| Article ID: | iaor1992388 |
| Country: | United States |
| Volume: | 16 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Start Page Number: | 547 |
| End Page Number: | 565 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 1991 |
| Journal: | Mathematics of Operations Research |
| Authors: | Masakiyo Miyazawa |
| Keywords: | markov processes |
The paper introduces a Self-Clocking Jump Process (SCJP), which is a natural generalization of a generalized semi-Markov process and applies to a large class of queueing models. As a stochastic process, a SCJP is a special case of a process with an embedded marked point process. The paper characterizes the stationary distribution of the supplemented SCJP and discusses some properties of it. It also gives a mathematical base to the usual approach of Kolmogorov differential equations. An operator theoretic argument is used, but most of the proofs are elementary.