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Efficient Nested Simulation of Tail Risk Measures for Variable Annuities
(University of Waterloo, 2021-06-02)Estimating tail risk measures for portfolios of complex Variable Annuities (VA) is an important enterprise risk management task which usually requires nested simulation. In the nested simulation, the outer simulation stage ... -
Efficient Oblivious Database Joins
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-10)A major algorithmic challenge in designing applications intended for secure remote execution is ensuring that their execution is oblivious to their inputs, in the sense that their memory access patterns do not leak sensitive ... -
Efficient Packet-Drop Thwarting and User-Privacy Preserving Protocols for Multi-hop Wireless Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2011-05-02)In multi-hop wireless network (MWN), the mobile nodes relay others’ packets for enabling new applications and enhancing the network deployment and performance. However, the selfish nodes drop the packets because packet ... -
Efficient Pairings on Various Platforms
(University of Waterloo, 2012-05-14)Pairings have found a range of applications in many areas of cryptography. As such, to utilize the enormous potential of pairing-based protocols one needs to efficiently compute pairings across various computing platforms. ... -
Efficient Pattern Search in Large, Partial-Order Data Sets
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-12)The behaviour of a large, distributed system is inherently complex. One step towards making this behaviour more understandable to a user involves instrumenting the system and collecting data about its execution. We can ... -
Efficient Pointer Analysis of Java in Logic
(University of Waterloo, 2017-05-16)Points-to analysis for Java benefits greatly from context sensitivity. CFL-reachability and k-limited context strings are two approaches to obtaining context sensitivity with different advantages: CFL-reachability ... -
Efficient polyyne formation by ns and fs laser-induced breakdown in ethylene and acetylene gas flow
(Elsevier, 2019-11)We studied polyyne formation by gas phase laser-induced breakdown in ethylene and acetylene gas flow using ns and fs lasers. The results show that acetylene is the most efficient target molecule for generating polyynes ... -
Efficient Procedure for Valuing American Lookback Put Options
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-22)Lookback option is a well-known path-dependent option where its payoff depends on the historical extremum prices. The thesis focuses on the binomial pricing of the American floating strike lookback put options with ... -
Efficient Propagators for Global Constraints
(University of Waterloo, 2006)We study in this thesis three well known global constraints. The All-Different constraint restricts a set of variables to be assigned to distinct values. The <em>global cardinality constraint</em> (GCC) ensures that a ... -
An Efficient Quasi-Monte Carlo Simulation for Pricing Asian Options under Heston's Model
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-11)The market for path-dependent options has been expanded considerably in the financial industry. The approach for pricing the path-dependent options in this thesis is developed by Kolkiewicz (2014) based on a quasi-Monte ... -
Efficient Range and Join Query Processing in Massively Distributed Peer-to-Peer Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2008-06-17)Peer-to-peer (P2P) has become a modern distributed computing architecture that supports massively large-scale data management and query processing. Complex query operators such as range operator and join operator are ... -
Efficient Ranking-Based Methodologies in the Optimal Design of Large-Scale Chemical Processes under Uncertainty
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-28)Chemical process design is still an active area of research since it largely determines the optimal and safe operation of a new process under various conditions. The design process involves a series of steps that aims to ... -
Efficient Reasoning Techniques for Large Scale Feature Models
(University of Waterloo, 2009-01-20)In Software Product Lines (SPLs), a feature model can be used to represent the similarities and differences within a family of software systems. This allows describing the systems derived from the product line as a unique ... -
Efficient Representation and Encoding of Distributive Lattices
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-20)This thesis presents two new representations of distributive lattices with an eye towards efficiency in both time and space. Distributive lattices are a well-known class of partially-ordered sets having two natural operations ... -
Efficient Resource Management for Cloud Computing Environments
(University of Waterloo, 2013-10-02)Cloud computing has recently gained popularity as a cost-effective model for hosting and delivering services over the Internet. In a cloud computing environment, a cloud provider packages its physical resources in data ... -
Efficient Runge-Kutta Based Local Time-Stepping Methods
(University of Waterloo, 2016-04-27)The method of lines approach to the numerical solution of transient hyperbolic partial differential equations (PDEs) allows us to write the PDE as a system of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) in time. Solving this ... -
An efficient scheduling for diverse QoS requirements in WiMAX
(University of Waterloo, 2007-02-22)WiMAX is one of the most important broadband wireless technologies and is anticipated to be a viable alternative to traditional wired broadband techniques due to its cost efficiency. Being an emerging technology, WiMAX ... -
Efficient Simulation Of Complex Fenestration Systems In Heat Balance Room Models
(International Building Performance Simulation Association, 2011-11)The solar, longwave, and convective interactions between a window, its shading attachments and its surroundings constitute a complicated coupled heat balance problem that can entail significant computational intensity to ... -
Efficient simulation of Hamiltonians
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-18)The problem considered in this thesis is the following: We are given a Hamiltonian H and time t, and our goal is to approximately implement the unitary operator e^{-iHt} with an efficient quantum algorithm. We present an ... -
Efficient Stockwell Transform with Applications to Image Processing
(University of Waterloo, 2011-05-20)Multiresolution analysis (MRA) has fairly recently become important, and even essential, to image processing and signal analysis, and is thus having a growing impact on image and signal related areas. As one of the most ...