ADVANCES IN APPLIED PROBABILITY

Volume 31 , Number 1, MARCH 1999

1 Invariant distributions for shapes in sequences of randomly-divided rectangles

FRANCIS K. C. CHEN AND RICHARD COWAN

15 first contact distributions for spatial patterns: regularity and estimation

MARTIN B. HANSEN. ADRIAN BADDELEY AND RICHARD D. GILL.

34 The convex hull of humpies from self-similar distributions

IRENE HUETER

48 Estimating the reduced moments of a random measure

KILN KIEU AND MARIANNE MORA

63 A duality tor Poisson flats

ROLF SCHNEIDER.

Genera! applied Probability

69 Perfect simulation of some point processes for the impatientuser

ELK.E THONNES.

88 Reduced suberilical Galton-Watson processes in a random environment

KLAUS FLEISCHMANN AND VLADIMIR A. VATUTIN.

112 Markov chain Monte Carlo simulation of the distrihution of some perpetuities

JOSTEIN PAULSFN AND ARNE HOVE.

135 On the supremum distribution of integrated stationary Gaussian process with negative linear drift

JINWOO CHOE AND NESS B. SHROFF

158 Central limit theorem for wave-functionals of Gaussian processes

VLADIMIR PITERBARG AND IGOR RYCHLIK

178 Smallest-fit selection of random sizes under a sum constraint: weak convergence and moment comparisons

FRANS A. BOSHUIZEN AND ROBERT P. KLRTZ

199 Stably coalescent stochastic froths

J. M. C. CLARK AND V. KATSOLJROS.

220 The aymptotic final size distribution of multitype chain-binomial epidemic processes

MIKAEL ANDERSSON

235 Asymptotics of palm-stutionary buffer content distributions in fluid queues

TOMASZ ROLSKL SABINE SCHLEGEL AND VOLKER SCHMIDT

254 Large deviations, moderate deviations, and queues with long-range dependent input

CHENG-SHANG CHANG, DAVID D. YAO AND TIM ZAJTC


ADVANCES IN APPLIED PROBABILITY

Volume 31 , Number 2 , JUNE 1999

Stochastic Geometry and Statistical Applications

279 On connected component Markov point processes

Y. C. CHIN AND A. J. BADDELEY.

 

283 Central limit theorem for a class of random measures associated with germ-grain models

LOTHAR HEINRICH AND ILYA S. MOLCHANOV.

315 Quermass-interaction processes: conditions for stability

W. S. KENDALL, M. N. M. VAN LIESHOUT AND A. J. BADDELEY.

343 Random p-content of p-parallelotope in Euclidean n-space

A. M. MATHAI.

355 Stopping sets: Gamma-type results and hitting properties

SERGEI ZUYEV.

General Applied Probability

367 One-dimensional Kohonen maps are super-stable with exponential rate

ROBERT M. BURTON AND DAVID C. PLAEHN.

394 Asymplolic results for multiplexing subexponential on-off sources

PREDRAG R. JELENKOViC AND AUREL A. LAZAR.

422 Tail probabilities for non-standard risk and queueing processes with subexponential jumps

S0REN ASMUSSEN, HANSPETER SCHMIDLI AND VOLKER SCHMIDT.

 

448 Asymptotics of Poisson approximation to random discrete distributions: an analytic approach

HSIEN-KUEI HWANG.

492 Stochastic orders in preservation properties by Bernstein-type operators

JOSE A. ADELL AND ANA PEREZ-PALOMARES.

510 The maximum of a function of a Markov chain and application to linkage analysis

I-PING TU AND DAVID SIEGMUND.

532 Abel-Gontcharoff pseudopolynomials and the exact final outcome of SIR epidemic models (III)

CLAUDE LEFEVRE AND PHILIPPE PICARD.

551 Reaching goals by a deadline: digital options and continuoustime active portfolio management

SID BROWNE.


