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Automatic Physical Design for XML Databases
(University of Waterloo, 2010-11-17)Database systems employ physical structures such as indexes and materialized views to improve query performance, potentially by orders of magnitude. It is therefore important for a database administrator to choose the ... -
Automatic Sequences and Decidable Properties: Implementation and Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-19)In 1912 Axel Thue sparked the study of combinatorics on words when he showed that the Thue-Morse sequence contains no overlaps, that is, factors of the form ayaya. Since then many interesting properties of sequences began ... -
Automatic Signature Matching in Component Composition
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-12)Reuse is not a new concept in software engineering. Ideas, abstractions, and processes have been reused by programmers since the very early days of software development. In the beginning, since storage media was very ... -
Automatically Tuning Database Server Multiprogramming Level
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-06)Optimizing database systems to achieve the maximum attainable throughput of the underlying hardware is one of the many difficult tasks that face Database Administrators. With the increased use of database systems in many ... -
Automating Programming Assignment Marking with AST Analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-14)This thesis presents a novel approach to automatically mark programming assignments. We hypothesize that correct student solution ASTs will be more similar to reference solution ASTs than incorrect student solutions and ... -
The Automation of Glycopeptide Discovery in High Throughput MS/MS Data
(University of Waterloo, 2004)Glycosylation, the addition of one or more carbohydrates molecules to a protein, is crucial for many cellular processes. Aberrant glycosylation is a key marker for various diseases such as cancer and rheumatoid arthritis. ... -
An Automaton-Theoretic View of Algebraic Specifications
(University of Waterloo, 2005)We compare two methods for software specification: <em>algebraic specifications</em> and automata. While algebraic specifications have been around since the 1970s and have been studied extensively, specification by ... -
Automotive Electronic/Electric Architecture Modeling, Design Exploration and Optimization using Clafer
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-10)Modern car systems are getting more complex, so do car electronic/electric (E/E) architectures. E/E architecture of a car includes sensors, actuators, programmable ECUs and all the related communications. The complexity ... -
Autonomic Resource Management for a Cluster that Executes Batch Jobs
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Resource management of large scale clusters is traditionally done manually. Servers are usually over-provisioned to meet the peak demand of workload. It is widely known that manual provisioning is error-prone and ... -
Autonomous Cooperating Web Crawlers
(University of Waterloo, 2002)A web crawler provides an automated way to discover web events ? creation, deletion, or updates of web pages. Competition among web crawlers results in redundant crawling, wasted resources, and less-than-timely discovery ... -
Autonomous Vehicles with Visual Signals for Pedestrians: Experiments and Design Recommendations
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-23)Autonomous Vehicles (AV) are the future of transportation and they will transform the dynamic of vehicle and pedestrian interaction. However, in the absence of a driver, it is not clear how an AV can use visual signals to ... -
Avoiding Bad Query Mixes to Minimize Unsuccessful Client Requests Under Heavy Loads
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-21)In three-tiered web applications, some form of admission control is required to ensure that throughput and response times are not significantly harmed during periods of heavy load. We propose Q-Cop, a prototype system ... -
Backdoors in Satisfiability Problems
(University of Waterloo, 2009-10-08)Although satisfiability problems (SAT) are NP-complete, state-of-the-art SAT solvers are able to solve large practical instances. The notion of backdoors has been introduced to capture structural properties of instances. ... -
Backscatter in stratified turbulence
(Elsevier, 2016-11)In this paper, kinetic and potential energy transfers around a spectral test fil ter scale in direct numerical simulations of decaying stratified turbulence are studied in both physical and spectral domains. It is shown ... -
Balancing Fidelity and Performance in Iridal Light Transport Simulations Aimed at Interactive Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2016-11-29)Specific light transport models based on first-principles approaches have been proposed for complex organic materials such as human skin and blood. The driving force behind these efforts has been the high-fidelity reproduction ... -
BanditFuzz: Fuzzing SMT Solvers with Reinforcement Learning
(2020)Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) solvers are fundamental tools in the broad context of software engineering and security research. If SMT solvers are to continue to have an impact, it is imperative we develop efficient ... -
Bandlimited functions, curved manifolds, and self-adjoint extensions of symmetric operators
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-20)Sampling theory is an active field of research that spans a variety of disciplines from communication engineering to pure mathematics. Sampling theory provides the crucial connection between continuous and discrete ... -
Barehand Mode Switching in Touch and Mid-Air Interfaces
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-28)Raskin defines a mode as a distinct setting within an interface where the same user input will produce results different to those it would produce in other settings. Most interfaces have multiple modes in which input is ... -
Batch Verification of Elliptic Curve Digital Signatures
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-20)This thesis investigates the efficiency of batching the verification of elliptic curve signatures. The first signature scheme considered is a modification of ECDSA proposed by Antipa et al.\ along with a batch verification ... -
Bayesian Analysis of Intratumoural Oxygen Data
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-28)There is now ample evidence to support the notion that a lack of oxygen (hypoxia) within the tumour adversely affects the outcome of radiotherapy and whether a patient is able to remain disease free. Thus, there is increasing ...