Computer Science (Scholarly Publications): Recent submissions

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    • Internet Voting Using Zcash 

      Tewari, Hitesh; Tarasov, Pavel (2017)
      Voting systems have been around for hundreds of years and despite different views on their integrity, have always been deemed secure systems with some fundamental security and anonymity principles. Numerous ...

    • X509Cloud - Framework for a Ubiquitous PKI 

      Weber, Stefan; Tewari, Hitesh; Hughes, Arthur; Barry, Tomas (2017)
      The SSL protocol has been widely used for verifying digital identities and to secure Internet traffic since the early days of the web. Although X.509 certificates have been in existence for more than two decades, individual ...

    • Virtual Citation Proximity (VCP): Calculating Co-Citation-Proximity-Based Document Relatedness for Uncited Documents with Machine Learning 

      Beel, Joeran (2017)
      The relatedness of research articles, patents, legal documents, web pages, and other documents is often calculated with citation or hyperlink based approaches such as citation proximity analysis ...

    • Design and Evaluation of Player Experience of a Location-Based Mobile Game 

      Haahr, Mads; Carrigy, Tara; Naliuka, Katsiaryna; Paterson, Natasa (ACM, 2010)
      This paper reports on the design and evaluation of player experience of a Location-Based Mobile Game set in Dublin, Ireland in which players act as paranormal investigators hunting for ghosts and gathering evidence of ...

    • Design, Implementation and Evaluation of Audio for a Location Based Augmented Reality Game 

      Conway, Fionnuala; Haahr, Mads; Paterson, Natasa; Naliuka, Katsiaryna; Kristian Jensen, Soren; Carrigy, Tara (ACM, 2010)
      In this paper, the development and implementation of a rich sound design, reminiscent of console gaming for a location aware game, Viking Ghost Hunt (VGH) is presented. The role of audio was assessed with particular attention ...

    • Kosmoscope: A Seismic Observatory 

      HAAHR, MADS; Redfern, Tim (ACM, 2009)
      Earth tremors are a constant, intrinsic part of our planet's nature and a visceral experience when first encountered. Kosmoscope, a telematic art installation by Tim Redfern, marries two venerable technologies, the ...

    • Supporting CORBA Applications in a Mobile Environment 

      Haahr, Mads; Cahill, Vinny; Cunningham, Raymond (1999)
      CORBA, the Common Object Request Broker Architecture, defines a framework for developing object-oriented distributed applications. Unfortunately, current implementations of CORBA have not been designed with support for ...

    • Wireless Indoor Resource Optimisation meeting Prescribed UserCapacity Requirements 

      Kenny, Eamonn; O Nuallain, Eamonn (2018)
      The optimal locations of transmitters in a building, that best meet the bandwidth requirements of all users, was studied in the past by a small number of authors. They used empirical path loss models to constrain an ...

    • Applying Blockchain Layer2 Technology to Mass E-Commerce 

      O'Mahony, Donal; Zhao, Sijia (International Association for Cryptologic Research, 2020)
      The emergence of e-commerce has changed the way people trade. However, merchants are charged high fees for their use of the platform and for payment services. These costs are passed on to customers in the form of higher ...

    • Identifying Topic Shift and Topic Shading in Switchboard 

      Spillane, Brendan; Wade, Vincent; Gilmartin, Emer; Saam, Christian; Clark, Leigh; Cowan, Benjamin R. (2018)
      This paper highlights some of the ongoing work on the ADELE project, namely the identification and annotation of topic shift and topic shading in the Switchboard-1 Release-2 corpus. The purpose of this is to train an ...

    • Perception of Bias: The Impact of User Characteristics, Website Design and Technical Features 

      Spillane, Brendan; Wade, Vincent; Lawless, Séamus (ACM, 2017)
      Bias, whether real or perceived by the user, is inherent in news media. In this paper, we demonstrate that user characteristics, the design and common technical features of news websites impact users' perception of bias. ...

