Social media presents one of the richest forums to investigate publicly explicit brand value propositions and its corresponding customer engagement. Seldom have researchers investigated the nature of value propositions ...

Despite a worldwide trend towards mobile computing, current telepresence experiences focus on stationary desktop computers, limiting how, when, and where researched solutions can be used. In this thesis I demonstrate that ...

Most renewable energy sources are dependent on unpredictable weather conditions, which have considerable variation over space and time. The intermittent nature of this production means that any renewable energy prosumer ...

Building ensembles of classifiers is an active area of research for machine learning, with the fundamental goal of combining the predictions of multiple classifiers to improve prediction accuracy over an individual classifier. ...

Useful app reviews contain information related to the bugs reported by the app’s end-users along with the requests or enhancements (i.e., suggestions for improvement) pertaining to the app. App developers expend exhaustive ...

A growing body of research is using artefacts from online development communities to explore the impact of developers’ behaviours on the software development process. Although this research has produced many insights, ...

To achieve satisfactory generalization abilities, machine learning models usually require large amounts of labelled data. However, data labelling is very costly, even in the era of big data. Transductive transfer learning ...

Studying historical trading societies helps us to identify the institutions (e.g. rules) and characteristics that lead to their success or failure. Historically, long-distance trading societies, as a more particular example ...

Algorithms or models are often measured using a fitness function that calculates total prediction error. While reducing total error is typically the overall objective, examining error as an aggregate value does not provide ...

Humanitarian crises are unpredictable and complex environments, in which access to basic services and infrastructures is not adequately available. Computing in a humanitarian crisis environment is different from any other ...