Stochastic Ordering and Dependence in Applied Probability (Lecture Notes in Statistics Vol.97) (1995. VIII, 194 p. 23,5 cm)

This textbook has been designed as an introduction to stochastic orderings and dependence, and their applications to queues and the networks of queues. It is assumed that readers have a firm grounding in Lebesgue measure, conditional expectation and martingales.