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Multigrid For The Nonlinear Power Flow Equations, Enrique Pereira Batista

Mathematics Theses and Dissertations

The continuously changing structure of power systems and the inclusion of renewable
energy sources are leading to changes in the dynamics of modern power grid,
which have brought renewed attention to the solution of the AC power flow equations.
In particular, development of fast and robust solvers for the power flow problem
continues to be actively investigated. A novel multigrid technique for coarse-graining
dynamic power grid models has been developed recently. This technique uses an
algebraic multigrid (AMG) coarsening strategy applied to the weighted
graph Laplacian that arises from the power network's topology for the construction
of coarse-grain approximations to …

Packet Delivery: An Investigation Of Educational Video Games For Computer Science Education, Robert Lafferty

School of Computing: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

The field of educational video games has rapidly grown since the 1970s, mostly producing video games to teach core education concepts such as mathematics, natural science, and English. Recently, various research groups have developed educational games to address elective topics such as finance and health. Educational video games often target grade school audiences and rarely target high school students, college students, or adults. Computer science topics are not a common theme among educational video games; the games that address Computer Science topics teach computer fundamentals, such as typing or basic programming, to young audiences.

Packet Delivery, an educational video …

Connecting Swosu To The Open Science Grid, Arianna Martin, Jeremy Evert

Student Research

No abstract provided.

Retail Health & Safety Digital Management System, Anderson Oliveira Gomes, David Carvalho, Henrique Atanasio Wegner

ICT

Health and Safety procedures and documentations are one of the many tasks that need to be done by a small retail shop, they are also one of the most difficult things to manage daily as all those can build up during the day/week. Inside Health and Safety there are many subcategories that need to be administered (maintenances, trainings and checklists for example) which can be very overwhelming for any management team notably in small retail shops as they do not have the permanent personnel to be able to maintain an organised system.

This project aims to create a management software …

Student Meetup: An Ajs Project, Alejandro Zeballos, Suelen De Campos Fiorelo, James Harris

ICT

This report focuses on our perceived lack of applications that can assist students in finding suitable environments in which they can study together. Our research has shown that while there are applications that are dedicated to helping students to study, none that we have found help students connect with one another, for the sole purpose of studying.

With our application, we intend to create a platform that will enable students to connect with each other, on both a website and a mobile application. We hope to give students the ability to create and join study sessions, as well as provide …

Track My Ride, Cesar Padron Ramirez, Jady Silva Martins, Maria De La Luz Lagunas Modesto, Rodolfo Carvajal Marquez, Yuri Braga

ICT

Cycling has become more and more popular as a healthy activity and a transport option across many countries. This is not different in Ireland, a country where in April 2016, 56,837 people cycled to work; an increase of 43% since 2011 (Central statistics office, 2017).

Irish Government “committed to developing cycling as one of the most desirable modes of travel by 2020” as it plays an indispensable role in people’s lives (Sustainable transport division - department of transport, tourism and sport, 2009).

The “Balance” team managed to visualize that a strong cycling culture was becoming important in Ireland. Hence our …

Conversa: A Community Of Conversation, Leandro Silveira, Willian Antunes De Sousa, Richard Welbert Silva Biagi, Patricia Correia, Lucas Freire

ICT

In the past decade, Dublin has seen increasing development in many sectors, remarkably in the Education industry. The country has attracted many English learning seekers, students that come to Dublin to live, learn the language, and the local culture. However, exciting this adventure might seem, foreigners may still struggle to overcome a set of difficulties when learning another language in a different environment.

For this reason, this project will try to develop an app that can help students meet new people with the primary objective to learn and practice English with people nearby. Users will be able to find people …

Help Us Technology: Created By Students For Students, Celso Martins, Fabiana Friedrich, Guilherme Tenorio, Vinicius Martins

ICT

HUT is an online platform created by third year students at CCT College Dublin as the Final Project for the Bachelor of Science in Information Technology. The initial idea for the project came up during a meeting in a Café where we were all debating what would be the project theme and final product. During the first group meetings in college, our group came up with several good ideas but what would benefit us all, as students, would be something related to Online Learning because during our last academic year, a global pandemic began leaving Educational institutions with no option …

Pod: Plenty Of Dogs, Adriana Moreira, Claudio Santana, Jordana Marques, Kevin Cardoso, Larissa Fernandes

ICT

Finding the ideal match for dog breeding has never been an easy task for most dog owners in different parts of the world, including Ireland. Seeking an opportunity to minimise this problem, a lovely user-friendly web application called Plenty Of Dogs (POD) was developed to facilitate dog owners to found a perfect match for their dogs, according to their search criteria. Besides that, dog owners will also be able to find new friends to their doggies. Initially, only the Republic of Ireland will be benefited from POD services.

