Recent publications by Pieter-Tjerk de Boer

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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).

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• 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

• 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).

• "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).

• "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).

• "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).

• Analysis and efficient simulation of queueing models of telecommunication systems, Ph.D. thesis, University of Twente, 2000. Available online.

• "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)

• "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)

• "A Hybrid Importance Sampling Estimation of Consecutive Cell Loss Probability," AEU Int. J. Electron. Commun., 1998, 52, 3, 133-140
  (with V.F. Nicola)

• "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)

• "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)

• "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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