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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 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 ... -
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 ... -
Probing Ising Superconductivity and Light-Induced Phase Transitions in Two-Dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenides
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-23)2H-NbSe2 is a superconducting transition metal dichalcogenide that retains its superconductivity in its two-dimensional (2D) form. Owing to strong spin orbit coupling, 2D 2H-NbSe2 demonstrates unconventional superconductivity ... -
Problem Determination In Message-Flow Internet Services Based On Statistical Analysis of Event Logs
(University of Waterloo, 2009-05-23)In a message-flow Internet service where messages travel through multiple nodes, event log analysis is one of the most important methods to identify the root causes of problems. Traditional approaches for event log analysis ... -
Problem-Resolution Dissemination
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-23)The current problem-solving paradigm for software developers revolves around using a search engine to find knowledge about the problem and its solutions. This approach provides the developer with search results that are ... -
Problems in Cloud Security, Access Control and Logic Locking
(University of Waterloo, 2020-07-22)In this thesis, we study problems related to security in three different contexts: cloud scheduling, access control, and logic locking to protect digital ICs. The first set of problems relates to security in cloud ... -
Processing Exact Results for Queries over Data Streams
(University of Waterloo, 2010-03-11)In a growing number of information-processing applications, such as network-traffic monitoring, sensor networks, financial analysis, data mining for e-commerce, etc., data takes the form of continuous data streams rather ... -
Progressive Lossless Image Compression Using Image Decomposition and Context Quantization
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-25)Lossless image compression has many applications, for example, in medical imaging, space photograph and film industry. In this thesis, we propose an efficient lossless image compression scheme for both binary images and ... -
Prolonging Network Lifetime of Clustered Wireless Sensor Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-22)Wireless Sensor Networking is envisioned as an economically viable paradigm and a promising technology because of its ability to provide a variety of services, such as intrusion detection, weather monitoring, security, ... -
Prostate Segmentation and Regions of Interest Detection in Transrectal Ultrasound Images
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-21)The early detection of prostate cancer plays a significant role in the success of treatment and outcome. To detect prostate cancer, imaging modalities such as TransRectal UltraSound (TRUS) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging ... -
Protection of Direct-Current Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2017-10-30)The overwhelming advancement in power electronics converters throughout the past few decades is leading to an increasing interest in the integration of Direct-Current (DC) systems to the existing AC ones on the generation, ... -
Protection of Renewable Energy Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2014-12-22)The recent progress in renewable energy (RE) technologies has led to the erection of RE power plants (REPPs) up to the order of several hundred megawatts. Unlike their predecessors, which generally appeared in the form of ... -
The Protection of Transmission Lines Connected to DFIG-Based WTGs
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-25)Recently, many countries have proposed various plans to address the issue of climate change, and increasing the capacity of renewables is one of the major common components of such plans. The uncertainty and variability ... -
Protection of Transmission Lines Connected to IG-Based Wind Farms
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-29)Over the last few decades, renewable energy sources have been attracting great attention due to the increased cost, limited reserves, and the adverse environmental impact of fossil fuels. Among them, wind energy is one of ... -
Protocol for Usability Testing and Validation of the ISO Draft International Standard 19223 for Lung Ventilators
(JMIR, 2017-09)Background: Clinicians, such as respiratory therapists and physicians, are often required to set up pieces of medical equipment that use inconsistent terminology. Current lung ventilator terminology that is used by different ... -
Providing Context in WS-BPEL Processes
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-24)Business processes are increasingly used by organizations to automate their activities. Written in languages like WS-BPEL, they allow an institution to describe precisely its internal operations. As the pace of change ... -
Provision Quality-of-Service Controlled Content Distribution in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-30)By equipping vehicles with the on-board wireless facility, the newly emerged vehicular networking targets to provision the broadband serves to vehicles. As such, a variety of novel and exciting applications can be provided ... -
PtSe2 and HfSe2: New Transition Metal Dischalcogenides for Switching Device Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-03)Recently, silicon-based complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology has been struggling in keeping the continuous improvement predicted by Moore’s Law. Hence, significant efforts have been made to find ... -
PtSe2 Field-Effect Transistors: New Opportunities for Electronic Devices
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2017-11-15)PtSe2, a new family of transition metal dichalcogenides, has been explored for electronic device applications using density functional theory (DFT) and non-equilibrium Green’s function (NEGF) within the third nearest ...