Browsing Computer Science (PhD Theses) by Title
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Bayesian methods for evidence synthesis and decision making in Health Technology Assessments
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2013)In this thesis statistical methodologies to improve reimbursement decisions in healthcare are developed. The allocation of healthcare resources is a very topical issue in the current economic climate. Given a limited ... -
Bayesian modelling and analysis of utility-based maintenance for repairable systems
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2017)This thesis focuses on modelling and inference for maintenance systems for the purpose of utility optimisation. Providing standardised notation throughout, we first demonstrate the motivation for investigating the problem ... -
Behavioural equivalences for web services
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2013)This thesis is a foundational and systematic investigation of the principles which ensure that a piece of communicating software can be replaced by another piece of communicating software, without hindering the operations ... -
Biometric retrieval of cryptographic keys
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2006)The problem statement addressed in this thesis is the creation of the first biometric key retrieval scheme capable of protecting private keys used in all three types of public-key cryptosystems: those that rely on the ... -
Bottom-up visual attention for autonomous virtual human animation
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2004)Animating autonomous virtual humans in a plausible manner is a difficult proposition. As social creatures, humans must be able to interact with each other from an early age and communication is often subject to many nuances. ... -
Bounding volume hierarchies for level-of-detail collision handling
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2002)Enforcing solidity of objects within simulations is a major computational overhead. Detecting interactions between bodies is a large part of this overhead. Many researchers have used hybrid collision detection algorithms ... -
Bridge21 : a model for team based technology, mediated learning in and out of school context
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Care : a communication and relationship education primary prevention social cognitive model aimed at developing the self-efficacy of adolescents to verbally respond to sexual coercion
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2017)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 ... -
Cashua : integrating semantics and content-based networking for context distribution
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2009)To support a vision of ubiquitous computing where computers fade into the background, context systems must provide information to highly mobile people and devices in ubiquitous computing environments. In these environments, ... -
CAWriter : using an Activity System perspective to inform the design of tools to support early career Ph.D. candidates
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2014)This thesis adheres to the view that the purpose of a Ph.D. is to both make a significant contribution to knowledge and to provide the candidate with the skills necessary to conduct "independent" research, culminating ... -
Certainty assessment in informal language
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2015)This research studied linguistic hedges in informal language style. Hedges are expressions that show a weakened commitment of speakers with respect to what they are saying. This modification in their commitment is made for ... -
Charge routing networking : using lightning strikes to add dynamicity to CCN
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2016)This thesis presents a novel routing mechanism designed to improve the performance of information-centric networks where there is a large degree of content producer mobility. Usage patterns on the Internet have changed a ... -
Co-creation with Open Government Data : a constructivist approach using a multiple case studies strategy from an information systems perspective
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2017)Open Government Data (OGD) initiatives are spreading worldwide. One use of OGD is the co-creation of applications and web services. Both OGD and co-creation concepts can be viewed from different perspectives as there are ... -
Collaborative requirements elicitation to foster shared understanding
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2015)Fostering shared understanding of how to support organisational change involves a complex interaction of stakeholders in order to achieve alignment of business processes and IT infrastructure. Collaboration ... -
Collaborative, contextual, and technology-mediated mathematics learning activities : design heuristics and effects on student engagement
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2015)This dissertation describes an approach to mathematics activity design that aligns the affordances of off-the-shelf technologies with relevant mathematics pedagogy. The aim is to create transformative learning experiences ... -
Collaboratively designing Dublin : understanding designing Dublin: learning to learn as a strategy for collaboratively developing Dublin
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2014)Contemporary global challenges, such as climate change, peak oil and population growth, are daunting and may, at times, seem to be insurmountable. The difficulties of addressing these challenges have been compounded even ... -
Colour transfer and shape registration using functional data representations
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2017)In this thesis we propose new colour transfer and shape registration methods based on the robust L2 distance. For colour transfer, we present an approach inspired by techniques recently proposed in shape registration. We ... -
Command and control for grid infrastructures
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Compiler techniques to improve indirect branch prediction
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2012)Computers employ a class of branches called indirect branches to realize various programming language features. Multiway branching (switch statements), virtual function dispatch and function calls are all realized through ... -
Completely unanticipated dynamic adaptation of software
(Trinity College DublinDublin University - Trinity College, Department of Computer Science, 2004)Dynamic adaptation of software behaviour refers to the act of changing the behaviour of some part of a software system as it executes, without stopping or restarting it. It is difficult to dynamically adapt software if ...