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Multidimensional Energy Consumption Analysis in Large Organizations: An Information Visualization Design Study

The goal of this project is to improve the process by which professional energy managers and utility company personnel analyze large amounts of data related to energy consumption. This process is often exploratory, meaning that many analysis questions are open-ended and cannot be phrased as a directed query. Open-ended exploration can be supported by information visualization, which involves a collection of techniques for displaying and interacting with large amounts and varying types of data. Information visualization provides users with an overview of the data, as well as an ability to drill down into specific subsets of the data as their analysis questions are refined. The application of information visualization techniques to the problem of large-scale energy consumption analysis will involve an iterative user-centred design and evaluation process, which will include eliciting requirements from representative users, designing prototypes, implementing, and evaluating one or more information visualization tools.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Tamara Munzner

Student:

Matthew Brehmer

Partner:

Pulse Energy

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Energy

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Conducting Enterprise Architecture in the Context of an SME that is Adopting an ERP

Despite the vast literature that has accumulated around ERP technologies over the years, there is still a great need to better our understanding of the forces at play in the adoption of ERP technologies, and this, particularly in the context of small and medium size organizations. In addition, the field of enterprise architecture (EA) has been emerging as a technology for helping organizations cope with complexities of technology adoption and organizational transformation (Lapalme & de Guerre, 2013). Accordinly, EA can be a useful technology for helping organizations with the complexities of adopting ERP technologies. However, similarly to the literature on ERP technologies, very little literature exist on the use of EA in the context of SME. This project proposal offers an interesting opportunity to expand what is known about the adoption of ERP technologies and the execution of EA in the context of small organizations through field research with an industrial partner that is trying to adopt the former technologies.

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Faculty Supervisor:

James Lapalme

Student:

Sandrine Thiombiano

Partner:

Portes et Fenêtres Océan Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

École de technologie supérieure

Program:

Accelerate

New Carrier Types and Services for Long-term Evolution (LTE) Machine-Type Communication (MTC)

Machine-to-machine (M2M) communication is a new paradigm of communication equipments which do not involve human interaction. M2M networks are predicted to have a huge market in the near future with numerous potential applications, such as home automation, patient monitoring, transportation, and smart metering. Long-term evolution (LTE), the 4th generation cellular standard, is expected to play a big role in enabling M2M. Ongoing standardization efforts of LTE machine-type communication (MTC) equipment focus on adaptations and extensions of LTE to deal with the application and deployment constraints specific to M2M. This project is part of Sierra Wireless’ ongoing activities to develop and advance LTE MTC type communication systems. It will address new technology themes that have been proposed in LTE standardization and introduce latest communications and signal processing approaches towards enabling LTE MTC.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Lutz Lampe

Student:

Partner:

Sierra Wireless

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Local delivery of biologically active peptides to correct curve progression in a mouse model of EOS

Early onset scoliosis (EOS) leads to severe, progressive three dimensional deformity of the spine in growing children, which is corrected either by external bracing or surgical placement of rods adjacent to the spine. Mice deficient in signaling through the type three fibroblast growth factor receptor (FGFR3-/-) develop scoliosis by four weeks, which worsens progressively with age. The mice therefore represent a unique resource to investigate biologic non-surgical treatments to slow the progression of spine curvature. To determine if curve progression can be prevented we will implant pellets with bone active growth factors that promote proliferation and inhibit cell death adjacent to the curve and leave the mice to mature. Curve progression will be assessed by periodic X-rays, the quality of vertebral bone with computed tomography, and molecular composition of vertebra and intervertebral discs with biochemical analyses. Identification of a potential therapeutic approach to correct scoliosis is of obvious interest to our partner DePuy Spine.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Neil Saran, Janet E. Henderson, Lisbet Haglund

Student:

Chan Gao, Bashar Alkhatib

Partner:

Johnson & Johnson Inc. Canada

Discipline:

Medicine

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Laneway Revitalization in Canada: Possibilities, Challenges & Solutions

