Computer Science (PhD Theses): Recent submissions

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    • Visualising small world graphs using agglomerative clustering around nodes of interest 

      McGee, Fintan (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2013)
      The difficulty of visualising large graphs lies not just in processing power and display size but in the inherent visual complexity of a large data-set, as the noise and clutter from large numbers of nodes and an order of ...

    • The development of a Community Informatics (CI) model to support Irish Local Voluntary Organisations (LVOs) use Information and Communication Technology (ICT) 

      McDonald, T.J. (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2013)
      The value of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) as a management facilitator that can help deliver efficiencies to both the public and private sector is well established. However, there are other parts of society ...

    • Keeping connected in care : development of technology to stimulate social interaction among older people in care facilities 

      McDonnell, Ronan (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2012)
      Care settings for older people, such as nursing homes, can have low levels of social engagement. Social interaction has been shown in many studies as being crucial to both the mental and physical well-being of older adults. ...

    • Compiler techniques to improve indirect branch prediction 

      McCandless, Jason Marshall (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 ...

    • The design of systems to engage adolescents in professional mental health services 

      Matthews, Mark (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2009)
      Human Computer Interaction (HCI) studies the interaction between people and computers. User-centred design (UCD), design which places the user at the centre of the development process, has become the dominant focus within ...

    • Level of detail representations and variation methods for the rendering of large animated crowds 

      Larkin, Michéal (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2011)
      The simulation of large crowds of characters is an important topic in the field of real time rendering as games and movies strive for more realistic populated scenes. Displaying a city scene with a large crowd enhances the ...

    • Synchronous macro-programming of energy-efficient wireless sensor-actuator networks . 

      Karpinski, Marcin (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2010)
      Application development for wireless sensor-actuator networks (WSANs) is widely regarded as being a complex task: not only does the programmer need to orchestrate communication and data processing in a heterogeneous network ...

    • Model-driven engineering of planning and optimisation algorithms for pervasive computing environments 

      Harrington, Anthony Christopher (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2010)
      This thesis addresses the development of that class of pervasive computing applications that can be modelled as real-world planning and optimisation problems. Canonical examples of such applications are the control of ...

    • Constructionism in non-goal orientated virtual worlds 

      Girvan, Carina (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2013)
      Non-goal orientated virtual worlds have gained particular interest from educators in recent years; however learning experiences tend to replicate traditional praxis and lack pedagogical underpinning. This thesis proposes ...

    • Adaptive object code compression 

      Gilbert, John (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2009)
      Previous object code compression schemes have employed static and semi-adaptive compression algorithms to reduce the size of instruction memory in embedded systems. The suggestion by a number of researchers that adaptive ...

    • Authoring adaptive soft skill simulations 

      Gaffney, Conor (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2013)
      This thesis examines the personalisation of online training simulations which are a key modern approach in computer aided education. More specifically it focuses on the difficulties involved in authoring personalised ...

    • k-NN approach for classifying semantic roles via Tai-mapping projections 

      Franco-Penya, Hector-Hugo (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2013)
      Semantic role labelling (SRL) is the task of labelling text with a semantic notation in order to identify who did what? When? How? Etc. Once the text is labelled; that information can be used to solve a multitude of other ...

    • Policy based management for dynamic organisations 

      Feeney, Kevin Chekov (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2009)
      Policy-Based Management (PBM) is a recent development in systems and network management research which aims to address the challenge of efficiently managing complex and heterogeneous information systems. Broadly speaking, ...

    • Plausible crowd and group formations 

      Ennis, Cathy (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2011)
      Applications using real-time virtual crowds can be found in many areas, including the entertainment industry, for urban planning and health and safety purposes. In some of these applications, where the goal is to replicate ...

    • Making uniqueness typing less unique 

      De Vries, Edsko Jacob Jelle (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2009)
      Computer science distinguishes between two major programming paradigms: imperative and functional programming. Central to imperative programming is the notion of some form of state (or memory) together with a list of ...

    • Procedural modelling of urban environments 

      Cullen, Brian (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2012)
      Procedural modelling of urban environments has become an important topic in computer graphics. With the ever increasing demand for larger and more realistic content in games and movies, the time and cost to model urban ...

    • Enhancing real-time focus and context direct volume rendering 

      Corcoran, Andrew (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2013)
      Direct volume rendering is a challenging problem both due to the technical difficulty of displaying large volume datasets on limited hardware and due to the difficulty of rendering such complex information in a manner which ...

    • Unstructured decentralised data distribution in wireless sensor networks 

      Carbajo, Ricardo Simón (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2012)
      Next generation Wireless Sensor Networks will operate as self-regulated ad hoc networks of tiny devices that sense, actuate and coniinunicate in a collaborative fashion. These networks will also be required to operate in ...

    • Managing adaptive web services using semantic models and automated policy refinement 

      Carey, Kevin (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2010)
      There is an increasing demand for web services to be more flexible, in order to suit fast changing business needs and user requirements. Web services need to be adaptive to changes in context, so as to provide web service ...

    • A technology enhanced learning framework for enterprise performance optimisation 

      Brown, Liam (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2012)
      Enterprise perfornnance optimisation is critical for organisations to survive and prosper in today's competitive global market-place. While this is true for all organisations, the need is even greater for the Small and ...