1. 1.3 Further Studies
• In similar contents of such books, we recommend to read the
books [12, 13] for a deeper understanding. There were
contained many examples of stochastic processes in various
fields of applications [14, 15] and in reliability systems [16,17].
• The names of stochastic processes such as stationary process,
Gaussian process, martingales, branching process, and so on,
appeared [18].
• For more applications of stochastic processes, there were
[19–21] for queuing theory, [22] for insurance and finance,
and [20] for computer applications.

2. • As other text books, refer to recent published books [31–33].
For more further and recent studies of reliability, edited books
and hand books [34–36] would be advisable to look through.
• In Appendix A and B, we present Laplace and Laplace- Stieltjes
transforms and make answers to selected problems.

3. references
• 12. Karlin S, Taylor HM (1975) A first course in
stochastic processes. Academic Press, New York
• 13. Tijms HC (2003) A first course in stochastic
models. Wiley, Chichester
• 14. Ross SM (2000) Introduction to probability
models. Academic Press, San Diego
• 15. Bhat UN, Miller GK (2002) Elements of applied
stochastic processes. Wiley, Hoboken, NJ
• 16. Beichelt FE, Fatti LP (2002) Stochastic processes
and their applications. CRC Press, Boca Raton

4. • 17. Beichelt FE (2006) Stochastic processes in science, engineering and
finance. Chapman & Hall, Boca Raton
• 18. Prabhu NU (2007) Stochastic processes. World Scientific, Singapore
• 19. Bhat UN, Basawa IV (1992) Queeing and related models. Oxford
University Press, Oxford
• 20. Trivedi KS (2002) Probabilty and statistics with reliability, queueing and
computer science applications. Wiley, New York
• 21. Stewart WJ (2009) Probability, Markov chains, queues, and simulation.
Princeton University Press, Princeton
• 22. Rolski T, Schmidli H, Schmidt V, Teugels J (1999) Stochastic processes
for insurance and finance. Wiley, Chichester