This partnership between Simon Fraser’s Centre for Sustainable Community Development (represented by Mark Roseland and Larissa Ardis) and Vernacular Design is hoped to be the first of many between Vernacular and sustainability researchers in academia for the advancement of community development. It will produce a research report and related communications products that help the public, stakeholders and municipalities understand laneways in residential neighbourhoods as an important public asset with largely unrealized possibilities to achieve integrate communities’ social, economic, and environmental planning objectives. The work will show how communities are successfully preserving the traditionally utilitarian functions of laneways and reducing costs for municipalities while integrating additional uses, such as pedestrian and cyclist travel, play areas, neighbourhood gathering spaces, primary and secondary access to residences, and stormwater management. It will offer a collection of legislative and policy tools that municipalities can use to advance laneway redesign locally, and through related communications products, create interest in these possibilities among residents and other stakeholders. The research will further distinguish Vernacular Design, an award-winning residential and commercial design firm, as an innovator in sustainable design and thus help to extend Vernacular’s operations across Canada.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Mark Roseland

Student:

Larissa Ardis

Partner:

Vernacular Design

Discipline:

Resources and environmental management

Sector:

Environmental industry

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Investigation into the role of YB-1 in childhood sarcomas

Metastatic tumors are a major concern in childhood cancer and the single most prominent cause of patient mortality. Metastasis is a complex process involving several cellular processes, each of which involves numerous extra and intracellular events. Therapeutic targeting strategies are hampered by a large degree of redundancy in the systems controlling metastatic behaviour and by the lack of specific markers associated with tumor dissemination. Identifying markers that distinguish the metastatic cancer cell from benign or healthy tissue would revolutionize current therapy and greatly improve the outcome for patients battling childhood cancer. This internship study will investigate potential tool(s) for diagnosing and possibly treating high-risk pediatric malignancies.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Poul Sorenson

Student:

Amal El- Naggar

Partner:

BC Cancer Agency

Discipline:

Medicine

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Efficient Signal Processing and Radio Resource Management (RRM)for Coordinated Multiple-Antenna Multi-Node Downlink Transmission in Heterogeneous Cellular Networks

Reliable high-speed wireless data transmission is the primary goal of future cellular systems. A key impediment to achieving this goal is interference on receivers from transmitters in adjacent cells. This problem becomes even more challenging when the types of transmitters and cell sizes vary within a heterogeneous network (HetNet). The performance of users near a cell edge suffers the most. There are several ways to mitigate interference and improve performance. This project will investigate the following: 1) Algorithms for user scheduling and coordinated transmissions within time-varying clusters of cooperating base stations; 2) Precoding and interference mitigation methods using very large antenna arrays, which exploit the statistics of large numbers to enhance performance; 3) Joint base station-relay-user selection and signal processing algorithms that reduce the complexity and requirements for channel feedback in HetNets employing multiple-antenna relay nodes. This research will allow the participants to gain relevant expertise that will help impact the formulation of future wireless standards.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Witold A. Krzymień

Student:

Robert C. Elliott, Mahmood Mazrouei Sebdani, Godfrey O. Okeke

Partner:

Telus

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Smart PV Modules with Laminated On-Cell Energy Storage

Efficient yet simple energy storage schemes and smart electronics will not only boost PV system efficiencies but it will also lead to many innovative applications at the system level such as solid state lighting, active bypass diodes, bifacial configurations etc. This research project seeks to develop a novel and efficient on-cell energy storage scheme. By proper design of materials and processes, traditional lamination sheets will be modified to yield high permittivity dielectric films that could be deployed on the back side of the cell, by the standard lamination process, to provide large area capacitors. The capacitor design will be stacked layers of metal foils and lamination films. Novel cell designs will be implemented and prototyped with the large area capacitor functioning as on-cell energy storage device. Since this process takes place at the module fabrication stage, it doesn’t impose any changes at the cell manufacturing. Finally smart PV systems will be designed employing PV modules with on-cell storage.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Siva Sivoththaman

