Professional Issues in Software Engineering (PISE) has been taught as part of the computer systems undergraduate degree programme at the University of Limerick using a multiinstitutional collaborative pedagogy. PISE considers ...
McKeever, Susan; Ye, Juan; Coyle, Lorcan; Bleakley, Chris; Dobson, Simon(2010)
The ability to identify the behavior of people in a home is at the core of Smart Home functionality. Such environments are equipped with sensors that unobtrusively capture information about the occupants. Reasoning mechanisms ...
Program transformation is a popular technique for attempting
to improve the e ciency of a program. At a high level, program transformation
is the process of taking an input program and transforming
it into an improved ...
Mc Hugh, Martin; Mc Caffery, Fergal; Casey, Valentine(The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2012)
A recent revision to the European Medical Device Directive (MDD) 2007/47/EC made fourteen
amendments to the original directive (93/42/EEC). A number of these changes directly affect the development
of software for use ...
Hemati-Moghadam, Iman; Ó Cinnéide, Mel(IEEE Computer Society, 2012)
Software systems that undergo repeated addition
of functionality commonly suffer a loss of quality in
their underlying designs, termed design erosion. This leads to
the maintenance of a system becoming increasingly ...
Dinneen, Marian(School of Architecture, University of Limerick, 2012)
The ambition of my thesis project is to design civic
space, space for civic engagement. Taking inspiration
from the various voices who have identified a
democratic crisis and who are themselves more
civilly engaged, I ...
O'Donovan, James(School of Architecture, University of Limerick, 2012)
The objective of my thesis is to explore the various elements that make
structure architecture. Through investigation into thinness, material,
span, space and soundscape, I wish to create an architecture which can
appeal ...
Doheny, Gavin(School of Architecture, University of Limerick, 2012)
Manufacturing productive land is the
basis for this thesis document. The document is split
into five related sections each displaying an emphasis
on manipulation of ground in a productive manner
over time.
O rganising ...
Zoiros, Kyriakos E.; Janer, Carlos L.; Connelly, Michael J.(Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers, 2010)
An optical delay interferometer (ODI) is employed to suppress the pattern effect manifested on a 10 Gb/s return-to-zero (RZ) data stream when amplified by a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) operated
in deep gain ...
There is an increasing realisation that biomass and organic wastes are valuable feedstocks for second generation biorefining processes that give rise to platform chemicals to substitute for dwindling petrochemical resources, ...