Browsing Theses by Title
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A Task Offloading Framework for Energy Saving on Mobile Devices using Cloud Computing
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-06)Over the last decade, mobile devices have become popular among people, and their number is ever growing because of the computing functionality they offer beyond primary voice communication. However, mobile devices are ... -
Task Optimization and Workforce Scheduling
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-02)This thesis focuses on task sequencing and manpower scheduling to develop robust schedules for an aircraft manufacturer. The production of an aircraft goes through a series of multiple workstations, each consisting of a ... -
Task-Centric User Interfaces
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-22)Software applications for design and creation typically contain hundreds or thousands of commands, which collectively give users enormous expressive power. Unfortunately, rich feature sets also take a toll on usability. ... -
Task-Driven Integrity Assessment and Control for Vehicular Hybrid Localization Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-24)Throughout the last decade, vehicle localization has been attracting significant attention in a wide range of applications, including Navigation Systems, Road Tolling, Smart Parking, and Collision Avoidance. To deliver on ... -
Task-Parameterized Transformer for Learning Gripper Trajectory from Demonstrations
(University of Waterloo, 2024-02-26)The goal of learning from demonstration or imitation learning is to teach the model to generalize across unseen tasks based on available demonstrations. This ability can be important for the stable performance of a robot ... -
Taub-NUT Spacetime in the (A)dS/CFT and M-Theory
(University of Waterloo, 2005)In the following thesis, I will conduct a thermodynamic analysis of the Taub-NUT spacetime in various dimensions, as well as show uses for Taub-NUT and other Hyper-Kahler spacetimes. <br /><br /> Thermodynamic analysis ... -
Tax Aggressiveness and Shareholder Wealth: Evidence from Mergers and Acquisitions
(University of Waterloo, 2013-06-21)In this dissertation, I examine two related questions on whether and how tax aggressiveness of firms is associated with shareholder wealth in a new context – mergers and acquisitions (M&A). The first study investigates ... -
Tax Incentives in Corporate Acquisitions
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-30)In this dissertation, I examine tax incentives in corporate acquisitions. Reported tax losses or net operating losses (NOLs) under the United States (U.S.) income tax law have grown considerably in recent years. Yet, there ... -
Tax-Planning vs. Coordination: The Dual Role of Internal Capital Allocation
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-03)In this thesis, I examine how a multinational corporation (MNC) allocates capital among its international subsidiaries. This capital allocation has both a managerial and tax-planning objective. On the managerial side, it ... -
A Taylor polynomial expansion line search for large-scale optimization
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-29)In trying to cope with the Big Data deluge, the landscape of distributed computing has changed. Large commodity hardware clusters, typically operating in some form of MapReduce framework, are becoming prevalent for ... -
TCP Connection Management Mechanisms for Improving Internet Server Performance
(University of Waterloo, 2005)This thesis investigates TCP connection management mechanisms in order to understand the behaviour and improve the performance of Internet servers during overload conditions such as flash crowds. We study several ... -
Teachers' subjective perspectives on foreign language vocabulary learning and teaching
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-09)This study examines the beliefs and subjective theories teachers hold about vocabulary learning and teaching. Recent research into teacher cognition has repeatedly shown that teachers’ perspectives on languages, language ... -
Technical and Economic Assessment of Ground Source Heat Pump Systems (GSHPs) in Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-28)Ground Source Heat Pump Systems (GSHPs) are one of the most promising clean and low-carbon source of geothermal renewable energy technologies for heating, ventilation and cooling of homes. Geothermal heat pump (GHP) ... -
Technical, Economic and Environmental Evaluation of Warm Mix Asphalt and Coloured Asphalt for Usage in Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2016-12-15)Transportation services play an important role in the Canadian economy, and social activities as well as Canada's competitiveness in the global economy. As one of the most valuable systems of transportation in Canada, 90 ... -
Techniques and heuristics for improving the visual design of software agreements
(University of Waterloo, 2010-09-10)End users must regularly agree to lengthy software agreements prior to installing software or using software services. However, despite the fact that these agreements contain terms of direct concern to users—e.g., data ... -
Techniques for Coherent Control of Effective Photon-Photon Interactions at Low Light Levels
(University of Waterloo, 2019-02-01)This thesis proposes improvements on techniques for the coherent control of photon-photon interactions mediated by a cloud of cold atoms. Atoms cooled and trapped in a MOT can be loaded into a hollow, photonic crystal ... -
Techniques for creating ground-truthed sketch corpora
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-26)The problem of recognizing handwritten mathematics notation has been studied for over forty years with little practical success. The poor performance of math recognition systems is due, at least in part, to a lack of ... -
Techniques for Improving Numerical Secret Key Rates of Quantum Key Distribution Protocols
(University of Waterloo, 2023-10-24)Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) is a method for producing secure keys between two parties whose security does not rely on computational assumptions potentially breakable by quantum computers. However, physical constraints, ... -
Techniques for Proving Approximation Ratios in Scheduling
(University of Waterloo, 2010-09-30)The problem of finding a schedule with the lowest makespan in the class of all flowtime-optimal schedules for parallel identical machines is an NP-hard problem. Several approximation algorithms have been suggested for ... -
Techniques for Quantum Computing
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-21)This thesis is about techniques for quantum computing. A common theme throughout this work is the examination of how quantum algorithms and protocols might be implemented in practice. I explore this question at the level ...