To achieve this goal, this project was divided into five distinct phases: …

[Chain Up Group] Applied Technology Group Project, Maria Beluz Suarez, Haein Kim

ICT

This document presents the draft of the introductory chapter as well as the research and planning aspects of developing a text hosting service application based on block chain technology named‘Chain UP. This report represents part I of the continuous assessment of the year-module named Applied Technology Group Project for the 3rd year of the Information Technology course at CCT College Dublin. This chapter contains an introduction to Blockchain’s concepts and an overview of its benefits and the latest industry applications of this technology, specifically the financial services industry and the data security industry. In the next chapters, we will discuss …

Using Object Detection Algorithm And Optical Character Recognition To Read Data From Alphanumeric Tags In Text, Ana Bazerque, Davi Moraes, Marcela Souza

ICT

The present document explores the use of machine learning techniques, specifically supervised learning and classification. It applies those techniques to create a solution for a real world company that provides medical products and services to hospitals. This project will deal with streamlining the calibration of medical weighing scales. The developed application will use object detection and character recognition to identify and classify a digital image of a scale’s tag, and fill in a form with the corresponding data. The main reason for the need of this application is to avoid human errors and automate the collection of data from the …

Applied Technology Group Project Documentation For Nls-Project, Cauê Duarte, Felipe Mantovani, Olga Kiseleva, Taras Boreyko

ICT

Loyalty systems are commonly used to build and improve relationships between business and customers. Throughout history they evolved and became almost essential for small businesses such as coffee shops or small local stores. In this paper we will analyze existing loyalty systems that are presented in the world and Irish market, how they are used in the coffee shop industry and how new technologies can change and shape this industry. We examined multiple coffee shops brands present in Ireland and their rewards systems. We compared their loyalty systems using alternative methodologies and theoretical lenses in order to find new ways …

Advcon, Beacon Devices And Electronic Advertisement, Edwin Ibrahim Garces, Eduard Fernando Cuadros, Thiago Almeida, Ben O'Leary

ICT

Technology is increasingly becoming an important ally for business, so it is important to develop studies and research that bring innovation to the market.

This report is about implementation of an app that utilizes a Bluetooth communication as a way of send low data information to a mobile device as an advertisement and how it would help on the business growth.

The research that were carried out in order to bring more knowledge about the beacon technology that is being the basis of our project and mobile devices app development.

It was found that there is still more to be …

#Greener By Greentech, Ana Ospitaletche, Larissa Roseno, Jose Miguel Gonzalez, Amanda Brelaz

ICT

In recent years there has been growing concern about the negative impact humankind has on the planet. Companies and individuals are making efforts to mitigate their environmental impact. In this context and as individuals that care about the environment and try to lead a more sustainable life, we decided to research which elements could be stopping individuals from trying to implement changes in their daily habits.

One of the key conclusions of this research was that there is too much information, sometimes even conflicting, on how to lead a sustainable life.

#Greener aims to make a contribution by giving clear …

Mysmartpi, Camila Pulz De Faria, Fernando Aires Da Silva, Jesus Colina Nunez, Reginaldo Pereira Dos Santos, Thenilde Borges

ICT

Nowadays, accessing the Internet in a secure way in a big concern for many people due to the increase of cybersecurity attacks and the vulnerability of the data that is transferred online. In order to address such vulnerabilities, the use of a Virtual Private Network is really important. Not only for security reasons, but also to access resources of the network, such as printers, files or web pages. Considering that many people, especially IT students, have curiosity and enjoy creating their own technologies, this project aims to create a user manual to teach how people can create their own VPN …

The Wall: A Mobile App To Identify And Store Social Events From A Digital Image Using Computer Vision, Akhill Chandran, Ana Julia Ortiz, Eliezer Maia Barbosa, Maura Carola Tangara, Raquel Martini

ICT

Social events, promoted in print media using posters, flyers and banners often fail to attract an audience because we frequently forget the details of the event when we pass-by the promotion on the street. Smaller venues or artists often rely on low-cost, street-level marketing campaigns in areas of high foot traffic areas to develop interest in an event. These venues or artist are often without a budget for online marketing or have a target demographic outside the typical Social Media consumer which makes attracting an audience difficult.

This project aimed to solve the problem of storing and reminding the user …

Smart Wearable Device For Reduction Of Parkinson’S Disease Hand-Tremor, Bruno Ribeiro, Leopoldo Medeiros, Rodrigo Aguiar, Juan Carlos

ICT

Parkinson's disease is a neurodegenerative disorder that affects over 10 million people worldwide (Health Unlocked, 2017). People diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease can experience tremors, muscular rigidity and slowness of movement. Tremor is the most common symptom and external agents like stress and anxiety can make it worse, which may cause complications to complete simple day-to-day tasks.

