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+ | ====== DDoS Attack using Google-bots ====== | ||
- | ====== Continuation | + | Project Outline: |
+ | Not long ago, botnets - networks | ||
+ | the most effective (if not the only) means of conducting Distributed Denial | ||
+ | of Service (DDoS) attacks. However, with the growing popularity and prevalence | ||
+ | of application-layer over other types of DDoS attacks, the DDoS execution | ||
+ | landscape is becoming increasingly more diverse. An especially interesting | ||
+ | new trend is the execution of application-layer DDoS attacks by means of | ||
+ | skillfully manipulated Web-crawlers, | ||
+ | The goal of this project is to design, implement and test a real-world | ||
+ | framework consisting of the following: a) the attacker' | ||
+ | domain specially designed to attract Google-bots and then manipulate them | ||
+ | into generating attack traffic towards the target/ | ||
+ | victim' | ||
+ | component, the project will also look into the statistical/ | ||
+ | estimation of the framework' | ||
+ | to an actual (real-world) target/ | ||
- | **Supervisor**: Jeff Edmonds | + | Recommended Background: CSE 3213 or CSE 3214, CSE 3482 |
- | **Required Background**: | ||
- | **Recommended Background**: | + | \\ |
+ | ====== Attentive Sensing for Better Two-Way Communication in Remote Learning Environments ====== | ||
- | Structural equation modeling (SEM) is a statistical technique that is becoming increasingly popular in the educational and behavioral sciences. SEM allows researchers to test the validity of hypothesized models involving complex relationships among multiple variables. Collected data is used to estimate the parameters of the equations and assessing the fit of the model. | + | **Supervisor**: |
- | The software required is an application that allows researchers to define their hypothesized models visually and will output the correct syntax for the analytical software | + | **Required Background**: |
+ | good math skills, knowledge | ||
- | To date a promising functional application has been developed | + | One of the challenges |
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+ | The goal of this project is to apply attentive sensing technology | ||
+ | |||
+ | In particular, working with a senior graduate student or postdoctoral fellow, the successful applicant will: | ||
+ | |||
+ | - Study the problem | ||
+ | - Implement algorithms for detecting hand-raises based upon this investigation | ||
+ | - Evaluate these algorithms in a real-classroom setting, using proprietary attentive sensing technology | ||
- | More details {{: | ||
- | ====== | + | ====== |
- | **Supervisor**: | + | **Supervisor**: |
- | **Required Background**: | + | **Required Background**: |
- | **Description** | + | |
+ | The goal of this project is to modify | ||
+ | |||
+ | The general problem is to use attentive sensing technology | ||
+ | |||
+ | The student will work with senior graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and research scientists to help modify the attentive sensing technology to operate in these domains. | ||
+ | |||
+ | 1. | ||
+ | 2. | ||
+ | 3. | ||
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+ | ------------ | ||
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- | Specific tasks include: 1. Writing temperature acquisition card (OMEGA Engineering CIO-DAS-Temp) drivers | + | \\ |
+ | ====== Hunting | ||
+ | **Supervisor: | ||
- | ====== Game Playing Framework | + | Description: |
+ | Java PathFinder (JPF) is a tool that can detect bugs in Java code. | ||
+ | The Java library Apache log4j allows developers to control which log | ||
+ | statements are output. | ||
+ | to detect bugs in log4j by means of JPF with very limited succes. | ||
- | NO LONGER AVAILABLE | + | Recently, in collaboration with Shafiei (NASA) we have developed |
+ | an extension of JPF called jpf-nhandler. | ||
+ | is to apply this extension to log4j. | ||
- | **Supervisor**: | + | [1] David A. Dickey, B. Sinem Dorter, J. Michael German, Benjamin D. Madore, Mark W. Piper, Gabriel L. Zenarosa. " |
- | **Required Background**: Eiffel software development method | + | **Required Background:** General CSE408x prerequisites |
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ======Hybrid 2D/3D User Interfaces for 3D Rotation ====== | ||
- | **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/ | + | **Supervisor:** Wolfgang Stuerzlinger |
- | ====== Numerical Methods ====== | + | **Required Background: |
- | **Supervisor**: | + | This project implements and evaluates a new method for 3D Rotation where the user uses both a 2D and 3D user interface to complete the task. The fundamental idea is to use the 3D interface for large-scale manipulation, |
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ====== Immersive Virtual Reality Kitchen Planner ====== | ||
- | **Required Background**: Good grade in a Numerical Methods course and good knowledge | + | **Supervisor:** Wolfgang Stuerzlinger |
- | of Fortran, C or similar language. | + | |
- | **Description**: Write, debug and run several Fortran programs related to solving | + | **Required Background:** General 408X prerequisites, |
- | polynomial equations, with a view to comparing different known methods. | + | |
- | ====== | + | This project implements a kitchen planner application for an immersive virtual reality system. The implementation will be based on Unity 4. |
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ======3D Interaction in Immersive Virtual Reality====== | ||
- | **Supervisor**: Sotirios Liaskos (liaskos at yorku dot ca) | + | **Supervisor:** Wolfgang Stuerzlinger |
