Browsing University of Galway Theses (PhD Theses) by Subject "Data analytics"
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Adaptive task assignment in spatial crowdsourcing
(2016-08)Spatial crowdsourcing has emerged as a new paradigm for solving difficult problems in the physical world. It engages a large number of human workers in scenarios such as crisis management and smart cities. The utility of ... -
Distributed dataflow processing of large RDF graphs
(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, ... -
The duality of e-participation - a model and technical infrastructure to study and harness social media-based participation
(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 ... -
Evaluating and benchmarking the performance of federated SPARQL endpoints and their partitioning using selected metrics and specific query types
(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, ... -
Just tweet it - The collection, processing, classification and analysis of 2 million fitness tweets
(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 ... -
Leveraging Wikipedia-based features for entity relatedness and recommendation
(2018-01-31)Entities such as people, locations, organizations play a key role in natural language understanding. Most of the approaches that deal with natural language processing tasks, require a method to measure the relatedness ... -
Machine translation of domain-specific expressions within ontologies and documents
(2017-08-08)Nowadays, most of the semantically structured data have labels stored only in English. Although the increasing number of ontologies offers an excellent opportunity to link this knowledge together, non-English users may ... -
Methods for defining dynamic online communities and community detection in fast-paced social media streams
(NUI Galway, 2019-05-02)Microblogging social media focuses on fast open real-time communication using short messages between users and their followers. Twitter is currently one of the largest and widely known microblogging OSN in the world, with ... -
Modelling, planning and adaptive implementation of semantic event service
(2016-05-13)Recent developments in sensor networks, social media, process management and data analysis envisions interlinked devices, people, processes and data, constituting an Internet-of-Everything. These networks can be used to ... -
Online community success - A study of success criteria and user behaviour in online communities
(NUI Galway, 2017-10-27)In a world where online users form communities for various purposes and around many different topics of interest, it has become of social and economic importance for owners, providers and managers of online communities to ... -
Semantic knowledge graphs to understand tumor evolution and predict disease survival in cancer
(NUI Galway, 2020-07-06)Genomics technologies have generated large amounts of easily accessible biological -omics data, providing an unprecedented opportunity to study the mechanism in cancer. However, clinical research and the life sciences ...