The World Wide Web (WWW) is intended for humans to create and share documents. However, it does not support machine-processable data and automated processing. The Semantic Web is an extension to the WWW and can overcome its shortcomings. The Semantic Web provides the technology …
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This thesis concerns the general area of experimental benchmarking of Iterative Learning Control (ILC) algorithms using two experimental facilities. ILC is an approach which is suitable for applications where the same task is executed repeatedly over the necessarily finite time …
Optical trapping of particles has become a powerful non-mechanical and nondestructive technique for precise particle positioning. The manipulation of particles in the evanescent field of a channel waveguide potentially allows for sorting and trapping of several particles and cel…
This thesis is aimed at providing a unified treatment of non-orthogonal random waveform based multiuser communications, commencing from the underlying theory and providing the way to sophisticated applications. In Chapter 2, we introduce the general framework of non-orthogonal r…
Feature extraction is an important field of image processing and computer vision. Features can be classified as low-level and high-level. Low-level features do not give shape information of the objects, where the popular low-level feature extraction techniques are edge detection…
One of the key challenges associated with exploiting modern Autonomous Vehicle technology for military surveillance tasks is the development of Sensor Management strategies which maximise the performance of the on-board Data-Fusion systems. The focus of this thesis is the develo…
A range of amorphous silicon based films and solar cells have been fabricated using an inductively coupled PECVD reactor in order to investigate how the deposition conditions influenced their properties. Complete cells were deposited onto rigid and flexible substrates, and homog…
The Network-on-Chip (NoC) paradigm has been proposed as a potentially viable onchip communication infrastructure for multiprocessor SoC. This thesis investigates the development and validation of efficient links that improve NoC performance, power consumption and reliability. Th…
The research focuses on image retrieval problems where the query is formed as an image of a specific object of interest. The broad aim is to investigate pre-processing for retrieval of images of objects when an example image containing the object is given. The object may be agai…
The optical properties of metal nanoparticles have been investigated by simulation and experimental techniques. The aim of this investigation was to identify how to use metal nanoparticles to improve light-trapping in silicon solar cells. To do this we require nanoparticles that…
Since the introduction of chat technology there has been resistance within education to fully engage with it partly due to policy making that has left teachers disempowered (UCLAN 2002:66). Unlike other innovative technologies, its use has been limited. Pastoral support has deve…
Information processing applications driven by self-assembly and conformation dynamics of nucleic acids are possible. These underlying paradigms (self-assembly and conformation dynamics) are essential for natural information processors as illustrated by proteins. A key advantage …
This thesis investigates new methods for self-organising a precisely defined pattern of intertwined number sequences which may be used in the rapid deployment of a passive indoor positioning system's infrastructure. A future hypothetical scenario is used where computing particle…
The mean of a data set is one trivial representation of data from one class. This thesis discusses mutual interdependence analysis (MIA) that is successfully used to extract more involved representations, or “mutual features”, accounting for samples in the class. MIA aims to ext…
Increasing integration and complexity in IC design provides challenges for manufacturing testing. This thesis studies how process and supply voltage variation influence defect behaviour to determine the impact on manufacturing test cost and quality. The focus is on logic testing…
The advances in computer and networking technologies over the past decades produced new type of collaborative computing environment called Grid Networks. Grid network is a parallel and distributed computing network system that possesses the ability to achieve a higher computing …
In the Internet-age, the geographical boundaries that have previously impinged upon inter-organisational collaborations have become decreasingly important. Of more importance for such collaborations is the notion and subsequent nature of security and trust - this is especially s…
There has been a growing interest in Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) motivated by the advances in wireless technology and the range of potential applications that might be realised with such technology. Due to the lack of an infrastructure and their dynamic nature, MANETs demand…
The discovery of drugs that can effectively treat disease and alleviate pain is one of the core challenges facing modern medicine. The tools and techniques of machine learning have perhaps the greatest potential to provide a fast and effcient route toward the fabrication of nove…