1. Editorial

   • Joseph Glaz

   OriginalPaper Pages: 5 - 6

2. The Distribution of the Sojourn Time for the Brownian Excursion

   • Lajos Taka´cs

   OriginalPaper Pages: 7 - 28

3. Point Processes Competing for Runs: A New Tool for their Investigation

   • Marcel F. Neuts
   • Jian-Min Li

   OriginalPaper Pages: 29 - 53

4. Estimating the Heavy Tail Index from Scaling Properties

   • Mark E. Crovella
   • Murad S. Taqqu

   OriginalPaper Pages: 55 - 79

5. Quasi-Stationarity of Discrete-Time Markov Chains with Drift to Infinity

   • Pauline Coolen-Schrijner
   • Phil Pollett

   OriginalPaper Pages: 81 - 96

6. Size Analysis of Nearly Regular Delaunay Triangulations

   • Ian L. Dryden
   • Charles C. Taylor
   • Mohammad Reza Faghihi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 97 - 117