Browsing Mathematics (Faculty of) by Title
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Improving Selfie Aesthetics with Interactive Guidance based on Empirical Models
(University of Waterloo, 2016-05-06)We introduce RealSelfie, a smartphone camera application providing interactive guid- ance to help people take better self-portrait photos (commonly called “selfies”). The appli- cation uses empirical models to estimate ... -
Improving Spatial Resolution of and Error Estimation for Radical Probe Mass Spectrometry
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-23)The function of a protein depends on the structure of the protein. A commonly used analytical technique for studying protein structure is radical-probe mass spectrometry (RP-MS). RP-MS oxidizes a protein of interest then ... -
Improving the Performance of User-level Runtime Systems for Concurrent Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-25)Concurrency is an essential part of many modern large-scale software systems. Applications must handle millions of simultaneous requests from millions of connected devices. Handling such a large number of concurrent ... -
Improving the Reliability of Deep Learning Software Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-07)For the last decade, deep learning (DL) has emerged as a new effective machine learning approach that is capable of solving difficult challenges. Due to their increasing effectiveness, DL approaches have been applied widely ... -
Improving Tor using a TCP-over-DTLS Tunnel
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-24)The Tor network gives anonymity to Internet users by relaying their traffic through the world over a variety of routers. This incurs latency, and this thesis first explores where this latency occurs. Experiments discount ... -
Impulse Control in Finance: Numerical Methods and Viscosity Solutions
(University of Waterloo, 2017-12-05)The goal of this thesis is to provide efficient and provably convergent numerical methods for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) coming from impulse control problems motivated by finance. Impulses, which are ... -
Impulsive Control and Synchronization of Chaos-Generating-Systems with Applications to Secure Communication
(University of Waterloo, 2004)When two or more chaotic systems are coupled, they may exhibit synchronized chaotic oscillations. The synchronization of chaos is usually understood as the regime of chaotic oscillations in which the corresponding ... -
Impulsive Control of Dynamical Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-25)Dynamical networks (DNs) consist of a large set of interconnected nodes with each node being a fundamental unit with detailed contents. A great number of natural and man-made networks such as social networks, food networks, ... -
Impulsive observer design for a class of switched nonlinear systems with unknown inputs
(Elsevier, 2019-08)This paper investigates hybrid observer design of a class of unknown input switched nonlinear systems. The distinguishing feature of the proposed method is that the stability of all subsystems of the error switched systems ... -
Imputation, Estimation and Missing Data in Finance
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Suppose <em>X</em> is a diffusion process, possibly multivariate, and suppose that there are various segments of the components of <em>X</em> that are missing. This happens, for example, if <em>X</em> is the price of ... -
In Search of a Scalable Geo-Distributed Consensus Protocol
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-20)Byzantine fault tolerant consensus protocols are a crucial component in blockchain systems. Traditional BFT consensus protocols have poor scalability, and their performance is sensitive to the latency between their ... -
In Search Of Most Complex Regular Languages
(World Scientific Publishing, 2013-09-01)Sequences (L-n vertical bar n >= k), called streams, of regular languages L-n are considered, where k is some small positive integer, n is the state complexity of L-n, and the languages in a stream differ only in the ... -
In Silico Investigation of the Light Transmission Profiles of Sand-Textured Soils
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-14)Sand-textured soils are found in a wide range of landscapes, from dune fields to coastal areas. The quantification of light penetration through these soils, particularly considering possible variations in the presence ... -
In the new era of Internet of Things even your breathing rate is not private
(University of Waterloo, 2021-12-21)This thesis shows a new type of attack that can secretly gather private measurements from the target. Wi-Sneak is a stealthy reconnaissance attack which utilizes the ambient WiFi signal and ubiquitous WiFi-enabled devices ... -
An In-Depth Exploration of the High-Quality Entity Linking for Information Retrieval: MMEAD
(University of Waterloo, 2023-12-19)Entity linking has emerged significantly during the digital information explosion, aiming to provide context and meaning to huge amounts of unstructured data. While traditional information retrieval primarily relied on ... -
In-Memory Storage for Labeled Tree-Structured Data
(University of Waterloo, 2017-03-16)In this thesis, we design in-memory data structures for labeled and weights trees, so that various types of path queries or operations can be supported with efficient query time. We assume the word RAM model with word size ... -
In-Network Scheduling for Real-Time Analytics
(University of Waterloo, 2021-04-30)This thesis presents Bolt, a novel scheduler design for large-scale real-time data analytics. Bolt achieves the scheduling accuracy of modern centralized schedulers while supporting clusters with hundreds of thousands of ... -
In-vehicle Performance and Distraction for Midair and Touch Directional Gestures
(University of Waterloo, 2023-07-18)We compare the performance and level of distraction of expressive directional gesture input in the context of in-vehicle system commands. Center console touchscreen swipes and midair swipe-like movements are tested in ... -
Incentives in One-Sided Matching Problems With Ordinal Preferences
(University of Waterloo, 2016-07-27)One of the core problems in multiagent systems is how to efficiently allocate a set of indivisible resources to a group of self-interested agents that compete over scarce and limited alternatives. In these settings, mechanism ... -
Incentivizing evaluation with peer prediction and limited access to ground truth
(Elsevier, 2019-10)In many settings, an effective way of evaluating objects of interest is to collect evaluations from dispersed individuals and to aggregate these evaluations together. Some examples are categorizing online content and ...