On Conditions for Mixtures of Increasing
                                  Failure Rate Distributions To Have an
                                  Increasing Failure Rate  . . . . . . . . 33--36
              E. G. Coffman and   
              E. N. Gilbert and   
                    Y. A. Kogan   Redialing policies: optimality and
                                  success probabilities  . . . . . . . . . 37--53
              Zvi Benyamini and   
                   Uri Yechiali   Optimality of control limit maintenance
                                  policies under nonstationary
                                  deterioration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--70
             Erol A. Peköz   On the number of refusals in a busy
                                  period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--74
                King Sing Chong   Move-to-front rule for accessing several
                                  records  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--93
        Olivier François   On the spectral gap of a time reversible
                                  Markov chain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--101
                 Genji Yamazaki   Quasi-product form to a multinode
                                  queueing system with a common
                                  exponential setup server . . . . . . . . 103--119
                 M. L. Chaudhry   On the steady-state distribution of
                                  number in the queue geom/g/1 . . . . . . 121--125

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 13, Number 2, April, 1999

                     Sid Browne   Optimal growth in continuous-time with
                                  credit risk  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--145
             Eugene W. Wong and   
             Peter W. Glynn and   
             Donald L. Iglehart   Transient simulation via empirically
                                  based coupling . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--167
           Broderick O. Oluyede   On inequalities and selection of
                                  experiments for length biased
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--185
            Gerard J. Chang and   
                 Lirong Cui and   
                 Frank K. Hwang   New Comparisons in Birnbaum Importance
                                  for the Consecutive-$k$-out-of-$n$
                                  System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--192
      Félix Belzunce and   
              Manuel Franco and   
            José M. Ruiz   On Aging Properties Based on the
                                  Residual Life of $k$-out-of-$n$ Systems  193--199
            M. C. Bhattacharjee   Exponentiality within class $ \cal L $
                                  and stochastic equivalence of Laplace
                                  ordered survival times . . . . . . . . . 201--207
                Sheldon M. Ross   Average run lengths for moving average
                                  control charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--220
                Yiqiang Q. Zhao   Counterexamples to a conjecture on
                                  bounds for the loss probability in
                                  finite-buffer queues . . . . . . . . . . 221--227
                 A. Hordijk and   
               O. Passchier and   
                 F. M. Spieksma   On the existence of the Puiseux
                                  expansion of the discounted rewards: a
                                  counterexample . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--235
              Ravindra Khattree   On the Estimation of $ \sigma $ and the
                                  Process Capability Indices $ C_p $ AND $
                                  C_{pm} $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--250

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 13, Number 3, July, 1999

          Philip J. Fleming and   
                   Burton Simon   Heavy traffic approximations for a
                                  system of infinite servers with load
                                  balancing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--273
              Michel Denuit and   
           Claude Lef\`evre and   
                    Sergey Utev   Generalized stochastic convexity and
                                  stochastic orderings of mixtures . . . . 275--291
     J. George Shanthikumar and   
             Michael A. Zazanis   Inequalities between event and time
                                  averages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--308
              Mark E. Lewis and   
              Hayriye Ayhan and   
                Robert D. Foley   Bias optimality in a queue with
                                  admission control  . . . . . . . . . . . 309--327
            Sheldon M. Ross and   
                    Kyle Y. Lin   A pseudo counterexample to a simulation
                                  metatheorem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--332
          Marcus A. Agustin and   
           Edsel A. Peña   A dynamic competing risks model  . . . . 333--358
                         Jie Mi   On measure of system interval
                                  availability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--375
              Martin Hildebrand   On a conjecture of Fill and Holst
                                  involving the move-to-front rule and
                                  cache faults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--385

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 13, Number 4, October, 1999

              E. G. Coffman and   
              Anja Feldmann and   
               Nabil Kahale and   
                   Bjorn Poonen   Computing call admission capacities in
                                  linear networks  . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--406
                O. J. Boxma and   
                   D. Perry and   
    F. A. van der Duyn Schouten   Fluid queues and mountain processes  . . 407--427
                  N. Gautam and   
             V. G. Kulkarni and   
               Z. Palmowski and   
                      T. Rolski   Bounds for fluid models driven by
                                  semi-Markov inputs . . . . . . . . . . . 429--475
                 Esther Frostig   Optimal repair of a series system with
                                  fixed repair times . . . . . . . . . . . 477--487
             Erol A. Peköz   More on using forced idle time to
                                  improve performance in polling models    489--496
             Henry W. Block and   
               Yi-Kuan Jong and   
               Thomas H. Savits   Bathtub functions and burn-in  . . . . . 497--507
               Antonis Economou   Geometric-form bounds for the GI$^X$
                                  /M/1 queueing system . . . . . . . . . . 509--520


Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 14, Number 1, January, 2000

                Torgny Lindvall   On simulation of stochastically ordered
                                  life-length variables  . . . . . . . . . 1--7
              Anthony C. Brooms   Individual equilibrium dynamic routing
                                  in a multiple server retrial queue . . . 9--26
                Taizhong Hu and   
                      Fangyi He   A Note on Comparisons of $k$-out-of-$n$
                                  Systems with Respect to the Hazard and
                                  Reversed Hazard Rate Orders  . . . . . . 27--32
        M. C. Bhattacharjee and   
             R. N. Bhattacharya   Stochastic equivalence of convex ordered
                                  distributions and applications . . . . . 33--48
                    F. K. Hwang   Random $k$-set pool designs with
                                  distinct columns . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--56
Jean-François Dantzer and   
            Mostafa Haddani and   
                Philippe Robert   On the stability of a bandwidth packing
                                  algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--79
         Stefan Verwijmeren and   
             Michel Mandjes and   
           Richard J. Boucherie   Asymptotic evaluation of blocking
                                  probabilities in a hierarchical cellular
                                  mobile network . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--99
    Lennaert J. P. Speijker and   
       Jan M. van Noortwijk and   
               Matthijs Kok and   
                 Roger M. Cooke   Optimal maintenance decisions for dikes  101--121

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 14, Number 2, April, 2000

                     Ward Whitt   Limits for cumulative input processes to
                                  queues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--150
           Minoru Sakaguchi and   
                  Toshio Hamada   A gold-mining problem: optimal backup
                                  strategy in computer programs  . . . . . 151--160
                  Bernhard Klar   Bounds on tail probabilities of discrete
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--171
                 Yontha Ath and   
                   Milton Sobel   Counterexamples to conjectures for
                                  uniformly optimally reliable graphs  . . 173--177
            James M. Calvin and   
             Marvin K. Nakayama   Simulation of processes with multiple
                                  regeneration sequences . . . . . . . . . 179--201
         Attahiru Sule Alfa and   
         T. S. S. Srinivasa Rao   Supplementary variable technique in
                                  stochastic models  . . . . . . . . . . . 203--218
                  Naoto Miyoshi   Application of IPA to the sensitivity
                                  analysis of the leaky-bucket filter with
                                  stationary gradual input . . . . . . . . 219--241
                   V. S. Borkar   A learning algorithm for discrete-time
                                  stochastic control . . . . . . . . . . . 243--258

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 14, Number 3, July, 2000

           Christopher Lott and   
         Demosthenis Teneketzis   On the Optimality of an Index Rule in
                                  Multichannel Allocation for Single-Hop
                                  Mobile Networks with Multiple Service
                                  Classes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--297
                Taizhong Hu and   
                   Xiaoming Pan   Comparisons of dependence for stationary
                                  Markov processes . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--315
            Sheldon M. Ross and   
         J. George Shanthikumar   Pricing exotic options . . . . . . . . . 317--326
               Eitan Altman and   
                   Zhen Liu and   
                 Rhonda Righter   Scheduling of an Input-Queued Switch to
                                  Achieve Maximal Throughput . . . . . . . 327--334
              John E. Kobza and   
                Joel A. Nachlas   Transient analysis of permanent
                                  customers in a single-server queue with
                                  mixed traffic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--352
            Franco Pellerey and   
               Moshe Shaked and   
                      Joel Zinn   Nonhomogeneous Poisson processes and
                                  logconcavity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--373
                 Yontha Ath and   
                   Milton Sobel   Some conjectured uniformly optimal
                                  reliable networks  . . . . . . . . . . . 375--383
              Michael C. Fu and   
                 Rongwen Wu and   
       Gül Gürkan and   
                 A. Yonca Demir   A note on perturbation analysis
                                  estimators for American-style options    385--392
                  Aldo Tagliani   Inverse $z$ transform and moment problem 393--404
            Gerard J. Chang and   
             Frank K. Hwang and   
                     Lirong Cui   Corrigenda on ``New Comparisons in
                                  Birnbaum Importance for the
                                  Consecutive-$k$-out-of-$n$ System''  . . 405--405

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 14, Number 4, October, 2000

                 Xiuli Chao and   
              Masakiyo Miyazawa   On truncation properties of
                                  finite-buffer queues and queueing
                                  networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--423
                 Genji Yamazaki   Quasi-product form to a multinode
                                  queueing system sharing a
                                  state-dependent setup server . . . . . . 425--433
                 Daming Lin and   
                    Ming J. Zuo   Reliability Evaluation of a Linear
                                  $k$-Within-$ (r, s)$-out-of-$ (m, n)
                                  \colon {F}$ Lattice System . . . . . . . 435--443
              Yoonjung Yang and   
             Georgia-Ann Klutke   Improved inspection schemes for
                                  deteriorating equipment  . . . . . . . . 445--460
         Baha-Eldin Khaledi and   
                 Subhash Kochar   Dependence among spacings  . . . . . . . 461--472
          Gordon E. Willmot and   
                        Jun Cai   On classes of lifetime distributions
                                  with unknown age . . . . . . . . . . . . 473--484
                         Jie Mi   Average number of events and average
                                  reward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485--510
                     G. Yin and   
                   Q. Zhang and   
                      Q. G. Liu   Error bounds for occupation measure of
                                  singularly perturbed Markov chains
                                  including transient states . . . . . . . 511--531
               Kazuyoshi Wakuta   Vector-valued Markov decision processes
                                  with average reward criterion: the
                                  multichain case  . . . . . . . . . . . . 533--548


Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 15, Number 1, January, 2001

                   Arie Hordijk   Comparison of queues with different
                                  discrete-time arrival processes  . . . . 1--14
               P. S. Ansell and   
           K. D. Glazebrook and   
                     I. Mitrani   Threshold policies for a single-server
                                  queuing network  . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--33
              Tava Lennon Olsen   Limit theorems for polling models with
                                  increasing setups  . . . . . . . . . . . 35--55
                F. K. Hwang and   
                      Y. C. Liu   The expected numbers of unresolved
                                  positive clones for various random pool
                                  designs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--68
                 Mario Lefebvre   Maximizing the Time Spent by a Diffusion
                                  Process in an Interval . . . . . . . . . 69--82
         F. G. Badía and   
              M. D. Berrade and   
               C. A. Campos and   
         M. A. Navascués   On the behavior of aging characteristics
                                  in mixed populations . . . . . . . . . . 83--94
        Nimai Kumar Chandra and   
                      Dilip Roy   Some results on reversed hazard rate . . 95--102
                Linn I. Sennott   Computing average optimal constrained
                                  policies in stochastic dynamic
                                  programming  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--133

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 15, Number 2, April, 2001

                  N. Litvak and   
           I. J. B. F. Adan and   
                 J. Wessels and   
                  W. H. M. Zijm   Order picking in carousel systems under
                                  the nearest item heuristic . . . . . . . 135--164
               Eitan Altman and   
       Tania Jiménez and   
                      Ger Koole   On the comparison of queueing systems
                                  with their fluid limits  . . . . . . . . 165--178
Rudesindo Núñez-Queija   Note on the GI/GI/1 Queue with LCFS-PR
                                  Observed at Arbitrary Times  . . . . . . 179--187
                 Onno Boxma and   
                Offer Kella and   
                    David Perry   An intermittent fluid system with
                                  exponential on-times and semi-Markov
                                  input rates  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--198
      Félix Belzunce and   
              Rosa E. Lillo and   
     José-Maria Ruiz and   
                   Moshe Shaked   Stochastic comparisons of nonhomogeneous
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--224
      Remco van der Hofstad and   
        Gerard Hooghiemstra and   
               Piet Van Mieghem   First-Passage Percolation on the Random
                                  Graph  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--237
                G. M. Koole and   
                 F. M. Spieksma   On deviation matrices for birth--death
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--258
                Taizhong Hu and   
                 Zegang Zhu and   
                       Ying Wei   Likelihood ratio and mean residual life
                                  orders for order statistics of
                                  heterogeneous random variables . . . . . 259--272
      Félix Belzunce and   
              Manuel Franco and   
     José-Maria Ruiz and   
                 M. Carmen Ruiz   On partial orderings between coherent
                                  systems with different structures  . . . 273--293

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 15, Number 3, July, 2001

         Ken'ichi Kawanishi and   
            Yoshitaka Takahashi   Performance analysis of a server for
                                  facsimile communication networks . . . . 295--310
       Evangelos Moutzoukis and   
              Christos Langaris   Two queues in tandem with retrial
                                  customers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--325
                  Koichi Nakade   Effective upper bounds for expected
                                  cycle times in tandem queues with
                                  communication blocking . . . . . . . . . 327--334
               Bernd Heidergott   Option pricing via Monte Carlo
                                  simulation: a weak derivative approach   335--349
                     Mark Brown   Variance estimation for the normal
                                  distribution under log symmetric loss    351--367
                  John E. Angus   Availability of continuous service and
                                  computing long-run MTBF and reliability
                                  for Markov systems . . . . . . . . . . . 369--381
         Max S. Finkelstein and   
              Veronica Esaulova   Modeling a failure rate for a mixture of
                                  distribution functions . . . . . . . . . 383--400
         Baha-Eldin Khaledi and   
                 Subhash Kochar   Stochastic properties of spacings in a
                                  single-outlier exponential model . . . . 401--408

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 15, Number 4, October, 2001

                Tara Javidi and   
               Nah-Oak Song and   
         Demosthenis Teneketzis   Expected makespan minimization on
                                  identical machines in two interconnected
                                  queues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--443
                Oded Berman and   
                    David Perry   Two control policies for stochastic
                                  EOQ-type models  . . . . . . . . . . . . 445--463
                  Ger Koole and   
                 Rhonda Righter   A stochastic batching and scheduling
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465--479
            Sheldon M. Ross and   
                    Kyle Y. Lin   Applying variance reduction ideas in
                                  queuing simulations  . . . . . . . . . . 481--494
   Matthieu van der Heijden and   
            Aart van Harten and   
                     Mark Ebben   Waiting times at periodically switched
                                  one-way traffic lanes: a periodic,
                                  two-queue polling system with random
                                  setup times  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495--517
 Süleyman Özekici and   
           I. Kuban Altinel and   
                Ebru Angün   A general software testing model
                                  involving operational profiles . . . . . 519--533
               Piet Van Mieghem   Paths in the Simple Random Graph and the
                                  Waxman Graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535--555
     Rolando Cavazos-Cadena and   
      Raúl Montes-de-Oca   Existence of Optimal Stationary Policies
                                  in Finite Dynamic Programs with
                                  Nonnegative Rewards: an Alternative
                                  Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557--564


Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 16, Number 1, January, 2002

                Torgny Lindvall   Comparisons between certain queuing
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--17
                David Perry and   
                Wolfgang Stadje   Exact distributions in a jump-diffusion
                                  storage model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--27
   Werner R. W. Scheinhardt and   
                     Bert Zwart   A tandem fluid queue with gradual input  29--45
                   Chia-Li Wang   An identity of the GI/G/1 transient
                                  delay and its applications . . . . . . . 47--66
       Kenneth S. Berenhaut and   
                    Robert Lund   Renewal convergence rates for DHR and
                                  NWU lifetimes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--84
        Nicole Bäuerle and   
                    Anja Houdek   Bounds and performance limits of channel
                                  assignment policies in cellular networks 85--100
             Esther Frostig and   
               Doron Kliger and   
                 Benny Levikson   The deferral option in long-term-care
                                  insurance  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--119
               Hanqin Zhang and   
                         Wei Li   On the Speed of Convergence to an
                                  Exponential Distribution for the Time of
                                  the First Occurrence of a Rare Event in
                                  a Regenerating Process . . . . . . . . . 121--128
                      Dilip Roy   Classification of multivariate life
                                  distributions based on partial ordering  129--137

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 16, Number 2, April, 2002

              Masakiyo Miyazawa   A Markov renewal approach to the
                                  asymptotic decay of the tail
                                  probabilities in risk and queuing
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--150
         Lakdere Benkherouf and   
                 Lakhdar Aggoun   On a stochastic inventory model with
                                  deterioration and stock-dependent demand
                                  items  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--165
            Sheldon M. Ross and   
               Sridhar Seshadri   Hitting Time in an Erlang Loss System    167--184
            Nicholas Bambos and   
             George Michailidis   On parallel queuing with random server
                                  connectivity and routing constraints . . 185--203
             Nam Kyoo Boots and   
                 Michel Mandjes   Fast simulation of a queue fed by a
                                  superposition of many (heavy-tailed)
                                  sources  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--232
             Mokhtar H. Konsowa   Conductivity of random trees . . . . . . 233--240
               Nimrod Bayer and   
           Richard J. Boucherie   On the structure of the space of
                                  geometric product-form models  . . . . . 241--270

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 16, Number 3, July, 2002

               Moshe Shaked and   
          Fabio Spizzichino and   
               Florentina Suter   Nonhomogeneous Birth Processes and $
                                  l_\infty $-Spherical Densities, with
                                  Applications in Reliability Theory . . . 271--288
               Cathy H. Xia and   
         George Michailidis and   
            Nicholas Bambos and   
                 Peter W. Glynn   Optimal control of parallel queues with
                                  batch service  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--307
                        Jun Cai   Discrete time risk models under rates of
                                  interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--324
                David Perry and   
                M. J. M. Posner   Production-Inventory Models with an
                                  Unreliable Facility Operating in a
                                  Two-State Random Environment . . . . . . 325--338
                 Rhonda Righter   Optimal maintenance and operation of a
                                  system with backup components  . . . . . 339--349
   Pauline Coolen-Schrijner and   
              Erik A. van Doorn   The deviation matrix of a
                                  continuous-time Markov chain . . . . . . 351--366
                  V. Sharma and   
                 J. Virtamo and   
                     P. Lassila   Performance analysis of the random early
                                  detection algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . 367--388

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 16, Number 4, October, 2002

