Pervasive computing represents a vision of networked computers being distributed throughout our everyday environment in order to transparently provide services to people. The use of sensors enables the deployment of so-called ...

South Africa has one of the most serious human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) / and tuberculosis (TB) epidemics in the world, with high incidence, prevalence and co-infection rates. Information is at the heart of managing ...

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 ...

Computer programming and programming languages are core modules in most undergraduate Computer Science and Engineering degree courses. However, learning to program is a complex activity as it involves the understanding and ...

This thesis presents an inter-disciplinary approach to the problem of music parametrisation for information representation and retrieval. Signal analysis and machine learning techniques are combined in the context of ...

Real-time urban simulation is an area of computer graphics with many applications, from city planning and emergency response to computer gaming. The task of creating and running a believable simulation of an urban area is ...

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 ...

Link quality prediction (LQP) is effective in masking topology changes in wireless mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) as previously shown in reducing packet latency in proactive routing. However, most existing LQP algorithms ...

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 ...