Research Project Groups

There are a number of collaborations within the Faculty, and from these, larger research groups have formed.

Networks and Systems

Network Information Management and Security

NIMS: Conducts research into basic components of network management and security. We define these as: the interface; system benchmarking; behavioral modeling; and analysis. Current projects include but are not limited to interface design for interactive heterogeneous systems, "what is normal traffic anyway?" and adaptive intrusion detection.

Secure Active VPN Environment

SAVE: This is the Secure Active VPN Environment project, which concentrates primarily on active networks and network security.

Foundations of CS

Dalhousie Natural Language Processing

DNLP: Dalhousie Natural Language Processing group is intended to serve as a resource and a presentation of the NLP-related research conducted at Dalhousie, and a forum for interaction and collaboration among researchers interested in NLP-related problems.

Image Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

IPAMI: IPAMI conducts research in the following areas: computation models on human perception and perceptual organization, perceptify language technology, generic image segmentation, perceptual feature classification and grouping, perceptual pattern learning, developing toolkits for surveillance (motion) analysis, content based image retrieval, medical imaging, and robot vision, etc...

Machine Learning and Networked Information Spaces

MALNIS: This seminar series will involve critical discussion of recent literature in Machine Learning and Networked Information Spaces, with special focus on link-based and text based approaches to focussed crawling and web information retrieval.

Web Information Filtering lab

WIFL: The Web Information Filtering Lab is concerned with the retrieval and processing of information found on the web.

Hypertext Augmenting Intelligent Knowledge Use

HAIKU: H.A.I.K.U. is all about harnessing the potential of hypertext to help individuals find and use information. Some of the projects are about fundamental issues but others are about doing something soon since technology and people co-develop so rapidly if you don't do something early you cannot have any influence, and there are many bad influences already.

AwareHome

Supporting the ability for the elderly or people with disabilities to live at home longer is of both personal and economic benefit to the individual. We expect that emerging research and technological advances can facilitate this process. Our goal is to build a home, rich in technology, to help people age in place.

Health Informatics

Training the Next Generation of Health Informatics Research Experts

Research Experts Whitepaper: Health informatics is the study of how health data is captured and flows through the health system, how this data is transformed into information and this information into knowledge.

New Technology for Improving Breast Cancer Follow-up Care

Improving Breast Cancer Follow-up Care Fact Sheet: A team led by a researcher at Dalhousie University has developed a new decision support system to help doctors in delivering improved follow-up care to breast cancer patients.

Visualization

Visual Computing and Design

VIVID: The Vivid Research Group is interested in the use of appropriate visualisations as an aid to understanding and building programs.

Dalhousie Graphics and Visualization Lab

GVLab: The GVLab conducts research in the areas of Computer Graphics and Visualization. We focus on both the development of new graphical techniques as well as the application of those techniques, often in cross-disciplinary areas.

Archived Projects

Exploring Dynamic Groupware Environments (Human-Computer Interaction)

In the "Exploring Dynamic Groupware Environments" Lab, we focus on creating technologies and interfaces to support multiple people working or playing together. We focus on emerging technologies (e.g. tabletop displays, multi-display environments), new interaction techniques (e.g. gestural, emotional, tangible), and experimentation with users.

Knowledge Acquiring Layered Infrastructure

The Knowledge Acquiring Layered Infrastructure project is designing a software architecture which will provide the ability for domain experts (e.g. physicians, psychologists) to design a high-level workflow for people.