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Muddler: Using Oblivious RAM For A Privacy Preserving Location-Based Service
(University of Waterloo, 2014-10-23)As smartphones become ever more prevalent, context aware applications are becoming increasingly popular. Location-based services such as Foursquare have been among the leaders of this trend. Some of the most popular ... -
Mudzi Owala, Village of Light – Lessons from Malawi
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-25)This thesis explores my journey to a small corner of Africa, where I lived with and learned from the communities of rural Malawi. In particular, it examines the architectural lessons that emerged from my involvement in a ... -
Mueller Matrix Confocal Scanning Laser Polarimetry and Optimal Conditions for Improved Image Quality
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-26)Alzheimer's disease (AD), a fatal neurodegenerative disorder, is the most common form of senile dementia. Five hundred thousand Canadians are living with dementia, a number predicted to double by 2030. Currently, the most ... -
Multi- Stakeholder Perspectives on Coastal and Marine (Connectivity) Management in Dominican Republic
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-04)Large-scale connectivity conservation initiatives are increasing in prevalence as a variety of benefits are continually being demonstrated through these models, such as establishing and strengthening marine protected area ... -
Multi-Actuated Vehicle Control and Path Planning/Tracking at Handling Limits
(University of Waterloo, 2021-03-10)The increasing requirements for vehicle safety along with the impressive progress in vehicle actuation technologies have motivated manufacturers to equip vehicles with multiple control actuations that enhance handling and ... -
Multi-agent Learning for Cooperative Scheduling of Microsecond-scale Services at Rack Scale
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-25)This work considers the load-balancing problem in dense racks running microsecond-scale services. In such a system, balancing the load among hundreds to thousands of cores requires making millions of scheduling decisions ... -
Multi-Agent Modeling of Risk-Aware and Privacy-Preserving Recommender Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2017-04-25)Recent progress in the field of recommender systems has led to increases in the accuracy and significant improvements in the personalization of recommendations. These results are being achieved in general by gathering more ... -
Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning in Large Complex Environments
(University of Waterloo, 2022-07-15)Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) has seen much success in the past decade. However, these methods are yet to find wide application in large-scale real world problems due to two important reasons. First, MARL ... -
Multi-Agent User-Centric Specialization and Collaboration for Information Retrieval
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-19)The amount of information on the World Wide Web (WWW) is rapidly growing in pace and topic diversity. This has made it increasingly difficult, and often frustrating, for information seekers to retrieve the content they are ... -
Multi-Atlas based Segmentation of Multi-Modal Brain Images
(University of Waterloo, 2016-05-20)Brain image analysis is playing a fundamental role in clinical and population-based epidemiological studies. Several brain disorder studies involve quantitative interpretation of brain scans and particularly require accurate ... -
Multi-axle Vehicle Modeling and Stability Control: A Reconfigurable Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-19)Multi-axle vehicles, such as trucks and buses, have been playing a vital role in trucking industry, public transportation system, and long-distance transport services. However, at the same time, statistics suggest more ... -
Multi-Body Vehicle Dynamics Modeling for Drift Analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-03)One area of vehicle handling performance that has been the focus of an OEM{'}s (Original Equipment Manufacturer) engineering effort is within the realm of vehicle straight-line performance. As the name implies, straight-line ... -
Multi-Class Advance Patient Scheduling
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-29)The problem of advance scheduling of service appointments for patients arriving to a healthcare facility received a lot of attentions in the literature of operations management. Broadly speaking, the main goal is on the ... -
Multi-cloud Connectivity Provisioning with Security Attributes
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-21)In this thesis, we detail the following work: (i) the design and development of graph-based cloud management software with multiple microservices, including one that provides easy connectivity provisioning in the multi-cloud ... -
Multi-Component and Multi-Dimensional Mathematical Modeling of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells
(University of Waterloo, 2008-02-19)Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) are solid-state ceramic cells, typically operating between 1073 K and 1273 K. Because of high operating temperature, SOFCs are mostly applicable in stationary power generation. Among various ... -
Multi-Component Mass Transfer and Chemical Oxidation
(University of Waterloo, 2017-05-17)The remediation of soil and groundwater contaminated with multi-component non-aqueous phase liquids (NAPLs) such as coal tars from former manufactured gas plants (MGPs) is associated with a number of challenges. Due to ... -
Multi-criteria suitability analysis and spatial interaction modeling of retail store locations in Ontario, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-25)GIS-based decision analysis is increasingly used by retailers to address the complexity and cost of investment in retail store location decisions. This study conceptualizes and represents nine criteria in a GIS-based ... -
Multi-decade comparison of groundwater nitrate in the southern Nottawasaga River Watershed
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-25)The Nottawasaga River Watershed is host to the Lake Algonquin Sand Aquifer (LASA), an unconfined aquifer that consists of glaciolacustrine sands and provides water supply to rural residents, for household use, and for ... -
Multi-dimensional Interval Routing Schemes
(University of Waterloo, 2001)Routing messages between pairs of nodes is one of the most fundamental tasks in any distributed computing system. An Interval Routing Scheme (IRS) is a well-known, space-efficient routing strategy for routing messages ... -
Multi-Dimensional Resource Orchestration in Vehicular Edge Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-26)In the era of autonomous vehicles, the advanced technologies of connected vehicle lead to the development of driving-related applications to meet the stringent safety requirements and the infotainment applications to improve ...