                Offer Kella and   
                Wolfgang Stadje   Exact results for a fluid model with
                                  state-dependent flow rates . . . . . . . 389--402
           Mouad Ben Mamoun and   
                 Nihal Pekergin   Closed-form stochastic bounds on the
                                  stationary distribution of Markov chains 403--426
             Marc C. Robini and   
              Yoram Bresler and   
             Isabelle E. Magnin   On the convergence of Metropolis-type
                                  relaxation and annealing with
                                  constraints  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--452
               Hyun-soo Ahn and   
               Izak Duenyas and   
                  Mark E. Lewis   Optimal control of a two-stage tandem
                                  queuing system with flexible servers . . 453--469
              Manuel Franco and   
        José M. Ruiz and   
                 M. Carmen Ruiz   Stochastic orderings between spacings of
                                  generalized order statistics . . . . . . 471--484
                    Fan C. Meng   A note on two reliability lower bounds
                                  for multistate systems . . . . . . . . . 485--498
                     J. Preater   An emergency facility with minimal
                                  admission  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499--511
               B. A. Chiera and   
                   P. G. Taylor   What is a unit of capacity worth?  . . . 513--522


Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 17, Number 1, January, 2003

                Offer Kella and   
                David Perry and   
                Wolfgang Stadje   A stochastic clearing model with a
                                  Brownian and a compound Poisson
                                  component  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--22
                  K.-P. Hui and   
                    N. Bean and   
                 M. Kraetzl and   
                      D. Kroese   The tree cut and merge algorithm for
                                  estimation of network reliability  . . . 23--45
                Sheldon M. Ross   The inspection paradox . . . . . . . . . 47--51
      Apostolos N. Burnetas and   
           Michael N. Katehakis   Asymptotic Bayes Analysis for the
                                  Finite-Horizon One-Armed-Bandit Problem  53--82
                 Xiuli Chao and   
                     Yuxi Zheng   Transient analysis of immigration
                                  birth--death processes with total
                                  catastrophes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--106
J. M. Fernández-Ponce and   
       A. Suárez-Llorens   An aging concept based on majorization   107--117
               E. G. Kyriakidis   Optimal control of a simple immigration
                                  process through the introduction of a
                                  predator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--135
                  Ramesh Korwar   On Stochastic Orders for the Lifetime of
                                  a $k$-out-of-$n$ System  . . . . . . . . 137--142
               Antonis Economou   Necessary and sufficient conditions for
                                  the stochastic comparison of Jackson
                                  networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--151
                    James Lynch   Acknowledgment of Priority: ``On the
                                  conditions for mixtures of increasing
                                  failure rate distributions to have an
                                  increasing failure rate''  . . . . . . . 153--153

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 17, Number 2, April, 2003

               Shi-Jie Deng and   
                 Shmuel S. Oren   Incorporating operational
                                  characteristics and start-up costs in
                                  option-based valuation of power
                                  generation capacity  . . . . . . . . . . 155--181
              Hailiang Yang and   
                   Lihong Zhang   Martingale Method for Ruin Probability
                                  in an Autoregressive Model with Constant
                                  Interest Rate  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--198
                Sheldon M. Ross   A note on the insurance risk problem . . 199--203
             Henry W. Block and   
                   Yulin Li and   
               Thomas H. Savits   Preservation of properties under mixture 205--212
          William L. Cooper and   
         Shane G. Henderson and   
                  Mark E. Lewis   Convergence of simulation-based policy
                                  iteration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--234
        C. Bérenguer and   
                   A. Grall and   
                 L. Dieulle and   
                  M. Roussignol   Maintenance policy for a continuously
                                  monitored deteriorating system . . . . . 235--250
           I. J. B. F. Adan and   
            J. A. C. Resing and   
                 V. G. Kulkarni   Stochastic discretization for the
                                  long-run average reward in fluid models  251--265
                  Xiaohu Li and   
                      Jingyi Lu   Stochastic comparisons on residual life
                                  and inactivity time of series and
                                  parallel systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--275

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 17, Number 3, July, 2003

             J. N. Corcoran and   
                   U. Schneider   Shift and scale coupling methods for
                                  perfect simulation . . . . . . . . . . . 277--303
      Félix Belzunce and   
                Taizhong Hu and   
             Baha-Eldin Khaledi   Dispersion-type variability orders . . . 305--334
           Shaul K. Bar-Lev and   
            Wolfgang Stadje and   
 Frank A. Van der Duyn Schouten   Hypergeometric Group Testing with
                                  Incomplete Information . . . . . . . . . 335--350
            Jan van der Wal and   
                   Uri Yechiali   Dynamic visit-order rules for
                                  batch-service polling  . . . . . . . . . 351--367
               Arie Hordijk and   
                  Nikolai Popov   Large deviations bounds for
                                  face-homogeneous random walks in the
                                  quarter-plane  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--395
               Arie Hordijk and   
                  Nikolai Popov   Large deviations analysis of a
                                  coupled-processors system  . . . . . . . 397--409
     Leendert A. Klein Haneveld   On Identities for a Random Walk in an
                                  Orthant with Absorbing Boundary  . . . . 411--415
               A. B. Dieker and   
                     M. Mandjes   On spectral simulation of fractional
                                  Brownian motion  . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--434

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 17, Number 4, October, 2003

                 Reade Ryan and   
              Steven A. Lippman   Optimal exit from a project with noisy
                                  returns  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435--458
                  W. Stadje and   
                       S. Zacks   Upper first-exit times of compound
                                  Poisson processes revisited  . . . . . . 459--465
              Xiaoqiang Cai and   
               Xiaoqian Sun and   
                      Xian Zhou   Stochastic scheduling with
                                  preemptive-repeat machine breakdowns to
                                  minimize the expected weighted flow time 467--485
              Yang Woo Shin and   
                  Bong Dae Choi   A queue with positive and negative
                                  arrivals governed by a Markov chain  . . 487--501
               Arie Hordijk and   
            Dinard van der Laan   Note on the convexity of the stationary
                                  waiting time as a function of the
                                  density  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503--508
       Michael V. Boutsikas and   
              Markos V. Koutras   Bounds for the distribution of
                                  two-dimensional binary scan statistics   509--525
               Parijat Dube and   
                   Eitan Altman   On the workload process in a fluid queue
                                  with a responsive bursty input and
                                  selective discarding . . . . . . . . . . 527--543
              Walter J. Gutjahr   A generalized convergence result for the
                                  graph-based ant system metaheuristic . . 545--569
             Mokhtar H. Konsowa   A note on the conductivity of random
                                  trees  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571--576


Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 18, Number 1, January, 2004

                Yat-wah Wan and   
                Ronald W. Wolff   Picking clumpy orders on a carousel  . . 1--11
                      Ger Koole   Convexity in tandem queues . . . . . . . 13--31
                 Zhaolin Li and   
                Susan H. Xu and   
                     Jack Hayya   A periodic-review inventory system with
                                  supply interruptions . . . . . . . . . . 33--53
                  Kai W. Ng and   
              Hailiang Yang and   
                   Lihong Zhang   Ruin probability under compound Poisson
                                  models with random discount factor . . . 55--70
                      Qihe Tang   Uniform estimates for the tail
                                  probability of maxima over finite
                                  horizons with subexponential tails . . . 71--86
               Cathy H. Xia and   
                   Zhen Liu and   
         Mark S. Squillante and   
                       Li Zhang   Lower bounds for LRD/GI/1 queues with
                                  subexponential service times . . . . . . 87--101
            Dimitra Pinotsi and   
             Michael A. Zazanis   Stability Conditions for Gated M/G/$
                                  \infty $ Queues  . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--110
               A. Budhiraja and   
 F. Hernández-Campos and   
             V. G. Kulkarni and   
                    F. D. Smith   Stochastic differential equation for TCP
                                  window size: analysis and experimental
                                  validation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--140

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 18, Number 2, April, 2004

                 Yuxi Zheng and   
         Xiuli Chao[dagger] and   
                     Xiaomei Ji   Transient analysis of linear
                                  birth--death processes with immigration
                                  and emigration . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--159
                F. K. Hwang and   
                      Y. C. Liu   A general approach to compute the
                                  probabilities of unresolved clones in
                                  random pooling designs . . . . . . . . . 161--183
                  John E. Angus   Convergence rates in approximating a
                                  compound distribution  . . . . . . . . . 185--190
            Matthew Andrews and   
           Krishnan Kumaran and   
             Kavita Ramanan and   
          Alexander Stolyar and   
          Rajiv Vijayakumar and   
                   Phil Whiting   Scheduling in a queuing system with
                                  asynchronously varying service rates . . 191--217
             Steven Nahmias and   
                David Perry and   
                Wolfgang Stadje   Actuarial valuation of perishable
                                  inventory systems  . . . . . . . . . . . 219--232
               E. G. Kyriakidis   Transient solution for a simple
                                  immigration birth--death catastrophe
                                  process  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--236
                    Fan C. Meng   Comparing Birnbaum importance measure of
                                  system components  . . . . . . . . . . . 237--245
          David Simchi-Levi and   
                       Yao Zhao   The value of information sharing in a
                                  two-stage supply chain with production
                                  capacity constraints: the infinite
                                  horizon case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--274

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 18, Number 3, July, 2004

               Moshe Shaked and   
          Fabio Spizzichino and   
               Florentina Suter   Uniform Order Statistics Property and $
                                  \ell_\infty $-Spherical Densities  . . . 275--297
             Sanne R. Smits and   
                   Ivo Adan and   
                  Ton G. de Kok   Waiting time characteristics in cyclic
                                  queues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--313
            Anke van Zuylen and   
               Frans Schalekamp   The Achilles' heel of the GSR shuffle: a
                                  note on New Age Solitaire  . . . . . . . 315--328
                Torgny Lindvall   On a routing problem . . . . . . . . . . 329--337
         Marvin K. Nakayama and   
             Perwez Shahabuddin   Quick simulation methods for estimating
                                  the unreliability of regenerative models
                                  of large, highly reliable systems  . . . 339--368
              Shigeo Shioda and   
                  Daisuke Ishii   Monotonicity results for single-server
                                  finite-capacity queues with respect to
                                  directionally convex order . . . . . . . 369--393
                   M. Kayid and   
                    I. A. Ahmad   On the mean inactivity time ordering
                                  with reliability applications  . . . . . 395--409
                    Wen Liu and   
                    Weiguo Yang   Some strong limit theorems for Markov
                                  chain fields on trees  . . . . . . . . . 411--422

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 18, Number 4, October, 2004

            Sarut Vanichpun and   
             Armand M. Makowski   When are on-off sources SIS?: conditions
                                  and applications . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--443
               Rahul Tandra and   
             N. Hemachandra and   
                   D. Manjunath   Join minimum cost queue for multiclass
                                  customers: stability and performance
                                  bounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445--472
            Erol Peköz and   
                Sheldon M. Ross   Compound random variables  . . . . . . . 473--484
                    Rafal Kulik   Monotonicity in lag for nonmonotone
                                  Markov chains  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485--492
             Michael A. Zazanis   The time-to-empty for tandem Jackson
                                  networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493--502
                Taizhong Hu and   
                  Weiwei Zhuang   Likelihood ratio ordering of the
                                  inspection paradox . . . . . . . . . . . 503--510
              Jorge Navarro and   
             Pedro J. Hernandez   How to obtain bathtub-shaped failure
                                  rate models from normal mixtures . . . . 511--531
            N. Bäuerle and   
        O. Engelhardt-Funke and   
                     M. Kolonko   Routing of airplanes to two runways:
                                  monotonicity of optimal controls . . . . 533--560
                  Naoto Miyoshi   A Note on Bounds and Monotonicity of
                                  Spatial Stationary Cox Shot Noises . . . 561--571


Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 19, Number 1, January, 2005

                 Onno Boxma and   
                 Haya Kaspi and   
                Offer Kella and   
                    David Perry   On/off storage systems with
                                  state-dependent input, output, and
                                  switching rates  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--14
                 Ian Dobson and   
       Benjamin A. Carreras and   
                David E. Newman   A loading-dependent model of
                                  probabilistic cascading failure  . . . . 15--32
                  Tomasz Rolski   A note on the increasing directionally
                                  concave monotonicity in queues . . . . . 33--43
         Eugene A. Feinberg and   
                  Mark E. Lewis   Optimality of four-threshold policies in
                                  inventory systems with customer returns
                                  and borrowing/storage options  . . . . . 45--71
       Gauresh Rajadhyaksha and   
                Vivek S. Borkar   Transmission rate control over randomly
                                  varying channels . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--82
            Javiera Barrera and   
            Thierry Huillet and   
            Christian Paroissin   Size-biased permutation of Dirichlet
                                  partitions and search-cost distribution  83--97
      Félix Belzunce and   
 José-Angel Mercader and   
  José-María Ruiz   Stochastic comparisons of generalized
                                  order statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--120
          Mohan L. Chaudhry and   
                Dae W. Choi and   
                  Kyung C. Chae   Computational analysis of stationary
                                  waiting-time distributions of GI$^X$
                                  /R/1 and GI$^X$ /D/1 queues  . . . . . . 121--140

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 19, Number 2, April, 2005

           Alexander L. Stolyar   Optimal routing in output-queued
                                  flexible server systems  . . . . . . . . 141--189
                   Ivo Adan and   
                   Gideon Weiss   A two-node Jackson network with infinite
                                  supply of work . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--212
                Henry Block and   
            Mainak Mazumdar and   
                Sheldon M. Ross   A note on generating systems composed of
                                  binary and ternary random variables  . . 213--217
               Chia-Li Wang and   
                Ronald W. Wolff   New estimators for efficient GI/G/1
                                  simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--239
         René Bekker and   
                     Bert Zwart   On an Equivalence Between Loss Rates and
                                  Cycle Maxima in Queues and Dams  . . . . 241--255
                Taizhong Hu and   
                  Weiwei Zhuang   Stochastic properties of $p$-spacings of
                                  generalized order statistics . . . . . . 257--276
                       Yulin Li   Preservations of NBUC and NBU(2) classes
                                  under mixtures . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--288

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 19, Number 3, July, 2005

                   Iddo Eliazar   Extremes: a continuous-time perspective  289--308
           Shaul K. Bar-Lev and   
                David Perry and   
                Wolfgang Stadje   Control policies for inventory systems
                                  with perishable items: outsourcing and
                                  urgency classes  . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--326
                 Reade Ryan and   
              Steven A. Lippman   Optimal exit from a deteriorating
                                  project with noisy returns . . . . . . . 327--343
                Geert Jan Franx   The M$^x$ /D/c batch arrival queue . . . 345--349
                 M. Mandjes and   
                      M. Nuyens   Sojourn times in the M/G/1 FB queue with
                                  light-tailed service times . . . . . . . 351--361
 J. P. Arias-Nicolás and   
J. M. Fernández-Ponce and   
             P. Luque-Calvo and   
       A. Suárez-Llorens   Multivariate Dispersion Order and the
                                  Notion of Copula Applied to the
                                  Multivariate $t$-Distribution  . . . . . 363--375
                I. A. Ahmad and   
                   M. Kayid and   
                    F. Pellerey   Further results involving the MIT order
                                  and the IMIT class . . . . . . . . . . . 377--395
                  W. Stadje and   
                       S. Zacks   On the upper first-exit times of
                                  compound $ G / M $ processes . . . . . . 397--403
                  Naoto Miyoshi   Correction To ``A Note on Bounds and
                                  Monotonicity of Spatial Stationary Cox
                                  Shot Noises''  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--407

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 19, Number 4, October, 2005

                 M. Vlasiou and   
               I. J. B. F. Adan   An alternating service problem . . . . . 409--426
         Baha-Eldin Khaledi and   
                 Subhash Kochar   Dependence, dispersiveness, and
                                  multivariate hazard rate ordering  . . . 427--446
                I. A. Ahmad and   
                       M. Kayid   Characterizations of the RHR and MIT
                                  orderings and the DRHR and IMIT classes
                                  of life distributions  . . . . . . . . . 447--461
         Saralees Nadarajah and   
                    Samuel Kotz   On the linear combination of Laplace
                                  random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--470
       Gauresh Rajadhyaksha and   
                Vivek S. Borkar   Correction to ``Transmission Rate
                                  Control over Randomly Varying Channels'' 471--471
                 Ian Dobson and   
       Benjamin A. Carreras and   
            Vickie E. Lynch and   
              Bertrand Nkei and   
                David E. Newman   Estimating failure propagation in models
                                  of cascading blackouts . . . . . . . . . 475--488
                Qiming Chen and   
              James D. McCalley   A cluster distribution as a model for
                                  estimating high-order-event
                                  probabilities in power systems . . . . . 489--505
             Jianfeng Zhang and   
           James A. Bucklew and   
           Fernando L. Alvarado   Search strategies for failure cascade
                                  paths in power system graphs . . . . . . 507--517
               F. A. Campos and   
                  J. Villar and   
              J. Barquín   Application of possibility theory to
                                  robust Cournot equilibrium in the
                                  electricity market . . . . . . . . . . . 519--531
          J. Barquín and   
                 E. Centeno and   
                     J. Reneses   Stochastic market equilibrium model for
                                  generation planning  . . . . . . . . . . 533--546


Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 20, Number 1, January, 2006

               Peter den Iseger   Numerical transform inversion using
                                  Gaussian quadrature  . . . . . . . . . . 1--44
                Agn\`es Lagnoux   Rare event simulation  . . . . . . . . . 45--66
                  Hai-Bo Yu and   
                 Qi-Ming He and   
                   Hanqin Zhang   Monotonicity and convexity of some
                                  functions associated with denumerable
                                  Markov chains and their applications to
                                  queuing systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--86
                    J. E. Angus   An asymptotic expansion for the
                                  inspection paradox . . . . . . . . . . . 87--94
                    M. Zhou and   
                    D. Yang and   
                    Y. Wang and   
                   S. Nadarajah   Conditional Poisson distributions  . . . 95--102
                      Qihe Tang   Asymptotic ruin probabilities in finite
                                  horizon with subexponential losses and
                                  associated discount factors  . . . . . . 103--113
                 Yujia Zhou and   
                 Anil Pahwa and   
                     Sanjoy Das   Prediction of weather-related failures
                                  of overhead distribution feeders . . . . 117--125
                    Wang Yu and   
    Gerald B. Sheblé and   
    Manuel António Matos   Application of Markov chain models for
                                  short-term generation assets valuation   127--141
           M. E. P. Maceira and   
           J. M. Damázio   Use of the $ {\rm PAR}(p) $ Model in the
                                  Stochastic Dual Dynamic Programming
                                  Optimization Scheme Used in the
                                  Operation Planning of the Brazilian
                                  Hydropower System  . . . . . . . . . . . 143--156
    A. P. Sakis Meliopoulos and   
          George K. Stefopoulos   Characterization of state estimation
                                  biases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--174
    Cansin Y. Evrenoso\uglu and   
                       Ali Abur   Effects of measurement and parameter
                                  uncertainties on the power transfer
                                  distribution factors . . . . . . . . . . 175--182
          Archana Jayakumar and   
               Sohrab Asgarpoor   Maintenance optimization of equipment by
                                  linear programming . . . . . . . . . . . 183--193

