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In Silico Investigation of the Light Transmission Profiles of Sand-Textured Soils
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-14)Sand-textured soils are found in a wide range of landscapes, from dune fields to coastal areas. The quantification of light penetration through these soils, particularly considering possible variations in the presence ... -
In the new era of Internet of Things even your breathing rate is not private
(University of Waterloo, 2021-12-21)This thesis shows a new type of attack that can secretly gather private measurements from the target. Wi-Sneak is a stealthy reconnaissance attack which utilizes the ambient WiFi signal and ubiquitous WiFi-enabled devices ... -
An In-Depth Exploration of the High-Quality Entity Linking for Information Retrieval: MMEAD
(University of Waterloo, 2023-12-19)Entity linking has emerged significantly during the digital information explosion, aiming to provide context and meaning to huge amounts of unstructured data. While traditional information retrieval primarily relied on ... -
In-Memory Storage for Labeled Tree-Structured Data
(University of Waterloo, 2017-03-16)In this thesis, we design in-memory data structures for labeled and weights trees, so that various types of path queries or operations can be supported with efficient query time. We assume the word RAM model with word size ... -
In-Network Scheduling for Real-Time Analytics
(University of Waterloo, 2021-04-30)This thesis presents Bolt, a novel scheduler design for large-scale real-time data analytics. Bolt achieves the scheduling accuracy of modern centralized schedulers while supporting clusters with hundreds of thousands of ... -
In-vehicle Performance and Distraction for Midair and Touch Directional Gestures
(University of Waterloo, 2023-07-18)We compare the performance and level of distraction of expressive directional gesture input in the context of in-vehicle system commands. Center console touchscreen swipes and midair swipe-like movements are tested in ... -
Incentives in One-Sided Matching Problems With Ordinal Preferences
(University of Waterloo, 2016-07-27)One of the core problems in multiagent systems is how to efficiently allocate a set of indivisible resources to a group of self-interested agents that compete over scarce and limited alternatives. In these settings, mechanism ... -
Incentivizing evaluation with peer prediction and limited access to ground truth
(Elsevier, 2019-10)In many settings, an effective way of evaluating objects of interest is to collect evaluations from dispersed individuals and to aggregate these evaluations together. Some examples are categorizing online content and ... -
Incorporating Linear Dependencies into Graph Gaussian Processes
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-28)Graph Gaussian processes are an important technique for learning unknown functions on graphs while quantifying uncertainty. These processes encode prior information by using kernels that reflect the structure of the graph, ... -
Increasing the Efficiency of High-Recall Information Retrieval
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-30)The goal of high-recall information retrieval (HRIR) is to find all, or nearly all, relevant documents while maintaining reasonable assessment effort. Achieving high recall is a key problem in the use of applications ... -
Increasing the Semantic Similarity of Object-Oriented Domain Models by Performing Behavioral Analysis First
(University of Waterloo, 2006)The main goal of any object-oriented analysis (OOA) method is to produce a model that aids in understanding and communicating knowledge about a modeled domain. A higher degree of similarity among independently produced ... -
Incremental and Commutative Composition of State-Machine Models of Features
(IEEE, 2015-05)In this paper, we present a technique for incre- mental and commutative composition of state-machine models of features, using the FeatureHouse framework. The inputs to FeatureHouse are feature state-machines (or state-machine ... -
The Incremental Constraint of k-Server
(University of Waterloo, 2012-05-19)Online algorithms are characterized by operating on an input sequence revealed over time versus a single static input. Instead of generating a single solution, they produce a sequence of incremental solutions corresponding ... -
Indexing Compressed Text
(University of Waterloo, 2003)As a result of the rapid growth of the volume of electronic data, text compression and indexing techniques are receiving more and more attention. These two issues are usually treated as independent problems, but approaches ... -
Infinite Sequences and Pattern Avoidance
(University of Waterloo, 2004)The study of combinatorics on words dates back at least to the beginning of the 20th century and the work of Axel Thue. Thue was the first to give an example of an infinite word over a three letter alphabet that contains ... -
Information Access Using Neural Networks For Diverse Domains And Sources
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-05)The ever-increasing volume of web-based documents poses a challenge in efficiently accessing specialized knowledge from domain-specific sources, requiring a profound understanding of the domain and substantial comprehension ... -
Information Retrieval Evaluation Measures Based on Preference Graphs
(University of Waterloo, 2021-07-30)Offline evaluation for web search has used mostly graded judgments to evaluate the performance of information retrieval systems. While graded judgments suffer several known problems, preference judgments simply judge one ... -
Information Retrieval with Entity Linking
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-17)Despite the advantages of their low-resource settings, traditional sparse retrievers depend on exact matching approaches between high-dimensional bag-of-words (BoW) representations of both the queries and the collection. ... -
Information Theoretic Evaluation of Change Prediction Models for Large-Scale Software
(University of Waterloo, 2006)During software development and maintenance, as a software system evolves, changes are made and bugs are fixed in various files. In large-scale systems, file histories are stored in software repositories, such as CVS, ... -
Ink-based Note Taking On Mobile Devices
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-20)Although touchscreen mobile phones are widely used for recording informal text notes (e.g., grocery lists, reminders and directions), the lack of efficient mechanisms for combining informal graphical content with text is ...