Our object of study is a multiclass queueing network (MQNET) which consists of a collection of (connected) single server stations. Exogenous arrivals into the system from independant poisson streams, service times are exponential and we have Markovian routing of customers between stations.

In managing networks of stock holding locations, two approaches to the pooling of inventory have been proposed. Reactive transshipm nts respond to stockouts at a location by moving inventory from elsewhere within the network, while proactive redistribution of stock seeks to minimise the chance...

The Fire Management Program (FMP) of the Victorian Department of Natural Resources and Environment is responsible for the prevention and suppression of fires on public land in the State of Victoria. The value of publicly-provided fire suppression and prevention activities is a function of the...

Asymmetry in the business cycle has been recognised as a nonlinear phenomenon by a number of recent studies which have examined unemployment rate series in North America, Europe and Australia. While many of these studies hypothesise that linear modelling techniques are inadequate for modelling...