Large Deviations for Performance Analysis Queues, Communication and Computing

Name: Large Deviations for Performance Analysis Queues, Communication and Computing
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ISBN: 9780412063114

ISBN-10: 0412063115

ISBN-13: 9780412063114

Edition: 1995

Authors: Adam Shwartz, Alan Weiss, Robert J. Vanderbei

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Book details

List price: $169.95
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: CRC Press LLC
Publication date: 9/1/1995
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 560
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.090
Language: English

Alan Weiss, Ph.D., is president of Summit Consulting Group, former vice president of the international training firm Kepner-Tregoe, and a star on the speakers circuit. He is the author of more than 400 articles and ten books, which include Best Laid Plans, Money Talks, Our Emperors Have No Clothes, and Million-Dollar Consulting. Dr. Weiss resides in East Greenwich, Rhode Island.



Table of contents



What this Book Is, and What It Is Not



Large Deviations of Random Variables



General Principles



Random Walks, Branching Processes



Poisson and Related Processes



Large Deviations for Processes



Freidlin-Wentzell Theory



Applications and Extensions



Boundary Theory



Allocating Independent Subtasks



Parallel Algorithms: Rollback



The M/M/1 Queue



Erlang's Model



The Anick-Mitra-Sondhi Model



Aloha



Priority Queues



The Flatto-Hahn-Wright model



Analysis and Probability



Discrete-Space Markov Processes



Calculus of Variations



Large Deviations Techniques


References


Index