Browsing Computer Science (PhD Theses) by Subject "Computer Science & Statistics, Ph.D."
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A systematic approach to safe coordination of dynamic participants in real-time distributed systems
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2013)Computer systems that employ autonomous robots have been demonstrated in many areas including entertainment (e.g., robot soccer), defense (e.g., reconnaissance) and homeland security (e.g., disaster rescue). To ensure ... -
Adaptive composition of personalised learning activities
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2012)eLearning practitioners are increasingly adopting more activity based approaches to online learning, as they move away from more traditional content centric approaches in an effort to provide their learners with more ... -
An approach to managed clustering for knowledge-based networks
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An inexpensively elastic resource allocation model for platform as a service cloud computing
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2015)With the growth in cloud computing there is additional complexity introduced in cloud systems and therefore there is a need for more efficient resource allocation. Autonomic computing is a promising approach for resource ... -
Authoring adaptive soft skill simulations
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2013)This thesis examines the personalisation of online training simulations which are a key modern approach in computer aided education. More specifically it focuses on the difficulties involved in authoring personalised ... -
Bayesian methods for evidence synthesis and decision making in Health Technology Assessments
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2013)In this thesis statistical methodologies to improve reimbursement decisions in healthcare are developed. The allocation of healthcare resources is a very topical issue in the current economic climate. Given a limited ... -
Care : a communication and relationship education primary prevention social cognitive model aimed at developing the self-efficacy of adolescents to verbally respond to sexual coercion
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2017)This thesis describes the design, development, implementation and evaluation of CARE, a communication and relationship education, primary prevention social cognitive model aimed at developing the self-efficacy of adolescents ... -
Collaboratively designing Dublin : understanding designing Dublin: learning to learn as a strategy for collaboratively developing Dublin
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2014)Contemporary global challenges, such as climate change, peak oil and population growth, are daunting and may, at times, seem to be insurmountable. The difficulties of addressing these challenges have been compounded even ... -
Compiler techniques to improve indirect branch prediction
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2012)Computers employ a class of branches called indirect branches to realize various programming language features. Multiway branching (switch statements), virtual function dispatch and function calls are all realized through ... -
Constructionism in non-goal orientated virtual worlds
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2013)Non-goal orientated virtual worlds have gained particular interest from educators in recent years; however learning experiences tend to replicate traditional praxis and lack pedagogical underpinning. This thesis proposes ... -
Content and context in conversations : the role of social and situational signals in conversation structure
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2016)The increasing growth of multimodal material creates, nowadays, a renewed interest in innovative approaches to information extraction from meetings and multiparty conversations; those approaches make use of various multimodal ... -
Detecting gender bias in the coverage of politicians in Irish newspapers using automated text classification
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2014)This thesis presents an investigation of whether there is evidence of gender bias in the coverage of politicians in Irish newspapers. Text-analysis techniques including natural language processing and machine learning are ... -
Distributed optimal routing in wireless ad hoc networks
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2012)In this thesis, optimal routing problems in wireless ad hoc networks are investigated. The majority of existing routing algorithms follow a selfish strategy, where routing decisions are based on individual communication ... -
Domain-aware user model interoperability
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2013)Exchanging user information between multiple sources can potentially bring many benefits that enhance the user experience in software applications. Richer and more dynamic user models can be constructed allowing more ... -
Effects of social structure on establishing lexical conventions in a computational model of task-oriented primeval dialogue
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2013)In the field of language evolution, the only way of obtaining empirical data for most of its parts is with the help of computational models and simulations. As a consequence, a large number of different modelling approaches ... -
Enforcing cooperation between nodes in mobile ad hoc networks
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2013)Traditional infrastructure-based networks are formed around an infrastructure of static, dedicated components that connect the individual end points such as desktop computers and servers. The exponential rise in the number ... -
Enhancing real-time focus and context direct volume rendering
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2013)Direct volume rendering is a challenging problem both due to the technical difficulty of displaying large volume datasets on limited hardware and due to the difficulty of rendering such complex information in a manner which ... -
Intrinsic and extrinsic component evaluation in interactive multilingual speech applications
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2012)Due to the steady progress in technology, together with the rapid increase of powerful mobile devices, the use of voice interfaces and other speech enabled technologies has invaded our every day lives. Today people talk ... -
k-NN approach for classifying semantic roles via Tai-mapping projections
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2013)Semantic role labelling (SRL) is the task of labelling text with a semantic notation in order to identify who did what? When? How? Etc. Once the text is labelled; that information can be used to solve a multitude of other ... -
Learner perceptions of successful engagement in undergraduate computer science education : a grounded theory
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2013)Computer science degree programs have proliferated due to the demands of industry and the pressures placed on higher education institutions by national governments. In tandem with this, the technological familiarity presumed ...