Spring Lectures N. 13: Phase Type Distributions and Some Applications (1990).

Principal Lecturer: Marcel F. Neuts (University of Arizona)

Contributions by:

D. Lucantoni, "New results on the single-server queue with a batch Markovian arrival process",

S. Asmussen, "Phase type representation of waiting times",

M. Johnson, "Phase distribution selection methods",

S. Chakravarthy, "A finite capacity dynamic priority queueing model with phase-type service",

C. Bondia, "A finite capacity polling system with non-exhaustive service and non-renewal input",

A. Bobbio, "ML estimation of the parameters of a PH-distribution in triangular canonical form",

C. O'Cinneide, "Observable and unobservable aspects of Markov models",

U. Sumita, "On multi-variate phase-type distributions",

K. Trivedi, "Computer solutions of stochastic models",

V. Ramaswami,"Implementation of matrix analytic methods for phase-type queues using uniformization techniques"

L. Lipsky, "Must matrix representations of distributions be restricted to phase type?"

A. van de Liefvoort, "The moment problem for continuous distributions".