Nominated Papers for the 1997 INFORMS Lanchester Prize

In 1998, Joseph Abate, Gagan L. Choudhury, Kin K. Leung, David M. Lucantoni and Ward Whitt received honorable mention for the 1997 INFORMS Lanchester Prize for a series of fifteen papers on numerical techniques for transform inversion, and application of those techniques to various stochastic models. Below are the specific fifteen papers that were nominated:

  1. J. Abate and W. Whitt, The Fourier-Series Method for Inverting Transforms of Probability Distributions. Queueing Systems, vol. 10, No. 1, 1992, pp. 5-88. [published PDF]
  2. J. Abate, G. L. Choudhury and W. Whitt, Calculation of the GI/G/1 steady-State Waiting-Time Distribution and its Cumulants from Pollaczek's Formula. Archiv für Elektronik und Übertragungstechnik, vol. 47, No. 5/6, 1993, pp. 311-321. [published PDF]
  3. G. L. Choudhury, D. M. Lucantoni and W. Whitt, The Transient BMAP/G/1 Queue. Stochastic Models, vol. 10, No. 1, 1994, pp. 145-182. [published PDF]
  4. J. Abate, G. L. Choudhury and W. Whitt, Waiting-Time Tail Probabilities in Queues with Long-Tail Service-Time Distributions. Queueing Systems, vol. 16, 1994, pp. 311-338. [published PDF]
  5. G. L. Choudhury, D. M. Lucantoni and W. Whitt, Multi-Dimensional Transform Inversion with Applications to the Transient M/G/1 Queue. Annals of Applied Probability vol. 4, 1994, pp. 719-740. [published PDF]
  6. G. L. Choudhury and W. Whitt, Q2: A New Performance Analysis Tool Exploiting Numerical Transform Inversion. Proceedings of Third International Workshop on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, (MASCOTS `95), Durham, NC, January 1995, pp. 411-415. [PostScript] [PDF] [published PDF]
  7. G. L. Choudhury, K. K. Leung and W. Whitt, Calculating Normalization Constants of Closed Queueing Networks by Numerically Inverting Their Generating Functions. Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery, vol. 42, 1995, pp. 935-970. [PostScript] [PDF] From ACM Digital Library.
  8. G. L. Choudhury, K. K. Leung and W. Whitt, An Inversion Algorithm to Calculate Blocking Probabilities in Loss Networks with State-Dependent Rates. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 3, No. 5, 1995, pp. 585-601. [ published PDF]
  9. G. L. Choudhury, K. K. Leung and W. Whitt, Efficiently Providing Multiple Grades of Service with Protection Against Overloads in Shared Resources. AT&T Technical Journal, vol. 74, No. 4, 1995, pp. 50-63. [published PDF]
  10. J. Abate, G. L. Choudhury and W. Whitt, Exponential Approximations for Tail Probabilities in Queues, I: Waiting Times. Operations Research, vol. 43, 1995, pp. 885-901. [published PDF]
  11. J. Abate, G. L. Choudhury, D. M. Lucantoni and W. Whitt, Asymptotic Analysis of Tail Probabilities Based on the Computation of Moments. Annals of Applied Probability, vol. 5, 1995, pp. 983-1007. [published PDF]
  12. G. L. Choudhury and D. M. Lucantoni, Numerical Computation of the Moments of a Probability Distribution from its Transform. Operations Research, vol. 44, 1996, pp. 368-381.
  13. G. L. Choudhury, D. M. Lucantoni and W. Whitt, Squeezing the Most Out of ATM. IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 44, No. 2, 1996, pp. 203-217. [PostScript] [PDF] [published PDF]
  14. G. L. Choudhury and W. Whitt, Computing Distributions and Moments in Polling Models by Numerical Transform Inversion. Performance Evaluation, vol. 25, No. 4, 1996, pp. 267-292. [published PDF]
  15. J. Abate, G. L. Choudhury and W. Whitt, On the Laguerre Method for Numerically Inverting Laplace Transforms. INFORMS Journal on Computing, vol. 8, 1996, pp. 413-427. [published PDF]