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 20, Number 2, April, 2006

                     Mark Brown   Exploiting the waiting time paradox:
                                  applications of the size-biasing
                                  transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--230
        Konstadinos Politis and   
              Markos V. Koutras   Some new bounds for the renewal function 231--250
                Sheldon M. Ross   Making simulations more efficient when
                                  analyzing Poisson arrival systems and
                                  means of monotone functions  . . . . . . 251--256
                   Yao Zhao and   
           Michael N. Katehakis   On the structure of optimal ordering
                                  policies for stochastic inventory
                                  systems with minimum order quantity  . . 257--270
            King Sing Chong and   
                        Kin Lam   Move-forward rules and $f$-swap rules
                                  applied to a communication problem . . . 271--286
              Frank Y. Chen and   
                        Y. Feng   Optimization and Optimality of $ (s, S)
                                  $ Stochastic Inventory Systems with
                                  Non-Quasiconvex Costs  . . . . . . . . . 287--306
            Josef Weichbold and   
             Klaus Schiefermayr   The optimal control of a general tandem
                                  queue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--327
                Oded Berman and   
                David Perry and   
                Wolfgang Stadje   A fluid EOQ model with a two-state
                                  random environment . . . . . . . . . . . 329--349
           Andrew L. Rukhin and   
                     Ionut Bebu   Stochastic model for the number of atoms
                                  in a magneto-optical trap  . . . . . . . 351--361
                Taizhong Hu and   
                  Jing Chen and   
                     Chaode Xie   Regression dependence in latent variable
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--379
         Baha-Eldin Khaledi and   
                 Subhash Kochar   Correction to ``Dependence,
                                  Dispersiveness, and Multivariate Hazard
                                  Rate Ordering''  . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--381

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 20, Number 3, July, 2006

               Ingram Olkin and   
             Thomas Santner and   
                     Y. L. Tong   The scientific contributions of Milton
                                  Sobel  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--411
               Claude Lef\`evre   On the outcome of a cascading failure
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--427
             Regina Egorova and   
                 Bert Zwart and   
                     Onno Boxma   Sojourn time tails in the M/D/1
                                  processor sharing queue  . . . . . . . . 429--446
      Félix Belzunce and   
    Eva-María Ortega and   
            José M. Ruiz   Stochastic orderings of discrete-time
                                  processes and discrete record values . . 447--464
                Taizhong Hu and   
                  Weiwei Zhuang   Stochastic orderings between
                                  $p$-spacings of generalized order
                                  statistics from two samples  . . . . . . 465--479
                  Xiaohu Li and   
                     Maochao Xu   Some results about MIT order and IMIT
                                  class of life distributions  . . . . . . 481--496
        Peter S. Buczkowski and   
          Vidyadhar G. Kulkarni   Funding a warranty reserve with
                                  contributions after each sale  . . . . . 497--515
           Broderick O. Oluyede   On bounds and approximating weighted
                                  distributions by exponential
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517--528
            Gary K. C. Chan and   
                  Hailiang Yang   Upper bounds for ruin probability under
                                  time series models . . . . . . . . . . . 529--542

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 20, Number 4, October, 2006

         René Bekker and   
                   Sem C. Borst   Optimal admission control in queues with
                                  workload-dependent service rates . . . . 543--570
                Sheldon M. Ross   Bounding the stationary distribution of
                                  the M/G/1 queue size . . . . . . . . . . 571--574
                Hans Daduna and   
               Rafa\l Kulik and   
             Cornelia Sauer and   
                 Ryszard Szekli   Dependence ordering for queuing networks
                                  with breakdown and repair  . . . . . . . 575--594
         Erol A. Peköz and   
                  Jose Blanchet   Heavy traffic limits via Brownian
                                  embeddings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595--598
                 Henk Tijms and   
                Jan van der Wal   A real-world stochastic two-person game  599--608
           Maria E. Mayorga and   
               Hyun-Soo Ahn and   
         J. George Shanthikumar   Optimal control of a make-to-stock
                                  system with adjustable service rate  . . 609--634
              Xiaoqiang Cai and   
                      Xian Zhou   Stochastic scheduling with asymmetric
                                  earliness and tardiness penalties under
                                  random machine breakdowns  . . . . . . . 635--654
      Jaroslaw Bartoszewicz and   
          Magdalena Skolimowska   Preservation of stochastic orders under
                                  mixtures of exponential distributions    655--666
         Dimitris Bertsimas and   
          Karthik Natarajan and   
                 Chung-Piaw Teo   Tight bounds on expected order
                                  statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667--686


Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 21, Number 1, January, 2007

                David Stirzaker   Processes with random regulation . . . . 1--17
     Dorothée Honhon and   
               Sridhar Seshadri   Admission control with incomplete
                                  information to a finite buffer queue . . 19--46
              Weiwei Zhuang and   
                    Taizhong Hu   Multivariate stochastic comparisons of
                                  sequential order statistics  . . . . . . 47--66
                 Henk Tijms and   
                    Koen Staats   Negative probabilities at work in the
                                  M/D/1 queue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--76
          Jesus R. Artalejo and   
         A. Gómez-Corral   A note on the busy period of the M/G/1
                                  queue with finite retrial group  . . . . 77--82
          Krzysztof Debicki and   
             Michel Mandjes and   
             Miranda van Uitert   A tandem queue with lévy input: a new
                                  representation of the downstream queue
                                  length . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--107
                  Rasul A. Khan   Some remarks on Blackwell--Ross
                                  martingale inequalities  . . . . . . . . 109--115
                  Kyle Siegrist   Random finite subsets with exponential
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--132
               Rafik Aguech and   
               Nabil Lasmar and   
                  Hosam Mahmoud   Extremal weighted path lengths in random
                                  binary search trees  . . . . . . . . . . 133--141
         Saralees Nadarajah and   
                    Samuel Kotz   Block and Basu's bivariate exponential
                                  distribution with application to drought
                                  data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--155

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 21, Number 2, April, 2007

               Bruno Gaujal and   
               Arie Hordijk and   
            Dinard van der Laan   On the optimal open-loop control policy
                                  for deterministic and exponential
                                  polling systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--187
    Xiaofei Fan-Orzechowski and   
             Eugene A. Feinberg   Optimality of randomized trunk
                                  reservation for a problem with multiple
                                  constraints  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--200
              M. V. Koutras and   
              P. E. Maravelakis   On the IFR property preservation for
                                  Markov chain imbeddable systems  . . . . 201--216
             Michael A. Zazanis   Asymptotic variance of passage time
                                  estimators in Markov chains  . . . . . . 217--234
           Mouad Ben Mamoun and   
                Ana Busi\'c and   
                 Nihal Pekergin   Generalized Class $ \cal C $ Markov
                                  chains and Computation of Closed-Form
                                  Bounding Distributions . . . . . . . . . 235--260
                  Wei Huang and   
        Vidhyadhar Kulkarni and   
     Jayashankar M. Swaminathan   Coordinated inventory planning for new
                                  and old products under warranty  . . . . 261--287
             Davaadorjin Monhor   A Chebyshev inequality for multivariate
                                  normal distribution  . . . . . . . . . . 289--300
               Ching-Ti Liu and   
                Yen-Chang Chang   A reliability-constrained software
                                  release policy using a non-Gaussian
                                  Kalman filter model  . . . . . . . . . . 301--314
                Ramesh C. Gupta   Role of equilibrium distribution in
                                  reliability studies  . . . . . . . . . . 315--334

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 21, Number 3, July, 2007

              Oualid Jouini and   
                   Yves Dallery   Monotonicity properties for multiserver
                                  queues with reneging and finite waiting
                                  lines  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--360
                  Refael Hassin   Information and uncertainty in a queuing
                                  system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--380
           Bernd Heidergott and   
               Arie Hordijk and   
             Miranda van Uitert   Series expansions for finite-state
                                  Markov chains  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--400
                Taizhong Hu and   
                    Wei Jin and   
             Baha-Eldin Khaledi   Ordering conditional distributions of
                                  generalized order statistics . . . . . . 401--417
                    M. Kuba and   
                   A. Panholzer   On weighted path lengths and distances
                                  in increasing trees  . . . . . . . . . . 419--433
           Kuang-Chao Chang and   
                Sheldon M. Ross   The multiple subset coupon collecting
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435--440
              M. E. Ghitany and   
                    Samuel Kotz   Reliability properties of extended
                                  linear failure-rate distributions  . . . 441--450
           Jüri Lember and   
              Alexey Koloydenko   Adjusted Viterbi training  . . . . . . . 451--475
                Wanyang Dai and   
                     Qian Jiang   Stochastic Optimal Control of ATO
                                  Systems with Batch Arrivals via
                                  Diffusion Approximation  . . . . . . . . 477--495

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 21, Number 4, October, 2007

Sigrún Andradóttir and   
              Hayriye Ayhan and   
                Douglas G. Down   Dynamic assignment of dedicated and
                                  flexible servers in tandem lines . . . . 497--538
                Wolfgang Stadje   A storage system with sporadic and
                                  continuous clearings . . . . . . . . . . 539--549
      Winfried K. Grassmann and   
                 Javad Tavakoli   A Bayesian approach to find random-time
                                  probabilities from embedded Markov chain
                                  probabilities  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551--556
                Taizhong Hu and   
                Junchao Yao and   
                     Qingshu Lu   Nonnegativity of covariances between
                                  functions of ordered random variables    557--577
                 Michael Pinedo   Stochastic batch scheduling and the
                                  ``smallest variance first'' rule . . . . 579--595
             Subhash Kochar and   
                     Maochao Xu   Stochastic comparisons of parallel
                                  systems when components have
                                  proportional hazard rates  . . . . . . . 597--609
          Karthik Natarajan and   
                     Zhou Linyi   A mean-variance bound for a three-piece
                                  linear function  . . . . . . . . . . . . 611--621
         Mokhtar H. Konsowa and   
            Reem A. Al-Jarallah   Fractal and resistance dimensions of
                                  random trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623--634
      M. Baykal-Gürsoy and   
                 K. Gürsoy   Semi-Markov decision processes:
                                  nonstandard criteria . . . . . . . . . . 635--657


Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 22, Number 1, January, 2008

         F. G. Badía and   
               C. Sangüesa   Preservation of reliability classes
                                  under mixtures of renewal processes  . . 1--17
   Ioannis S. Triantafyllou and   
              Markos V. Koutras   On the signature of coherent systems and
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--35
             P. Van Mieghem and   
                        S. Tang   Weight of the Shortest Path to the First
                                  Encountered Peer in a Peer Group of Size
                                  $m$  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--52
     J. A. M. van der Weide and   
                     Suyono and   
            J. M. van Noortwijk   Renewal theory with exponential and
                                  hyperbolic discounting . . . . . . . . . 53--74
                    Opher Baron   On the law of the $i$ th waiting time in
                                  a busy period of G/M/c queues  . . . . . 75--80
                 M. Vlasiou and   
                    U. Yechiali   M/G/$ \infty $ Polling Systems with
                                  Random Visit Times . . . . . . . . . . . 81--106
          Dimitrios G. Pandelis   Optimal control of flexible servers in
                                  two tandem queues with operating costs   107--131
          Costas Christophi and   
                  Hosam Mahmoud   On climbing tries  . . . . . . . . . . . 133--149
              Michel Denuit and   
                 Esther Frostig   Comparison of dependence in factor
                                  models with application to credit risk
                                  portfolios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--160
               Moshe Shaked and   
          Fabio Spizzichino and   
               Florentina Suter   Uniform Order Statistics Property and $
                                  l_\infty $-Spherical Densities . . . . . 161--162

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 22, Number 2, March, 2008

               Arie Hordijk and   
              Nikolay Popov and   
                 Flora Spieksma   Discrete scattering and simple and
                                  nonsimple face-homogeneous random walks  163--189
Sigrún Andradóttir and   
              Hayriye Ayhan and   
                Douglas G. Down   Maximizing the throughput of tandem
                                  lines with flexible failure-prone
                                  servers and finite buffers . . . . . . . 191--211
                   Ivo Adan and   
             Vidyadhar Kulkarni   Insurance risk with variable number of
                                  policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--219
                 Mark Brown and   
         Erol A. Peköz and   
                Sheldon M. Ross   Coupon collecting  . . . . . . . . . . . 221--229
               Arzad A. Kherani   Asymptotic properties of sojourn times
                                  in multiclass time-shared systems  . . . 231--259
             Saralees Nadarajah   A new model for symmetric and skewed
                                  data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--271
             Genji Yamazaki and   
                   Tamotsu Sogo   Insensitivity of a front-end Web system  273--286
                  Xiaohu Li and   
                Xiaoxiao Hu and   
                    Zhouping Li   Tp 2 dependence of sample spacings with
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--300

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 22, Number 3, July, 2008

          Nilay Tanik Argon and   
                Serhan Ziya and   
                 Rhonda Righter   Scheduling impatient jobs in a clearing
                                  system with insights on patient triage
                                  in mass casualty incidents . . . . . . . 301--332
                Hongmei Xie and   
                    Taizhong Hu   Conditional ordering of generalized
                                  order statistics revisited . . . . . . . 333--346
     António Pacheco and   
                     H. Ribeiro   Moments of the duration of busy periods
                                  of M$^x$ /g/1/n systems  . . . . . . . . 347--354
                Liqiang Liu and   
          Vidyadhar G. Kulkarni   Balking and Reneging in M/G/s Systems
                                  Exact Analysis and Approximations  . . . 355--371
         Alexander Dukhovny and   
              Jean-Luc Marichal   System reliability and weighted lattice
                                  polynomials  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--388
José María Fernández-Ponce and   
    Eva María Ortega and   
                Franco Pellerey   Convex comparisons for random sums in
                                  random environments and applications . . 389--413
          Winfried K. Grassmann   Warm-up periods in simulation can be
                                  detrimental  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415--429
                  T. J. Ott and   
             J. H. B. Kemperman   Transient behavior of processes in the
                                  TCP paradigm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431--471
             Subhash Kochar and   
                     Maochao Xu   Correction to ``Stochastic Comparisons
                                  of Parallel Systems When Components have
                                  Proportional Hazard Rates''  . . . . . . 473--474

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 22, Number 4, October, 2008

               Eitan Altman and   
               Iddo Eliazar and   
                    Hanoch Levy   Editorial: Uri Yechiali  . . . . . . . . 475--476
               Eitan Altman and   
                   Uri Yechiali   Infinite-server queues with system's
                                  additional tasks and impatient customers 477--493
        Benjamin Avi-Itzhak and   
                Hanoch Levy and   
                      David Raz   Quantifying fairness in queuing systems:
                                  principles, approaches, and
                                  applicability  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495--517
         Kostia Avrachenkov and   
                   Uri Yechiali   Retrial networks with finite buffers and
                                  their application to Internet data
                                  traffic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519--536
                 Onno Boxma and   
             Michel Mandjes and   
                    Offer Kella   On a queuing model with service
                                  interruptions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537--555
                   Iddo Eliazar   On the Discrete-Time G/GI/$ \infty $
                                  Queue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557--585
        René Haijema and   
                Jan van der Wal   An MDP decomposition approach for
                                  traffic control at isolated signalized
                                  intersections  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587--602
                 Cem Iyigun and   
                 Adi Ben-Israel   Probabilistic distance clustering
                                  adjusted for cluster size  . . . . . . . 603--621
          R. D. van der Mei and   
                J. A. C. Resing   Polling systems with two-phase gated
                                  service: heavy traffic results for the
                                  waiting time distribution  . . . . . . . 623--651
                     Henk Tijms   Note on approximations for the
                                  multiserver queue with finite buffer and
                                  deterministic services . . . . . . . . . 653--658


Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 23, Number 1, January, 2009

                Hongmei Xie and   
                    Taizhong Hu   Ordering $p$-spacings of generalized
                                  order statistics revisited . . . . . . . 1--16
                  Peng Zhao and   
                      Xiaohu Li   Stochastic order of sample range from
                                  heterogeneous exponential random
                                  variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--29
                 Mark Brown and   
             J. H. B. Kemperman   Sharp two-sided bounds for distributions
                                  under a hazard rate constraint . . . . . 31--36
                    May-Ru Chen   Proportional three-person red-and-black
                                  games  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--50
                   Bahar Kaynar   Optimal stopping in a stochastic game    51--60
                    Yingdong Lu   Performance estimation of M/D$_K$ /1
                                  queue under fair sojourn protocol in
                                  heavy traffic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--74
           Antonis Economou and   
             Stella Kapodistria   $Q$-series in Markov chains with
                                  binomial transitions: studying a queue
                                  with synchronization . . . . . . . . . . 75--99
                 Sandjai Bhulai   Dynamic routing policies for multiskill
                                  call centers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--119
              Nigel G. Bean and   
    Ma\lgorzata M. O'Reilly and   
                Peter G. Taylor   Hitting probabilities and hitting times
                                  for stochastic fluid flows: the bounded
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--147
         Markus Heydenreich and   
      Remco van der Hofstad and   
                 Georgi Radulov   Functionals of Brownian Bridges Arising
                                  in the Current Mismatch in D/A
                                  Converters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--172
                      Anonymous   PES volume 23 issue 1 Cover and Front
                                  matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . f1--f2
                      Anonymous   PES volume 23 issue 1 Cover and Back
                                  matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . b1--b2

