Browsing Computer Science (PhD Theses) by Title
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PAM-AID - A study in human-machine cooperative behaviour
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2001)The research described in this thesis attempts to address the needs of a growing number of people with both a visual impairment and a mobility impairment. These people tend to live a very inactive lifestyle, often confined ... -
Parasitic routing : using social network analysis for routing in disconnecting delay-tolerant MANETs
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2007)Message delivery in sparse Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) is difficult due to the fact that the network graph is rarely (if ever) connected. As a consequence, a full end-to-end path between nodes may not exist at any given ... -
Patient-centred clinical validation using autonomous socialising knowledge agents
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Peer assisted multicast streaming on-demand applications
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2016)On-demand multimedia streaming applications allow users to select and view content at a time of their choosing and to control the playback of this content. This level of control typically requires that each user receives ... -
Perceptually guided authoring of image based representations
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2007)The creation of digital visual content has become a major activity in a broad range of industries. A huge quantity of labour is invested in related tasks, from modeling to de-noising of captured data. There has been ... -
Perceptually-Adaptive Collision Detection for Real-time Computer Animation
(Unversity of Dublin, Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 1999)The aim of interactive animation systems is to create an exciting and real experience for viewers, to give them a feeling of immersion, of "being there". The tendency in the past has been to attempt to achieve this by ... -
Personalised eLearning development environments
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2006)Personalised eLearning is seen as a key element for next generation educational programmes [DFES, 2005]. The goal of personalised eLearning is to support eLearning content, activities and collaboration, adapted to the ... -
PiCSE : a framework for simulation and emulation of pervasive computing applications
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2015)The field of pervasive computing is changing rapidly, with the proliferation of and advances in hardware and communication technologies resulting in a shift towards a large-scale, heterogeneous pervasive computing world ... -
Planning and adaptation of virtual human character motion
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2013)This thesis covers some work on planning and adapting motions for a virtual 3d human character. The motivation is to use the physical features of the motion to drive both the planning of motion sequences and the subsequent ... -
Plausible crowd and group formations
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2011)Applications using real-time virtual crowds can be found in many areas, including the entertainment industry, for urban planning and health and safety purposes. In some of these applications, where the goal is to replicate ... -
Policy based management for dynamic organisations
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2009)Policy-Based Management (PBM) is a recent development in systems and network management research which aims to address the challenge of efficiently managing complex and heterogeneous information systems. Broadly speaking, ... -
Practical and architectural aspects of sorting and searching
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2010)The work in this dissertation was motivated by a desire to understand as well as to improve the performance of certain algorithms and data structures in practice. The performance of algorithms in practice is influenced by ... -
Prioritised slotted-Circus
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2012)The main difference between a software and hardware design is that the hardware cannot be patched or updated after releasing. Also in the case of software, compilation and tests can be performed with the “click of a button”, ... -
Probabilistic program verification in the style of the unifying theories of programming
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2013)We present a novel framework to reason on programs based on probability distributions on the state space of a program: they are functions from program states to real numbers in the range [0..1], which can be used to represent ... -
Procedural modelling of urban environments
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2012)Procedural modelling of urban environments has become an important topic in computer graphics. With the ever increasing demand for larger and more realistic content in games and movies, the time and cost to model urban ... -
Program generation for Intel AES new instructions
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2011)High-performance primitive libraries are used to replace parts of sub-optimal code with optimized implementations. These libraries often come in the form of highly-optimized assembly routines, which raises several issues. ... -
A Programming Model for Mobile Context-Aware Applications
(University of Dublin, Trinity College. Department of Computer Science, 2005-05)Continuing advances in hardware miniaturisation and networking technologies have contributed to the widespread deployment of a range of mobile computing devices. Ad hoc communication between mobile devices enables the ... -
Reactive execution-time forecasting of dynamically-adaptable software
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2011)Software operating in domains such as process management systems, wireless sensor networks and spacecraft control systems are expected to continue uninterrupted operation over extended periods, without any manual supervision, ...
