Browsing University of Galway Theses by Author "Breslin, John"
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Augmenting Social Media Items with Metadata using Related Web Content
Kinsella, Sheila (2012-01-23)The Web has shifted from a read-only medium where most users were solely consumers of information, to an interactive medium where collaborative technologies allow anyone to publish or edit content. In this environment, ... -
Contextualising sensors with linked data to improve relevancy, data quality and network adaptability
Leggieri, Myriam (2015-10-09)A sensor taken by itself, with no indication of what it is sensing, with what unit of measurement and where, would keep working without anybody being able to interpret its output. The sensor needs to be "contextualised". ... -
Design and evaluation of an automated algorithm for cardiac risk stratification
Aguilar, Antonio (2013-12-20)In the United States, sudden cardiac death (SCD) claims approximately 450,000 lives each year, more lives than stroke, lung and breast cancer and AIDS combined. In the United Kingdom and Ireland, the combined figure is ... -
The duality of e-participation - a model and technical infrastructure to study and harness social media-based participation
Porwol, Lukasz (2016-10-21)Despite the proliferation of e-Participation initiatives, overall efforts towards mainstreaming social media-based and citizen-led political deliberations are still limited. Consequently, there is a paucity of research on ... -
Just tweet it - The collection, processing, classification and analysis of 2 million fitness tweets
Vickey, Theodore (NUI Galway, 2018-06-13)In 2013, the World Health Organization coined the term “Globesity” to highlight the importance of the epidemic and impact as a major health problem in many parts of the world (World Health Organization, 2013). Many believe ... -
Neurosymbolic visual reasoning with scene graph enrichment
Khan, Muhammad Jaleed (NUI Galway, 2024-02-26)Visual reasoning is a critical component of artificial intelligence that aims to understand, interpret, and reason about complex visual content. It has an interdisciplinary nature incorporating visual feature extraction ... -
Peer-to-peer energy trading in microgrids: A game-theoretic approach
Malik, Sweta (NUI Galway, 2024-03-20)As the world transitions from the traditional centralized power system towards a decentralized model with the widespread integration of distributed energy resources (DERs), the struggle for demand-supply flexibility ... -
Profiling user interests on the social semantic web
Orlandi, Fabrizio (2014-03-31)The World Wide Web is evolving towards an ecosystem of applications and services offering personalised content to its users. At the same time, the widespread adoption of social media led its users to provide portions of ... -
Trust-aware privacy preferences for information sharing on the web of data
Sacco, Owen (2015-03-23)The Web has significantly simplified the creation and sharing of information. However, this evolution has brought about many challenges especially with regards to user privacy when sharing sensitive information on the Web. ...