Le problème de conception d’horaire en contexte de sécurité aéroportuaire consiste à établir un horaire qui minimise le nombre d’employés qui sont nécessaires pour faire fonctionner un nombre de points de contrôle, dans le but de desservir le flot de passagers qui se manifeste en réponse aux multiples départs d’avion. Le problème s’apparente au Nurse […]

Essential Silver Incorporated is a recycling business looking to expand it’s operations in North America. The company’s specialty is recycling silver and a specific type of plastic called PET from x-rays. In order to justify the additional investment in the business ESI needs to have a better understanding of the market and it’s operations. ESI […]

It was evident in the 2013/14 crop year that when limited export capacity is rationed by price, large export basis reduces Saskatchewan prices at a substantial cost to grain producers and the provincial economy. Given the increasing long term yield trend, the projected 10 million tonne increase in crop production under the Saskatchewan Plan for […]

In Canada, the majority of the regulated occupations in Canada are controlled by provincial and territorial law and are governed by professional bodies with the authority to set entry requirements and standards of practice and to issue licenses and/or certificates of practice to qualified skilled labour (CICIC, 2006). There is an increasing demand for professionalism […]

With the growth and prevalence of digital and social media, patients have started to gain more control of their health management. This has led to their having a greater say in the design, production, delivery, and marketing of drugs. Sooner than later, more and more companies will be listening to patients while trying to find […]

The interns will use social media data-mining and network visualization tools along with qualitative assessments of digital content to develop a social media and digital content production strategy for a consumer products based company. Case studies will be performed on successful and competitor brands in order to better inform the digital media production and strategy […]

Although beta distribution models are a well-known tool for evaluating the recovery risk of credit instruments, concerns are raised regarding tractability its analysis and simulation. The project attempts to address such concerns by incorporating a mixture beta distribution model. The project will compare the efficiency of the proposed model with the commonly used beta distribution […]

Le marché mondial des médicaments biosimilaires est en pleine expansion. Le développement des biosimilaires constitue un enjeu majeur à la fois d’un point de vue économique et d’un point de vue sanitaire. Dans le contexte d’une population vieillissante, d’une augmentation des maladies chroniques et d’un budget de plus en plus contraint, les biosimilaires pourraient permettre […]

The shared platform model is emerging as an innovative organizational structure. The proposed research aims to gain a deeper understanding of shared platforms strengths, barriers to success, and their potential impact on the social enterprise sector in a rural area. The shared platform organizational model provides two distinctive features for both business supports and mentorship […]

Avec l’augmentation exponentielle de la quantité de contenu tels que les documents, les fichiers etc. qui est généré chaque année au sein des entreprises, celles-ci font faces à d’importants défis en matière de gestion de contenu. Une des questions importantes que les organisations se posent à cet effet concerne l’identification du contenu à valeur ajoutée. […]

Sobeys Québec désire implanter un système automatisé de prise des rendez-vous (Dock scheduling) et de gestion de la cour (YMS). Le projet vise dans un premier temps à documenter le processus actuel afin de bien comprendre et de bien cerner les problématiques reliées à celui-ci. L’étape suivante visera à se concentrer à construire le nouveau […]

All credit portfolios, whether global, regional or commercial real estate face uncertainty in losses. In retrospective, it is evident that variation in credit quality is substantial and default risk can increase quickly and in correlation with the macro-environment. Even in the aggregate, loss variability cannot be completely eliminated by diversification. The challenge for every risk […]