| Article ID: | iaor20102614 |
| Volume: | 35 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 160 |
| End Page Number: | 172 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2010 |
| Journal: | Mathematics of Operations Research |
| Authors: | Merlet Glenn |
Products of random matrices in the max-plus algebra are used as models of a wide range of discrete event systems, including train or queueing networks, job shops, timed digital circuits, or parallel processing systems. Several mathematical models such as timed event graph or task-resources models also lead to max-plus products of matrices.