Philosophiae Doctor - PhD (Computer Science): Recent submissions
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Short message service normalization for communication with a health information system
(2011)Short Message Service (SMS) is one of the most popularly used services for communication between mobile phone users. In recent times it has also been proposed as a means for information access. However, there are several ... -
An intelligent vertical handoff decision algorithm in next generation wireless networks
(2010)Seamless mobility is the missing ingredient needed to address the inefficient communication problems faced by the field workforces of service companies that are using field workforce automation solutions to streamline and ... -
Independent hand-tracking from a single two-dimensional view and its application to South African sign language recognition
(University of Western Cape, 2014)Hand motion provides a natural way of interaction that allows humans to interact not only with the environment, but also with each other. The effectiveness and accuracy of hand-tracking is fundamental to the recognition ... -
An intelligent vertical handoff decision algorithm in next generation wireless networks
(University of the Western Cape, 2010)The objective of the thesis research is to design such vertical handoff decision algorithms in order for mobile field workers and other mobile users equipped with contemporary multimode mobile devices to communicate ... -
A technique for the evaluation of free and open source e-learning systems
(University of the Western Cape, 2010)Evaluating software is a universal and complex problem. The question is: how should software be selected and adopted, or rather, which of the software packages is the most suitable for a specific environment? Extensive ... -
Synergistic use of promoter prediction algorithms: a choice of small training dataset?
(University of the Western Cape, 2000)Promoter detection, especially in prokaryotes, has always been an uphill task and may remain so, because of the many varieties of sigma factors employed by various organisms in transcription. The situation is made more ...