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13270 Completed Projects

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Computer science
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Engineering
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Engineering - biomedical
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Engineering - chemical / biological

Building an automated text mining algorithm to extract location-based information

Text documents often include information pertaining to geographic locations. Mapping these place names to specific geographic locations (e.g., GIS) requires a considerable amount of human effort. This becomes challenging especially when the same place name is represented by multiple places, such as in the naming of waterbodies (e.g. lakes and rivers). In this project we will develop an integrated system, bringing together Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, and one or more known text mining software tools for geographic location application in order to evaluate an online document to match any place names with a geographic location that can be used by GIS.
Goldstream Publishing Inc. operates The Angler’s Atlas, which is a sport fishing service that provides detailed maps and related information for lakes and rivers across North America. Providing current information on thousands of the catalogued waterbodies is a challenge for the company. However, there is a significant volume of relevant, user generated information on different web-sites which could be used if the location information could be attached to these online posts. The outcome of this project will be a tool for automatically assigning location to the user generated online contents.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Liang Chen

Student:

Negar Hassanpour

Partner:

Goldstream Publishing Inc.

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

University of Northern British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

2013 NS Farmers’ Markets Economic Impact Study

The project is to complete an economic impact study on the farmers' market sector in Nova Scotia. The method used to collect the necessary information is called a Rapid Market Assessment. This method is a participatory research method meaning the staff, volunteers, vendors, and customers of the farmers' markets will directly participate in gathering the necessary information. The first step of this project is to train farmers' market staff, volunteers and vendors across the province in this methodology. The second step of the project is to support participating farmers' markets to undertake the participatory research in their market one day during the market season. The third step of the project is to collect the information from participating farmers' markets and to use it to create a final report – an Economic Impact Study. This report will be used by individual farmers' markets as well as the Farmers' Markets of Nova Scotia Cooperative to forge partnerships and illustrate value. The process of participating in this project will also build the capacity of farmers' markets across the province, enabling them to undertake future research.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Mark Raymond

Student:

Kyler Crawford

Partner:

Farmers' Markets of Nova Scotia Cooperative Ltd.

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

Saint Mary's University

Program:

Accelerate

Sustainable Development of Forest Resources: Nuxalk Development Corporation

The Nuxalk First Nations is being empowered by the provincial government to take more control over its socio and economic affairs. One critical part of the transitioning is to manage their forest resources through a community forest license. The Nuxalk Development Corporation will be an active participant in their economic future, particularly in the area of forest land management, energy planning, community development and the manufacturing of wood and non-wood products. The transitioning for Nuxalk community is a huge challenge and the purpose of this applied research project is to assist them with a set of ‘assessments’ of the key priority topics identified by their community and business leaders. These topics include: valued added wood products, social and affordable housing, bioenergy economics, waste management from manufacturing, product branding, marine and community management impacts on forest management, and non-timber forest products.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Gary Bull

Student:

Kahlil Baker, Devyani Singh, Matthias Splittgerber, Amadeus Pribowo & Dallas Pootlass

Partner:

Nuxalk Development Corporation

Discipline:

Forestry

Sector:

Environmental industry

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

The Voice of e-Democracy Panel in the City of Markham

The proposed project will help develop an online forum that can be used as a public consultation tool for governments as they make important public policy decisions. This forum will be developed and tested in the City of Markham as a case study. The model will then be refined so that it can be applied to other jurisdictions. The result will be a framework and online panel that can be used by various actors to communicate with and learn firsthand from citizens through digital technology. This model will also be the basis for the establishment of a Centre for e-Democracy, which will be facilitated through a collaborative partnership between industry, academia, government, and advocacy groups. The value for Delvinia is to build upon the AskingCanadians marketing panel the company established and create a new forum that goes beyond linking businesses and consumers, connecting government and citizens. This is a novel approach to bring citizens back into the democratic process by harnessing the power of digital technologies.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. David Wolfe

