Computer Science (Theses and Dissertations): Recent submissions
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Quartz: A QoS Architecture for Open Systems
(University of Dublin, Trinity College. Department of Computer Science, 1999-12)The term `QoS architecture? is used to describe middleware that provides applications with mechanisms for specification and enforcement of quality of service (QoS) requirements. These architectures administer the resources ... -
Cryptographic Access Control for a Network File System
(2001-09)The rapid growth of mobile computing and the deployment of large distributed systems which span multiple administrative domains has created new challenges for security systems. Changing usage patterns and the physical ... -
Using Dynamic Proxies to Support RMI in a Mobile Environment
(Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2001-09)The emergence of small, mobile computing devices such as personal digital assistants and cellular telephones has been driven by advances in computing and wireless communication technologies. The development of distributed ... -
Digital Rights Enforcement for Pervasive Computing Applications
(Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2005-03)Increasingly, application software is expanding from the desktop into mobile application environments, such as handset devices and embedded systems which are more limited in resources and volatile in their network ... -
An Evaluation of AOP for Java-based Real-time Systems Development
(Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2003-09)Advances in programming language have improved the software developer?s ability to achieve separation of concerns (SOC). Although object-oriented (OO) technology offers greater ability than previous language paradigms ... -
An Implementation and Evaluation of the Ad-hoc On-demand Distance Vector Routing Protocol for Windows CE
(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 ... -
A Flexible, Scalable, Distributed, Fault Tolerant Architecture for the Collection and Dissemination of Multimodal Traffic-Related Information
(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 Web Services Framework for Mobile Payment Services
(Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2003-09)Next generation mobile services are readily emerging into the mainstream services market and this growth is dependent on mobile technologies and their support infrastructure. 2.5G and 3G mobile technologies presently are ... -
Consistency Maintenance Framework For Collaborative Software Modeling Tools
(Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2003-09)The globalization of companies and business, and the improvements in communication and computing have lead to the need of new models of collaborative work. Real-time collaborative editing systems are included in the field ... -
Adaptive Ontology-Driven Personalised News Services
(Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2005-09)Ontologically Driven Adaptation is a challenging field within the area of Personalised News. Ontologies provide a structured, semantically rich methodology for the modelling of a domain. Personalised News is an area of ... -
Automated Reconciliation for Disconnected Operation in Object Oriented Middleware
(Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2005-09)Modern distributed computing systems are no longer constrained to fixed, wired networks. Many computers have gained the ability to move within a network and operate across wireless links. Such mobile computing devices often ... -
Decentralized Authorization for Web Services
(Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2005-09)Web Services is an area that encountered a very sudden and huge explosion on its popularity during the latest years. The advantages Web Services provide compared to traditional distributed computing methods such as Remote ... -
Using Fluid Models for AQM Evaluation
(Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2005-09)In spite of the congestion management mechanisms included in the TCP/IP protocol, the Internet still suffers from a lack of optimization in the way network overload is managed. One of the reasons for this is that the ... -
Design and Initial Implementation of a Distributed XML Database
(Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2005-09)Techniques for distributed relational database systems have been well researched and developed. This is unsurprising given that the relational database model itself has been in development since the early 1970s. In recent ... -
An Advanced Appliance Interaction Architecture
(Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2005-09)In the future, the ability to monitor and control home appliances over the Internet could become one of the conveniences that we wonder how we ever managed without. Also, the ability to interact with networked appliances ... -
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 ... -
An Evaluation of XML Associated Vulnerabilities in the Xerces-C++ Parser
(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 ... -
Context Awareness in Mobile Phone Based Applications Using Bluetooth
(Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2005-09)Mobile phones have become the communication medium of choice. They have evolved into a multifaceted device capable of data services and multimedia applications in addition to their voice capabilities. Mobile phone ... -
Implementation of SAMPLE Protocol
(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. ... -
Architecture for multi-party synchronization of data sets in a distributed environment
(Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2005-09)In the world of common mobility, where more and more people and organizations use various mobile equipment such as phones, personal data assistants and other devices the consistency of stored and exchanged data is a very ...
