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Workload Matters: A Robust Approach to Physical RDF Database Design
(University of Waterloo, 2015-10-01)
Recent advances in Information Extraction, Linked Data Management and the Semantic Web have led to a rapid increase in both the volume and the variety of publicly available graph-structured data. As more and more businesses ...
On primal-dual interior-point algorithms for convex optimisation
(2015-09-29)
This thesis studies the theory and implementation of interior-point methods
for convex optimisation. A number of important problems from mathematics and
engineering can be cast naturally as convex optimisation ...
The Valuation and Risk Management of a DB Underpin Pension Plan
(University of Waterloo, 2007-08-02)
Hybrid pension plans offer employees the best features of both defined benefit and defined contribution plans. In this work, we consider the hybrid design offering a
defined contribution benefit with a defined benefit ...
Nano Positioning Control Using Magnetostrictive Actuators
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-18)
The focus of this thesis is on the
development of control systems for nano-
positioning actuators using magnetostrictive
materials. Magnetostrictive materials have
large strokes and fast responses. However,
they are ...
Stochastic Mortality Models with Applications in Financial Risk Management
(University of Waterloo, 2007-06-18)
In product pricing and reserving, actuaries are often required to make predictions of future death rates. In the past, this has been performed by using deterministic improvement scales that give only a single mortality ...
Surface Topography/Chemistry Modification through the Creation of Pseudo-Periodic Surface Micro-structures using Pulsed Nanosecond Fiber Laser Irradiation
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-22)
The focus of this thesis is on the development of a methodology for modifying the surface of titanium implant devices to improve biocompatibility and osseointegration properties utilizing three approaches: 1) developing ...
Landscape Grammar
(University of Waterloo, 2002)
The protection and enhancement of visual resources constitute an on-going challenge to the planning authorities in many communities. The crux of this challenge is to guide development towards built and natural landscape ...
CO-OFDM Elastic Optical Networks - Issues on Transmission, Routing, and Bandwidth Allocation
(University of Waterloo, 2015-10-30)
The use of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) technology helps an optical transmission system to break the limitation of wavelength grids by wavelength division multiplexing (WDM), in which a flexible and ...
Combinatorial Constructions for Transitive Factorizations in the Symmetric Group
(University of Waterloo, 2004)
We consider the problem of counting <i>transitive factorizations</i> of permutations; that is, we study tuples (σ<i>r</i>,. . . ,σ1) of permutations on {1,. . . ,<i>n</i>} such that (1) the product ...
The Philosophy of Bioinformatics
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-22)
The development of bioinformatics as an influential biological field should interest philosophers of biology and philosophers of science in general. Bioinformatics contributes significantly to the development of biological ...