Sean Meyn is professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois, and a fellow of the IEEE. He is co-author with Richard Tweedie of Markov Chains and Stochastic Stability, which received the 1994 ORSA/TIMS Best Publication in Applied Probability Award.

• Preface; 1. Introduction; Part I. Modeling and Control: 2. Examples; 3. The single-server queue; 4. Scheduling; Part II. Workload: 5. Workload and scheduling; 6. Routing and resource pooling; 7. Demand; Part III. Stability and Performance: 8. Foster-Lyapunov techniques; 9. Optimization; 10. ODE methods; 11. Simulation and learning; Appendix. Markov models; References; Index.

'Sean Meyn's text is a wonderful piece of work … It progresses through a series of important topics, running the gamut from modern control techniques for queuing system analysis, to optimization of deterministic network models, to computer simulation methods; and all the while, it provides rigorous mathematical foundations alongside a variety of clever, practical applications. The lively writing style and apt examples keep everything interesting, and I believe that readers will greatly appreciate and benefit from this unique book.' David M. Goldsman, Georgia Institute of Technology