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IE 807: Advanced Stochastic Processes for Operations Research II

Contents:

Brownian motion, General state space Markov chains, Weak convergence, Continuous-time Martingales, Ito calculus, Stochastic geometry  Introduction to Stationary Poisson Point process, Poisson Voronoi cells and its properties. Advanced queueing topics - Fluid limits, Diffusion approximation, Mean-field analysis, etc.

References:

[1] Oksendal, Bernt. "Stochastic di013erential equations." Stochastic di013erential equations. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2003.

[2] Ioannis Karatzas, and Steven Shreve. "Brownian motion and stochastic calculus." Vol. 113. Springer Science & Business Media, [3] Bilhngsley, Patrick. "Convergence of probability measures." , Wiley Series in Probability and Mathematical Statistics", New York, 1968.

[4] Sean Meyn and Richard L. Tweedie, "Markov Chains and Stochastic Stability", Springer-Verlag London Ltd, 1993.

[5] P. Billingsley, "Probability and Measure", third ed., Wiley- Interscience, New York, 1995.

[6] Sean Meyn "Control techniques for complex networks", Cambridge University Press, 2008.

[7] F. Baccelli and B. Baszczyszyn, "Stochastic Geometry and Wireless Networks" Volume I, NowPublishers, 2010.