Browsing Mathematics (Faculty of) by Title
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Leveraged Plans for Measurement System Assessment
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-20)In manufacturing, measurement systems are used to control processes and inspect parts with the goal of producing high quality product for the customer. Modern Quality Systems require the periodic assessment of key measurement ... -
Leveraging Asymmetry and Interdependence to Enhance Social Connectedness in Cooperative Digital Games
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-24)Play is a fundamental component of human development and is an important means of forming healthy relationships throughout life. Research has shown that the types of digital games people play, how they play them, and who ... -
Leveraging Commodity Photonics to Reduce Datacenter Network Latency
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-22)Most datacenter network (DCN) designs focus on maximizing bisection bandwidth rather than minimizing server-to-server latency. They are, therefore, ill-suited for important latency-sensitive applications, such as high ... -
Leveraging Software-Defined Networking to Improve Distributed Transaction Processing Performance
(University of Waterloo, 2015-10-28)Recently, software-defined networking (SDN) has been transforming network technologies while NoSQL database systems are on the rise to become the de facto database systems for cloud technologies. Despite the promising ... -
Leveraging Software-Defined Networking to Mask Partial Network Partitions
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-11)We present an extensive study focused on partial network partitioning. Partial network partitions disrupt the communication between some but not all nodes in a cluster. First, we conduct a comprehensive study of system ... -
Leveraging Watermarks to Improve Performance of Streaming Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-28)Modern stream processing engines (SPEs) process large volumes of events propagated at high velocity through multiple queries. By continuously receiving watermarks, which are marker events injected into the stream to signify ... -
Lexical Affinities and Language Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2004)Understanding interactions among words is fundamental for natural language applications. However, many statistical NLP methods still ignore this important characteristic of language. For example, information retrieval ... -
Life History Analysis with Response-Dependent Observation
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-14)This thesis deals with statistical issues in the analysis of dependent failure time data under complex observation schemes. These observation schemes may yield right-censored, interval-censored and current status data and ... -
The Liftable Mapping Class Group
(University of Waterloo, 2017-07-19)Broadly, this thesis lies at the interface of mapping class groups and covering spaces. The foundations of this area were laid down in the early 1970s by Birman and Hilden. Building on these foundations, there has been a ... -
Light-Matter Interaction Models in Relativistic Quantum Information
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-21)In this thesis, we study the interaction of a first-quantized atomic system with the quantum electromagnetic field within the context of relativistic quantum information (RQI). To that end, we examine common classes of ... -
LightPlay: An Ambient Light System for Video Game Indicators and Notifications
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-11)Video games often have indicators and notifications to convey in-game information. However, displaying these visuals on-screen come with trade-offs, such as consuming screen real estate and an inability for them to be ... -
Likelihood-based Density Estimation using Deep Architectures
(University of Waterloo, 2019-12-20)Multivariate density estimation is a central problem in unsupervised machine learning that has been studied immensely in both statistics and machine learning. Several methods have thus been proposed for density estimation ... -
The Limited Effectiveness of Neural Networks for Simple Question Answering on Knowledge Graphs
(University of Waterloo, 2017-12-08)Simple factoid question answering (QA) is a task, where the questions can be answered by looking up a single fact in the knowledge base (KB). However, this QA task is difficult, since retrieving a single supporting fact ... -
Limiting techniques for the discontinuous Galerkin method on unstructured meshes
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-18)Many complex phenomena like shock-shock interactions, shock-vortex interactions, stratified flows, etc., are governed by nonlinear hyperbolic conservation laws. Higher order numerical schemes like the discontinuous Galerkin ... -
A Linear Algebraic Method on the Chromatic Symmetric Function
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-28)The Stanley-Stembridge conjecture is a longstanding conjecture that has evaded proof for nearly 30 years. Concerned with the e-basis expansions of the chromatic symmetric functions of unit-interval graphs, this conjecture ... -
Linear and Non-linear Monotone Methods for Valuing Financial Options Under Two-Factor, Jump-Diffusion Models
(University of Waterloo, 2007-10-01)The evolution of the price of two financial assets may be modeled by correlated geometric Brownian motion with additional, independent, finite activity jumps. Similarly, the evolution of the price of one financial asset ... -
Linear Approximations For Factored Markov Decision Processes
(University of Waterloo, 2004)A Markov Decision Process (MDP) is a model employed to describe problems in which a decision must be made at each one of several stages, while receiving feedback from the environment. This type of model has been extensively ... -
Linear preservers of polynomial numerical hulls of matrices
(Elsevier, 2019-08-15)Let Mn be the algebra of all n × n complex matrices, 1 ≤ k ≤ n − 1 be an integer, and φ : Mn −→ Mn be a linear operator. In this paper, it is shown that φ preserves the polynomial numerical hull of order k if and only if ... -
Linear Programming Tools and Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-05)We study techniques, approximation algorithms, structural properties and lower bounds related to applications of linear programs in combinatorial optimization. The following "Steiner tree problem" is central: given a graph ... -
Linearization Methods in Time Series Analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-30)In this dissertation, we propose a set of computationally efficient methods based on approximating/representing nonlinear processes by linear ones, so-called linearization. Firstly, a linearization method is introduced for ...