L’objectif de ce projet est de proposer des méthodes performantes pour la planification d’horaires de personnel pour le commerce de détail. En effet, dans ce secteur hautement concurrentiel où les marges bénéficiaires sont généralement faibles, la gestion efficace de la force de travail à disposition peut générer des bénéfices notables. Ce problème consiste à affecter […]

The development of Canada’s energy infrastructure requires significant investment at all levels. Energy companies considering such investments require a complete understanding of the projected value of the prospective asset, as well as the associated risks. Often, a significant portion of the value comes from the flexibility provided by the asset. This project will use option […]

Flood is the single most important natural hazard in Canada. Since 2015, private (overland) flood insurance coverage is gradually being offered to Canadian homeowners and demand for such protection is on the rise in Canada and elsewhere. For the product to be viable to the insurers and to the customers in the long term, flood […]

Selon le plus récent rapport du Groupe d’experts intergouvernemental sur l’évolution du climat (GIEC), les événements extrêmes tels que les précipitations abondantes sont susceptibles d’augmenter. Le projet proposé s’inscrit dans la quantification de cette augmentation et a pour but général d’introduire les effets du changement climatique aux courbes Intensité-Durée-Fréquence (IDF) des précipitations. Ces courbes sont […]

Homotopy Type Theory is a formal system that conjecturally can be used as a foundation for Mathematics. It has at least two advantages over other existing foundations of Mathematics. It has a flexible language in which the notion of space is as primitive as the notion of set, thus making it easier to work with […]

The project will undertake a review of the existing and ongoing research in the field of InsurTech. Here, “InsurTech” refers to the marriage of insurance and technology with a goal to transform the insurance industry by using modern technologies to generate efficiencies. It is proposed to develop new technology based solutions for more realistic insurance […]

Les pieces souples (ou flexibles) sont une categorie de pieces frequemment rencontrees dans I’industrie, comme les panneaux de revetement de carrosserie, les composantes a parois minces, etc. On estime qu’environ 37% des composantes dans une automobile sont des pieces sou pies. Le probleme de I’inspection dimensionnelie de ces pieces est que la geometrie a I’etat […]

We propose development and validation of novel mathematical tools which can be used for information processing for object and/or model identification and detection within decision support systems (DSS) in various decision frameworks such as situation assessment and analysis, genetic modeling and analysis, medical imaging, etc. The project will have two main novel contributions: (1) introducing […]

To understand the effects of various substances on plants in terms of yield and disease severity (phytopathology), we need to evaluate both statistical significance and biological relevance when conducting biological experiments. Biological relevance refers to the nature and size of biological changes or differences seen in studies that would be considered relevant, while Statistically significance […]

In a historic United Nations (UN) summit, world leaders adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a universal call to action to address the global challenges we face by the year 2030, including those related to poverty, inequity, environmental degradation, prosperity, and peace and justice. Together, the UN and their partners have underscored the importance […]

“Bohemian matrices and applications” is a new and growing field in computational mathematics invented at Western University. The name “Bohemian” is a mnemonic for “Bounded Height Matrix of Integers”, which means that the entries of these matrices are drawn from a small set of numbers, such as {-1, 0, 1}. The original motivation for starting […]

Representation theory of algebras is an active area of research with numerous contributions to different areas of pure mathematics and theoretical physics. This is because it often represents very technical and complicated concepts in terms of concrete oriented graphs that are equipped with some additional data. In this area, as any other mathematical concept, the […]