Computer Science (Theses and Dissertations): Recent submissions

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    • Monitoring & Predicting QoS in IoT Services 

      WHITE, GARY (Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Computer Science, 2020)
      Internet of Things (IoT) applications can be built from a number of heterogeneous services provided by a range of devices, which are potentially resource constrained and/or mobile. These device characteristics can lead to ...

    • Entity linking for text based cultural heritage collections 

      MUNNELLY, GARY (Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Computer Science, 2020)
      The ongoing digitisation of cultural heritage data and subsequent publication of that data in digital format has completely changed the manner in which people investigate and engage with cultural treasures. This change has ...

    • uDiscovery: An Urban-Centric Model for Service Discovery in Smart Cities 

      CABRERA JOJOA, CHRISTIAN HUMBERTO (Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Computer Science, 2020)
      Cities offer services to their citizens to improve their overall quality of life (e.g., education, or health care services) and these services are frequently supported by digital information (e.g., library opening hours ...

    • Achieving Low Delay & High Rate in 802.11ac Edge Networks 

      HASSANI, HAMID (Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Computer Science, 2020)
      Provision of connections with low end-to-end latency is one of the most challenging requirements in 5G. In most use cases the target is for < 100ms latency, while for some applications it is < 10ms. In part, this reflects ...

    • Privacy-Aware Incentivisation for Participatory Sensing 

      CONNOLLY, MARTIN (Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Computer Science, 2020)
      Participatory sensing is a paradigm through which mobile device users (or participants) collect and share data about their environments. The data captured by participants is typically submitted to an intermediary (the ...

    • A Framework to Support and Evaluate the Participation of Children with Autism in the Design of Technology 

      BOYLE, BRYAN GERARD (Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Computer Science, 2020)
      As the availability of technology developed for children with autism has increased, an awareness of the benefits of designing technology with them has also improved. However, the intellectual, communication and social ...

    • Human-Computer Interaction Methodologies Applied in the Evaluation of Haptic Digital Musical Instruments 

      Young, Gareth (UCC, 2016)
      G. W. Young, “Human-Computer Interaction Methodologies Applied in the Evaluation of Haptic Digital Musical Instruments,” Ph.D. dissertation in Digital Arts & Humanities, supervised at the Department Computer Science and ...

    • The Art, Aesthetics, and Materiality of the Arcade Videogame Interface 

      NOLAN, KIERAN (Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Computer Science, 2019)
      This research presents a practice-included platform study of the arcade videogame interface as a self-reflexive art medium. It frames the arcade as both platform and genre, with particular focus on the mid-1980s to late ...

    • Compositonal modelling and verification of self-adaptive cyber-physical systems 

      BORDA, AIMEE (Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Computer Science, 2019)
      Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) must often self-adapt to respond to changes in their operating environment. However, providing assurances of critical requirements through formal verification techniques can be computationally ...

    • Adaptable peer-to-peer internet live media streaming 

      Biskupski, Bartosz (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2009)
      Media streaming is an approach to delivering media, which may consist of video and audio, from a provider to viewers. Media streaming enables simultaneous delivery and playback of media and thus provides an alternative to ...

    • The Relo-KT Process for Cross-Disciplinary Knowledge Transfer 

      CLARKE, EMMA LOUISE (Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Computer Science, 2019)
      Digital humanities research, by its nature, is collaborative and interdisciplinary. A key aim when undertaking cross-disciplinary research is to integrate insights from two or more distinct disciplines using both formal ...

    • Computational Shedding in Stream Computing 

      GUERIN, DAVID (Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Computer Science, 2019)
      Stream Computing, a generic on-line data processing paradigm has emerged as the preferred approach in the processing of continuous data streams. Data streams suffer from a bursty characteristic where the data rate of the ...

    • Exploring use of the Bridge21 model as a 21st Century method of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) in Computer Science (CS) for Teachers in Ireland 

      FISHER, LORRAINE (Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Computer Science, 2019)
      Across Europe there is strong push to teach Computer Science (CS) in post-primary schools (Forbes & Messina, 2002). Sentance and Csizmadia (2017a) advise that CS is perceived as a difficult subject, and call for Continuing ...

    • Unrepresentable: Technological Futures, Art and The Ontological Singularity 

      O'DEA, TOM (Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Computer Science, 2019)
      This thesis examines the implications of the increasing prevalence of computation in contemporary society. In doing so the thesis develops a definition of computation that is based on the manipulation and communication of ...

    • Brexit has us all on Edge 

      FLYNN, DANIEL ROGER (Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Computer Science, 2019)
      In this piece of research, we examine the evolution of sentiment proxies, commonly used to account for investor behaviour in the financial economics literature. Advancements in computing techniques, such as sentiment ...

    • Automatic generation of relational to ontology mapping correspondences 

      MATHUR, SAHIL NAKUL (Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Computer Science, 2019)
      This thesis presents Milan, an automatic relational-to-ontology system. Milan automatically generates mapping correspondences from a source relational database (RDB) and a target ontology. It addresses the relational-to-ontology ...

    • An Information-Centric Approach to Quality of Service in a Highly Dynamic Edge Environment 

      MCCARTHY, JESSICA (Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Computer Science, 2019)
      There is a fundamental paradigm shift in how today's communications networks are being used to deliver data. This has emerged from the proliferation of intelligent Internet of Things devices and corresponding volumes of ...

    • Stigmergic QoS Optimisation for Flexible Service Composition in Mobile Environments 

      PALADE, ANDREI (Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Computer Science, 2019)
      With the increasing number of resource-rich handsets equipped with diverse wireless communication technologies, users within a limited geographical area can share the services deployed on their mobile devices to form ...

    • An Alternative Representation of Video via Feature Extraction (RAAVE) 

      SALIM, FAHIM AHMED (Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Computer Science, 2019)
      This thesis proposes a novel approach called RAAVE to transform video from a linear stream of content into an interactive multimedia document and thereby enhance the exploration potential of video content. Exploring the ...

    • A Jigsaw Puzzle Metaphor for Representing Linked Data Mappings 

      CROTTI JUNIOR, ADEMAR (Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Computer Science, 2019)
      This thesis presents a visual representation approach for Linked Data mappings known as Jigsaw Puzzles for Representing Mappings, or Juma. The term Linked Data refers to a set of best practices for publishing and interlinking ...