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The Erlang Prize
is presented by the Applied Probability Section of the Institute of Operations Research
and Management Sciences, to the outstanding young applied probabilist
Xiui Chao
The 1998 Erlang prize is awarded to Xiuli Chao for his wide range of contributions to
Applied Probability. Most significant is an extensive study by Chao and his collaborators
of the class of Markovian networks which exhibit product-form stationary distributions.
This class of networks encompasses Jackson and Kelly networks, networks with negative
customers, and signaling networks. In other investigations, Chao used stochastic
convexity to establish an important monotonicity property for doubly stochastic Poisson
processes and has studied interchangeability and reversibility properties of tandem
queues with finite buffers and blocking. Chao has also made contributions to stochastic
scheduling and mathematical finance. In addition to an outstanding record of research
and publications, Chao has served on the editorial boards of many leading journals and it
a co-author of books and queueing networks and operations scheduling which soon will
appear. The breadth of his contributions merit the highest level of recognition by the
Applied Probability community.
Lawrence Wein, Applied Probability Chair
Peter W. Glynn, AP Prize Committee Chair
Martin L. Puterman
J. George Shanthikumar
April 27, 1998