Browsing Computer Science (PhD Theses) by Subject "Ph.D. Trinity College Dublin"
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A study of notions of participation and discourse in argument structure realisation
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2008)There is a lack of consensus on the nature of the process of linking; that is, how the conceptual form of thoughts determines the form of the spoken expressions used to describe them. Prominent theories of argument structure ... -
A study of the formation and nature of a community of learners within a blended, part-time, graduate, higher education programme
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2015)This study uses a grounded theory approach to develop a theoretical understanding of the formation, nature, and impact of a blended community on the educational experience of part-time higher education students. Within ... -
A unified access control mechanism
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2005)The widespread employment of the Internet facilitates collaboration and the use of distributed applications. Security concerns, such as controlled access to resources are preeminent. Often different applications employ ... -
A virtual reality-based context simulator for evaluating the effect of uncertainty on Smart Building Applications
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2013)Smart Building Applications (SBAs) adapt their behaviour in response to context information generated by sensors present in the smart building. SBA developers must however account for uncertainty in the accuracy of context ... -
Accelerated computing on computational grid infrastructures
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2016)Grid infrastructures have been central to some of the largest computationally intensive scientific investigations in recent times. As the complexity of computational simulations and models increases, the dependency on ... -
Active learning query selection with historical information
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2009)This work describes novel methods and techniques to decrease the cost of employing active learning in text categorisation problems. The cost of performing active learning is a combination of labelling effort and computational ... -
Adaptable design for talk-based mental health interventions
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2008)The cost to society of mental illness is substantial. This thesis proposes and provides practical illustration of an adaptable approach to the design of technology for talk-based mental health interventions. The approach ... -
Adaptive eLearning for grid computing
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2012)Adaptive eLearning appears well suited to Grid education because of the distributed and heterogeneous nature of grid users and their asynchronous training demand. This thesis explores the application of adaptive eLearning ... -
Adaptive levels of detail for interactive Collision Handling
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2003)Collision Handling has long been a major bottleneck in physically based animation. As scene complexity increases the problem becomes critical enough to prohibit real-time performance in the animation system. Previous ... -
Addressing scalability in Mobile Ad hoc Networks
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2012)Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) are wireless networks comprised of nodes which exhibit varying mobility and availability. Such networks are highly volatile, with network membership changing unpredictably over time. As ... -
Aggregating case-based reasoners in ensembles : an approach in support of explanation
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2003)Among the reasons for the success Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) has achieved in tackling supervised learning problems, is certainly the capability to give a ranking to any case stored in the database depending on its similarity ... -
ALPH : a DSAL-based programming model for complexity management in pervasive healthcare applications
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2010)Healthcare information, for example patient records, must be available to appropriate professionals at all times. The application of pervasive technology to healthcare means that those professionals are using such technology ... -
An analysis of content-free dialogue representation, supervised classification methods and evaluation metrics for meeting topic segmentation
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2011)Automatic topic segmentation in meeting recordings is intensively investigated due to the fact that topic is a salient discourse structure and it indicates natural reference points for contents. Unlike commonly used ... -
An application framework for mobile, context-aware trails
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2007)Time management strategies for planning and scheduling activities increase the effectiveness of either personal or corporate time use. Supporting techniques are commonly based around the use of prioritised to-do lists. ... -
An approach to managed clustering for knowledge-based networks
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An approach to modelling learner cognition for Technology Enhanced Learning
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2013)Adaptive Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) combines pedagogical and psychological theory with technological approaches in order to support the learner as an individual. TEL environments have already begun to demonstrate ... -
An empirical study of the comparative effect of aspect and object-oriented programming on testability
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An expert-supported approach to data exploration
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2011)Almost all information domains have witnessed a large increase in the amount of structured and semi-structured data available. However, there is still a lack of support for casual computer users who wish to create queries ... -
An image analysis and machine learning approach to measuring the quality of individual colonoscopy procedures
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2013)The measurement of quality in colonoscopy is an active topic in medical research. Studies report significant miss rates in the detection of colorectal lesions. This has raised the concern among gastroenterologists that the ... -
An investigation of and a hybrid recommender system for evaluating adaptive E-Learning systems
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2015)A key problem with research in the field of adaptive systems is the inconsistency of evaluation applied to such systems. A fact that is well established by expert evaluators is that adaptive systems cannot be evaluated as ...