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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 ...
An investigation of the role of body-worn inertial sensing in the analysis of elite swimming performance
(2017-09-29)
Swimming is a technically demanding sport that requires ongoing quantitative assessment in order to monitor technical progression and improvements in performance. Traditional methods of monitoring a swimmer’s technique ...
Knowledge-based multi-objective multi-agent reinforcement learning
(2017-08-17)
Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) is a powerful Machine Learning paradigm, where multiple autonomous agents can learn to improve the performance of a system through experience. The majority of MARL implementations ...
Advances in evolutionary neural networks with applications in energy systems and the environment
(NUI Galway, 2018-08-29)
Evolutionary neural networks combine two of the most powerful areas of computing, evolutionary algorithms and neural networks. There are a number of benefits of using evolutionary algorithms to train a network over traditional ...
Contributions to the measurement of depth in consumer imaging
(NUI Galway, 2018-06-12)
This thesis aims to examine and investigate methods that could potentially utilize images captured by consumer cameras such as smartphones to estimate depth and generate a 3D
structure.
After more than a century of ...
Design of fibre-reinforced polymer composite blades for wind and tidal turbines
(2017-09)
There is substantial opportunity in the development of wind and tidal current turbines to help decarbonise national energy systems and to expand the economic potential of the European Union. However, well-documented cases ...
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 ...
Modularity, variation and variability in genetic representation
(NUI Galway, 2017-12-05)
Nature uses a complex genotype-phenotype map to advance a relatively simple genotype space variational topology to an extremely complex phenotypic variational topology. This dissertation introduces a modular, fixed ...
Confocal microwave imaging and artifact removal algorithms for the early detection of breast cancer
(NUI Galway, 2018-03-29)
Microwave imaging is an emerging imaging modality for the early detection of breast cancer. Early-time artifact removal and imaging algorithm are the two most important signal processing components of any Confocal Microwave ...
Hybrid systems modelling aided by machine learning with applications in healthcare
(NUI Galway, 2018-03)
Recent trends towards data-driven methods may require a substantial rethinking of the process of developing simulation models. For instance, Machine Learning (ML) has demonstrated great potentials for constructing new ...