DCU School of Computing
Research
MSc. Theses
This is a list of all MSc. theses completed in the School: (supervisors' names are in
brackets).
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1989 | 1987
- Rothwell, Sandra, Detection and analysis of emotional highlights in film
(A. Smeaton)
- Coogan, Thomas, Dynamic gesture recognition using transformation invariant hand shape recognition
(A. Sutherland)
- Bolger, Karen, An experiment on the introduction of software project management techniques to industry
(H. Duncan)
- McMullen, Declan, Using ontology technology to support content generation and run time adaptivity in E-learning environments
(C. Pahl)
- Zhu, Yaoling, Declarative rule-based integration and mediation for XML data in web service-based software architectures
(C. Pahl)
- Armstrong, Stephen, Using EMBT to produce foreign language subtitles
(A. Way)
- Finn, Regina, Grammatical feature data-oriented parsing
(A. Way)
- Heaney, David, Mass production of individual feedback
(C. Daly)
- Kenny, Claire, Automated tutoring for a database skills training environment
(C. Pahl)
- Oehl, Frederic Enoha, Defining an approximation to formally verify cryptographic protocols
(D. Sinclair)
- King, Noel, A metadata service for service oriented architectures
(C. Pahl)
- O'Connor, Martin, Level-based indexing for optimising XML queries
(M. Roantree)
- Tunney, David, A language based on the Pi-calculus
(A. Smeaton)
- Butler, John, Integrating Legacy Mainframe Systems: Architectural Issues and Solutions
(R. Verbruggen)
- Costigan, Neil, Implemtation of an Identity Based Encryption sub-system for secure e-Mail and other applications
(M. Scott)
- Greevy, Edel, Automatic Text Categorisation of Racist Webpages
(A. Smeaton)
- Lyttleton, Oliver, Client Service Capability Matching
(D. Sinclair)
- O'Connor, Gerald, Metadata Queries for Complex Database Systems
(M. Roantree)
- Schmidtke, Dag, Treebank annotation with a wide-coverage Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar
(J. VanGenabith)
- Hayes, Jer, A Structural Alignment Model of Noun-Noun Compound Interpretation (J. VanGenabith)
- Power, Bernadette, Declassification: Transforming Java Programs to Remove Intermediate Classes (G. Hamilton)
- Sharifi, Saba, Co-Movements among Financial Stocks and Covariance Matrix Analysis (M. Crane)
- Ui Dhonnchadha, Elaine, An Analyser and Generator for Irish
Inflectional Morphology Using Finite-State Transducers
(J. VanGenabith)
- Ward, Monica, A Template for a CALL Programme for Endangered Languages
(J. VanGenabith)
- Haran, Aidan, Collaborative Computer Personalities in the Game of Chess
(D. Sinclair)
- Mavroyiannis, Calliopi, Design and Technology for the 10-12 Age group;
A Computer-Based Approach.(H.
Ruskin)
- Zhu, Bao, Computational Aspects of Modelling Froth Networks: Problems,
Pictures and properties (H.
Ruskin)
- Liu, Y, A Mesoscopic Approach to Modelling the Immune Response
using Cellular Automata and Monte Carlo Methods. (H.
Ruskin)
- Al-Sayer, Fajer, Analysis
of Airline Booking Data (A.
Sutherland)
- Browne, Paul, Segmenting Digital
Video. (A.
Smeaton)
- Maher, Eamon,
- Mannion, Rachel, CA and Monte Carlo
Models of HIV Infection.(H.
Ruskin)
- Mein-Sin Tan, Kenny, Constructing a Schema
Repository Query Tool (M. Roantree)
- O'Connell, Bernard Joseph, A fuzzy
logic based controller for an autonomous mobile robot
in a dynamic environment.(C. Daly)
- Balfe, Andrew.
- Dongxue, Dai. Chinese Information
Retrieval. (A.
Smeaton)
- Diamantidis, Alexandros. Approximate
Models of JOB Shops. (M. O'hEigeartaigh)
- Forrestal, Fiona. Monthly Passenger
Movement Series 1946-1995. (H.
Ruskin / G.
Keogh)
- Gaffney, Eamon. The Development
of an Agent Based Critiquing System Architecture for a
Project Managament Tool: Prompter. (T. Moynihan)
- Hunt, Michael. Autonomous Mobile
Robit Navigation using Fuzzy Logic Control.
(C. Daly)
- Johnston, Mark Stephen. Abstract
Project Model : A Description of a Generic Software Project.
(T. Monyihan)
- Kohli, Aman Sagar. Supporting Fault-Tolerance
in a Distributed Multi-Process Environment. (D.
Sinclair)
- Karagiannis, Theofanis. A Simulation
Model for the Reliability of Manufacturing Systems
( H. Ruskin)
- Kernan, Jane. Evaluating the Effectiveness
of User Interfaces to Information Retrieval Systems.
(A. Smeaton)
- Ní Eigeartaigh, Triona. A Branch
& Bound Algorithm for the Airline Crew Rostering Problem.
(D.
Sinclair)
- O'Connor, Jeremiah. An Investigation
of the Effectiveness of Word Shape Token Information Retrieval.
