School of Computing and Informatics Technology (CIT): Recent submissions
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Bootstrapping Machine Translation for the Language Pair English – Kiswahili
(Fountain Publishers Kampala, 2008)In recent years, research in Machine Translation has greatly benefited from the increasing availability of parallel corpora. Processing the same text in two different languages yields useful information on how words and ... -
Standards-based B2B e-Commerce Adoption
(FountainPublishersKampala, 2007)This study presents the preliminary findings from an explorative study of Industry Data Exchange Association (IDEA) concerning challenges, benefits and problems in adoption of standard based business-to-business e-commerce. ... -
Re-visiting decentralization and its role in delivering success
(2013-07-12)INTRODUCTION: At the Millennium Summit in September 2000, the largest gathering of world leaders in history adopted the UN Millennium Declaration, committing their nations to a new global partnership to reduce extreme ... -
Application of grid computing for on line learning resources
(Fountain Publishers, Kampala, 2009)There is a big difference in education sector between first world and developing world. This difference is based on digital learning resources and computing power. Unfortunately, all of these resources are geographically ... -
From the ground up : User involvement in the development of an information iystem for use in HIV voluntary counselling and testing
(Fountain Publishers Kampala, 2009)This research investigates end-user involvement in the development of a simple HIV Voluntary Counselling and Testing (VCT) data collection instrument and associated spreadsheet. The research involved end-user participation ... -
Career Guidance Using Expert System Approach
(Fountain Publishers Kampala, 2008)The lack of quality career guidance in African high schools, caused by shortage of human and time resources that the process demands, has led to the choice of unsuitable careers resulting in widespread poor performance at ... -
Tertiary ICT Education in the East African Community(EAC)
(Fountain Publishe Kampala, 2008)The liberalization of education has fostered an unprecedented demand especially at the tertiary level. In several deliberations, human capital ultimately emerges as the decisive factor governing the success of any endeavor ... -
Analysis of free haven anonymous storage and publication system
(Fountain publishers, Kampala, 2007)In this paper we evaluate the design of a distributed anonymous storage and publication system that is meant to resist even attacks of most powerful adversaries like the government. We present a discussion of whether the ... -
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 ... -
Security analysis of an agent-mediated book trading application
(Fountain Publishers Kampala, 2009)This paper presents a security analysis of an agent mediated application in an open distributed environment. We use a case study of a book trading application that we implemented using Agent scape and JADE agent ... -
Nesting biology of equatorial Afrotropical stingless bees (Apidae; Meliponini) in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda
(IBRA, 2007-09)An inter-specific nesting biology of highly eusocial stingless bees (meliponini) was studied in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, south-western Uganda. Fieldwork was guided by Batwa Pygmies who are the local indigenous ... -
(Inter)net neutrality: your voice matters
(Fountain Publishers Kampala, 2009)The growing use of the Internet coupled with the rapid growth in applications’ bandwidth requirements are pushing network owners (ISP) to a point where they can no longer treat all Internet content, sites, and platforms ... -
Computational resource optimization in Ugandan tertiary institutions
(Fountain Publishers Kampala, 2007)Insufficient computational power, caused by limited budgets is a big challenge to high quality research and education in developing countries. Some institutions suffer severe shortages while others enjoy comparatively ... -
Decision support in the operating theatre – usability aspects
(Fountain Publishers Kampala, 2009)Anesthesiology deals with such a complex social system that it can spawn over an infinite number of states. Diagnesia, a prototype built to offer decision support to anesthetists continuously estimates the likelihood and ... -
Use of “flight simulator” for training IT managers in investment decision making
(Fountain Publishers Kampala, 2008)In this paper it has been suggested that the findings of research on managerial decisionmaking may be relevant in IT, but that research needs to be carried out on the factors that influence the decisions of IT managers in ... -
A generic E-Learning framework : a case study Faculty of Computing and Information Technology (CIT) Makerere University
(Fountain Publishers kampala, 2008)Advancement in Information Technology (IT) has led to better facilities and services for learning within educational organizations. Many higher educational institutions of learning have adopted technology in their learning ... -
A Comparison of Service Oriented Architecture with other advances in Software Architectures
(Fountain Publishers Kampala, 2007)Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) allows software systems to possess desirable architecture attributes such as loose coupling, platform independence, inter-operability, reusability, agility and so on. Despite its wide ... -
A user-centered approach for testing spreadsheets
(Fountain publishers kampala, 2007)Spreadsheets are a special form of computer program, which are widely used in areas such as accounting, finance, business management, science and engineering. The wide use of spreadsheets can be attributed to the fact that ... -
A simulation modelling-based investigation of the impact of IT infrastructure on business process reengineering
(Fountain Publishers kampala, 2008)The literature on business process reengineering (BPR) has promoted business process reengineering as an essential element in helping organizations to achieve their goals.The literature has further claimed that Information ... -
The role of academia in fostering private sector competitiveness in ICT development
(Fountain publishers kampala, 2007)This paper presents the prerequisite to producing computing graduates who have the skills required to fostering private sector competitiveness in information and communications technology development. Furthermore, the paper ...