Peter Taylor

A stochastic model for the patient-bed assignment problem with random arrivals and departures

Mojtaba Heydar, Malgorzata M O'Reilly, Erin Trainer, Mark Fackrell, Peter G Taylor, Ali Tirdad

Journal article  |  2021  |  ANNALS OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH

We consider the patient-to-bed assignment problem that arises in hospitals. Both emergency patients who require hospital admission..

Strategic customer behavior in an M/M/1 feedback queue

Mark Fackrell, Peter Taylor, Jiesen Wang

Journal article  |  2021  |  QUEUEING SYSTEMS

We investigate the behavior of equilibria in an M/M/1 feedback queue where price- and time-sensitive customers are homogeneous wit..

A Restless Bandit Model for Resource Allocation, Competition, and Reservation

Jing Fu, Bill Moran, Peter G Taylor

Journal article  |  2021  |  Operations Research

In “A Restless Bandit Model for Resource Allocation, Competition and Reservation,” J. Fu, B. Moran, and P. G. Taylor study a resou..

Safe Blues: The case for virtual safe virus spread in the long-term fight against epidemics

Raj Dandekar, Shane G Henderson, Hermanus M Jansen, Joshua McDonald, Sarat Moka, Yoni Nazarathy, Christopher Rackauckas, Peter G Taylor, Aapeli Vuorinen

Journal article  |  2021  |  PATTERNS

Viral spread is a complicated function of biological properties, the environment, preventative measures such as sanitation and mas..

A survey of parameter and state estimation in queues

Azam Asanjarani, Yoni Nazarathy, Peter Taylor

Journal article  |  2021  |  QUEUEING SYSTEMS

We present a broad literature survey of parameter and state estimation for queueing systems. Our approach is based on various infe..

Antibody Dynamics for Plasmodium vivax Malaria: A Mathematical Model.

Somya Mehra, James M McCaw, Mark B Flegg, Peter G Taylor, Jennifer A Flegg

Journal article  |  2021  |  Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Malaria is a mosquito-borne disease that, despite intensive control and mitigation initiatives, continues to pose an enormous publ..

Resource competition in virtual network embedding

Jing Fu, Bill Moran, Peter G Taylor, Chenchen Xing

Journal article  |  2020  |  STOCHASTIC MODELS

We consider a virtual network (VN) embedding problem on a large-scale substrate physical network. We permit varying capacities and..

Modeling and analysis of block arrival times in the Bitcoin blockchain

R Bowden, HP Keeler, AE Krzesinski, PG Taylor

Journal article  |  2020  |  Stochastic Models

In the original Bitcoin paper and other research papers since, it is assumed that Bitcoin blocks are mined at the instants of a ho..

A paradox for expected hitting times

M Holmes, PG Taylor

Journal article  |  2020  |  Stochastic Models

We prove a counterintuitive result concerning the expected hitting/absorption time for a class of Markov chains. The “paradox” alr..

An Activation-Clearance Model for Plasmodium vivax Malaria

Somya Mehra, James M McCaw, Mark B Flegg, Peter G Taylor, Jennifer A Flegg

Journal article  |  2020  |  Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Malaria is an infectious disease with an immense global health burden. Plasmodium vivax is the most geographically widespread spec..