Browsing Mathematics (Faculty of) by Title
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SkypeMorph: Protocol Obfuscation for Censorship Resistance
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-24)The Tor network is designed to provide users with low-latency anonymous communication. Tor clients build circuits with publicly listed relays to anonymously reach their destinations. Low-latency anonymous communication is ... -
Sliding Window Query Processing over Data Streams
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Database management systems (DBMSs) have been used successfully in traditional business applications that require persistent data storage and an efficient querying mechanism. Typically, it is assumed that the data are ... -
Smart Contract Analysis Through Communication Abstractions
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-07)Smart contracts are programs that manage interactions between many users. Recently, Solidity smart contract have become a popular way to enforce financial agreements between untrusting users. However, such agreements do ... -
Smart-Meter Enabled Estimation and Prediction of Outdoor Residential Water Consumption
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-22)Smart meter technology allows frequent measurements of water consumption at a household level. This greater availability of data allows improved analysis of patterns of residential water consumption, which is important ... -
Smith Normal Form over Local Rings and Related Problems
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-28)The Smith normal form is a diagonalization of matrices with many applications in diophantine analysis, graph theory, system control theory, simplicial homology, and more recently, in topological analysis of big data. ... -
Smooth centre manifolds for impulsive delay differential equations
(Elsevier, 2018-04-16)The existence and smoothness of centre manifolds and a reduction principle are proven for impulsive delay differential equations. Several intermediate results of theoretical interest are developed, including a variation ... -
Smoothening Functions and the Homomorphism Learning Problem
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-02)This thesis is an exploration of certain algebraic and geometrical aspects of the Learning With Errors (LWE) problem introduced in Reg05. On the algebraic front, we view it as a Learning Homomorphisms with Noise problem, ... -
Snakes in the Plane
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-23)Recent developments in tiling theory, primarily in the study of anisohedral shapes, have been the product of exhaustive computer searches through various classes of polygons. I present a brief background of tiling theory ... -
Social Choice for Partial Preferences Using Imputation
(University of Waterloo, 2016-06-21)Within the field of multiagent systems, the area of computational social choice considers the problems arising when decisions must be made collectively by a group of agents. Usually such systems collect a ranking of the ... -
Social Networks, Asset Allocation and Portfolio Diversification
(University of Waterloo, 2015-02-18)In this thesis we consider the problem of choosing financial assets from the equity markets for portfolio construction purposes. We adapt various measures to model the dependence structure among financial assets, taking ... -
Socio-Ecological Dynamics Of Caribbean Coral Reef Ecosystems And Conservation Opinion Propagation
(Nature Publishing Group, 2018-02-07)The Caribbean coral reef ecosystem has experienced a long history of deterioration due to various stressors. For instance, over-fishing of parrotfish - an important grazer of macroalgae that can prevent destructive overgrowth ... -
A Socio-mathematical and Structure-Based Approach to Model Sentiment Dynamics in Event-Based Text
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-27)Natural language texts are often meant to express or impact the emotions of individuals. Recognizing the underlying emotions expressed in or triggered by textual content is essential if one is to arrive at an understanding ... -
A Socio-Psychological Approach to the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma
(University of Waterloo, 2016-10-25)Affect Control Theory (ACT), as a model of human interaction, attempts to capture a part of the human psyche that tends to go overlooked in the study of Artificial Intelligence: the role of emotion in decision making. It ... -
Software Architecture Recovery based on Pattern Matching
(University of Waterloo, 2003)Pattern matching approaches in reverse engineering aim to incorporate domain knowledge and system documentation in the software architecture extraction process, hence provide a user/tool collaborative environment for ... -
Software Bug Detection Using the N-gram Language Model
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-22)Over the years many techniques have been proposed to infer programming rules in order to improve software reliability. The techniques use violations of these programming rules to detect software defects. This thesis ... -
Software Engineering for Big Data Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2017-04-24)Software engineering is the application of a systematic approach to designing, operating and maintaining software systems and the study of all the activities involved in achieving the same. The software engineering discipline ... -
A Software Framework for PCA-based Face Recognition
(University of Waterloo, 2016-04-28)Face recognition, as one of the major biometrics identification methods, has been applied in different fields involving economics, military, e-commerce, and security. Its touchless identification process and non-compulsory ... -
Software Journeys
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-28)Getting familiar with the code is a challenging activity and therefore resource intensive. The larger the software code base, the larger the resource expenditure. We consider software development in the case of established ... -
Software Simulation of 5-Axis CNC Milling using Multidirectional Heightmaps
(University of Waterloo, 2010-09-22)Machinists often simulate a part program to verify its correctness, since mistakes can cause damage to the part, machine, oneself, or others. A popular approach for part program simulation involves representing the stock ... -
Software Simulation of Numerically Controlled Machining
(University of Waterloo, 2006)The field of numerically controlled (NC) machining has long been interested with predicting and measuring the errors in machining. Creating a simulation of NC machining is one way of achieving this. This thesis ...