Ontario wait time strategy to solve long waiting problem

A Study on Tolerable Waiting Time: How Long Are Web Users Willing to Wait?

The WWW has become an important channel for information access, electronic commerce, and publication. With an exponential increase in the number of Web users and the popularity of multimedia technology, users often face a long waiting time for downloading Web pages. Although various technologies and techniques have been implemented to alleviate the situation and to comfort the impatient users, ...

Commentary: Waiting for the referee or refereeing the wait?--CCO's role in hosting and deploying the Wait Time Information System in Ontario.

I n the late 1990s, Ontario joined a number of other provinces in referring cancer patients out of the country for radiation treatment. The province and its cancer agency had failed to build sufficient capacity in anticipation of a highly predictable increase in the demand for radiation in Ontario. Public discontent with cancer services and Ontario's cancer agency in 2001 led to some dramatic s...

Using Modified IPSO-SQP Algorithm to Solve Nonlinear Time Optimal Bang-Bang Control Problem

In this paper, an intelligent-gradient based algorithm is proposed to solve time optimal bang-bang control problem. The proposed algorithm is a combination of an intelligent algorithm called improved particle swarm optimization algorithm (IPSO) in the first stage of optimization process together with a gradient-based algorithm called successive quadratic programming method (SQP) in the second s...

Not waiting to live, not living to wait....

Recently, I presented the following points for discussion at the Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy conference in Denver, Colorado. I truly believe that all disabled adults (as well as growing kids!) have the capability to enlighten society as to how we are viewed, versus how we perceive ourselves. The main differences lie between two models when it comes to thinking about disability: medical an...

How long can we afford to wait for equity in the renal transplant waiting list?