E O Ossai, M S Madukaife, A U Udom, U C Nduka, T E Ugah
{"title":"Effects of Prioritized Input on Human Resource Control in Departmentalized Markov Manpower Framework.","authors":"E O Ossai, M S Madukaife, A U Udom, U C Nduka, T E Ugah","doi":"10.1007/s11009-023-10011-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11009-023-10011-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this paper, extended Markov manpower models are formulated by incorporating a new class of members of a departmentalized manpower system in a homogeneous Markov manpower model. The new class, called limbo class, admits members of the system who exit to a limbo state for possible re-engagement in the active class. This results to two channels of recruitment: one from the limbo class and another from the outside environment. The idea is motivated by the need to preserve trained and experienced individuals who could be lost in times of financial crises or due to contract completion. The control aspect of the manpower structure under the extended models are examined. Under suitable stochastic condition for the flow matrices, it is proved that the maintainability of the manpower structure through promotion does not depend on the structural form of the limbo class when the system is expanding with priority on recruitment from outside environment, nor on the structural form of the active class when the system is shrinking with priority on recruitment from the limbo class. Necessary and sufficient conditions for maintainability of the manpower structure through recruitment in the case of expanding systems are also established with proofs.</p>","PeriodicalId":18442,"journal":{"name":"Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability","volume":"25 1","pages":"37"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9972330/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9411593","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Markovian Shot-noise Risk Model: A Numerical Method for Gerber-Shiu Functions.","authors":"Simon Pojer, Stefan Thonhauser","doi":"10.1007/s11009-023-10001-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11009-023-10001-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this paper, we consider discounted penalty functions, also called Gerber-Shiu functions, in a Markovian shot-noise environment. At first, we exploit the underlying structure of piecewise-deterministic Markov processes (PDMPs) to show that these penalty functions solve certain partial integro-differential equations (PIDEs). Since these equations cannot be solved exactly, we develop a numerical scheme that allows us to determine an approximation of such functions. These numerical solutions can be identified with penalty functions of continuous-time Markov chains with finite state space. Finally, we show the convergence of the corresponding generators over suitable sets of functions to prove that these Markov chains converge weakly against the original PDMP. That gives us that the numerical approximations converge to the discounted penalty functions of the original Markovian shot-noise environment.</p>","PeriodicalId":18442,"journal":{"name":"Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability","volume":"25 1","pages":"17"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9911511/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9565263","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the Maximum of a Bivariate INMA Model with Integer Innovations.","authors":"J Hüsler, M G Temido, A Valente-Freitas","doi":"10.1007/s11009-021-09920-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11009-021-09920-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We study the limiting behaviour of the maximum of a bivariate (finite or infinite) moving average model, based on discrete random variables. We assume that the bivariate distribution of the iid innovations belong to the Anderson's class (Anderson, 1970). The innovations have an impact on the random variables of the INMA model by binomial thinning. We show that the limiting distribution of the bivariate maximum is also of Anderson's class, and that the components of the bivariate maximum are asymptotically independent.</p>","PeriodicalId":18442,"journal":{"name":"Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability","volume":"24 4","pages":"2373-2402"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8852969/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10477591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Accelerating the Pool-Adjacent-Violators Algorithm for Isotonic Distributional Regression.","authors":"Alexander Henzi, Alexandre Mösching, Lutz Dümbgen","doi":"10.1007/s11009-022-09937-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11009-022-09937-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the context of estimating stochastically ordered distribution functions, the pool-adjacent-violators algorithm (PAVA) can be modified such that the computation times are reduced substantially. This is achieved by studying the dependence of antitonic weighted least squares fits on the response vector to be approximated.</p>","PeriodicalId":18442,"journal":{"name":"Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability","volume":"24 4","pages":"2633-2645"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9810588/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10488493","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Laurent Lesage, Madalina Deaconu, Antoine Lejay, Jorge Augusto Meira, Geoffrey Nichil, Radu State
{"title":"Hawkes Processes Framework With a Gamma Density As Excitation Function: Application to Natural Disasters for Insurance.","authors":"Laurent Lesage, Madalina Deaconu, Antoine Lejay, Jorge Augusto Meira, Geoffrey Nichil, Radu State","doi":"10.1007/s11009-022-09938-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11009-022-09938-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Hawkes processes are temporal self-exciting point processes. They are well established in earthquake modelling or finance and their application is spreading to diverse areas. Most models from the literature have two major drawbacks regarding their potential application to insurance. First, they use an exponentially-decaying form of excitation, which does not allow a delay between the occurrence of an event and its excitation effect on the process and does not fit well on insurance data consequently. Second, theoretical results developed from these models are valid only when time of observation tends to infinity, whereas the time horizon for an insurance use case is of several months or years. In this paper, we define a complete framework of Hawkes processes with a Gamma density excitation function (i.e. estimation, simulation, goodness-of-fit) instead of an exponential-decaying function and we demonstrate some mathematical properties (i.e. expectation, variance) about the transient regime of the process. We illustrate our results with real insurance data about natural disasters in Luxembourg.</p>","PeriodicalId":18442,"journal":{"name":"Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability","volume":"24 4","pages":"2509-2537"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8896979/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10827302","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}