Title	Stochastic Processes and their Applications [electronic resource] : Proceedings of the Symposium held in honour of Professor S.K. Srinivasan at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India, December 27-30, 1990 / edited by M. J. Beckmann, M. N. Gopalan, R. Subramanian
Imprint	Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1991
Connect to	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58201-1
Descript	XLI, 292 p. 1 illus. online resource

A volume of this nature containing a collection of papers has been brought out to honour a gentleman - a friend and a colleague - whose work has, to a large extent, advanced and popularized the use of stochastic point processes. Professor Srinivasan celebrated his sixt̃ first 1:!irth d̃ on December 16,1990 and will be retiring as Professor of Applied Mathematics from the Indian Institute of Technolõ, Madras on June 30,1991. In view of his outstanding contributions to the theor̃ and applications of stochastic processes over a time span of thirt̃ ẽars, it seemed appropriate not to let his birth d̃ and retirement pass unnoticed. A s̃posium in his honour and the publication of the proceedings appeared to us to be the most natural and sui table ̃ to mark the occasion. The Indian Societ̃ for ProbabU it̃ and Statistics volunteered to organize the S̃posium as part of their XII Annual conference in Bombã. We requested a number of long-time friends, colleagues and former students of Professor Srinivasan to contribute a paper preferabl̃ in the area of stochastic processes and their applications. The positive response and the enthusiastic cooperation of these distinguished scientists have resulted in the present collection. The contributions to this volume are divided into four parts: Stochastic Theor̃ (2 articles), P̃sics (6 articles), Biolõ (4 articles) and Operations Research (12 articles). In addition the keñote address delivered b̃ Professor Srinivasan in the S̃posium is also included

1. Stochastic Theory -- The Square Wave Spectrum of a Markov Renewal Process -- Simulation and Estimation Procedures for Stress Release Models -- 2. Physics -- Positive Definite Functions in Quantum Mechanics and in Turbulence -- Population Monitoring and the Quantum Input-Output Formalism -- An Application of the Kalman Filter in Geoastronomy -- Conformai Martingales in Stochastic Mechanics -- Probability Distributions Over Noncommuting Variables -- Stochastic Quantum Mechanics -- 3. Biology -- A New Approach to the Solution of Neurological Models: Application to the Hodgkin-Huxley and the Fitzhugh-Nagumo Equations -- Neuronal Variability: Stochasticity or Chaos? -- A Limit Theorem and Asymptotical Statistical Characteristics for a Selective Interaction Model of a Single Neuron -- Phase Dependent Population Growth Models -- 4. Operations Research -- The Optimal Investment Process in German Industry -- Incentives and Regulation in Queues -- Two Models of Brand Switching -- Stochastic Processes: Use and Limitations in Reliability Theory -- Stochastic Processes and Optimization Problems in Assemblage Systems -- A Software Package Tool for Markovian Computing Models with Many States: Principles and its Applications -- Reliability Assessment Measurement for Redundant Software Systems -- A Lost Sales Inventory System with Multiple Reorder Levels -- Queueing Models in Hierarchical Planning Systems -- Reliability Analysis of a Complex System Using Boolean Function Technique -- The Second Moment of the Markovian Reward Process -- Correlation Functions in Reliability Theory