Computer Science Technical Reports: Recent submissions

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    • Case-Based Travel Agent 

      Peuret, Frédéric (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 1999-09)
      With the explosion of the Internet, we are getting more and more information and it becomes difficult to digest. Agents exist to help the users. An agent is a component of software (or hardware) that is capable of ...

    • CapaFS: A globally Accessible File System 

      Regan, Jude Thaddeus (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 1999-09)
      We have designed and implemented a reference implementation of CapaFS, a global, decentralised file system that allows users to collaborate with other users anywhere in the world, with no prior arrangements or connections. ...

    • Supporting Disconnected Operation in Mobile CORBA 

      Lynch, Niall (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 1999-09)
      CORBA has been used successfully for a number of years as a way of building and connecting distributed applications. Normally this has been in the context of a wired network with static hosts. With recent developments ...

    • Testing of a Novel Distributed Shared Memory Framework 

      Markey, Laurence (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 1999-09)
      A novel object oriented framework for software Distributed Shared Memory (DSM) has been developed by the Distributed Systems Group in Trinity College, Dublin for programming parallel applications on a group of loosely ...

    • Identification and Retrieval of WWW-based Courseware: A Metadata Approach 

      Kenny, Sarah Anne (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 1999-09)
      Information retrieval is often a tedious and time consuming task on the Internet, as information is stored in an unstructured manner. There is no guarantee that what you find is relevant to your needs, on the correct topics, ...

    • BeanBag: An Extensible Framework for Describing, Storing and Querying Components 

      O'Reilly, Caroline (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 1999-09)
      When it became obvious that Object Oriented software applications were falling short of their promise of significant software reuse, the software industry began to look at another solution. Hence the interest in Component ...

    • An Extensible Administration and Configuration Tool for Linux Clusters 

      Fogarty, John D (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 1999-09)
      This project addresses the lack of system administration tools for Linux clusters. The goals of the project were to design and implement an extensible system that would facilitate the administration and configuration of ...

    • Data Exchange in a Component Based Workflow Environment 

      Fahey, Paul (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 1999-09)
      There is a need to revise existing (successful) software subsystems. One can?t afford to develop a bespoke system, as done previously, so therefore `shrink wrapped solution sets? have to be realised. The problem is how ...

    • A Metadata Driven Approach to Educational Adaptive Hypermedia 

      Connor, Niamh (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 1999-09)
      The objective of this dissertation is to develop a teaching tool which extends the benefits of Web learning by providing increased flexibility for both students and administrators. The dissertation will investigate the ...

    • A Distributed Event System for Use in Mobile Environments 

      Barron, Peter (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 1999-09)
      Recent research into the automation of certain tasks within buildings has been shown to provide a better working environment and also has the potential to make buildings more responsive to the needs of the community at ...

    • Modelling and Planning the Migration for Next Generation Networks 

      Robin, Mathieu (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2002-09)
      The ever increasing volume of data traffic on telecommunications networks has led to a fundamental shift in network operator requirements. Moreover, the continuous evolution of the industry, with developments such as ...

    • Using Group Communication to Support Inter-Vehicle Co-ordination 

      O'Gorman, Eoin (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2002-09)
      Recent advancements in wireless communication technology and portable computing are opening up exciting possibilities for the future of mobile network applications. One obvious domain for such mobile network applications ...

    • Intelligent Multicast Internet Radio 

      Matic, Goran (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2002-09)
      As the internet continues to mature static content will continue to give way to dynamic, interactive multimedia content. This content will enrich all online media while at the same time imposing heavy bandwidth usage on ...

    • AspectC#: An AOSD implementation for C# 

      Kim, Howard (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2002-09)
      A major problem with Object Oriented Programming (OOP) is that it cannot deal efficiently with crosscutting concerns. Aspect Oriented Software Development (AOSD) is a new methodology that tries to enable the extension ...

    • Evaluation of Aspect-Oriented Software Development for Distributed Systems 

      Driver, Cormac (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2002-09)
      Problems relating to the issue of modularity result in the underperformance of the object-oriented software development paradigm. Aspect-oriented software development (AOSD) is a new technology for the separation of ...

    • Distributed Slide Show Tool 

      Daly, Elizabeth (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2002-09)
      The growing use of the Internet has increased connectivity and allowed users to communicate in a more interactive manner. This had lead to a growing use of ELearning and Collaborative tools. But one of the biggest ...

    • JXTA, In the Support of User Migration Across Smart Spaces 

      Commins, Martin (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2002-09)
      ?Smart Spaces? are environments with traditional computing hardware as well as embedded computers, information appliances, and multi-modal sensors. The goal of a smart space is to sense, recognise and understand the tasks ...

    • A Reaction Diffusion Model for Wireless Indoor Propagation 

      Clarke, Andrew (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2002-09)
      The biological pattern formation system known as the reaction-diffusion mechanism is used as a base for a simulator which will predict the propagation of RF signals in an indoor environment. The reaction diffusion system ...

    • Directory Enabled Smart Spaces 

      Cahill, Enda (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2002-09)
      Significant research and development in the area of system management has been carried out over the last number of years. This research has led to a number of proven technologies that are currently being used to manage ...

    • Partition Anticipation for Wireless Local Area Networks 

      Butterly, Andrew (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2002-09)
      Wireless networks introduce new possibilities for computer networking. They also bring some new problems, while enhancing some already established ones. One new problem is a network's increased sensitivity to its environment, ...