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SUMMARY:Stochastic sequences with a regenerative structure that may depend
  both on the future and on the past
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Serguey Foss\nBio : Education\nD.D. (Doctor of Science\,
  or Research Doctorate\; 1992)\, Institute of Mathematics\, Novosibirsk\, 
 Russia. (Stochastic Recursive Sequences and Their Applications in Queueing
 )\nPh.D. (1982)\, Institute of Mathematics\, Novosibirsk\, Russia. (Extrem
 al Problems in Queueing Theory: with B.A.Rogozin)\nM.Sc. (1975)\, Novosibi
 rsk State University\, Russia. (Recurrence Properties of the Oscillating R
 andom Walk: with B.A.Rogozin)\nResearch and Professional Experience\n01/20
 03-pres. Professor at Heriot-Watt University\, Edinburgh\n12/2000-12/2002 
 Reader at Heriot-Watt University\, Edinburgh\n2/96-pres. Leading Scientifi
 c Researcher at Institute of Mathematics\, Novosibirsk\, Russian Academy o
 f Sciences\n9/92-2002 Professor at Novosibirsk State University\n9/83-8/92
  Associate Professor at Novosibirsk State University\n9/80-8/93 Assistant 
 Professor at Novosibirsk State University\n9/77-8/80 Graduate Student at N
 ovosibirsk State University\n9/75-8/77 Assistant Professor at Tjumen' Stat
 e University\, Russia\nMany regenerative arguments in stochastic processes
  use random times which are akin to stopping times\, but which are determi
 ned by the future as well as the past behaviour of the process of interest
 . Such arguments based on "conditioning on the future" are usually develop
 ed in an ad-hoc way in the context of the application under consideration\
 , thereby obscuring underlying structure. In this paper we give a simple\,
  unified and more general treatment of such conditioning theory. We furthe
 r give a number of novel applications to various particle system models\, 
 in particular to various flavours of contact processes and to infinite-bin
  models. We give a number of new results for existing and new models. We f
 urther make connections with the theory of Harris ergodicity.
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