Computer Science Technical Reports: Recent submissions

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    • A Mobility-Aware File System - file availability in a mobile-aware, context aware environment 

      O'Flaherty, Owen (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 

      O'Donnell, John (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 

      Munnelly, Jennifer (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 

      Nash, Kevin (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 

      Marczewski, Marcin (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 ...

    • A Proactive Approach to Semantically Oriented Service Discovery 

      Lynch, David Thomas (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2005-09)
      Web Service based computing has evolved immensely in recent years, supported by standards bodies, academic research and industry alike. One of the noticeable omissions from the web services architecture is that of standards ...

    • Microsponsorships: A New Payment Model for Music Distribution 

      Herrera, Gregory (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2005-09)
      Today?s music industry on the Internet is dominated by the record companies who charge users to download MP3s. In most cases, users do not have the opportunity to listen to the entire song prior to downloading and ...

    • TinyTorrent: Combining BitTorrent and SensorNets 

      Holger Fritsche, Karsten (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2005-09)
      The first of the two goals of this research was to investigate the BitTorrent protocol to determine what features make it successful on an Internet scale. These features include its ability to rapidly replicate data ...

    • Testing Formal Semantics: Handel-C 

      Corcoran, Brian (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2005-09)
      This dissertation addresses the formal semantics of Handel-C: a C-based language with true parallelism and priority-based channel communication, which can be compiled to hardware. It describes an implementation in the ...

    • A Knowledge-Light Mechanism for Explanation in Case-Based Reasoning 

      Doyle, Donal (University of Dublin, Trinity College. Department of Computer Science, 2005-10)
      Decision support systems are currently achieving higher classification accuracies by using more complex reasoning mechanisms. Examples of such mechanisms include support vector machines and neural networks. However in ...

    • Implementing an Integrated Web-Based Synchronous eLearning Collaboration Platform at Tertiary Level for Part-Time Mature Evening Students 

      Jennings, Audrey (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2005-10)
      This thesis focuses on the lessons learned and new insights gained, from the pilot implementation of a webbased synchronous eLearning collaboration platform at Tertiary Level evaluated on part-time mature evening students. Over ...

    • Smart Radio: Building Community-Based Internet Music Radio 

      Hayes, Conor (University of Dublin, Trinity College. Department of Computer Science, 2003-10)
      The success of file-sharing networks demonstrates that there is a huge potential market for digital music services, if the music industry can find a service model that is attractive to listeners. The concept of digital ...

    • Story Games and the OPIATE System: Using Case-Based Planning for Structuring Plots with an Expert Story Director Agent and Enacting them in a Socially Simulated Game World 

      Fairclough, Chris (University of Dublin, Trinity College. Department of Computer Science, 2004-10)
      Storytelling in computer games has become a major selling point for new titles. With new games integrating compelling storylines with simulated worlds, there is increasingly a standard set of techniques used to tell a ...

    • The Federated Event Service 

      Ryan, Conor (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2003-09)
      Event services provide asynchronous, decoupled, anonymous message-based communication. This facilitates scalable distributed systems composed of autonomous concurrently executing entities. There are several kinds of event ...

    • A Framework for Academic Electronic Journal Publications 

      Kennedy, Eamonn (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2003-09)
      Academic journals are the backbone of scholarly communication and the preservation of knowledge. For years they have served as a record of progression and an archive of academic debate. They are the medium through which ...

    • Analysis of Spam 

      Lambert, Anselm (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2003-09)
      Spam is a pervasive annoyance in the lives of the Internet user. It has exploded into all facets of communications from mobile phones to personal organisers, and it has become a topical subject of discussion due to recent ...

    • HOUSe-KEEPER, A Vendor-independent Architecture for Easy Management of Smart Homes 

      Seigneur, Jean-Marc (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2001-09)
      Home-networking is gaining momentum. In a couple of months, Windows XP will be launched with the connected home experience as one of its core areas of interest. In the medium term at least, there will be more than one home ...

    • Real-time Intrusion Detection for Ad hoc Networks 

      Stamouli, Ioanna (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2003-09)
      In the recent years, wireless technology has enjoyed a tremendous rise in popularity and usage opening new fields of applications in the domain of networking. One such field concerns mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) where ...

    • SWARM: Cooperative Reinforcement Learning for Routing in Ad-hoc Networks 

      Curran, Eoin (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2003-09)
      Existing ad-hoc routing protocols are based on a discrete, bimodal model for links between nodes: a link either exists or is broken. This model usually considers only the most recent transmission as determining the state ...

    • Meeting QoS Requirements in a Dynamically Priced Commercial Cellular Network 

      Bouroche, Melanie (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2003-09)
      With the current trend towards user mobility and ubiquitous computing, cellular networks are becoming an evermore important feature of day-to-day life, albeit an unseen one. Mobile networks are characterised by a scarcity ...