Browsing Mathematics (Faculty of) by Title
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FLECS: A Data-Driven Framework for Rapid Protocol Prototyping
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-11)Flecs is a framework for facilitating rapid implementation of communication protocols. Forwarding functionality of protocols can be modeled as a combination of packet processing components called abstract switching elements ... -
Flexible Bent-Cable Models for Mixture Longitudinal Data
(University of Waterloo, 2010-04-27)Data showing a trend that characterizes a change due to a shock to the system are a type of changepoint data, and may be referred to as shock-through data. As a result of the shock, this type of data may exhibit one of two ... -
Flexible Mixed-Effect Modeling of Functional Data, with Applications to Process Monitoring
(University of Waterloo, 2007-06-18)High levels of automation in manufacturing industries are leading to data sets of increasing size and dimension. The challenge facing statisticians and field professionals is to develop methodology to help meet this ... -
Flexible Monitoring of Storage I/O
(University of Waterloo, 2009-06-26)For any computer system, monitoring its performance is vital to understanding and fixing problems and performance bottlenecks. In this work we present the architecture and implementation of a system for monitoring storage ... -
FlexQueue: Simple and Efficient Priority Queue for System Software
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-18)Existing studies of priority queue implementations often focus on improving canonical operations such as insert and deleteMin, while sacrificing design simplicity and pre- dictable worst-case latency. Design simplicity is ... -
FlexSADRA: Flexible Structural Alignment using a Dimensionality Reduction Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2005)A topic of research that is frequently studied in Structural Biology is the problem of determining the degree of similarity between two protein structures. The most common solution is to perform a three dimensional ... -
A Floating Ball and Two Asymptotic Problems in Capillarity
(University of Waterloo, 2021-06-02)The study of capillary phenomena can be traced back to the age of Aristotle. In this thesis, a floating ball and two asymptotic problems in capillarity are considered, all of which include surface tension and gravity. The ... -
Floating Bodies in the Absence of Gravity
(University of Waterloo, 2011-04-20)The study of infinitely long cylinders of constant cross-section floating in an infinite fluid bath in zero-gravity environments has primarily been focused on bodies whose cross-sections are strictly convex and sufficiently ... -
Floating Bodies with Surface Tension
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-18)Capillary phenomena have been studied by mathematicians and physicists for hundreds of years. In this thesis, both two-dimensional(2D) and three-dimensional(3D) bodies floating on an unbounded reservoir are studied based ... -
Flocking for Multi-Agent Dynamical Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-24)In this thesis, we discuss models for multi-agent dynamical systems. We study the tracking/migration problem for flocks and a theoretical framework for design and analysis of flocking algorithm is presented. The interactions ... -
Flow Down a Wavy Inclined Plane
(University of Waterloo, 2011-03-29)Under certain conditions, flow down an inclined plane destabilizes and a persistent series of interfacial waves develop. An interest in determining under what conditions a flow becomes unstable and how the interface ... -
Flow Separation on the β-plane
(University of Waterloo, 2009-05-15)In non-rotating fluids, boundary-layer separation occurs when the nearly inviscid flow just outside a viscous boundary-layer experiences an appreciable deceleration due to a region of adverse pressure gradient. The fluid ... -
Fluorescence and Adaptation of Color Images
(University of Waterloo, 2011-04-26)Color plays a vitally important role in the world we live in. It surrounds us everywhere we go. Achromatic life, restricted to black, white and grey, is extremely dull. Color fascinates artists, for it adds enormously ... -
A Focus+Context Approach to Alleviate Cognitive Challenges of Editing and Debugging UML Models
(IEEE, 2019-09)Model-Driven Engineering has been proposed to increase the productivity of developing a software system. Despite its benefits, it has not been fully adopted in the software industry. Research has shown that modelling tools ... -
Focused Retrieval
(University of Waterloo, 2010-12-03)Traditional information retrieval applications, such as Web search, return atomic units of retrieval, which are generically called ``documents''. Depending on the application, a document may be a Web page, an email message, ... -
Focusing and Vertical Mode Scattering of the First Mode Internal Tide via Mesoscale Eddy Interactions
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-25)In this work we perform numerical experiments using the MITgcm to simulate the interaction of a mode-one internal tide with barotropic and baroclinic mode-one mesoscale eddies. We also employ the ray tracing equations to ... -
Folding and Unfolding
(University of Waterloo, 2001)The results of this thesis concern folding of one-dimensional objects in two dimensions: planar linkages. More precisely, a planar linkage consists of a collection of rigid bars (line segments) connected at their ... -
Folding Orthogonal Polyhedra
(University of Waterloo, 1999)In this thesis, we study foldings of orthogonal polygons into orthogonal polyhedra. The particular problem examined here is whether a paper cutout of an orthogonal polygon with fold lines indicated folds up into a simple ... -
The forest transition and ecological thresholds: resilience, recovery, and predictions
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-19)A central topic in modeling land use change is to understand the forest transition from deforestation to net reforestation. Agricultural land use change is the main driver of this phenomenon; classically, agricultural ... -
Formal Methods in Quantum Circuit Design
(University of Waterloo, 2019-02-26)The design and compilation of correct, efficient quantum circuits is integral to the future operation of quantum computers. This thesis makes contributions to the problems of optimizing and verifying quantum circuits, with ...