We outline the history, significance, and impact of four important contributions by Canadian researchers to stochastic modeling for operational research: the use of the uniformization method to compute transient probabilities for Markov chains, pioneered by Winfried K. Grassmann, contributions...

Objective: To provide a rigorous framework for evaluating a Lean health care program based on an approach developed to evaluate the Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) Lean initiative. Design: Data for analysis includes performance metrics for Lean activities, system level performance...

This paper considers the problem of changing prices over time to maximize expectedrevenues in the presence of unknown demand distribution parameters. It providesand compares several methods that use the sequence of past prices and observeddemands to set price in the current period. A Taylor...