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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2017)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 ... -
(Thesis, Master of Science, 2017)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 ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2017)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 ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2017)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 ... -
(Thesis, Master of Science, 2017)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 ...
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(Discussion Paper, 2017)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 ... -
(Conference or Workshop Item (Paper published in proceedings), 10th annual joint conference on digital libraries, 2010)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 ... -
(Conference or Workshop Item (Paper published in proceedings), Thirteenth Asia-Pacific Conference on Conceptual Modelling (APCCM 2017), 2017)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, ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2016)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 ... -
(Thesis, Master of Science, 2016)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’ ...
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(Thesis, Master of Health Sciences, 2016)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 ...
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(Thesis, Master of Science, 2016)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 ...
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(Technical Report, 2016)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 ... -
(Thesis, Master of Science, 2016)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 ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2016)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 ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2016)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 ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2015)The uptake of hobbyist 3D printers is being held back, in part, due to the barriers associated with creating a computer model to be printed. One way of creating such a computer model is to take a 3D scan of a pre-existing ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2015)It is easy to get novices to understand individual statements of a computer programming language, but it is hard to teach them how to put these statements together into a valid program. This research focuses on the one of ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2015)Institutions, as manifestations of social behaviour, are crucial elements of any society's structure and are widely studied in the area of New Institutional Economics as a determinant of a society's development and prosperity. ... -
(Thesis, Master of Science, 2015)The use of the Internet has increased exponentially for the past three decades. In many organisations, the Internet has been the backbone of communication and dissemination of information. Personal web usage (PWU) is an ...
