Peter George Harrison (born 1951) is an Emeritus Professor of

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known for the

reversed compound agent theorem In probability theory, the reversed compound agent theorem (RCAT) is a set of sufficient conditions for a stochastic process expressed in any formalism to have a product form stationary distribution (assuming that the process is stationary). The t ...

, which gives conditions for a

stochastic network Queueing theory is the mathematical study of waiting lines, or queues. A queueing model is constructed so that queue lengths and waiting time can be predicted. Queueing theory is generally considered a branch of operations research because the ...

to have a product-form solution. Harrison attended

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, where he was a Wrangler in Mathematics (1972) and gained a Distinction in

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(1973), winning the

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for Applied Mathematics. After spending two years in industry, Harrison moved to Imperial College, London where he has worked since, obtaining his

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in Computing Science in 1979 with a thesis titled "Representative queueing network models of computer systems in terms of time delay probability distributions" and lecturing since 1983. Current research interests include parallel algorithms, performance engineering, queueing theory, stochastic models and stochastic process algebra, particularly the application of

RCAT In probability theory, the reversed compound agent theorem (RCAT) is a set of sufficient conditions for a stochastic process expressed in any formalism to have a product form stationary distribution (assuming that the process is stationary). The t ...

to find product-form solutions. Harrison has coauthored two books, ''Functional Programming'' with Tony Field, and ''Performance Modelling of Communication Networks and Computer Architectures'' with Naresh Patel and published over 150 papers. Harrison is an associate editor of The Computer Journal. Via

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and

Dov Gabbay Dov M. Gabbay (; born October 23, 1945) is an Israeli logician. He is Augustus De Morgan Professor Emeritus of Logic at the Group of Logic, Language and Computation, Department of Computer Science, King's College London. Work Gabbay has authore ...

, Harrison has an Erdős number of 3.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Harrison, Peter G. Queueing theorists Academics of the Department of Computing, Imperial College London Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge British computer scientists Living people 1951 births Alumni of the Department of Computing, Imperial College London