The head of a large financial services division recently asked me how to encourage his people to take more initiative. He explained that his organization was highly functionalized with separate units ...

A numerical solution of the quadratic matrix equations associated with a nonsingular M-matrix by using the alternately linearized implicit iteration method is considered. An iteration method for ...

The purpose of this paper is to provide explicit formulas for a variety of probabilistic quantities associated with an asymmetric random walk on a finite rectangular lattice with absorbing barriers.