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 23, Number 2, April, 2009

               Hyun-Soo Ahn and   
                  Mark E. Lewis   Analysis, evaluation, and management of
                                  queuing systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--174
          Nilay Tanik Argon and   
                    Li Ding and   
        Kevin D. Glazebrook and   
                    Serhan Ziya   Dynamic routing of customers with
                                  general delay costs in a multiserver
                                  queuing system . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--203
        Jean-Philippe Gayon and   
    Isilay Talay-Degirmenci and   
            Fikri Karaesmen and   
          E. Lerzan Örmeci   Optimal pricing and production policies
                                  of a make-to-stock system with
                                  fluctuating demand . . . . . . . . . . . 205--230
        Robert C. Hampshire and   
           Otis B. Jennings and   
              William A. Massey   A time-varying call center design via
                                  Lagrangian mechanics . . . . . . . . . . 231--259
  Jorge Limón-Robles and   
              Martin A. Wortman   On the time-dependent occupancy
                                  distribution of the G/G/1 queuing system 261--280
          Nathan P. Sherman and   
       Jeffrey P. Kharoufeh and   
               Mark A. Abramson   An M/G/1 retrial queue with unreliable
                                  server for streaming multimedia
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--304
         Samuel G. Steckley and   
         Shane G. Henderson and   
                 Vijay Mehrotra   Forecast errors in service systems . . . 305--332
           Joris Walraevens and   
               Dieter Fiems and   
                Marc Moeneclaey   Using singularity analysis to
                                  approximate transient characteristics in
                                  queueing systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--355
        Robert C. Hampshire and   
          William A. Massey and   
                     Qiong Wang   Dynamic pricing to control loss systems
                                  with quality of service targets  . . . . 357--383
           E. M. M. Winands and   
           I. J. B. F. Adan and   
           G. J. van Houtum and   
                     D. G. Down   A state-dependent polling model with
                                  $k$-limited service  . . . . . . . . . . 385--408
                      Anonymous   PES volume 23 issue 2 Cover and Front
                                  matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . f1--f2
                      Anonymous   PES volume 23 issue 2 Cover and Back
                                  matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . b1--b2

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 23, Number 3, July, 2009

                Pengfei Guo and   
                    Paul Zipkin   The impacts of customers' delay-risk
                                  sensitivities on a queue with balking    409--432
                    Nan Liu and   
          Vidyadhar G. Kulkarni   Decomposition property for
                                  Markov-modulated queues with
                                  applications to warranty management  . . 433--447
                     Mark Brown   Order statistics from dependent,
                                  completely monotone distributions  . . . 449--455
            Burak Büke and   
          John J. Hasenbein and   
                David P. Morton   Minimizing makespan in a multiclass
                                  fluid network with parameter uncertainty 457--480
     Christopher S. Withers and   
             Saralees Nadarajah   Expansions for sums of Rayleighs . . . . 481--487
                   Yifan Xu and   
                     Xiuli Chao   Dynamic pricing and inventory control
                                  for a production system with average
                                  profit criterion . . . . . . . . . . . . 489--513
              Jung-Hyun Kim and   
               Hyun-Soo Ahn and   
                 Rhonda Righter   Optimal production policies with
                                  multistage stochastic demand lead times  515--543
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 23, Number 4, October, 2009

                   Xin Chen and   
              David Simchi-Levi   A new approach for the stochastic cash
                                  balance problem with fixed costs . . . . 545--562
             Rhonda Righter and   
               Moshe Shaked and   
         J. George Shanthikumar   Intrinsic aging and classes of
                                  nonparametric distributions  . . . . . . 563--582
              Weiwei Zhuang and   
                    Taizhong Hu   Stochastic ordering of a class of
                                  symmetric distributions  . . . . . . . . 583--595
             Gert de Cooman and   
              Filip Hermans and   
               Erik Quaeghebeur   Imprecise Markov chains and their limit
                                  behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597--635
            Sheldon M. Ross and   
                 Henk Tijms and   
                      Shinyi Wu   A Model for Locking in Gains with an
                                  Application to Clinical Trials . . . . . 637--647
          Fahimah Al-Awadhi and   
            Mokhtar Konsowa and   
                   Zainab Najeh   Commute times and the effective
                                  resistances of random trees  . . . . . . 649--660
              Maria Deijfen and   
                 Willemien Kets   Random intersection graphs with tunable
                                  degree distribution and clustering . . . 661--674
                   Thomas Voice   Stochastically scalable flow control . . 675--698
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 24, Number 1, January, 2010

                 Onno Boxma and   
                Offer Kella and   
                 Michel Mandjes   On a generic class of lévy-driven
                                  vacation models  . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--12
                Moshe Haviv and   
                Offer Kella and   
                    Yoav Kerner   Equilibrium strategies in queues based
                                  on time or index of arrival  . . . . . . 13--25
              Dennis Roubos and   
                 Sandjai Bhulai   Approximate dynamic programming
                                  techniques for the control of
                                  time-varying queuing systems applied to
                                  call centers with abandonments and
                                  retrials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--45
               Anna Gerardi and   
                 Paola Tardelli   Risk-neutral measures and pricing for a
                                  pure jump price process: a stochastic
                                  control approach . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--76
          Christine Fricker and   
          Fabrice Guillemin and   
                Philippe Robert   An Identification Problem in an Urn and
                                  Ball Model with Heavy Tailed
                                  Distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--97
                Offer Kella and   
            Andreas Löpker   A Markov-modulated growth collapse model 99--107
             Subhash Kochar and   
                     Maochao Xu   On Residual Lifetimes of $k$-out-of-$n$
                                  Systems with Nonidentical Components . . 109--127
                    B. Klar and   
        P. R. Parthasarathy and   
                       N. Henze   Zipf and Lerch limit of birth and death
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--144
             Bogdan Grechuk and   
             Anton Molyboha and   
             Michael Zabarankin   Chebyshev inequalities with
                                  law-invariant deviation measures . . . . 145--170
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 24, Number 2, April, 2010

            Douglas G. Down and   
                  Mark E. Lewis   The $n$-network model with upgrades  . . 171--200
                James M. Calvin   Using excursions to analyze simulation
                                  output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--218
         Mor Harchol-Balter and   
                    Rein Vesilo   To balance or unbalance load in
                                  size-interval task allocation  . . . . . 219--244
               Tiantian Mao and   
                    Taizhong Hu   Equivalent characterizations on
                                  orderings of order statistics and sample
                                  ranges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--262
           Fabrizio Durante and   
             Rachele Foschi and   
              Fabio Spizzichino   Aging functions and multivariate notions
                                  of NBU and IFR . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--278
             Pingping Zhong and   
                Weiguo Yang and   
                   Peipei Liang   The Asymptotic Equipartition Property
                                  for Asymptotic Circular Markov Chains    279--288
              Naoto Miyoshi and   
               Mariko Ogura and   
           Takeya Shigezumi and   
                  Ryuhei Uehara   Subexponential interval graphs generated
                                  by immigration--death processes  . . . . 289--301
    Eva María Ortega and   
           Laureano F. Escudero   Variability for carrier-borne epidemics
                                  and Reed--Frost models incorporating
                                  uncertainties and dependencies from
                                  susceptibles and infectives  . . . . . . 303--328
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 24, Number 3, July, 2010

               Tiantian Mao and   
                Taizhong Hu and   
                      Peng Zhao   Ordering convolutions of heterogeneous
                                  exponential and geometric distributions
                                  revisited  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--348
                Felipe Caro and   
               Onesun Steve Yoo   Indexability of bandit problems with
                                  response delays  . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--374
             Marcus Pendergrass   A path guessing game with wagering . . . 375--396
           Vladimir Mazalov and   
                   Anna Ivashko   Equilibrium in $n$-person game of
                                  showcase showdown  . . . . . . . . . . . 397--403
             Peter W. Glynn and   
              Andrey Dolgin and   
       Reuven Y. Rubinstein and   
               Radislav Vaisman   How to generate uniform samples on
                                  discrete sets using the splitting method 405--422
                      Shai Covo   On probabilities associated with the
                                  minimum distance between events of a
                                  Poisson process in a finite interval . . 423--439
 Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan and   
      Félix Belzunce and   
                Nasrin Hami and   
             Baha-Eldin Khaledi   Univariate and multivariate likelihood
                                  ratio ordering of generalized order
                                  statistics and associated conditional
                                  variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441--455
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 24, Number 4, October, 2010

                Remco Germs and   
              Nicky Van Foreest   Loss Probabilities for the M$^X$ /G$^Y$
                                  /1/K + B Bulk Queue  . . . . . . . . . . 457--471
                     Jun Li and   
                Yiqiang Q. Zhao   On the probability distribution of join
                                  queue length in a fork-join model  . . . 473--483
                    Yingdong Lu   Ratio between average sojourn times
                                  under processor sharing and fair sojourn
                                  protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485--490
                 Mark Brown and   
         Erol A. Peköz and   
                Sheldon M. Ross   Some results for skip-free random walk   491--507
               Cathy H. Xia and   
                Alix L. H. Chow   Asymptotically optimal load distribution
                                  for multipath streaming under FEC  . . . 509--523
        Vladimir Pozdnyakov and   
              J. Michael Steele   Bugs on a budget: distributed sensing
                                  with cost for reporting and nonreporting 525--534
                   Ivo Adan and   
                Cor Hurkens and   
                   Gideon Weiss   A reversible Erlang loss system with
                                  multitype customers and multitype
                                  servers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535--548
     Christopher S. Withers and   
             Saralees Nadarajah   Methods for symmetrizing random
                                  variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549--559
                Majid Asadi and   
            Somayeh Ashrafi and   
             Nader Ebrahimi and   
                 Ehsan S. Soofi   Models based on partial information
                                  about survival and hazard gradient . . . 561--584
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 25, Number 1, January, 2011

          Nathan P. Sherman and   
           Jeffrey P. Kharoufeh   Optimal Bernoulli Routing in an
                                  Unreliable M/G/1 Retrial Queue . . . . . 1--20
                  Joke Blom and   
                 Michel Mandjes   Traffic generated by a semi-Markov
                                  additive process . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--27
                 Paola Tardelli   Utility maximization in a pure jump
                                  model with partial observation . . . . . 29--54
                Leila Amiri and   
         Baha-Eldin Khaledi and   
         Francisco J. Samaniego   On skewness and dispersion among
                                  convolutions of independent gamma random
                                  variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--69
                Hongmei Xie and   
                  Weiwei Zhuang   Some new results on ordering of simple
                                  spacings of generalized order statistics 71--81
                 Steven G. From   Some new reliability bounds for sums of
                                  NBUE random variables  . . . . . . . . . 83--102
            Ramesh C. Gupta and   
                   Weston Viles   Roller-coaster failure rates and mean
                                  residual life functions with application
                                  to the extended generalized inverse
                                  Gaussian model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--118
                    May-Ru Chen   Two-person red-and-black game with lower
                                  limit  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--133
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 25, Number 2, April, 2011

              Onno J. Boxma and   
               Israel David and   
                David Perry and   
                Wolfgang Stadje   A new look at organ transplantation
                                  models and double matching queues  . . . 135--155
                Chris Dietz and   
        Dinard van der Laan and   
                      Ad Ridder   Approximate results for a generalized
                                  secretary problem  . . . . . . . . . . . 157--169
         Georgios Psarrakos and   
            Michael Tsatsomeros   Ratio monotonicity for tail
                                  probabilities in the renewal risk model  171--185
             Mahdi Tavangar and   
                    Majid Asadi   On stochastic and aging properties of
                                  generalized order statistics . . . . . . 187--204
                   Dudley Stark   Oil production models with normal rate
                                  curves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--217
               Neeraj Misra and   
           Amit Kumar Misra and   
          Ishwari Dutt Dhariyal   Active redundancy allocations in series
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--235
                  Xiaohu Li and   
                  Shuhong Zhang   Some new results on rényi entropy of
                                  residual life and inactivity time  . . . 237--250
           Broderick O. Oluyede   Exponential dominance and uncertainty
                                  for weighted residual life measures  . . 251--263
                  Hongli Ma and   
                    Weiguo Yang   Erratum to ``The Asymptotic
                                  Equipartition Property for Asymptotic
                                  Circular Markov Chains'' [Probability in
                                  the Engineering and Informational
                                  Sciences, \bf 24, 2010, 279--288]  . . . 265--267
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 25, Number 3, July, 2011

               Samuli Aalto and   
               Urtzi Ayesta and   
                 Rhonda Righter   Properties of the Gittins index with
                                  application to optimal scheduling  . . . 269--288
                Pengfei Guo and   
              Zhaotong Lian and   
                     Yulan Wang   Pricing perishable products with
                                  compound Poisson demands . . . . . . . . 289--306
            Dinard van der Laan   Optimal mixing of Markov decision rules
                                  for MDP control  . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--342
                Sheldon M. Ross   The multiple-player ante one game  . . . 343--353
      Félix Belzunce and   
               Selma Gurler and   
            José M. Ruiz   Revisiting multivariate likelihood ratio
                                  ordering results for order statistics    355--368
                      Peng Zhao   On parallel systems with heterogeneous
                                  gamma components . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--391
         Vincent Leijdekker and   
                   Peter Spreij   Explicit computations for a filtering
                                  problem with point process observations
                                  with applications to credit risk . . . . 393--418
           Pasquale Cirillo and   
          Jürg Hüsler   Generalized extreme shock models with a
                                  possibly increasing threshold  . . . . . 419--434
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 25, Number 4, October, 2011

                 Maochao Xu and   
                    Taizhong Hu   Order statistics from heterogeneous
                                  negative binomial random variables . . . 435--448
               M. Burkschat and   
                     J. Navarro   Aging properties of sequential order
                                  statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449--467
             Hac\`ene Belbachir   Determining the mode for convolution
                                  powers of discrete uniform distribution  469--475
                 Rhonda Righter   Stochastic sequential assignment problem
                                  with arrivals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477--485
       Juan F. Pérez and   
                Benny Van Houdt   The M/G/1-Type Markov Chain with
                                  Restricted Transitions and its
                                  Application to Queues with Batch
                                  Arrivals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487--517
      Daniel Wei-Chung Miao and   
                      Hung Chen   On the variances of system size and
                                  sojourn time in a discrete-time
                                  DAR(1)/D/1 queue . . . . . . . . . . . . 519--535
         Eugene A. Feinberg and   
                   Fenghsu Yang   Optimality of Trunk Reservation for an
                                  M/M/K/N Queue with Several Customer
                                  Types and Holding Costs  . . . . . . . . 537--560
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 26, Number 1, January, 2012

               Brian Fralix and   
               James Livsey and   
                    Robert Lund   Renewal sequences with periodic dynamics 1--15
              Frank Aurzada and   
                Sergej Beck and   
              Michael Scheutzow   Wait-and-see strategies in polling
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--42
                Taizhong Hu and   
                 Yashi Wang and   
                  Weiwei Zhuang   New properties of the total time on test
                                  transform order  . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--60
               Weiyong Ding and   
                  Xiaohu Li and   
     Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan   Monotonicity properties of residual
                                  lifetimes of parallel systems and
                                  inactivity times of series systems with
                                  heterogeneous components . . . . . . . . 61--75
             H. Dharma Kwon and   
          Steven A. Lippman and   
            Christopher S. Tang   Optimal markdown pricing strategy with
                                  demand learning  . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--104
            Mokhtar Konsowa and   
              Fahimah Al-Awadhi   The speed of random walks on trees and
                                  electric networks  . . . . . . . . . . . 105--116
          Ilya B. Gertsbakh and   
                Yoseph Shpungin   Combinatorial approach to computing
                                  component importance indexes in coherent
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--128
         Stella Kapodistria and   
             Georgios Psarrakos   Some extensions of the residual lifetime
                                  and its connection to the cumulative
                                  residual entropy . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--146
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 26, Number 2, April, 2012

                 Gaofeng Da and   
                  Ben Zheng and   
                    Taizhong Hu   Ordering Consecutive $k$-out-of-$ n
                                  \colon {F}$ Systems  . . . . . . . . . . 147--158
                  Peng Zhao and   
                N. Balakrishnan   Stochastic comparisons of largest order
                                  statistics from multiple-outlier
                                  exponential models . . . . . . . . . . . 159--182
                Ji Hwan Cha and   
              Maxim Finkelstein   Stochastic survival models with events
                                  triggered by external shocks . . . . . . 183--195
               Guodong Pang and   
                     Ward Whitt   Infinite-server queues with batch
                                  arrivals and dependent service times . . 197--220
             M. L. Chaudhry and   
              S. K. Samanta and   
                     A. Pacheco   Analytically Explicit Results for the
                                  GI/C-MSP/1/$ \infty $ Queueing System
                                  Using Roots  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--244
           Matthijs R. Koot and   
                 Michel Mandjes   The analysis of singletons in
                                  generalized birthday problems  . . . . . 245--262
                Aykut Atali and   
           Özalp Özer   Stochastic multi-item inventory systems
                                  with Markov-modulated demands and
                                  production quantity requirements . . . . 263--293
      Edmond J. Vanderperre and   
          Stanislav S. Makhanov   Risk analysis of a robot-safety device
                                  system subjected to a priority rule  . . 295--306
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 26, Number 3, July, 2012

                   Ivo Adan and   
                   Gideon Weiss   A loss system with skill-based servers
                                  under assign to longest idle server
                                  policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--321
                    May-Ru Chen   Nash equilibriums in two-person
                                  red-and-black games  . . . . . . . . . . 323--336
              M. A. A. Boon and   
           I. J. B. F. Adan and   
           E. M. M. Winands and   
                     D. G. Down   Delays at signalized intersections with
                                  exhaustive traffic control . . . . . . . 337--373
                  Baojun Du and   
                  Peng Zhao and   
                N. Balakrishnan   Likelihood ratio and hazard rate
                                  orderings of the maxima in two
                                  multiple-outlier geometric samples . . . 375--391
             Subhash Kochar and   
                     Maochao Xu   Some unified results on comparing linear
                                  combinations of independent gamma random
                                  variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--404
            M. Yasin Ulukus and   
       Jeffrey P. Kharoufeh and   
               Lisa M. Maillart   Optimal replacement policies under
                                  environment-driven degradation . . . . . 405--424
                Offer Kella and   
            Andreas Löpker   A generalized memoryless property  . . . 425--436
           Jose H. Blanchet and   
Carlos G. Pacheco-González   Uniform convergence to a law containing
                                  Gaussian and Cauchy distributions  . . . 437--448
                      Harry Joe   Book Review: \booktitleInequalities:
                                  Theory of Majorization and Its
                                  Applications, 2nd edition by Marshall,
                                  A. W., Olkin, I. and Arnold, B. C.,
                                  Springer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449--453
               Guodong Pang and   
                     Ward Whitt   Infinite-server queues with batch
                                  arrivals and dependent service
                                  times-corrigendum  . . . . . . . . . . . 455--455
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 26, Number 4, October, 2012

