{"id":"https://openalex.org/W1994593171","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1109/itc.2013.6662932","title":"Information exchange surrogates for approximation of blocking probabilities in overflow loss systems","display_name":"Information exchange surrogates for approximation of blocking probabilities in overflow loss systems","publication_year":2013,"publication_date":"2013-09-01","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W1994593171","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1109/itc.2013.6662932","mag":"1994593171"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"doi:10.1109/itc.2013.6662932","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1109/itc.2013.6662932","pdf_url":null,"source":null,"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Proceedings of the 2013 25th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC)","raw_type":"proceedings-article"},"type":"conference-paper","indexed_in":["crossref"],"open_access":{"is_oa":false,"oa_status":"closed","oa_url":null,"any_repository_has_fulltext":false},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5007032417","display_name":"Eric W. M. Wong","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1641-6903"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I168719708","display_name":"City University of Hong Kong","ror":"https://ror.org/03q8dnn23","country_code":"HK","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I168719708"]}],"countries":["HK"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Eric W. M. Wong","raw_affiliation_strings":["Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China","Dept. of Electron. Eng., City Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, , China"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I168719708"]},{"raw_affiliation_string":"Dept. of Electron. Eng., City Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, , China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I168719708"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5100681088","display_name":"Jun Guo","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5645-2132"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I168719708","display_name":"City University of Hong Kong","ror":"https://ror.org/03q8dnn23","country_code":"HK","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I168719708"]}],"countries":["HK"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Jun Guo","raw_affiliation_strings":["Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China","Dept. of Electron. Eng., City Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, , China"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I168719708"]},{"raw_affiliation_string":"Dept. of Electron. Eng., City Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, , China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I168719708"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5107869419","display_name":"Bill Moran","orcid":null},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I165779595","display_name":"The University of Melbourne","ror":"https://ror.org/01ej9dk98","country_code":"AU","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I165779595"]}],"countries":["AU"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Bill Moran","raw_affiliation_strings":["The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, AU","Defence Sci. Inst., Univ. of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, AU","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I165779595"]},{"raw_affiliation_string":"Defence Sci. Inst., Univ. of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I165779595"]}]},{"author_position":"last","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5032227505","display_name":"Moshe Zukerman","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6190-5020"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I168719708","display_name":"City University of Hong Kong","ror":"https://ror.org/03q8dnn23","country_code":"HK","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I168719708"]}],"countries":["HK"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Moshe Zukerman","raw_affiliation_strings":["Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China","Dept. of Electron. Eng., City Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, , China"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I168719708"]},{"raw_affiliation_string":"Dept. of Electron. Eng., City Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, , China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I168719708"]}]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":2,"institutions_distinct_count":2,"corresponding_author_ids":[],"corresponding_institution_ids":[],"apc_list":null,"apc_paid":null,"fwci":1.405,"has_fulltext":false,"cited_by_count":25,"citation_normalized_percentile":{"value":0.83107345,"is_in_top_1_percent":false,"is_in_top_10_percent":false},"cited_by_percentile_year":{"min":89,"max":98},"biblio":{"volume":null,"issue":null,"first_page":"1","last_page":"9"},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10698","display_name":"Transportation Planning and Optimization","score":0.9962000250816345,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3313","display_name":"Transportation"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/33","display_name":"Social Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10698","display_name":"Transportation Planning and Optimization","score":0.9962000250816345,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3313","display_name":"Transportation"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/33","display_name":"Social Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10524","display_name":"Traffic control and management","score":0.9894000291824341,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/2207","display_name":"Control and Systems Engineering"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/22","display_name":"Engineering"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T12546","display_name":"Smart Parking Systems Research","score":0.9603999853134155,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/2215","display_name":"Building and Construction"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/22","display_name":"Engineering"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/blocking","display_name":"Blocking (statistics)","score":0.7685856819152832},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/computer-science","display_name":"Computer science","score":0.7324361801147461},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/scalability","display_name":"Scalability","score":0.5730854272842407},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/convergence","display_name":"Convergence (economics)","score":0.5504443049430847},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/mathematical-optimization","display_name":"Mathematical optimization","score":0.5088129639625549},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/uniqueness","display_name":"Uniqueness","score":0.46616607904434204},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/mutual-information","display_name":"Mutual information","score":0.45778194069862366},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/decoupling","display_name":"Decoupling (probability)","score":0.4517787992954254},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/mathematics","display_name":"Mathematics","score":0.18995416164398193},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/artificial-intelligence","display_name":"Artificial