Magister Scientiae - MSc (Computer Science): Recent submissions
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Static MySQL Error Checking
(University of the Western Cape, 2010)Coders of databases repeatedly face the problem of checking their Structured Query Language (SQL) code. Instructors face the difficulty of checking student projects and lab assignments in database courses. We collect and ... -
Numerical Methods for Mathematical Models on Warrant Pricing
(University of the Western Cape, 2010)Warrant pricing has become very crucial in the present market scenario. See, for example, M. Hanke and K. Potzelberger, Consistent pricing of warrants and traded options, Review Financial Economics 11(1) (2002) 63-77 where ... -
A mobile design of an emergency service system for deaf people
(University of Western Cape, 2021)The importance of mobile technology in improving the quality of life is not restricted to only a Hearing person, and the use of mobile devices among Deaf people is no longer limited, due to the advancements in technology ... -
A digital platform for Social innovation Through digital Storytelling
(2021)Technology plays a big role in our lives. However, many do not have access to technology and the knowledge it provides, giving rise to the so-called digital divide. The purpose of this study is to explore and understand ... -
Design and Implementation of a Credible Blockchain-based E-health Records Platform
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)With the development of information and network technologies, Electronic Health Records (EHRs) management system has gained wide spread application in managing medical records. One of the major challenges of EHRs is the ... -
An investigation of the best-practices for implementing an Ecommerce software engineering project comparing two common methodologies, viz. Agile and Traditional.
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)In a world where technology is advancing at a very rapid pace, global competition has significantly increased, and this is putting pressure on software companies to produce quality software. It has therefore become critically ... -
5G wireless network support using umanned aerial vehicles for rural and low-Income areas
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)The fifth-generation mobile network (5G) is a new global wireless standard that enables state-of-the-art mobile networks with enhanced cellular broadband services that support a diversity of devices. Even with the current ... -
Design and implementation of a credible blockchain-based e-health records platform
(University of Western Cape, 2020)With the development of information and network technologies, Electronic Health Records (EHRs) management system has gained wide spread application in managing medical records. One of the major challenges of EHRs is the ... -
Foreign Exchange Option Valuation under Stochastic Volatility
(University of the Western Cape, 2009)The case of pricing options under constant volatility has been common practise for decades. Yet market data proves that the volatility is a stochastic phenomenon, this is evident in longer duration instruments in which the ... -
A robust audio-based symbol recognition system using machine learning techniques
(University of the Western Cape, 2020-02)This research investigates the creation of an audio-shape recognition system that is able to interpret a user’s drawn audio shapes—fundamental shapes, digits and/or letters— on a given surface such as a table-top using a ... -
Data science for health-care: Patient condition recognition
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)The emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) have elicited increased interest in many areas of our daily lives. These include health, agriculture, aviation, manufacturing, cities management ... -
Smart cities air pollution monitoring system - Developing a potential data collecting platform based on Raspberry Pi
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)Air pollution is becoming a challenging issue in our daily lives due to advanced industrialization. This thesis presents a solution to collection and dissemination of pollution data. Most of the devices that monitor air ... -
Gaming and computer science: Bridging the gender-gap
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)According to the literature, women are still unrepresented in the field of information technology. Although many women study computer science at first year level, the dropout rate for women—before they graduate—is high, ... -
Packet aggregation for voice over internet protocol on wireless mesh networks
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)This thesis validates that packet aggregation is a viable technique to increase call ca-pacity for Voice over Internet Protocol over wireless mesh networks. Wireless mesh networks are attractive ways to provide voice ... -
A Comparison of Machine Learning Techniques for Facial Expression Recognition
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)A machine translation system that can convert South African Sign Language (SASL) video to audio or text and vice versa would be bene cial to people who use SASL to communicate. Five fundamental parameters are associated ... -
An authoring tool for generalised scenario creation for SignSupport
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)This thesis describes the development cycles of an authoring tool that generalises scenario creation for SignSupport. SignSupport is a mobile communication tool for Deaf people that currently runs on an Android smartphone. ... -
Voice signature based Speaker Recognition
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)Personal identification and the protection of data are important issues because of the ubiquitousness of computing and these havethus become interesting areas of research in the field of computer science. Previously people ... -
Voice-signature-based Speaker Recognition
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)Personal identification and the protection of data are important issues because of the ubiquitousness of computing and these have thus become interesting areas of research in the field of com ... -
Internet-Of-Things for Cyber Healthcare (L0t4c): Information Dissemination, systems' Interoperability and security
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)Cyber Healthcare is becoming one of the fastest growing industries in the world due to an increasing elderly population and a more health conscious word population. On the other hand, IoT devices are emerging from niche ... -
Scalable Wireless Mesh Networks
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) are wireless multi-hop networks built on wireless nodes that operate in an Independent Basic Set Identifier (IBSS) mode of the IEEE 208.11 wireless standard. IBSS is well known as an ad hoc ...