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PUBLICATIONS

Papers in Refereed Journals:

  1. Braun, W.J. and Woolford, D.G.  (2013).  Assessing a stochastic fire spread simulator.  To appear in The Journal of Environmental Informatics.
  2. Albert-Green, A., Dean, C.B., Martell, D.L., and Woolford, D.G.  (2013).  A Methodology for Investigating Trends in Changes in the Timing of the Fire Season with Applications to Lightning-Caused Forest Fires in Alberta and Ontario, Canada.  Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 43(1): 39-45.
  3. Savage, D., Wotton, B.M., Martell, D.L., and Woolford, D.G.  (2012).  The impact of uncertainty concerning historical burned area estimates on forest management planning.  Forest Science. (Published online as "Fast Track" early view article, October 2012).  DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.5849/forsci.11-081
  4. Woolford, D.G., Bellhouse, D.R., Braun, W.J., Dean, C.B., Martell, D.L., and Sun, J.  (2011). A spatio-temporal model for people-caused forest fire occurrence in the Romeo Malette forest.  Journal of Environmental Statistics, 2: 1-26.
  5. Woolford, D.G., Cao, J., Dean, C.B. and Martell, D.L.  (2010). Characterizing temporal changes in forest fire ignitions: looking for climate change signals in a region of the Canadian boreal forest.  Environmetrics, 21, 789–800.  DOI:10.1002/env.1067. 
  6. Braun, W.J., Jones, B., Lee, J., Woolford, D.G., and Wotton, B.M.  (2010). Forest Fire Risk Assessment: An Illustrative Example from Ontario, Canada.  Journal of Probability and Statistics,  2010: Article ID 823018, 26 pages.  DOI:10.1155/2010/823018.
  7. Vilar, L., Woolford, D.G., Martell, D.L. and Martin, M.  (2010). A model for predicting human-caused wildfire occurrence in the region of Madrid, Spain.  International Journal of Wildland Fire, 19, 325–337.
  8. Woolford, D.G., Braun, W.J., Dean, C.B. and Martell, D.L. (2009).  Site-specific seasonal baselines for fire risk in Ontario.  GEOMATICA, 63(4), 355–363.
  9. Zhou, L., Braun, W.J., Woolford, D.G., and Wotton, B.M.  (2009). A simulation study of predicting flush date. Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation, 38(5), 1071–1082.  DOI:10.1080/03610910902785738
  10. Woolford, D.G., Stanford, D.A., Kulperger, R.J., Boychuk, D., and Wotton, B.M.  (2008). Erlangian approximations for the transient analysis of a fluid queue model for fire perimeter.   INFOR, 47(4), 305–317.
  11. Ramaswami, V., Woolford, D.G., and Stanford, D.A.  (2008). The erlangization method for Markovian fluid flows.  Annals of Operations Research, 160, 215–225.
  12. Woolford, D.G. and Braun, W.J.  (2007). Convergent data sharpening for the identification and tracking of spatial-temporal centers of lightning activity.  Environmetrics, 18, 461–479.
  13. Stanford, D.A., Latouche, G., Woolford, D.G., Boychuk, D., and Hunchak, A.  (2005). Fire perimeter analyzed as a fluid queue.  Stochastic Models, 21, 631–642.
  14. Drekic, S. and Woolford, D.G.  (2005). A preemptive priority queue with balking.  European Journal of Operational Research, 164, 387–401.

Refereed Book Chapters:

  1. Dean, C.B., Braun, W.J., Martell, D.L., and Woolford, D.G.  (2012).  Interdisciplinary Training in a Collaborative Research Environment.  Chrisman and Wachowicz (Eds.), The Added Value of Scientific Networking:  Perspectives from the GEOIDE Network Members 1998-2012.  GEOIDE Network, Quebec, Canada

Submitted Papers:

  1. Drekic, S., Stanford, D.A., Woolford, D.G. and McAlister, V.C.  (2013).  A Queueing Model for Deceased-Donor Solid Organ Transplantation.  Submitted.
  2. Taylor, S.W., Woolford, D.G., Dean, C.B. and Martell, D.L. (2013). Wildfire prediction to inform fire management at multiple scales: statistical science challenges.  Submitted
  3. Savage, D.W., Woolford, D.G., Weaver, B. and Wood, D.  (2013).  Developing Emergency Department Physician Shift Schedules Optimized to Meet Patient Demand.  Submitted
  4. Albert-Green, A., Braun, W.J., Martell, D.L. and Woolford, D.G.  (2013).  Visualization Tools for Assessing the Markov Property: Sojourn Times in the Ontario Fire Weather Index.  Submitted.
  5. Woolford, D.G., Dean, C.B., Martell, D.L., Cao, J. and Wotton, B.M.  (2013). Lightning-caused Forest Fire Risk in Northwestern Ontario, Canada is Increasing and Associated with Anomalies in Fire-Weather.  Submitted.

Software:

  1. Woolford, D.G. and McLeod, A.I.  2011.  One-Sample t-Test and Confidence Interval with Dot Chart in Small Samples.  (Editorially Reviewed and Published on The Wolfram Demonstrations Project:  http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/OneSample TTestAndConfidenceIntervalWithDotChartInSmallSample)
  2. Woolford, D.G. and Braun, W.J.  2008.  CHsharp: an R package for Choi and Hall clustering in 3D.  (Uploaded to CRAN – The Comprehensive R Archive Network; http://cran.r-project.org/mirrors.html.)

Students' names are underlined.