Index

INDEX

Absorbing state

Accessible states

Acyclic graphs

as chain graphs

directed

Adjacency matrix

Adjacent vertices

Advanced queueing theory

Aggregate arrival rates

Algorithms. See also Hungarian algorithm; Inference algorithms; Kruskal’s algorithm; Sum-product algorithm

approximate

clique tree

consensus

convolution

exact

junction tree

maximum weight spanning tree

for product-form queueing networks

Ancestor

Aperiodic state

Approximate algorithms

Approximate solutions

Approximations, of queueing systems and networks

Arrival/departure processes, variations about the mean in. See also Arrivals/departures; Departure process

Arrival processes, in open networks

Arrival rate for a process. See also Aggregate arrival rates; Average customer arrival rate; External Poisson arrival rate; Total arrival rate

Arrivals/departures, cumulative number of

Arrival stream

Arrival theorem

Arriving pattern, of queueing systems

Assignment problem

bipartite graph for

solution of

Attractor cycles

Attractors

Autocorrelation function

Autocorrelation matrix

Autocovariance matrix

Auxiliary servers

Average customer arrival rate

Backlog model

Balance equations. See also Local balance equations

Balking system

Base network

Basin of attraction

Batch arrival system

Bayesian estimation

Bayesian networks (BNs)

classification of

general conditional independence and d-separation

learning

moralizing

parameter learning in

probabilistic inference in

Bayesian network structure, known and unknown

Bayes’ ...

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