The increasing availability of wireless local area networking, particularly ad hoc networking, has lead to the evolution of new application domains, such as inter-vehicle communication and communication between autonomous ...

The recent development of large FPGAs combined with the availability of a variety of FPGA-based non-integer arithmetic cores has made it possible to implement high performance matrix kernel operations on FPGAs. This thesis ...

The simulation of large crowds of humans is important in many fields of computer graphics, including real-time applications such as games, as they can breathe life into otherwise static scenes and enhance believability. ...

This thesis is about the automatic extraction of metaphors as they appear in English text. This task is important to research in information retrieval, corpus linguistics and computational linguistics. The work was ...

With the rise in popularity of applying machine learning methods to problems in textual stylometry, the increased availability of machine-readable corpora and the emerging benefits of research on corpora of translated text ...

Multi-core processors have been of great importance for the increase in performance of high-end computing in the last decade. This thesis focuses on several bottlenecks of parallel applications that utilize these next-generation ...

Real-time applications such as games, medical or technical visualisations and urban simulations can often be highly complex in nature. This can lead to too much visual data being presented to the user at once, which can ...

In recent years the Home Area Network (HAN) has been going through a revolution. From enabling multiple desktops in the household to share an Internet connection, it evolved as a service-oriented platform, enabling devices ...

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 ...