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Predicting the Spectrum Quality and Digestive Enzyme for Shotgun Proteomics
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-03)In proteomics, database search programs are routinely used for peptide identification from tandem mass spectrometry data. However, many low-quality spectra cannot be interpreted by any programs. Meanwhile, certain high-quality ... -
Prediction and Planning in Dynamical Systems with Underlying Markov Decision Processes
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-24)Predicting the future state of a scene with moving objects is a task that humans handle with ease. This is due to our understanding about the dynamics of the objects in the scene and the way they interact. However, teaching ... -
Prediction of AL Amyloidosis Using Deep Learning
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-27)AL amyloidosis (amyloid light chain or primary amyloidosis) is a rare protein disorder that can be potentially fatal or can cause permanent damage to the organs in the body, especially in cases where the diagnosis does not ... -
A Preference Judgment Interface for Authoritative Assessment
(University of Waterloo, 2023-02-06)For offline evaluation of information retrieval systems, preference judgments have been demonstrated to be a superior alternative to graded or binary relevance judgments. In contrast to graded judgments, where each ... -
Prepositional Phrase Attachment Disambiguation Using WordNet
(University of Waterloo, 2006)In this thesis we use a knowledge-based approach to disambiguating prepositional phrase attachments in English sentences. This method was first introduced by S. M. Harabagiu. The Penn Treebank corpus is used as ... -
Prescriptive Semantics For Big-Step Modelling Languages
(University of Waterloo, 2011-02-22)With the popularity of model-driven methodologies and the abundance of modelling languages, a major question for a modeller is: Which language is suitable for modelling a system under study? To answer this question, one ... -
Preserving Geometry and Topology for Fluid Flows with Thin Obstacles and Narrow Gaps
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2016-07-01)Fluid animation methods based on Eulerian grids have long struggled to resolve flows involving narrow gaps and thin solid features. Past approaches have artificially inflated or voxelized boundaries, although this sacrifices ... -
The Prevalence and Impact of Persistent Ambiguity in Software Requirements Specification Documents
(University of Waterloo, 2016-12-21)Despite a large amount of research in methods and tools for avoiding and detecting requirements ambiguity, recent studies have indicated that requirements ambiguity seems to be resolved through multiple inspections and ... -
Prioritizing Features Through Categorization: An Approach to Resolving Feature Interactions
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-27)Feature interactions occur when one feature interferes with the intended operation of another feature. To detect such interactions, each new feature must be tested against existing features. The detected interactions must ... -
Privacy and Security Attitudes, Beliefs and Behaviours: Informing Future Tool Design
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-26)Usable privacy and security has become a significant area of interest for many people in both industry and academia. A better understanding of the knowledge and motivation is an important factor in the design of privacy ... -
A Privacy-Friendly Architecture for Mobile Social Networking Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-23)The resources and localization abilities available in modern smartphones have provided a huge boost to the popularity of location-based applications. In these applications, users send their current locations to a central ... -
Privacy-Preserving Interest Matching for Mobile Social Networking
(University of Waterloo, 2010-07-28)The success of online social networking has resulted in increased attention to mobile social networking research and applications. In mobile social networking, instead of looking for friends over the Internet, people ... -
PrivacyGuard: A VPN-Based Approach to Detect Privacy Leakages on Android Devices
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-06)The Internet is now the most important and efficient way to gain information, and mobile devices are the easiest way to access the Internet. Furthermore, wearable devices, which can be considered to be the next generation ... -
Private Data Exploring, Sampling, and Profiling
(University of Waterloo, 2022-06-27)Data analytics is being widely used not only as a business tool, which empowers organizations to drive efficiencies, glean deeper operational insights and identify new opportunities, but also for the greater good of society, ... -
Private Distribution Learning with Public Data
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-22)We study the problem of private distribution learning with access to public data. In this setup, a learner is given both public and private samples drawn from an unknown distribution 𝑝 belonging to a class 𝑄, and has the ... -
Private Two-Party Random Minimum Spanning Forest Computation
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-30)Finding the Minimum Spanning Tree, or more generally the Minimum Spanning Forest (MSF), of a weighted graph is a well-known algorithmic problem. While this problem itself can be directly applied to any kind of networks, ... -
Privately Constrained Testable Pseudorandom Functions
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-20)Privately Constrained Pseudorandom Functions allow a PRF key to be delegated to some evaluator in a constrained manner, such that the key’s functionality is restricted with respect to some secret predicate. Variants of ... -
Probabilistic Graphical Models and Algorithms for
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-26)In this thesis I present research in two fields: machine learning and computational biology. First, I develop new machine learning methods for graphical models that can be applied to protein problems. Then I apply ... -
Probabilistic Program Analysis for Software Component Reliability
(University of Waterloo, 2002)Components are widely seen by software engineers as an important technology to address the "software crisis''. An important aspect of components in other areas of engineering is that system reliability can be estimated ... -
The Problem of Stretching in Persian Calligraphy and a New Type 3 PostScript Nastaliq Font
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-22)This research is about a typeface for implementing Persian calligraphy called Nastaliq. The main purpose for developing this font was to handle stretching of letters in order to achieve line justification through a dynamic ...