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Enforcing Abstract Immutability
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-01)Researchers have recently proposed a number of systems for expressing, verifying, and inferring immutability declarations. These systems are often rigid, and do not support "abstract immutability". An abstractly immutable ... -
Engineering the Performance of 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Nanotransistors through Quantum Transport Simulations
(University of Waterloo, 2021-06-10)Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are a class of stable, atomically-thin monolayer materials with unique mechanical and electronic properties, leading to several proposed applications in electronics ... -
Enhanced EIRP and Reconfigurable Polarization Antenna for Millimeter-Wave Digital Beamforming using Circular Arrays
(University of Waterloo, 2024-02-22)The move towards millimeter wave (mm-wave) frequency bands in wireless communication has been driven by the need for higher data rates. However, some of the major challenges faced with the shift to mm-wave are high free ... -
An Enhanced Goal-Oriented Decision-Making Model for Self-Adaptive Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2011-04-29)The thesis proposes a generic, configurable and enhanced goal-oriented decision-making model for self-adaptive software systems. The model has been designed to include feedback control loops as first class entities in the ... -
Enhanced photo-stability of inverted organic solar cells via using polyethylenimine in the electron extraction layers
(Elsevier, 2019-10)The influence of using Polyethylenimine (PEI) in the electron extraction layers (EELs) on the photo-stability of inverted organic solar cells (OSCs) is investigated. Results show that introducing PEI in the commonly used ... -
Enhanced Ultra-Thin Film Nanocrystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Device Architectures
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-23)Semi-transparent photovoltaics (STPV) is an important component in building integrated PV (BIPV), which is a rapidly growing PV sector. Thin film based transparent solar panels have the strongest potential for window and ... -
Enhancing System Reliability Utilizing Private Electric Vehicle Parking Lots Accounting for the Uncertainties of Renewables
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-19)Integration of renewable energy sources into electric grids comes with significant challenges. The produced energy from renewable sources such as wind and solar is intermittent, non-dispatchable and uncertain. The uncertainty ... -
Enhancing the Modeling and Efficiency of Photovoltaic Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-02)Solar energy is a strong contender among the sustainable alternatives that offer practical potential for replacing increasingly depleted fossil fuels and supplying the world’s growing energy demands. However, despite its ... -
Enhancing the performance of transparent electrodes through the design of new silver nanostructures
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-07)Transparent electrodes are a necessary component in a number of devices such as solar cells, flat panel displays, touch screens and light emitting diodes. The most commonly used transparent conductor, indium tin oxide ... -
Environment Modeling, Action Classification, and Control for Urban Automated Driving
(University of Waterloo, 2022-12-23)This thesis discusses the design and implementation of WATonomous' Automated Driving Stack (ADS), which is capable of performing robo-taxi services in specific operational domains when deployed to WATonomous' research ... -
ESPR: Efficient Security Scheme for Position-Based Routing in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-10)Vehicular Ad hoc Network (VANET) is a promising emerging technology that enables road safety, traffic management, and passengers and drivers comfort applications. Many applications require multi-hop routing; position-based ... -
Establishing Confidence Level Measurements for Remote User Authentication in Privacy-Critical Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2009-06-23)User Authentication is the process of establishing confidence in the User identities presented to an information system. This thesis establishes a method of assigning a confidence level to the output of a user authentication ... -
Estimating and Improving the Performance of Prediction Models for Regression Test Selection
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-22)Researchers have proposed models to predict the percentage of the selected test cases when a Regression Test Selection (RTS) technique is used. One of the most successful and best performing RTS predictors is the Rosenblum ... -
Estimation and Control of Dynamical Systems with Applications to Multi-Processor Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-23)System and control theory is playing an increasingly important role in the design and analysis of computing systems. This thesis investigates a set of estimation and control problems that are driven by new challenges ... -
Evaluating and Improving Image Quality of Tiled Displays
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-24)Tiled displays are created by grouping multiple displays together to form one very large display. These tiled displays are often the only suitable option for displaying very large images but suffer from a grid distortion ... -
Evaluating Mission-Critical Self-Adaptive Software Systems: A Testing-Based Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2010-11-24)Self-adaptive software is a closed-loop system that tries to manage, direct, or regulate its own behavior dynamically. Such a system aims at providing an automated and systematic approach to handling the increasing complexity ... -
Evaluating Object and Text Detectors under the Binary Classification Scenario: A Review
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-27)With the explosively increasing volume of hateful speech presented with images on the Internet, it is necessary to detect hateful speech automatically. Due to the intense demand for computation from the hateful meme detection ... -
Evaluating Wind Power Generating Capacity Adequacy Using MCMC Time Series Model
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-22)In recent decades, there has been a dramatic increase in utilizing renewable energy resources by many power utilities around the world. The tendency toward using renewable energy resources is mainly due to the environmental ... -
Evaluation and Improvement of the Residential Energy Hub Management System
(University of Waterloo, 2010-09-30)Energy consumption in the residential sector of Ontario is expected to grow by 15%, most of which is expected to be from electricity use, with an annual average growth rate of 0.9% between 2010 and 2020. With Ontario ... -
Evaluation of a Direct Detection Selenium-CMOS 8×8 Passive Pixel Sensor Array for Digital X-Ray Imaging Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2010-04-30)Digital imaging systems for medical applications use amorphous silicon thin-film transistor (TFT) technology due to its ability to be manufactured over large areas, making it useful for X-ray imaging, which requires imagers ...