Browsing Computing Dissertations and Theses by Title
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Challenges faced by staff and students at tertiary level in flexible learning environment: An institutional study
(2007)This research is concerned with identifying the challenges / problems of flexible learning environments in the tertiary education sector. Flexible learning environments usually allow students to choose from a mix of learning ... -
A cluster based collaborative filtering method for improving the performance of recommender systems in ecommerce
(2017-07)Rapid growth of E-commerce has made a huge number of products and services accessible to the users. The vast variety of options makes it difficult for the users to finalize their decisions. Recommender systems aim at ... -
A CNN-based identification of honeybees' infection using augmentation
(2021)RESEARCH QUESTIONS: [Are standard images classified accurately using Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) or transfer learning method?] Can varroa destructor mite be identified correctly from a small number of low-quality ... -
Computational land use management of public spaces in New Zealand
(2017)Land management is the process of managing the use and development of land resources, in both urban and rural settings. In all modern states, some land is held by central or local governments. This is called public land. ... -
A computational referencing approach to stocks correlation analysis
(2013)The activity of the stock market is dynamic and complicated, with financial figures changing every minute. Thus, it is not ever an easy task for a professional investor to discover the beneficial knowledge that will ... -
Control of Internet search engines in China -- A study on Google and Baidu
(2008)Internet is universal, open, information sharing media environment. The characteristics of Internet make it hard to be controlled. According to much literature, China has been believed to have setup its own Internet border ... -
The critical success factors involved in the implementation of a digital classroom in New Zealand
(2007)Over the last five years New Zealand schools have set up digital classrooms. In a digital classroom, sets of computers are installed in classrooms and connected to the school’s network. The reasons for the schools setting ... -
A crypto-economy based distributed & asynchronous hashgraphy algorithm for a tracking system
(2018)RESEARCH QUESTIONS: •How Hashgraphy can be applied for real-time tracking of an object? •How Hashgraphy can be used to deliver real-time data from weather to traffic conditions by the tracking system? •How can Hashgraphy ... -
Deep correlation learning for urban air quality: Analysis and prediction in New Zealand
(2021)RESEARCH QUESTIONS: • RQ1: Can we relate all the variables involved in air-quality monitoring to establish which ones have dependencies on the others? • RQ2: Can we further model this inter-relationship and automate ... -
Detecting Sybil attack in mobile wireless sensor networks using observer nodes
(2019)RESEARCH QUESTIONS: What lightweight, scalable algorithm can be developed to detect the Sybil nodes in MWSNs? Then, I broke it to more detailed questions as follows: How many observer nodes would be enough for a ... -
Determining the accuracy of budgets : a machine learning application for budget change pattern recognition
(2012)With the aid of open-sourced database and software libraries, we developed a data mining software prototype for SME business intelligent budgeting planning. The experiment demonstrates the existence of the change pattern ... -
Developing a navigation model for optimizing social comfort for side-by-side robotic wheelchairs
(2018-01)Side-by-side robotic wheelchairs have significant direct benefits for users and lessening the burden on caregivers. The autonomous navigation function for side-byside robotic wheelchairs has attracted the attention of many ... -
Dynamic class imbalance learning for incremental LPSVM
(2012)Abstract Linear Proximal Support Vector Machines (LPSVM), like decision trees, classic SVM, etc. are originally not equipped to handle drifting data streams that exhibit high and varying degrees of class imbalance. For ... -
An e-learning 2.0 model
(2011)It has been almost 6 years since the term “E-learning 2.0”was first introduced by Stephen Downes. In 2005, Downes announced a very important principle of E-learning. According to his theory, learning content is no longer ... -
An edge-based steganography algorithm for hiding text into images
(2019)RESEARCH QUESTIONS: • How can I improve existing steganography methods in terms of capacity and transparency? • How can I reduce the complexity of existing steganography methods? • How can I increase the robustness ... -
The effect of mobility, security and shadowing on latest wireless LAN standard (IEEE802.11ac)
(2015)This thesis focuses on the evaluation of IEEE 802.11ac WLAN performance using TCP and UDP for both versions of the Internet Protocol (IPv4, IPv6) in three scenarios, namely, the effect of implementing WPA2 security encryption, ... -
Encryption, storage technology and security of data at rest
(2015-11)The term cryptography is defined as the encryption of sensitive information such as, data, image and others. The cryptographic techniques have changed over the years based on the developments of encryption software and ... -
Evaluating spammer detection systems for Twitter
(2017)Twitter is a popular Social Network Service. It is a web application with dual roles of online social network and microblogging. Users use Twitter to find new friends, update their activities or communicate with each other ... -
Evaluating the effectiveness and sensitivity of forex trading robots
(2012)Robot trading, also known as algorithmic trading, has been widely used in financial markets in recent decades. The wide application of robot trading has brought significant benefits to transaction efficiency. A lot of ... -
Evaluation of network performance of Microsoft operating systems
(2009)This master’s dissertation investigates the evaluation of network performance of various Microsoft Windows operating systems (Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 Beta) for both ...
