Establishing collaborations with Canadian insurance businesses

与这些公司举行会议的目的是确定这些公司的欺诈检测需求与研究人员的专业知识在哪些领域可能有助于帮助满足这些需求。这位研究人员已经开发了保险欺诈检测和审计方法，包括一个实现其中一些技术的软件原型，这可能对此类企业有利。正是在这些会议上，可以解释和演示这些技术，使企业能够确定其效用和研究途径，以开发这些方法和新的方法，这些方法将是每个企业的独特需求。所有上市公司都有既得利益，那就是确保将客户群内的欺诈行为降至最低。例如，通过将欺诈性保险索赔降至最低，这些企业将能够将保险费维持在最低水平。在这笔用于支付差旅费用的赠款的帮助下，企业唯一的成本就是他们分享自己的需求的时间，以及研究人员分享他自己的可能对企业有利的专业知识。作为建立研究合作的过程的一部分，研究人员还可以在研究人员所在的大学网站招待企业代表。

The purpose of the meetings with these companies is to identify areas of intersection between the companies' fraud detection needs and where the researcher's expertise may be beneficial in assisting in those needs. The researcher has developed insurance fraud detection and auditing methods, including a software prototype implementing some of these techniques, that could be of benefit to such businesses. It is at these meetings where these techniques may be explained and demonstrated allowing the businesses to determine their utility and avenues of research to develop these methods and new ones that would be unique to each businesses' needs. All the listed businesses have a vested interest in ensuring that fraud behaviour is minimized within their client base. By minimizing any fraudulent insurance claims, for instance, the businesses will be able to maintain insurance premiums to minimal levels. With the aid of this grant covering travel costs, the only cost to the businesses involve their time to share their needs and the researcher sharing his own expertise that may be of benefit to the businesses. The researcher may also host the business representatives at the researcher's university site as part of the process of forging a research collaboration.