As part of Ontario’s Climate Change Action Plan, Ontario Power Generation seeks to increase the supply of renewable energy, including wind, solar, and biomass. It is estimated that 7.6-9.5 million metric tons of unused wood is available to produce bioenergy in Ontario, above that which is currently harvested for wood products. Yet, the exact magnitude […]

PACICC role is to compensate policyholders in scenarios where a P&C insurer can no longer provide compensation while overseeing the health of the P&C industry in Canada. The proposed project aims to improve PACICC’s ability to identity companies at risk of insolvency and improve strategies to minimize dead weight loss when insolvency is imminent. The […]

The purpose of this project is to position Quebec in the global production network and to compute Quebec’s Product Complexity Index (PCI) and Economic Complexity Index (ECI) using Hidalgo and Hausmann (2009) methodology. Based on the rankings of PCI and ECI, we can have a clear understanding of the economic structure of different countries and […]

In this joint collaboration with Scotiabank we hope to solve a commonly faced problem by large financial institutions. It is to detect errors in financial datasets. This could be due to typing errors made by a human or a computer glitch that causes an incorrect value to be stored. To identify these errors, we plan […]

Twin Rivers Paper previously installed and ran a reject refining process in order to improve their pulp yield. However, once the process was implemented it decreased the cleanness in the produced pulp which is undesirable for customers therefore the process was shut down. Currently the rejected chips are either being burned or sent to landfill […]

Le développement des systèmes de sécurité embarqués dans les véhicules a connu un progrès significatif ces dernières années avec l’apparition, notamment, de systèmes intelligents d’aide à la conduite (ADAS) et de la conduite automatisée. Parmi les capteurs utilisés, la combinaison des capteurs lidars et des caméras permet de mesurer et de reconstruire virtuellement l’environnement du […]

The widespread use of phasor measurement units (PMUs) in power-grids can greatly enhance state-estimation (SE) by making use of accurate, GPS time-stamped synchronous phasor measurements. Unlike conventional SCADA measurements which are reported every 4 seconds, synchro-phasor measurements are typically available as frequently as 30-60 measurements per second. While the availability of more measurements can provide […]

There are currently no practical-economical repair methods for many aerospace parts made of aluminum/titanium. The Cold Spray technology produces metal coatings by accelerating metal powders onto the substrate to be coated using high velocity jet at supersonic speeds. Upon impact the particles plastically deform and produce a dense coating. Metals such as aluminum/titanium can be […]

Labor cost and availability are identified as the biggest challenges facing Canadian agriculture. The DOT Technology Corporation, as part of the SeedMaster, is to create an autonomous power system that acts as a primary locomotion unit for carrying a multitude of farm implements used for seeding, fertilizing, and tilling. This simple autonomous power will enable […]

MURBs are responsible for approximately 20% of residential energy consumption and are as energy intensive as single family homes (on a kWh/m2 floor area basis). The energy performance of MURBs, combined with an overall aging of the stock, is beginning to result in more effort on the part of industry and government to develop measures […]

The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples has established the right to free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) as an international standard. This right is especially important regarding the use of Indigenous peoples’ lands and resources by the extractive industry. Currently there is no common understanding about how this standard should be applied […]

Computer administrators defend enterprises using tools that do not scale to the size of modem networks. As a result, malicious behavior in enterprise networks generally is W1detected, even when attackers do not attempt to be stealthy. One way to improve this situation may be through the application of social network analysis to the computer sectrrity […]