This thesis is a holistic study in the area of teaching and learning of music composition for children in the age range eight to eleven years. It investigates the role of graphical computer technology within the framework ...

The increasing growth of multimodal material creates, nowadays, a renewed interest in innovative approaches to information extraction from meetings and multiparty conversations; those approaches make use of various multimodal ...

With more and more computing devices being deployed in buildings there has been a steady rise in buildings’ electricity consumption. These devices not only consume electricity but also produce heat, which increases loading ...

The Kalman flter is a recursive algorithm that estimates the state of a linear dynamical system from a sequence of noisy sensor measurements. Due to its relative simplicity, numerical efficiency and optimality, the Kalman ...

Web users are continuously confronted with vast amounts of information. This phenomenon is known as the information explosion and can lead to disorientation and decreased productivity as users attempt to navigate through ...

A prototype database is a model of a database which exhibits the desired properties, in terms of its schema and/or data values, of an operational database. Database prototyping has been proposed as a technique to support ...

Emergence is a hallmark of Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS), where non-deterministic interactions between agents can give rise to emergent behaviour or properties at the system level. The nature, timing and consequence of ...

In recent years the importance of dynamic scripting languages -such as PHP, Python, Ruby and Javascript - has grown as they are used for an increasing amounts of sortware development. Scripting languages provide high-level ...

As automation becomes more pervasive in industry, human decision-makers are becoming increasingly dependent on sensor-data to monitor and interpret performance across largescale enterprises. At the same time an exponential ...

The Linked Open Data (LOD) project has made a broad range of knowledge available on the World Wide Web as open datasets, using a common format and linked in such a manner that it is a simple task to explore and integrate ...