School of Computing and Informatics Technology (CIT): Recent submissions
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A flexible approach for user evaluation of biomedical ontologies
(Fountain Publishers kampala, 2008)There has been an emergence of various ontologies describing data from either clinical or biological domains. Associated with this has been the development of integration systems, attempting to combine such biomedical ... -
Developing a set of requirements for algorithm animation systems
(Fountain Publishers Kampala, 2009)The learning and analysis of algorithms and algorithm concepts are challenging to students due to the abstract and conceptual nature of algorithms. Research conducted at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port ... -
Dynamic Resource Allocation: A Comparison of First Price Sealed Bid and Vickrey Auctions
(Fountain Publishers Kampala, 2008)Resource allocation involves assigning the resources to the resource users. Where the resources and the resource users do not change with time, the resource allocation problem can be solved as a scheduling problem. Where ... -
Software engineering cost-benefit analysis based on spiral paradigm of BOHM
(2009-11-13)Cost benefit analysis is a branch of software engineering which involves the process of weighing the total expected costs against the total expected benefits of one or more actions in order to choose the most profitable ... -
A research project supervision system
(2008-05)There are several cases of graduate students failing to complete their studies due to incomplete final year research projects. This is largely related to the way supervision and tracking of students’ progress is handled. ... -
A rent management system for Buwunga Estates, Kampala
(2009-08)This is a report of a project study that was carried out for Buwunga Estates in Kawempe. It is a Windows Application Information Management System with an objective of presenting the management of Buwunga Estates a simpler ... -
Managing university research: key policy issues
(Fountain Publishers, Kampala., 2009)We examine the pursuit of research in a community of persons that constitute a University. The responsibilities of the different sectors of that community, as well the commitment required of the institution in order that ... -
The localisation into isiXhosa of the iLanga telephone system
(Fountain Publishers, Kampala., 2008)In this paper we describe the localisation of iLanga, a VoIP PBX system, into isiXhosa. In South Africa, for social and political reasons, making systems available in the African languages is becoming more and more important. ... -
Knowledge management technologies and organizational business processes: integration for business delivery performance in Sub Saharan Africa
(Fountain Publishers, Kampala., 2007)To remain competitive, organizations must efficiently and effectively create, locate, capture, and share their organization’s knowledge and expertise. This increasingly requires making the organization’s knowledge explicit ... -
Integration of biometrics with cryptographic techniques for secure authentication of networked data access
(Fountain Publishers, Kampala., 2009)The modern Information Technology evolution demands the use of computer networks with strict security performance. The password-based authentication system and the token-based systems that are current deployed, are not ... -
Improving QoS with MIMO-OFDM in future broadband wireless networks
(Fountain Publishers, Kampala., 2007)Designing very high speed wireless links that offer good quality-of-service (QoS) and range- capability in non-line-of-sight (NLOS) environments constitutes a significant research and engineering challenge. In this article, ... -
Implementing security in wireless sensor networks
(Fountain Publishers, Kampala., 2008)Wireless sensor networks (WSN) consist of a large number of small sensor nodes, usually spread out in hard accessible areas and communicating wirelessly. A sensor node Combines the abilities to sense, compute, and communicate ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...