Browsing Mathematics (Faculty of) by Title
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A Method to Symbolically Compute Convolution Integrals
(University of Waterloo, 2009-12-22)This thesis presents a method for computing symbolic solutions of a certain class of improper integrals related to convolutions of Mellin transforms. Important integrals that fall into this category are integral transforms ... -
Methods and models for the quantitative analysis of crowd brainstorming
(University of Waterloo, 2014-04-24)Microtask marketplaces provide shortcuts for automating tasks that are otherwise intractable for computers. Creative tasks fall squarely within this definition, and microtask marketplaces have been heavily leveraged to ... -
Methods for longitudinal data measured at distinct time points
(University of Waterloo, 2010-09-30)For longitudinal data where the response and time-dependent predictors within each individual are measured at distinct time points, traditional longitudinal models such as generalized linear mixed effects models or ... -
Methods for Merging, Parsimony and Interpretability of Finite Mixture Models
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-04)To combat the increasing data dimensionality, parsimonious modelling for finite mixture models has risen to be an active research area. These modelling frameworks offer various constraints that can reduce the number of ... -
Methods in Functional Data Analysis: Forecast Evaluation, Robust Serial Dependence Measures, and a Spatial Factor Copula Model
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-05)With advancements in technology, new types of data have become available, including functional data, which observations in the form of functions or curves rather than scalar or vector-valued quantities. This emerging area ... -
Microcolony Dynamics: Motion from Growth, Order, and Incompressibility
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-27)Rod-shaped bacteria such as E. coli reproduce by expanding along their long axis and splitting into pairs of daughter cells. If conditions are favourable for growth, they will continue in this way, doubling repeatedly until ... -
Microswimmer Propulsion by Two Steadily Rotating Helical Flagella
(MDPI, 2019-01-01)Many theoretical studies of bacterial locomotion adopt a simple model for the organism consisting of a spheroidal cell body and a single corkscrew-shaped flagellum that rotates to propel the body forward. Motivated by ... -
The Mimetic Approach to Incompressible Surface Tension Flows
(University of Waterloo, 2016-04-27)Water has many aesthetic properties that can have a strong impact on our perceptions. For instance, coffee can bring a feeling of liveliness, rain drops on a window may spark nostalgia, morning dew on a leaf can suggest ... -
Mind the GAP: Amenability Constants and Arens Regularity of Fourier Algebras
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-28)This thesis aims to investigate properties of algebras related to the Fourier algebra $A(G)$ and the Fourier-Stieltjes algebra $B(G)$, where $G$ is a locally compact group. For a Banach algebra $\cA$ there are two natural ... -
Mindless Scroll: An Infinite Scroll Abstract Colouring App for Mindfulness
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-25)We design and evaluate Mindless Scroll, a mobile application for mindfulness that encourages a slow and deliberate approach to colouring. The app renders an infinite scroll of generated geometric tilings that reveal ... -
Minimal induced subgraphs of two classes of 2-connected non-Hamiltonian graphs
(Elsevier, 2022-07)In 1981, Duffus, Gould, and Jacobson showed that every connected graph either has a Hamiltonian path, or contains a claw (K1,3) or a net (a fixed six-vertex graph) as an induced subgraph. This implies that subject to being ... -
Minimum Crossing Problems on Graphs
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-19)This thesis will address several problems in discrete optimization. These problems are considered hard to solve. However, good approximation algorithms for these problems may be helpful in approximating problems in ... -
Minimum Number of Triangles of K5 Descendants
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-26)In the study of Quantum Field Theory and Feynman Periods, the operation of double triangle expansion plays an important role. This is largely due to double triangle expansions not affecting the maximum weight of the ... -
Minimum Shared-Power Edge Cut
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-24)We introduce a problem called the Minimum Shared-Power Edge Cut (MSPEC). The input to the problem is an undirected edge-weighted graph with distinguished vertices s and t, and the goal is to find an s-t cut by assigning ... -
Mining Butterflies in Streaming Graphs
(University of Waterloo, 2023-07-12)This thesis introduces two main-memory systems sGrapp and sGradd for performing the fundamental analytic tasks of biclique counting and concept drift detection over a streaming graph. A data-driven heuristic is used to ... -
Mining Software Repositories to Assist Developers and Support Managers
(University of Waterloo, 2004)This thesis explores mining the evolutionary history of a software system to support software developers and managers in their endeavors to build and maintain complex software systems. We introduce the idea of ... -
Mining Time-Changing Data Streams
(University of Waterloo, 2011-10-28)Streaming data have gained considerable attention in database and data mining communities because of the emergence of a class of applications, such as financial marketing, sensor networks, internet IP monitoring, and ... -
Mining Topic Signals from Text
(University of Waterloo, 2003)This work aims at studying the effect of word position in text on understanding and tracking the content of written text. In this thesis we present two uses of word position in text: topic word selectors and topic flow ... -
Misconfiguration Analysis of Network Access Control Policies
(University of Waterloo, 2009-02-20)Network access control (NAC) systems have a very important role in network security. However, NAC policy configuration is an extremely complicated and error-prone task due to the semantic complexity of NAC policies and ... -
Misinformation Retrieval
(University of Waterloo, 2021-10-01)This work introduces the task of misinformation retrieval, identifying all documents containing misinformation for a given topic, and proposes a pipeline for misinformation retrieval on tweets. As part of the work, I curated ...