Schedule

All meetings, except for the Friday supper at Sheraton

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Friday, Sept. 13

2:30-3:40

Andrei L. Badescu and David A. Stanford, Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences, The University of Western Ontario,
A Generalization of the De Vylder Approximation for the probability of Ruin

V. Rousson,  Department of  Biostatistics at the University of Zurich in Switzerland,
W.A. Simpson, Department of Vision Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University,  Glasgow, U.K.
W. J Braun and J. Prokop, University of Western Ontario
Statistical Inference for Reaction Time Experiment Data

3:40-3:55 Break

3:55-5:05

Ignacio Castillo, Armann Ingolfsson, and Thaddeus Sim, School of Business, University of Alberta
Socially Optimal Location of Facilities with Fixed Servers, Stochastic Demand, and Congestion

Beth Jewkes, University of Waterloo
Attahiru Alfa, University of Windsor
Fitted versus Empricial Discrete Distributions in Queueing Models

Evening at the Faculty Club

6:00 Bus Departs at Sheraton
6:30 Buffet supper starts


Saturday

8:00-8:30 Breakfast

8:30-10:15

Percy Brill, University of Windsor
Properties of the Waiting Time in M/D/1 Queues and Related Models

Doug Down, McMaster University
Mark E. Lewis, University of Michigan
Dynamic Job Assignment in Parallel Systems

Myron Hlynka, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Windsor
Marvin Mandelbaum, Department of Computer Science, York University
Using an Expert to Reorder a Batch of Customers Revisited

10:15 - 10:45

Refreshments

10:45 - 11:55

Chun-Hua Guo, University of Regina
On a Shift Technique for the Latouche--Ramaswami Algorithm for Quasi-birth-death Processes

Wayne Horn and David Stanford, Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences, University of Western Ontario
Guy Latouche, Département d'Informatique, Université Libre de Bruxelles
A Quasi Birth and Death Process with an Infinite Sublevel

12:00-1:30 Lunch

1:30-2:40

Lani Haque and Yiqiang Zhao, Carleton University
Can we Characterize Two-dimensional Systems by the Spectrum of the Infinite Rate Matrix R?

Doug Woolford and Steve Drekic, Dept. of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo
A Preemptive Priority Queue With Balking

2:40-3:00

Refreshments

3:00-4:45

Jingxiang Luo and Winfried Grassmann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan
Simulation of Level/Phase Processes

Javad Tavakoli, SIFC, Regina
Winfried Grassmann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan
The Behaviour of the Eigensolution for a Tandem Queue with a Movable Server

Winfried Grassmann, University of Saskatchewan
Attahiru Alfa, University of Windsor
Elibrium Solutions of QBD processes with Eigenvalues at Zero