Economic sociologists and white-collar criminologists offer competing predictions about the outcomes of socially embedded transactions. Economic sociologists stress the protective and beneficial role of social networks. Their evidence shows that social ties improve transaction outcomes. White-collar criminologists focus on the harmful and exploitative role of social networks. Their evidence sho...

This paper presents a discrete-time single-server finite buffer N threshold policy queue with renewal input and discreteMarkovian service process. The server terminates service whenever the system becomes empty, and recommencesservice as soon as the number of waiting customers in the queue is N. We obtain the system-length distributionsat pre-arrival and arbitrary epochs using the supplementary...

We consider a networked control system (NCS) with packet loss being modeled as a stochastic process. We focus on the stochastic H∞ control approach. The designed controller is dynamic in the sense that it depends on the behavior of the lossy channel. First we apply the existing result on H∞ approach for NCS [4] to a teleoperating system. The fixed loss probability assumption in this result has ...

A suitable jump Markov system (JMS) filtering approach provides an efficient technique for tracking surface targets. In complex target situations, due to the joint influences of lost measurements with unknown probability and heavy-tailed measurement noise (HTMN), estimation accuracy conventional interacting multiple model (IMM) methods may be seriously degraded. Aiming address issues in JMSs HT...