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Industry-academic-government cooperation to boost technological innovation and people development in South Africa

Van der Walt, TJ (1996)

Cooperation between industry, academia and government is increasingly viewed to be of key importance for economies to be globally competitive. In a world where research and technology development, and the diffusion and ...
Teaching a first course in compilers with a simple compiler construction toolkit

Ganchev, GF (1996)

We describe the use of a toolkit designed to support the Compiler Construction course in the University of Botswana. The toolkit is based upon the principles of simplicity, modularity and flexibility. Its educational ...
Generating compilers from formal semantics

Venter, H (1996)

Given a complete, formal description of the semantics of a programming language, it should be possible to generate a compiler for the language using an automated process. This is highly desirable, since it reduces the work ...
A script-based prototype for dynamic deadlock avoidance

Blewett, CN; Erwin, GJ (1996)

Expert systems apply Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques to an application area, aiming (usually) to mimic the behaviour of a human expert. However, there are some AI techniques which can be used to improve the internal ...
Examination timetabling

Parkinson, E; Warren, PR (1996)

We investigate the performance of simulated annealing and tabu search, two new general problem solving heuristics, on an examination timetabling problem. These two techniques are described here and issues arising from ...
Real-time control the system model - a holistic approach to system design

Considine, TN (1996)

The Real-time Control System Model is a system design methodology which provides robust systems based on Object technology. The paper will detail the components of the model including the control layers and the time-based ...
Checklist support for ISO 9001 audits of software quality management systems

Walker, AJ (1996)

This paper presents an overview of a national project to develop a checklist to support audits and assessments of quality management systems in the field of software in terms of the compliance requirements of the ISO 9001 ...
Teaching turing machines - luxury or necessity?

Velinov, Y (1996)

The purpose of this paper is to outline an approach for the development of the Tape Machines model in the Theory of Computation which is bound more closely to the real computer world. The approach is based on a developed ...
Theory meets practice: using Smith's normalization in complex systems

Van der Merwe, A; Labuschagne, W (1996)

In the middle 80s Smith introduced a new way of deriving fully normalized tables: His method was based on the use of an dependency list and a dependency diagram to produce fifth normal form directly. We introduce the use ...
The Independent Online: a case study of Internet publishing

Morris, A (1996)

The independent online is the Internet service of Independent Newspapers, South Africa's largest newspaper group. This paper is a case study of the events of the past year, including the lessons, successes and failures ...
The role of formalism in engineering interactive systems

Harrison, MD; Duke, DJ (1996)

This paper is concerned with the role of formal notations and methods in engineering interactive systems. It begins by briefly reviewing the role of formal methods in Human Computer Interaction.The objective of capturing ...
Neural networks for process parameter identification and assisted controller tuning for control loops

McLeod, M; Bajic, VB (1996)

The paper introduces a method for identification and assisted controller tuning for industrial process control loops suitable for an 'in-chip' solution. The method is based on utilization of neural network technology. It ...
Lessons learnt from using C++ the object-oriented approach to software development

Mazhindu_Shumba, R (1996)

This paper presents the lessons learned from using the C++ programming language and an object-oriented design methodology for the development of a prototype analysis tool for inheritance relationships in object-oriented ...
The IS workers, they are a-changin'

Smith, D (1996)

As changes in Information Technology and organisations move into the sophisticated areas of client/server computing and open, integrated architectures, the IS professional needs to develop an increasing range of skills and ...
The pearl algorithm as a method to extract information out of a database

Kruger, JW (1996)

Big databases have been built up over time. The information in these databases can be converted by the Pearl algorithm [ Pearl 1988 ] from data to information. When a promotional drive is initiated, do we know who the ...
Project management in CASE

Le Roux, M (1996)

Thoughts are exchanged on Project Management in practice, specifically regarding projects analysed and systems developed with the Composer by IEF CASE tool. The information engineering methodology (IEM) that is being ...
A cultural perspective on IT/End user relationships ( A description of Research in Progress)

Leonard, AC (1996)

An IT/end user relationship is described as intriguing and complex and is based on a physical and abstract dimension. These two dimensions enable one to fully describe the holistic nature of such a relationship and encapsulate ...
Software engineering development methodologies applied to computer-aided instruction

Kotze, P; De Villiers, R (1996)

The research reported in this paper aims to integrate software engineering approaches with instructional factors in the requirements, analysis, design and production phases of instructional software development. The ...
A framework for executing multiple computational intelligent programs

Viktor, HL; Cloete, I (1996)

Computational intelligent programs are capable of discovering interesting relationships contained in "raw" data. These programs, including artificial neural networks, set covering algorithms and decision trees, have been ...
Automated network management using artificial intelligence

Watzenboeck, M (1996)

Automating network management is regarded as a prerequisite for further plant automation. Artificial intelligence techniques, such as case based reasoning, topological reasoning and automated learning enable automated ...

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