NRC-IIT creates and commercializes software and systems technology to help Canada prosper in the knowledge economy. The institute in Fredericton has been working with rule systems, semantic web standards and social networking since its inception. Web-based Social Networking is emerging as a major application area for semantic web metadata. Most social networking sites are based […]

ApSTAT Technologies Inc. provides insurance companies with analytical systems based on exclusive data mining technologies, enabling insurers to maximize the profitability of their operations. The company is working with a large financial institution to develop new financial products based on statistical learning techniques. The research team based at l’Université de Montréal had two objectives. The […]

Axonwave Software Inc. of Burnaby, BC, is a leader in the field of unstructured data analysis and processing. The company provides solutions that enhance business intelligence and improve the efficiency of business processes through the ability to analyze and extract information from text-based information sources. In collaboration with Axonwave, the project involves unifying a number […]

Alcatel, a leader in fixed and mobile broadband networks, applications and services, was interested in increasing the security of routers which are at the core of the Internet. It is generally acknowledged by experts that abusing routing protocols presents an easy way for launching attacks on the Internet infrastructure, and that a single misbehaving router […]

Everyday, three Canadians are diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS), which affects the brain and spinal cord, causing lesions and atrophy. MS produces deformation in the central nervous system, causing disability and in extreme cases, death. In the human brain, one of the many structures affected by MS is the corpus collosum. The corpus collosum contains […]

This internship will undertake an investigation of novel 3D shape descriptors relevant to three musculoskeletal disorders. The first is an investigation of the relationship between the shape of the bicipital groove of the proximal humerus (a groove in the head of the upper arm bone) and the incidence of injury to the long biceps tendon […]

The research will identify aspects of a location-aware map application that could be automated (either directly or with user guidance) to reduce the amount of interaction required and to make effective use of the display space for smart phones. The research will involve designing a prototype location-aware map application and extending the prototype to include […]

This project is about content-based networks. In content-based networks, the decisions regarding the forwarding of data are done by inspecting the actual information contents. The forwarding process is guided by properties of the payload data. This is in contrast with traditional networks where forwarding is guided only by the destination addresses contained in packets. Content-based […]

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are widely regarded as a major threat to the Internet because of their ability to make a service unavailable and create a huge volume of unwanted traffic. Unwanted traffic control is one of the most important challenges of Bell Canada. Current countermeasures cannot assure higher quality of service under […]

Medical image registration is the task of bringing two images into spatial alignment. Automatic and accurate 3D co-registration of nuclear medicine 3D image data with 3D anatomical data is crucial for improving the functional image reconstruction through anatomy-based attenuation correction. Co-registration is also important for the fusion of anatomical data with functional information. Most registration […]

D-Wave Systems is currently involved in the research and development of quantum computing technology. Quantum computers allow for not just a fast computer, but potentially, a change in the computational complexity of problems. Graph theory plays a crucial role in the development and understanding of the capabilities and behaviour of the quantum computing hardware being […]

Current software development and refactoring practices promote the modularization of software and encourage the interoperation of software components. The emergence of service oriented architectures is now providing the incentive to promote even more modularity and interoperation between multi-vendor, multi-language, and multi-environment software. This project aims to develop a better understanding of these growing interoperation constraints […]