This project will support improvements to deer management in Nova Scotia. Improved management and conservation of Nova Scotia’s most important big game species supports wildlife habitat conservation by NS DNR, but is also of importance to the forestry industry, and stakeholders such as the NS Federation of Anglers and Hunters, and the Fur Institute of […]

As a globally recognized credit service provider, DBRS plans to implement a new project called next generation content development and management. DBRS expects to expand its current online service offering to the users by launching a series of mobile apps with sophisticated analytical tools. The advent of these applications will fundamentally create an interactive environment […]

Ce projet vise à optimiser les déplacements d’une flotte de drones qui sont utilisés pour détecter et reconnaître des personnes ou des bateaux sur une étendue d’eau permettant de minimiser les pertes humaines en intervenant le plus rapidement possible lors d’une situation d’urgence. La flotte de drones est reliée à une base et à une […]

Electricity is vital to our modern life. Different from other commodities, electricity prices show seasonal patterns with mean reversion and ‘short-lived’ spikes. It is significantly important for market participants to model power prices (both spot prices and forward prices) for risk management. Polynomial process is a class of time-homogenous Markov processes with the property that […]

The goal of this partnership is to develop data-driven tools that will empower individual Canadians to improve their financial resilience and reduce their levels of financial stress. Individuals will complete a short questionnaire; based on their responses, will be assigned to one of three groups – financially stressed, financially coping or financially comfortable – giving […]

Recent market instability, volatility, and Bitcion (BTC) halving event combined to create significant challenges for this sector, resulting in many hashing power producers being forced into bankruptcy. The sector has grown very rapidly and has been plagued with boom-bust cycles that have been difficult for producers to weather due to the lack of hedging tools/financial […]

La federation des prodecteurs de lait du Quebec regroupe tous les prodecteurs de la province et negocie en leur nom, avec les transporteuts des contrats de transport. Ces contrats specifient dans quel ordre seront collectes les prodecteurs ainsi que le tarif a verser. Ce projet consiste a developper un outil d’aide a la decision permettant […]

Développer un modèle prédictif en traitement automatique des langues requière la création d’un corpus annoté : un texte et des annotations que l’on tentera de reproduire automatiquement. Il s’agit d’une activité à la fois complexe (les annotations sont souvent du ressort d’un expert) et coûteuse (annotations méticuleuses à produire en grande quantité). Le projet vise […]

Développer un modèle prédictif en traitement automatique des langues requière la création d’un corpus annoté : un texte et des annotations que l’on tentera de reproduire automatiquement. Il s’agit d’une activité à la fois complexe (les annotations sont souvent du ressort d’un expert) et coûteuse (annotations méticuleuses à produire en grande quantité). Le projet vise […]

Stock-based compensation allows employers and employees to share in the risks and rewards of their company’s success. In addition to intangible benefits such as team building and goal sharing, there can also be large financial rewards for employees and similar costs to employers. These costs must be reported in the company’s financial documents such as […]

A “bid price” is a mathematical tool in the seat inventory control to make a decisionmaking system to accept or reject arrivals in order to maximize expected total revenue with a limited available capacity of resources. As part of this internship, intern will develop new models and test their performance using actual data. This internship […]

A third of the food that we grow depends on honeybee pollination. Nectar’s mission is to help the beekeeping industry ensure honeybee health to secure our food supply. By leveraging sensor data with labelled data on numerous aspects of beehive conditions, this project aims to develop multiclass classification of key phenomena to improve beehive health […]