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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 ...
Towards a general framework for Digital Rights Management (DRM)
(2007)
Digital rights management (DRM) can be defined as a technology that enables persistent access control. The common understanding of DRM is that of a technology that enables means to thwart piracy of digital multimedia through ...
A cross-platform usability evaluation of 2D visual tagging systems
(2007)
By encoding 2D bar codes that store URL links, SMS or plain text, 2D visual tags link infonnation about objects in the physical world to online or offline content. The existence of physical world hyperlinks in the fonn of ...
A framework for computer-based knowledge management systems
(2007)
This study aims at investigating a framework that utilises the latest advances in KMS technology. This research outlines the framework and describes a system developed around this. The framework is based on fundamental ...