intelligence","score":0.15935379266738892}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C144745244","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4927286","display_name":"Blocking (statistics)","level":2,"score":0.7685856819152832},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C41008148","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21198","display_name":"Computer science","level":0,"score":0.7324361801147461},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C48044578","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q727490","display_name":"Scalability","level":2,"score":0.5730854272842407},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2777303404","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q759757","display_name":"Convergence (economics)","level":2,"score":0.5504443049430847},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C126255220","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q141495","display_name":"Mathematical optimization","level":1,"score":0.5088129639625549},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2777021972","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22976830","display_name":"Uniqueness","level":2,"score":0.46616607904434204},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C152139883","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q252973","display_name":"Mutual information","level":2,"score":0.45778194069862366},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C205606062","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5249645","display_name":"Decoupling (probability)","level":2,"score":0.4517787992954254},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C33923547","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q395","display_name":"Mathematics","level":0,"score":0.18995416164398193},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C154945302","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11660","display_name":"Artificial intelligence","level":1,"score":0.15935379266738892},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C162324750","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8134","display_name":"Economics","level":0,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C127413603","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11023","display_name":"Engineering","level":0,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C134306372","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7754","display_name":"Mathematical analysis","level":1,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C133731056","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4917288","display_name":"Control engineering","level":1,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C31258907","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1301371","display_name":"Computer network","level":1,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C77088390","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8513","display_name":"Database","level":1,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C50522688","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q189833","display_name":"Economic growth","level":1,"score":0.0}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":1,"locations":[{"id":"doi:10.1109/itc.2013.6662932","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1109/itc.2013.6662932","pdf_url":null,"source":null,"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Proceedings of the 2013 25th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC)","raw_type":"proceedings-article"}],"best_oa_location":null,"sustainable_development_goals":[],"awards":[],"funders":[],"has_content":{"pdf":false,"grobid_xml":false},"content_urls":null,"referenced_works_count":21,"referenced_works":["https://openalex.org/W1599919087","https://openalex.org/W1608405214","https://openalex.org/W1970735772","https://openalex.org/W1986314674","https://openalex.org/W1990144064","https://openalex.org/W1992100401","https://openalex.org/W2005271321","https://openalex.org/W2032656182","https://openalex.org/W2034712061","https://openalex.org/W2036756449","https://openalex.org/W2045217025","https://openalex.org/W2108318859","https://openalex.org/W2115342672","https://openalex.org/W2134126133","https://openalex.org/W2142781017","https://openalex.org/W2165390190","https://openalex.org/W2170219906","https://openalex.org/W2187509272","https://openalex.org/W2333079009","https://openalex.org/W4253738915","https://openalex.org/W6686556661"],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W571281153","https://openalex.org/W2949403936","https://openalex.org/W3023806604","https://openalex.org/W2952139525","https://openalex.org/W4301247218","https://openalex.org/W2129818458","https://openalex.org/W4289551052","https://openalex.org/W4390756076","https://openalex.org/W4243074410","https://openalex.org/W2969742028"],"abstract_inverted_index":{"Overflow":[0],"loss":[1,145],"systems":[2,16],"are":[3],"an":[4,131],"important":[5,116],"class":[6],"of":[7,11,63,94,98,143,156,163,179,207],"teletraffic":[8],"models.":[9],"Evaluation":[10],"blocking":[12,96,108,158],"probabilities":[13],"in":[14,72,110,175,209],"such":[15],"involving":[17],"mutual":[18,136],"overflow":[19,84,132,137,144],"effects":[20,138],"is":[21,35,54,86,90],"a":[22,29,39,50,57,68,73,103,153,172,176],"difficult":[23],"problem.":[24,46],"In":[25],"the":[26,45,64,78,83,95,99,107,111,148,157,164,188,199,203],"literature,":[27],"decoupling":[28],"given":[30],"system":[31],"into":[32],"independent":[33],"subsystems":[34],"typically":[36],"regarded":[37],"as":[38],"scalable,":[40],"though":[41],"non-robust,":[42],"approach":[43,150],"to":[44,82,106,130,140,198],"This":[47],"paper":[48],"presents":[49],"new":[51,169,189],"method":[52,170,190],"that":[53,62,92,134,151,187],"based":[55],"on":[56],"radically":[58],"different":[59],"idea":[60],"from":[61],"conventional":[65,149,200],"approach.":[66],"Firstly":[67],"surrogate":[69,100],"model":[70,85,101,133],"that,":[71],"systematic":[74],"way,":[75],"approximately":[76],"captures":[77],"state":[79],"dependencies":[80],"due":[81],"designed.":[87],"Secondly":[88],"it":[89,129],"observed":[91],"approximation":[93,105,121],"probability":[97,109,159],"provides":[102,171],"good":[104],"original":[112],"model.":[113],"We":[114],"introduce":[115],"concepts":[117],"underpinning":[118],"this":[119],"surrogate-based":[120],"method,":[122],"and":[123,166,182,193,212],"demonstrate":[124,186],"its":[125],"effectiveness":[126],"by":[127,205],"applying":[128],"incorporates":[135],"common":[139],"various":[141],"applications":[142],"systems.":[146],"Unlike":[147],"requires":[152],"fixed-point":[154],"solution":[155,174],"with":[160],"no":[161],"guarantee":[162],"convergence":[165],"uniqueness,":[167],"our":[168],"unique":[173],"fixed":[177],"number":[178],"iterations.":[180],"Extensive":[181],"statistically":[183],"reliable":[184],"experiments":[185],"yields":[191],"significantly":[192],"consistently":[194],"better":[195],"results":[196],"compared":[197],"approach,":[201],"improving":[202],"accuracy":[204],"orders":[206],"magnitude":[208],"many":[210],"instances":[211],"yet":[213],"requiring":[214],"less":[215],"computational":[216],"effort.":[217]},"counts_by_year":[{"year":2025,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2024,"cited_by_count":4},{"year":2023,"cited_by_count":6},{"year":2022,"cited_by_count":2},{"year":2021,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2020,"cited_by_count":2},{"year":2018,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2017,"cited_by_count":4},{"year":2016,"cited_by_count":2},{"year":2015,"cited_by_count":2}],"updated_date":"2026-07-29T14:22:42.915294","created_date":"2025-10-10T00:00:00"}
