For personalisation approaches that analyse unstructured content, a common task is converting that unstructured content to a structured representation. Each structured representation has strengths and weaknesses, and the ...

The design of robust databases for storing data about aesthetic objects is a major challenge, as manifested through discussions on metadata standards about these objects. These databases play a key role in the visualisation ...

Device gateways as a means of being an abstraction or transparency layer between devices and applications are in use already for a long time in the industry automation area to convert data formats, signals and messages ...

This tutorial provides an overview of the various frameworks and architectures outlining current network disaggregation trends that are leading to the virtualisation/cloudification of central of- fices. The ...

Interactive Digital Narrative (IDN) is an interdisciplinary field in which long established perspectives (literature studies, narratology, oral storytelling practices) and newer views (computer science, communication ...

Single instruction, multiple data (SIMD) is a class of parallel computing that involves executing a single operation across multiple pieces of data. A common type of SIMD is vector processing which involves executing a ...

This research looks at the POMDP models used for dialogue management within Spoken Dialogue Systems (SDS). In particular, it examines the difficulty of handling multimodal inputs. It proposes a generalisation of the ...

This thesis describes the design, development, implementation and evaluation of CARE, a communication and relationship education, primary prevention social cognitive model aimed at developing the self-efficacy of adolescents ...

The paradigm of Software Defined Networking can have significant beneficial impacts on the provision of traditional Telecommunications services, but there is a possibility that networks may be oversimplified by removing ...