General information: The conference place is the Dipartimento di Matematica "Leonida Tonelli", in Largo B. Pontecorvo, 5 (former Via Buonarroti, 2).
All the talks are held in Aula Faedo, ground floor; preregistration and registration are in Aula 1, ground floor.
In the afternoon of Friday, after the conference, a tutorial on fluid queues will be held by V. Ramaswami.

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

 

	17:00-18:30		Preregistration (Aula 1)

 

	9:00		Registration (Aula 1)
	9:30		Welcome (Aula Faedo)
	Session 1: Markov modulated chains. Chair: V. Ramaswami
	9:45		M. Drmota (invited speaker), Asymptotic methods of enumeration and applications to Markov chain models.
	10:30		N. Antunes, C. Nunes, A. Pacheco, Functionals of Markovian branching D-BMAPs.
	11:00		Coffee Break
	Session 2: Transient analysis. Chair: T. Takine
	11:30		B. Van Houdt, C. Blondia, Approximated transient queue length and waiting time distributions via steady state analysis.
	12:00		D. A. Stanford, G. Latouche, D. G. Woolford, D. Boychuk, A. Hunchak, Erlangized fluid queues with application to uncontrolled fire perimeter.
	12:30		L. Rabehasaina, B. Sericola, Transient analysis of averaged queue length in Markovian queues.
	13:00		Lunch
	14:15		Video greeting from Marcel Neuts
	Session 3: PH distributions. Chair: N. Bean
	14:30		S. Ahn, V. Ramaswami, Bilateral phase type distributions
	15:00		Q. He, H. Zhang, A note on unicyclic representations of phase type distributions.
	15:30		A. Bobbio, A. Horváth, M. Telek, Matching three moments with minimal acyclic phase type distributions.
	16:00		Coffee Break
	Session 4: Polynomial methods. Chair: W. Grassmann
	16:30		S. Nishimura, A spectral method for a nonpreemptive priority BMAP/G/1 queue.
	17:00		D. Traczinski, W. Luther, G. Hasslinger, Polynomial factorization for servers with semi-Markovian workload: performance and numerical aspects of a verified solution technique.

 

	Session 5: Factorizations. Chair: E. van Doorn
	9:15		I. Spitkovsky (invited speaker), A survey of Wiener-Hopf factorization. Known results and open problems.
	10:00		D. A. Bini, B. Meini, I. Spitkovsky Shift techniques and canonical factorizations in the solution of M/G/1-type Markov chains.
	10:30		Q.-L. Li, Z. Lian, L. Liu, A RG-Factorization approach for a BMAP/M/1 Generalized Processor-Sharing Queue.
	11:00		Coffee Break
	Session 6: Applications. Chair: Q.-M. He
	11:30		D. Gamarnick, M. Squillante, Analysis of stochastic online bin packing processes.
	12:00		M.-A. Remiche, Compliance of the token bucket model with Markovian traffic.
	12:30		D. Green, A. V. Metcalfe, Reliability of supply between production lines.
	13:00		Picture followed by lunch
	15:00		Excursion to Lucca
	21:00		Social banquet

 

	Session 7: Algorithms. Chair: M. Telek
	9:30		Q. Zhang, A. Heindl, E. Smirni, Characterizing the BMAP/MAP/1 departure process via the ETAQA truncation.
	10:00		L. B. White, A new policy evaluation algorithm for Markov decision processes with quasi-birth death structure.
	10:30		M. Van Vuuren, I.J.B.F. Adan, Approximating the $\Sigma GI/G/s$ queue by using aggregation and matrix analytic methods.
	11:00		Coffee Break
	Session 8: Queueing theory. Chair: E. Smirni
	11:30		H. W. Lee, J. W. Baek, BMAP/G/1 queue under D-policy: Queue length analysis.
	12:00		A. da Silva Soares, G. Latouche, Level-phase independence for fluid queues.
	12:30		J. Van Velthoven, B. Van Houdt, C. Blondia, Response time distribution in a D/MAP/PH/1 queue with general customer impatience.
	13:00		Lunch
	Session 9: Priority queues. Chair: M.-A. Remiche
	14:30		J. Xue, A. S. Alfa, Tail probability of low-priority queue length in a discrete-time priority BMAP/PH/1 queue.
	15:00		H. Masuyama, T. Takine, Matrix product-form solutions for LCFS preemptive service single-server queues with batch Markovian arrival streams.
	15:30		A. Gomez-Corral, A. Krishnamoorthy, V. C. Narayanan, The impact of self-generation of priorities on multi-server queues with finite capacity.
	16:00		Coffee break
	16:30		Business meeting. Chair: D.A. Bini

 

	Session 10: Decay rates. Chair: A. Alfa
	9:30		N. D. Van Foreest, M. R. H. Mandjes, J. C. W. van Ommeren, W. R. W. Scheinhardt, A tandem queue with server slow-down and blocking.
	10:00		H. Li, Y. Q. Zhao, A retrial queue with a constant retrial rate, server break downs and impatient customers.
	10:30		A. Motyer, Decay rates of QBD processes with countably many phases and tridiagonal block generators.
	11:00		Coffee Break
	Session 11: Matrix exponential distributions. Chair: D. Stanford
	11:30		M. Fackrell, Fitting with Matrix-exponential Distributions.
	12:00		A. Van de Liefvoort, A. Heindl, Approximating matrix-exponential distributions by global randomization.
	12:30		Closing session
	13:00		Lunch
	Tutorial
	15:00		V. Ramaswami, Matrix Analytic Methods for Fluid Flow Models (part 1).
	16:00		V. Ramaswami, Matrix Analytic Methods for Fluid Flow Models (part 2).