- | **Required Background**: Good knowledge of Unix tools / Python, Perl or Awk. Comfort with algorithms and programming. Essential: 2031 -- Software Tools. Desired: | + | **Required Background:** General 408X prerequisites, 3D Computer Graphics (3431) completed |
- | 3402 -- Functional & Logic Programming, | + | |
- | 3101 -- Design and Analysis of Algorithms, | + | |
- | 4302 -- Compilers and Interpreters. | + | |
- | **Description**: | + | This project |
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
- | 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: | + | ====== Mining Software Repositories Data====== |
- | * Understand the technologies and process involved in turning native code into a web-service (" | + | |
- | * Study a state-of-the-art AI planner and understand its workings. | + | |
- | * Exercise scripting skills. | + | |
+ | **Supervisor: | ||
- | ====== Predicting Angular Error in Rigid Registration ====== | + | **Required Background: |
- | **Supervisor**: Burton Ma | + | **Short Description: |
- | **Description**: | + | \\ |
- | navigation. Several (seemingly) different approaches for predicting | + | ------------------ |
- | distance errors in registration are known, but for some surgical | + | \\ |
- | procedures, the angular error in registration is more important. | + | |
- | This project will validate an approach for predicting angular | + | |
- | error in registration; | + | |
- | simulated and actual registration data for testing purposes. | + | |
- | ====== | + | ======Reliably tracking horizontal eye movements====== |
- | **Supervisor**: Burton Ma | + | **Supervisor:** Wolfgang Stuerzlinger |
- | **Description**: Tracked pointers are the most common tools used in surgical | + | **Required Background:** General 408X prerequisites, C++/C# coding experience. Ideally CSE3451, CSE4422 or CSE4452. |
- | navigation systems. A typical pointer has a tracked target on one | + | |
- | end and a sharp or ball tip on the other end. Finding the location | + | |
- | of the tip relative to the target is a calibration problem. One | + | |
- | solution to the calibration problem involves pivoting the pointer | + | |
- | about the tip while tracking the target; if the tip is kept | + | |
- | stationary, then the target moves on the surface of a sphere. | + | |
- | Fitting the tracking data to the surface of a sphere yields the | + | |
- | location of the tip as the sphere center. Unfortunately, the | + | |
- | calibrated tip position obtained using such a spherical calibration | + | |
- | has high variance. This project will investigate how much variance | + | |
- | there is in the calibrated tip position, and methods for reducing | + | |
- | the variance of the calibrated tip position. | + | |
+ | **Description: | ||
- | ====== A privacy safeguard framework for sharing photos on Facebook ====== | + | \\ |
+ | ------------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
- | **Supervisor**: | + | ======Model-based Design and Development of Embedded Systems with Code Generation Tools====== |
- | + | ||
+ | **Supervisor:** Jia Xu | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Required Background:** At least a B+ in Embedded Systems (CSE3215), MATLAB, C programming skills, solid experience in using a microcontroller | ||
+ | such as Arduino. | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Project Description: | ||
+ | |||
+ | Model-based design with code generation tools can be used for simulation, rapid prototyping, | ||
+ | |||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ------------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | |||
+ | ======C2000 Concerto Microcontrollers====== | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Supervisor: | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Required Background: | ||
+ | strong C programming skills, solid knowledge of microcontrollers | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Description: | ||
+ | two cores on a single-chip with on-chip low latency interprocessor communication between the two cores: a C28x 32-bit control core for | ||
+ | real-time control with faster/more loops and small sampling window; | ||
+ | and an ARM 32-bit Cortex-M3 host core for communications and general purpose. The selected student will evaluate the capabilities of the | ||
+ | C2000 Concerto family of microcontrollers through testing and investigating open source software for real-time control applications | ||
+ | that runs on C2000 Concerto Microcontrollers. | ||
+ | |||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ------------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | |||
+ | ======Real-Time Bidding Platform====== | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Supervisor: | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Required Background: | ||
+ | (CSE3221), strong Ubuntu/ | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Description: | ||
+ | |||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ------------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | |||
+ | ======Circuit and Board Design for a Pulsed Ground Penetrating Radar====== | ||
+ | |||
+ | **Supervisor: | ||
- | **Description**: | + | **Description:** The project requires |
- | One of the major privacy concerns in Online Social Networks is photo sharing. | + | |
- | **Required | + | **Required |
- | **Desired prerequisite**: | + | \\ |
+ | ------------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | More project proposals may be added here in the first week of the winter term. | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | ------------------ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | \\ |
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