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The Agents Laboratory specializes in Coordination and Resource issues in Parallel and Distributed Systems. The goal of this research is to understand resources, their relationship with what we want to do, their ownership, and fundamental mechanisms needed to correctly and efficiently deliver them when and where they are required. The group works on both theoretical and experimental research, with applications in areas including Cloud / Grid Computing, Multimedia, Green Computing and Multiplayer Games. The lab hosts state-of-the-art facilities including a 48 core cluster and iMote2 wireless sensor nodes funded by the Canadian Foundation for Innovation.
Faculty: Dr. Nadeem Jamali
Website: http://agents.usask.ca
An internationally renowned research group developing innovative advanced e-learning systems and adaptive learning environments.
Faculty: Dr. Jim Greer and Dr. Gordon McCalla
Website: http://ai.usask.ca
Two high performance workstation-cluster computer systems support work in computational models of genetic systems, immunoinformatics, proteomics, genomics, and other bioinformatics areas.
Faculty: Dr. Tony Kusalik and Dr. Ian McQuillan
A cross-disciplinary research laboratory focusing on development and cross-linking of simulation, (joint with Prof. Mike Horsch) inference tools to inform decision making in health, and (joint with Prof. Kevin Stanley of the DISCUS lab) ubiquitous smartphone-based sensing. We use these tools to enhance understanding of health policy tradeoffs and population health trends, locate hidden pathogen reservoirs, and prioritize data collection. Example recent work includes construction of decision-oriented agent-based and System Dynamics simulation models, hybridization of such models with decision analysis and discrete event simulation, qualitative modeling related to disparities of health, epidemiological study design, and (joint with Dr. Kevin Stanley) software development for extending our "iEpi" Android smartphone-based epidemiological sensing tool, analysis and visualization of data from iEpi, and design of novel sensor systems for health surveillance.
Faculty: Dr. Nathaniel Osgood
The DISCUS Research Group conducts research relating to performance and design issues in distributed computing systems, including client/server and peer-to-peer systems, computer networks, mobile computing (wired and wireless), multimedia systems, sensor networks, and e-Commerce systems.
Faculty: Dr. Derek Eager, Dr. Dwight Makaroff and Dr. Rick Bunt
Faculty: Dr. Carl Gutwin (Canada Research Chair in Next Generation Groupware), Dr. Regan Mandryk
Website: http://hci.usask.ca
The IMG group researches leading technologies for creating and navigating virtual worlds, medical image analysis for computer assisted diagnosis, modeling and information visualization.
Faculty: Dr. Eric Neufeld, Dr. Mark Eramian and Dr. Ian Stavness
Website: http://img.cs.usask.ca
The lab focuses on the development of novel web-centric systems (Web 2.0) with an emphasis on Social Computing, Online-Communities, Information Systems and E-Learning. Within these areas, focus is on studying online users (personalization, user-modeling, motivation, participation, trust & reputation), middleware (agents, web services, service-oriented computing, grid), wireless & nomadic clients (PDAs, Smart Phones) and the management of large heterogeneous & distributed systems.
Faculty: Dr. Julita Vassileva (Cameco NSERC Prairie Chair for Women in Science in Engineering) and Dr. Ralph Deters
Website: http://madmuc.usask.ca
The simulation research lab specializes in designing problem-solving software environments for finding novel techniques to solve challenging scientific and engineering problems. Applications include computational fluid dynamics, fuel cell simulation, simulation of electrical activity in cardiac tissue, design of catalytic converters for carbon sequestration, robotics and optimal control.
Faculty: Dr. Raymond Spiteri
Software Engineering and programming languages research focusing on: large-scale systems; aspect-oriented programming and modularity; software visualization and analysis; collaborative software evolution; software architecture and design; sensor networks; and modeling and simulation of health systems.
Faculty: Dr. Kevin Schneider, Dr. Nathaniel Osgood and Dr. Christopher Dutchyn
The USERLab is home for research in usability Engineering, Universal Accessibility, Software Ergonomic Standards, and e-Commerce.
Faculty: Dr. Jim Carter
Website: http://userlab.usask.ca