(A. Smeaton)
- O'Toole, Colin. Analysis of Shot
Boundary Detection Techniques on a Large Video Test Suite.
(A. Smeaton)
- Rovcanin, Lejla. Analysis and Specification
of the D language. (J. Murphy)
- Skehill, Adrian.Building Multidatabase
Collections using an Enhanced ODMG Object Model.
(M. Roantree)
- Stamoulakatos, Theodoros. Effective
Algorithms for Facility Layout & VLSI Circuit Design.
(M. O'hEigeartaigh)
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- Glover, Alan. An Investigation
of an ISDN CAD File Transfer Service. (Brian
Hurley, DIT)
- Crimmins, Francis. The Fusion System:
Using Effective IR Techniques for Searching the WWW.
(A. Smeaton)
- Hearne, Gary. Quality Assurance
Tools for Help Files. (A. Way / M. Roantree)
- Horan, Patrick. The World is What
You Make It - An Application of Virtual Reality to the
Tourism Industry. (Ciaran MacDonail, DIT)
- Quinn, Gerard. Content Based Retrieval
from an Archive of Spoken Radio News. (A.
Smeaton)
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- Coleman, Gerard.
- Gollogley, Gavin. Assisting the hypertext
authoring process using topology metrics and information
retrieval (A. Smeaton)
- Haran, Peter. Markov decision processes in
the optimisation of culling decisions for Irish dairy
herds. (L. Killen)
- Hashmi, Kashmeri Fuzzy logic based selection
of machining parameters (M. Ryan)
- Maher, Ken. Computer games as a pedagogical
tool in education. (M. O'hEigeartaigh)
- Ryan, Carmel Evaluating the effectiveness
of electronic special interest groups (M. O'hEigeartaigh)
- Timmons, Michelle. Generic Object Oriented
QA Tool for Documentation files. (A. Way/M. Roantree)
- Ward, Sandra. Implementation of Action Semantics
in Coq. (J. Power)
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- Berry, Damon.
- Carr, Deirdre. Head-driven machine translation.
(A. Way)
- Doran, Derek. Migration of an operating system
to an object-oriented paradigm. (J. Waldron)
- Doyle, Gregory. A transition model for the
migration to an object-oriented software development methodology.
(R. Verbruggen)
- Egan, Alan Physically realistic synthetic
animation using spacetime constraints. (M.
Scott)
- Foley, Somhairle 3-D animation and morphing
using RenderMan (M. Scott)
- Gibson, Ken. Phoneme recognition using time-delay
neural networks. (A. Way)
- Manso, Oscar. PCLinda: a tool for parallel
programming. (D.
Sinclair)
- Masterson, Sinead Improving integration and
consistency in the OMT methodology. (T.
Monyihan)
- O'Hara, Noel. Visible surface determination
for interactive rendering of building environments. (M.
Scott)
- Whelan, Robert An object display server as
a visual aid to the construction of interactive graphics.
(A.
Smeaton)
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- Dunne, Mary T. A Modified Mathematical Model for HIV
Transmission, AIDS and Intervention
Strategies in Ireland.(H. Ruskin/A. Wood(Maths.))
- Cox, Brian. Distributed parallel processing
and the factoring problem. (M. Scott)
- Daly, Keith. The modelling of ultrasonic sensors
for incorporation into a simulator for a mobile robot.
(C.
Daly)
- Higgins, Catherine. A formal precursor to
the optimisation of P/FDM DAPLEX queries. (J.
Murphy)
- Keating, Kevin.
- Magee, Patricia. Practical experience in analysing
software defect data. (R. Verbruggen)
- Mahon, Elaine K. Modelling discourse theory.
(A. Way)
- Morrissey, Patrick J. An exploration of automatic
hypertext construction (A. Smeaton)
- Murray, Donal. Auto-generation of rules in
a fuzzy logic control system. (J. Power)
- Nolan, Fiona. Knowledge representation for
machine translation. (A. Monaghan)
- O'Connor, Rory. E/VPL a system for modelling
and enacting software processes. (T.
Monyihan)
- O'Donnell, Ruairi The study of information
retrieval and natural language ambiguity in a large text
corpus. (A. Smeaton)
- Palmer, Ross. Object-oriented class metrics.
(R. Verbruggen)
- Quigley, Ian. Intelligent retrieval from an
image database. (A. Smeaton)
- Tangney, Patricia. Integrating ECMA/ISO PCTE
and OMG's CORBA. (J. Murphy)
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- Clynch, Gary. Prototyping real-time systems
(R. Verbruggen)
- Corcoran, Thomas James.
- Gregan, Aidan. Modelling multimedia presentations
using coloured petri-nets. (A.
Smeaton)
- Hayes, Michael J. Modelling of ISDN basic
rate transmission on voice-grade telephone lines. (M.
O'hEigeartaigh/H. Ruskin)
- Henry, William. Software project risk management:
a support tool. (T. Monyihan)
- Kelleher, John. Abstraction mechanism for
the design of human-computer interfaces (R.