                 Xiuli Chao and   
                   Yifan Xu and   
                    Baimei Yang   Optimal policy for a
                                  production-inventory system with setup
                                  cost and average cost criterion  . . . . 457--481
       Michael N. Katehakis and   
                Laurens C. Smit   A successive lumping procedure for a
                                  class of Markov chains . . . . . . . . . 483--508
           Pasquale Cirillo and   
          Jürg Hüsler   An urn model for cascading failures on a
                                  lattice  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509--534
                  Wenhua Lv and   
               Tiantian Mao and   
                    Taizhong Hu   Properties of second-order regular
                                  variation and expansions for risk
                                  concentration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535--559
                 J. Gaither and   
                     M. D. Ward   Analytic methods for select sets . . . . 561--568
              Samim Ghamami and   
                Sheldon M. Ross   Improving the normalized importance
                                  sampling estimator . . . . . . . . . . . 569--572
             Henry W. Block and   
        Naftali A. Langberg and   
               Thomas H. Savits   A Mixture of Exponential and IFR Gamma
                                  Distributions Having an Upsidedown
                                  Bathtub-Shaped Failure Rate  . . . . . . 573--580
                  D. Roubos and   
                      S. Bhulai   Approximate dynamic programming
                                  techniques for skill-based routing in
                                  call centers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581--591
            Tara L. Steuber and   
          Peter C. Kiessler and   
                    Robert Lund   Testing for reversibility in Markov
                                  chain data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593--611
                  Baojun Du and   
                  Peng Zhao and   
                N. Balakrishnan   Likelihood ratio and hazard rate
                                  orderings of the maxima in two
                                  multiple-outlier geometric samples ---
                                  erratum  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613--613
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 27, Number 1, January, 2013

      Dimitrios G. Pandelis and   
Constantinos C. Karamatsoukis and   
      Epaminondas G. Kyriakidis   Single vehicle routing problems with a
                                  predefined customer order, unified load
                                  and stochastic discrete demands  . . . . 1--23
                Tianke Feng and   
              Joseph C. Hartman   The sequential stochastic assignment
                                  problem with postponement options  . . . 25--51
                Sheldon M. Ross   A Markov chain choice problem  . . . . . 53--55
              Ruben Bossier and   
              Maria Vlasiou and   
                       Ivo Adan   Analytic properties of two-carousel
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--84
               Tiantian Mao and   
               Xiaoqing Pan and   
                    Taizhong Hu   On orderings between weighted sums of
                                  random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--97
                 Wei-Yi Lee and   
                   Chia-Li Wang   Conditional sojourn times of
                                  processor-sharing queues . . . . . . . . 99--114
             Davaadorjin Monhor   Inequalities for correlated bivariate
                                  normal distribution function . . . . . . 115--123
        M. Shafaei Noughabi and   
G. R. Mohtashami Borzadaran and   
         A. H. Rezaei Roknabadi   On the reliability properties of some
                                  weighted models of bathtub shaped hazard
                                  rate distributions . . . . . . . . . . . 125--140
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 27, Number 2, April, 2013

                     Mark Brown   A balance scale problem  . . . . . . . . 141--146
               Hosam M. Mahmoud   Drawing multisets of balls from tenable
                                  balanced linear urns . . . . . . . . . . 147--162
         F. G. Badía and   
                    Ji Hwan Cha   Preservation properties of a renewal
                                  process stopped at a random dependent
                                  time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--175
                Ji Hwan Cha and   
              Maxim Finkelstein   A note on the class of geometric
                                  counting processes . . . . . . . . . . . 177--185
             Jia-Ping Huang and   
                   Ushio Sumita   Dynamic analysis of a multivariate
                                  reward process defined on the UMCP with
                                  application to optimal preventive
                                  maintenance policy problems in
                                  manufacturing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--208
                  Yiwei Cai and   
          John J. Hasenbein and   
          Erhan Kutano\uglu and   
                    Melody Liao   Single-machine multiple-recipe
                                  predictive maintenance . . . . . . . . . 209--235
                    Yingdong Lu   Finite horizon ruin probabilities for
                                  random walks with heavy tailed
                                  increments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--246
              Qunqiang Feng and   
                 Zhishui Hu and   
                        Chun Su   The Zagreb indices of random graphs  . . 247--260
            Ramesh C. Gupta and   
        S. N. U. A. Kirmani and   
                N. Balakrishnan   On a class of generalized
                                  Marshall--Olkin bivariate distributions
                                  and some reliability characteristics . . 261--275
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 27, Number 3, July, 2013

           Golshid Baharian and   
            Sheldon H. Jacobson   Stochastic sequential assignment problem
                                  with threshold criteria  . . . . . . . . 277--296
               Hosam M. Mahmoud   Some node degree properties of
                                  series-parallel graphs evolving under a
                                  stochastic growth model  . . . . . . . . 297--307
                   Brian Fralix   A time-dependent study of the knockout
                                  queue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--317
               S. Nadarajah and   
              C. S. Withers and   
                 S. A. A. Bakar   Expansions for moments of compound
                                  Poisson distributions  . . . . . . . . . 319--331
           Vahid Sarhangian and   
              Baris Balcio\uglu   Waiting Time Analysis of Multi-Class
                                  Queues with Impatient Customers  . . . . 333--352
                 Isha Dewan and   
                 Subhash Kochar   Some New Applications of $P$--$P$ Plots  353--366
                   Rui Fang and   
                      Xiaohu Li   A note on bivariate dual generalized
                                  Marshall--Olkin distributions with
                                  applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--374
               Lihong Zhang and   
                       Lin Zhao   Quantifying the impact of partial
                                  information on Sharpe ratio optimization 375--402
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 27, Number 4, October, 2013

            N. Balakrishnan and   
                      Peng Zhao   Ordering Properties of Order Statistics
                                  from Heterogeneous Populations: a Review
                                  with an Emphasis on Some Recent
                                  Developments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403--443
                   Moshe Shaked   Comments on the survey by Balakrishnan
                                  and Zhao . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445--449
                     Maochao Xu   Comments on ``Ordering Properties of
                                  Order Statistics from Heterogeneous
                                  Populations: a Review with an Emphasis
                                  on Some Recent Developments''  . . . . . 451--454
                  Xiaohu Li and   
                    Yinping You   Comments on ``Ordering Properties of
                                  Order Statistics from Heterogeneous
                                  Populations''  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455--462
             Baha-Eldin Khaledi   Comments on: ``Ordering Properties of
                                  Order Statistics from Heterogeneous
                                  Populations: a Review with an Emphasis
                                  on Some Recent Developments'' by N.
                                  Balakrishnan and P. Zhao . . . . . . . . 463--464
                Marco Burkschat   Comments on the survey by Balakrishnan
                                  and Zhao . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465--466
            N. Balakrishnan and   
                      Peng Zhao   Authors' rejoinder . . . . . . . . . . . 467--469
               Song-Hee Kim and   
                     Ward Whitt   Estimating waiting times with the
                                  time-varying Little's Law  . . . . . . . 471--506
                   Die Chen and   
               Tiantian Mao and   
                    Taizhong Hu   Asymptotic behavior of extremal events
                                  for aggregate dependent random variables 507--531
           Francesca Collet and   
            Fabrizio Leisen and   
          Fabio Spizzichino and   
               Florentina Suter   Exchangeable occupancy models and
                                  discrete processes with the generalized
                                  uniform order statistics property  . . . 533--552
              Asok K. Nanda and   
             Suchismita Das and   
                N. Balakrishnan   On dynamic proportional mean residual
                                  life model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553--588
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 28, Number 1, January, 2014

                  Nir Perel and   
                   Uri Yechiali   The Israeli queue with infinite number
                                  of groups  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--19
             Ilya Gertsbakh and   
          Reuven Rubinstein and   
            Yoseph Shpungin and   
               Radislav Vaisman   Permutational methods for performance
                                  analysis of stochastic flow networks . . 21--38
               Weiyong Ding and   
                 Gaofeng Da and   
                      Xiaohu Li   Comparisons of series and parallel
                                  systems with heterogeneous components    39--53
                Isaac Meilijson   The re-opening of Dubins and Savage
                                  Casino in the era of diversification . . 55--65
           M. Gopaladesikan and   
                 H. Mahmoud and   
                     M. D. Ward   Building Random Trees from Blocks  . . . 67--81
                 M. Mandjes and   
                       Eurandom   Generalized birthday problems in the
                                  large-deviations regime  . . . . . . . . 83--99
            Christian Borgs and   
         Jennifer T. Chayes and   
            Sherwin Doroudi and   
         Mor Harchol-Balter and   
                       Kuang Xu   The optimal admission threshold in
                                  observable queues with state dependent
                                  pricing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--119
                 H. Dharma Kwon   Prevention of catastrophic failures with
                                  weak forewarning signals . . . . . . . . 121--144
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 28, Number 2, April, 2014

            David J. Aldous and   
                    Nathan Ross   Entropy of some models of sparse random
                                  graphs with vertex-names . . . . . . . . 145--168
          Milan Bradonji\'c and   
                    Iraj Saniee   Bootstrap Percolation on Random
                                  Geometric Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--181
                 Percy H. Brill   Alternative analysis of finite-time
                                  probability distributions of renewal
                                  theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--201
                     Mark Brown   Variance bounds under a hazard rate
                                  constraint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--208
                   Qing Liu and   
               Tiantian Mao and   
                    Taizhong Hu   The second-order regular variation of
                                  order statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--222
 Abhilasha Prakash Katariya and   
                Eylem Tekin and   
          Sila Çetinkaya   A capacitated replenishment-liquidation
                                  model under contractual and spot markets
                                  with stochastic demand . . . . . . . . . 223--269
                      Allan Gut   Some remarks on distributed sensing with
                                  costs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--277
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 28, Number 3, July, 2014

                 Nelson Lee and   
      Vidyadhar G. Kulkarni and   
              Yasutaka Hirasawa   Optimal static assignment and routing
                                  policies for service centers with
                                  correlated traffic . . . . . . . . . . . 279--311
               Yonit Barron and   
                David Perry and   
                Wolfgang Stadje   A jump-fluid production-inventory model
                                  with a double band control . . . . . . . 313--333
          Evgueni Gordienko and   
                 Andrey Novikov   Characterizations of optimal policies in
                                  a general stopping problem and stability
                                  estimating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--352
                 Shlomi Reuveni   Catalan's trapezoids . . . . . . . . . . 353--361
           Ahmad Al Hanbali and   
             Roland de Haan and   
       Richard J. Boucherie and   
           Jan-Kees van Ommeren   Delay in a Tandem Queueing Model with
                                  Mobile Queues: an Analytical
                                  Approximation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--387
         Mahdi Alimohammadi and   
 Mohammad Hossein Alamatsaz and   
                  Erhard Cramer   Some convexity properties of the
                                  distribution of lower $k$-record values
                                  with extensions  . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--399
           Christian Genest and   
                Mhamed Mesfioui   Bivariate extensions of Skellam's
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--417
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 28, Number 4, October, 2014

                  Yunan Liu and   
                     Ward Whitt   Stabilizing performance in networks of
                                  queues with time-varying arrival rates   419--449
              M. A. A. Boon and   
               E. M. M. Winands   Heavy-traffic analysis of $k$-limited
                                  polling systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . 451--471
              Frank Karsten and   
              Marco Slikker and   
           Geert-Jan van Houtum   Domain extensions of the Erlang loss
                                  function: their scalability and its
                                  applications to cooperative games  . . . 473--488
           Erhun Özkan and   
           Jeffrey P. Kharoufeh   Optimal control of a two-server queueing
                                  system with failures . . . . . . . . . . 489--527
                  Zhan Pang and   
                  Frank Y. Chen   Coordinated pricing and inventory
                                  control with batch production and Erlang
                                  leadtimes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529--563
               Hosam M. Mahmoud   Some properties of binary
                                  series-parallel graphs . . . . . . . . . 565--572
          Enkelejd Hashorva and   
                      Jinzhu Li   Asymptotics for a discrete-time risk
                                  model with the emphasis on financial
                                  risk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573--588
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 29, Number 1, January, 2015

         Masahiro Kobayashi and   
          Masakiyo Miyazawa and   
                Hiroshi Shimizu   Structure-reversibility of a
                                  two-dimensional reflecting random walk
                                  and its application to queueing network  1--25
                   Jamol Pender   Nonstationary loss queues via cumulant
                                  moment approximations  . . . . . . . . . 27--49
               Wesley Cowan and   
           Michael N. Katehakis   Multi-armed bandits under general
                                  depreciation and commitment  . . . . . . 51--76
         Bora Çekyay and   
     Süleyman Özekici   Optimal maintenance of semi-Markov
                                  missions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--98
                May-Ru Chen and   
                Shoou-Ren Hsiau   On a generalized $Q$-urn model . . . . . 99--115
                  Kai Huang and   
                         Jie Mi   Study of instant system availability . . 117--129
              Yair Goldberg and   
                      Yuval Nov   Modeling and optimization of genetic
                                  screens via RNA interference and FACS    131--145
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 29, Number 2, April, 2015

                Sheldon M. Ross   An individual and socially optimal
                                  policy minimizing expected flow times    147--151
                A. Izagirre and   
              I. M. Verloop and   
                      U. Ayesta   Heavy-traffic analysis of a
                                  non-preemptive multi-class queue with
                                  relative priorities  . . . . . . . . . . 153--180
                     Babak Haji   On the Adan--Weiss loss model having
                                  skill-based servers and longest idle
                                  assignment rule  . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--189
       Michael N. Katehakis and   
            Laurens C. Smit and   
             Floske M. Spieksma   DES and RES processes and their explicit
                                  solutions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--217
                Yoav Kerner and   
            Andreas Löpker   On a generalization of the stationary
                                  excess operator  . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--232
               Yanting Chen and   
       Richard J. Boucherie and   
                Jasper Goseling   The invariant measure of random walks in
                                  the quarter-plane: representation in
                                  geometric terms  . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--251
             Henry W. Block and   
           Thomas H. Savits and   
            Naftali A. Langberg   The failure rate shape for a mixture of
                                  two gammas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--264
                Ramesh C. Gupta   Reliability studies of bivariate
                                  Birnbaum--Saunders distribution  . . . . 265--276
            George Tzavelas and   
           Polychronis Economou   Extreme value distributions for biased
                                  samples  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--290
                   Yan Shen and   
                    Zhisheng Ye   On the behaviors of the percentile
                                  residual life for components and for
                                  $k$-out-of-$n$ systems . . . . . . . . . 291--308
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 29, Number 3, July, 2015

               Tiantian Mao and   
                Kai Wang Ng and   
                    Taizhong Hu   Asymptotic expansions of generalized
                                  quantiles and expectiles for extreme
                                  risks  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--327
           Emilio De Santis and   
             Fabio Fantozzi and   
              Fabio Spizzichino   Relations between stochastic orderings
                                  and generalized stochastic precedence    329--343
                 Mark Brown and   
   Victor de la Peña and   
                       Tony Sit   From boundary crossing of non-random
                                  functions to boundary crossing of
                                  stochastic processes . . . . . . . . . . 345--359
     Christopher S. Withers and   
             Saralees Nadarajah   A general class of cusum statistics  . . 361--384
                   Yifan Xu and   
              Shyamal K. De and   
               Shelemyahu Zacks   Exact distribution of intermittently
                                  changing positive and negative compound
                                  Poisson process driven by an alternating
                                  renewal process and related functions    385--397
           Claude Lef\`evre and   
                Philippe Picard   Risk models in insurance and epidemics:
                                  a bridge through randomized polynomials  399--420
      Hewa A. Priyadarshani and   
           Broderick O. Oluyede   Theoretical properties of the weighted
                                  generalized gamma and related
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--432
                  Joke Blom and   
              Koen De Turck and   
                 Michel Mandjes   Analysis of Markov-modulated
                                  infinite-server queues in the
                                  central-limit regime . . . . . . . . . . 433--459
                G. M. Koole and   
              B. F. Nielsen and   
                  T. B. Nielsen   Optimization of overflow policies in
                                  call centers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461--471
                Peng Weicai and   
                Yang Weiguo and   
                     Shi Zhiyan   Strong law of large numbers for Markov
                                  chains indexed by spherically symmetric
                                  trees  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473--481
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 29, Number 4, October, 2015

         Eugene A. Feinberg and   
                 Xiaoxuan Zhang   Optimal switching on and off the entire
                                  service capacity of a parallel queue . . 483--506
             Awi Federgruen and   
                       Min Wang   A continuous review model with general
                                  shelf age and delay-dependent inventory
                                  costs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507--525
                   Kai Chen and   
                Sheldon M. Ross   Static stochastic knapsack problems  . . 527--546
                      Yu An and   
                      Chenxu Li   Approximating local volatility functions
                                  of stochastic volatility models: a
                                  closed-form expansion approach . . . . . 547--563
                 Thomas Lim and   
            Marie-Claire Quenez   Portfolio optimization in a default
                                  model under full/partial information . . 565--587
           B. L. S. Prakasa Rao   Option pricing for processes driven by
                                  mixed fractional Brownian motion with
                                  superimposed jumps . . . . . . . . . . . 589--596
                  Peng Zhao and   
                   Yanni Hu and   
                   Yiying Zhang   Some new results on the largest order
                                  statistics from multiple-outlier gamma
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597--621
                 F. M. Spieksma   Countable state Markov processes:
                                  non-explosiveness and moment function    623--637
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 30, Number 1, January, 2016

         Sofía S. Villar   Indexability and optimal index policies
                                  for a class of reinitialising restless
                                  bandits  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--23
          Ilya B. Gertsbakh and   
            Yoseph Shpungin and   
               Radislav Vaisman   $D$-spectrum and reliability of a binary
                                  system with ternary components . . . . . 25--39
            Amin Dehghanian and   
       Jeffrey P. Kharoufeh and   
              Mohammad Modarres   Strategic dynamic jockeying between two
                                  parallel queues  . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--60
          Sophie Hautphenne and   
                    Moshe Haviv   The bias optimal $k$ in the M/M/1/$k$
                                  queue: an application of the deviation
                                  matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--78
         Stella Kapodistria and   
             Tuan Phung-Duc and   
                 Jacques Resing   Linear birth/immigration-death process
                                  with binomial catastrophes . . . . . . . 79--111
              Ravi Kalpathy and   
                  Hosam Mahmoud   Degree profile of $m$-ary search trees:
                                  a vehicle for data structure compression 113--123
Nayereh Bagheri Khoolenjani and   
     Mohammad Hossein Alamatsaz   A de Bruijn's identity for dependent
                                  random variables based on copula theory  125--140
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 30, Number 2, April, 2016

