Design data is broadened beyond specifying built-environments to support evidence-based decision-making in the early phases of design. For using data, designers usually rely on specialized data visualizations. There is a need for interfaces specifically tailored for reporting designs with their form and performance data to and for seeking feedback from the other stakeholders who are […]

Numerous studies have recently proposed and highlighted novel techniques for recommendation, motivating the project of building the next generation of recommender systems for ecommerce platforms. This proposal aims at experimenting with one high-potential technique for modelling the recommendation problem, that makes great usage of the complexity of ecommerce data: Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). GNNs are […]

Repeat photography is a valuable tool for evaluating long-term ecological change. Historical photographs used for repeat photography often predate conventional remote sensing data by decades, and the oblique perspective of the photographs capture details of the landscape absent in nadir imagery. To date, most approaches to quantifying landscape change using repeat photography have involved manual […]

The proposal is for two projects designed in conjunction with Nokia and CanAssist in the research theme of assistive applications for smartphones. The first project focuses on support for the growing senior population/ designed to help seniors retain independence for as long as safely feasible. The second focuses on support for individuals with visual disabilities/ […]

The intern will enhance the functionality of a hand-held gamma spectrometer produced by Environmental Instrument Canada (EIC). In order to improve the performance of the spectrometer, the control board will be switched to a higher spec microcontroller, and the firmware source code will be re-written from interpreted Javascript to C code. New functionality, including energy […]

The project will conduct applied research on how to modernize medical practice software to a “cloud-based” service paradigm. Cloud-based software delivery uses a secure part of the Internet to deliver services. It has many advantages over the traditional model of installing and maintaining software products on local computer workstations. For example, the cost of ownership, […]

The project will conduct applied research on how to assure security and privacy in a “cloudbased” mobile messaging system in the health care domain. Cloud-based software delivery uses a secure part of the Internet to deliver services. It has many advantages over the traditional model of installing and maintaining software products on local computer workstations. […]

Graphics processing units (GPUs) are becoming very attractive for scientific applications targeting high performance Many application software have gained massive speedup factors by integrating GPU support, in particular in numerical computing. Symbolic computation is also entering the area of many-core computing but the use of GPUs in the major computer algebra systems (MAPLE, Mathematica) is […]

L’urgence sanitaire liée à la COVID-19 a forcé les ainés à adopter des mesures drastiques de confinement qui les mettent à risque d’un isolement. À long terme, ce confinement peut conduire à un désintérêt de la vie. L’organisme communautaire l’Accorderie de Sherbrooke, qui propose un système d’échange local entre ses membres, a mis sur pied […]

En 2011, les professeurs Bernier, Kummert, Marcotte et Pasquier de l’I~cole Poly technique de Montreal ont entrepris Ie developpement d’un logiciel de simulation en geothermie (GHE_Sim). Ce logiciel utilise une approche spectrale afin d’accelerer Ie calcul de la superposition temporelie et une technique novatrice pour tenir compte adequatement de I’interaction thermique entre les puits d’un […]

This project, in partnership with The Boeing Company, four Canadian universities (UBC, SFU, OCADU and Dalhousie), a team of universities in Brazil led by the Federal University of Sao Carlos (UFSCar), and a special chronic care hospital in Brazil for individuals with neurological and brain disorders, intends to focus on health care professionals and administrators […]

As the mobile landscape continues to grow and diverge, there is the need to start looking for innovative ways to facilitate the Business-to-Business (B2B) use of mobile devices to support cloud hosted enterprise data. For most enterprises, the bigger hurdle is how to support the enterprise system access from the mobile while ensuring business continuity […]