Recent publications by Pieter-Tjerk de Boer
2008:
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Tatiana S. Zaburnenko, Pieter-Tjerk de Boer, Boudewijn R.H.M. Haverkort:
"Extension of heuristics for simulating population overflow in Jackson tandem queuing networks to non-Markovian tandem queuing networks".
7th International Workshop on Rare Event Simulation
(RESIM 2008), Rennes, France, September 2008
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Desislava Dimitrova, Georgios Karagiannis, Pieter-Tjerk de Boer:
"Severe congestion handling approaches in NSIS RMD domains with bi-directional reservations".
Computer Communications, Vol. 31, No. 14, 5 September 2008, pp. 3153-3162.
Available online.
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Edwin Woudt, Pieter-Tjerk de Boer and Jan-Kees van Ommeren:
"Improving adaptive importance sampling simulation of Markovian queueing models using non-parametric smoothing".
Simulation, December 2007 (which finally appeared around April 2008), Vol. 83, No. 12, pp. 811-820.
Available online.
2007:
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Pieter-Tjerk de Boer, Pierre L'Ecuyer, Gerardo Rubino and Bruno Tuffin:
"Estimating the Probability of a Rare Event Over a Finite Time Horizon"
Proc. of the 2007 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC'07),
Washington, USA, December 2007, pp. 403-411
Available online
(PDF-file at the Informs-CS website).
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Pieter-Tjerk de Boer and Werner R.W. Scheinhardt:
"Alternative proof and interpretations for a recent state-dependent importance sampling scheme."
Queueing Systems, November 2007, Vol. 57, No. 2-3, pp. 61-69.
Available online at Springerlink.
Also presented at 14th Informs Applied Probability Conference, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, July 9-11, 2007
An earlier version appeared as Memorandum 1828, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Twente, March 2007.
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R.O. Taniman, A.C. van Bochove, P.T. de Boer:
"Bitloading with reduced computational complexity order for a multicarrier multimode PON."
Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Symposium IEEE/LEOS Benelux Chapter, 17-18 Dec 2007, Brussels, Belgium, pp. 171-174.
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R.O. Taniman, A.C. van Bochove, P.T. de Boer, B. Sikkes:
"Dynamic capacity allocation for low-cost multicarrier multimode PON."
Proceedings of the Thirty-third European Conference on Optical Communication, 16-20 Sep 2007, Berlin, Germany, pp. 55-56.
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R.O. Taniman, A.C. van Bochove, P.T. de Boer, B. Sikkes:
"Application of feasible vertex labeling for dynamic capacity allocation of a multicarrier multimode PON."
Proceedings of the Twelfth European Conference on Networks and Optical Communications, 18-21 June 2007, Stockholm, Sweden, pp. 407-414.
2006:
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P.T. de Boer:
"Some Observations on Importance Sampling and RESTART".
Proc. of the 6th International Workshop on Rare Event Simulation
(RESIM 2006), Bamberg, Germany, October 2006
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P.T. de Boer:
"Analysis of State-Independent Importance-Sampling Measures for the Two-Node Tandem Queue".
ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation, July 2006, Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 225-250.
Available online http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1147224.1147226.
Extended abstract in
Proc. of the 5th International Workshop on Rare Event Simulation and Combinatorial Optimization
(RESIM COP 2004), Budapest, Hungary, September 2004
Note: the printed (i.e., "hardcopy") version of this paper contains some minor copyediting errors; please use the online version instead.
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R.O. Taniman, B. Sikkes, A.C. van Bochove, P.T. de Boer:
"Stable-matching-based subcarrier assignment method for multimode PON using a multicarrier variant of subcarrier multiplexing".
11th European Conference on Networks & Optical Communications,
Berlin, Germany, July 2006.
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Mark Timmer, Pieter-Tjerk de Boer, Aiko Pras:
"How to Identify the Speed Limiting Factor of a TCP Flow".
Fourth IEEE/IFIP Workshop on End-to-End Monitoring Techniques and Services (E2EMON'06),
Vancouver, Canada, April 2006.
