Enhancing Real-Time Twitter Filtering and Classification using a Semi-Automatic Dynamic Machine Learning setup approach

Twitter contains massive amounts of user generated content that also contains a lot of valuable information for various interested parties. Twitcident has been developed to process and filter this information in real-time for interested parties by monitoring a set of predefined topics, exploiting humans as sensors. An analysis of the relevant...

Zero-Downtime SQL Database Schema Evolution for Continuous Deployment

When a web service or application evolves, its database schema --- tables, constraints, and indices --- often need to evolve along with it. Depending on the database, some of these changes require a full table lock, preventing the service from accessing the tables under change. To deal with this, web services are typically taken offline...

Evaluating model-based diagnosis for wireless sensor networks

Model-based diagnosis is a technique where a model of a system is combined with observations from that system, to generate diagnoses for failures of the system. This thesis looks at how model-based diagnosis can be applied to wireless sensor networks (WSNs). WSNs are ad-hoc wireless networks of small form-factor, embedded nodes with limited...