Peter C Kiessler

Position:
Associate Professor of Mathematical Sciences

Education:
PhD, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1983
MS, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1980
BS, Mathematics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1977

Professional Interests:
Probability, stochastic processes and their application to problems in reliability, mathematical finance and queueing theory.

Selected Publications:

• Kiessler, P.C., Klutke, G.A. and Yang, Y., "Availabiltiy of periodically inspected systems subject to Markovian degradation", Journal of Apllied Probability, 39, 700-712, 2002.
• Kiessler,P.C. and Nimitkiatklai, "The lifetime of a random set", Journal of Applied Probability, June 2005.
• Clark, S.P. and Kiessler, P.C. "A diffusion approximation for Markov renewal, processes, submitted to Journal of Applied Probability, December 2004.

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Department of Mathematical Sciences.