Hautphenne, Sophie; Houdt, Benny Van - In: European Journal of Operational Research 201 (2010) 3, pp. 791-798
In this paper, we describe a link between Markovian binary trees (MBT) and tree-like quasi-birth-and-death processes (TLQBD) by associating a specific TLQBD to each MBT. The algorithms to compute the matrices Gk in the TLQBD then correspond to the algorithms calculating the extinction...