Browsing Theses by Type "Doctoral Thesis"
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Adaptive and Maladaptive Maximizing: Identifying the Correlates, Processes, and Outcomes of Maximizing in Decision-Making
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-04)Research on the affective outcomes of maximizing has been mixed, with some research indicating that people who seek the “best” option across decisions report lower happiness and life satisfaction, and greater depression ... -
Adaptive and Optimal Motion Control of Multi-UAV Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-21)This thesis studies trajectory tracking and coordination control problems for single and multi unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems. These control problems are addressed for both quadrotor and fixed-wing UAV cases. Despite ... -
Adaptive Capacity, Collaboration, and Adaptive Governance: The Galapagos small-scale fishing sector
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-19)Over the last decades, employing adaptive capacity and vulnerability terms to indicate forms of achieving more sustainable goals, particularly in the management of natural resources, has become increasingly frequent. While ... -
Adaptive Cooperative Highway Platooning and Merging
(University of Waterloo, 2017-05-19)As low-cost reliable sensors are introduced to market, research efforts in autonomous driving are increasing. Traffic congestion is a major problem for nearly all metropolis'. Assistive driving technologies like cruise ... -
Adaptive CPU Allocation for Resource Isolation and Work Conservation
(University of Waterloo, 2020-07-06)Consolidating multiple workloads on the same physical machine is an effective measure for utilizing resources efficiently and reducing costs. The main objective is to execute multiple demanding workloads using no more than ... -
Adaptive Data Storage and Placement in Distributed Database Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-01)Distributed database systems are widely used to provide scalable storage, update and query facilities for application data. Distributed databases primarily use data replication and data partitioning to spread load across ... -
Adaptive Dual-Mode Arbitration for High-Performance Real-Time Embedded Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-25)Multi-core platforms can deliver substantial computational power together with minimum costs, compact size, weight, and power usage. However, multi-core architectures are shaking the very foundation of modern real-time ... -
An Adaptive Ecosystem Approach to Rehabillitation and Management of the Cooum River Environmental System in Chennai, India
(University of Waterloo, 2000)This research investigates the application of an adaptive ecosystem approach to the problem of the Cooum River and environs in Chennai (formerly Madras), India. The Cooum River is an extremely polluted urban stream that ... -
The adaptive elements of disparity vergence: Dynamics and directional asymmetries.
(University of Waterloo, 2018-04-24)Vergence eye movements alter the angle between the two visual axes, creating changes in binocular fixation distance. They are primarily stimulated by retinal image disparities, but can also be driven by inputs from ocular ... -
Adaptive Formation Control of Cooperative Multi-Vehicle Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2015-12-22)The literature comprises many approaches and results for the formation control of multi-vehicle systems; however, the results established for the cases where the vehicles contain parametric uncertainties are limited. ... -
Adaptive Fractal and Wavelet Image Denoising
(University of Waterloo, 2004)The need for image enhancement and restoration is encountered in many practical applications. For instance, distortion due to additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) can be caused by poor quality image acquisition, images ... -
Adaptive Fringe Projection and Error-Compensated Calibration for Compact 3D Shape-Measurement Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-25)Measurement of the three-dimensional (3-D) shape of an object is needed for both industrial and consumer applications. In industrial applications, compact measurement systems are needed to accomplish certain tasks such as ... -
Adaptive Human-Chatbot Interactions: Contextual Factors, Variability Design and Levels of Automation
(University of Waterloo, 2023-12-05)The landscape of software development is undergoing a significant transformation characterized by various factors. A notable shift is the surging demand for software developers, driven by industries' increasing reliance ... -
Adaptive Learning Algorithms for Non-stationary Data
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-22)With the wide availability of large amounts of data and acute need for extracting useful information from such data, intelligent data analysis has attracted great attention and contributed to solving many practical tasks, ... -
Adaptive Medium Access Control for Internet-of-Things Enabled Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-27)An Internet-of-Things (IoT) enabled mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is a self organized distributed wireless network, in which nodes can randomly move making the network traffic load vary with time. A medium access control ... -
Adaptive Monitoring of Complex Software Systems using Management Metrics
(University of Waterloo, 2009-10-02)Software systems supporting networked, transaction-oriented services are large and complex; they comprise a multitude of inter-dependent layers and components, and they implement many dynamic optimization mechanisms. ... -
Adaptive OFDM Cooperative Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2010-12-08)Cooperative communication is a promising technique for wireless communication systems where wireless nodes cooperate together in transmitting their information. Such communication transmission technique, which realizes the ... -
Adaptive policies and drawdown problems in insurance risk models
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-31)Ruin theory studies an insurer's solvency risk, and to quantify such a risk, a stochastic process is used to model the insurer's surplus process. In fact, research on ruin theory dates back to the pioneer works of Lundberg ... -
Adaptive Power Amplifiers for Modern Communication Systems with Diverse Operating Conditions
(University of Waterloo, 2013-11-26)In this thesis, novel designs for adaptive power amplifiers, capable of maintaining excellent performance at dissimilar signal parameters, are presented. These designs result in electronically reconfigurable, single-ended ... -
Adaptive Streaming: From Bitrate Maximization to Rate-Distortion Optimization
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-30)The fundamental conflict between the increasing consumer demand for better Quality-of-Experience (QoE) and the limited supply of network resources has become significant challenges to modern video delivery systems. Stat ...