The scale factor: A new degree of freedom in phase type approximation

Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 627-636

  Bobbio, Andrea ^a   Horváth, András ^b   Telek, Miklós ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

^b BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Approximate analysis; Discrete and continuous phase type distributions; Phase type expansion

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS PHASE TYPE DISTRIBUTION; DISCRETE PHASE TYPE DISTRIBUTION; PHASE TYPE APPROXIMATION; SCALE FACTOR;

DECISION THEORY; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; THEOREM PROVING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 0036922087     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DSN.2002.1029008     Document Type: Conference Paper

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