Also available online at
IEEExplore
2005:
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P.T. de Boer, D.P. Kroese, S. Mannor, R.Y. Rubinstein:
"A Tutorial on the Cross-Entropy Method".
Annals of Operations Research, January 2005, Vol. 134, No. 1, pp. 19-67.
Also available online at
SpringerLink
and at the cross-entropy method homepage.
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P.T. de Boer:
"Rare-event simulation of non-Markovian queueing networks using
a state-dependent change of measure determined using cross-entropy".
Annals of Operations Research, January 2005, Vol. 134, No. 1, pp. 69-100.
Also available online at
SpringerLink
Extended abstract in
Proc. of the 5th International Workshop on Rare Event Simulation and Combinatorial Optimization
(RESIM COP 2004), Budapest, Hungary, September 2004
2004:
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P.T. de Boer, D.P. Kroese, R.Y. Rubinstein:
"A Fast Cross-Entropy Method for Estimating Buffer Overflows in Queueing Networks".
Management Science, July 2004, Vol. 50, No. 7, pp. 883-895.
Available online (PDF format).
Earlier version in
Proc. of the 4th International Workshop on Rare Event Simulation and Related Combinatorial Optimization Problems
(RESIM/COP'02), Madrid, Spain, 2002
2002:
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P.T. de Boer, D.P. Kroese, R.Y. Rubinstein:
"Estimating Buffer Overflows in Three Stages Using Cross-Entropy"
Proc. of the 2002 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC'02),
San Diego, California, 2002, 301-309
Available online
(PDF-file at the Informs-CS website).
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"Adaptive state-dependent importance sampling simulation of Markovian Queuing networks,"
European Transactions on Telecommunications, 2002, vol. 13, no. 4, p. 303-315.
(with V.F. Nicola)
Available online (PDF format).
2001:
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"The Remaining Service Time Upon Reaching a High Level in M/G/1 Queues,"
Queueing Systems, 2001, vol. 39, p. 55-78.
(with V.F. Nicola and J.C.W. van Ommeren)
Available online
(at the publisher's website).
2000:
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"Adaptive Importance Sampling Simulation of Queueing Networks,"
Proc. of the 2000 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC'00),
Orlando, Florida, 2000, 646-655
(with V.F. Nicola and R.Y. Rubinstein)
Available online
(PDF-file at the Informs-CS website).
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Analysis and efficient simulation of queueing models of telecommunication
systems,
Ph.D. thesis, University of Twente, 2000.
Available online.
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"Dynamic Importance Sampling Simulation of Queueing Networks:
An Adaptive Approach Based on Cross-Entropy,"
Proc. of the 3rd International Workshop on Rare Event Simulation
(RESIM'2000), Pisa, Italy, 2000
(with V.F. Nicola and R.Y. Rubinstein)
1999 and earlier:
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"On the Estimation of Rare Event Probabilities Involving IID Sums,"
Proc. of the Second International Workshop on Rare Event Simulation
(RESIM'99),
Enschede, The Netherlands, 1999, 133-138.
(with V.F. Nicola and R. Srinivasan)
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"A Hybrid Importance Sampling Estimation of Consecutive Cell Loss Probability,"
AEU Int. J. Electron. Commun., 1998, 52, 3, 133-140
(with V.F. Nicola)
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"Analysis of Per-Stream Consecutive Cell Loss in a Multiple Source Queueing Model,"
Proc. of the Fourth Workshop on Performance Modelling and Evaluation of
ATM Networks, Ilkley, UK, 1996
(with V.F. Nicola)
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"Soliton Switching in Directional Couplers,"
Japan Journal of Industrial and Applied Mathematics
1999, 16, 65-99
(with Theo P. Valkering en Hugo J.W.M. Hoekstra)
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"Soliton dynamics in directional couplers,"
Physica D 1998, 123, 223-234
(with Theo P. Valkering en Hugo J.W.M. Hoekstra)
Available online
(abstract at the publisher's website, full text via ScienceDirect).
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