ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis is a study of a generalisation, due to R. Harte (see [9]), of Fredholm theory in the context of bounded linear operators on Banach spaces to a theory in a Banach algebra setting. A bounded ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis explores two key aspects of wireless ad hoc networks. The first aspect concerns the topic of stimulating cooperation between nodes in a wireless ad hoc network. The functionality of a wireless ...

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ENGLISH ABSTRACT: It is well known that the ring of integers Z and the ring of polynomials A = Fr[T] over a finite field Fr have many properties in common. It is due to these properties that almost all the famous ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This work employs perturbation techniques to price and hedge financial derivatives in a stochastic volatility framework. Fouque et al. [44] model volatility as a function of two processes operating on ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Research on transfer processes in various types of porous media has become important for the optimization of high technology engineering devices and processes. In this study the micro-structural parameters ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The pricing of plain vanilla options, including early exercise options, such as Bermudan and American options, forms the basis for the calibration of financial models. As such, it is important to be ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Major works done in Function Field Arithmetic show a strong analogy between the ring of integers Z and the ring of polynomials over a nite eld Fq[T]. While an algorithm has been discovered to factor ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this thesis we consider the essential topics relating to stereo-vision and the correspondence problem in general. The aim is to reconstruct a dense 3D scene from images captured by two spatially ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: We study random walks on nite graphs. The reader is introduced to general Markov chains before we move on more specifically to random walks on graphs. A random walk on a graph is just a Markov chain ...