This paper explores the impact of developments in the Irish economy and labour market on computing course development in the Irish Higher Education (HE) sector. Extant computing courses change, or new courses are introduced, ...

This thesis endeavours to establish which of the applications within the Extensible Markup Language (XML) available at present, meet the requirements of a modem business engaging in Electronic Commerce (E-Commerce) ...

Smart cards are used as trusted storage and data processing systems to store cryptographic private keys and other valuable information. Java Card promises the ease of programming in Java to the world of smart cards. ...

Producing animation for the computer game/entertainment industry is a time- consuming, difficult process. One approach to maximizing the utility of previously animated sequences is to blend and warp pre-existing sequences ...

Today vast amounts of services and information are provided by the WWW. By its very nature, the information involved is changeable; hence static web pages are no longer adequate and methods of coping with dynamic ...

Moving from one point to another in an efficient yet effective manner has always been a problem for people. The same problem can be related to mathematical graph theory, where moving from one co-ordinate to another ...

3D computer games with animated characters are restricted to the animations provided by an animator. This thesis explores a method for having a character perform different animations using only simple base animations ...