Stochastic Processing Networks (SPNs) model manufacturing, communication, or service systems. In such a network, service activities require parts and resources to produce other parts. Because service activities compete for resources, the scheduling in a SPN requires deciding which of a set of conflicting activities should be performed at any given time. The goal is to achieve throughput optimal...

The Quality of Service attributes of a software component heavily depend on its environment. For example, if a component uses a highly unreliable service, its own reliability is likely to decrease as well. This relation can be described with parametric contracts, which model the dependence between provided and required services of a component. Until now, parametric contracts can only model sing...

A memory control for T-S fuzzy discrete-time systems with sto- chastic input delay is proposed in this paper. Dierent from the common assumptions on the time delay in the existing literatures, it is assumed in this paper that the delays vary randomly and satisfy some probabilistic dis- tribution. A new state space model of the discrete-time T-S fuzzy system is derived by introducing some stocha...

In this paper we consider a queuing system in which the service times of customers are independent and identically distributed random variables, the arrival process is stationary and has the property of orderliness, and the queue discipline is arbitrary. For this queuing system we obtain the steady state second moment of the queue size in terms of the stationary waiting time distribution of a s...

in the literature of life-testing, general progressive censoring has been studied extensively. but, all the results have been developed under the key assumption that the units undertest are independently distributed. in this paper, we study general progressively type-ii censored order statistics arising from identical units under test which are jointly distributed according to an archimedean co...