                  Xuan Leng and   
              Jinsen Zhuang and   
                    Taizhong Hu   Dispersive ordering for the multivariate
                                  normal distribution  . . . . . . . . . . 141--152
      Jan-Pieter L. Dorsman and   
                  Nir Perel and   
                  Maria Vlasiou   Server waiting times in infinite supply
                                  polling systems with preparation times   153--184
                  Andrew Li and   
                 Ward Whitt and   
                  Jingtong Zhao   Staffing to stabilize blocking in loss
                                  models with time-varying arrival rates   185--211
             Michel Mandjes and   
                   Peter Taylor   The running maximum of a level-dependent
                                  quasi-birth-death process  . . . . . . . 212--223
                   Hui Meng and   
                  Ming Zhou and   
                   Tak Kuen Siu   Optimal dividend-reinsurance with two
                                  types of premium principles  . . . . . . 224--243
                Micha Hofri and   
                    Chao Li and   
                  Hosam Mahmoud   On the combinatorics of binary
                                  series-parallel graphs . . . . . . . . . 244--260
       Antonio Di Crescenzo and   
         Barbara Martinucci and   
                   Julio Mulero   A quantile-based probabilistic mean
                                  value theorem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--280
                Ramesh C. Gupta   Mean residual life function for additive
                                  and multiplicative hazard rate models    281--297
             Saralees Nadarajah   The weighted generalized gamma
                                  distribution is the generalized gamma
                                  distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298--299
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 30, Number 3, July, 2016

                 Nihal Pekergin   Festschrift for Erol Gelenbe's 70th
                                  birthday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--307
      M. Ufuk Ça\uglayan   Erol Gelenbe: a career in
                                  multi-disciplinary probability models    308--325
                Guy Fayolle and   
               Paul Muhlethaler   A Markovian analysis of IEEE 802.11
                                  broadcast transmission networks with
                                  buffering  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326--344
                   Andrea Marin   Product-form in $G$-networks . . . . . . 345--360
           Jean-Michel Fourneau   $G$-networks of unreliable nodes . . . . 361--378
              Stelios Timotheou   Fast non-negative least-squares learning
                                  in the random neural network . . . . . . 379--402
          Khaled F. Hussain and   
                Ghada S. Moussa   On-road vehicle classification based on
                                  random neural network and bag-of-visual
                                  words  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403--412
             Tu\ugrul Dayar and   
                   M. Can Orhan   Cartesian product partitioning of
                                  multi-dimensional reachable state spaces 413--430
               Bruno Gaujal and   
        Panayotis Mertikopoulos   A stochastic approximation algorithm for
                                  stochastic semidefinite programming  . . 431--454
                   Olivier Brun   Performance of non-cooperative routing
                                  over parallel non-observable queues  . . 455--469
                Yingdong Lu and   
              Mayank Sharma and   
         Mark S. Squillante and   
                       Bo Zhang   Stochastic optimal dynamic control of
                                  GI$_m$ /GI$_m$ /$ 1_n$ queues with
                                  time-varying workloads . . . . . . . . . 470--491
                Efrat Perel and   
                   Uri Yechiali   Finite two layered queueing systems  . . 492--513
            Omer H. Abdelrahman   Detecting network-unfriendly mobiles
                                  with the random neural network . . . . . 514--531
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 30, Number 4, October, 2016

                  Xiaohu Li and   
                Yinping You and   
                       Rui Fang   On weighted $k$-out-of-$n$ systems with
                                  statistically dependent component
                                  lifetimes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533--546
                Nabil Zaman and   
             Nicholas Pippenger   Asymptotic analysis of optimal nested
                                  group-testing procedures . . . . . . . . 547--552
              Jingjing Song and   
                 Xiuchun Bi and   
                 Shuguang Zhang   Optimal portfolio and consumption models
                                  under loss aversion in infinite time
                                  horizon  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553--575
                     Mihai Nica   Optimal strategy in ``guess who?'':
                                  beyond binary search . . . . . . . . . . 576--592
                Beixiang He and   
                  Yunan Liu and   
                     Ward Whitt   Staffing a service system with
                                  non-Poisson non-stationary arrivals  . . 593--621
                 Gaofeng Da and   
                 Maochao Xu and   
                    Shouhuai Xu   On the quasi-stationary distribution of
                                  SIS models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 622--639
                Suchandan Kayal   On generalized cumulative entropies  . . 640--662
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 31, Number 1, January, 2017

               Jamol Pender and   
              William A. Massey   Approximating and stabilizing dynamic
                                  rate Jackson networks with abandonment   1--42
    Hansjörg Albrecher and   
                 Onno Boxma and   
                 Rim Essifi and   
           Richard Kuijstermans   A queueing model with randomized
                                  depletion of inventory . . . . . . . . . 43--59
                Yarong Feng and   
              Hosam Mahmoud and   
        Ludger Rüschendorf   Degree profile of hierarchical lattice
                                  networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--82
               Neeraj Misra and   
              Jisha Francis and   
                   Sameen Naqvi   Some sufficient conditions for relative
                                  aging of life distributions  . . . . . . 83--99
                  Xingchun Wang   Analytical valuation of vulnerable
                                  options in a discrete-time framework . . 100--120
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 31, Number 2, April, 2017

              Guanying Wang and   
              Xingchun Wang and   
                    Zhongyi Liu   Pricing vulnerable American put options
                                  under jump-diffusion processes . . . . . 121--138
              Ioannis Dimitriou   A two-class retrial system with coupled
                                  orbit queues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--179
              Qunqiang Feng and   
                     Zhishui Hu   The asymptotic degree distributions of
                                  random fast growth models for treelike
                                  networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180--195
                Hyungsu Kim and   
                Geonwoo Kim and   
                   Sungchul Lee   The analytic approach for the stochastic
                                  projection of the public pension fund    196--206
                 Paola Tardelli   Recursive backward scheme for the
                                  solution of a BSDE with a non Lipschitz
                                  generator  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--225
                       Yang Cao   Multiple server preemptive scheduling
                                  with impatience  . . . . . . . . . . . . 226--238
              James Edwards and   
             Paul Fearnhead and   
               Kevin Glazebrook   On the identification and mitigation of
                                  weaknesses in the knowledge gradient
                                  policy for multi-armed bandits . . . . . 239--263
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 31, Number 3, July, 2017

           Ewan Jacov Cahen and   
             Michel Mandjes and   
                     Bert Zwart   Rare event analysis and efficient
                                  simulation for a multi-dimensional ruin
                                  problem  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--283
         Apostolos Burnetas and   
         Odysseas Kanavetas and   
           Michael N. Katehakis   Asymptotically optimal multi-armed
                                  bandit policies under a cost constraint  284--310
          Maxim Finkelstein and   
                Nil Kamal Hazra   On stochastic comparisons for
                                  load-sharing series and parallel systems 311--329
           Shaul K. Bar-Lev and   
                 Onno Boxma and   
                David Perry and   
            Lazaros P. Vastazos   Analysis and optimization of
                                  blood-testing procedures . . . . . . . . 330--344
               Yong-Hua Mao and   
                      Chi Zhang   Hitting time distributions for
                                  birth-death processes with bilateral
                                  absorbing boundaries . . . . . . . . . . 345--356
             Saralees Nadarajah   On the distribution of maximal
                                  percentages in Pólya's urn  . . . . . . . 357--365
      Ebrahim Amini-Seresht and   
                   Yiying Zhang   Stochastic monotonicity of conditional
                                  order statistics in multiple-outlier
                                  scale population . . . . . . . . . . . . 366--380
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 31, Number 4, October, 2017

           Mehmet Ufuk Caglayan   $G$-networks and their applications to
                                  machine learning, energy packet networks
                                  and routing: introduction to the special
                                  issue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381--395
             Mikhail Matalytski   Finding non-stationary state
                                  probabilities of $G$-network with
                                  signals and customers batch removal  . . 396--412
             Valeriy Naumov and   
           Konstantin Samouylov   Analysis of multi-resource loss system
                                  with state-dependent arrival and service
                                  rates  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--419
             J.-M. Fourneau and   
              Y. Ait El Majhoub   Processor sharing $G$-queues with inert
                                  customers and catastrophes: a model for
                                  server aging and rejuvenation  . . . . . 420--435
                Abbas Javed and   
              Hadi Larijani and   
              Ali Ahmadinia and   
              Rohinton Emmanuel   Random neural network learning
                                  heuristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436--456
Sebastián Basterrech and   
                 Gerardo Rubino   Echo state queueing networks: a
                                  combination of reservoir computing and
                                  random neural networks . . . . . . . . . 457--476
           Yasin Murat Kadioglu   Finite capacity energy packet networks   477--504
            Omer H. Abdelrahman   A Markov-modulated diffusion model for
                                  energy harvesting sensor nodes . . . . . 505--515
                    Yonghua Yin   Optimum energy for energy packet
                                  networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516--539
                       Lan Wang   The random neural network for cognitive
                                  traffic routing and task allocation in
                                  networks and the cloud . . . . . . . . . 540--560
         Mikhail Matalytski and   
                  Dmitry Kopats   Finding expected revenues in $G$-network
                                  with signals and customers batch removal 561--575
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 32, Number 1, January, 2018

                Neal Master and   
              Carri W. Chan and   
                Nicholas Bambos   Myopic Policies for Non-preemptive
                                  Scheduling of Jobs with Decaying Value   1--36
                      Yi Wu and   
                Xuejun Wang and   
                   Soo Hak Sung   Complete Moment Convergence for Arrays
                                  of Rowwise Negatively Associated Random
                                  Variables and Its Application in
                                  Non-parametric Regression Model  . . . . 37--57
                 Qunying Wu and   
                 Yuanying Jiang   Some Limiting Behavior for
                                  Asymptotically Negative Associated
                                  Random Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--66
                  Xingchun Wang   Pricing Vulnerable European Options with
                                  Stochastic Correlation . . . . . . . . . 67--95
                Xuefeng Gao and   
                     S. J. Deng   Hydrodynamic Limit of Order-book
                                  Dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--125
                Weiwei Chen and   
                Alok Baveja and   
               Benjamin Melamed   Temporal Shaping of Simulated Time
                                  Series with Cyclical Sample Paths  . . . 126--143
                Xuejun Wang and   
                 Mengmei Xi and   
               Hongxia Wang and   
                       Shuhe Hu   On Consistency of $ L S $ Estimators in
                                  the Errors-in-variable Regression Model  144--162
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 32, Number 2, April, 2018

           Kenneth C. Chong and   
         Shane G. Henderson and   
                  Mark E. Lewis   Two-class Routing with Admission Control
                                  and Strict Priorities  . . . . . . . . . 163--178
       David T. Abdul-Malak and   
           Jeffrey P. Kharoufeh   Optimally Replacing Multiple Systems in
                                  a Shared Environment . . . . . . . . . . 179--206
                 Julia Kuhn and   
             Michel Mandjes and   
                  Thomas Taimre   Exact Asymptotics of Sample-mean-related
                                  Rare-event Probabilities . . . . . . . . 207--228
         Sofía S. Villar   Bandit Strategies Evaluated in the
                                  Context of Clinical Trials in Rare
                                  Life-threatening Diseases  . . . . . . . 229--245
               M. Burkschat and   
                     J. Navarro   Stochastic Comparisons of Systems Based
                                  on Sequential Order Statistics via
                                  Properties of Distorted Distributions    246--274
           Dashi I. Singham and   
            Michael P. Atkinson   Boundary Crossing Probabilities for the
                                  Cumulative Sample Mean . . . . . . . . . 275--295
         Saralees Nadarajah and   
             Yuanyuan Zhang and   
         Tibor K. Pogány   On Sums of Independent Generalized
                                  Pareto Random Variables with
                                  Applications to Insurance and Cat Bonds  296--305
               Weiyong Ding and   
               Yiying Zhang and   
                      Peng Zhao   Ordering Properties of Spacings from
                                  Heterogeneous Geometric Samples  . . . . 306--322
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 32, Number 3, July, 2018

                    Isi Mitrani   Multi-class Resource Sharing with
                                  Preemptive Priorities  . . . . . . . . . 323--339
                   Huibo Bi and   
            Omer H. Abdelrahman   Energy-aware Navigation in Large-scale
                                  Evacuation Using $G$-networks  . . . . . 340--352
 Gabriel Zayas-Cabán and   
                   Hyun-Soo Ahn   Dynamic Control of a Single-server
                                  System When Jobs Change Status . . . . . 353--395
                 A. Hristov and   
               J. W. Bosman and   
          R. D. van der Mei and   
                      S. Bhulai   Throughput and Bottleneck Analysis of
                                  Tandem Queues with Nested Sessions . . . 396--408
              Xingchun Wang and   
                  Zhiwei Su and   
                     Guangli Xu   The Valuation of Executive Stock Options
                                  under GARCH Models . . . . . . . . . . . 409--433
                  Yuqian Xu and   
               Jiawei Zhang and   
                 Michael Pinedo   Budget Allocations in Operational Risk
                                  Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434--459
                  Jiantian Wang   Likelihood Ratio Ordering of Parallel
                                  Systems with Heterogeneous Scaled
                                  Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460--468
                    Hao Xia and   
                      Yi Wu and   
                 Xinran Tao and   
                    Xuejun Wang   The Consistency for the Weighted
                                  Estimator of Non-parametric Regression
                                  Model Based on Widely Orthant-dependent
                                  Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469--481
                Abbas Javed and   
              Hadi Larijani and   
              Ali Ahmadinia and   
              Rohinton Emmanuel   Random Neural Network Learning
                                  Heuristics --- Corrigendum . . . . . . . 482
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 32, Number 4, October, 2018

                 Mark Brown and   
                  Joel E. Cohen   Squared coefficient of variation of
                                  Taylor's law for random absolute
                                  differences  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483--494
                    Pawel Lorek   Siegmund duality for Markov chains on
                                  partially ordered state spaces . . . . . 495--521
             David Saunders and   
             Lung Kwan Tsui and   
                 Satish Iyengar   Lower tail independence of hitting times
                                  of two-dimensional diffusions  . . . . . 522--535
       Richard J. Boucherie and   
       Geert-Jan van Houtum and   
              Judith Timmer and   
           Jan-Kees van Ommeren   A two-echelon spare parts network with
                                  lateral and emergency shipments: a
                                  product-form approximation . . . . . . . 536--555
         Saralees Nadarajah and   
                Jeffrey Chu and   
                     Xiao Jiang   Aggregation and capital allocation
                                  formulas for bivariate distributions . . 556--566
               Tiantian Mao and   
                 Wanwan Xia and   
                    Taizhong Hu   Preservation of log-concavity under
                                  convolution  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567--579
              Frank Aurzada and   
              Sebastian Schwinn   Improving the performance of polling
                                  models using forced idle times . . . . . 580--602
                      Yi Wu and   
                Xuejun Wang and   
                       Shuhe Hu   Moderate deviation principle of sample
                                  quantiles and order statistics . . . . . 603--614
              Dale Jennings and   
                Jem N. Corcoran   A birth and death process for Bayesian
                                  network structure inference  . . . . . . 615--625
                 Zhiyan Shi and   
             Pingping Zhong and   
                        Yan Fan   The Shannon--McMillan theorem for Markov
                                  chains indexed by a Cayley tree in
                                  random environment . . . . . . . . . . . 626--639
                  Idir Arab and   
         Paulo Eduardo Oliveira   Iterated failure rate monotonicity and
                                  ordering relations within gamma and
                                  Weibull distributions --- corrigendum    640--641
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 33, Number 1, January, 2019

             Maria Frolkova and   
                     Bert Zwart   Fluid limit of a ps-queue with
                                  multistage service . . . . . . . . . . . 1--27
 Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan and   
               Jianbin Chen and   
               Yiying Zhang and   
                      Peng Zhao   Comparisons of sample ranges arising
                                  from multiple-outlier models: in memory
                                  of Moshe Shaked  . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--49
             Chin-Chia Jane and   
                  Yih-Wenn Laih   Decomposition algorithms to compute the
                                  quickest time distribution in dynamic
                                  networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--63
                  Idir Arab and   
         Paulo Eduardo Oliveira   Iterated failure rate monotonicity and
                                  ordering relations within gamma and
                                  Weibull distributions  . . . . . . . . . 64--80
                     Xingyu Han   Valuation of vulnerable options under
                                  the double exponential jump model with
                                  stochastic volatility  . . . . . . . . . 81--104
             Mikhail Matalytski   Finding expected revenues in $G$-network
                                  with multiple classes of positive and
                                  negative customers . . . . . . . . . . . 105--120
                    Man Ho Ling   Optimal design of simple step-stress
                                  accelerated life tests for one-shot
                                  devices under exponential distributions  121--135
       Kenneth S. Berenhaut and   
                   Hongyi Jiang   The friendship paradox for weighted and
                                  directed networks  . . . . . . . . . . . 136--145
                     Guoxin Qiu   Further results on quantile entropy in
                                  the past lifetime  . . . . . . . . . . . 146--159
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 33, Number 2, April, 2019

                  Ying Tang and   
                Weiguo Yang and   
                      Yue Zhang   The strong limit theorem for relative
                                  entropy density rates between two
                                  asymptotically circular Markov chains    161--171
             Mikhail Matalytski   Analysis of the network with multiple
                                  classes of positive and negative
                                  customers at a transient regime  . . . . 172--185
              Jianping Yang and   
                 Wanwan Xia and   
                    Taizhong Hu   Bounds on extropy with variational
                                  distance constraint  . . . . . . . . . . 186--204
             Ruhul Ali Khan and   
                   Murari Mitra   Sharp bounds for survival probability
                                  when ageing is not monotone  . . . . . . 205--219
                      Tao Jiang   Analysis of a clearing queueing system
                                  with server maintenance after $n$
                                  negative feedbacks . . . . . . . . . . . 220--240
                    Fei Sun and   
                       Yijun Hu   Set-valued cash sub-additive risk
                                  measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--257
                 Dan Pirjol and   
                  Lingjiong Zhu   Short maturity Asian options for the CEV
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258--290
            Thierry Huillet and   
         Servet Martínez   Regenerative mutation processes related
                                  to the self-decomposability of Sibuya
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--325
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 33, Number 3, July, 2019

