RSS 1.0Computer Science (Theses and Dissertations)
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Expert-Free Online Transfer Learning in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Computer Science, 2024)Reinforcement Learning (RL) enables an intelligent agent to optimise its performance in a task by continuously taking action from an observed state and receiving a feedback from the environment in form of rewards. RL ... -
User-oriented access to a multilingual database
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 1995)This thesis describes the development of a system that provides user-oriented access to a multilingual database. The database concerned is the 1872 Printed Catalogue of Trinity College, Dublin, which lists many rare and ... -
Recommender Systems: A Study of Cold-Start and Attack Resilience
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Computer Science, 2024)My thesis focuses on two key challenges in Recommender System: the Cold Start Problem and Data Poisoning attacks within the user-clustering framework. We explored utilizing user clustering to address the Cold Start Problem, ... -
Investigating primary school teachers' pedagogy belief change about the use of ICT through a bespoke model of teacher CPD - The 4D Model
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Computer Science, 2024)This study focuses on teachers' pedagogy beliefs and their relationship with ICT as a critical factor in determining teachers' classroom practice. Recent insights into the relationship can enhance CPD design in this area. ... -
TOWARD GAMIFICATION IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING PRACTICE
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Computer Science, 2024)This thesis seeks to expand the explanation and examine the application of gamification strategies in software engineering practice, specifically in the education setting. I hypothesize that gamification strategies, deployed ... -
Judgments Of Emotional Reactions By Facial Emotion Recognition System: A Comparison
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Computer Science, 2024)The research begins by asserting that a change in the movement of the muscle group responsible for executing a facial action unit permits one to ascertain the person?s emotional state. The connection between muscle movements ... -
Diachronic Word Sense Induction
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Computer Science, 2023)Learning from natural language is one of the great challenges of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML). Word meanings evolve over time and one of the challenges is how to model such dynamic behaviour. ... -
A Mobile Health Design Process to Improve User Engagement with Mobile Health
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Computer Science, 2023)It has been shown that less than 25 percent of people continue to use health and wellness apps after the first time they use them. Despite the importance of user engagement for the efficacy of such apps and mobile health ... -
An Investigation of Teaching Approaches in a Non-formal Setting: An Exploratory Case Study of Irish CoderDojos
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Computer Science, 2023)In a world where digital technologies are playing an ever-increasing role in peoples’ professional and personal lives, it is essential that individuals acquire the computer literacy skills needed to achieve their full ... -
Understanding and Improving Physical Interactions in Virtual Reality
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Computer Science, 2023)An important challenge in AR/VR is to enable virtual interactions that look and feel natural. Our goal in this work was to identify certain failures of AR/VR interactions, understand them, and propose solutions for them ... -
An open source chatbot for a complex domain
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Computer Science, 2023)The call centre industry has grown rapidly due to advancements in information and communication technology that have enabled automation of many customer service tasks. The computerisation of customer relations has become ... -
To what extent can a serious game elicit and evaluate nursing knowledge
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Computer Science, 2023)This research explores to what extent a serious game could elicit and evaluate specialist nursing knowledge. The problem addressed is that not all nursing knowledge is captured in a way that is easy to access outside the ... -
Towards Efficient Visual Place Recognition Methods in Challenging Environments by Adaptive Representations
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Computer Science, 2023)Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is the ability to recognize a place by providing a query im- age of an unknown location. The goal is to identify an image from a geotagged database of street-side imagery that depicts the ... -
Optimising Energy Efficiency in UAV-Assisted Networks using Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Computer Science, 2023)The demand for cellular connectivity continues to witness unprecedented growth over the years. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) equipped with small cells can provide ubiquitous connectivity to static and mobile ground users ... -
Information Visualisation Applied to Corpus Linguistic Methodologies
This thesis uses established visualisation design methods to characterize problems in corpus linguistics. The identified problem areas are concordance collocation patterns, frequency list comparison, and concordance meta-data ... -
Quality Improvement in the Mapping Process required for Linked Data publication
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Computer Science, 2023)This thesis presents a quality improvement approach named the Mapping Quality Improvement (MQI) Framework designed to improve and maintain quality in the publication process involved in the creation of linked data. Linked ... -
Measuring Online Community Health in Enterprise-owned Technical Support Forums
Enterprise-owned online communities (OCs) are purpose-built virtual spaces that support various business activities, such as customer support, marketing and product development. These communities are formed with the objective ... -
A Usable Knowledge Graph Framework for Linking Health Events with Environmental Data
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Computer Science, 2023)Environmental exposures transported across air, land and water can affect our health making us more susceptible to developing a disease. Researchers studying these health-environment interactions integrate and link multiple ... -
Optimization Models and Learning Algorithms for Slice Reservationin Virtualized Communication Networks
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Computer Science, 2023)The surge of mobile users with increasing needs of data and services has brought a tremendous momentum to telecommunications. This revolution paves the way to the development of next generation mobile networks, able to ... -
THE DESIGN SPACE OF MOBILE MENTAL HEALTH INTERVENTIONS FOR ANXIETY MANAGEMENT
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Computer Science, 2023)Digital mental health is a rapidly growing area within Human-Computer Interaction. Mental health problems will affect one-third of the population worldwide during their lifetime. At the present moment, anxiety disorders ...
