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    • Scaling up stepwise feature introduction to construction of large software systems 

      Olszewski, Mikołaj
      TUCS Dissertations : 161 (Turku Centre for Computer Science (TUCS), 22.08.2013)
      Developing software is a difficult and error-prone activity. Furthermore, the complexity of modern computer applications is significant. Hence,an organised approach to software construction is crucial. Stepwise Feature ...
    • Reusable formal architectures for networked systems 

      Kamali, Maryam
      TUCS Dissertations : 162 (Turku Centre for Computer Science (TUCS), 13.09.2013)
      Today's networked systems are becoming increasingly complex and diverse. The current simulation and runtime verification techniques do not provide support for developing such systems efficiently; moreover, the reliability ...
    • Drivers and barriers of mobile travel and tourism service adoption : a study of individual perceptions and business model development in a travel and tourism context 

      Eriksson, Niklas (Åbo Akademi - Åbo Akademi University, 11.10.2013)
      The Travel and Tourism field is undergoing changes due to the rapid development of information technology and digital services. Online travel has profoundly changed the way travel and tourism organizations interact with ...
    • Visual customer segmentation and behavior analysis : a SOM-based approach 

      Yao, Zhiyuan
      TUCS Dissertations : 163 (Turku Centre for Computer Science (TUCS), 18.10.2013)
    • Consistency of UML based designs using ontology reasoners 

      Khan, Ali Hanzala
      TUCS Dissertations : 168 (Turku Centre for Computer Science (TUCS), 19.12.2013)
      Software plays an important role in our society and economy. Software development is an intricate process, and it comprises many different tasks: gathering requirements, designing new solutions that fulfill these requirements, ...
    • m-Equine : IS support for the horse industry 

      Leskinen, Sonja
      TUCS Dissertations : 169 (Turku Centre for Computer Science (TUCS), 24.01.2014)
      The horse industry is in many ways still operating the same way as it did in the beginning of the 20th century. At the same time the role of the horse has changed dramatically, from a beast of burden to a top athlete, a ...
    • Video transcoding in a distributed cloud computing environment 

      Jokhio, Fareed Ahmed
      TUCS Dissertations : 170 (Turku Centre for Computer Science (TUCS), 31.01.2014)
      Video transcoding refers to the process of converting a digital video from one format into another format. It is a compute-intensive operation. Therefore, transcoding of a large number of simultaneous video streams requires ...
    • Scalable algorithms for height field illumination 

      Timonen, Ville
      TUCS Dissertations : 173 (Turku Centre for Computer Science (TUCS), 11.04.2014)
      Global illumination algorithms are at the center of realistic image synthesis and account for non-trivial light transport and occlusion within scenes, such as indirect illumination, ambient occlusion, and environment ...
    • In search of information systems value : a case study of the EHR benefits realisation efforts of three Swedish hospitals. 

      Jeansson, John (Åbo Akademi - Åbo Akademi University, 27.05.2014)
      The Swedish public health care organisation could very well be undergoing its most significant change since its specialisation during the late 19th and early 20th century. At the heart of this change is a move from using ...
    • Virtual communities : a virtual treasure trove for end-user developers 

      Korvela, Henri
      TUCS Dissertations (Turku Centre for Computer Science (TUCS), 06.06.2014)
      End-user development is a very common but often largely overlooked phenomenon in information systems research and practice. End-user development means that regular people, the end-users of software, and not professional ...
    • Fuzzy ontology for knowledge mobilisation and decision support 

      Wikström, Robin (Åbo Akademi - Åbo Akademi University, 13.06.2014)
      A growing concern for organisations is how they should deal with increasing amounts of collected data. With fierce competition and smaller margins, organisations that are able to fully realize the potential in the data ...
    • Design and validation of stateful composite RESTful web services 

      Rauf, Irum
      TUCS Dissertations : 177 (Turku Centre for Computer Science (TUCS), 16.06.2014)
      A web service is a software system that provides a machine-processable interface to the other machines over the network using different Internet protocols. They are being increasingly used in the industry in order to ...
    • Scheduling dynamic dataflow graphs with model checking 

      Ersfolk, Johan
      TUCS Dissertations : 181 (Turku Centre for Computer Science (TUCS), 15.08.2014)
      With the shift towards many-core computer architectures, dataflow programming has been proposed as one potential solution for producing software that scales to a varying number of processor cores. Programming for parallel ...
    • On advancing business intelligence in the electricity retail market 

      Liu, Hongyan
      TUCS Dissertations : 182 (Turku Centre for Computer Science (TUCS), 30.09.2014)
      In recent decades, business intelligence (BI) has gained momentum in real-world practice. At the same time, business intelligence has evolved as an important research subject of Information Systems (IS) within the decision ...
    • Cost-efficient virtual machine management : provisioning, admission control, and consolidation 

      Ashraf, Adnan
      TUCS Dissertations : 183 (Turku Centre for Computer Science (TUCS), 09.10.2014)
      One of the main challenges in Software Engineering is to cope with the transition from an industry based on software as a product to software as a service. The field of Software Engineering should provide the necessary ...
    • Design and evaluation of web interface signs to improve web usability : a semiotic framework 

      Islam, Muhammad Nazrul
      TUCS Dissertations : 184 (Turku Centre for Computer Science (TUCS), 17.10.2014)
      Technological innovations, the development of the internet, and globalization have increased the number and complexity of web applications. As a result, keeping web user interfaces understandable and usable (in terms of ...
    • Rigorous development of safety-critical systems 

      Prokhorova, Yuliya
      TUCS Dissertations : 193 (Turku Centre for Computer Science (TUCS), 05.03.2015)
      Nowadays, computer-based systems tend to become more complex and control increasingly critical functions affecting different areas of human activities. Failures of such systems might result in loss of human lives as well ...
    • Semantic and fuzzy modelling for human behaviour recognition in smart spaces : a case study on ambient assisted living. 

      Díaz Rodríguez, Natalia A.
      TUCS Dissertations : 186 (Turku Centre for Computer Science (TUCS), 24.04.2015)
      Human activity recognition in everyday environments is a critical, but challenging task in Ambient Intelligence applications to achieve proper Ambient Assisted Living, and key challenges still remain to be dealt with to ...
    • Agent-based management systems for many-core platforms : rigorous design and efficient implementation 

      Ostroumov, Sergey
      TUCS Dissertations : 196 (Turku Centre for Computer Science (TUCS), 05.06.2015)
      Due to various advantages such as flexibility, scalability and updatability, software intensive systems are increasingly embedded in everyday life. The constantly growing number of functions executed by these systems ...
    • Visual analytics for behavioral and niche market segmentation 

      Holmbom, Annika
      TUCS Dissertations : 195 (Turku Centre for Computer Science (TUCS), 08.06.2015)
      Companies require information in order to gain an improved understanding of their customers. Data concerning customers, their interests and behavior are collected through different loyalty programs. The amount of data ...