Browsing Dept. of Computer Science by Title
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Automated stock trading : a multi-agent, evolutionary approach
(University of Cape TownFaculty of ScienceDepartment of Computer Science, 2008)Stock market trading has garnered much interest over the past few decades as it has been made easier for the general public to trade. It is certainly an avenue for wealth growth, but like all risky undertakings, it must ...
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An automatic marker for vector graphics drawing tasks
(University of Cape TownFaculty of ScienceDepartment of Computer Science, 2016)In recent years, the SVG file format has grown increasingly popular, largely due to its widespread adoption as the standard image format for vector graphics on the World Wide Web. However, vector graphics predate the modern ...
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Automating user privacy policy recommendations in social media
(University of Cape TownFaculty of ScienceDepartment of Computer Science, 2016)Most Social Media Platforms (SMPs) implement privacy policies that enable users to protect their sensitive information against privacy violations. However, observations indicate that users find these privacy policies ...
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Bisimulation as a verification and validation technique for message sequence charts
(University of Cape TownFaculty of ScienceDepartment of Computer Science, 1998)The complexity of determining whether a system meets the requirements of its designers has increased with the widespread use of real time concurrent systems. This testing process has however been simplified with the emergence ...
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Bottom-up evaluation of HiLog in the context of deductive database systems
(University of Cape TownFaculty of ScienceDepartment of Computer Science, 1998)HiLog is a logic-based language which boasts the expressiveness of a higher-order syntax while retaining the simplicity of a first-order semantics. This work examines the suitability of Horn-clause HiLog as a query language ...
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Bridging the digital divide in African post-conflict countries : a case study of the DRC cities of Kinshasa and Kananga
(University of Cape TownFaculty of ScienceDepartment of Computer Science, 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 ...
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Bridging the digital divide in African post-conflict countries: a case study of the DRC cities in Kinshasa and Kananga
(University of Cape TownFaculty of ScienceDepartment of Computer Science, 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 ...
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Building heritage collections using games on social networks
(University of Cape TownFaculty of ScienceDepartment of Computer Science, 2012)An application on a social network may provide a means to avoid the cost, decrease time and increase scale of operation of heritage preservation by motivating users to supply and process the data. This project uses a ...
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Can health workers capture data using a generic mobile phone with sufficient accuracy for Capture at Source to be used for clinical research purposes?
(University of Cape TownFaculty of ScienceDepartment of Computer Science, 2014)Objective: To determine the accuracy, measured by error rate, with which Clinical Research Workers (CRWs), with minimal experience in data entry, could capture data on a feature phone during an interview using two different ...
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A capacity limited, cognitive constructionist model of virtual presence
(University of Cape TownFaculty of ScienceDepartment of Computer Science, 2007)The capacity Limited, Cognitive Constructionist (CLCC) model of presence is proposed as an information processing model of presence, which is demonstrated to have more theoretical power than extant models. The CLCC model ...
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Cloud computing for digital libraries
(University of Cape TownFaculty of ScienceDepartment of Computer Science, 2013)Information management systems (digital libraries/repositories, learning management systems, content management systems) provide key technologies for the storage, preservation and dissemination of knowledge in its various ...
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Co-present photo sharing on mobile devices
(University of Cape TownFaculty of ScienceDepartment of Computer Science, 2008)This dissertation researches current approaches to photo sharing. We have found that most current methods of photo sharing are not as compelling as traditional photo sharing - with the increasing in popularity of digital ...
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COLAB: social context and user experience in collaborative multiplayer games
(University of Cape TownFaculty of ScienceDepartment of Computer Science, 2017)Recent studies have shown that the social context in which people play digital multiplayer games has an effect on their experience. Whether co-players are in the same location ("co-located") or in different locations ...
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A community-based approach to new medium integration in South African education : a combination of ICT4D process approach and ethnographic action research techniques
(University of Cape TownFaculty of ScienceDepartment of Computer Science, 2013)Our initial study indicates that successful integration of new communication medium into South African schools is not only challenging from the financial point of view, but also in terms of designing tools that fit within ...
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Comparison of layered surface visualization through animated particles and rocking
(University of Cape TownFaculty of ScienceDepartment of Computer Science, 2010)Visualizations that show the shape of and spatial relationships between layers of surfaces are useful to oceanographers studying water masses or oncologists planning radiation treatments. The shape of and distances between ...
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A comparison of socially-motivated discussion forum models for learning management systems
(University of Cape TownFaculty of ScienceDepartment of Computer Science, 2017)This thesis seeks to contribute to the field of learning management system (LMS) development in tertiary educational institutions, particularly to advance the adoption of learning management systems (LMSes) by exploring ...
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A comparison of statistical and geometric reconstruction techniques : guidelines for correcting fossil hominin crania
(University of Cape TownFaculty of ScienceDepartment of Computer Science, 2007)The study of human evolution centres, to a large extent, around the study of fossil morphology, including the comparison and interpretation of these remains within the context of what is known about morphological variation ...
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The complexity of Petri net transformations
(University of Cape TownFaculty of ScienceDepartment of Computer Science, 1993)This study investigates the complexity of various reduction and synthesis Petri net transformations. Transformations that preserve liveness and boundedness are considered. Liveness and boundedness are possibly the two most ...
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Computational intelligent systems : evolving dynamic Bayesian networks
(University of Cape TownFaculty of ScienceDepartment of Computer Science, 2009)In this thesis, a new class of temporal probabilistic modelling, called evolving dynamic Bayesian networks (EDBN), is proposed and demonstrated to make technology easier so as to accommodate both experts and non-experts, ...
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A connectionist explanation of presence in virtual environments
(University of Cape TownFaculty of ScienceDepartment of Computer Science, 2003)Presence has various definitions, but can be understood as the sensation that a virtual environment is a real place, that the user is actually in the virtual environment rather than at the display terminal, or that the ...