Browsing School of Computing and Informatics Technology (CIT) by Type
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Addressing the challenges of the information and knowledge societies : the case for optimum curriculum in the SCECSAL Region
(SCECSAL, 2004)The paper rotates on the question whether Information Management (IM) curriculum is equally appropriate for Knowledge Management (KM). Using the Conceptual Framework of Knowledge Management Processes (CFKMP), the concepts ... -
Airtime to cash : unlocking the potential of Africa's mobile phones for banking the unbanked
(International Information Management Corporation, 2009)This paper discusses how mobile phones may be used to extend banking services to the ‘unbanked’. Generally, many more people possess mobile phones than bank accounts across Africa. Mobile banking services are already offered ... -
Application of information & communication technologies (ICTS) in knowledge management (KM) : case studies of the Center for Basic Research Library and the Privatisation Unit Library in Uganda
(SCECSAL, 2004)The paper examines the concept "Knowledge Management (KM)". It examines how Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) could be effectively applied in knowledge management. In this context, ICTs advantages and ... -
Apprenticeship environment and co-operation based on the Grid and Web 2.0 designed for training communities with common interest centres
(Fountain Publishers, Kampala., 2009)Common interest centers specialized in training communities, such as secondary schools, university training institutes, have heterogeneous, rich and varied resources in contents. Yet in their assessment, these communities ... -
Co-allocation with communication considerations in multi-cluster systems
(2008)Processor co-allocation can be of performance benefit. This is because breaking jobs into components reduces overall cluster fragmentation. However, the slower inter-cluster communication links increase job execution times. ... -
Computational resource optimization in Ugandan Tertiary Institutions
(Fountain Publishers, 2007)Insufficient computational power, caused by limited budgets is a big challenge to high quality research and education in developing countries. Some institutions suffer acute shortages while others enjoy comparatively more ... -
A consumer based model for adoption of E-Tax Services in Uganda
(IST-Africa, 2012-05)The benefits of e-tax services are linked to its adoption and usage. E-tax adoption rates in developing countries remain low and so its benefits are not fully realized. This is because governments have focused largely on ... -
Cultural information access and utilisation by rural women : A framework for Uganda
(Standing Conference of Eastern, Central and Southern Africa Library and Information Associations (SCECSAL), 2004)Uganda is well endowed with cultural diversity that critically needs to be harnessed because of its potential to improve the quality of life of the Ugandan people. Issues such as language and literary arts, indigenous ... -
Disability and ICT in institutions of higher learning: Values and options for persons with disabilities
(2011)The topic for this paper presents both a challenge and an opportunity for Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) wishing to enter the digital world. It is a challenge because the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) ... -
Does interactive learning enhance education: for whom, in what ways and in which contexts?
(Fountain Publishers, Kampala, 2007)To get a balanced view, we review the body of research during the past three decades that has investigated interactive learning in a variety of forms ranging from the earliest days of mainframe-based computer-assisted ... -
The effect of cultural differences on software development
(Fountain Publishers, Kampala., 2009)This study investigates the cultural issues concerning software development in which the United States (US) and Europe outsource their Information Technology (IT) offshore to emerging countries. Though the benefits of ... -
Enhanced master-slave time synchronization architecture for wireless sensor networks
(University of Melbourne, Australia, 2006-12-03)A number of time synchronization protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks rely on a single (master) node as source of reference time by which other (slave) nodes can be synchronized. Although the amount of overhead is greatly ... -
Evaluation of dynamic bayesian network models for entity name transliteration
(BeNeLearn 09, 2009-05-17)This paper proposes an evaluation of DBN models so as to identify DBN configurations that can improve machine transliteration accuracy -
The evaluation of information visualisation techniques using eye tracking
(Fountain Publishers, Kampala, 2009)The general increase in the use of information visualisation techniques has highlighted the need for methodologies to evaluate the user interface of software system utilising these techniques. Usability evaluation techniques ... -
An expert system for diagnosing heavy-duty diesel engine faults
(Springer Verlag, 2008-09)Heavy-Duty Diesel Engines (HDDEs) support critical and high cost services, thus failure of such engines can have serious economic and health impacts. It is necessary that diagnosis is done during both preventive maintenance ... -
A flexible biomedical ontology selection tool
(Fountain Publishers, Kampala., 2009)The wide adoption and reuse of existing biomedical ontologies available in various libraries is limited by the lack of suitable tools with metrics for their evaluation by both naïve users and expert ontologists. Existing ... -
Game theoretic multi-agent systems scheduler for parallel machines
(Fountain Publishers, Kampala., 2008)This paper considers the scheduling of n independent jobs on m non-identical machines using the ideas from game theory and multi-agent systems. The values of n and m are fixed at 30 and 6 respectively giving a schedule ... -
A gender critique of Uganda’s rural ICT access policy: opportunities and challenges
(Fountain Publishers, Kampala., 2009)Rural access to ICT has been highlighted as key in driving development. It is argued that rural access to ICT boosts production, improves household income, reduces inequalities and widens market options. The Uganda government ... -
Geometrical spatial integration model for geo-information management
(Fountain Publishers, Kampala, 2008)Geospatial information systems provide avenues to fulfill users’ quest for both absolute and relative locations of features/objects. To achieve this, the users need to have access to different geospatial data sets from ... -
Group-wise performance evaluation of processor co-allocation in multi-cluster systems
(Springer, 2007)Performance evaluation in multi-cluster processor co-allocation - like in many other parallel job scheduling problems - is mostly done by computing the average metric value for the entire job stream. This does not give a ...