                Yi-Shen Lin and   
            Shoou-Ren Hsiau and   
                   Yi-Ching Yao   Optimal selection of the $k$-th best
                                  candidate  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--347
          Paul Ezhilchelvan and   
                    Isi Mitrani   Multi-Class resource sharing with batch
                                  arrivals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348--366
                   Brian Fralix   On the time-dependent behavior of a
                                  Markovian reentrant-line model . . . . . 367--386
                  E. Sudyko and   
              A. A. Nazarov and   
                      J. Sztrik   Asymptotic waiting time analysis of a
                                  finite-source M/M/1 retrial queueing
                                  system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--403
              M. Matalytski and   
                      D. Kopats   Analysis of the network with multiple
                                  classes of positive customers and
                                  signals at a non-stationary regime . . . 404--416
              Zhenghua Long and   
                   Jiheng Zhang   A note on many-server fluid models with
                                  time-varying arrivals  . . . . . . . . . 417--437
               S. Zarezadeh and   
                   M. Asadi and   
                    S. Eftekhar   Signature-based information measures of
                                  multi-state networks . . . . . . . . . . 438--459
             Abedin Haidari and   
    Amir T. Payandeh Najafabadi   Characterization ordering results for
                                  largest order statistics from
                                  heterogeneous and homogeneous
                                  exponentiated generalized gamma
                                  variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460--470
                 Guoxin Qiu and   
                Lechen Wang and   
                    Xingyu Wang   On extropy properties of mixed systems   471--486
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 33, Number 4, October, 2019

               Hosam M. Mahmoud   A spectrum of series-parallel graphs
                                  with multiple edge evolution . . . . . . 487--499
                   Yang Cao and   
                Sheldon M. Ross   Winner plays structure in random
                                  knockout tournaments . . . . . . . . . . 500--510
               Panpan Zhang and   
                   Dipak K. Dey   The degree profile and Gini index of
                                  random caterpillar trees . . . . . . . . 511--527
                   Joel Ratsaby   On deterministic finite state machines
                                  in random environments . . . . . . . . . 528--563
             Xiaoliang Ling and   
                Yinzhao Wei and   
                        Ping Li   On optimal heterogeneous components
                                  grouping in series-parallel and
                                  parallel-series systems  . . . . . . . . 564--578
                   Wenxi Li and   
                  Zhongzhi Wang   A note on Rényi's entropy rate for
                                  time-inhomogeneous Markov chains . . . . 579--590
                    Xin Liu and   
      Vidyadhar G. Kulkarni and   
                        Qi Gong   On bouncing geometric Brownian motions   591--617
             Fatemeh Asgari and   
 Mohammad Hossein Alamatsaz and   
    Nayereh Bagheri Khoolenjani   Inequalities for the dependent Gaussian
                                  noise channels based on Fisher
                                  information and copulas  . . . . . . . . 618--657
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 34, Number 1, January, 2020

                  Kai Huang and   
                         Jie Mi   Applications of likelihood ratio order
                                  in Bayesian inferences . . . . . . . . . 1--13
            Emeline Gayrard and   
  Cédric Chauvi\`ere and   
          Hac\`ene Djellout and   
                  Pierre Bonnet   Modeling experimental data with
                                  polynomials chaos  . . . . . . . . . . . 14--26
                 Zhaoqiang Yang   A new stopping problem and the critical
                                  exercise price for American fractional
                                  lookback option in a special mixed
                                  jump-diffusion model . . . . . . . . . . 27--52
             Steven G. From and   
                Andrew W. Swift   Some new bounds and approximations on
                                  tail probabilities of the Poisson and
                                  other discrete distributions . . . . . . 53--71
                   Rui Fang and   
                      Xiaohu Li   Active redundancy allocation for
                                  coherent systems with independent and
                                  heterogeneous components . . . . . . . . 72--91
            Camilla Cal\`\i and   
           Maria Longobardi and   
                  Jorge Navarro   Properties for generalized cumulative
                                  past measures of information . . . . . . 92--111
                Xinmei Shen and   
                 Mingyue Ge and   
                      Ke-Ang Fu   Approximation of the tail probabilities
                                  for bidimensional randomly weighted sums
                                  with dependent components  . . . . . . . 112--130
            Anne Buijsrogge and   
       Pieter-Tjerk de Boer and   
       Werner R. W. Scheinhardt   On state-independent importance sampling
                                  for the GI|GI|1 tandem queue 1 . . . . . 131--156
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 34, Number 2, April, 2020

             Carly Domicolo and   
                  Hosam Mahmoud   Degree-Based Gini index for graphs . . . 157--171
                  Ke-Ang Fu and   
                   Chang Ni and   
                       Hao Chen   A particular bidimensional
                                  time-dependent renewal risk model with
                                  constant interest rates  . . . . . . . . 172--182
            Suchandan Kayal and   
            Rajesh Moharana and   
                    S. M. Sunoj   Quantile-Based study of (dynamic)
                                  inaccuracy measures  . . . . . . . . . . 183--199
               Jingjing Zou and   
           Richard A. Davis and   
          Gennady Samorodnitsky   Extreme value analysis without the
                                  largest values: what can be done?  . . . 200--220
                   Huilin Huang   The generalized entropy ergodic theorem
                                  for nonhomogeneous Markov chains indexed
                                  by a homogeneous tree  . . . . . . . . . 221--234
               Peter Spreij and   
                     Jaap Storm   Diffusion limits for a Markov modulated
                                  binomial counting process  . . . . . . . 235--257
              Jong Jun Park and   
                   Kyungsub Lee   Computational method for probability
                                  distribution on recursive relationships
                                  in financial applications  . . . . . . . 258--278
              Xingchun Wang and   
                 Guangli Xu and   
                         Dan Li   A closed-form GARCH valuation model for
                                  power exchange options with counterparty
                                  risk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--296
                Linxiao Wei and   
                       Yijun Hu   Capital allocation with multivariate
                                  risk measures: an axiomatic approach . . 297--315
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 34, Number 3, July, 2020

                Opher Baron and   
                Oded Berman and   
                    David Perry   Continuous review inventory models for
                                  perishable items with leadtimes  . . . . 317--342
   Joost H. J. van Sambeeck and   
           Nico M. van Dijk and   
       Wim L. A. M. de Kort and   
           Henk Schonewille and   
                Mart P. Janssen   Blood group probabilities by next of kin 343--363
                Daoyuan Shi and   
                       Lynn Kuo   Variable selection for Bayesian survival
                                  models using Bregman divergence measure  364--380
         Ingeborg A. Bikker and   
          Martijn R. K. Mes and   
       Antoine Sauré and   
           Richard J. Boucherie   Online capacity planning for
                                  rehabilitation treatments: an
                                  approximate dynamic programming approach 381--405
               Wesley Cowan and   
           Michael N. Katehakis   Exploration-Exploitation policies with
                                  almost sure, arbitrarily slow growing
                                  asymptotic regret  . . . . . . . . . . . 406--428
         Eugene A. Feinberg and   
                      Yan Liang   Stochastic setup-cost inventory model
                                  with backorders and quasiconvex cost
                                  functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429--468
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 34, Number 4, October, 2020

                    May-Ru Chen   A time-dependent Pólya urn with multiple
                                  drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469--483
                Ji Hwan Cha and   
             F. G. Badía   On a multivariate generalized Pólya
                                  process without regularity property  . . 484--506
               Urtzi Ayesta and   
         Balakrishna Prabhu and   
                 Rhonda Righter   Scheduling in a single-server queue with
                                  state-dependent service rates  . . . . . 507--521
               Yanting Chen and   
                 Xinwei Bai and   
       Richard J. Boucherie and   
                Jasper Goseling   Performance measures for the two-node
                                  queue with finite buffers  . . . . . . . 522--549
         Georgios Psarrakos and   
              Abdolsaeed Toomaj   On the elasticity of expected interepoch
                                  intervals in a non-homogeneous Poisson
                                  process under small variations of hazard
                                  rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550--569
                    Yu Miao and   
                Huanhuan Ma and   
                  Qinglong Yang   Asymptotic behaviors for correlated
                                  Bernoulli model  . . . . . . . . . . . . 570--582
              Jorge Navarro and   
Pedro Fernández-Martínez and   
Juan Fernández-Sánchez and   
                Antonio Arriaza   Relationships between importance
                                  measures and redundancy in systems with
                                  dependent components . . . . . . . . . . 583--604
        S. M. A. Jahanshahi and   
                   H. Zarei and   
                  A. H. Khammar   On cumulative residual extropy . . . . . 605--625
               Yiying Zhang and   
               Weiyong Ding and   
                      Peng Zhao   On variability of series and parallel
                                  systems with heterogeneous components    626--645
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 35, Number 1, January, 2021

                 Nihal Pekergin   Introduction to the special issue on
                                  learning, optimization, and theory of
                                  $g$-networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--5
                    Yonghua Yin   Random neural network methods and deep
                                  learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--36
                Ahsen Tahir and   
                Jawad Ahmad and   
             Gordon Morison and   
              Hadi Larijani and   
             Ryan M. Gibson and   
                Dawn A. Skelton   Hrnn4F: hybrid deep random neural
                                  network for multi-channel fall activity
                                  detection  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--50
          Khaled F. Hussain and   
   Mohamed Yousef Bassyouni and   
                   Erol Gelenbe   Accurate, energy-efficient
                                  classification with spiking random
                                  neural network . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--61
                        Yi Wang   $G$-Networks and the optimization of
                                  supply chains  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--74
                  Yunxiao Zhang   Optimal energy distribution with energy
                                  packet networks  . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--91
                Josu Doncel and   
           Jean-Michel Fourneau   Energy packet networks with multiple
                                  energy packet requirements . . . . . . . 92--110
          Ioannis Dimitriou and   
                Nikolaos Pappas   A random access $g$-network: stability,
                                  stable throughput, and queueing analysis 111--137
                   Shan Gao and   
                Deran Zhang and   
                   Hua Dong and   
                  Xianchao Wang   Equilibrium balking strategies in the
                                  repairable m/m/1 $g$-retrial queue with
                                  complete removals  . . . . . . . . . . . 138--157
         Mikhail Matalytski and   
                  Dmitry Kopats   Finding nonstationary state
                                  probabilities of open Markov networks
                                  with multiple classes of customers and
                                  various features . . . . . . . . . . . . 158--179
             Valeriy Naumov and   
           Konstantin Samouylov   Product-form Markovian queueing systems
                                  with multiple resources  . . . . . . . . 180--188
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 35, Number 2, April, 2021

       Pamela Badian-Pessot and   
              Mark E. Lewis and   
                Douglas G. Down   Optimal control policies for an m/m/1
                                  queue with a removable server and
                                  dynamic service rates  . . . . . . . . . 189--209
         F. G. Badía and   
           C. Sangüesa and   
                  A. Federgruen   Log-Concavity of compound distributions
                                  with applications in operational and
                                  actuarial models . . . . . . . . . . . . 210--235
                   Yang Cao and   
                Sheldon M. Ross   Winner plays competition models  . . . . 236--241
              Tamar Gadrich and   
                    Guy Katriel   Estimating the rate of defects under
                                  imperfect sampling inspection --- a new
                                  approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242--257
                Ata G. Zare and   
     Hossein Abouee-Mehrizi and   
                    Oded Berman   Two-echelon production inventory systems
                                  with strategic customers . . . . . . . . 258--275
              Qunqiang Feng and   
              Yongkang Wang and   
                     Zhishui Hu   Small-world effect in geographical
                                  attachment networks  . . . . . . . . . . 276--296
             Pingping Zhong and   
                Weiguo Yang and   
                 Zhiyan Shi and   
                      Yan Zhang   Some limit theorems of delayed averages
                                  for countable nonhomogeneous Markov
                                  chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--315
               Nickos Papadatos   Optimal moment inequalities for order
                                  statistics from nonnegative random
                                  variables  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316--330
                Sangita Das and   
            Suchandan Kayal and   
            Debajyoti Choudhuri   Ordering results on extremes of
                                  exponentiated location-scale models  . . 331--354
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 35, Number 3, July, 2021

             Yu. K. Belyaev and   
                Asaf H. Hajiyev   Kolmogorov stories . . . . . . . . . . . 355--368
         Michael C. H. Choi and   
                Chihoon Lee and   
                      Jian Song   Entropy flow and de Bruijn's identity
                                  for a class of stochastic differential
                                  equations driven by fractional Brownian
                                  motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--380
            Serkan Eryilmaz and   
                   Cihangir Kan   A new shock model with a change in shock
                                  size distribution  . . . . . . . . . . . 381--395
                    Yingdong Lu   A fluid limit for processor-sharing
                                  queues weighted by functions of
                                  remaining amounts of service . . . . . . 396--403
                    Wan-Yi Chiu   An improved test of the squared Sharpe
                                  ratio  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404--431
                    Yu Xing and   
                   Yuhua Xu and   
                     Huawei Niu   Equilibrium valuation of currency
                                  options under a discontinuous model with
                                  co-jumps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432--450
                 Wanwan Xia and   
               Tiantian Mao and   
                    Taizhong Hu   Preservation of log-concavity and
                                  log-convexity under operators  . . . . . 451--464
      Ebrahim Amini-Seresht and   
          Maryam Kelkinnama and   
                   Yiying Zhang   On the residual and past lifetimes of
                                  coherent systems under random monitoring 465--480
            Nil Kamal Hazra and   
                   Neeraj Misra   On relative aging comparisons of
                                  coherent systems with identically
                                  distributed components . . . . . . . . . 481--495
           Amit Kumar Misra and   
             Vaishali Gupta and   
                   Neeraj Misra   Residual stochastic precedence order . . 496--512
              Pengzhan Chen and   
                        Wuyi Ye   Stochastic volatility model with
                                  correlated jump sizes and independent
                                  arrivals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513--531
                      Yaming Yu   On stochastic comparisons of order
                                  statistics from heterogeneous
                                  exponential samples  . . . . . . . . . . 532--537
                   Yisu Jia and   
                Robert Lund and   
                   James Livsey   Superpositioned stationary count time
                                  series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 538--556
                   Rachel Ravid   A new look on the shortest queue system
                                  with jockeying . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557--564
               Gabi Hanukov and   
                   Uri Yechiali   Explicit solutions for continuous-time
                                  QBD processes by using relations between
                                  matrix geometric analysis and the
                                  probability generating functions method  565--580
                         Jie Mi   On interval and instant availability of
                                  the system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581--594
          Peter C. Kiessler and   
         Kanoktip Nimitkiatklai   An analytical approach for the breakdown
                                  distribution of a thin oxide . . . . . . 595--610
                 Ting Zhang and   
               Yiying Zhang and   
                      Peng Zhao   Comparisons on largest order statistics
                                  from heterogeneous gamma samples . . . . 611--630
                  Yanbin Ma and   
                     Wenhao Gui   Entropy-based and non-entropy-based
                                  goodness of fit test for the inverse
                                  Rayleigh distribution with progressively
                                  type-II censored data  . . . . . . . . . 631--649
             M. L. Chaudhry and   
              Veena Goswami and   
                 Abdalla Mansur   Analytically closed-form solutions for
                                  the distribution of a number of
                                  customers served during a busy period
                                  for special cases of the Geo/G/1 queue   650--679

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 35, Number 4, October, 2021

                 Shuang Tao and   
                   Jamol Pender   A stochastic analysis of bike-sharing
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 781--838
                   Panpan Zhang   On several properties of a class of
                                  preferential attachment
                                  trees-plane-oriented recursive trees . . 839--857
                 Mark Brown and   
            Erol Peköz and   
                   Sheldon Ross   Blockchain double-spend attack duration  858--866
            Bo H. Lindqvist and   
     Francisco J. Samaniego and   
                      Nana Wang   On the comparison of
                                  performance-per-cost for coherent and
                                  mixed systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 867--884
             Vladimir Rykov and   
             Dmitry Kozyrev and   
           Andrey Filimonov and   
                   Nika Ivanova   On reliability function of a
                                  $k$-out-of-$n$ system with general
                                  repair time distribution . . . . . . . . 885--902
  Patricia Pascual-Ortigosa and   
Eduardo Sáenz-de-Cabezón and   
                  Henry P. Wynn   Algebraic reliability of multi-state
                                  $k$-out-of-$n$ systems . . . . . . . . . 903--927
                    Yue Liu and   
                 Zhuyun Xie and   
               Jingjing Yao and   
                      Kaodui Li   Volatility analysis of regime-switching
                                  models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 928--941
                 Dan Pirjol and   
                  Lingjiong Zhu   Asymptotics of the time-discretized
                                  log-normal SABR model: the implied
                                  volatility surface . . . . . . . . . . . 942--974
               Xiangyu Yang and   
                 Yanfeng Wu and   
                 Zeyu Zheng and   
                  Jian-Qiang Hu   Method of moments estimation for
                                  Lévy-driven Ornstein--Uhlenbeck
                                  stochastic volatility models . . . . . . 975--1004
                      Anonymous   Algebraic reliability of multi-state
                                  $k$-out-of-$n$ systems --- corrigendum   1005
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 36, Number 1, January, 2022

         Rebecca Dizon-Ross and   
                Sheldon M. Ross   A probabilistic friendship network model 1--16
               Xingheng Liu and   
                Yann Dijoux and   
           Jòrn Vatn and   
           Håkon Toftaker   Performance of prognosis indicators for
                                  superimposed renewal processes . . . . . 17--40
                  Feng Wang and   
               Xian-Yuan Wu and   
                        Rui Zhu   A note on the asymptotic behavior of the
                                  height for a birth-and-death process . . 41--48
                Mehdi Amiri and   
 Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan and   
               Ahad Jamalizadeh   Stochastic ordering of lifetimes of
                                  parallel and series systems comprising
                                  heterogeneous dependent components with
                                  generalized Birnbaum--Saunders
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--65
           Arne Bang Huseby and   
         Martyna Kalinowska and   
              Tobias Abrahamsen   Birnbaum criticality and importance
                                  measures for multistate systems with
                                  repairable components  . . . . . . . . . 66--86
                Sudipta Das and   
               Anup Dewanji and   
                  Subrata Kundu   Software reliability based on renewal
                                  process modeling for error occurrence
                                  due to each bug with periodic debugging
                                  schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--104
             Yasuhiro Saito and   
                   Tadashi Dohi   Nash equilibrium strategies revisited in
                                  software release games . . . . . . . . . 105--125
                Pengfei Liu and   
                  Xuejun Ma and   
                      Wang Zhou   High-Order conditional distance
                                  covariance with conditional mutual
                                  independence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--143
                  Kerry Fendick   Brownian motion minus the independent
                                  increments: representation and queuing
                                  application  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144--168
                 Zhiyan Shi and   
                  Chengjun Ding   A class of small deviation theorems for
                                  functionals of random fields on a tree
                                  with uniformly bounded degree in random
                                  environment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--183
          Song-Kyoo (Amang) Kim   Strategic alliance for blockchain
                                  governance game  . . . . . . . . . . . . 184--200
              Xingchun Peng and   
                     Fenge Chen   Deterministic investment strategy in a
                                  DC pension plan with inflation risk
                                  under mean-variance criterion  . . . . . 201--216
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 36, Number 2, April, 2022

