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Privacy-Preserving and Regulation-Enabled Mechanisms for Blockchain-based Financial Services
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-26)With the success of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, blockchain technology has attracted extensive attention from both academia and industry. As a distributed ledger technology, blockchain provides decentralization and ... -
Privacy-Preserving Interest Matching for Mobile Social Networking
(University of Waterloo, 2010-07-28)The success of online social networking has resulted in increased attention to mobile social networking research and applications. In mobile social networking, instead of looking for friends over the Internet, people ... -
Privacy-Preserving Multi-Quality Charging in V2G network
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-08)Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) network, which provides electricity charging service to the electric vehicles (EVs), is an essential part of the smart grid (SG). It can not only effectively reduce the greenhouse gas emission but ... -
PrivacyGuard: A VPN-Based Approach to Detect Privacy Leakages on Android Devices
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-06)The Internet is now the most important and efficient way to gain information, and mobile devices are the easiest way to access the Internet. Furthermore, wearable devices, which can be considered to be the next generation ... -
Private Allocation of Public Goods
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-13)We study the problem of designing a truthful mechanism for fair allocation of divisible public goods. We consider a setting with n agents and m items. Each item is associated with a size, and the total size of the allocated ... -
Private Carbon Credit Initiatives in the Agricultural Sector: Investigating Motivations and Understanding Their Effects
(University of Waterloo, 2023-12-15)This thesis project examines the emergence of privately led soil carbon sequestration (SCS) credit programs, specifically for traditional cropping systems, in the agriculture sector in North America. Carbon credits have ... -
Private Data Exploring, Sampling, and Profiling
(University of Waterloo, 2022-06-27)Data analytics is being widely used not only as a business tool, which empowers organizations to drive efficiencies, glean deeper operational insights and identify new opportunities, but also for the greater good of society, ... -
Private Distribution Learning with Public Data
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-22)We study the problem of private distribution learning with access to public data. In this setup, a learner is given both public and private samples drawn from an unknown distribution 𝑝 belonging to a class 𝑄, and has the ... -
Private People in Public Places: Contemporary Canadian Mennonite Life Writing
(University of Waterloo, 2015-10-14)This study examines the autobiographical writing of five contemporary Canadian Mennonite authors in order show how these texts, when read collectively, work to disrupt conventional ways of thinking about life writing. Life ... -
Private Property Rights: An Indispensable Moral Foundation of Society
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-05)The philosophic justifications of private property reach back to the ancient world. Aristotle regarded secure possessions as necessary for successful social functioning, and Cicero understood government’s function to be ... -
Private Two-Party Random Minimum Spanning Forest Computation
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-30)Finding the Minimum Spanning Tree, or more generally the Minimum Spanning Forest (MSF), of a weighted graph is a well-known algorithmic problem. While this problem itself can be directly applied to any kind of networks, ... -
Privately Constrained Testable Pseudorandom Functions
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-20)Privately Constrained Pseudorandom Functions allow a PRF key to be delegated to some evaluator in a constrained manner, such that the key’s functionality is restricted with respect to some secret predicate. Variants of ... -
Privileging Indigenous voices: Narratives of travel experiences of Tibetans
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-11)In 2012, Peters and Higgins-Desbiolles, wrote “What is wholly absent [from the tourism literature] …is any recognition of Indigenous peoples as tourists” (p.78). Chambers and Buzinde (2015) acknowledged that “tourism ... -
Pro-environmental behaviour impacts and their relationship to insurance claim frequency through individual household and municipal-level analyses
(University of Waterloo, 2023-06-27)The primary objective of the research has been to determine the relationship between pro-environmental behaviour (PEB) and risk-mitigating behaviours. Chapter 2 approached the objective by comparing a direct measurement ... -
Proactive inventory policy intervention to mitigate supply chain disruptions
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-02)Risk management is one of the critical issues in supply chain management. Supply chain disruptions negatively impact on the performance and the business continuity of a firm, and the disruptions should be managed proactively ... -
Probabilistic Adaptation and Voluntary Attention
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-25)The following experiments considered the general phenomenon of behavioural adaptation in response to statistical regularities—which we refer to as probability learning (PL). In particular, these experiments focused on ... -
A Probabilistic Approach for the Design of an Early Warning Source Water Monitoring Station
(University of Waterloo, 2007-08-30)This thesis involves the design of an early warning source water monitoring station for a riverine source of drinking water. These stations provide downstream water utilities with advanced notification of contamination ... -
A Probabilistic Approach to Image Feature Extraction, Segmentation and Interpretation
(University of Waterloo, 2000)This thesis describes a probabilistic approach to imagesegmentation and interpretation. The focus of the investigation is the development of a systematic way of combining color, brightness, texture and geometric features ... -
A probabilistic approach to vibration-based modal identification using mobile sensors
(University of Waterloo, 2019-10-08)Vibration-based modal identification is the process of analyzing vibration measurements in order to identify the modal properties of the structure, namely the modal frequencies, damping ratios, and mode shapes. The quality ... -
Probabilistic Assessment of Common Cause Failures in Nuclear Power Plants
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-22)Common cause failures (CCF) are a significant contributor to risk in complex technological systems, such as nuclear power plants. Many probabilistic parametric models have been developed to quantify the systems subject to ...