Student:

Bita Janfeshan

Partner:

S2E Technologies Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

Linguistic Cues for Heuristic Determination of Patterns of Speech in Noise

This project aims to investigate the benefits of using linguistic cues for extracting speech-of-interest from competing background noise. Given an algorithm which detects formants of a speaker of interest within an audio signal which includes background noise, and given that the limits of such an approach are reached when formants of the speaker of interest become substantially lost within the noise, are there linguistic cues within some formants, or linguistic relationships between some successive speech sounds, which can be used to infer with confidence which speech sounds from the speaker of interest are present beneath the noise floor of a noisy audio signal. The partner organization will benefit from this internship by extending the range of solutions it can offer to the market. If the proposed solution proves to be useful and novel, the partner organization will apply for patent protection. This could lead to increased sales and the additional employment within the company.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Molly Babel

Student:

Michael McAuliffe

Partner:

Malaspina Labs Inc.

Discipline:

Languages and linguistics

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Deconstructing the Borromean Trinity of Free/Libre and Open Source Software Development: A Case Study at Savoir-Faire Linux

Savoir Faire Linux (SFL), a leading open source software solutions provider, operates within the free, libre and open source software (FLOSS) community. SFL has been successful because it has been able to effectively adapt code developed with the contributions of the FLOSS community to the needs of its clients. At the same time, however, control over such code can considerably limit SFL’s ability to continue to provide solutions for its clients. SFL’s top management portrays the unique interdependence of SFL, its clients and the FLOSS community in terms of a Borromean Trinity – a sharing arrangement in which each of the three constituents are essential to keep SFL’s business model viable. This research aims to validate the conceptualization of the Borromean Trinity and the effect of public policies on the sustainability of SFL’s open source business model.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Marc Banik

Student:

Seyed Amirhossein (Amir H.) Taherizadeh

Partner:

Savoir-faire Linux inc.

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Université du Québec à Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

An Integrated Approach using Process Models and Business Analytics for Efficient Delivery of Patient Care

The use of business process modeling (BPM) and analytics has demonstrated exceptional results in improving efficiency and effectiveness in various industries. Health care processes however, are characterized by uncertain, exception and continual evolution. This project aims to apply flexible, adaptive and evolutionary process modeling protocols coupled with operations research and other analytic methods to the health care environment. The overall goal is to develop an application framework that consists of specific BPM methods, a reference architecture for different technologies that might be used in different health care environments to support BPM, and a slate of analytic models that enable better insight into process improvement. The partner organization benefits through the exploration of different ways of applying its technologies, and the interaction that emerges between interns, healthcare professionals, and representatives from the partner organization.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Daniel Amyot, Liam Peyton Craig Kuziemsky, Wojtek Michalowski, Bijan Raahemi, Gregory Richards

Student:

Kavya Mallur, Rachel Ozer, Javier Fallos, Fadwa Alazab

Partner:

IBM Canada

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

University of Ottawa

Program:

Accelerate

Supporting Short-term Decision Making for Interfacility Medical Transportation

Medical dispatchers are responsible for making decisions about when and how patients are transferred by different hospitals. This can be a very difficult task since patients who are in urgent or emergent conditions require immediate transfers. One of the key pieces of information that dispatchers use in these medical decisions is the time to definitive care, the time between when the request for transportation is received to when the patient is finally handed over at the destination. Generating estimates of time to definitive care is difficult for dispatchers and the estimates are often shorter than actual transfer times. Evidence-based decision support tools can help improve the accuracy and reliability of dispatcher estimates, which can in turn improve medical and resource allocation decisions regarding interfacility medical transfers. The proposed research will examine how such a decision support tool will impact the decision process of dispatchers, and how uncertainty information can help improve usage of the decision support tool. This will help facilitate the design of better decision support tools that will improve patient outcomes during interfacility medical transport.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Birsen Donmez

Student:

Wayne Giang

Partner:

Ornge

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

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