Browsing Computer Science (PhD Theses) by Title
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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 ... -
Cashua : integrating semantics and content-based networking for context distribution
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2009)To support a vision of ubiquitous computing where computers fade into the background, context systems must provide information to highly mobile people and devices in ubiquitous computing environments. In these environments, ... -
CAWriter : using an Activity System perspective to inform the design of tools to support early career Ph.D. candidates
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2014)This thesis adheres to the view that the purpose of a Ph.D. is to both make a significant contribution to knowledge and to provide the candidate with the skills necessary to conduct "independent" research, culminating ... -
Certainty assessment in informal language
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2015)This research studied linguistic hedges in informal language style. Hedges are expressions that show a weakened commitment of speakers with respect to what they are saying. This modification in their commitment is made for ... -
Charge routing networking : using lightning strikes to add dynamicity to CCN
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2016)This thesis presents a novel routing mechanism designed to improve the performance of information-centric networks where there is a large degree of content producer mobility. Usage patterns on the Internet have changed a ... -
Co-creation with Open Government Data : a constructivist approach using a multiple case studies strategy from an information systems perspective
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2017)Open Government Data (OGD) initiatives are spreading worldwide. One use of OGD is the co-creation of applications and web services. Both OGD and co-creation concepts can be viewed from different perspectives as there are ... -
Collaborative requirements elicitation to foster shared understanding
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2015)Fostering shared understanding of how to support organisational change involves a complex interaction of stakeholders in order to achieve alignment of business processes and IT infrastructure. Collaboration ... -
Collaborative, contextual, and technology-mediated mathematics learning activities : design heuristics and effects on student engagement
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2015)This dissertation describes an approach to mathematics activity design that aligns the affordances of off-the-shelf technologies with relevant mathematics pedagogy. The aim is to create transformative learning experiences ... -
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 ... -
Colour transfer and shape registration using functional data representations
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2017)In this thesis we propose new colour transfer and shape registration methods based on the robust L2 distance. For colour transfer, we present an approach inspired by techniques recently proposed in shape registration. We ... -
Command and control for grid infrastructures
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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 ... -
Completely unanticipated dynamic adaptation of software
(Trinity College Dublin, Dublin University - Trinity College, Department of Computer Science, 2004)Dynamic adaptation of software behaviour refers to the act of changing the behaviour of some part of a software system as it executes, without stopping or restarting it. It is difficult to dynamically adapt software if ... -
Computer Graphical Interfaces, Reflection and the Teaching and Learning of Music Composition - a Holistic Study.
(Trinity College Dublin.School of Computer Science and Statistics.COMPUTER SCIENCE, 2006)This thesis is a holistic study in the area of teaching and learning of music composition for children in the age range eight to eleven years. It investigates the role of graphical computer technology within the framework ... -
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 ... -
Context Oriented Software Development
(University of Dublin, Trinity College, School of Computer Science and Statistics, 2012)Software in distributed and mobile computing environments needs to cope with variability, diversity of computing platforms and operates in different execution environments. Mobile computing environments are heterogeneous ... -
Context-aware power management
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2007)With more and more computing devices being deployed in buildings there has been a steady rise in buildings’ electricity consumption. These devices not only consume electricity but also produce heat, which increases loading ... -
Context-informed semantic interoperation
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2010)A common trend in modern applications is the move towards more mobile, adaptive, customisable software. The evolution of software from static, invariant tools for narrow portions of a task to adaptive, open interaction ... -
Correlated Estimation Problems and the Ensemble Kalman Filter
The Kalman flter is a recursive algorithm that estimates the state of a linear dynamical system from a sequence of noisy sensor measurements. Due to its relative simplicity, numerical efficiency and optimality, the Kalman ...