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Professor Peter TAYLOR
	Position:	Head of Department
	Email:	P.Taylor@ms.unimelb.edu.au
	Room:	145
	Research Group:	- Operations Research - Stochastic Processes
	Interests:	- Markov processes - Modelling of biological systems - Parameter estimation - Queueing Networks - Stochastic Petri nets - Stochastic Processes - Telecommunications systems
Recent Publications: Selected Publications \| Publications RSS Feed Predicting Overflow in an Emergency Department(2009) more Hitting Probabilities and Hitting Times for Stochastic Fluid Flows: the Bounded Model(2009) more Algorithms for the Laplace-Stieltjes Tranforms of First Return Times for Stochastic Fluid Flows(2008) more Corrigendum to "The Distribution of the Number of Arrivals in a Subinterval of a Busy Period in a Single Server Queue"(2008) more Combination Load Balancing for Video-on-demand Systems IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology(2008) more

Paul KEELER	"Stochastic power-management schemes for sensor networks"
Alexander CAVE	"Optimisation of mission critical sparing in a stochastic operating environment"
James ZHAO	"Hidden Markov models with multiple observation processes"
Yacov SALOMON	"Re-examining fundamental concepts and assumptions in conservation and management using mathematical theories of probability"
Nikki SONENBERG	"Building Stochastic Models for Mobile ad hoc Networks"
Jonathan BUDD

Guo JUN
Alana MOORE	"Managing bilological populations in the interface of uncertainty"
Ana NOVAK	"Queuing problems in active probing: an application to a single hop network"
Maya RAMAKRISHNAN	"Distributed approaches to capacity reallocation in networks"

Jonathan BUDD
Jennifer KUSUMA	"Decomposition Approach to Serial Inventory Systems under Uncertainties"
Clare KITCHING
James ZHAO	"Hidden Markov Models"
Auron SEIKEN	"The Branch-and-Cut Methodology for Mixed Integer Programming"
Daphne DO	"Formulating and Modelling Robust Decision-Making Problems Under Severe Uncertainty"
Nikki SONENBERG	"Wireless Ad Hoc Networks: Simulation and Analysis"

Year(s)	Source	Type	Title
2003 - 2010	ARC	Centre Of Excellence	ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematics and Statistics of Complex Systems
2003 - 2007	ARC	Discovery	Modelling Measurement and Control of the Internet
2003 - 2006	ARC	Linkage	Modeling Patient flows through hospitals: optimizing effective use of resources
2003 - 2005	ARC	Linkage	Using Mathematics to Maximize the Value of Open-Pit Mines

Academic Board member

ARC Linkage Shepherd

Chair of Growing Esteem Working Group

Chair of Management Committee

Faculty Planning & Resources Committee member

Head of Department

Lecture & 2nd Examiner Schedules

Research Support Scheme Committee member

Honours and Masters Committee

Management Committee (Chair)

MORe Advisory Group (Chair)

RGS Committee

Statistical Consulting Centre Co-ordinating Committee

Strategic Planning Committee (Chair)

UGS Committee

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