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 (Listed in order received.)
-====== Building an autonomous motorboat ======
+====== Continuation of a Path Diagram to Syntax Application ======
 **Supervisor**: Jeff Edmonds
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 **Required Background**: Eiffel software development method
-**Description** Game playing frameworks in Eiffel such as Eiffelmedia usually wrap C frameworks in Eiffel. The goal of this project is to develop (initially, a simple) framework using pure Eiffel/EiffelVision so that the framework can be used on any platform (Windows, Linux, Mac) without external dependencies. Games provide a rich source for exploring object oriented software constructions and design patterns, so that the framework would be useful in software design courses.
+**Description** Game playing frameworks in Eiffel such as Eiffelmedia usually wrap C frameworks in Eiffel. The goal of this project is to develop (initially, a simple) framework using pure Eiffel/EiffelVision so that the framework can be used on any platform (Windows, Linux, Mac) without external dependencies. Games provide a rich source for exploring object oriented software construction and design patterns, so that the framework would be useful in software design courses.
+====== Numerical Methods ======
+**Supervisor**: Mike McNamee
+**Required Background**: Good grade in a Numerical Methods course and good knowledge
+of Fortran, C or similar language.
+**Description**: Write, debug and run several Fortran programs related to solving
+polynomial equations, with a view to comparing different known methods.
+====== Enabling SaaS access to an experimental AI planner ======
+**Supervisor**: Sotirios Liaskos (liaskos at yorku dot ca)
+**Required Background**: Good knowledge of Unix tools / Python, Perl or Awk. Comfort with algorithms and programming. Essential: 2031 -- Software Tools. Desired:
+-- Functional & Logic Programming,
+-- Design and Analysis of Algorithms,
+-- Compilers and Interpreters.
+**Description**: This project involves enriching and integrating a set of fairly complex scripts, which are components of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) planner, and exporting them to the public in a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) fashion.
+The components are various Unix executables and LISP programs that need to interact in complex ways. The components may be residing in different servers in different universities. Currently integration is performed manually, at the expense of usability. Thus, we aim at constructing a module that: (a) integrates involved components to deliver output in one call, (b) exports a unique web interface (preferably following WSDL/SOAP) to be easily accessed by custom front-end tools by anyone, anywhere, (c ) offers a simple front-end for human users.
+Learning objectives:
+  * Understand the technologies and process involved in turning native code into a web-service ("servicizing").
+  * Study a state-of-the-art AI planner and understand its workings.
+  * Exercise scripting skills.