Session Code: T1-R1
Thursday, Room 1, 8:00-9:30
Applications of Queues
Chair: Shin, Yang Woo
Levy, Hanoch; Raz, David; Avi-Itzhak, Benjamin
How Fair IsYour Queue
Shin, Yang Woo
A Queue with Negative Customers and Disasters
Gao, Peixia; Wittevrongel, Sabine; Bruneel, Herwig
Analysis of Buffer Behavior for a Discrete-Time Multiserver Preemptive Priority Queue with Geometric Service Times
Session Code: T1-R2
Thursday, Room 2, 8:00-9:30

Heavy Tails in Queueing Systems

Organizer and Chair:  Liu, Zhen

Mazumdar, Ravi R.; Likhanov, Nikolay Ozturk, O.

Large buffer asymptotics for some queueing models with heterogeneous subexponential inputs

Lelarge, Marc; Liu, Zhen Xia, Cathy H.
Asymptotic Tail Distribution of End-to-End Delay in Networks of Queues with Self-Similar Cross Traffic
Zwart, Bert; Boyer, Jacqueline Guillemin, Fabrice; Robert, Philippe
Large deviation results for processor sharing queues
Xia, Cathy H.; Lin, Wuqin; Liu, Zhen; Zhang, Li
Cost Minimization of Multi-Tiered e-Business Infrastructure with End-to-End Delay Guarantees
Session Code: T1-R3
Thursday, Room 3, 8:00-9:30

Queues with Setup, Retrial, or Batch Service

Organizer and Chair: Wan, YaT1-wah
Shang, Weixin; Li, Quan-lin; Liu, Liming
Regularly Varying Asymptotic Analysis on an M/G/1 Retrial Queue
Lu, Xiangwen; Regan, Amelia; Irani, Sandra
The M/G/1 Queue with Switching Costs: An Examination of Alternative Heuristics
Wan, Yat-wah; Chen, Hai Rong
Approximating Admission and Service Threshold Levels of a Batch Server
Nobel, Rein
A Discrete-Time Retrial Queueing Model with One Server
Session Code: T1-R4
Thursday, Room 4, 8:00-9:30

Inventory, Risk, and Auction

Organizer and Chair: Li, Qing
Hu, Qiying; Du, Li
Analysis on An Online eBay Auction with Proxy Bidding
Xu, He; Yao, David D.; Zheng, Shaohui
Optimal Control of Replenishment and Substitution for Substitutable Products
He, Qiming
A Computational Approach for Analyzing Stochastic Inventory Systems
Li, Qing
Risk, risk aversion and the optimal time to order
Session Code: T1-R5
Thursday, Room 5, 8:00-9:30

Statistical Models

Chair: Liu, Ke
Ye, Nong; Borror, Connie M. Parmar, Darshit
Scalable Chi-square Distance versus Conventional  Statistical Distance for Process Control with Uncorrelated Data Variables
Tang, Ou; Grubbström, Robert W.
The Moments and Central Moments of a Compound Distribution

Won, You-Dong

Combined Double Sampling Plan
Lin, Edward Y. H.

Towards the Effective Teaching of Bayesian Statistics to EMBA Students

Session Code: T1-R6
Thursday, Room 6, 8:00-9:30
Stochastic Models
Chair:  Wang, Yongjin
Xiao, Yimin
Self-similar Processes and Random Fractals
Kishi, Yasuhito; Kino, Issei
Generation of Semi-PH Processes
Farinetto, Christian; Lee, Andrew; Roberton, Andrew Zuyev, Sergei

Abstract Cost Modelling of Optical Networks using Stochastic Geometry

Xia, Li; Zhao, Qianchuan; Jia, Qing-Shan
The SRLF Rule in Multi-unit Joint Replacement Maintenance Problem and Its Optimality