Annals of Operations Research, Volume 160

Volume 160, Number 1, April 2008

• Qi-Ming He, Tetsuya Takine, Peter Taylor, Hanqin Zhang:
  Preface. 1-2
  
• Benny Van Houdt, Jeroen Van Velthoven, Chris Blondia:
  QBD Markov chains on binomial-like trees and its application to multilevel feedback queues. 3-18
  
• Jung Woo Baek, Ho Woo Lee, Se Won Lee, Soohan Ahn:
  A factorization property for BMAP/G/1 vacation queues under variable service speed. 19-29
  
• Nigel G. Bean, Nectarios Kontoleon, Peter G. Taylor:
  Markovian trees: properties and algorithms. 31-50
  
• Levente Bodrog, András Horváth, Miklós Telek:
  Moment characterization of matrix exponential and Markovian arrival processes. 51-68
  
• Marco Gribaudo, Daniele Manini, Bruno Sericola, Miklós Telek:
  Second order fluid models with general boundary behaviour. 69-82
  
• Liming Liu, Masakiyo Miyazawa, Yiqiang Q. Zhao:
  Geometric decay in level-expanding QBD models. 83-98
  
• Nigel G. Bean, Malgorzata M. O'Reilly:
  Performance measures of a multi-layer Markovian fluid model. 99-120
  
• Attahiru Sule Alfa, Barbara Haas Margolius:
  Two classes of time-inhomogeneous Markov chains: Analysis of the periodic case. 121-137
  
• Tamás Éltetö, Péter Vaderna:
  Finding upper-triangular representations for phase-type distributions with 3 distinct real poles. 139-172
  
• Jiashan Tang, Yiqiang Q. Zhao:
  Stationary tail asymptotics of a tandem queue with feedback. 173-189
  
• T. G. Deepak, A. Krishnamoorthy, Viswanath C. Narayanan, K. Vineetha:
  Inventory with service time and transfer of customers and/inventory. 191-213
  
• V. Ramaswami, Douglas G. Woolford, David A. Stanford:
  The erlangization method for Markovian fluid flows. 215-225
  
• Mark S. Squillante, Yanyong Zhang, Anand Sivasubramaniam, Natarajan Gautam:
  Generalized parallel-server fork-join queues with dynamic task scheduling. 227-255