Browsing Masters Degrees (Computer Science) by Issue Date
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Computer simulation of the two body abrasive wear process.
(2002)New computer technologies are applied to the classical material engineering two-body abrasive wear process. The computer simulation provides an interactive and visual representation of the wear process. The influence of ... -
An interpretive study of software risk management perspectives.
(2002)This dissertation addresses risk management in the software development context. The discussion commences with the risks in software development and the necessity for a software risk management process. The emergent discourse ... -
The application of the unified modelling language and soft systems metholdology for modelling the production process in an aluminium plant.
(2003)This research explores the combined use of soft systems methodology (SSM) and UML based business process modelling (BPM) techniques. These two techniques are integrated to provide a framework for the analysis and definition ... -
Devising a common vocabulary for a knowledge management university intranet.
(2003)For the past few years, the University of Natal has been using an HTML-driven InnerWeb as its intranet system. The advantages of database driven intranet technologies over static HTML pages are now well established. It was ... -
Evaluation of a new online learning resource : the human computer interface design.
(2003)With the increasing demand for online learning, well-designed computer online learning resources are indispensable. User interfaces evaluation has become a critical quality attribute of interactive software intended ... -
Analysis of cultural and ideological values transmitted by university websites.
(2003)With the advent of globalisation and new communication technologies, it was inevitable that educational institutions would follow the advertising trend of establishing websites to market their services. This paper analyses ... -
Vector graphics to improve BLAST graphic representations
(2007)BLAST reports can be complicated. Viewing them graphically helps to understand them better, especially when the reports are long. At present "Web BLAST" and the stand-alone "wwwBLAST" versions, distributed by the NCBI, ... -
Techniques and countermeasures of TCP/IP OS fingerprinting on Linux Systems
(2007)Port scanning is the first activity an attacker pursues when attempting to compromise a target system on a network. The aim is to gather information that will result in identifying one or more vulnerabilities in that system. ... -
Relieving the cognitive load of constructing molecular biological ontology based queries by means of visual aids.
(2007)The domain of molecular biology is complex and vast. Bio-ontologies and information visualisation have arisen in recent years as means to assist biologists in making sense of this information. Ontologies can enable the ... -
Component-based face recognition.
(2008)Component-based automatic face recognition has been of interest to a growing number of researchers in the past fifteen years. However, the main challenge remains the automatic extraction of facial components for recognition ... -
The development of a swarm intelligent simulation tool for sugarcane transport logistics systems.
(2008)Transport logistics systems typically evolve as networks over time, which may result in system rigidity and cause changes to become expensive and time consuming. In this study a logistics model, named TranSwarm, was ... -
Investigation of techniques for automatic polyphonic music transcription using wavelets.
(2009)It has been said (although sadly I have no source) that music is one of the most useful yet useless phenomena known to mankind. Useless in that it has, apparently, no tangible or immediately practical function in our lives, ... -
Specifying a forest harvest scheduling system which includes wood properties.
(2009)This dissertation aims to specify a forest harvest scheduling system which includes wood properties in the harvesting decisions for the long-term (strategic) planning horizon. This system will be used by plantation ... -
Debugging and repair of description logic ontologies.
(2010)In logic-based Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KRR), ontologies are used to represent knowledge about a particular domain of interest in a precise way. The building blocks of ontologies include concepts, relations ... -
An analysis of algorithms to estimate the characteristics of the underlying population in Massively Parallel Pyrosequencing data.
(2011)Massively Parallel Pyrosequencing (MPP) is a next generation DNA sequencing technique that is becoming ubiquitous because it is considerably faster, cheaper and produces a higher throughput than long established ... -
Face recognition with Eigenfaces : a detailed study.
(2012)With human society becoming increasingly computerised, the use of biometrics to automatically establish the identity of an individual is of great interest in a wide variety of applications. Facial appearance is an appealing ... -
Gabor filter parameter optimization for multi-textured images : a case study on water body extraction from satellite imagery.
(2012)The analysis and identification of texture is a key area in image processing and computer vision. One of the most prominent texture analysis algorithms is the Gabor Filter. These filters are used by convolving an image ... -
Handwritten signature verification using locally optimized distance-based classification.
(2012)Although handwritten signature verification has been extensively researched, it has not achieved optimum accuracy rate. Therefore, efficient and accurate signature verification techniques are required since signatures are ... -
Shot classification in broadcast soccer video.
(2013)Event understanding systems, responsible for automatically generating human relatable event descriptions from video sequences, is an open problem in computer vision research that has many applications in the sports domain, ... -
Qualitative and structural analysis of video sequences.
(2011)This thesis analyses videos in two distinct ways so as to improve both human understanding and the computer description of events that unfold in video sequences. Qualitative analysis can be used to understand a scene in ...