Today software developers are required to work closely with users when defining, developing and implementing systems. Interaction between software developers and users can influence the success or failure of the system ...

The focus of many Artificial Intelligence approaches to solving the computer-based scheduling problem is on reducing the size of the search spaces that characterise such problems. The approach presented in this paper ...

The South African banking industry is set to undergo a complete transformation in the next ten years. One of the main reasons for this transformation is the development of virtual banking, specifically new delivery channels ...

The process of delivering suitable explanations in expert systems has been a significant area of research since the inception of expert systems. Their ability to provide explanations of the reasoning process behind a ...

In deductive planning, there exists a· particular class of planning problems, called unsolvable planning problems, which although successfully treated theoretically, turns out to be undetectable using ordinary resolution ...

Information Technology (IT) has become part and parcel of the business world today. In fact, with the increasing sophistication of networks and the continued growth in electronic commerce, it will continue becoming an ever ...

Efficient access to spatial data is essential for many engineering, town planning and mining applications. Conventional database systems are not capable of performing such searches effectively over large data sets. Relational ...

This telemedicine project is a proof of concept for a remote respiratory disease diagnosis computer system, operating over a high bandwidth network, implemented in Java TM. It hopes to increase medical health in South ...

In general response surface analysis refers to the modeling of experimental or observational data. Computer technology and graphical techniques obviously play a significant role in the representations of these models. A ...

Traditional methods of testing computer systems, although valuable, are inadequate for ensuring sufficiently high quality in systems in which a high degree of reliability must be placed. Formal methods for development of ...