Verbruggen)
- Leeson, Gary Ian. The crossing-number problem:
a comparative analysis of the techniques and algorithms
for combinatorial optimisation (M. O'hEigeartaigh)
- McAlinden, Fintan. A prototype management
system for multimedia information (R. Verbruggen)
- O'Donnell, Margaret. Mixing formal specifications
using ICL (interconnection language). (T.
Monyihan)
- O'Duinn, John. Robotic navigation. (M.
O'hEigeartaigh)
- O'Neill, Liam. Database rules and time ; some
proposed extensions to the SQL standard (A.
Smeaton)
- Power, Jane A. A critiquing system architecture
in the risk management domain. (T.
Monyihan)
- Shannon, Adam. A computer model to quantify
the cost of producing and delivering various feeds to
ruminants. (L. Killen)
- Walsh, John R. Reliability analysis of offshore
production systems. (L. Killen/H. Ruskin)
- Wynne, L. Demand for telephone services in
Ireland. (G. Keogh/L. Killen)
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- Connelly, Julie. Meaning representation in
connectionist systems (S. O'Nuallain)
- Dunne, Christopher. Exploiting a user model
to dynamically generate guided tours in hypertexts (R.
Verbruggen)
- Ennis, Mark. Using genetic algorithms to control
non-linear systems (S. O'Nuallain)
- Hynan, James. Neural networks, music and cognition.
(S. O'Nuallain)
- Kelledy, Fergus. Partitioned signature files:
experiments on large volumes of text. (A.
Smeaton)
- Logue, Dermot Scheduling algorithms for the
yearly extension of the telephone transmission system
(M. O'hEigeartaigh)
- Martin, Declan Oliver Introducing the formal
specification language LOTOS into structured analysis
based development (R. Verbruggen)
- McAuley, Angela Implementing metrics for process
improvement (R. Verbruggen)
- McCarthy, Brian. Algorithms for the design
and analysis of private telecommunication networks (M.
O'hEigeartaigh/G. Keogh)
- Murphy, Malachy. Deriving LOTOS specifications
from rigorous models (T. Monyihan)
- O'Cearbhaill, Niall. Dearadh eagarthora infhilltigh
chliste (M. O'hEigeartaigh)
- Parker, Stephen. Producing LOTOS specifications
from STATEMATE (T. Monyihan)
- Stone, Brian. Rapid retrieval of temporal
data from a distributed parallel access storage system.
(M. O'hEigeartaigh/R. Verbruggen)
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- Caffrey, Paul A. Automation of human-computer
interaction (A. Smeaton)
- Doyle, Paul. Applying metrics to rule-based
systems (R. Verbruggen)
- Guinan, Catherine A. An investigation into
automatic route selection in hypertext used for learning
(A. Smeaton)
- Halton, Paul A. The implementation of a large-scale
numerical model of the atmosphere on a pc-based transputer
network (M. O'hEigeartaigh)
- McCabe, Richard Global data flow analysis
of syntax tree intermediate code
- Murtagh, Dara. Multi-precision arithmetic
on a DSP (M. Scott - jointly
with School of Electronic Engineering)
- Roantree, Mark Thomas Paul Combining approaches
to information retrieval using a Bayesian formalism (A.
Smeaton)
- Stephens, Gary The design and implementation
of the SEAU procedure management system (R.
Verbruggen)
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- Doody, James Modelling the yield management
process. (M. O'hEigeartaigh)
- Kiernan, Paul The introduction of realism
into SCADA mimic diagrams using object oriented techniques
and C++ (M. Scott)
- Moran, Padraig Grifon - a graphical interface
to an object oriented database. (R. Verbruggen)
- O'Reilly, Derek Computer generaton of photorealistic
images using ray tracing (M.
Scott)
- Power, James Linking programs and specifications
in Z (T. Monyihan)
- Sheridan, Paraic The application of morpho-syntatic
language processing to effective information retrieval
(A. Smeaton)
- Sinclair, David Synthesis of 2 dimensional
image filters by cellular automata. (M. O'hEigeartaigh)
- Xie, Peijuan A rule based approach to real
time systems (M. Ryan)
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- MacRoibeaird, Sean P. Developing and integrating
tools in Eclipse/PCTE. (T.
Monyihan)
- R. McCabe
Global data flow analysis of syntax tree intermediate
code.
(H. Ruskin
and M. O'hEigeartaigh)
- O'Connor, Noel M. An object-oriented testing
approach based on a rigorous model of claimed functionality.
(R. Verbruggen)
- Powell, Paul. Advisor - an expert system shell
written in Prolog. (M. Ryan)
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- Curran, Eugene. Ray tracing under the microcomputer.
(M. Scott)
- Grimes, Fergal R. XDABS - a rule based front
end for the SQL/DS relational database management system.
(M.
Ryan)
- McAllister, Colin J. Petri Net modelling of
a communications protocol. (M. Scott)
- McCloskey, Gerard Object oriented implementation
and design (R. Verbruggen/T. Monyihan)
- O'Connell, Paul Computer graphics - an object
oriented approach. (M. Scott)
- O'Dea, Christina J. Game playing and parallel
search. (M. Scott)
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- Daly, Charles M.J. Gobnet - A low cost local
area network. (M. Scott)
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