Browsing College of Computing and Information Sciences (CoCIS) by Issue Date "2006"
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Application of information and communication technology (ICT) in health information access and dissemination in Uganda
(Sage Publications, 2006)This paper reports on a study, which assessed the application of information and communication technologies (ICT) in health information access and dissemination in Uganda. The project focused not only on information ... -
The Influence of Job Physical Characteristics on their Schedulability in Multi-cluster Systems
(Fountain Publishers, 2006)Performance (and sensitivity) studies in parallel job scheduling mostly use average values of the measurement metrics over the entire job stream. This does not give an idea of relative job performance (hence starvation) ... -
Information seeking behaviour: a conceptual framework
(South African Journal of Library and Information Science, 2006)The concepts defining information, information needs, information seeking and information use have undergone significant evolution since they were first introduced. A number of information seeking and retrieval studies ... -
Non-traditional tree species used in the furniture industry in Masaka District, Central Uganda
(National Agricultural Research Organisation, 2006)Increased demand for timber in Uganda has caused scarcity of the earlier "well-known" and commonly used tree species in the furniture industry, leading to a shift to non-traditional tree species. A study was therefore ... -
Production of composite bricks from sawdust using Portland cement as a binder
(National Agricultural Research Organisation, 2006)A study was conducted between October 2004 and April 2005 in Kampala District, with the objective of investigating the feasibility of making sawdust-cement composites using saw dust. A total of 48 bricks were made in the ... -
Using the greedy approach to schedule jobs on multi-cluster systems
(WORLDCOMP 2006: The 2006 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Applied Computing, 2006)Clusters, multi-cluster systems and the grid are becoming popular high performance computing infrastructures. How jobs are scheduled on them greatly influence the performance. Since jobs are online in most computer systems, ...