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Analysis of the Weight Function for Implicit Moving Least Squares Techniques
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-22)In this thesis, I analyze the weight functions used in moving least squares (MLS) methods to construct implicit surfaces that interpolate or approximate polygon soup. I found that one previous method that presented an ... -
An Analysis on The Network Structure of Influential Communities in Twitter
(University of Waterloo, 2019-02-21)Over the past years online social networks have become a major target for marketing strategies, generating a need for methods to efficiently spread information through these networks. Close knit communities have developed ... -
Analytic Combinatorics in Several Variables: Effective Asymptotics and Lattice Path Enumeration
(University of Waterloo, 2017-06-26)The field of analytic combinatorics, which studies the asymptotic behaviour of sequences through analytic properties of their generating functions, has led to the development of deep and powerful tools with applications ... -
Analytics for Everyone
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-23)Analyzing relational data typically involves tasks that facilitate gaining familiarity or insights and coming up with findings or conclusions based on the data. This process is usually practiced by data experts, such as ... -
Analyzing Adversarial Examples: A Framework to Study Adversary Knowledge
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-22)Adversarial examples are malicious inputs to trained machine learning models supplied to trigger a misclassification. This type of attack has been studied for close to a decade, and we find that there is a lack of study ... -
Analyzing Barehand Input Mappings for Video Timeline Control and Object Pointing on Smart TVs
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-21)Smart TVs are getting popular in recent few years. Given the emerging feature of distant bare hand control, one challenge is how to perform common tasks with this new input modality. Two tasks are discussed in this thesis ... -
Analyzing the Signal Strength of 2,946 Clients Operating in 446 WiFi Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-02)In this thesis we analyze data that was collected over a 24 hour period from 446 access points that provide connections for 2,946 clients. The data was obtained from deployments of modern commercial Google Wifi access ... -
Analyzing Threats of Large-Scale Machine Learning Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2024-02-22)Large-scale machine learning systems such as ChatGPT rapidly transform how we interact with and trust digital media. However, the emergence of such a powerful technology faces a dual-use dilemma. While it can have many ... -
Android Access Control Recommendation as a Deep Learning Task
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-25)Android enforces access control checks to protect sensitive framework APIs. If not properly protected, framework APIs can open the door for malicious apps to access sensitive resources without having the necessary privileges. ... -
Animating Coupling between Inviscid Free-Surface Liquids and Elastic Deformable Bodies
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-16)Driven by demand for high-fidelity computer-generated imagery, physics-based animation has become an exciting frontier of research in computer science. Simulations of fluids and their interactions with other objects in the ... -
Anonymous, Secure and Efficient Vehicular Communications
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-20)Vehicular communication networking is a promising approach for facilitating road safety, traffic management, and infotainment dissemination for drivers and passengers. However, it is subject to various malicious abuses and ... -
Answering Object Queries over Knowledge Bases with Expressive Underlying Description Logics
(University of Waterloo, 2013-10-25)Many information sources can be viewed as collections of objects and descriptions about objects. The relationship between objects is often characterized by a set of constraints that semantically encode background knowledge ... -
Ape+: A Faster Ape with Static Model Guided Exploration
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-17)Ape is the state-of-the-art Android GUI testing tool, which implements a dynamic model internally to guide the testing process. At the time of writing, Ape was one of the most effective Android testing tools. Ape’s ... -
API Parameter Recommendation Based on Documentation Analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-20)Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are widely used in today's software development, as they provide a easy and safe way to build more powerful applications with less code. However, learning how to use an API function ... -
Appearance Changes due to Light Exposure
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-12)The fading of materials due to light exposure over time is a major contributor to the overall aged appearance of man-made objects. Although much attention has been devoted to the modeling of aging and weathering phenomena ... -
Application of Definability to Query Answering over Knowledge Bases
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-22)Answering object queries (i.e. instance retrieval) is a central task in ontology based data access (OBDA). Performing this task involves reasoning with respect to a knowledge base K (i.e. ontology) over some description ... -
An Application of Out-of-Distribution Detection for Two-Stage Object Detection Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2020-02-14)Recently, much research has been published for detecting when a classification neural network is presented with data that does not fit into one of the class labels the network learned at train time. These so-called ... -
The application of the in-tree knapsack problem to routing prefix caches
(University of Waterloo, 2009-04-30)Modern routers use specialized hardware, such as Ternary Content Addressable Memory (TCAM), to solve the Longest Prefix Matching Problem (LPMP) quickly. Due to the fact that TCAM is a non-standard type of memory and ... -
Applications of Artificial Intelligence to the NHL Entry Draft
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-31)This thesis investigates the application of various fields of artificial intelligence to the domain of sports management and analysis. The research in this thesis is primarily focussed on the entry draft for the National ... -
Applications of Description Logic and Causality in Model Checking
(University of Waterloo, 2009-06-19)Model checking is an automated technique for the verification of finite-state systems that is widely used in practice. In model checking, a model M is verified against a specification $\varphi$, exhaustively checking ...