• IBM’s smarter care: challenges and strategies 

  O'Sullivan, Patrick; Connolly, Anne; Carroll, Noel; Richardson, Ita (Association for Computing Machinery, 2016)

  In this paper, we discuss how IBM is working with Lero – the Irish Software Research Centre and the Ireland Smart Aging Exchange. The proposed project will observe, analyse and coordinate Smarter Care models as they ...
• FLINTS: A tool for architectural-level modeling of features in software systems 

  Buckley, Jim; Rosik, Jacek; Herold, Sebastian; Wasala, Asanka; Botterweck, Goetz; Exton, Chris (Association for Computing Machinery, 2016)

  Reflexion Modeling has been proposed as a means of creating and refining a functional model of software systems at the architectural level. Such a model allows developers to maintain a consistent understanding of the ...
• A stakeholder contribution pattern in requirements decision-making: an empirical study in enterprise development 

  Chen, Feng; Power, Norah; Collins, J.J. (IEEE Computer Society, 2016)

  Stakeholders are the primary source of requirements both as a source of information and for making requirements decisions. However, with different stakeholders having various roles and perspectives, with distinct or ...
• Empirically derived recommendations for personalised text-based technical support 

  Gizaw, Solomon; Buckley, Jim; Beecham, Sarah (Springer, 2016)

  Technical Support (TS) is a post sales service provided to users of Information Technology (IT) products. Effective customer support can increase an IT company's revenue, improve the quality of their software, build customer ...
• Evidence in architecture degradation and consistency checking research: preliminary results from a literature review 

  Herold, Sebastian; Blom, Martin; Buckley, Jim (Association for Computing Machinery, 2016)

  Theory suggests that software development may bene t from applying architecture consistency checking and hence, aca- demics have focused on this area. In such circumstances it is important to characterize the overall ...
• Improving mobile VoIP quality through bandwidth optimisation 

  Dantas, Rafael; Exton, Chris; Le Gear, Andrew (2017)

  Maintaining consistent VoIP quality is a challenging task, especially where it is carried using a mobile internet connection. With greater than 50% of the world’s mobile user population using older GSM incarnations, ...
• A GA-inspired approach to the reduction of edge crossings in force-directed layouts 

  Toosi, Farshad Ghassemi; Nikolov, Nikola S.; Eaton, Malachy (Association for Computing Machinery, 2016)

  We report on our findings using a genetic algorithm (GA) as a preprocessing step for force-directed graph drawings to find a smart initial vertex layout (instead of a random initial layout) to decrease the number of edge ...
• Evaluating online asynchronous support In the institutes of technology Ireland 

  Carroll, Noel (NUI Maynooth, 2011)

  As the uptake of e-learning continues to increase, it has come to light that engaging students in e-learning requires a large time commitment on the part of the lecturer. The burden may be eased by the expedient use of ...
• A generalized Erlang-C model for the enhanced living environment as a service (ELEaaS) 

  Mirtchev, Seferin T; Goleva, Rossitza I; Atamian, Dimitar K; Mirtchev, Mirtcho J; Ganchev, Ivan; Stainov, Rumen (De Gruyter OPEN, 2016)

  In this article, a full-access waiting multi-server queue with a statedependent arrival and departure processes is investigated and suggested for use as a generic traffic model of the novel concept of the Enhanced Living ...
• Text mining StackOverflow: an insight into challenges and subject-related difficulties faced by computer science learners 

  Joorabchi, Arash; English, Michael; Mahdi, Abdulhussain E (Emerald, 2016)

  Purpose The use of social media and in particular community Q&A websites by learners has increased significantly in recent years. The vast amounts of data posted on these sites provide an opportunity to investigate ...
• Automatic mapping of user tags to Wikipedia concepts: the case of a Q&A website - StackOverflow 

  Joorabchi, Arash; English, Michael; Mahdi, Abdulhussain E (SAGE Publications, 2015)

  The uncontrolled nature of user-assigned tags makes them prone to various inconsistencies caused by spelling variations, synonyms, acronyms and hyponyms. These inconsistencies in turn lead to some of the common problems ...
• Genetic programming based predictions and estimations for the endurance and retention of NAND flash memory devices 

  Hogan, Damien (University of Limerick, 2013)

  The central hypothesis of this thesis is that it is possible to use a supervised machine learning technique, Genetic Programming (GP), to make accurate predictions and estimations regarding the endurance and retention ...
• National health models and the adoption of eHealth and ePrescribing in primary care – new evidence from Europe 

  Brennan, James Edmund; McElligott, Annette; Power, Norah (BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, 2015)

  Objective Recent research from the European Commission (EC) suggests that the development and adoption of eHealth in primary care is significantly influenced by the context of the national health model in operation. This ...
• Spectral precedence methodologies in spatial auditory research: perceptual evaluation of spatial attributes in 2D and 3D virtual auditory display environments 

  Doyle, Tony (University of Limerick, 2015)

  Sounds are space specific. That is, the spectral content of a sound suggests a perception that resides along the three co-ordinates of physical space; front to back, left to right and up to down. Each of these corresponds ...
• Grammatical evolution + multi-cores = automatic parallel programming! 

  Gopinath, Chennupati (University of Limerick, 2015)

  Multi-core processors are shared memory multiprocessors integrated on a single chip which offer significantly higher processing power than traditional, single core processors. However, as the number of cores available on ...
• Adoption of national electronic prescribing services in primary care in Europe - policy lessons for Ireland 

  Brennan, James Edmund (University of Limerick, 2015)

  A growing body of evidence over the past twenty years suggests that electronic prescribing (ePrescribing) can bring a host of benefits to the health sector, and some policy makers now view ePrescribing as a desirable ...
• Months backward test: a review of its use in clinical studies 

  Meagher, James; Leonard, Maeve; Donoghue, Laura; O’Regan, Niamh; Timmons, Suzanne; Exton, Chris; Cullen, Walter; Dunne, Colum; Adamis, Dimitrios; MacLullich, Alasdair J; Meagher, David (Baishideng Publishing Group Inc., 2015)

  To review the use of the Months Backwards Test (MBT) in clinical and research contexts. METHODS: We conducted a systematic review of reports relating to the MBT based upon a search of PsychINFO and MEDLINE between ...
• A hybrid approach to the problem of class imbalance 

  Fitzgerald, Jeannie; Ryan, Conor (2013)

  In Machine Learning classification tasks, the class imbalance problem is an important one which has received a lot of attention in the last few years. In binary classification, class imbalance occurs when there ...
• Selection bias and generalisation error in genetic programming 

  Fitzgerald, Jeannie; Ryan, Conor (Association for Computing Machinery, 2014)

  There have been many studies undertaken to determine the efficacy of parameters and algorithmic components of Genetic Programming, but historically, generalization considerations have not been of central importance in ...
• Automatic mapping of user tags to Wikipedia concepts: the case of a Q & A website - StackOverflow 

  Joorabchi, Arash; English, Michael; Mahdi, Abdulhussain E (SAGE Publications, 2015)

  The uncontrolled nature of user-assigned tags makes them prone to various inconsistencies caused by spelling variations, synonyms, acronyms, and hyponyms. These inconsistencies in turn lead to some of the common problems ...

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