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Universal web application server
(2007)
The growth of the World Wide Web has in large part been made possible by the technologies that power it. These are the Web servers and Web browsers that many take for granted. Each has evolved to support the changing needs ...
Bridging the digital divide in African post-conflict countries: a case study of the DRC cities in Kinshasa and Kananga
(2007)
The digital divide is largely seen as the main problem that developing economies and societies must overcome to gain economic productivity and social welfare. In this document we state that modern western perception of the ...
A linear framework for character skinning
(2007)
Character animation is the process of modelling and rendering a mobile character in a virtual world. It has numerous applications both off-line, such as virtual actors in films, and real-time, such as in games and other ...
The efficient and cost effective asynchronous mail sender for road warriors
(2007)
Email has become a very important communication tool. The rise of SPAM, however, has forced system administrators to restrict the usage of their SMTP servers. Such a restriction causes problems for users who send emails ...
Optimising information retrieval from the web in low-bandwidth environments
(2007)
The Internet has potential to deliver information to Web users that have no other way of getting to those resources. However, information on the Web is scattered without any proper semantics for classifying them and thus ...
Digital reconstruction of District Six architecture from archival photographs
(2007)
In this thesis we present a strategy for reconstructing instances of District Six Architecture from small sets of old. uncalibrated photographs that are located in the District Six Museum photographic archive. Our ...
Photo searching on small screen devices
(2007)
The aim of this thesis is to improve HCI (Human-Computer Interaction) knowledge in the design of the next generation of photo search tools on small display devices. Today, these devices have all the ingredients for a truly ...
Simulating raid storage systems for performance analysis
(2007)
Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) provides an inexpensive, fault-tolerant storage solution using commodity hard-drives. RAID storage systems have recently surged in popularity amongst enterprise clients, as they ...
A transaction assurance framework for web services
(2007)
Trust assurances for customers of online transactions is an important, but not well implemented concept for the growth of confidence in electronic transactions. In an online world where customers do not personally know the ...
Bridging the digital divide in African post-conflict countries : a case study of the DRC cities of Kinshasa and Kananga
(2007)
The digital divide is largely seen as the main problem that developing economies and societies must overcome to gain economic productivity and social welfare. In this document we state that modern western perception of the ...