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Performance Evaluation of Self-stabilizing Algorithms by Probabilistic Model Checking
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-08)A self-stabilizing protocol is one that starting from any arbitrary initial state recovers to legitimate states in a finite number of steps, and once it stabilizes to a set of legitimate states, it remains there unless it ... -
Performance Evaluation of WiFi Backscatter Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-29)WiFi backscatter communication has been proposed to enable battery-free sensors to transmit data using WiFi networks. The main advantage of WiFi backscatter technologies over RFID is that data from their tags can be read ... -
Performance Isolation in Cloud Storage Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-27)Cloud computing enables data centres to provide resource sharing across multiple tenants. This sharing, however, usually comes at a cost in the form of reduced isolation between tenants, which can lead to inconsistent ... -
Performance of a Cluster that Supports Resource Reservation and On-demand Access
(University of Waterloo, 2009-07-24)Next generation data centres are expected to support both advance resource reservation and on-demand access, but the system performance for such a computing environment has not been well-investigated. A reservation request ... -
Performance of the Ultra-Wide Word Model
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-08)The Ultra-wide word model of computation (UWRAM) is an extension of the Word-RAM model which has an ALU that can operate on w^2 bits at a time, where w is the size in bits of a cell in memory. The purpose of this thesis ... -
Periodicity and Repetition in Combinatorics on Words
(University of Waterloo, 2004)This thesis concerns combinatorics on words. I present many results in this area, united by the common themes of periodicity and repetition. Most of these results have already appeared in journal or conference ... -
Persona-based target-guided dialogue systems: A use case in dementia care
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-19)In recent years, conversational agents have shown potential in various applications. However, the development of conversational agents tailored for older adults, particularly those with age-related cognitive limitations, ... -
Personal Data Management in the Internet of Things
(University of Waterloo, 2015-12-08)Due to a sharp decrease in hardware costs and shrinking form factors, networked sensors have become ubiquitous. Today, a variety of sensors are embedded into smartphones, tablets, and personal wearable devices, and are ... -
Personal Email Spam Filtering with Minimal User Interaction
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-30)This thesis investigates ways to reduce or eliminate the necessity of user input to learning-based personal email spam filters. Personal spam filters have been shown in previous studies to yield superior effectiveness, ... -
Personality Traits of GitHub Maintainers and Their Effects on Project Success
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-28)Online collaborative environments have become important virtual workplaces for developers to work on a common problem. GitHub is an example of such environment that hosts a wealth of open source software projects. Questions ... -
Personalizing Persuasive Strategies in Gameful Systems to Gamification User Types
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2018-04-21)Persuasive gameful systems are effective tools for motivating behaviour change. Research has shown that tailoring these systems to individuals can increase their efficacy; however, there is little knowledge on how to ... -
Perspective in Two Dimensions for Computer Graphics
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-28)Computer graphics perspective is based on photography, the pin-hole camera model. This thesis examines the perspective as practiced by artists, who develop the picture geometry within the planar surface of the canvas. Their ... -
Perspectives on software-defined networks: interviews with five leading scientists from the networking community
(SpringerOpen, 2015-10-30)Software defined Networks (SDNs) have drawn much attention both from academia and industry over the last few years. Despite the fact that underlying ideas already exist through areas such as P2P applications and active ... -
Physical Design for Non-relational Data Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-09)Decades of research have gone into the optimization of physical designs, query execution, and related tools for relational databases. These techniques and tools make it possible for non-expert users to make effective use ... -
Physically-based Simulation of Tornadoes
(University of Waterloo, 2005)In this physically-based tornado simulation, the tornado-scale approach techniques are applied to simulate the tornado formation environment. The three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous ... -
Pixelating Vector Art
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-09)Pixel art is a popular style of digital art often found in video games. It is typically characterized by its low resolution and use of limited colour palettes. Pixel art is created manually with little automation because ... -
Planar Open Rectangle-of-Influence Drawings
(University of Waterloo, 2012-05-18)A straight line drawing of a graph is an open weak rectangle-of-influence (RI) drawing, if there is no vertex in the relative interior of the axis parallel rectangle induced by the end points of each edge. Despite recent ... -
Planning and Deployment of Wireless Sensor Networks
(SAGE Publications (UK and US): Creative Commons Attribution, 2014-01-08)Editorial introduction to special issue on Planning and Deployment of Wireless Sensor Networks published in the International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, 9(5). 2014. -
PLOX: A Secure Serverless Framework for the Smart Home
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-17)Smart hubs play a key role in the modern smart home in executing code on behalf of devices locally or on the cloud. Unfortunately, smart hubs are prone to security problems due to misconfigurations, device over permissioning ... -
POEM: Pattern-Oriented Explanations of CNN Models
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-16)While Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) achieve state-of-the-art predictive performance in applications such as computer vision, their predictions are difficult to explain, similar to other types of deep learning models. ...