Therefore Bio Protech proposes the development of a smart wearable device for reduction of the hand-tremors based on medical evidence that by applying vibration to the wrist may result in a reduction of the involuntary tremor. The device imitates the shape of a wristwatch …

Li-Fi Share (Lfs): See What Light Can Do, Gamaliel Munoz, Anant Tandon, Juliana Sousa, Zohaib Qaiser

ICT

This project presents an innovative way how the user of internet can manipulate data transfer in a faster and security way. The main idea is to use “LI-FI ” that means type of Optical Wireless Communication (OWC) technology, bi-directional which uses light emitting diodes (LEDs) to transmit data between devices. In technical terms LI-FI transmits data by electromagnetic spectrum, high speeds of data over the visible light, ultraviolet, and infrared, and Wi-fi for example uses radio waves as a transmitter of data. While we were researching about the technology, we found out a new thing that we could use the …

Cisc 4331 – Systems And Network Administration - Week 2, Jimmy Richford, Nyc Tech-In-Residence Corps

Open Educational Resources

Lecture 2 for CISC 4331: Systems and Network Administration

Systems And Network Administration - Introduction, Jimmy Richford, Nyc Tech-In-Residence Corps

Open Educational Resources

Lecture for CISC 4311: Systems and Network Administration (Fall 2020)

Cisc 4331 – Systems And Network Administration - Week 5, Jimmy Richford, Nyc Tech-In-Residence Corps

Open Educational Resources

Lecture 5 for CISC 4331 - Systems and Network Administration

Cisc 4331 – Systems And Network Administration - Week 4, Jimmy Richford, Nyc Tech-In-Residence Corps

Open Educational Resources

Lecture 4 for CISC 4331 - Systems and Network Administration

Cisc 4331 – Systems And Network Administration - Week 3, Jimmy Richford, Nyc Tech-In-Residence Corps

Open Educational Resources

Lecture 3 for CISC 4331: Systems and Network Administration

Cisc 4331 – Systems And Network Administration Week 6, Jimmy Richford, Nyc Tech-In-Residence Corps

Open Educational Resources

Lecture 6 for CISC 4331 - Systems and Network Administration

Lecture - Csci 275: Linux Systems Administration And Security, Moe Hassan, Nyc Tech-In-Residence Corps

Open Educational Resources

Lecture for CSCI 275: Linux Systems Administration and Security

Chapter 4 Report: Strings And Hexadecimals: Explained And Explored, Reed Kessler, Jeremy Evert

Student Research

What I learned from doing all three of these problems is the use of string statements, along with a better understanding of hexadecimals and their uses.

Tag: Automated Image Captioning, Nathan Funckes

McNair Scholars Manuscripts

Many websites remain non-ADA compliant, containing images which lack accompanying textual descriptions. This leaves sight-impaired individuals unable to fully enjoy the rich wonders of the web. To address this inequity, our research aims to create an autonomous system capable of generating semantically accurate descriptions of images. This problem involves two tasks: recognizing an image and linguistically describing it. Our solution uses state-of-the-art deep learning: employing a convolutional neural network that "learns" to understand images and extracts their salient features, and a recurrent neural network that learns to generate structured, coherent sentences. These two networks are merged to create a single …

A Modeling Framework For Urban Growth Prediction Using Remote Sensing And Video Prediction Technologies: A Time-Dependent Convolutional Encoder-Decoder Architecture, Ahmed Hassan Jaad

Civil and Environmental Engineering Theses and Dissertations

Studying the growth pattern of cities/urban areas has received considerable attention during the past few decades. The goal is to identify directions and locations of potential growth, assess infrastructure and public service requirements, and ensure the integration of the new developments with the existing city structure. This dissertation presents a novel model for urban growth prediction using a novel machine learning model. The model treats successive historical satellite images of the urban area under consideration as a video for which future frames are predicted. A time-dependent convolutional encoder-decoder architecture is adopted. The model considers as an input a satellite image …

Cognition And Context-Aware Computing: Towards A Situation-Aware System With A Case Study In Aviation, Justin C. Wilson

Computer Science and Engineering Theses and Dissertations

In aviation, flight instructors seek to comprehend the intent and awareness of their students. With this awareness, derived from in-flight observation and post-flight examination, a human instructor can infer the internal contexts of their student aviators as they perform. It is this understanding that is fundamental for evaluating student development. Further, a well-understood construct for describing the state of knowledge about a dynamic environment is known as situational awareness (SA). Often pilot error is associated with SA [80], and it is fundamental to flight safety and mission execution. If these contexts can be automatically inferred, instructors and students can more …

Preparing Students For Digital Era Careers, Melissa Stange

Inquiry: The Journal of the Virginia Community Colleges

This paper will discuss why technical skills alone will not be enough for students to have successful careers in the digital age. Much of their success will hinge on critical soft skills, such as adaptability, inner strength, holistic thinking, and a collaborative spirit. Examples will be provided for inclusion with a computer science program, but in a way that is easily adaptable to other disciplines.