Browsing Mathematics (Faculty of) by Title
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RNA Homology Searches Using Pair Seeding
(University of Waterloo, 2005)Due to increasing numbers of non-coding RNA (ncRNA) being discovered recently, there is interest in identifying homologs of a given structured RNA sequence. Exhaustive homology searching for structured RNA molecules using ... -
Road Condition Sensing Using Deep Learning and Wireless Signals
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-14)Similar to human car drivers, future driverless cars need to sense the condition of road surfaces so that they can adjust their speed and distance from other cars. This awareness necessitates the need for a sensing mechanism ... -
Road Surface Estimation Using Machine Learning
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-19)Vehicle motion control systems are present on commercial vehicles to improve safety and driving comfort. Many of these control systems could be further improved given accurate online information about the road condition ... -
Robot Social Engineering
(University of Waterloo, 2020-07-06)This thesis establishes the new field of Robot Social Engineering. We define Robot Social Engineering as the use of social abilities and techniques by robots to manipulate others in order to achieve a goal. We build the ... -
Robust and Powerful Tests for Rare Variants Using Fishers Method to Combine Evidence of Association From Two or More Complementary Tests
(Wiley, 2012)Many association tests have been proposed for rare variants, but the choice of a powerful test is uncertain when there is limited information on the underlying genetic model. Proposed methods use either linear statistics, ... -
Robust Estimation of Mean Functions and Treatment Effects for Recurrent Events Under Event-Dependent Censoring and Termination: Application to Skeletal Complications in Cancer Metastatic to Bone
(Taylor & Francis, 2009)In clinical trials featuring recurrent clinical events, the definition and estimation of treatment effects involves a number of interesting issues, especially when loss to follow-up may be eventrelated and when terminal ... -
Robust Methods for Interval-Censored Life History Data
(University of Waterloo, 2008-08-20)Interval censoring arises frequently in life history data, as individuals are often only observed at a sequence of assessment times. This leads to a situation where we do not know when an event of interest occurs, only ... -
Robust Methods of Testing Long Range
(University of Waterloo, 2007-10-01)This thesis develops a novel robust periodogram method for detecting long memory. Though many test for long memory are based on the idea of linear regression, there exists no results in statistical literature on utilizing ... -
A Robust Neural Network Approach to Optimal Decumulation and Factor Investing in Defined Contribution Pension Plans
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-18)In this thesis, we propose a novel data-driven neural network (NN) optimization framework for solving an optimal stochastic control problem under stochastic constraints. The NN utilizes customized output layer activation ... -
Robust Risk Aggregation Techniques and Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-23)Risk aggregation, which concerns the statistical behaviors of an aggregation position S(X) associated with a random vector X = (X1, . . . , Xn), is an important research topic in risk management, economics, and statistics. ... -
Robust Search Methods for Rational Drug Design Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2009-12-08)The main topic of this thesis is the development of computational search methods that are useful in drug design applications. The emphasis is on exhaustiveness of the search method such that it can guarantee a certain level ... -
Robust Visual Recognition Using Multilayer Generative Neural Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-25)Deep generative neural networks such as the Deep Belief Network and Deep Boltzmann Machines have been used successfully to model high dimensional visual data. However, they are not robust to common variations such as ... -
Robustly Complete Temporal Logic Control Synthesis for Nonlinear Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2019-12-18)Modern systems such as spacecrafts and autonomous vehicles are complex yet safety-critical, and therefore the control methods that can deal with different dynamics and constraints while being provably correct are sought ... -
Robustness in Automatic Physical Database Design
(University of Waterloo, 2007-08-17)Automatic physical database design tools rely on ``what-if'' interfaces to the query optimizer to estimate the execution time of the training query workload under different candidate physical designs. The tools use these ... -
Robustness in Dimensionality Reduction
(University of Waterloo, 2016-04-14)Dimensionality reduction is widely used in many statistical applications, such as image analysis, microarray analysis, or text mining. This thesis focuses on three problems that relate to the robustness in dimension ... -
Role of Domain Ignorance in Software Development
(University of Waterloo, 2011-05-19)Several have reported observations that sometimes ignorance of the domain in a software development project is useful for promoting the elicitation of tacit assumptions and out- of-the-box ideas. This thesis reports work ... -
The Role of Instructional Design in Persuasion: A Comics Approach for Improving Cybersecurity
(Taylor & Francis, 2016-03)Although computer security technologies are the first line of defence to secure users, their success is dependent on individuals’ behaviour. It is therefore necessary to persuade users to practice good computer security. ... -
Role Of Word-Of-Mouth For Programs Of Voluntary Vaccination: A Game-Theoretic Approach
(Elsevier, 2015-11-01)We propose a model describing the synergetic feedback between word-of-mouth (WoM) and epidemic dynamics controlled by voluntary vaccination. The key feature consists in combining a game-theoretic model for the spread of ... -
Root-Locus Theory for Infinite-Dimensional Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-27)In this thesis, the root-locus theory for a class of diffusion systems is studied. The input and output boundary operators are co-located in the sense that their highest order derivatives occur at the same endpoint. It is ... -
RootChord
(University of Waterloo, 2010-04-29)We present a distributed data structure, which we call "RootChord". To our knowledge, this is the first distributed hash table which is able to adapt to changes in the size of the network and answer lookup queries within ...