Computer Science (Theses and Dissertations): Recent submissions

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    • Automatic Web Publishing 

      Sanchez-Vilar, Oscar (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2000-09)
      Research and Development departments of most important companies are currently producing technical documents and papers as a result of their own investigation projects. This type of documents normally develop concepts and ...

    • CORBA based Middleware for Cooperating Mobile Robots 

      Ryan, Colin (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2000-09)
      An embedded system is an autonomous information processing system that determines or controls to a large extent the behaviour of a larger system. The proliferation of embedded systems applications is increasing daily, ...

    • CryptosFS: Fast Cryptographic Secure NFS 

      O'Shanahan, Declan (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2000-09)
      The issue of security in file-systems is as relevant today as when the first file system was developed. Current file system implementations rely heavily on centralised security mechanisms such as access control lists. ...

    • A Multiple Autonomous Agent System for Negotiating Valued Information Exchange on the Web 

      O'Neill, Larry (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2000-09)
      The amount of detailed personal information being recorded electronically about individuals is growing rapidly. The increasing commercial pervasiveness of the Internet is a major factor in this growth. This information ...

    • Modular Data Serialisation and Mobile Code 

      O'Leary, Ciaran (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 ...

    • Collaborative Ad-hoc Applications 

      O'Connell, Paul (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2000-09)
      The proliferation of mobile hand-held devises and the development of ad-hoc networking technologies has opened the possibility for users of these devises to partake in collaborative applications with other mobile users. ...

    • A Toolkit for the Visualisation of CORBA Applications 

      Miller, Robert (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2000-09)
      VEDA is a visualisation environment that allows the operation of distributed applications to be visualised graphically for the purposes of testing and education. It contains a visualisation package which enables distributed ...

    • Dublin Bus Tracking Service: Design and implementation of a device independent passenger information system 

      Fallon, Eamonn (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2000-09)
      Traditionally public transport has been perceived as the less desirable alternative to the car. The environmental argument of using public transport has not led to a significant increase in the usage of public transport. ...

    • Real-Time Display of Dublin Traffic Information on the Web 

      Dineen, Mark (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2000-09)
      Many large-scale and highly specialised distributed systems such as Urban Traffic Control (UTC) systems produce considerable quantities of data on a real-time basis. This data is then frequently locked in a proprietary ...

    • Investigation and Development of Quality of Service Management for Web based Services: Managing Quality of Service from the End-User Perspective 

      Dalton, Eamonn (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 ...

    • Improving Open Web Architectures 

      Collins, Michael (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, ...

    • 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 ...

    • Courseware on the Fly 

      Dillon, Brian J (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 1998-09)
      Third level education is at the moment experiencing a period of rapid change. Innovative teaching methods, in which new technology will figure, are required to enable universities maintain a high standard of education ...

    • Architecture for Location Independent CORBA Environments 

      Cunningham, Raymond (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 1998-09)
      The construction of distributed applications is a complex and time consuming task, which has been addressed by the Object Management Group's Common Object Request Broker Architecture. However implementations of this ...

    • Mobile Proxies 

      Aziz, Benjamin (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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • An Internet Protocol Testing Framework 

      Cashman, John (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 ...

    • Pervasive Application Rights Management Architecture 

      Dusparic, Ivana (University of Dublin, Trinity College. School of Computer Science and Statistics, 2005-07)
      This dissertation describes an application rights management architecture that combines license management with digital rights management to provide an integrated platform for the specification, generation, delivery and ...

    • Trust, Security and Privacy in Global Computing 

      Seigneur, Jean-Marc (University of Dublin, Trinity College, School of Computer Science and Statistics, 2005-03)
      During the past thirty years, the world of computing has evolved from large centralised computing centres to an increasingly distributed computing environment, where computation and communication capabilities are being ...