Browsing Computer Science (Theses and Dissertations) by Subject "Computer Science"

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    • Evaluation of Aspect-Oriented Software Development for Distributed Systems 

      Driver, Cormac (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2002-09)
      Problems relating to the issue of modularity result in the underperformance of the object-oriented software development paradigm. Aspect-oriented software development (AOSD) is a new technology for the separation of ...

    • An Evaluation of Caching Strategies for Clustered Web Servers 

      Larkin, Thomas (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2001-09)
      The exponential growth of the Internet and the increasing demands put upon Web servers has created the need for a scalable clustered Web servers. In this paper we attempt to analyse the important issues facing the ...

    • An Evaluation of XML Associated Vulnerabilities in the Xerces-C++ Parser 

      O'Donnell, John (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2005-09)
      One of the key concerns to the adoption of XML as the de facto standard for information representation is security. This has clear concerns for the continued success ofWeb Services as many elements of Web Services are ...

    • Event-Based Middleware for Collaborative Ad Hoc Applications 

      MEIER, RENE (University of Dublin, Trinity College. Department of Computer Science, 2003-09)
      Middleware supporting event-based communication is widely recognised as being well suited to interconnecting the components of mobile applications since it naturally accommodates a dynamically changing population of ...

    • An Extensible Administration and Configuration Tool for Linux Clusters 

      Fogarty, John D (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 1999-09)
      This project addresses the lack of system administration tools for Linux clusters. The goals of the project were to design and implement an extensible system that would facilitate the administration and configuration of ...

    • Feature Extraction for Spam Classification 

      Davy, Michael (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2004-09)
      E-mail has emerged as one of the primary means of communication used in the world today. Its rapid adoption has left it ripe for misuse and abuse. This came in the guise of Unsolicited Commercial E-mail (UCE) or as it is ...

    • The Federated Event Service 

      Ryan, Conor (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2003-09)
      Event services provide asynchronous, decoupled, anonymous message-based communication. This facilitates scalable distributed systems composed of autonomous concurrently executing entities. There are several kinds of event ...

    • A flexible service-level accounting architecture for telecommunications 

      Redmond, Cliff (University of Dublin, Trinity College. Department of Computer Science, 2000-10)
      The opening up of telecommunications markets has forced a differentiation between service and basic connectivity provision; many providers have accepted that new services will become their main source of income in the ...

    • A Flexible, Scalable, Distributed, Fault Tolerant Architecture for the Collection and Dissemination of Multimodal Traffic-Related Information 

      Olias-Sanz, Alfonso (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2003-09)
      Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) produce considerable quantities of dynamic data. ITS endusers will require wide, rich and highly available services which will involve processing and disseminating large amount ...

    • A Framework for Academic Electronic Journal Publications 

      Kennedy, Eamonn (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2003-09)
      Academic journals are the backbone of scholarly communication and the preservation of knowledge. For years they have served as a record of progression and an archive of academic debate. They are the medium through which ...

    • A Framework for Building Customised CORBA ORBs 

      Wiese, Hubertus (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 1998-09)
      Recently, many distributed applications have been based on Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) compliant middleware. Such distributed computing middleware provides the components of a distributed application ...

    • A Framework Providing Fault Tolerance Using the CORBA Trading Service. 

      MEIER, RENE (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 1998-09)
      This thesis describes a body of research into the fault tolerance problem associated with the use of large scale distributed systems and a partial solution to the problem. Fault tolerance problems arise in such an ...

    • A Generic Architecture to Control Jini Services over the Internet 

      McSweeney, Brian (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2001-09)
      Distributed computer systems have brought many advantages over traditional centralised systems. However these systems have innate complications such as partial failure, lack of system wide knowledge, concurrency etc. ...

    • HOUSe-KEEPER, A Vendor-independent Architecture for Easy Management of Smart Homes 

      Seigneur, Jean-Marc (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2001-09)
      Home-networking is gaining momentum. In a couple of months, Windows XP will be launched with the connected home experience as one of its core areas of interest. In the medium term at least, there will be more than one home ...

    • Identification and Retrieval of WWW-based Courseware: A Metadata Approach 

      Kenny, Sarah Anne (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 1999-09)
      Information retrieval is often a tedious and time consuming task on the Internet, as information is stored in an unstructured manner. There is no guarantee that what you find is relevant to your needs, on the correct topics, ...

    • An Implementation and Evaluation of the Ad-hoc On-demand Distance Vector Routing Protocol for Windows CE 

      West, David (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2003-09)
      There are a number of implementations of the Ad-hoc On-demand Distance Vector (AODV) routing protocol available for the Linux platform, but not for any other platform. Development of ad-hoc routing protocols has been slow ...

    • An Implementation of a Parasitic Routing Algorithm 

      Bailey, Eoin (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2004-09)
      Portable personal computers with low-power requirements are fast becoming a necessity as access to up to date information is required by users no matter what their location. Unfortunately the ability to deliver this ...

    • Implementation of SAMPLE Protocol 

      Nash, Kevin (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2005-09)
      Wireless networks are pervasive in our society. With an increased interest shown by the general public in wireless technologies, protocols and hardware are being actively developed by academic and industrial groups alike. ...

    • Implementation of the CORBA Event Service in Java 

      Stephens, Paul (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 1998-09)
      The increase need and interest in distributed technology has led to several different types of object orientated middleware. CORBA is being defined by the Object Management Group (OMG) and is the most commonly used ...

    • Implementing an Integrated Web-Based Synchronous eLearning Collaboration Platform at Tertiary Level for Part-Time Mature Evening Students 

      Jennings, Audrey (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2005-10)
      This thesis focuses on the lessons learned and new insights gained, from the pilot implementation of a webbased synchronous eLearning collaboration platform at Tertiary Level evaluated on part-time mature evening students. Over ...