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Optimization of Type-I Clathrates for Thermoelectric Properties
(University of Waterloo, 2012-10-04)The increase in waste heat after consuming energy or burning fossil fuels is an issue environmentally and economically. Thermoelectric (TE) materials are developed to use in various applications because of their ability ... -
Optimization Placement for SDN Controller: Bell Canada as a Case Study
(University of Waterloo, 2017-11-17)The tremendous proliferation of data traffic has been a key motivator for the upgrading of traditional IP networks One new conceptual model that has been developed for redesigning and managing communication networks is ... -
An Optimization Problem of Internet Routing
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-23)As the Internet usage grows, existing network infrastructure must deal with increasing demand. One way to deal with this is to increase network capacity, and another, is to set network parameters appropriately. In this ... -
Optimization under Uncertainty for E-retail Distribution: From Suppliers to the Last Mile
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-03)This thesis examines problems faced in the distribution management of e-retailers, in different stages of the supply chain, while accounting for sources of uncertainty. The first problem studies distribution planning, ... -
Optimizations and Hardware Implementations for Composited de Bruijn Sequence Generators
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-21)A binary de Bruijn sequence with period 2^n is a sequence in which every length-n sub-sequence occurs exactly once. de Bruijn sequences have randomness properties that make them attractive for pseudorandom number generators. ... -
Optimizations of Cisco’s Embedded Logic Analyzer Module
(University of Waterloo, 2009-07-24)Cisco’s embedded logic analyzer module (ELAM) is a debugging device used for many of Cisco’s application specific integrated chips (ASICs). The ELAM is used to capture data of interest to the user and stored for analysis ... -
Optimized Hardware Implementations of Lightweight Cryptography
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-20)Radio frequency identification (RFID) is a key technology for the Internet of Things era. One important advantage of RFID over barcodes is that line-of-sight is not required between readers and tags. Therefore, it is widely ... -
An Optimized Least Squares Monte Carlo Approach to Calculate Credit Exposures for Asian and Barrier Options
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-16)Counterparty credit risk management has become an important issue for financial institutions since the Basel III framework was introduced. Expected exposure (EE) is defined as the average (positive) exposure at a future ... -
Optimized Production and Purification of LCC DNA Minivectors for Applications in Gene Therapy and Vaccine Development
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-28)Linear covalently closed (LCC) DNA minivectors serve to be superior to conventional circular covalently closed (CCC) plasmid DNA (pDNA) vectors due to enhancements to both transfection efficiency and safety. Specifically, ... -
Optimized Thermoelectric Cooling Strategies for High Performance Electronics
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-17)Thermoelectric components (TECs) and other electronic cooling components such as micro-heat sinks have been shown to provide effective cooling for integrated circuits (ICs). A review of available literature has shown ... -
Optimizing Airport Runway Performance by Managing Pavement Infrastructure
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-29)The research described herein is composed of four major areas of practice. It examines the overall performance of runways and provides tools designed to improve current runway operations and management with particular ... -
Optimizing EV Routing and Charging/Discharging under Time-Variant Electricity Prices
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-19)The integration of electric vehicles (EVs) and the power system has been becoming an increasingly important field of research, due to the rapid EV penetration and the evolvement in vehicle-to-grid (V2G) techniques in the ... -
Optimizing Hierarchical Storage Management For Database System
(University of Waterloo, 2014-06-17)Caching is a classical but effective way to improve system performance. To improve system performance, servers, such as database servers and storage servers, contain significant amounts of memory that act as a fast ... -
Optimizing MPI Collective Operations for Cloud Deployments
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-24)Cloud infrastructures are increasingly being adopted as a platform for high performance computing (HPC) science and engineering applications. For HPC applications, the Message-Passing Interface (MPI) is widely-used. Among ... -
Optimizing Order Consolidation with Simulation Optimization
(University of Waterloo, 2017-05-15)In this work we study the order consolidation process of an e-retailing warehouse using real data. Order consolidation is a process that follows the picking operation in a warehouse. After stock keeping units (SKUs) of an ... -
Optimizing protein S-acylation detection in autophagy
(University of Waterloo, 2021-06-04)S-acylation, sometimes referred to as S-palmitoylation or simply palmitoylation, is a posttranslational protein modification involving the covalent addition of a fatty acid to cysteine residues. Since the first characterization ... -
An Optimizing Pulse Sequence Compiler for NMR QIP
(University of Waterloo, 2003)Quantum information processing is a multi-disciplinary science involving physics, mathematics, computer science, and even quantum chemistry. It is centred around the idea of manipulating physical systems at the quantum ... -
Optimizing Small-scale Redshift Space Distortion Measurements in eBOSS for Cosmological Inference
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-21)Modern cosmological datasets have grown substantially in size and the precision of their measurements. While the improvement has had a beneficial impact on our understanding of the cosmological model, it requires equal ... -
Optimizing Solvent Extraction of PCBs from Soil
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-04)Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are carcinogenic persistent contaminants. Although their manufacturing in North America ceased in the late 1970s, their high heat resistance made their use widespread over their production ... -
Optimizing Structure: An Investigation into Lightweight Structures
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-13)This thesis investigates how to reduce the raw materials invested in a building, specifically in the structural aspect of its construction, and in so doing decrease the embodied energy required to build a structure. Geometric ...