Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 July 2016
We derive two kinds of rate conservation laws for describing the time-dependent behavior of a process defined with a stationary marked point process and starting at time 0. These formulas are called TRCLs (time-dependent rate conservation laws). It is shown that TRCLs are useful to study the transient behaviors of risk and storage processes with stationary claim and supply processes and with a general premium and release rates, respectively. Detailed discussions are given for the severity for the risk process, and for the workload process of a single-server queue.