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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 ... -
Innovations in Domain Knowledge Augmentation of Contextual Models
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-03)The digital transformation of our society is creating a tremendous amount of data at an unprecedented rate. A large part of this data is in unstructured text format. While enjoying the benefit of instantaneous data access, ... -
Integrating Column-Oriented Storage and Query Processing Techniques into Graph Database Management Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-14)Column-oriented RDBMSs, which support traditional read-heavy analytics workloads, employ a specific set of storage and query processing techniques for scalability and performance, such as positional tuple IDs, column-specific ... -
Integrating Semantically Configurable State-machine Models in a C Programming Environment
(University of Waterloo, 2015-10-02)Model-driven engineering is a popular software-development methodology, which requires suitable domain-specific modelling languages (DSLs) to create models. A DSL requires flexible semantics depending on the domain knowledge. ... -
Integrating Skips and Bitvectors for List Intersection
(University of Waterloo, 2014-11-20)This thesis examines space-time optimizations of in-memory search engines. Search engines can answer queries quickly, but this is accomplished using significant resources in the form of multiple machines running concurrently. ... -
Integrity and Privacy of Large Data
(University of Waterloo, 2015-11-26)There has been considerable recent interest in "cloud storage" wherein a user asks a server to store a large file. One issue is whether the user can verify that the server is actually storing the file, and typically a ... -
An Interface-based Modular Approach for Designing Distributed Event-based Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2008-04-25)A Distributed Event-based System (DEBS) exhibits its desired behavior through its functional components collaborating with each other via event exchanging. Due to loose-coupling and flexibility, DEBS applications have ... -
Interference Management in Dense 802.11 Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-29)Wireless networks are growing at a phenomenal rate. This growth is causing an overcrowding of the unlicensed RF spectrum, leading to increased interference between co-located devices. Existing decentralized medium access ...