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-====== Ongoing projects ======
+====== Previous projects ======
+====== Comparison of Finger Tracking systems ======
+**Student**:
+**Supervisor**: Wolfgang Stuerzlinger
+**Required Background**: C/C++ coding
+__Description__
+This project compares the Leap Motion and the 3Gear System against each other in a comparative Fitts' law study
+__Completed__
+Winter, 2013
+====== Imputation of missing values in microarray data ======
+**Student**:  Michael Larin
+**Supervisor**:  S. Datta
+__Description__
+Microarrays are a relatively new technology that have had tremendous
+impact on many areas within biology and bioinformatics.  Microarray
+technology enables researchers to study the behaviour of many genes
+and/or conditions in a single experiment.
+Due to technological limitations and experiment design issues,
+microarray data sets typically have several missing values.  It has been
+shown that imputation of these values improves the accuracy of
+different processing tasks, including clustering, that are typically
+done on these data sets.  Therefore, good imputation algorithms are
+required.
+In this project, we will explore fast and accurate imputation algorithms
+for microarray data.  The student will first read the papers assigned
+and write a short summary of them.  Then, he will study the performance
+a few algorithms from the literature (many algorithms are already
+implemented but 1 - 2 may need to be implemented).  Finally, he will
+work with the supervisor on the design of better algorithms for the
+problem being studied.  He will use publicly available data sets to
+compare the performance (accuracy and speed) of the new algorithm(s) to
+the GMCImpute algorithm and several other existing ones.
+Throughout the course, the student is required to maintain a course
+website to report any progress and details about the project.
+====== An Open Source Structural Equation Modeling Graph Drawing Application ======
+**Student**:  Doug Scheurich
+**Supervisor**:  J. Edmonds
+__Description__
+Structural equation modeling (SEM) is a statistical technique that is becoming increasingly popular in the sciences. SEM allows researchers to test the validity of hypothesized models involving complex relationships among multiple variables. These models can include latent variables, which are not measured directly but are constructs inferred by observed variables. Structural equation models can be represented visually by graphs. To generate such graphs currently in R would require over 80 lines of code which has no reusability and has to be re written each time a new graph has to be developed or analyzed (R is a UNIX based command line only program, however it is a very powerful analytic research tool).
+Collected data is used to estimate the parameters of the equations and assessing the fit of the model. There are several SEM software options available to researchers, however all have serious limitations (Windows only, Unix only, expensive licensing fees, text based or command line only, no GUI, etc).
+We propose developing an application which will allow the user to load observed variables from a data file to create graphs, or allow using an intuitive graphical interface, and convert the graphs into a text based model specification file (ie generate the code required so the graph can be used in other programs such as R).  This text file can then be used as input for the sem() function in R.  The application will be implemented in Java, which can then be used with any OS.  Later versions may include the ability to call R functions directly from within the application and provide options for more advanced structural equation modeling techniques.
+====== Exploring the notion of Variability in Business Process Modeling (and its relationship with Goals) ======
+**Student**:  Dean Shaft
+**Supervisor**:  S. Liaskos and Y. Lesperance
+__Description__
+Business Process Modeling (BPM) notations are an increasingly popular subject of investigation in the analysis and design of Information Systems. Such notations allow analysts to represent different ways by which actors of a domain can collaboratively perform tasks in order to meet certain business goals. The diagrammatic result allows understanding of the involved activities at various levels of abstraction each being useful for different stakeholders, such as business versus technical ones. It also provides a basis for further formalization and analysis of the modeled business process or its translation into implementation models such as service composition programs. Several BPM languages have been introduced, most prominent being the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN).
+Variability occurs in business processes, in that the same business process may need to either be reused in a different context (e.g. a different organization) or adapt to changing requirements or environmental constraints. Thus, each variation of the business process is applicable to a different situation affects specified customization criteria in a different way. Such criteria may include high-level qualities or non-functional goals e.g. such as key performance indicators (KPIs) or operational constraints that prescribe patterns which the business process must follow. To some extend BPMs offer constructs for modeling such variability. However, both the problems of modeling customization criteria and that of using them to derive business process variations that best satisfy them have not enjoyed significant attention in the literature.
+In this project we shall investigate ways of modeling and reasoning about business process variability. We will pick a BPM, possibly BPMN, and explore different ways by which variability can be expressed. Then we will look at criteria that define variant selection and how such can be represented as well. Through possible formalizations in specification frameworks that are used in AI such as Situation Calculus or planning definition languages, the problem of automatically selecting variants of interest in order to meet certain customization criteria shall be studied. In the end we are hoping to develop a concrete framework for representing and reasoning about business process variability in light of high-level goal-based customization criteria.
