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On the Design and Testing of Authorization Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-02)Authorization deals with the specification and management of accesses principals have to resources. In the design of an authorization system, sometimes we just implement the accessenforcement without having a precise semantics ... -
On the Design of 2D Human Pose Estimation Networks using Accelerated Neuroevolution and Novel Keypoint Representations
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-02)Motion capture is a very useful technology that is employed across many industries. Biomechanical analysis, film production, video game development, and virtual reality are among its diverse applications. However, traditional ... -
On the Design of Efficient Deep Learning Methods for Human Activity Recognition in Resource Constrained Devices
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-05)Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is the process of automatic recognition of Activities of Daily Life (ADL) from human motion data captured in various data modalities by wearable and ambient sensors. Advances in deep ... -
On the Determinants of Effort
(University of Waterloo, 2017-07-04)That humans configure their behaviors in ways to avoid effortful actions is undoubtedly one of the most pervasive hypotheses put forth to account for a wide range of human behaviors. This dissertation describes a series ... -
On the Determinants of Human Spatial Organization
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-15)Humans routinely organize and reorganize their environments, such as keeping one’s bookshelves tidy or placing important documents in obvious locations to avoid forgetting about them. Spatial organization is widely thought ... -
On the Development of Fold Initiator Patterns to Promote Progressive Folding of Hot Stamped Ultra-High Strength Axial Crush Structures
(University of Waterloo, 2021-06-21)The effect of fold initiator design on the performance of axial crush rails fabricated using ultra high strength steels (UHSS) is examined in a combined experimental-numerical-analytical study. Of particular interest is ... -
On the distribution of the time to ruin and related topics
(University of Waterloo, 2013-07-10)Following the introduction of the discounted penalty function by Gerber and Shiu (1998), significant progress has been made on the analysis of various ruin-related quantities in risk theory. As we know, the discounted ... -
On the Dynamical Wilf-Zeilberger Problem
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-15)In this paper, we give an algorithmic solution to a dynamical analog of the problem of certifying combinatorial identities by Wilf-Zeilberger pairs. Given two sequences generated in a dynamical setting, we calculate an ... -
On the dynamics of infectious diseases in non-homogeneous populations
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-26)The principal motivations for studying epidemics and their dynamics are understanding the biological characteristics of the epidemic agents and reducing the economical and social costs originating from epidemic outbreaks. The ... -
ON THE EDGE OF THIRD SPACE: A Re-imagination of the Refugee Camp Boundaries
(University of Waterloo, 2023-10-24)This thesis explores the pivotal moment in which a refugee camp transcends its original temporary purpose. Central to this exploration is the intersections of architecture and citizenship practices in politically grey ... -
On the Effectiveness of Incremental Fact Extraction and Analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2020-07-30)Today's software projects can be huge. They often consist of millions of lines of code, have multiple teams working on them and are constantly evolving. It is no surprise then that developers sometimes seek the help of ... -
On the effectiveness of isogeny walks for extending cover attacks on elliptic curves
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-23)Cryptographic systems based on the elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem (ECDLP) are widely deployed in the world today. In order for such a system to guarantee a particular security level, the elliptic curve selected ... -
On the Effects of Disfluency in Complex Cognitive Tasks
(University of Waterloo, 2017-05-10)While much previous research has suggested that decreased transcription fluency has a detrimental effect on writing, there is recent evidence that decreased fluency can actually benefit cognitive processing. Across a series ... -
On the effects of offloading memory on memory performance
(University of Waterloo, 2020-07-06)The use of external aids to reduce cognitive demands is known as cognitive offloading. I present five preregistered experiments aimed at better understanding the effects of cognitive offloading on memory performance. The ... -
On the Efficiency and Security of Cryptographic Pairings
(University of Waterloo, 2012-12-19)Pairing-based cryptography has been employed to obtain several advantageous cryptographic protocols. In particular, there exist several identity-based variants of common cryptographic schemes. The computation of a single ... -
On The Engineering of a Stable Force-Directed Placer
(University of Waterloo, 2004)Analytic and force-directed placement methods that simultaneously minimize wire length and spread cells are receiving renewed attention from both academia and industry. However, these methods are by no means trivial to ... -
On the Enhancement of the Localization of Autonomous Mobile Platforms
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-27)The focus of many industrial and research entities on achieving full robotic autonomy increased in the past few years. In order to achieve full robotic autonomy, a fundamental problem is the localization, which is the ... -
On the Erdös-Turán conjecture and related results
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-29)The Erdös-Turán Conjecture, posed in 1941 in, states that if a subset B of natural numbers is such that every positive integer n can be written as the sum of a bounded number of terms from B, then the number of such ... -
On the evaluation of quantum instruments with a consideration to measurements in trapped ion systems
(University of Waterloo, 2022-12-20)Trapped ion chains have shown promise in their application as quantum simulators. However, the close proximity of ions in the trap leads to operations such as state detection causing loss of coherence of other ions due to ... -
On the Evolutionary Design of Quantum Circuits
(University of Waterloo, 2005)The goal of this work is to understand the application of the evolutionary programming approach to the problem of quantum circuit design. This problem is motivated by the following observations: <ul> <li>In order to ...