The purpose of this project will be to develop a flexible and statistically sound methodology for leveraging BPI’s database of current and historical publicly available coverage information to model coverage trends in the U.S. health insurance industry. The project will also include the development of an R Markdown template for future predictive analytics reports. The […]

La planification de la production hydro-électrique à court-terme concerne les 10 à 30 prochains jours, et cherche à minimiser l’utilisation de la ressource (l’eau) tout en respectant à chaque heure la charge électrique et de nombreuses contraintes. Celles-ci concernent la sécurité des équipements, les inondations potentielles, les maintenances… De plus, l’environnement de planification est très […]

and mineral exploration and in the environmental investigation. With the advanced in modern technology, enormous progress has been made in applying scientific computing to investigate large scale and complex geophysical problems. TerraNotes Ltd GEOPHYSICS is a company developing advanced technologies which are capable of solving practical and real geophysical problems. The present MITACS Accelerate Internship […]

Short-term hydropower optimization models are used on a daily basis to dispatch the available water for production between the turbines of the power plants that compose an hydropower system. Rio Tinto owns and operates power plants in the Saguenay Lac-St-Jean region of the province of Quebec and is currently lacking efficient tools to help the […]

Prostate cancer is the third leading cause of death from cancer in men in Canada. However, prostate cancer is highly treatable if diagnosed early. Unfortunately, due to lack of cost-effective and meaning test detecting the early presence of the cancer. Most prostate cancer (92%) are found when the career is spreading to nearby organs. This […]

Factoring large polynomials is one of the main tools provided by mathematical software packages like Maple. It is used by scientists, engineers and mathematicians directly to simplify and study large formulas. It is also used inside Maple to do other tasks such as solving systems of polynomial equations. This project proposes to dramatically improve the […]

L’estimation des réserves est une tâche qu’un actuaire d’une compagnie d’assurances incendie, accidents et risques divers doit accomplir pour démontrer que sa compagnie est solvable. Avec le développement de la technologie et l’accessibilité à une plus grande disponibilité des données, les approches utilisant t l’information disponible pour chacun des paiements, de chacune des réclamations et […]

Customer or member retention refers to the ability of a company to retain its customers, and customer attrition, as the counterpart of customer retention, refers to the loss of customers. Developing a more accurate and comprehensible predictive model can help companies like Servus better understand member retention and attrition. This project is aiming at using […]

The purpose of the project is to provide the partner with a detailed understanding of a strategy to set payout profiles within a model where the expected payout of the game is tied to the level of skill reached in the game. Additionally, the project will create a strategy for viral marketing of the product […]

Insurance companies heavily fund marketing campaigns such as, for instance, customer retention or cross-sell initiatives. Uplift modeling aims at predicting the causal effect of an action such as medical treatment or a marketing campaign on a particular individual by taking into consideration the response to an action. Typically, the result of an uplift model is […]

Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) has become the leading cause of hospital acquired nosocomial diarrhea worldwide. The prolonged hospital stays associated with CDI has enormous impact on the healthcare systems in terms of costs and patient outcomes. While treatment of CDI is an important area for ongoing research, prevention efforts will need to be enhanced to […]

The procurement process of an organization is key to understand company costs. Organizations gather large amounts of data coming from different sources (e.g. income statement, balance sheet, general ledger lines). This information is heterogeneous in nature as it is a mix of unstructured and structured data. Moreover, it needs to be cleaned and consolidated in […]