Computer Science (PhD Theses): Recent submissions
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Animation of quadrupedal animals and perceptual evaluation of their gaits
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2010)Computer generated animals have become a common feature of today's digitised society, often found in animated films. In computer games highly realistic animals are simulated in real time. High quality characters and their ... -
A systematic approach to safe coordination of dynamic participants in real-time distributed systems
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2013)Computer systems that employ autonomous robots have been demonstrated in many areas including entertainment (e.g., robot soccer), defense (e.g., reconnaissance) and homeland security (e.g., disaster rescue). To ensure ... -
Intrinsic and extrinsic component evaluation in interactive multilingual speech applications
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2012)Due to the steady progress in technology, together with the rapid increase of powerful mobile devices, the use of voice interfaces and other speech enabled technologies has invaded our every day lives. Today people talk ... -
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 ... -
Adaptive composition of personalised learning activities
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2012)eLearning practitioners are increasingly adopting more activity based approaches to online learning, as they move away from more traditional content centric approaches in an effort to provide their learners with more ... -
KAFCA : knowledge autonomy for reactive context-aware applications
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2010)Pervasive computing represents a vision of networked computers being distributed throughout our everyday environment in order to transparently provide services to people. The use of sensors enables the deployment of so-called ... -
Practical and architectural aspects of sorting and searching
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2010)The work in this dissertation was motivated by a desire to understand as well as to improve the performance of certain algorithms and data structures in practice. The performance of algorithms in practice is influenced by ... -
SMOOTH : a system for mobility training at home for people with Parkinson's Disease
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2010)Assistive technology has the capacity provide to people with limitations the opportunity to improve their quality of life and increase their independence in daily living. The promise of emerging pervasive computing ... -
Visualising small world graphs using agglomerative clustering around nodes of interest
(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)
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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 .
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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 ...
