Acall center with both contract and noncontract customers was giving priority to the contract customers only in off-peak hours, precisely when having priority was least important. In this paper, we investigate whether this is rational behavior on the part of the call center and what the...

Nagrinėjant situaciją, kai draudimo kompanija moka dividendus akcininkams pagal barjero strategiją su parametru b, iškyla sunkumų nustatant optimalų dividendų barjerą. Dažnai individualių žalų dydžių skirstinys nežinomas, tačiau galime tikėtis kelių pirmųjų momentų...

Recently, a computationally-efficient method was presented for calibrating a wide-class of Markov processes from discrete-sampled abundance data. The method was illustrated with respect to one-dimensional processes and required the assumption of stationarity. Here we demonstrate that the...