This research examines the decision-making process of computer users with reference to deletion and preservation of digital objects. Of specific interest to this research is whether people provide different reasons for deleting or preserving various types of digital object depen…
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This is a study exploring the feasibility of a fully automated analysis of linguistic data. It identifies a requirement for large-scale investigations, which cannot be done manually by a human researcher. Instead, methods from natural language processing are suggested as a way t…
Sport video is an important video genre. Content-based sports video analysis attracts great interest from both industry and academic fields. A sports video is characterised by repetitive temporal structures, relatively plain contents, and strong spatio-temporal variations, such a…
Virtual simulations of the behaviour of mechanical systems are of widespread use in academia and industry. Mechanical structures are often analysed using the finite element method, where deterministic models with one particular set of physical parameters are employed. However, t…
This thesis develops a mixed mode function – boundary element method (BEM) to analyze the dynamics of an integrated airplane – floating structure – water interaction system subject to airplane landing impacts. The airplane and the floating structure are treated as two solid subs…
This thesis considers issues concerning the application of the wave finite element (WFE) method to the free and forced vibrations of one-dimensional waveguides. A short section of the waveguide is modelled using conventional finite element (FE) methods. A periodicity condition i…
The classical Hospitals / Residents problem (HR) is a many-to-one bipartite matching problem involving preferences, motivated by centralised matching schemes arising in entry level labour markets, the assignment of pupils to schools and higher education admissions schemes, among…
Gov2.0 is an emerging and contested subject that offers a radical alternative to the construction of relationships between residents and their local authorities. This research investigates the practice of Gov2.0 and practitioners’ perceptions of this in English local authorities…
In this thesis electron microscopy was employed to characterise the nanoscale and atomic scale structure and chemistry of organic and inorganic materials. In chapter 4, the thin film morphology of the organic blend of [poly(9,9-dioctylfluorene- co-benzothiadiazole)] (commonly re…
Since the first application of fuzzy logic in the field of control engineering, fuzzy logic control has been successfully employed in controlling a wide variety of applications, such as commercial appliances, industrial automation, robots, traffic control, cement kilns and autom…
Classification using association rules is a research field in data mining that primarily uses association rule discovery techniques in classification benchmarks. It has been confirmed by many research studies in the literature that classification using association tends to gener…
The enormous quantities of biological and chemical files and databases are likely to grow year on year, consequently giving rise to the need to develop string-matching algorithms capable of minimizing the searching response time. Being aware of this need, this thesis aims to dev…
The upcoming 5th Generation (5G) mobile networks will be different from the previous mobile network generations in the fact that it will enable the mobile networks industry, besides offering superior broadband services, to enhance Internet of Things (IoT) industries such as vehi…
Many studies propose new advanced railway subsystems, such as Driver Advisory System (DAS), Automatic Door Operation (ADO) and Traffic Management System (TMS), designed to improve the overall performance of current railway systems. Real time train positioning information is one …
Component-Based Development (CBD) has been broadly used in software development as it enhances the productivity and reduces the costs and risks involved in systems development. It has become a well-understood and widely used technology for developing not only large enterprise ap…
The growing demand for ever more greener aero engines has led to ever more challenging designs and higher quality products. An investigation into Coordinate Measuring Machine measurement uncertainty using physical measurements and virtual simulations revealed that there were sev…
The definition of identity varies, and on the Internet it can be difficult to keep track of. Rather than trying to discuss the philosophical question of "who am I?", I like to define your digital identity as the information you place on the Internet (actively or passively). Mana…
Remote electronic voting has long been considered a panacea for many of the problems with existing, paper-based election mechanisms: assurance that one’s vote has been counted as cast; ability to vote without fear of coercion; fast and reliable tallying; improvement in voter tur…
This thesis presents a Cloud-based-Multi-Agent System (Clobmas) that uses multiple double auctions, to enable applications to self-adapt, based on their QoS requirements and budgetary constraints. We design a marketplace that allows applications to select services, in a decentra…