Workshop on Branching Processes and Their Applications
This volume contains papers presented at the Workshop on Branching Processes and Their Applications (WBPA09). These papers deal with theoretical and practical aspects of branching process theory, showing it to be an area of active and interesting research
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Miguel Gonz´alez · In´es M. del Puerto · Rodrigo Mart´ınez · Manuel Molina · Manuel Mota · Alfonso Ramos Editors
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Editors Dr. Miguel Gonz´alez Departamento de Matem´aticas Facultad de Ciencias Universidad de Extremadura Avda. Elvas, s/n. 06006-Badajoz Spain [email protected] Dr. Rodrigo Mart´ınez Centro Universitario de Plasencia Universidad de Extremadura Avda. Virgen del Puerto, s/n. 10600-Plasencia Spain [email protected] Dr. Manuel Mota Departamento de Matem´aticas Facultad de Ciencias Universidad de Extremadura Avda. Elvas, s/n. 06006-Badajoz Spain [email protected]
Dr. In´es M. del Puerto Departamento de Matem´aticas Facultad de Ciencias Universidad de Extremadura Avda. Elvas, s/n. 06006-Badajoz Spain [email protected] Dr. Manuel Molina Departamento de Matem´aticas Facultad de Ciencias Universidad de Extremadura Avda. Elvas, s/n. 06006-Badajoz Spain [email protected] Dr. Alfonso Ramos Facultad de Veterinaria Avda. de la Universidad, s/n. 10003-C´aceres Spain [email protected]
ISSN 0930-0325 ISBN 978-3-642-11154-9 e-ISBN 978-3-642-11156-3 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-11156-3 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2010920305 c Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Cover design: Integra Software Services Pvt. Ltd., Pondicherry Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Foreword
One of the charms of mathematics is the contrast between its generality and its applicability to concrete, even everyday, problems. Branching processes are typical in this. Their niche of mathematics is the abstract pattern of reproduction, sets of individuals changing size and composition through their members reproducing; in other words, what Plato might have called the pure idea behind demography, population biology, cell kinetics, molecular replication, or nuclear fission, had he known these scientific fields. Even in the performance of algorithms for sorting and classification there is an inkling of the same pattern. In special cases, general properties of the abstract ideal then interact w
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