Browsing University of Galway Theses (PhD Theses) by Author "Decker, Stefan"
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The Design and Evaluation of Graphical Radial Menus
Samp, Krystian (2011-12-05)Graphical menus provide slow performance and yet users often try to select menu commands as fast as possible. Shortcut techniques that enable users to by-pass selections from a graphical menu are fast, but are not the ... -
Distributed dataflow processing of large RDF graphs
Maali, Fadi (2017-05-29)As part of the big data world, RDF, the graph-based data model of the Semantic Web, is growing in use. Consequently, the size of available RDF data is increasing and massive datasets are becoming commonplace. Nevertheless, ... -
Evaluating and benchmarking the performance of federated SPARQL endpoints and their partitioning using selected metrics and specific query types
Rakhmawati, Nur Aini (2017-02-07)The increasing amount of Linked Data and its inherent distributed nature have created for need to developing and researching querying technologies. Inspired by research results from traditional distributed databases, ... -
Graph summarisation of web data: data-driven generation of structured representations
Campinas, Stéphane (2016-08-31)The advent of the Internet enabled the sharing of information between people all around the world. Projects like Wikipedia have made human knowledge accessible to anybody with a simple mouse click. The Linked Data movement ... -
A Hybrid Framework for Querying Linked Data Dynamically
Umbrich, Jürgen (2012-09-28)As of today, the Web has evolved to become the largest collection of information made available by mankind. Researchers and developers are continuously working on transforming this loosely connected data collection into ... -
Hypertextualized Virtual Environments: Dual-Mode User Interface Design
Jankowski, Jacek (2011-06-03)This thesis develops a novel strategy for accessing Hypertextualized Virtual Environments (HiVEs), integrated information spaces where symbolic (hypertext) and visual (3D graphics) data are simultaneously available and ... -
Identifying, annotating, and filtering arguments and opinions in open collaboration systems
Schneider, Jodi (2013-09-13)The World Wide Web enables large-scale collaboration, even between groups of individuals previously unknown to one another. These collaborations produce tangible outputs, such as encyclopedias (Wikipedia), electronic books ... -
Integrating Heterogeneous Data by Extending Semantic Web Standards
Lopes, Nuno (2012-09-28)In enterprises different software applications are used to manage specific functions: customer relations, human resources, and manufacturing, each requiring specialised software. Relational databases are commonly used as ... -
Large scale data integration of OSS repositories for automated soft and technical factors assessment
Iqbal, Muhammad Aftab (2015-04-22)As of today, software development does not revolve around a piece of source code but also around large volume of software project related information that exists in different software repositories hosting a software project. ... -
Linked data with access control
Kirrane, Sabrina (2015-01-29)The explosion of digital content and the heterogeneity of enterprise content sources have pushed existing data integration solutions to their boundaries. An alternative solution is to use the Resource Description Framework ...