JAP Volume 34 Number 1

Research Papers

1 HAIJUN LI AND MOSHE SHAKED. Ageing first-passage times of Markov processes: a matrix approach

14 RONG-RONG CHEN. An extended class of time-continuous branching processes

24 SHOOU-REN HSIAU. Compound Poisson limit theorems for Markov chains

35 G. O. ROBERTS, S. D. JACKA AND P. K. POLLETT. Non-explosivity of limits of conditioned birth and death processes

46 PAULINE SCHRIJNER AND ERIK A. VAN DOORN. Weak convergence of conditioned birth-death processes in discrete time

54 LIQUN WANG AND KLAUS PÖTZELBERGER. Boundary crossing probability for Brownian motion and general boundaries

66 S. E. GRAVERSEN AND G. PESKIR. On Wald-type optimal stopping for Brownian motion

74 ROBERT LUND AND WALTER SMITH. A comparison of convergence rates for three models in the theory of dams

84 Y. L. TONG. Some majorization orderings of heterogeneity in a class of epidemics

94 M. A. GUERRY. Properties of calculated predictions of grade sizes and the associated integer valued vectors

101 E. B. FOSAM AND D. N. SHANBHAG. Variants of the Choquet-Deny theorem with applications

107 PIERCESARE SECCHI. Two-person red-and-black stochastic games

127 G. E. WILLMOT AND XIAODONG LIN. Simplified bounds on the tails of compound distributions

134 BRUCE CALVERT, WIREMU SOLOMON AND ILSE ZIEDINS. Braess's paradox in a queueing network with state-dependent routing

155 N. G. BEAN, F. P. KELLY AND P. G. TAYLOR. Braess's paradox in a loss network

160 J. L. COLEMAN, W. HENDERSON, C. E. M. PEARCE AND P. G. TAYLOR. A note on the correspondence between product-form batch-movement queueing networks and single-movement networks

176 DUAN-SHIN LEE. Analysis of a two-queue model with Bernoulli schedules

192 ANYUE CHEN AND ERIC RENSHAW. The M/M/1 queue with mass exodus and mass arrivals when empty

208 SØREN ASMUSSEN AND CLAUDIA KLÜPPELBERG. Stationary M/G/1 excursions in the presence of heavy tails

213 HELMUT WILLIE. A note on single server loss systems with a superposition of inputs

223 J. R. ARTALEJO AND A. GOMEZ-CORRAL. Steady state solution of a single-server queue with linear repeated requests

234 LAM YEH. The rate of occurrence of failures

248 USHIO SUMITA AND YASUSHI MASUDA. Tandem queues with bulk arrivals, infinitely many servers and correlated service times

258 SHOKRI Z. SELIM. Time-dependent solution and optimal control of a bulk service queue

267 C. COSTANTINI AND F. SPIZZICHINO. Explicit solution of an optimal stopping problem: the burn-in of conditionally exponential components

Short Communications

283 HARSHINDER SINGH AND R. S. SINGH. On allocation of spares at component level versus system level

288 PIETER C. ALLAART. An invariant-sum characterization of Benford's law