listen to dr. thomas lancaster (uk) speak about the threat of contract cheating. following his presentation there will be a panel from academic integrity experts all over the globe: sarah e. eaton (canada), rowena harper (australia), zeenath khan (uae), and billy kelly (ireland).

register today at https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/wn_2arkmgsbs-ozrilz_iieeq.

this event is part of lakehead's 2021 academic integrity awareness week.

learn all about chegg, the popular contract cheating website used by many 世界杯2022赛程表淘汰赛 to cheat on exams. in this session we'll discuss the proper protocol for detecting, reporting and removing course material from this website.

register today at https://lakeheadu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tjwlde2pqzkpgt2j1_ce2mo4khrtd....

frustrated by the prevalence of plagiarism in your classroom? in this session we'll present 10 easy ways you can help your 世界杯2022赛程表淘汰赛 develop a clear understanding of academic writing expectations and how to avoid plagiarism.

register at https://lakeheadu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tjwvfu6pqt4th9tcstqsa3wyb-aah....

this session presents five useful tips that will help instructors rethink their writing rubric and how they grade written assignments.

register at https://lakeheadu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tjwvfu6pqt4th9tcstqsa3wyb-aah....

this event is part of lakehead's 2021 academic integrity awareness week

this session is designed for anyone looking for a guided tour through the academic integrity matters (aim) course on d2l.

register at .https://lakeheadu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tjuofu6hqt4ve9e6uyqb2nxidwsni....

this event is part of lakehead's 2021 academic integrity awareness week.

it's getting spooky around here, thunderwerewolves!

we've got a number of great events happening throughout the day both in person and virtually. here's what we have in store:
- social media design challenge (virtual)
- game show night (virtual)
- pumpkin carving (hybrid)
- costume contest (hybrid)
- trick or treat (on campus)

learn more about the various events and how to participate by visiting this page. 

please join the computer science department for the upcoming thesis defense:

presenter: yashar ghaemi

thesis title: efficient routing algorithms in vehicular ad hoc networks

abstract: during the last decade, the research on intelligent transportation system (its) has improved exponentially in real-life scenarios to provide optimized transport network performance. it is a matter of importance that the emergency messages being delivered in a timely manner to prevent vehicular traffic problems. its system per se could be a part of a vehicular ad hoc network (vanet) which is an extension of the wireless network. in all sorts of wireless ad hoc networks, the network topology is subjected to change due to the mobility of network nodes; therefore, an existing explored route between two nodes could be demolished in a minor fraction of time. when it turns to the vanets, the topology likely changes due to the high velocity of nodes. on the other hand, time is a crucial factor playing an important role in message handling between the network's nodes. in this regard, we propose a centralized its, and it uses a multi-path routing protocol (mprp) that effectively identifies an optimized path for packet delivery to the destination vehicle with a minimal time delay. our algorithm gives a higher priority to the alert messages compared to normal messages. as a result, our algorithm would realize two goals. firstly, speed up the data transmission rate and deliver data packets, particularly warning messages, to the destination vehicle promptly and therefore avoids vehicular problems such as car accidents. secondly, the mprp algorithm reduces the data traffic load, particularly of the normal messages to alleviate the pressure on the network and therefore avoids network congestion and data collisions. this, in turn, lessens the packets' retransmissions. to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed protocol, mprp has been compared with other protocols such as aomdv, ff-aomdv, egsr, and qmr. the performance evaluation of mprp took place on parameters such as simulation time, the number of nodes, maximum allowance mobility speed, variant number of application sinks (number of nodes sending packets), and variable packet sizes to calculate different qos metrics like throughput, end-to-end delay, packet delivery ratio, packet loss ratio, and routing overhead. simulation results demonstrate that our proposed protocol proves its excellent performance compared to other protocols. moreover, during this study, we discovered several metrics impacting the performance of the network. the vehicular mobility speed has a crucial impact on the performance of the data communication through the vanets. however, in vanets, nodes' mobility speed could be higher than other forms of ad hoc network. the mobility of nodes is more predictable due to the roads' structure and constraints; therefore, mobility speed is not the only reason behind the topological changes. nodes density has another influential factor on the network topology and scalability so that a highly dense environment is susceptible to having data collision and congestion. on the contrary, a lowly dense environment is vulnerable to having low nodes connectivity. having network congestion itself is an essential factor in network performance. in this regard, we introduce a new fitness function (ffn) as the optimization base for the genetic algorithm (ga) and hence propose two mechanisms which are mprp-ffn and mprp-ga. the result of the proposed protocols has been compared with two recent protocols of ta-aomdv and eho-aomdv as well as mprp. we evaluate our protocols through qos metrics, including throughput, packet loss ratio (plr), end-to-end delay, routing overhead and energy consumption over various network configurations, including the simulation time, random loss ratio, mobility speed and the number of nodes. our protocols demonstrate superiority compared to other methods.

committee members:

dr. hosam el-ocla (supervisor, committee chair), dr. thiago e alves de oliveira, dr. dariush ebrahimi (thompson rivers university)

please contact grad.compsci@lakeheadu.ca for the zoom link. everyone is welcome.

the department of computer science graduate seminar 2020
guest speaker series presented by:

dr. pradeep raamana
"better biomarkers based on quality, reproducible and open science"

friday, october 8
1:30 pm

to register for this virtual event, please email mr. andrew fisher at afisher3@lakeheadu.ca and a zoom link will be shared.

everyone is welcome.

the department of computer science graduate seminar 2020
guest speaker series presented by:

dr. zhijing jin
"conducting nlp research for social good applications: healthcare, education, and combating fake news"

friday, october 8
11:30 am

to register for this virtual event, please email mr. andrew fisher at afisher3@lakeheadu.ca and a zoom link will be shared.

everyone is welcome.

this workshop will introduce you to the omni search system, which enables you to find the books, articles, documentaries, and other resources which you need for your essays and assignments.

after attending this workshop, you will be able to use omni to:

- find books on your topic, and how to request books from other ontario universities

- how to find peer reviewed scholarly articles

- how to follow "citation trails"

- how to request that a small section of a print item be scanned and emailed to you

- how to login to omni, and create lists of favourite items

register here: https://libcal.lakeheadu.ca/event/3640671