?... we are trying to conceive a new way of thinking about computers in the world, one that takes into account the natural human environment and allows the computers themselves to vanish into the background? - Mark Weiser, ...

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 ...

A novel object oriented framework for software Distributed Shared Memory (DSM) has been developed by the Distributed Systems Group in Trinity College, Dublin for programming parallel applications on a group of loosely ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Personalising user models has gained considerable attention in recent literature. In an information-rich environment, it is crucial not only to provide the information at any time, at any place, and in any form, but to ...

The notion of an ad hoc network is a new paradigm that allows mobile hosts (called nodes) to communicate without relying on a predefined infrastructure to keep the network connected. Most nodes are assumed to be mobile and ...