ADVANCES IN APPLIED PROBABILITY

Volume 31 , Number 3 , SEPTEMBER 1999

579 The size of the connected components of excursion sets of x^2 , t and F fields

J. CAO.

596 On the size of a random sphere of influence graph

T. K. CHALKER, A. P. GODBOLE, P. HITCZENKO, J. RATCLIFF AND 0. G. RUEHR.

610 The volume fraction of a Poisson germ model with maximally non-overlapping spherical grains

D. J. DALEY, D. STOYAN AND H. STOYAN.

625 Isotropic- correlation functions on d-dimensional balls

TILMANN GNEITING.

632 Asymptotics for geometric location problems over random samples

K. McGIVNEY AND J. E. YUKICH.

643 On the fractal dimensions of point patterns

DAVID VERE-JONES.

664 Interdependence of directional quantities of planar tessellations

VIOLA WEISS AND WERNER NAGEL.

Genera] Applit'd Prohahilin

679 The fundamental matrix of singularly perturbed Makrov chains

KONSTANTIN L. AVRACHENKOV AND JEAN B. LASSERRE.

698 Weak approximations for empirical Lorenz curves and their Goldie inverses of stationary observations

MTLKOS CSORGO AND HAO YU.

720 Asymptotic properties of the connectivity number of random railways

HANS GARMO.

742 On the algebraic structure in Markovian processes of death and epidemic types

PHILIPPE PICARD AND CLAUDE LEFEVRE.

758 A unified approach to fast teller queues and ATM

B. BECK. A. R. DABROWSKI AND D. R. McDONALD.

788 Tightness of the stationary waiting time in heavy traffic

WLADYSLAW SZCZOTKA.

795 Three management policies for a resource with partition constraints

MURAT ALANYALI.

819 Interacting particle systems approximations of the Kuchner_Stratonovitch equation

D. CRISAN, P. DEL MORAL AND T. J. LYONS.

839 Hunting submartingales in the jumping voter model and the biased annihilating branching process

AIDAN SUDBURY.


ADVANCES IN APPLIED PROBABILITY

Volume 31 , Number 4 , DECEMBER 1999

 

855 Stochastic analysis of image acquisition, interpolation and scale-space smoothing

KALLE ASTROM AND ANDERS HEYDEN.

895 Existence of 'nearest neighbour' spatial Gibbs models

ETIENNE BERTIN. JEAN-MICHEL BILLIOT AND REMY DROUILHET.

910 Bounds for clump size characteristics in the Boolean model

BARTLOMIEJ BLASZCZYSZYN, CHRISTIAN RAU AND VOLKER SCHMIDT.

929 Generalized Gamma measures and shot-noise Cox processes

ANDERS BRIX.

954 Four interesting problems concerning Markovian shape sequences

RICHARD COWAN AND FRANCIS K. C. CHEN.

969 The central limit theorem for Euclidean minimal spanning trees II

SUNGCHUL LEE.

985 The distribution of volume reductions induced by isotropic random projections

JORGEN NIELSEN.

995 Surprising optimal estimators for the area fraction

KATJA SCHLADITZ.

General Applied Probability

1002 Recent common ancestors of all present-day individuals with invited discussion by

PETER DONNELLY. CARSTEN WIUF AND

JOTUN HEIN, MONTGOMERY SLATKIN, WARREN J. EWENS and J. F. C. KINGMAN

JOSEPH T. CHANG.

1039 Multi-resolution approximation to the stochastic inverse problem

J. M. ANGULO AND M. D. RUIZ-MEDINA.

1058 Incomplete markets: convergence of options values under the minimal martingale measure

JEAN-LUC PRIGENT.

1078 Stochastic comparisons for residual lifetimes and Bayesian notions of multivariate ageing

BRUNO BASSAN AND FABIO SPIZZICHINO.

1095 Optimal stochastic scheduling of a two-stage tandem queue with parallel servers

HYUN-SOO AHN , IZAK DUENYAS AND RACHEL Q.ZHANG.

1118 On the optimality and the asymptotic optimalily of the smallest weighted available buffer policy

DUAN SHIN LFF.

1 151 Index (General Applied Probability)

1 153 Index (Stochastic Geometry and Statistical Applications)

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