In higher education institutions, virtual learning systems (VLSs) have been adopted, and are becoming increasingly popular among educators. However, despite this ubiquity of VLS use, there has not been widespread change ...
The development of enterprise software is a complex activity that requires a diverse set of stakeholders to communicate and coordinate in order to achieve a successful outcome. In this dissertation I introduce a high-level ...
Enterprise Architecture endeavours to resolve the complexity of increasingly distributed systems by aligning business vision with IT strategy, which in turn should reduce the overall costs of IT in the business and provide ...
The need for a regional framework for information security in e-Government for the East African Community (EAC) has become more urgent with the signing in 2009 of the EAC Common Market Protocol. This protocol will entail ...
The need for modern enterprises and Web users to simply and rapidly develop and deliver platform-independent services to be accessed over the Web by the global community is growing. This is self-evident, when one considers ...
The use of interactive e-learning tutorials is an effective form of teaching and learning. It is therefore important that attention is paid to their usability. This research relates to the evaluation of a CD-based e-learning ...
Developing countries like Tanzania experience challenges towards utilization and acceptance of ICT; calling for a need to further research on the concept. Open Source (OS) usage is a potential strategy for addressing such ...
This research investigates progress in the integration of information and communication technology (ICT) into curriculum-based teaching and learning in the Lesotho secondary and high school science classroom, with the aim ...
The effective and efficient functioning of Further Education and Training (FET) colleges is
pertinent to the development of critical, scarce and intermediate skills for the South African
labour market. To this end, ...
Formal specification of software systems has been very promising. Critics against the end
results of formal methods, that is, producing quality software products, is certainly rare. Instead,
reasons have been formulated ...
South African home users of the Internet use the Internet to perform various everyday functions. These functions include, but are not limited to, online shopping, online gaming, social networking and online banking. Home ...
E-commerce has increased substantially, as e-retailers engage with consumers online. Users require more than products and quality service; they also expect a good user experience. User experience is affected by branding, ...
Module extraction is an important reasoning task, aiding in the design, reuse and maintenance
of ontologies. Reasoning services such as subsumption testing and MinA extraction have been
shown to bene t from module ...
The Digital Doorway (DD) project provides computing infrastructure in impoverished
communities in South Africa. DD terminals offer opportunities for unassisted- and peerassisted
learning of basic computer skills, and ...
The Digital Doorway (DD) is a non-standard computer system deployed to promote computer literacy amongst the underpriviledged communities in South Africa. Since its inception there has been no usability evaluation of the ...
Objects can be said to be structured when their representation also contains their parts.
While OWL in general can describe structured objects, description graphs are a recent,
decidable extension to OWL which support ...
The learnability principle relates to improving usability of software, performance and productivity. It was formulated mainly for the adult user group. Children represent an important user group, but fewer guidelines exist ...
The learnability principle relates to improving usability of software, performance and productivity. It was formulated mainly for the adult user group. Children represent an important user group, but fewer guidelines exist ...
Ontology, an explicit specification of a shared conceptualisation, captures knowledge about
a specific domain of interest. The realisation of ontologies, revolutionised the way data
stored in relational databases is ...
Network research experiments have traditionally been conducted in emulated or
simulated environments. Emulators are frequently deployed on physical networks.
Network simulators provide a self-contained and simple environment ...