    • Measuring Bias in News Websites, Towards a Model for Personalization 

      Spillane, Brendan; Wade, Vincent; Lawless, Séamus (2017)
      This poster briefly elucidates on a crowdsourced exploratory study demonstrating the impact of common features of news websites' design on perceived bias. Type of news website, user characteristics, and the overall design, ...

    • Annotation of greeting, introduction, and leavetaking in dialogues 

      Spillane, Brendan; Wade, Vincent; Campbell, Nick; Gilmartin, Emer; O'Reilly, Maria; Saam, Christian; Su, Ketong; Levacher, Killian; Cerrato, Loredana; Cowan, Benjamin R.; Clark, Leigh; Calvo, Arturo (2017)
      Dialogue act annotation aids understanding of interaction structure, and also in the design of artificial dialogue. While many dialogues can be described as task-based or instrumental, others are more interactional. These ...

    • Dialog acts in greeting and leavetaking in social talk 

      Wade, Vincent; Spillane, Brendan; Campbell, Nick; GIlmartin, Emer; O'Reilly, Maria; Su, Ketong; Saam, Christian; Cowan, Benjamin R. (2017)
      Conversation proceeds through dialogue moves or acts, and dialog act annotation can aid the design of artificial dialog. While many dialogs are task-based or instrumental, with clear goals, as in the case of a service ...

    • Increasing and Decreasing Perceived Bias by Distorting the Quality of News Website Design 

      Spillane, Brendan; Wade, Vincent; Lawless, Séamus (BCS Learning & Development Ltd, 2018)
      News website design has previously been shown to impact perceived credibility, and one of its core dimensions and measures, bias. This paper demonstrates that by adapting the quality of the visual presentation of webpages ...

    • The ADELE Corpus of Dyadic Social Text Conversations:Dialog Act Annotation with ISO 24617-2 

      Campbell, Nick; Wade, Vincent; Spillane, Brendan; Gilmartin, Emer; O'Reilly, Maria; Saam, Christian; Su, Ketong; Clark Leigh; Cowan, Benjamin R.; Levacher, Killian; Calvo, Arturo; Cerrato, Loredana (European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 2018)
      Social or interactional dialog is less well described than task-based or instrumental dialog, although there is increasing interest in the genre, particularly in light of new spoken and text dialog applications which aim ...

    • Pilot Data Collection Survey and Analytical Techniques for Persuasion Engineering Systems 

      Spillane, Brendan; Wade, Vincent; Braca, Annye; Dondio, Pierpaolo (2019)
      Persuasive communication is learned from childhood and can further be refined through study and experience. The ability to persuade through effective argumentation is regarded as a sign of intelligence,enticing ...

    • ADELE: Care and companionship for independent aging 

      Wade, Vincent; Spillane, Brendan; Gilmartin, Emer; Saam, Christian; Cowan, Benjamin R. (2018)
      Dialogue system technology offers interesting prospects for services to seniors living independently. A spoken or text dialog system can support services such as monitoring medication adherence, fall prevention and ...

    • Learning Binary Search Trees through Serious Games 

      Haahr, Mads; Rojas-Salazar, Alberto; Ramírez-Alfaro, Paula (ACM, 2020)
      Data structures and algorithms are core topics in Computer Science, but they are difficult topics to grasp. Data structures and algorithmic concepts are abstract and difficult to relate to previous knowledge. To facilitate ...

    • Demand-Responsive Zone Generation for Real-Time Vehicle Rebalancing in Ride-Sharing Fleets 

      CASTAGNA, ALBERTO; Dusparic, Ivana; Guériau, Maxime; Vizzari, Giuseppe (2020)
      Enabling Ride-sharing (RS) in existing Mobility-on demand (MoD) systems allows to reduce the operating vehicle fleet size while achieving a similar level of service. This however requires an efficient vehicle to multiple ...