Numerical Methods for Solving Discrete Event Systems: With Applications to Queueing Systems

Winfried Grassmann completed his Ph.D. at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, in 1967 with summa cum laude. After four years working as an operations research analyst at Swissair, the Swiss flag carrier, He joined the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, to teach operations research and computer science. Author of three books and numerous articles, Grassmann introduced the randomization method as a numerical tool and invented the Grassmann-Taksar-Heyman (GTH) method.

Javad Tavakoli holds a PhD in Categorical Algebra from Dalhousie University, NS, Canada. In 1996 he proudly had the opportunity to meet with Winfried Grassmann at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, where he started his new research area in Applied Probability and Stochastic Processes. Javad Tavakoli has been a researcher and educator at the University of British Columbia Okanagan, Canada since 2003. He published a number of papers in Queuing Theory, mostly with Winfried Grassmann. Javad Tavakoli also has received several awards for teaching excellence and published a pre-calculus book from the indigenous perspective.

Winfried Grassmann 於1967年在瑞士蘇黎世大學獲得博士學位，並以優異的成績畢業。之後，他在瑞士國際航空公司（Swissair）擔任運籌學分析師四年，隨後加入加拿大薩斯喀徹溫大學教授運籌學和計算機科學。Grassmann 是三本書籍和多篇文章的作者，他引入了隨機化方法作為數值工具，並發明了 Grassmann-Taksar-Heyman (GTH) 方法。

Javad Tavakoli 擁有加拿大新斯科舍省達爾豪斯大學的範疇代數博士學位。1996年，他有幸在加拿大薩斯喀徹溫大學與 Winfried Grassmann 會面，並在那裡開始了他在應用概率和隨機過程的新研究領域。自2003年以來，Javad Tavakoli 一直在加拿大不列顛哥倫比亞大學奧肯根校區擔任研究員和教育工作者。他在排隊理論方面發表了多篇論文，大多數是與 Winfried Grassmann 共同撰寫的。Javad Tavakoli 也因教學卓越而獲得多項獎項，並出版了一本從原住民視角出發的預備微積分書籍。