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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 ... -
Evaluation of digital x-ray imaging technologies for tuberculosis screening
(University of Waterloo, 2014-02-10)Tuberculosis is a major concern in low- and middle-income countries, but may be diagnosed using standard chest x-rays. Conventional film-screen x-ray detectors require more maintenance than digital x-ray detectors and need ... -
An Evaluation of Smartphone Resources Used by Web Advertisements
(University of Waterloo, 2013-12-17)With the rapid advancement of mobile devices, people have become more attached to them than ever. This rapid growth combined with millions of applications (apps) make smartphones a favourite means of communication among ... -
Evidential Reasoning for Multimodal Fusion in Human Computer Interaction
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-22)Fusion of information from multiple modalities in Human Computer Interfaces (HCI) has gained a lot of attention in recent years, and has far reaching implications in many areas of human-machine interaction. However, a ... -
Evolving Software Systems for Self-Adaptation
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-25)There is a strong synergy between the concepts of evolution and adaptation in software engineering: software adaptation refers to both the current software being adapted and to the evolution process that leads to the new ... -
Exciton-Induced Degradation of Interfaces in Organic Light-Emitting Devices
(University of Waterloo, 2015-10-02)A new revolution in electronics/optoelectronics has become possible in the past two decades due to the emergence of organic semiconductors. Among all the applications based on organic semiconductors, organic light-emitting ... -
Exciton-Induced Morphological Changes in Carbazole Based PhOLEDs and the Influence of the Device Fabrication Process
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-20)Organic light-emitting devices (OLEDs) have increasingly attracted attention from both academia and industry alike in the last three decades because of their low cost, easy fabrication, light weight, and mechanical ... -
Executable Model Synthesis and Property Validation for Message Sequence Chart Specifications
(University of Waterloo, 2000)Message sequence charts (MSC’s) are a formal language for the specification of scenarios in concurrent real-time systems. The thesis addresses the synthesis of executable object-oriented design-time models from MSC ... -
Exemplar-based Kernel Preserving Embedding
(University of Waterloo, 2016-05-02)With the rapid increase of available data, it becomes computationally harder to extract useful information, specially in the case of high-dimensional data. Choosing a representative subset of the data can be useful to ... -
Expanding the Microfluidic Design Automation Capabilities of Manifold: Electrophoretic Cross and Time-Domain Simulation
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-19)Lab-on-a-chip devices are finding applications in several different fields, from point-of-care diagnostics to genome sequencing. However, lab-on-a-chip is a multidimensional field that makes it difficult for designers to ... -
Experimental Investigation of the Power Amplifiers’ Nonlinearity using a 3.5 GHz 2×2 RF Front-end Prototype
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-16)Next generation communication systems will demand extremely high system capacity. Ap-proaches such as complex digital modulation schemes, widening of the instantaneous band-width and massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) ... -
Experimental Performance Evaluation of Bit-Rate Selection Algorithms in Multi-Vehicular Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2011-01-24)IEEE 802.11 PHY supports multiple transmission rates according to multiple different modulations and coding schemes. Each WiFi station selects its own transmission rate according to its own algorithm; in particular, the ... -
Exploiting Mobile Energy Storages for Overload Mitigation in Smart Grid
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-09)The advancement of battery and electronic technologies pushes forward transportation electrification, accelerating the commercialization and prevalence of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs). The development of PEVs is closely ...