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The book

Large Deviations for Performance Analysis

Queues, Communication, and Computing

by Adam Shwartz and Alan Weiss
will soon be out in a revised edition. Here is the relevant information:

If you haven't seen the book before, take a look at a brief ad and sample chapter

Published by Chapman & Hall
April 1995: 6 x 9: 576 pp
Revised November 1996
Cloth: ISBN 0 412 06311 5: #B8827: $54.95/X
[Can. cl $74.00/X]
Probability/ Applied Mathematics/ Operations Research

Order Numbers

Order (800) 842-3636 from the US and Canada

UK Office: Telephone 01264 342923 OR 44 1264 342830, Fax 0171 522 9623, 39.95 UK Pounds
Or you can even order on the web from an online bookstore, or this bookstore.

The new edition incorporates a number of corrections. If you have the first edition, feel free to download PostScript files that contain all the changes. Here are the changes and new PS files.

Here are the corrections that weren't incoprorated into the second edition.

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