Introduction -- Mathematical Models for Appointment Planning -- Basic Queuing Theory -- Access Time and Waiting List Management -- Scheduling Appointment Slots -- Specific Appointment systems -- Improving Clinic Operations -- Challenges in Appointment Planning.

Models -- and Examples -- Uncertainty and Modeling Issues -- Basic Properties -- Basic Properties and Theory -- The Value of Information and the Stochastic Solution -- Solution Methods -- Two-Stage Linear Recourse Problems -- Nonlinear Programming Approaches to Two-Stage Recourse Problems --...

Random Set Theory -- Random Multiple Objective Decision Making -- Bi-random Multiple Objective Decision Making -- Random Fuzzy Multiple Objective Decision Making -- Random Rough Multiple Objective Decision Making -- Methodological System for RLMODM -- Some Mathematical Aids -- Some Procedures

In many areas of finance and stochastics, significant advances have been made since this field of research was opened by Black, Scholes and Merton in 1973. Advances in Finance and Stochastics contains a collection of original articles by a number of highly distinguished authors on research...

Ausgewählte DEA-Modelle: CCR-Modell und BCC-Modell -- Stochastische Effizienzkonzepte -- Entwicklung einer stochastischen Dienstleistungsaktivität -- DEA-Technologiemengen für stochastische Produktionen -- Chance-Constrained Technologiemenge.

Basic Concepts -- Regular Performance Measures -- Irregular Performance Measures -- Stochastic Machine Breakdowns -- Optimal Stopping Problems -- Multi-armed Bandit Processes -- Dynamic Policies -- Stochastic Scheduling with Incomplete Information -- Optimal Policies in Time-varying Scheduling...

1. Introduction -- 2. Closed Queueing Networks -- 3. Literature Review -- 4. Decomposition Approach -- 5. Markov-chain Approach -- 6. Distribution of the Time between Processing Starts -- 7. Conclusion

The Exponential Distribution and the Poisson Process -- Introduction to Renewal Theory -- Introduction to Markov Chains -- From Single Server Queues to M/G/1 -- Priorities and Scheduling in M/G/1 -- M/G/1 Using Markov Chains and LSTs -- The G/M/1 Queueing System -- Continuous-time Markov Chains...

Introduction -- Basic Concepts -- Cooperative Game Theoretic Approach -- Independence, Monotonicity, and Balanced Consistency -- No-envy -- Startegyproofness -- Strategyproofness and Egalitarian Equivalence -- Subgroup Additivity -- A Non-Cooperative Approach -- Queueing Problems with Two.