Browsing Computer Science (Theses and Dissertations) by Title

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    • Language support for communicating transactions 

      Spaccasassi, Carlo (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2016)
      In the context of databases, a transaction is a sequence of data operations that are executed atomically and in isolation: either all operations are executed or none is; and their effects are visible to the environment ...

    • Learner perceptions of successful engagement in undergraduate computer science education : a grounded theory 

      Huggard, Meriel Olwen (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 ...

    • Leveraging Content from Open Corpus Sources for Technology Enhanced Learning 

      Lawless, Seamus (Trinity College DublinUniversity of Dublin, Trinity College, 2009)
      As educators attempt to incorporate the use of educational technologies in course curricula, the lack of appropriate and accessible digital content resources acts as a barrier to adoption. Quality educational digital ...

    • Linear transformations of semantic spaces for word-sense discrimination and collocation compositionality grading 

      MALDONADO GUERRA, ALFREDO (The University of Dublin, 2015)

    • Linear transformations of semantic spaces for word-sense discrimination and collocation compositionality grading 

      Maldonado Guerra, Alfredo. (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2015)
      Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) and Word Space are two semantic models derived from the vector space model of distributional semantics that have been used successfully in word-sense disambiguation and discrimination. LSA ...

    • Location aware multimedia narratives 

      Nisi, Valentina (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2008)
      During the 1980s and the early 1990s, a considerable number of technology and application trends were concerned with location transparency and virtual spaces, overcoming the limitations of the physical space. Artists and ...

    • Lock-free internal binary search trees with memory management 

      Howley, Shane Valentine (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2012)
      The current design trend in microprocessor systems is to add more CPU cores thus increasing parallel execution resources. Although this allows many sequential programs to be run in parallel, it can be challenging to use ...

    • Locomotion for crowd animation 

      Prazak, Martin (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2012)

    • Making Personalised Flight Recommendations using Implicit Feedback 

      Coyle, Lorcan (University of Dublin, Trinity College. School of Computer Science and Statistics, 2004-10)
      As e-commerce has become more popular, the problem of information overload has come to the fore. Recommender systems that reduce the information overload problem are becoming more common. However, the problem with many ...

    • Measuring Online Community Health in Enterprise-owned Technical Support Forums 

      Timofeev, Mikhail
      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 ...

    • Measuring social capital in online communities 

      Lane, Brid (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2015)
      Online communities are a popular and useful means for people to meet, share information, and learn more about a topic of interest to them. However, communities risk disintegration if there are insufficient social connections ...

    • Mechanisms for Context-Informed Adaptive Hypermedia 

      O'Connor, Alexander (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2004-09)
      The Cross-fertilisation potential of the work being undertaken by both the Adaptive Hypermedia and Context-Aware communities is considerable. In particular, the benefits to Adaptive Hypermedia constitute a method for ...

    • Meeting QoS Requirements in a Dynamically Priced Commercial Cellular Network 

      Bouroche, Melanie (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2003-09)
      With the current trend towards user mobility and ubiquitous computing, cellular networks are becoming an evermore important feature of day-to-day life, albeit an unseen one. Mobile networks are characterised by a scarcity ...

    • A Metadata Driven Approach to Educational Adaptive Hypermedia 

      Connor, Niamh (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 1999-09)
      The objective of this dissertation is to develop a teaching tool which extends the benefits of Web learning by providing increased flexibility for both students and administrators. The dissertation will investigate the ...

    • Microsponsorships: A New Payment Model for Music Distribution 

      Herrera, Gregory (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2005-09)
      Today?s music industry on the Internet is dominated by the record companies who charge users to download MP3s. In most cases, users do not have the opportunity to listen to the entire song prior to downloading and ...