Browsing by Subject "Computer Science, Ph.D."

A study of notions of participation and discourse in argument structure realisation

Murphy, Brian (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2008)

There is a lack of consensus on the nature of the process of linking; that is, how the conceptual form of thoughts determines the form of the spoken expressions used to describe them. Prominent theories of argument structure ...

A study of the formation and nature of a community of learners within a blended, part-time, graduate, higher education programme

Savage, Timothy (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2015)

This study uses a grounded theory approach to develop a theoretical understanding of the formation, nature, and impact of a blended community on the educational experience of part-time higher education students. Within ...

A technology enhanced learning framework for enterprise performance optimisation

Brown, Liam (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2012)

Enterprise perfornnance optimisation is critical for organisations to survive and prosper in today's competitive global market-place. While this is true for all organisations, the need is even greater for the Small and ...

A unified access control mechanism

Abendroth, Joerg (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2005)

The widespread employment of the Internet facilitates collaboration and the use of distributed applications. Security concerns, such as controlled access to resources are preeminent. Often different applications employ ...

A virtual reality-based context simulator for evaluating the effect of uncertainty on Smart Building Applications

McGlinn, Kris (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2013)

Smart Building Applications (SBAs) adapt their behaviour in response to context information generated by sensors present in the smart building. SBA developers must however account for uncertainty in the accuracy of context ...

Accelerated computing on computational grid infrastructures

Walsh, John (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2016)

Grid infrastructures have been central to some of the largest computationally intensive scientific investigations in recent times. As the complexity of computational simulations and models increases, the dependency on ...

Active learning query selection with historical information

Davy, Michael (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2009)

This work describes novel methods and techniques to decrease the cost of employing active learning in text categorisation problems. The cost of performing active learning is a combination of labelling effort and computational ...

Adaptable design for talk-based mental health interventions

Coyle, David (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2008)

The cost to society of mental illness is substantial. This thesis proposes and provides practical illustration of an adaptable approach to the design of technology for talk-based mental health interventions. The approach ...

Adaptable peer-to-peer internet live media streaming

Biskupski, Bartosz (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2009)

Media streaming is an approach to delivering media, which may consist of video and audio, from a provider to viewers. Media streaming enables simultaneous delivery and playback of media and thus provides an alternative to ...

Adaptive eLearning for grid computing

Cassidy, Kathryn (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2012)

Adaptive eLearning appears well suited to Grid education because of the distributed and heterogeneous nature of grid users and their asynchronous training demand. This thesis explores the application of adaptive eLearning ...

Adaptive levels of detail for interactive Collision Handling

Dingliana, John Lalzoliana (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2003)

Collision Handling has long been a major bottleneck in physically based animation. As scene complexity increases the problem becomes critical enough to prohibit real-time performance in the animation system. Previous ...

Adaptive object code compression

Gilbert, John (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2009)

Previous object code compression schemes have employed static and semi-adaptive compression algorithms to reduce the size of instruction memory in embedded systems. The suggestion by a number of researchers that adaptive ...

Adaptive retrieval, composition & presentation of closed-corpus and open-corpus information

Steichen, Ben (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2012)

A key challenge for information access systems lies in their ability to deliver information that is most suited to a user's needs, preferences and context. Personalised Information Retrieval (PIR) seeks to address this ...

Addressing scalability in Mobile Ad hoc Networks

Kenny, Warren (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2012)

Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) are wireless networks comprised of nodes which exhibit varying mobility and availability. Such networks are highly volatile, with network membership changing unpredictably over time. As ...

Aggregating case-based reasoners in ensembles : an approach in support of explanation

Zenobi, Gabriele (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2003)

Among the reasons for the success Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) has achieved in tackling supervised learning problems, is certainly the capability to give a ranking to any case stored in the database depending on its similarity ...

ALPH : a DSAL-based programming model for complexity management in pervasive healthcare applications

Munnelly, Jennifer (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2010)

Healthcare information, for example patient records, must be available to appropriate professionals at all times. The application of pervasive technology to healthcare means that those professionals are using such technology ...

An analysis of content-free dialogue representation, supervised classification methods and evaluation metrics for meeting topic segmentation

Su, Jing (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2011)

Automatic topic segmentation in meeting recordings is intensively investigated due to the fact that topic is a salient discourse structure and it indicates natural reference points for contents. Unlike commonly used ...