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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 ... -
Bayesian Contact Tracing for Communicable Respiratory Diseases
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-24)Purpose: The purpose of our work is to develop a system for automatic contact tracing with the goal of identifying individuals who are most likely infected, even if we do not have direct diagnostic information on their ... -
Bayesian Federated Learning in Predictive Space
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-10)Federated Learning (FL) involves training a model over a dataset distributed among clients, with the constraint that each client's data is private. This paradigm is useful in settings where different entities own different ... -
Bayesian Inference for Stochastic Volatility Models
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-26)Stochastic volatility (SV) models provide a natural framework for a representation of time series for financial asset returns. As a result, they have become increasingly popular in the finance literature, although they ... -
Bayesian Inference Methods Applied to Cancer Research
(University of Waterloo, 2009-12-11)The purpose of this Thesis is to present a Bayesian analysis of oncological data sets with particular focus on cervical carcinomas and ovarian cancers. Bayesian methods of data analysis have a very long history, and ... -
Bayesian Sample Size Determination for Single-Particle Tracking of Pathogens in Biological Fluids
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-17)Single-particle tracking (SPT) experiments measure 2-dimensional particle position with a high-resolution digital camera, capturing microsecond motion. SPT has allowed novel investigation of membrane dynamics, enzymology, ... -
Bayesian Unsupervised Labeling of Web Document Clusters
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-30)Information technologies have recently led to a surge of electronic documents in the form of emails, webpages, blogs, news articles, etc. To help users decide which documents may be interesting to read, it is common practice ... -
Beam Me 'Round, Scotty! II: Reflections on Transforming Research Goals into Gameplay Mechanics
(ACM, 2018-10-23)We reflect on the design, implementation, and testing of the experimental testbed game Beam Me 'Round, Scotty! II and the numerous design lessons learned in transitioning theoretical research questions about social presence ...