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Distinguishing successful from unsuccessful venture capital investments in technology-based new ventures: How investment decision criteria relate to deal performance
(University of Waterloo, 2001)This study investigates variability in the importance of investment decision criteria used by venture capitalists in assessing new technology-based ventures and relates the criteria to the subsequent performance of the ... -
DistNeo4j: Scaling Graph Databases through Dynamic Distributed Partitioning
(University of Waterloo, 2014-06-16)Social networks are large graphs which require multiple servers to store and manage them. Providing performant scalable systems that store these graphs through partitioning them into subgraphs is an important issue. In ... -
Distorted Wave Born Approximation For Inelastic Atomic Collision
(University of Waterloo, 2007-07-17)An investigation of the problem of inelastic scattering process under the Coulomb Born approximation is given. Different approaches to calculate Coulomb wavefunctions in the momentum space representation are analyzed and ... -
Distortions in the digital looking glass: Information and communication technologies and bodily self-conceptions in men seeking men
(University of Waterloo, 2021-11-10)Internet-enabled information and communication technology (ICT) use has become so diffuse as to be considered a hallmark of modern life. Between 2000 and 2019, the proportion of US adults who reported using some kind of ... -
Distributed Approaches for Location Privacy
(University of Waterloo, 2008-08-21)With the advance of location technologies, people can now determine their location in various ways, for instance, with GPS or based on nearby cellphone towers. These technologies have led to the introduction of ... -
Distributed Document Clustering and Cluster Summarization in Peer-to-Peer Environments
(University of Waterloo, 2007-06-14)This thesis addresses difficult challenges in distributed document clustering and cluster summarization. Mining large document collections poses many challenges, one of which is the extraction of topics or summaries from ... -
Distributed Key Generation and Its Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2010-06-30)Numerous cryptographic applications require a trusted authority to hold a secret. With a plethora of malicious attacks over the Internet, however, it is difficult to establish and maintain such an authority in online ... -
Distributed Medium Access Control for QoS Support in Wireless Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-01)With the rapid growth of multimedia applications and the advances of wireless communication technologies, quality-of-service (QoS) provisioning for multimedia services in heterogeneous wireless networks has been an important ... -
Distributed Multi-Robot Coverage Control of Non-Convex Environments With Guarantees
(IEEE, 2022-09-28)In this article, we revisit the problem of distributed coverage with a fleet of robots in convex and nonconvex environments. In the majority of approaches for this problem, the environment is partitioned, each robot is ... -
Distributed Multiagent Resource Allocation using Reservations to Improve Handling of Dynamic Task Arrivals
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-26)In the artificial intelligence subfield of multi-agent systems, there are many applications for algorithms which optimally allocate a set of resources among many available tasks which demand those resources. In this thesis ... -
Distributed Policing with Full Utilization and Rate Guarantees
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-27)A network service provider typically sells service at a fixed traffic rate to customers. This rate is enforced by allowing or dropping packets that pass through, in a process called policing. Distributed policing is a ... -
Distributed Power Control and Medium Access Control Protocol Design for Multi-Channel Ad Hoc Wireless Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-24)In the past decade, the development of wireless communication technologies has made the use of the Internet ubiquitous. With the increasing number of new inventions and applications using wireless communication, more ... -
Distributed Random Set Theoretic Soft/Hard Data Fusion
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-01)Research on multisensor data fusion aims at providing the enabling technology to combine information from several sources in order to form a unifi ed picture. The literature work on fusion of conventional data provided ... -
Distributed Robust Vehicle State Estimation
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2017-06)A distributed estimation approach based on opinion dynamics is proposed to enhance the reliability of vehicle corners’ velocity estimates, which are obtained by an unscented Kalman filter. The corners’ estimates from a ... -
Distributed Search in Semantic Web Service Discovery
(University of Waterloo, 2006)This thesis presents a framework for semantic Web Service discovery using descriptive (non-functional) service characteristics in a large-scale, multi-domain setting. The framework uses Web Ontology Language for Services ... -
Distributed Secondary Control of Hybrid ac/dc Microgrids
(University of Waterloo, 2021-10-25)This thesis focuses on studying hybrid ac/dc-microgrids, composed of an ac-microgrid and a dc-microgrid, connected by Interlinking Converters (ICs). Specifically, this work is focused on developing distributed secondary ... -
Distributed sensing and control of a simply supported plate
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Distributed Sensing and Observer Design for Vehicles State Estimation
(University of Waterloo, 2009-06-16)A solution to the vehicle state estimation problem is given using the Kalman filtering and the Particle filtering theories. Vehicle states are necessary for an active or a semi-active suspension control system, which is ... -
Distributed snowpack simulation using weather radar with an hydrologic-land surface scheme model
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Distributed Target Engagement in Large-scale Mobile Sensor Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-29)Sensor networks comprise an emerging field of study that is expected to touch many aspects of our life. Research in this area was originally motivated by military applications. Afterward sensor networks have demonstrated ...