Advances in Applied Probability

Advances in Applied Probability, published by the Applied Probability Trust, contains reviews and expository papers in applied probability, as well as mathematical and scientific papers of interest to probabilists, letters to the editor and a section devoted to stochastic geometry and statistical applications.


Volume 40, Number 4

Publication Date: December 2008

Stochastic Geometry and Statistical Applications

Volume degeneracy of the typical cell and the chord length distribution for Poisson-Voronoi tessellations in high dimensions

Kasra Alishahi and Mohsen Sharifitabar; 919-938

Small-world graphs: characterization and alternative constructions

Rama Cont and Emily Tanimura; 939-965

Decentralized search on spheres using small-world Markov chains: expected hitting times and structural properties

Archis Ghate; 966-978

General Applied Probability

Uniform approximations of discrete-time filters

Kari Heine and Dan Crisan; 979-1001

Expected coalescence time for a nonuniform allocation process

John K. Mcsweeney and Boris G. Pittel; 1002-1032

Exact values and sharp estimates for the total variation distance between binomial and Poisson distributions

José A. Adell, José M. Anoz and Alberto Lekuona; 1033-1047

Large deviations for eigenvalues of sample covariance matrices, with applications to mobile communication systems

Anne Fey, Remco van der Hofstad and Marten J. Klok; 1048-1071

Analysis of stochastic fluid queues driven by local-time processes

Takis Konstantopoulos, Andreas E. Kyprianou, Paavo Salminen and Marina Sirviö; 1072-1103

State-dependent importance sampling for regularly varying random walks

J. Blanchet and J. C. Liu; 1104-1128

Multifractality of products of geometric Ornstein-Uhlenbeck-type processes

V. V. Anh, Nikolai N. Leonenko and Narn-Rueih Shieh; 1129-1156

Stochastic and substochastic solutions for infinite-state Markov chains with applications to matrix-analytic methods

Winfried K. Grassmann and Javad Tavakoli; 1157-1173

Multiple-trial conflicts and stochastic evolutionary game dynamics

Lorens A. Imhof; 1174-1197

A quadratic ARCH(∞) model {with long memory and Lévy stable behavior of squares

Donatas Surgailis; 1198-1222

Letter to the Editor

On an inequality of Karlin and Rinott concerning weighted sums of i.i.d. random variables

Yaming Yu; 1223-1226

Advances in Applied Probability Volume 40 (2008): Index General Applied Probability

1227-1229

Advances in Applied Probability Volume 40 (2008): Index Stochastic Geometry and Statistical Applications

1230

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