Content Provider i.e. entities that own or are licensed to sell and distribute content e.g., HBO, Netflix, Amazon Prime, which use the IP-based Internet model for content distribution, consume a large percentage of network ...

The increasing growth of multimodal material creates, nowadays, a renewed interest in innovative approaches to information extraction from meetings and multiparty conversations; those approaches make use of various multimodal ...

This thesis examines the application of sentiment analysis towards financial news. The primary goal within the field of sentiment analysis is to develop a methodology by which the sentiment or emotional view being expressed ...

Matrix operations are fundamental to linear algebra and have many important applications in areas such as sinmlation of physical systems, economic modeling, linear optimization and numerical analysis. One of the fundamental ...

Traditional infrastructure-based networks are formed around an infrastructure of static, dedicated components that connect the individual end points such as desktop computers and servers. The exponential rise in the number ...

Computer science degree programs have proliferated due to the demands of industry and the pressures placed on higher education institutions by national governments. In tandem with this, the technological familiarity presumed ...

Computational models of Trust have recently emerged as a way to exploit the human notion of trust in open and collaborative environments. This thesis provides a novel computational model of trust based on defeasible ...

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 ...

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 ...