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A system has been developed that analyses the emotional content of web pages. Text is extracted from an embedded Internet browser and sent to a text-to-emotion engine that identifies the emotive content. An experiment was conducted that examines the effect the emotional content of the web page...

This article reports on the latest developments of our Emotional Stock Analyser application. The original application automatically analyses the text that is input by the user, using a text-to-emotion engine that identifies the emotive content. The whole text of newspaper articles about the...

One of the motivations for a model driven approach to software development is to increase the involvement for a range of stakeholders in the requirements phases. This inevitably leads to a greater diversity of roles being involved in the production of models, and one of the issues with such...

Contracts between multiple business parties play an important role in a global economy where activities along the value chain are executed by independent, co-operating organizations. Information technology to enact a value chain is now being deployed in the form of ERP systems and service...

The domain of multi level forecast combination is a challenging new domain containing a large potential for forecast improvements. This thesis presents a theoretical and experimental analysis of different types of forecast diversification on forecast error covariances and resulting combined...

In a globalised world economy, small and mediumsized companies (SMEs) are now entering the global software engineering (GSE) arena, but their involvement is more often opportunistic than carefully planned. Considered until a few years ago a major destination for outsourcing/offshoring, Ireland...

Advances in information technology, and its use in research, are increasing both the need for anonymized data and the risks of poor anonymization. In this thesis, we point out some questions raised by current anonymization techniques such as (a) support for additional adversary models and the...

With the advancement of computer aided design (CAD) tools, designed products are increasingly more sophisticated, making product assemblies more difficult to be visualized and understood. The purpose of this study was to evaluate a novel approach at interacting with CAD assembly models -...