Cognitive AI software using a metallurgy ontology can use semantic network descriptions of mineral deposits and mines to evaluate a mineral deposit and determine which deposit, anywhere in the world, most closely matches its metallurgical characteristics. After finding a suitable match, the user would be able to read the metallurgical report(s) of the similar deposit(s) […]

Chaque jour, des decisions doivent etre prises quant a la quantite d’hydroelectricite produite au Quebec. Ces decisions reposent sur la prevision des apports en eau dans les bassins versants produite a l’aide de modeles hydrologiques. Ces modeles, qui transforment les precipitations en debits, prennent en compte plusieurs facteurs, dont notamment la presence ou l’absence de […]

Optimum Canada, une entreprise québécoise qui développe et fabrique des outils de coupe, s’associe avec le Centre technologique en aérospatiale (CTA), le Laboratoire des Revêtements Fonctionnels et Ingénierie de Surfaces (LaRFIS) à Polytechnique Montréal et le Laboratoire d’Optimisation des Procédés de Fabrication Avancés (LOPFA) à l’École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS) pour développer et industrialiser de […]

Les portes palières sont des portes automatiques situées le long des quais des stations de métro et qui séparent physiquement le quai des voitures du train. Les portes palières sont de plus en plus intégrées directement en amont de la conception des nouvelles stations de métro, ou alors elles sont rétrofitées pour pouvoir s’adapter aux […]

Ontology induction from unstructured text is a long standing goal of Natural Language Processing (NLP). An ontology can serve a number of tasks, such as question answering, Information Retrieval to name a few. In fact, practice communities are often relying on an ontology in their daily decision making process. This is the case of IATA, […]

Fundamental questions remain on how polar oceans will respond to climate change and how rapidly changes will occur. Based on observations made from satellite, there is growing evidence that ocean and sea ice interact at scales on the order of a few tens of kilometers, the mesoscale. However, it is not clear how exactly the […]

With the availability of low-cost edge devices equipped with color and depth sensors, such as iPhone or iPad, 3D data capturing is becoming more accessible and convenient. Asset managers and building owners seek benefiting from this potential to accurately and automatically create 3D indoor models of buildings. In particular, having 3D indoor models containing objects […]

Peatlands act as vast carbon (C) reservoirs by regulating decomposition over millennia. Considerable changes due to anthropogenic activities such as peat extraction have shifted long-term C sink to atmospheric C source. Previously, bioengineering tools as rewetting were used to reverse post-extracted peatland hydro-physical properties, and phenolic addition was used on small scale to test the […]

Le monitoring en temps réel des bioprocédés permet d’augmenter les performances et de réduire les pertes. La principale difficulté provient de la quantité limitée d’information accessible en temps réel et des phénomènes complexes et fortement non-linéaires en présence. Ainsi, les algorithmes statistiques conventionnels ne permettent pas d’interpréter adéquatement et avec la précision requise en pharmaceutique […]

This research is motivated by the need to coordinate matching and pricing decisions in resource sharing platforms. In general, matching decisions can be seen from different standpoints of shippers, carriers, and the platform. We are particularly interested in investigating the matching problem considering all standpoints simultaneously, which has not received much attention in the literature […]

Today, a growing number of mobile devices come enabled with Near Field Communications (NFC) “out-of-the-box.” This has opened the door to an explosion of new possibilities for smartphones, such as those running on the Andriod platform. These new NFC capable Android devices could potentially replace RFID technologies, which are widely used in a variety of […]

In the process of issuing building permit, urban planners need to check the compliance of proposed development with all required rules, policies, and land-use regulations (e.g., 2D and 3D) of the city mostly by using 2D graphical representations. In this internship, we will assess the value added of having 3D digital representation of land-use regulation […]