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Predicting epileptic seizures using nonlinear dynamics
(University of Waterloo, 2009-01-23)Epilepsy is a nervous system disorder which affects approximately 1% of the world's population. Nearly 25% of people who have epilepsy are resistant to traditional treatments such as medication and are not candidates for ... -
Predicting Repository Upkeep with Textual Personality Analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-29)GitHub is an excellent democratic source of software. Unlike traditional work groups however, GitHub repositories are primarily anonymous and virtual. Traditional strategies for improving the productivity of a work group ... -
Predicting Short-Term Water Consumption for Multi-Family Residences
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-20)Smart water meters have been installed across Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada, to measure the water consumption of households in the area. Using this water consumption data, we develop machine learning and deep learning ... -
Predicting Test Suite Effectiveness for Java Programs
(University of Waterloo, 2012-07-26)The coverage of a test suite is often used as a proxy for its effectiveness. However, previous studies that investigated the influence of code coverage on test suite effectiveness have failed to reach a consensus about ... -
Predicting the Spectrum Quality and Digestive Enzyme for Shotgun Proteomics
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-03)In proteomics, database search programs are routinely used for peptide identification from tandem mass spectrometry data. However, many low-quality spectra cannot be interpreted by any programs. Meanwhile, certain high-quality ... -
Prediction and Planning in Dynamical Systems with Underlying Markov Decision Processes
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-24)Predicting the future state of a scene with moving objects is a task that humans handle with ease. This is due to our understanding about the dynamics of the objects in the scene and the way they interact. However, teaching ... -
Prediction of AL Amyloidosis Using Deep Learning
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-27)AL amyloidosis (amyloid light chain or primary amyloidosis) is a rare protein disorder that can be potentially fatal or can cause permanent damage to the organs in the body, especially in cases where the diagnosis does not ... -
Prediction of recurrent events
(University of Waterloo, 2004)In this thesis, we will study issues related to prediction problems and put an emphasis on those arising when recurrent events are involved. First we define the basic concepts of frequentist and Bayesian statistical ... -
Prediction Performance of Survival Models
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-12)Statistical models are often used for the prediction of future random variables. There are two types of prediction, point prediction and probabilistic prediction. The prediction accuracy is quantified by performance ... -
A Preference Judgment Interface for Authoritative Assessment
(University of Waterloo, 2023-02-06)For offline evaluation of information retrieval systems, preference judgments have been demonstrated to be a superior alternative to graded or binary relevance judgments. In contrast to graded judgments, where each ... -
Prepositional Phrase Attachment Disambiguation Using WordNet
(University of Waterloo, 2006)In this thesis we use a knowledge-based approach to disambiguating prepositional phrase attachments in English sentences. This method was first introduced by S. M. Harabagiu. The Penn Treebank corpus is used as ... -
Preprocessing and Reduction for Semidefinite Programming via Facial Reduction: Theory and Practice
(University of Waterloo, 2013-11-26)Semidefinite programming is a powerful modeling tool for a wide range of optimization and feasibility problems. Its prevalent use in practice relies on the fact that a (nearly) optimal solution of a semidefinite program ... -
Prescriptive Semantics For Big-Step Modelling Languages
(University of Waterloo, 2011-02-22)With the popularity of model-driven methodologies and the abundance of modelling languages, a major question for a modeller is: Which language is suitable for modelling a system under study? To answer this question, one ... -
Preserving Geometry and Topology for Fluid Flows with Thin Obstacles and Narrow Gaps
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2016-07-01)Fluid animation methods based on Eulerian grids have long struggled to resolve flows involving narrow gaps and thin solid features. Past approaches have artificially inflated or voxelized boundaries, although this sacrifices ... -
Preserving Measured Structure During Generation and Reduction of Multivariate Point Configurations
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-30)Inherent in any multivariate data is structure, which describes the general shape and distribution of the underlying point configuration. While there are potentially many types of structure that could be of interest, ... -
The Prevalence and Impact of Persistent Ambiguity in Software Requirements Specification Documents
(University of Waterloo, 2016-12-21)Despite a large amount of research in methods and tools for avoiding and detecting requirements ambiguity, recent studies have indicated that requirements ambiguity seems to be resolved through multiple inspections and ... -
Pricing and Hedging of Emerging Products in Finance and Insurance
(University of Waterloo, 2018-12-12)This thesis addresses the pricing and hedging issues on the newly-developed financial and insurance products, including simplified hedges for path-dependent options, variable annuities tied with state-dependent fees, and ... -
Pricing and Hedging the Guaranteed Minimum Withdrawal Benefits in Variable Annuities
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-22)The Guaranteed Minimum Withdrawal Benefits (GMWBs) are optional riders provided by insurance companies in variable annuities. They guarantee the policyholders' ability to get the initial investment back by making periodic ... -
Pricing Asian Options by the Method of Moments Matching
(University of Waterloo, 2015-06-16)This Master's Thesis explores the method of moments matching for pricing Asian options. In this thesis, the underlying asset is assumed to be non-dividend paying and its price process either follows the standard geometric ... -
Pricing CPPI Capital Guarantees: A Lagrangian Framework
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-28)A robust computational framework is presented for the risk-neutral valuation of capital guarantees written on discretely-reallocated portfolios following the Constant Proportion Portfolio Insurance (CPPI) strategy. Aiming ...