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A series
(University of Waterloo, 2014-12-12)I have written a series of abstracts — an infinite string of summaries with formal and functional resemblances — none of which ended up in my thesis. The complication was that of practicality, none of the abstracts could ... -
Series-Parallel Posets and Polymorphisms
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-04)We examine various aspects of the poset retraction problem for series-parallel posets. In particular we show that the poset retraction problem for series-parallel posets that are already solvable in polynomial time are ... -
Serious Game for Fire Evacuation
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-21)Fire safety for buildings has been of increasing concern due to the increase in occupant density in modern-day infrastructures. Efforts have been made by civil engineers to reduce loss in building fire accidents. For ... -
Serious Games on the Lived Experience of Dementia as Learning Tools in Pharmacy Education
(University of Waterloo, 2023-10-23)Dementia is a stigmatized and often ‘invisible’ condition which requires clinicians to have a nuanced understanding of the lived experience to build trust and provide better quality of care. Pharmacists are at the frontline ... -
Serverless Data Analytics with Flint
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-30)Serverless architectures organized around loosely-coupled function invocations represent an emerging design for many applications. Recent work mostly focuses on user-facing products and event-driven processing pipelines. ... -
A Serverless Discrete Optimization Service in the Cloud Based on Boolean Circuit Satisfiability
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-19)This thesis discusses the implementation of a serverless cloud service designed for solving discrete optimization problems encoded as boolean circuit satisfiability. Boolean circuit satisfiability problem involves determining ... -
Service Negotiation and Contracting in Virtual Network Environment
(University of Waterloo, 2010-04-28)The current Internet presents a high barrier to entry for new service providers, due to its inability to accommodate new protocols and technologies, and lack of competition among the network providers. Recently, network ... -
Service Revenue Management in the Presence of Grouping Complementarities
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-19)This thesis studies a revenue management problem faced by providers of differentiated and congested services when customer preferences are subject to externalities. In particular, a customer benefits not only from receiving ... -
Service System Design with Immobile Servers, Stochastic Demand and Economies of Scale
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-26)The service system design problem seeks to locate facilities, determine their capacity, and assign customers to them in order to improve the service quality and the customers' experience while minimizing the capacity ... -
Service-Driven Networking
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-15)This thesis presents our research on service-driven networking, which is a general design framework for service quality assurance and integrated network and service management in large scale multi-domain networks. The ... -
Service-Level-Driven Load Scheduling and Balancing in Multi-Tier Cloud Computing
(University of Waterloo, 2019-06-06)Cloud computing environments often deal with random-arrival computational workloads that vary in resource requirements and demand high Quality of Service (QoS) obligations. A Service Level Agreement (SLA) is employed to ... -
Serving the Fast Food Nation: Analyzing and Understanding Food Choice, BMI and Self-Perceived Weight in the Food Service Worker Population
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-27)Policymakers, politicians, and media outlets have declared an obesity epidemic. In doing so, they have named a variety of villains, including fast food. Despite the framing of fast food as being a leading contributor to ... -
Set Representation Learning: A Framework for Learning Gigapixel Images
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-13)In Machine Learning, we often encounter data as a set of instances such Point Clouds (set of x,y, and z coordinates), patches from gigapixel images (Digital Pathology, Satellite Imagery, Astronomical Images, etc.), Weakly ... -
Set Up For Failure? Understanding Probation Orders and Breaches of Probation for Youth in Conflict with the Law
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-21)This dissertation examines probation for young people in Canada. Ninety percent of all young people sentenced in Canada receive a non-custodial or community sentence, with probation accounting for the majority (91%) of ... -
Setting Target Rates for Construction Activity Analysis Categories
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-24)This thesis is focused on increasing productive actions in construction by a procedure known as Activity Analysis. Activity Analysis is a continuous productivity improvement tool for identifying barriers to site productivity ... -
Settler Colonialism + Native Ghosts: An Autoethnographic Account of the Imaginarium of Late Capitalist/Colonialist Storytelling
(University of Waterloo, 2020-02-13)This dissertation is an Indigenous, decolonial, and autoethnographic account of the genealogical formation and function of Nativeness within biopolitical formations and racializing assemblages, as well as the visual, ... -
Settling Time Reducibility Orderings
(University of Waterloo, 2010-04-28)It is known that orderings can be formed with settling time domination and strong settling time domination as relations on c.e. sets. However, it has been shown that no such ordering can be formed when considering computation ... -
Setup and Design of a Cryogenic Testing Station with Focus on Characterization of Superconducting Devices
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-23)The goal of my thesis was to construct a general purpose cryostat, capable of measuring multiple devices at 100mK. This included modifying an existing SHASTA model 106 Adiabatic Demagnetization Refrigerator (ADR) by adding ... -
Setup of Dry Cryostat for Measurements on Superconducting Microwave Resonators
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-20)A cryogen-free cryostat was set up in order to perform measurements at ultra low temperatures. The setup involved the removal of an adiabatic demagnetization refrigerator (ADR) and replacing it with a dilution refrigerator ... -
Several Mathematical Problems in Investment Management
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-21)This thesis studies four mathematical problems in investment management. All four problems arise from practical challenges and are data-driven. Chapter 2 investigates the Kelly portfolio strategy. The full Kelly strategy's ...