+====== Mobile Software Development Platform Comparison: Windows Phone 7 and Android ======
+**Student**:  Ahmad Hasan
+**Supervisor**:  J. Ostroff
+__Description__
+Over the past decade the development and use of smartphone technologies has become increasingly sophisticated. The computational power of modern smartphones is growing to match the power of conventional desktop computers. More people and organizations are becoming increasingly dependent on their mobile devices being able to perform sophisticated computations. As the leaders in the technology industry move towards providing advanced products and development platforms, the environment of traditional software development is changing rapidly. Mobile applications that provide a variety of services involving cloud computing, GPS, games, and automation.
+The goal of this project is to explore and compare the software development platforms for popular mobile phone operating systems for the development of applications and games.
+Business applications and games have distinctive features in the context of mobile platforms. For regular applications, platform capabilities relating to cloud computing, GPS and everyday consumer applications have a unique development cycle that differ from regular desktop applications. Mobile applications are usually lightweight and efficient tools for everyday administrative tasks. Under Windows Phone 7 such apps are usually built under the Microsoft Silverlight framework, and the the application must adhere to guidelines and best practices laid out in the Windows Phone 7 documentation. The Android platform provides no such single framework for developing these types of applications but all of the tools and functionalities are available to provide the same services, again this app will also follow the guidelines and best practices described in the official Android documentation.
+The games developed in each platform are intended to serve as explorations into the graphics capabilities of both systems. Graphics environments and frameworks are another area in mobile devices that are becoming increasingly important. Rich graphics and animation capabilities are important for providing immersive user experiences and games are excellent environments to develop and test interactive graphics capabilities on mobile devices. The Windows Phone 7 game development framework uses and extension of Microsoft’s well established XNA framework. This provides libraries to develop and debug game and graphics engines and easily integrate multimedia content into mobile games. Android game applications depend on a to be determined open source game engine.
+This project aims to compare the mobile platforms with respect to development languages, the use of object oriented software development principles and the utility of the tools. The applications and documentation developed through the course of this project should also provide a good source of information for computer science and engineering students who might want to develop software on mobile platforms. Using standard libraries and working with established frameworks and as well as open source frameworks to develop reliable, extendible and reusable code for mobile platforms would be an excellent experience for students to learn about new emerging technologies and the software engineering concepts that apply to them.
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 emulator possible. More information on
 http://www.cse.yorku.ca/museum/collections/MIL/MIL.htm
-====== Implementation and Analysis of a Non-blocking Chromatic Search Tree ======
-**Student**:  Trevor Brown
-**Supervisor**:  Eric Ruppert
-__Description__
-This project seeks to take the theoretical description of the
-non-blocking chromatic search tree that was developed in a
-previous CSE4080 project and produce a Java implementation, then perform
-experiments to test it and compare it with other leading concurrent dictionary structures.
-Additionally, many potential performance improvements and structural or
-algorithmic variations on the aforementioned theoretical description
-were identified during the last project.
-This project would attempt to explore many of these variations to
-further refine the theoretical description, and produce a competitive
-dictionary algorithm.
-In particular, this project would
-provide a dictionary implementation with better
-worst-case performance guarantees than previous
-non-blocking dictionary implementations.
-Finally, the project would attempt to establish formal proofs that the
-structure provides guarantees regarding balance and worst-case performance.
-If time permits, further work will be done towards establishing the
-correctness of the algorithm.
-====== UCOSP: Development for Encyclopedia of Life ======
-**Student**:  Feng Sun
-**Supervisor**:  Vassilios Tzerpos
-__Description__
-The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) is a free, online collaborative
-encyclopedia intended to document all of the 1.8 million living species
-known to science. It is compiled from existing databases and from
-contributions by experts and non-experts throughout the world.
-The ultimate criteria of success for a web application is the user
-experience. EOL is no exception. This project involves creating a
-framework for describing how visitors are supposed to interact with
-Encyclopedia of Life. It automatically checks that a new version the EOL
-code is functioning as expected. It is very beneficial for open source
-projects to be released often, and automated tests decrease the cost of
-releases dramatically and ensure the integrity of the data, code, and
-visual representation. The tests are run either in production or a
-duplicate of the production environment. The acceptance testing
-framework can be extended to check any website, not only EOL, by
-changing the configuration and defining new test suites. It also enables
-testing a web application with different browsers and operating systems.
-Acceptance testing is an import skill for aspiring developers. By
-participating in this project you will learn the inner mechanics of
-operating a browser automatically using scripts, emulating a real
-person's actions. This project will provide experience using Selenium (a
-leading open source acceptance testing tool), XML, XPATH, CSS selectors,
-and Behavior Driven Development.
-More information: [[http://www.eol.org]]