Browsing Computer Science (Theses and Dissertations) by Subject "Computer Science"
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Improving Open Web Architectures
(Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2000-09)When people use the Internet today, they use their browsers to connect to a web server located anywhere in the world and download a specified page that they have requested. Unless this page contains a Form, CGI-Script, ... -
Improving Throughput and Node Proximity of P2P Live Video Streaming through Overlay Adaptation
(IEEE Computer Society Press, 2007)Due to the heterogeneity of the environment, in which hosts may have different bandwidth capacities and network distances between hosts vary, current mesh-based multicast protocols for video streaming over the Internet ... -
Intelligent Multicast Internet Radio
(Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2002-09)As the internet continues to mature static content will continue to give way to dynamic, interactive multimedia content. This content will enrich all online media while at the same time imposing heavy bandwidth usage on ... -
An Internet Protocol Testing Framework
(Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 1998-09)As the Internet expands and proliferates it gives rise to new technologies that require supporting Internet protocols. Some recent examples include HTTP, POP, IMAP and IIOP. Internet applications are generally based on ... -
Internet Worm Detection as part of a Distributed Network Inspection System
(Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2004-09)The most widely publicized, and arguably most damaging, types of malicious traffic on the Internet today include worms, spam, viruses and denial of service attacks. Internet worms self propagate across networks exploiting ... -
Investigation and Development of Quality of Service Management for Web based Services: Managing Quality of Service from the End-User Perspective
(Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2000-09)With the advent of Web based delivery of business applications and increasing dependency on these services, management of availability and performance are critical. For service providers to offer guarantees on Web based ... -
Java RMI in a Mobile Environment
(Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2004-09)There are many problems that must be addressed when attempting to enhance a particular middleware programming framework, in this case Java RMI, to allow it operate effectively in a mobile environment. The Architecture ... -
Journey Time Estimation Using Route Profiles
(Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2004-09)Estimating journey times is of increasing importance in the modern world for the fulfilment of social and business occasions. Probably the most variable journey times are the times experienced when using a road network. ... -
JXTA, In the Support of User Migration Across Smart Spaces
(Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2002-09)?Smart Spaces? are environments with traditional computing hardware as well as embedded computers, information appliances, and multi-modal sensors. The goal of a smart space is to sense, recognise and understand the tasks ... -
A Knowledge-Light Mechanism for Explanation in Case-Based Reasoning
(University of Dublin, Trinity College. Department of Computer Science, 2005-10)Decision support systems are currently achieving higher classification accuracies by using more complex reasoning mechanisms. Examples of such mechanisms include support vector machines and neural networks. However in ... -
Making Personalised Flight Recommendations using Implicit Feedback
(University of Dublin, Trinity College. School of Computer Science and Statistics, 2004-10)As e-commerce has become more popular, the problem of information overload has come to the fore. Recommender systems that reduce the information overload problem are becoming more common. However, the problem with many ... -
Mechanisms for Context-Informed Adaptive Hypermedia
(Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2004-09)The Cross-fertilisation potential of the work being undertaken by both the Adaptive Hypermedia and Context-Aware communities is considerable. In particular, the benefits to Adaptive Hypermedia constitute a method for ... -
Meeting QoS Requirements in a Dynamically Priced Commercial Cellular Network
(Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2003-09)With the current trend towards user mobility and ubiquitous computing, cellular networks are becoming an evermore important feature of day-to-day life, albeit an unseen one. Mobile networks are characterised by a scarcity ... -
A Metadata Driven Approach to Educational Adaptive Hypermedia
(Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 1999-09)The objective of this dissertation is to develop a teaching tool which extends the benefits of Web learning by providing increased flexibility for both students and administrators. The dissertation will investigate the ... -
Microsponsorships: A New Payment Model for Music Distribution
(Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2005-09)Today?s music industry on the Internet is dominated by the record companies who charge users to download MP3s. In most cases, users do not have the opportunity to listen to the entire song prior to downloading and ... -
Mobile Proxies
(Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 1999-09)One of the important issues that are quite often a challenge in modern distributed systems is the issue of adaptability. The need for adaptability rises from the fact that these systems are very much open, heterogeneous ... -
Mobility and Java RMI
(Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2000-09)Recent advances in computing device and wireless communication technologies are enabling the widespread use of mobile computing devices. Mobile computing presents many problems not encountered in a static computing ... -
A Mobility-Aware File System - file availability in a mobile-aware, context aware environment
(Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2005-09)The rapid growth in number of portable electronic devices with wireless networking capabilities in recent times has thrown up many new computing problems and opportunities. Such devices typically lack the processing power ... -
Modelling and Planning the Migration for Next Generation Networks
(Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2002-09)The ever increasing volume of data traffic on telecommunications networks has led to a fundamental shift in network operator requirements. Moreover, the continuous evolution of the industry, with developments such as ... -
Modular Data Serialisation and Mobile Code
(Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2000-09)Since its creation the World Wide Web has revolutionised how we work. Academics have used it as a media to exchange research information, businesses use it to access markets previously unavailable to them and a growing ...
