Showcase 2021

A showcase of the research and software development projects of our third year BCom and BSc finalists, Masters and PhD students.

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Project Showcase

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Planetary Weather Modelling
Generating synoptic-scale clouds using a hybrid simulation and procedural technique

By: Cilliers Pretorius

Clouds are a crucial part of realistic virtual environment. However, there is a dearth of synoptic scale cloud systems. While the little work on synoptic scale systems focused on Eulerian models, modern research in small- and meso-scale systems...

CS Minor Dissertation

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Predicting hospital readmission with long clinical notes

By: Yassin Nurmahomed

Electronic health records (EHR) data is captured across many healthcare institutions resulting in large amounts of diverse information that can be analyzed for diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and prevention of disease.

One type of data...

CS Minor Dissertation

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Automated Ontology Design Pattern Substitution

By: Leighton Dawson

Foundational ontologies provide many benefits in modelling quality and interoperability across domains by providing generic high-level classes and object properties. The use of foundational ontologies, however, obfuscates the output of ontology...

CS Minor Dissertation Knowledge Engineering