The book deals with collusion between firms on both sides of a market that is immune to deviations by coalitions. We study this issue using an infinitely countably repeated game with discounting of future single period payoffs. A strict strong perfect equilibrium is the main solution concept...

This book presents the latest developments and breakthroughs in fuzzy theory and performance prediction of queuing and reliability models by using the stochastic modeling and optimization theory. The main focus is on analytics that use fuzzy logic, queuing and reliability theory for the...

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 -- 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.

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.

Alexander Hübl develops models for production planning and analyzes performance indicators to investigate production system behaviour. He extends existing literature by considering the uncertainty of customer required lead time and processing times as well as by increasing the complexity of...

Introduction -- Literature Review -- Single-Stage Service Level and Tardiness Model -- Simultaneous Capacity and Planned Lead Time Optimization -- Optimal Composition of Number and Size of Machines -- Service Level Constraint Models -- Conclusion.

Distributed client/server architectures are the technological backbone of today s data centres. A usage-based allocation of infrastructure costs to business processes or users is often not possible as the necessary resource consumption measurements incur too much overhead. Reinhard Brandl...