Student:

Nicole Goodman

Partner:

Delvinia

Discipline:

Political science

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Using Resource Public Key Infrastructure for Secure Border Gateway Protocol

BCNET’s mandate is to provide shared technology services such as cloud computing, VoIP, disaster recovery solutions, and telepresence to its members using an advanced network connected to the backbone of the Internet. Today, the core members of BCNET are UBC, UVic, SFU, BCIT, TRU, and UNBC. Any attack may interfere in the operation and the connectivity of the network, may interrupt research activities of the educational institutes, and the ripple effect may propagate to the neighbor Autonomous Systems. Hence, a secure Internet routing protocol is the key to achieving the strategic objectives of the BCNET members.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Ljiljana Trajkovic

Student:

Majid Arianezhad

Partner:

BCNET

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Improving Coordination between Engineering Departments through Process Mapping and Analysis

The objective of the proposed project is to map all engineering processes involved in aeroelasticity calculations at Bombardier Aerospace and develop methods for holistic analysis and improvement of the aeroelasticity process, for the sake of performing better overall improvements and more realistic quantitative validations of those improvements. Existing methods and techniques for process mapping will be considered to develop a process framework which will be adapted to perform analysis and provide improvements to the process. Analysis techniques will be applied to detect redundant, duplicated or misaligned process activities. Results will provide means to assess and evaluate the discrepancies between the actual and desired processes. Solutions will be developed to reduce these discrepancies to obtain a smoother, leaner and faster process. The process map to be built consolidates different viewpoints of the process and the engineering knowledge to reflect the interdependencies and the information flow throughout the process. This will contribute to improvement of the structural awareness across different functions that contribute to the process, thus foster more effective coordination of the work. Application of the process suggestions that will given as the deliverable of the project will allow a faster and leaner development process through (1) better scheduling of tasks and resource allocation, and (2) a more streamlined product development process.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Vince Thomson

Student:

Xiaoqi Zhang

Partner:

Bombardier Aerospace

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Aerospace and defense

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Hybrid encryption and intrusion detection for an e-commerce database

The recent rapid growth of web-based applications and information systems has increased the risk exposure of databases and, thus, the security and protection of data from internal and external threats is more crucial than ever. Damage and misuse of data affect not only a single user or application, but may have disastrous consequences on an entire organization. The partner company’s database contains sensitive financial transactions information and customers can have direct and immediate online access to business information that pertains to them anywhere anytime. Therefore, the protection of the information database against malicious activity is critical. The proposed project aims at designing a multi-step database security system for an e-commerce application in which we will incorporate the latest advances in database security and machine learning research. While the first phase of the project aims at increasing the security of the database system, the second phase aims at the fast detection of malicious activity in case the hackers get access to the database system.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Steve DiPaola

Student:

Nahid Karimaghalou

Partner:

Pay2p Financial Inc.

Discipline:

Interactive arts and technology

Sector:

Finance, insurance and business

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Building an Innovative Idea Management Tool

The research aims to help the partner company, Analytic Design Group, assess the market potential for developing an Idea Management application, use experience-based analysis to investigate the functionality of an innovative idea management application, and to evaluate the expected returns for undertaking this project. This is carried out by researching the software market for similar applications. Then, an experience-based detailed analysis of the closest matches is done to gather insights from competitors’ application. This will tie qualitative information to any sort of quantitative data the research may come across and put it in context. The qualitative data includes and is not limited to information regarding current competitors’ offerings, market trends and the prospects of similar apps in the North American Market. As a result, ADGI will be able to tweak its proposed app based on research findings which will ultimately help the firm better target the app in the market. An in-depth feasibility study examines the app profitability against all incurring costs of the app and includes, as time allows, an investigation of an international pricing model as an alternative strategy.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Darren Paproski

Student:

Ahmad Khoudari

Partner:

Analytic Design Group

Discipline:

Journalism / Media studies and communication

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Vancouver Island University

Program:

Accelerate

Evaluating green roof performance and design in the Toronto area

Green roofs minimize stormwater runoff, building cooling costs, and provide other social, economic, and environmental benefits. Green roofs are also highly-proprietary, with the industry having many components to suite different applications, all influencing green roof survival and performance. With a green roof by-law and construction standard in Toronto, green roof coverage is consistently among the top cities in North America annually, however there exists no published data on green roof performance for the region, nor on the health and status of the City’s existing green roofs. The objectives of this project are to quantify green roof performance at the Green Roof Innovation Testing (GRIT) lab, and to survey and document Toronto’s existing green roofs, critically examining them using Toronto’s Best Practices Guidelines. The collaborative project will result in improved design and planning of green roofs by STLAi, the creation of interactive material for referencing Toronto’s green roofs online, and two peer-reviewed publication.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Liat Margolis

Student:

James Scott MacIvor

Partner:

Scott Torrance Landscape Architect Inc.

Discipline:

Architecture and design

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Co-Ordination of Steel Production Operations for Increased Throughput

This project aims to improve the throughput of the production system at ArcelorMittal through better coordination between the production operations. The project proposes a sophisticated discrete-event simulation model to analyze the impact of all important parameters of the production system, such as steel temperature, furnace heat duration, ladle movements, and heat loss at ladle. Several improved coordination strategies will be generated and deployed in the simulation model and the to-be behavior of the system will be observed. For each high-performance coordination strategy, sensitivity analyses will be done to validate the robustness. The results will provide ArcelorMittal managers with a better understating of the production system and individual significance of all its parameters to its performance. The proposed coordination practices will lead to significant cost savings and throughput improvements. The results of this project will also be used as a numerical basis for future investments and improvements to the system. 

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Vince Thomson

Student:

Keyvan Rahmani

Partner:

ArcelorMittal

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Mining and quarrying

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

A Leadership Development Model for Youth in Urban Communities

This internship will extend a research partnership between For Youth Initiative (FYI) organization and the Applied Social Welfare Research and Evaluation Group at the School of Social Work, York University. The internship project will build a comprehensive leadership development model that articulates best and promising evidence-based practices for engaging and building the leadership capacity of youth and youth-led organisations in urban communities. This model will be attentive to the structural constraints that youth in marginalized urban communities experience. Secondly, the internship model will develop an evaluation strategy and tools so that FYI can understand the outcomes for youth and youth-led organisations of its leadership development activities. The intern will conduct a comprehensive review of the literature, analyze and review FYI’s database to understand effective programs, and integrate the findings from these to develop a leadership development model for youth. The model will be shared with community stakeholders and revised to incorporate their feedback.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Uzo Anucha

Student:

Rebecca Houwer

Partner:

For Youth Initiative

Discipline:

Social work

Sector:

Education

University:

York University

Program:

Accelerate

Implementation & Effectiveness of the Youth in Transition Intensive Case Management

The proposed research will consist of an evaluation of both the implementation and effectiveness of the YouIT program for youth and young adults with mental health and addiction problems. An implementation evaluation will be conducted to document whether the program has been implemented as intended (based on best practices) and how the program is actually implemented. The outcome evaluation will examine the outcomes of clients over the course of their participation in the YouIT program. This evaluation will provide CMHA ways to improve program delivery and will identify changes toeffectively provide ICM services to youth. An outcome evaluation will help the organization understand the effectiveness of the YouIT program. Through this evaluation, the organization will have a better understanding of the demographics and needs of their clients in the program. Deliverables for the project will include two written reports and a community forum.

 
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Faculty Supervisor:

Drs. John Sylvestre & Tim Aubry

Student:

Amandeep Bassi & Stephanie Rattelade

Partner:

Canadian Mental Health Association - Ottawa Branch

Discipline:

Education

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

University of Ottawa

Program:

Accelerate

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