Browsing Doctoral Theses (Mathematical & Computer Sciences) by Title
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Laplace asymptotic expansions of conditional wiener integrals and applications
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Large-scale optimization : combining co-operative coevolution and fitness inheritance
(Mathematical and Computer Sciences, 2019-02)Large-scale optimization, here referring mainly to problems with many design parameters remains a serious challenge for optimization algorithms. When the problem at hand does not succumb to analytical treatment (an ... -
Learning preferences for personalisation in a pervasive environment
(Heriot-Watt University Mathematical and Computer Science, 2011-08)With ever increasing accessibility to technological devices, services and applications there is also an increasing burden on the end user to manage and configure such resources. This burden will continue to increase as the ... -
Length bounds for the conjugacy search problem in relatively hyperbolic groups, limit groups and residually free groups
(Heriot-Watt University Mathematical and Computer Sciences, 2014-02)In this thesis we prove conjugacy length bounds for several classes of groups. We use geometric and algebraic methods to show that there is a polynomial conjugacy length bound for relatively hyperbolic groups, a linear ... -
Life history characteristics in the sea trout (Salmo trutta L.) : insights from small catchments in Orkney
(Heriot-Watt University Life Sciences, 2015-06)This thesis investigated life history characteristics in anadromous brown trout (Salmo trutta L.) populations inhabiting small coastal streams in the Orkney Islands, Scotland. The main findings were as follows. 1) A total ... -
Limit groups and Makanin-Razborov diagrams for hyperbolic groups
(Heriot-Watt University Mathematical and Computer Science, 2010-06)This thesis gives a detailed description of Zlil Sela’s construction of Makanin-Razborov diagrams which describe Hom(G, T), the set of all homomorphisms from G to T, where G is a finitely generated group and T is a ... -
Local and global bifurcation theory for multiparameter nonlinear eigenvalue problems
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Local and non-local mathematical modelling of signalling during embryonic development
(Heriot-Watt University Mathematical and Computer Sciences, 2012-08)Embryonic development requires cells to communicate as they arrange into the adult organs and tissues. The ability of cells to sense their environment, respond to signals and self-organise is of crucial importance. ... -
Local minimizers in the calculus of variations
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Local time stepping methods and discontinuous Galerkin methods applied to diffusion advection reaction equations
(Heriot-Watt University Mathematical and Computer Sciences, 2017-12)Partial differential equations (PDEs), especially the diffusion advection and re action equations (DAREs), are important tools in modeling complex phenomena, and they arise in many physics and engineering applications. Due ... -
Local travelling wave solutions and self-similar solutions for a green roof model
(Heriot-Watt University Mathematical and Computer Sciences, 2014-07)In this thesis we study travelling wave solutions and self-similar solutions for a green roof model and for some simpler models which are derived from that model. We focus on two limiting cases near a dry region and near ... -
Management of data quality when integrating data with known provenance
(Heriot-Watt University Mathematical and Computer Sciences, 2007) -
Markov chains and random walks with heavy-tailed increments
(Heriot-Watt University Mathematical and Computer Sciences, 2004) -
Martensitic microstructures
(Heriot-Watt University Mathematics, 1994) -
Mathematical documents faithfully computerised : the grammatical and text & symbol aspects of the MathLang framework.
(Heriot-Watt University Mathematical and Computer Sciences, 2007-06) -
Mathematical investigations into the mechanisms driving the spatiotemporal dynamics of cyclic populations
(Heriot-Watt University Mathematical and Computer Sciences, 2008) -
Mathematical modelling of cancer invasion and biological cell movement
(Heriot-Watt University Mathematics, 2002) -
Mathematical modelling of cell-cell signalling in developmental biology and wound healing
(Heriot-Watt University Mathematics, 2001) -
The mathematical modelling of council house allocation and its effect on homeless applicants
(Heriot-Watt University Mathematics, 2001) -
The mathematical modelling of linear friction welding
(Heriot-Watt University Mathematical and Computer Sciences, 2006)