Dans ce projet, nous proposons le de?veloppement d’outils d’aide a? la de?cision novateurs pour ame?liorer la prestation des soins et des services a? domicile. Le projet est articule? autour de deux principaux sujets de recherche : A) le de?veloppement d’approches d’optimisation pour la gestion de l’offre (les soignants) et de la demande (les patients); et […]

White-box cryptography seeks to maintain the secrecy of cryptographic keys used by software, despite an attacker having full control over the software. This project extends the work by Dr. Lin on the Chinese cipher SM4, as well as its application to a further cipher. The goal of this project is: 1) To implement a complete […]

Les marchés d’énergie dérégulés sont de plus en plus utilisés de par le monde pour gérer l’achat et la vente d’énergie. Ces marchés permettent à n’importe quelle compagnie productrice de participer à la vente et tentent de minimiser le prix de l’énergie pour les acheteurs. Chaque jour, les compagnies productrices souhaitant vendre sur le marché […]

As a central problem in modern microeconomic theory, multidimensional screening plays a significant role in taxation theory, regulation, nonlinear pricing, insurance, etc. Starting from eminent work of Nobel Laureates Mirrlees, Spence and Myerson, there are two main types of generalizations: one is in terms of dimensionality, from one-dimensional to multi-dimensional; the other is in preferences […]

Les algèbres amassées sont des objets d’études mathématiques générés par un ensemble de variables initiales. Pour construire une algèbre amassée, on modifie cet ensemble de variables en échangeant une à une n’importe quelle variable par une nouvelle variable construite grâce à des règles de mutation. Toutes les variables obtenues par ce procédé récursif répété une […]

Many important computational problems are prohibitively difficult to solve in the worst case, but are easy when instances are drawn from real world situations. This suggests that worst case instances rarely occur in real data and that worst case analysis is not a good measure of computational complexity in practice. One hypothesis to explain this […]

Un problème récurrent en mathématique est de trouver un ensemble de nombres, appelés invariants, qui ne changent pas même si l’on modifie selon certaines règles un objet donné. Par exemple, l’aire et le périmètre d’un triangle restent invariants après translations, rotations et symétries; ces nombres sont donc des invariants. Nous étudions un concept mathématique appelé […]

We are on the doorstep of a quantum revolution in modern science, perhaps most significantly in the development of new types of information and communication technologies, and Canada has positioned itself as a world leader in these efforts. This proposal includes an expansion of research into quantum information and communication by the University of Guelph’s […]

Pricing risks is of pivotal importance for the insurer’s well-being. Indeed, inappropriately determined prices, whether too high or too low, may result in insolvency of insurance policies, failure of business lines, and even bankruptcy of entire insurance enterprises. This project will help Wawanesa Insurance to develop sophisticated pricing techniques that will take into account (a) […]

This project will investigate the use of RADAR data to estimate the ocean surface velocity in regions of interest, specifically where tidal turbines will be deployed in Minas Passage, Bay of Fundy. The Fundy Ocean Research Center for Energy (FORCE) currently owns a single RADAR on the North side of the Minas Passage. Initial investigations […]

Suppose there are a number of committees of people, which we represent by vertices of a graph and draw an edge between two vertices if those committees share a common member. Then the list-colouring number is (informally) the minimum number k so that as long as each committee comes up with a list of k-many […]

ATB Financial is a large Alberta based full service financial institution. The Card Services department was forrned 6 years ago and is growing rapidly. The Card Strategy team within Card Services is developing models and processes to effectively manage marketing campaigns, collections and fraud. The primary objective of this program is a detailed cost/benefit analysis […]