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Department of Information Science
Recent Deposits
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Accountability for Practical Reasoning Agents
Artificial intelligence has been increasing the autonomy of man-made artefacts such as software agents, self-driving vehicles and military drones. This increase in autonomy together with the ubiquity and impact of such ... -
Dynamic Demand Response in Residential Prosumer Collectives
This research aims at exploring how smart grid opportunities can be leveraged to ameliorate demand response practices for residential prosumer collectives, while meeting the needs of end-users and power grids. Electricity ... -
An Adaptable Long-term Condition Workload Prediction Model for Primary Health Care
The primary health care (PHC) system must manage the growing demand for care due to patients with long-term conditions (LTCs) such as diabetes, hypertension, and asthma. Population-based care can help address this workload ... -
Towards Energy-Aware Optimisation of Business Processes
Time dependent energy tariffs are a matter of concern to managers in organisations, who need to rethink how to allocate resources to business processes so that they take into account energy costs. However, due to the ... -
Capturing the effect of personality on teams with agent-based modelling
Continuing advances in information and communication technology (ICT) have changed the landscape of project management. Now there are increasing occurrences of short-term projects staffed by ad hoc assemblies of temporary ... -
Modelling cybercrime and risk for New Zealand organisations
The Internet is now fundamental to the global economy. Growing from an experimental and research network in the late 1960's, it is now the foundation of a wide range of economic, infrastructure support, communication and ... -
Multi-agent based Models for the Distributed Coordination of Energy Micro-grids
The recognized harmful environmental impact of emissions from fossil fuels (such as their contributions to global warming), as well as the diminishing long-term availability of fossil fuels, will necessitate a shift towards ... -
Virtual Reality Interface Factors in a Power Wheelchair Simulator
Power wheelchairs (PWCs) can improve users’ quality of life by enabling them to participate in the activities of daily living, decreasing their dependence on human assistance. PWC users are faced with restricted environments, ... -
Enabling Parental Stress Resilience Training with Virtual Reality
Transition to parenthood is a difficult task that involves major life changes. These changes can increase vulnerability to stress and mental health problems for mothers and fathers. Everyday parental stressors occurring ... -
Automated Digital Forensic Triage: Rapid Detection of Anti-Forensic Tools
We live in the information age. Our world is interconnected by digital devices and electronic communication. As such, criminals are finding opportunities to exploit our information rich electronic data. In 2014, the estimated ... -
A Framework for Implementing Software Measurement Programs in Small and Medium Enterprises
The economies of numerous nations, including New Zealand, rely heavily on the contributions of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). In the last decade a shift to the provision and use of software services, rather than ... -
Enabling Real-Time Shared Environments on Mobile Head-Mounted Displays
Head-Mounted Displays (HMDs) are becoming more prevalent consumer devices, allowing users to experience scenes and environments from a point of view naturally controlled by their movement. However there is limited application ... -
Connectionist-Based Adaptive Speech Recognition Systems
It has been a long standing technical challenge to create machines that can perform human intellectual tasks such as speech processing. Speech recognition is important not only because it is the most common means of human ... -
Image segmentation using superpixel ensembles
Recently there has been an increasing interest in image segmentation due to the needs of locating objects with high segmentation accuracy as required by many computer vision and image processing tasks. While image segmentation ... -
A Bayesian approach for identifying international norms in politics
Whenever a protest takes place, a politician visits a foreign country, or two countries negotiate a deal; it takes almost no time for these events to be reported in the television, newspapers and more recently, the vast ... -
Mixed Reality Experience Questionnaire (MREQ) -Reference
The Mixed Reality Experience Questionnaire (MREQ) is designed to be used as a measure of a user's sense of presence and their general experienced perception of an Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, or Augmented Virtuality ... -
Context identification of sentences in related work sections using a conditional random field: towards intelligent digital libraries
Identification of contexts associated with sentences is becoming increasingly necessary for developing intelligent information retrieval systems. This article describes a supervised learning mechanism employing a conditional ... -
Characterising relational view updates using relative information capacity
In 2013, Chris Date published a book about the view update problem in the context of the Relational Model. He presented several detailed examples of different varieties of view updates and characterised their behaviour, ... -
Crowd Scene Analysis in Video Surveillance
There is an increasing interest in crowd scene analysis in video surveillance due to the ubiquitously deployed video surveillance systems in public places with high density of objects amid the increasing concern on public ... -
Influence of non-technical elements on the choice of and engagement with social media platforms: Culture and religion and their impact on how young Saudi adults use social media
This thesis explores how young Saudi Arabian social media users engage with social media platforms in relation to their social, cultural and religious values. This thesis argues that these elements influence the users’ ...