JAP Volume 34 Number 3

Research Papers

565 CLAUDIA CECI AND ANNA GERARDI. Filtering of a branching process given its split times

575 M. GONZALEZ AND M. MOLINA. On the L²-convergence of a superadditive bisexual Galton--Watson branching process

583 K. S. CHONG AND K. LAM. Cost comparison of a spectrum of self-organizing rules

593 M. V. KOUTRAS AND V. A. ALEXANDROU. Sooner waiting time problems in a sequence of trinomial trials

610 MARIO LEFEBVRE. On the inverse of the first hitting time problem for bidimensional processes

623 R. GUTIERREZ, L. M. RICCIARDI, P. ROMAN AND F. TORRES. First-passage-time densities for time-non-homogeneous diffusion processes

632 JAMES M. CALVIN AND PETER W. GLYNN. Average case behavior of random search for the maximum

643 WILLIAM P. MCCORMICK. Extremes for shot noise processes with heavy tailed amplitudes

657 R. J. MARTIN AND A. M. WALKER. A power-law model and other models for long-range dependence

671 ILARIA DI MATTEO AND ENZO ORSINGHER. Detailed probabilistic analysis of the integrated three-valued telegraph signal

685 ERIC RENSHAW AND YONGLONG DAI. Regularity and symmetry results for birth-death-migration processes

698 HAKAN ANDERSSON AND BOUALEM DJEHICHE. Limit theorems for the total size of a spatial epidemic

711 JUN CAI AND YANHONG WU. Characterization of life distributions under some generalised stochastic orderings

720 DIRK P. KROESE. Heavy traffic analysis for continuous polling models

733 RHONDA RIGHTER. Stochastic scheduling for a two machine open shop

745 XIULI CHAO. Partial balances in batch arrival batch service and assemble-transfer queueing networks

753 NEIL O'CONNELL. Large deviations for departures from a shared buffer

767 JOHN A. BARNES AND RICHARD MEILI. A stationary Poisson departure process from a minimally delayed infinite server queue with non-stationary Poisson arrivals

773 O. BOXMA AND URI YECHIALI. An M/G/1 queue with multiple types of feedback and gated vacations

Short Communications

785 CHUNSHENG MA. A note on stochastic ordering of order statistics

790 R. M. PHATARFOD, A. J. PRYDE AND DAVID DYTE. The linear search problem with Markov dependent requests

795 HIROSHI TOYOIZUMI. Nonparametric estimate of virtual waiting time distribution from count data

800 VYACHESLAV M. ABRAMOV. On a property of refusals stream

806 ROBERT B. LUND. The geometric convergence rate of a Lindley random walk

812 S. V. SABNIS AND MINI R. NAIR. Coherent structures and unimodality

Letters to the Editor

818 GERARD HOOGHIEMSTRA AND L. E. MEESTER. The extremal index in 10 seconds

823 GWO DONG LIN. On weak convergence within a family of life distributions

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