Browsing Computer Science (PhD Theses) by Title
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Supporting Mobile Computing in Object-Oriented Middleware Architectures
(University of Dublin, Trinity College. Department of Computer Science, 2003-10)The distributed object paradigm is now widely accepted as a suitable abstraction for building distributed applications. Numerous system architectures based on the paradigm have been proposed, and software frameworks ... -
Supporting personalised recommendations in context-aware applications
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2009)Personalisation is the process of tailoring application behaviour to the requirements of its users. A primary concern of personalisation is providing users with behaviour recommendations that will aid them with their tasks. ... -
Supporting the tutor in a tutor-tutee adaptive educational system
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2009)Adaptive educational systems have been successful in providing personalised support in a myriad of domains (Melias & Siekmann, 2004). To provide such support, the adaptive educational system builds an internal representation ... -
Supporting unanticipated dynamic adaptation of object-oriented software
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2004)Dynamic adaptation of a running program allows the program's behaviour to be changed without stopping or restarting it. Examples of the need for this are in updating long-running systems that cannot be halted and in adapting ... -
Supporting visual diagnosis of performance problems in multi-core and parallel software
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2016)The shift towards multicore processing has led to a much wider population of developers being faced with the challenge of exploiting parallel cores to improve software performance. Debugging and optimising parallel programs ... -
Supporting Wizard of Oz experimentation for language technology applications
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2013)Wizard of OZ (WOZ) is a well-established method used by researchers and product designers to simulate the functionality and user experience of future systems. Using a human wizard to mimic possible operations is particularly ... -
Synchronous macro-programming of energy-efficient wireless sensor-actuator networks .
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2010)Application development for wireless sensor-actuator networks (WSANs) is widely regarded as being a complex task: not only does the programmer need to orchestrate communication and data processing in a heterogeneous network ... -
Temporally consistent region based video segmentation
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2014)This thesis addresses the problem of segmenting a video sequence in a temporally consistent fashion, so that the labels assigned to particular region remain the same throughout the sequence. Energy minimisation, and in ... -
The accommodation of cognitive style in the design of human computer interface
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2006)How the design of the human computer interface could be varied to accommodate specific cognitive styles is addressed. The area of adaptive versus non-adaptive systems was discussed in Chapter 2. Generally non-adaptive ... -
The derived data approach to support the construction and consumption of explorable visual narratives
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2016)This thesis proposes a novel approach called the derived data approach that supports the construction and consumption of explorable visual narratives in Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL). Like many other domains, TEL ... -
The design of systems to engage adolescents in professional mental health services
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2009)Human Computer Interaction (HCI) studies the interaction between people and computers. User-centred design (UCD), design which places the user at the centre of the development process, has become the dominant focus within ... -
The development of a Community Informatics (CI) model to support Irish Local Voluntary Organisations (LVOs) use Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2013)The value of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) as a management facilitator that can help deliver efficiencies to both the public and private sector is well established. However, there are other parts of society ... -
The development of a stages of growth model for information systems within government departments
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2014)This dissertation proposes a stages of growth model for the use of information and communications technology/information systems in large government departments. The stages of growth model presented maps the changes through ... -
The mobiledna (digital narrative approach) : supporting collaborative creativity in mobile moving media production
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2009)Collaboration and creativity are beneficial for learning. While collaboration involves conflict, articulation and co-construction, creativity banks on the interplay between divergent and convergent thinking. Collaborative ... -
The MOUSE approach : mapping ontologies using UML for system engineers
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2014)To address the problem of semantic heterogeneity, there has been a large body of research directed toward the study of semantic mapping technologies. Although various semantic mapping technologies have been investigated, ... -
The multi-model, metadata driven approach to personalised eLearning services
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2005)One of the major obstacles in developing quality eLearning content is the substantial development costs involved and development time required [Marchionini, 95]. Educational providers, such as those in the university ... -
The OISIN framework : ontology interoperability in support of semantic interoperability
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2006)The promise of ontologies is in the sharing of an understanding of a domain that can be communicated between people and application systems (Fensel 2003). However, different ontologies arise due to the natural human ... -
The SMG DSM system: enabling shared memory for the grid
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2007)Parallel computing has taken the rst steps along its next evolutionary route: com- putational grids are now a reality. Success, however, depends not only on the tools available, but allowing ... -
The Taxy mobility system
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2006)Mobile agents are entities that have execution lifetimes that axe not confined to a single host. They have the ability to migrate between different hosts in order to execute locally thereby avoiding remote communication. ... -
The VAM Application : a new test of visual & audio working memory
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2012)
