Authoritative and written by leading experts this book is a significantcontribution to a growing field. Selfsimilar processes crop up in a wide rangeof subjects... » 

Authoritative and written by leading experts this book is a significantcontribution to a growing field. Selfsimilar processes crop up in a wide rangeof subjects from finance to physics so this book will have a correspondinglywide readership.Chris Rogers Bath University This is a timely book.Everybody is talking about scaling and selfsimilar stochastic processes arethe basic and the clearest examples of models with scaling. In applicationsfrom finance to communication networks selfsimilar processes are believed tobe important. Yet much of what is known about them is folklore this book fillsthe void and gives reader access to some hard facts. And because this bookrequires only modest mathematical sophistication it is accessible to a wideaudience.Gennady Samorodnitsky Cornell University «