Malgré les efforts consacrés à la détection des problèmes de sécurité dans les systèmes informatiques, de nombreux défauts s’échappent sur le terrain, provoquant de graves défaillances et d’énormes pertes financières. Pour identifier la nature des problèmes, les développeurs de logiciels s’appuient fortement sur l’analyse des journaux (logs), générés lors des exécutions du système. Les logs […]

Despite the advances of Machine Learning, the models are still being considered black-boxes that are difficult to diagnose and explain. The model performance diagnostic measures are critical to the assessment of the model’s relevance, accuracy and robustness. Good models’ performance is the primary enabler of their successful deployment in real-life applications. However, even if the […]

BlueNode is a SaaS company focused on the sanitation and analysis of marine shipping data. The research project is focused on increasing the precision and accuracy of shipped goods processed through Canadian ports. Should the research prove to be successful, the technical methods used will be directly incorporated into the BlueNode system.

The recruitment industry faces information overload when matching qualified individuals with competitive jobs. A recommender system can effectively solve this problem by filtering relevant content in order to make recommendations, in this case matching candidates with jobs. The objective of this project is to develop such a system for two-way search and ranking of candidates […]

The goal of the research project is to improve overall user experience in mobile games by formulating a set of user experience best practices, or heuristics, that is specific to mobile games. While research has been done in the past on heuristic evaluation in games, there has been little specifically focused on mobile games. Design […]

An important component to every growing retail business is demand forecasting which can affect the strategic plans of a business. The impact extends across the business’ function including budgeting, financial planning, price optimization, sales and marketing plans, capacity planning, staff management, risk assessment and mitigation plans. In this project, we want to apply machine learning […]

Access to private or leased land is currently not a simple problem. Landowners would like to know who is on their land, when, and for what purpose. Getting permissions from landowners is often not a straightforward task which often leads to obtaining permission being bypassed. Some landowners do not want hunters, but do not mind […]

This initiative is conducted with the Fraser Health Medicine Program, which provides a wide range of integrated healthcare services in acute care hospitals and out-patient services. This research will focus on various tools such as visual storytelling to engage staff to empower patients with diabetes to take control of their diabetes health by providing them […]

This project involves the design and development of a Visual Analytics (VA) tool that will allow analysts to quickly expose relationships and regions of interest in very large data sets that encode complicated graphs and networks. The tool’s development will be guided by frequent interviews with analysts at Aeroinfo/Boeing and the BC Cancer Genome Sciences […]

For many persons with disabilities, for example those living with cognitive or visual impairments, it is often impossible to drive a personal vehicle and to travel independently, whether to school, to therapy, to their work place or to visit their friends. Because of their challenges, they must rely on caregivers or family members for transport, […]

Dialogue is Canada’s leading telemedicine provider, founded to improve well-being by using technology to deliver excellent care. Dialogue is a pioneer of virtual health care dedicated exclusively to organizations that want to improve the health and well-being of their members and families. We provide effective health solutions through outstanding health care experiences and a focus […]

The Arctic Research Foundation (ARF) is a private, non-profit organization creating a scientific infrastructure for the Canadian Arctic. Over the years, it has generated and collected a huge volume of big data. These valuable big data need to be managed. In response, we design an effective database to (a) integrate these big data (which may […]