Information Science
Recent Deposits
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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’ ... -
Impact of Mobile Phone Technologies on Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 Management - A Systematic Review
Background and aims: the implementation of medical technologies in health care can improve the quality of life for those living with acute and chronic health conditions. Since 2008, the usage of mobile phone technologies ... -
Detection and Validation of Personally Identifiable Information in New Zealand
Forensic analysis commonly involves searching for personal identifiable information in an investigation case. However, current popular digital forensic tools are developed and maintained by companies in the United States ... -
Supporting group plans in the BDI architecture using coordination middleware
This paper investigates the use of group plans and goals as programming abstractions that encapsulate the communication needed to coordinate collaborative behaviour. It presents an extension of the BDI agent architecture ... -
Occlusion and Interaction in Mixed Reality: A Systematic Inquiry
Augmented Reality technology has become increasingly popular with numerous companies investing in the design and development of solutions. In order to demonstrate their new investments, promotional content is created that ... -
A Study on Software Testability and the Quality of Testing in Object-Oriented Systems
Software testing is known to be important to the delivery of high-quality systems, but it is also challenging, expensive and time-consuming. This has motivated academic and industrial researchers to seek ways to improve ... -
Data Quality in Empirical Software Engineering: An Investigation of Time-Aware Models in Software Effort Estimation
Since its inception as a recognized sub-discipline, empirical software engineering (ESE) has been plagued with data quality issues, and in recent years this has led to an increasing number of questions being raised about ...