TY - BOOK AU - Altman,Eitan AU - Gaujal,Bruno AU - Hordijk,A. TI - Discrete-event control of stochastic networks: multimodularity and regularity T2 - Lecture notes in mathematics, SN - 3540203583 AV - QA274 .A48 2003 PY - 2003///] CY - Berlin, New York PB - Springer KW - Control theory KW - Queuing theory KW - Stochastic analysis KW - Discrete-time systems N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Table Of Contents; Introduction; Part I Theoretical foundations; 1 Multimodularity, Convexity and Optimization; 2 Balanced Sequences; 3 Stochastic Event Graphs; Part II Admission and routing control ; 4 Admission control in stochastic event graphs; 5 Applications in queuing networks; 6 Optimal routing; 7 Optimal routing in two deterministic queues; 8 Networks with no buffers; 9 Vacancies, service allocation and polling; 10 Monotonicity of feedback control; Part IV Comparisons ; 11 Comparison of queues with discrete-time arrival processes; 12 Simplex convexity; 13 Orders and bounds for multimodular functions; 14 Regular Ordering; References; Index ER -