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A Fair Go for All: A Problematic Contribution to Anti-racism Praxis in Aotearoa
(Auckland University of Technology, 2013)In New Zealand, the Human Rights Commission is the lead agency in countering institutional racism. They have recently undertaken a major research project, A Fair Go For All (Human Rights Commission 2011), to inform the ... -
A Fale Samoa at Tropical Islands Resort, Germany: performing Samoa to the world
(Centre for Samoan Studies (CSS), the National University of Samoa, 2014)No abstract. -
A flexible and reasonable mechanism for self-interested agent team forming
(IOS Press, 2008)As social entities, intelligent agents need to collaborate with others regardless of whether they are cooperative or self-interested. Compared with cooperative agents, collaborations among self-interested agents are more ... -
A framework for contextual information retrieval from the WWW
(International Society for Computers and Their Applications (ISCA), 2005)Search engines are the most commonly used type of tool for finding relevant information on the Internet. However, today’s search engines are far from perfect. Typical search queries are short, often one or two words, and ... -
A framework for enhancing the social good in computing education: a values approach
(Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2013)This paper addresses two interrelated problems currently confronting computer science education, motivating students while simultaneously providing them with the skills they'll need to solve complex interconnected problems. ... -
A framework for identifying construction companies best practice: A panacea for corporate performance failure
(World Building Congress (WBC), 2013)This paper is a review of literature on measurements of corporate performance of construction companies in the South African construction industry and the need for improvement in performance measurements. Despite the accrued ... -
A Framework for Interpreting Bridging Anaphora
(Springer, 2012)In this paper we present a novel framework for resolving bridging anaphora.We argue that anaphora, particularly bridging anaphora, is used as a shortcut device similar to the use of compound nouns. Hence, the two natural ... -
A framework for product development
(NTNU/DTU, Technical University of Denmark, 1999)Since the introduction of Integrated Product development in 1985, industry has widely been using this model to understand and articulate their design, business and production activities. Recently, however, the picture has ... -
A framework for sub-contractor integration in alliance contracts
(AUT University, 2012)Project alliancing involves the active collaboration of construction project owners and non-owner participants (designer, contractors, and suppliers) to deliver projects in an atmosphere of shared responsibilities and ... -
A fuzzy logic approach to computer software source code authorship analysis
(Springer-Verlag, 1998)Software source code authorship analysis has become an important area in recent years with promising applications in both the legal sector (such as proof of ownership and software forensics) and the education sector (such ... -
A HMM POS Tagger for Micro-blogging Type Texts
(Springer Verlag, 2014)The high volume of communication via micro-blogging type messages has created an increased demand for text processing tools customised the unstructured text genre. The available text processing tools developed on structured ... -
A hybrid approach to modelling the climate change effects on Malaysia’s oil palm yield at the regional scale
(Soft Computing and Data Mining (SCDM), University Tun Hussein Onn, Malaysia, 2014)Understanding the climate change effects on local crops is vital for adapting new cultivation practices and assuring world food security. Given the volume of palm oil produced in Malaysia, climate change effects on oil ... -
A kepstrum approach to filtering, smoothing and prediction with application to speech enhancement
(The Royal Society London, 2003)A kepstrum (or complex-cepstrum) approach to minimum-phase Wiener filtering of stationary scalar processes is proposed and solved for the case of signal plus coloured noise, where the noise possibly includes a white-noise ... -
A longitudinal study of e-government maturity
(Queensland University of Technology, 2011)Extending the findings of prior cross-sectional studies, this paper presents a longitudinal analysis of the drivers of e-Government maturity. We constructed a panel dataset for the period from 2003 to 2007 using data ... -
A measure of monotonicity of two random variables
(Science Publications, 2012)Problem statement: When analyzing random variables it was useful to measure the degree of their monotone dependence or compare pairs of random variables with respect to their monotonicity. Existing coefficients measure ... -
A method to review and report literature in transdisciplinary research undertaken by individual researchers
(Delft University of Technology; The Hague University of Applied Sciences; TNO, 2010)Projects aiming to solve socially-relevant complex problems in general and sustainability related projects in particular are increasingly approached as transdisciplinary research projects. The distinguishing characteristics ... -
A methodology for integrating and exploiting data mining techniques in the design of data warehouses
(IEEE, 2010)Data Warehousing and Data Mining are two mature disciplines in their own right. Yet, they have developed largely separate from each other, despite the fact that techniques developed for pattern recognition such as Clustering ... -
A multi-agent cellular automaton for grapevine growth and crop simulation
(IJMLC, 2011)A multi-agent (MA) cellular automaton (CA) model framework for simulating grapevine growth and crop in Chardonnay cultivated in northern New Zealand is presented. Estimating or projecting grape crop (quantity of grapes in ... -
A multi-discipline approach linking related disciplines and stakeholder communities to develop business expertise for the new technological environment
(Australian Academic Press, 2000)Although teaching institutions are typically well behind business in adopting new technologies, an attempt is being made at the Auckland University of Technology to introduce a new field of study and a new technological ...