UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM
COLLEGE OF NATURAL AND APPLIED SCIENCES (CONAS)

PITOS SELEKA BIGANDA

Lecturer, College Of Natural And Applied Sciences
Education:

BSc (with education) degree from the University of Dar es Salaam, a MSc degree in Applied Mathematics from Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland and a PhD in Applied Mathematics from Malardalen University, Sweden

Publications:

  1. Benard Abola, Pitos Seleka Biganda, Sergei Silvestrov, Dmitrii Silvestrov, Christopher Engstrom, John Magero Mango, Godwin Kakuba (2021). Nonlinearly perturbed Markov chains and information networks. In (Y. Dimotikalis, A. Karagrigoriou, C. Parpoula, C. H. Skiadas, eds.) Applied Modeling Techniques and Data Analysis 1: Computational Data Analysis Methods and Tools, vol. 7. ISTE, Wiley, Chapter 2, pp. 23-56.
  2. Dmitrii Silvestrov, Sergei Silvestrov, Benard Abola, Pitos Seleka Biganda, Christopher Engstrom, John Magero Mango, Godwin Kakuba (2021). Perturbed Markov chains with damping component. Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability, 23 (1): 369-397.
  3. Pitos Seleka Biganda, Benard Abola, Christopher Engstrom, Sergei Silvestrov, Godwin Kakuba, John Magero Mango (2021). PageRank and perturbed Markov chains. In (Y. Dimotikalis, A. Karagrigoriou, C. Parpoula, C. H. Skiadas, eds.) Applied Modeling Techniques and Data Analysis 1: Computational Data Analysis Methods and Tools, vol. 7. ISTE, Wiley, Chapter 3, pp. 57-74.
  4. Benard Abola, Pitos Seleka Biganda, Christopher Engstrom, Godwin Kakuba, John Magero Mango, Sergei Silvestrov (2021). A variant of updating PageRank in evolving tree graphs. In (Y. Dimotikalis, A. Karagrigoriou, C. Parpoula, C. H. Skiadas, eds.) Applied Modeling Techniques and Data Analysis 1: Computational Data Analysis Methods and Tools, vol. 7. ISTE, Wiley, Chapter 1, pp. 3-22.
  5. Dmitrii Silvestrov, Sergei Silvestrov, Benard Abola, Pitos Seleka Biganda, Christopher Engstrom, John Magero Mango, Godwin Kakuba (2020). Coupling and ergodic theorems for Markov chains with damping component. Theory of Probability and Mathematical Statistics, 101, 243-264.

Carolyn Ogutu, Betuel Canhanga, Pitos Biganda (2018). Modeling exchange rate volatility using APARCH models. Journal of the Institute of Engineering, 14(1), 96-106.