                     Bo Wei and   
      Sila Çetinkaya and   
              Daren B. H. Cline   Analytical results on the service
                                  performance of stochastic clearing
                                  systems  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--236
               A. H. El-Baz and   
           A. M. K. Tarabia and   
                 A. M. Darwiesh   Cloud storage facility as a fluid queue
                                  controlled by Markovian queue  . . . . . 237--253
                 Sihan Ding and   
                      Ger Koole   Optimal call center forecasting and
                                  staffing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254--263
            Erol Peköz and   
            Sheldon M. Ross and   
                  Zhengyu Zhang   Dueling bandit problems  . . . . . . . . 264--275
             Marilena Jianu and   
               Daniel Ciuiu and   
               Leonard Daus and   
                   Mihail Jianu   Markov chain method for computing the
                                  reliability of hammock networks  . . . . 276--293
   Vanderlei da Costa Bueno and   
     Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan   A cumulative residual inaccuracy measure
                                  for coherent systems at component level
                                  and under nonhomogeneous Poisson
                                  processes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294--319
              Jorge Navarro and   
José María Sarabia   Copula representations for the sum of
                                  dependent risks: models and comparisons  320--340
              Zhao Ging Lim and   
              Chen-Tuo Liao and   
                   Yi-Ching Yao   Asymptotic analysis of Peres' algorithm
                                  for random number generation . . . . . . 341--356
                    Yue Liu and   
                 Zhiyan Shi and   
                  Ying Tang and   
               Jingjing Yao and   
                   Xincheng Zhu   An improvement of Markovian integration
                                  by parts formula and application to
                                  sensitivity computation  . . . . . . . . 357--377
                   Yan Chen and   
                     Ward Whitt   Set-Valued performance approximations
                                  for the queue given partial information  378--400
                  Fan Jiang and   
                   Xin Zang and   
                  Jingping Yang   Asymptotic expansion for the transition
                                  densities of stochastic differential
                                  equations driven by the gamma processes  401--432
             Tsvetan Asamov and   
                 Adi Ben-Israel   A probabilistic $ l_1 $ method for
                                  clustering high-dimensional data . . . . 433--448
              Chunxian Long and   
               Wangxue Chen and   
                   Rui Yang and   
                    Dongsen Yao   Ratio estimation of the population mean
                                  using auxiliary information under the
                                  optimal sampling design  . . . . . . . . 449--460
           Ghobad Barmalzan and   
               Sajad Kosari and   
     Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan   Orderings of finite mixture models with
                                  location-scale distributed components    461--481
                Josu Doncel and   
               Nicolas Gast and   
                   Bruno Gaujal   A mean field game analysis of SIR
                                  dynamics with vaccination  . . . . . . . 482--499
               Baishuai Zuo and   
                   Chuancun Yin   Tail conditional expectations for
                                  generalized skew-elliptical
                                  distributions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500--513
                Jingtang Ma and   
                 Zhenyu Cui and   
                     Wenyuan Li   Laplace bounds approximation for
                                  American options . . . . . . . . . . . . 514--547
              Kyong-Hui Kim and   
               Jong-Kuk Kim and   
                      Ho-Bom Jo   Pricing formula for exchange option
                                  based on stochastic delay differential
                                  equation with jumps  . . . . . . . . . . 548--563
                  Huojun Wu and   
                 Zhaoli Jia and   
               Shuquan Yang and   
                         Ce Liu   Pricing variance swaps under double
                                  Heston stochastic volatility model with
                                  stochastic interest rate . . . . . . . . 564--580
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 36, Number 3, July, 2022

                 Xiaonan Su and   
                    Yu Xing and   
                   Wei Wang and   
                  Wensheng Wang   Locally risk-minimizing hedging for
                                  European contingent claims written on
                                  non-tradable assets with common jump
                                  risk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581--605
            Puneet Pasricha and   
                    Anubha Goel   A closed-form pricing formula for
                                  European exchange options with
                                  stochastic volatility  . . . . . . . . . 606--615
               Ruiling Tian and   
           Zhe George Zhang and   
                      Siping Su   On Markovian queues with single working
                                  vacation and Bernoulli interruptions . . 616--643
          Abbas Eftekharian and   
                     Guoxin Qiu   On extropy properties and discrimination
                                  information of different stratified
                                  sampling schemes . . . . . . . . . . . . 644--659
        Josué Corujo and   
   José E. Valdés   Further results on stochastic orderings
                                  and aging classes in systems with age
                                  replacement  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 660--689
                Rein Vesilo and   
         Mor Harchol-Balter and   
             Alan Scheller-Wolf   Scaling properties of queues with
                                  time-varying load processes: extensions
                                  and applications . . . . . . . . . . . . 690--731
             Cyril Grunspan and   
     Ricardo Pérez-Marco   On profitability of Nakamoto double
                                  spend  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 732--746
             Adrian Röllin   Kolmogorov bounds for the normal
                                  approximation of the number of triangles
                                  in the Erd\Hos--Rényi random graph  . . . 747--773
                     Ayse Aslan   Optimal admission and routing with
                                  congestion-sensitive customer classes    774--798
                  Ke-Ang Fu and   
                       Yang Liu   Ruin probabilities for a
                                  multidimensional risk model with
                                  non-stationary arrivals and
                                  subexponential claims  . . . . . . . . . 799--811
          Maxim Finkelstein and   
                    Ji Hwan Cha   On degradation-based remaining lifetime  812--823
                      He Yi and   
 Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan and   
                       Xiang Li   Signatures of multi-state systems based
                                  on a series/parallel/recurrent structure
                                  of modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 824--850
                David J. Aldous   The nearest unvisited vertex walk on
                                  random graphs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 851--867
                   Junqi Hu and   
Sigrún Andradóttir and   
                  Hayriye Ayhan   Server coordination in queueing systems:
                                  when and how?  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 868--922
                Zhouxia Guo and   
             Jiandong Zhang and   
                   Rongfang Yan   On inactivity times of failed components
                                  of coherent system under double
                                  monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 923--940
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 36, Number 4, October, 2022

            Colin Desmarais and   
                  Hosam Mahmoud   Depths in hooking networks . . . . . . . 941--949
               Sameen Naqvi and   
               Weiyong Ding and   
                      Peng Zhao   Stochastic comparison of parallel
                                  systems with Pareto components . . . . . 950--962
                    Rosy Oh and   
           Joseph H. T. Kim and   
                   Jae Youn Ahn   Designing a Bonus--Malus system
                                  reflecting the claim size under the
                                  dependent frequency-severity model . . . 963--987
                Sheldon M. Ross   Team's seasonal win probabilities  . . . 988--998
               Ruiyang Song and   
                       Kuang Xu   Temporal concatenation for Markov
                                  decision processes . . . . . . . . . . . 999--1026
                      He Yi and   
 Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan and   
                       Xiang Li   Equivalency in joint signatures for
                                  binary/multi-state systems of different
                                  sizes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1027--1054
               Omid Shojaee and   
                Majid Asadi and   
              Maxim Finkelstein   Stochastic properties of generalized
                                  finite $ \alpha $-mixtures . . . . . . . 1055--1079
              Dheeraj Goyal and   
          Maxim Finkelstein and   
                Nil Kamal Hazra   On history-dependent mixed shock models  1080--1097
              Yaakov Malinovsky   On the distribution of winners' scores
                                  in a round-robin tournament  . . . . . . 1098--1102
            Puneet Pasricha and   
                Anubha Goel and   
                  Song-Ping Zhu   A closed-form pricing formula for
                                  catastrophe equity options . . . . . . . 1103--1115
                Sangita Das and   
            Suchandan Kayal and   
                N. Balakrishnan   Ordering results for smallest claim
                                  amounts from two portfolios of risks
                                  with dependent heterogeneous
                                  exponentiated location-scale claims  . . 1116--1137
                  Zhiyu Guo and   
                     Yizhou Bai   A lattice approach for option pricing
                                  under a regime-switching GARCH-jump
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1138--1170
András Mészáros and   
            Miklós Telek   Concentrated matrix exponential
                                  distributions with real eigenvalues  . . 1171--1187
        Mindaugas Bloznelis and   
          Joona Karjalainen and   
             Lasse Leskelä   Assortativity and bidegree distributions
                                  on Bernoulli random graph superpositions 1188--1213
                Hye-mee Kil and   
                 Jeong-Hoon Kim   A closed-form approximation formula for
                                  pricing European options under a
                                  three-factor model . . . . . . . . . . . 1214--1240
               Kc Lalropuia and   
    Vandana Khaitan (nee Gupta)   Game theoretic modeling of economic
                                  denial of sustainability (EDoS) attack
                                  in cloud computing . . . . . . . . . . . 1241--1265
             Yannik Peeters and   
             Arnoud V. den Boer   A regret lower bound for assortment
                                  optimization under the capacitated MNL
                                  model with arbitrary revenue parameters  1266--1274
               Rongfang Yan and   
                Junrui Wang and   
                         Bin Lu   Orderings of component level versus
                                  system level at active redundancies for
                                  coherent systems with dependent
                                  components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1275--1297
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 37, Number 1, January, 2023

               Tanmay Sahoo and   
                Nil Kamal Hazra   Ordering and aging properties of systems
                                  with dependent components governed by
                                  the Archimedean copula . . . . . . . . . 1--28
                     Bin Lu and   
             Jiandong Zhang and   
                   Rongfang Yan   Optimal allocation of a coherent system
                                  with statistical dependent subsystems    29--48
                  Idir Arab and   
        Milto Hadjikyriakou and   
     Paulo Eduardo Oliveira and   
                 Beatriz Santos   Star-shaped order for distributions
                                  characterized by several parameters and
                                  some applications  . . . . . . . . . . . 49--59
                  Hosam Mahmoud   Covariances in Pólya urn schemes  . . . . 60--71
             Abedin Haidari and   
            Mostafa Sattari and   
               Ghobad Barmalzan   Mean residual life order among largest
                                  order statistics arising from
                                  resilience-scale models with reduced
                                  scale parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--85
         Mahdi Alimohammadi and   
         Maryam Esna-Ashari and   
                  Jorge Navarro   Likelihood ratio comparisons and
                                  logconvexity properties of $p$-spacings
                                  from generalized order statistics  . . . 86--105
          George S. Fishman and   
                 Shaler Stidham   An adaptive strategy for offering
                                  $m$-out-of-$n$ insurance policies  . . . 106--134
                    V. Zardasht   On the second-order excess wealth order
                                  and its properties . . . . . . . . . . . 135--153
              Ioannis Dimitriou   The generalized join the shortest orbit
                                  queue system: stability, exact tail
                                  asymptotics and stationary
                                  approximations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--191
 Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan and   
Antonia Castaño-Martínez and   
                Miguel A. Sordo   Some stochastic comparisons of lower
                                  records and lower record spacings  . . . 192--205
                 S. Meziani and   
                     T. Kernane   Extended generator and associated
                                  martingales for M/G/1 retrial queue with
                                  classical retrial policy and general
                                  retrial times  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206--213
                Jiwook Jang and   
                     Yan Qu and   
              Hongbiao Zhao and   
                Angelos Dassios   A Cox model for gradually disappearing
                                  events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214--231
                Sheldon M. Ross   Using a Chen--Stein identity to obtain
                                  low variance simulation estimators . . . 232--244
                    Wuyi Ye and   
                     Bin Wu and   
                  Pengzhan Chen   Pricing VIX derivatives using a
                                  stochastic volatility model with a
                                  flexible jump structure  . . . . . . . . 245--274
                    Yu Chen and   
                        Yu Xing   Credit default swap pricing with
                                  counterparty risk in a reduced form
                                  model with a common jump process . . . . 275--293
          Konstantinos Zografos   On reconsidering entropies and
                                  divergences and their cumulative
                                  counterparts: Csiszár's, DPD's and
                                  Fisher's type cumulative and survival
                                  measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294--321
                      Anonymous   PES volume 37 issue 1 Cover  . . . . . . f1

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 37, April, 2023

                      Anonymous   Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322--323
                  Jiayi Xie and   
                Wenguang Yu and   
               Zhimin Zhang and   
                     Zhenyu Cui   Gerber--Shiu analysis in the compound
                                  Poisson model with constant
                                  inter-observation times  . . . . . . . . 324--356
                 Dechen Gao and   
            Kristina P. Sendova   Applications of the classical compound
                                  Poisson model with claim sizes following
                                  a compound distribution  . . . . . . . . 357--386
          Eric C. K. Cheung and   
                      Haibo Liu   Joint moments of discounted claims and
                                  discounted perturbation until ruin in
                                  the compound Poisson risk model with
                                  diffusion  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--417
                  Yang Yang and   
                  Jiayi Xie and   
                   Zhimin Zhang   Nonparametric estimation of some
                                  dividend problems in the perturbed
                                  compound Poisson model . . . . . . . . . 418--441
                    Kang Hu and   
                Jingchao Li and   
                   Jieming Zhou   On the dual risk model with Parisian
                                  implementation delays under a mixed
                                  dividend strategy  . . . . . . . . . . . 442--461
                         Ran Xu   Optimal singular dividend control with
                                  capital injection and affine penalty
                                  payment at ruin  . . . . . . . . . . . . 462--490
              Jiannan Zhang and   
                  Ping Chen and   
                   Zhuo Jin and   
                   Shuanming Li   A class of non-zero-sum stochastic
                                  differential games between two
                                  mean-variance insurers under stochastic
                                  volatility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491--517
              Tim J. Boonen and   
                   Wenjun Jiang   Pareto-optimal reinsurance with default
                                  risk and solvency regulation . . . . . . 518--545
                Chuchu Wang and   
                   Wei Wang and   
               Yiying Zhang and   
                      Peng Zhao   Optimal allocation of policy limits in
                                  layer reinsurance treaties . . . . . . . 546--566
                Jingchao Li and   
                Zichen Fang and   
                   Ciyu Nie and   
                     Sizhe Chen   Optimal design for network mutual aid    567--596
                 Zhiyu Quan and   
                Zhiguo Wang and   
                 Guojun Gan and   
             Emiliano A. Valdez   On hybrid tree-based methods for
                                  short-term insurance claims  . . . . . . 597--620
         Johnny Siu-Hang Li and   
               Joseph H. T. Kim   Rotation in age patterns of mortality
                                  decline: statistical evidence and
                                  modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 621--652

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 37, Number 3, July, 2023

               Chengyou Cai and   
                  Xingchun Wang   Valuing vulnerable Asian options with
                                  liquidity risk under Lévy processes . . . 653--673
           M'hamed Ga\"\igi and   
            Idris Kharroubi and   
                     Thomas Lim   Optimal management and valuation of a
                                  natural resource: the case of optimal
                                  harvesting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 674--694
             Percy H. Brill and   
                 Mei Ling Huang   On approximation of the analytic fixed
                                  finite time large t probability
                                  distributions in an extreme renewal
                                  process with no-mean inter-renewals  . . 695--710
                 Soumaya Idriss   Nonlinear and unbalanced urn models with
                                  two types of strategies: a stochastic
                                  approximation point of view  . . . . . . 711--729
                 Subhash Kochar   Dependence comparisons of order
                                  statistics in the proportional hazards
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 730--736
              Yaakov Malinovsky   Correction to ``On the distribution of
                                  winners' scores in a round-robin
                                  tournament'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 737--739
Stathis Chadjiconstantinidis and   
                George Tzavelas   Improved bounds for the solutions of
                                  renewal equations  . . . . . . . . . . . 740--777
                 K. Preethi and   
        A. Shophia Lawrence and   
                   B. Sivakumar   Lost sales obsolescence inventory
                                  systems with positive lead time: a
                                  system-point level-crossing approach . . 778--800
                      He Yi and   
 Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan and   
                       Xiang Li   Equivalency of multi-state survival
                                  signatures of multi-state systems of
                                  different sizes and its use in the
                                  comparison of systems  . . . . . . . . . 801--817
                    Wan-Yi Chiu   A value-at-risk approach to futures
                                  hedge  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 818--832
 Gabriel Zayas-Cabán and   
                 Amy L. Cochran   Scheduling servers in a two-stage queue
                                  with abandonments and costs  . . . . . . 833--851
               Akash Sharma and   
                 Chanchal Kundu   Varentropy of doubly truncated random
                                  variable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 852--871

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Volume 37, Number 4, October, 2023

                      He Yi and   
 Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan and   
                       Xiang Li   Ordered multi-state system signature and
                                  its dynamic version in evaluating used
                                  multi-state systems  . . . . . . . . . . 873--887
              Jianping Yang and   
                  Tian Zhou and   
                  Weiwei Zhuang   Almost first-order stochastic dominance
                                  by distorted expectations  . . . . . . . 888--906
                Jiesen Wang and   
             Yoni Nazarathy and   
                  Thomas Taimre   The value of information and efficient
                                  switching in channel selection . . . . . 907--927
               Hongfang Sun and   
                        Yu Chen   Extreme Behaviors of the Tail Gini-Type
                                  Variability Measures . . . . . . . . . . 928--942
            Salman Izadkhah and   
      Ebrahim Amini-Seresht and   
     Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan   Preservation properties of some
                                  reliability classes by lifetimes of
                                  coherent and mixed systems and their
                                  signatures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 943--960
        Sirous Fathi Manesh and   
            Muhyiddin Izadi and   
             Baha-Eldin Khaledi   On stochastic ordering among extreme
                                  shock models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 961--972
                  Letian Yu and   
                Fraser Daly and   
                 Oliver Johnson   A negative binomial approximation in
                                  group testing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 973--996
                Miaomiao Yu and   
                   Yinghui Tang   Analyzing a single hyper-exponential
                                  working vacation queue from its
                                  governing difference equation  . . . . . 997--1019
             Mahdi Alimohammadi   Resolving an open problem on the hazard
                                  rate ordering of $p$-spacings  . . . . . 1020--1028
            Puneet Pasricha and   
                   Xin-Jiang He   A simple European option pricing formula
                                  with a skew Brownian motion  . . . . . . 1029--1034
                Liuling Luo and   
                  Xingchun Peng   Asset allocation for a DC pension plan
                                  with minimum guarantee constraint and
                                  hidden Markov regime-switching . . . . . 1035--1062
           Nils Aschenbruck and   
           Stephan Bussmann and   
              Hanna Döring   Asymptotics of a time bounded cylinder
                                  model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1063--1083