It is a fundamental Human-Computer Interaction problem to design a tangible programming environment for use by multiple persons that can also be individualised. This problem has its origin in the phenomenon that the meaning ...
Research in the age of the knowledge economy has revealed that there is a growing demand for human skills to fit changes necessitated by breakthrough technology (Information and Communication
Technology) innovation in ...
In today's highly competitive global economy, information resources representing enterprise-wide information are essential to the survival of an organization. The development of and increase in the use of personal computers ...
We consider a number of temporal logics, some interval-based and some instant-based, and the choices that have to be made if we need to construct a computational framework for such a logic. We consider the axiomatisation ...
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are capable of expanding access to quality education, educational resources, and also provide teachers with new skills. Nevertheless, a majority of rural public schools ...
Formal specification of software systems has been very promising. Critics against the end
results of formal methods, that is, producing quality software products, is certainly rare. Instead,
reasons have been formulated ...
Specification plays a vital role in software engineering to facilitate the development of highly dependable software. The importance of specification in software development is to serve, amongst others, as a communication ...
The Semantic Web, as the foreseen successor of the current Web, is
envisioned to be a semantically enriched information space usable by machines
or agents that perform sophisticated tasks on behalf of their users.
The ...
Knowledge management has roots in a variety of disciplines, such as philosophy,
psychology, social sciences, management sciences and computing. As a result, a wide
variety of theories and definitions of knowledge and ...
In the 21st century, information security has become the heartbeat of any organisation. One of the best-known methods of tightening and continuously improving security on an information system is to uniquely and efficiently ...
This study develops and applies a conceptual framework that can be used to evaluate dynamic Web platforms in order to determine a platform for teaching Web application development in tertiary institutions. The framework ...
The continuing financial losses incurred by individuals and companies due to identity information being phished are necessitating more innovative approaches to solving the problem of phishing attacks at the company level. ...
Web Services propose a framework for the standardisation of interfaces and
interaction, and for publishing software componen1S as services on the Internet By
using this framework, composite servi<:es that make use of ...
Project success is vitally important for companies to execute and achieve their strate-gies, as well as carry out their visions. Today, more than ever before, companies oper-ate under tremendous strain to deliver results ...
A vast range of controls/countermeasures exists for implementing security on information systems connected to the Internet. For the practitioner attempting to implement an integrated solution between trading partners ...
Several technologies and languages exist for the development and implementation of distributed systems. Furthermore, several models for teaching computer programming and teaching programming in a distance-based educational ...
One of the tools used during re-engineering of an environment is the process model as modelling
tool. The identification of process models within an institution is a difficult and tedious task. A problem is that often ...
With the increasing use of the Web and the need to automate, interoperate, and reason about resources and services on the Web, the Semantic Web aims to provide solutions for the future needs of World Wide Web computing. ...
Historically, progress in technology development has continually created new opportunities for criminal activities which, in turn, have triggered the need for the development of new security-sensitive systems. Organisations ...
Financial exclusion is a major developmental problem. Perception has it that financial
exclusion emanates from the lack of access to banking and financial services, and the
general understanding is that ICT-based access ...