Article ID: | iaor20091351 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 160 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 215 |
End Page Number: | 225 |
Publication Date: | Apr 2008 |
Journal: | Annals of Operations Research |
Authors: | Ramaswami V., Stanford David A., Woolford Douglas G. |
Keywords: | Matrix-analytic methods |
For applications of stochastic fluid models, such as those related to wildfire spread and containment, one wants a fast method to compute time dependent probabilities. Erlangization is an approximation method that replaces various distributions at a time