Browsing Mathematics (Faculty of) by Title
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Crawling, Collecting, and Condensing News Comments
(University of Waterloo, 2013-11-29)Traditionally, public opinion and policy is decided by issuing surveys and performing censuses designed to measure what the public thinks about a certain topic. Within the past five years social networks such as Facebook ... -
Creating an Emotion Responsive Dialogue System
(University of Waterloo, 2018-10-19)The popularity of deep neural networks and vast amounts of readily available multi-domain textual data has seen the advent of various domain/task specific and domain agnostic dialogue systems. In our work, we present a ... -
Creating Your Bubble: Personal Space On and Around Large Public Displays
(ACM, 2016-05)We describe an empirical study that explores how users establish and use personal space around large public displays (LPDs). Our study complements field studies in this space by more fully characterizing interpersonal ... -
Critical Dynamics In Population Vaccinating Behavior
(National Academy of Sciences, 2017-12-26)Vaccine refusal can lead to renewed outbreaks of previously eliminated diseases and even delay global eradication. Vaccinating decisions exemplify a complex, coupled system where vaccinating behavior and disease dynamics ... -
A Critical Examination of Two Specific Approaches Used to Characterize Medical Images: i) Projection-based Descriptors for Image Retrieval and ii) Estimating Fractal Dimensions of Discrete Sets
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-31)In this thesis we provide a critical examination of two methods which are used to characterize medical images. Accordingly, this thesis is split into two main parts. First, we take a look at the problem of designing ... -
Critical Exponents and Stabilizers of Infinite Words
(University of Waterloo, 2008-04-01)This thesis concerns infinite words over finite alphabets. It contributes to two topics in this area: critical exponents and stabilizers. Let w be a right-infinite word defined over a finite alphabet. The critical ... -
Critical exponents of infinite balanced words
(Elsevier, 2019-07-19)Over an alphabet of size 3 we construct an infinite balanced word with critical exponent 2 + root2/2. Over an alphabet of size 4 we construct an infinite balanced word with critical exponent (5 + root5)/4. Over larger ... -
A critical review of 'optimal' annuitization strategies
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-28)This paper is an analysis of different self-annuitization strategies advised to a retiree. At the time of retirement, an individual has the choice between annuitizing immediately with their wealth or delaying until a future ... -
Cross-Domain Sentence Modeling for Relevance Transfer with BERT
(University of Waterloo, 2019-12-16)Standard bag-of-words term-matching techniques in document retrieval fail to exploit rich semantic information embedded in the document texts. One promising recent trend in facilitating context-aware semantic matching has ... -
Cross-Lingual Entity Matching for Knowledge Graphs
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-14)Multilingual knowledge graphs (KGs), such as YAGO and DBpedia, represent entities in different languages. The task of cross-lingual entity matching is to align entities in a source language with their counterparts in target ... -
Cross-monotonic Cost-Sharing Methods for Network Design Games
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-26)In this thesis we consider some network design games that arise from common network design problems. A network design game involves multiple players who control nodes in a network, each of which has a personal interest ... -
Cryptographic End-to-end Verification for Real-world Elections
(University of Waterloo, 2012-07-05)In this dissertation we study the problem of making electronic voting trustworthy through the use of cryptographic end-to-end (E2E) audits. In particular, we present a series of novel proposals for cryptographic election ... -
Cryptographic Protocols, Sensor Network Key Management, and RFID Authentication
(University of Waterloo, 2009-06-26)This thesis includes my research on efficient cryptographic protocols, sensor network key management, and radio frequency identification (RFID) authentication protocols. Key exchange, identification, and public key ... -
Cryptography and Privacy in Vehicular Communication Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-28)Wireless communication technologies can support dynamic networks between vehicles, pedestrians and roadside infrastructure called Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs). Wireless communication over VANETs allows for several ... -
Crystallizing Application Configurations
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Software applications have both static and dynamic dependencies. Static dependencies are those derived from the source code. Dynamic runtime dependencies are established at runtime and may be based on information ... -
Customizing kernels in Support Vector Machines
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-22)Support Vector Machines have been used to do classification and regression analysis. One important part of SVMs are the kernels. Although there are several widely used kernel functions, a carefully designed kernel will ... -
Cyberheroes: The Design and Evaluation of an Interactive Ebook to Educate Children about Online Privacy
(Elsevier, 2017-07)We designed an educational interactive ebook called Cyberheroes and evaluated it to assess its effectiveness at increasing children’s online privacy knowledge and behaviour, and supporting child-parent privacy-related ... -
The Cycle Spaces of an Infinite Graph
(University of Waterloo, 2006)The edge space of a finite graph <em>G</em> = (<em>V</em>, <em>E</em>) over a field F is simply an assignment of field elements to the edges of the graph. The edge space can equally be thought of us an |<em>E</em>|-dimensional ... -
Cycles and coloring in graphs and digraphs
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-22)We show results in areas related to extremal problems in directed graphs. The first concerns a rainbow generalization of the Caccetta-H\"{a}ggkvist conjecture, made by Aharoni. The Caccetta-H\"{a}ggkvist conjecture states ... -
Cyclic Sieving Phenomenon of Promotion on Rectangular Tableaux
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-28)Cyclic sieving phenomenon (CSP) is a generalization by Reiner, Stanton, White of Stembridge's q=-1 phenomenon. When CSP is exhibited, orbits of a cyclic action on combinatorial objects show a nice structure and their sizes ...