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  • Career Choice Factors over Time: Implications for Pre-Tertiary E-Skills Training 
    Twinomurinzi, Hossana; Alexander, P.M (2011)
    This paper reports on a longitudinal study carried out amongst 3825 students at one South African university over three years. The research identifies changes in perceptions regarding the factors that these students consider ...
  • The case for a multiprocessor on a Die: MoaD 
    Machanick, P (2001)
    Increasingly aggressive pipelining achieves diminishing returns. Simultaneous Multi-threading (SMT) attempts to exploit the fact that functional units are frequently idle. This paper argues the case for keeping the processor ...
  • A case for reuse technology as a CS/IS training infrastructure 
    Adigun, MO (1998)
    The advent of faster computing hardware and sophisticated software tools has not brought with it the much expected panacea for the so-called software crisis, rather we are now facing a software dilemma. Otherwise we should ...
  • A case-based reasoning approach to intelligent retrieval in reusable software libraries 
    Ram, V (1995)
    Software Reuse is the technique of reusing software components previously developed in order to reduce the effort required to develop new software. It is generally accepted that software reuse can improve the rate of ...
  • Case-Grammar Representation of Programming Languages 
    Popelas, Judy Mallino; Calingaert, Peter (Computer Society of South Africa (on behalf of SAICSIT), 1983)
    The correction of errors in programs can be based on an analysis, that subordinates syntactic relationships to functional relationships among elements of a program. For this purpose, case grammars, originally developed ...
  • A causal analysis of job turnover among systems analysts 
    Smith, DC; Hansen, AL; Oosthuizen, NC (South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists, 1991)
    Staff Shortages in the Information Systems industry are a continuing problem. Job turnover of IS staff contributes to this shortage and is particularly high in South Africa. This high turnover is often attributed to ...
  • Causes of low enrolment in ICT-related courses : a case of TVET colleges in the North West province of South Africa 
    Nthutang, Bakang (2021-11)
    As technology develops at a hastening pace, the extent of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) skills shortage is made more profound. This study investigated the causes of low enrolment in ICT-related courses ...
  • Challenges Botswana’s Mobile Application Developers Encounter: Funding, Commercial and Technical Support 
    Nyamaka, Admore; Botha, Adele; Van Biljon, Judy; Marais, Mario (IIMC International Information Management Corporation, 2018)
    Smart phone usage in Sub-Saharan Africa is expected to constitute more than half of all mobile connections by 2020. Therefore, it can be expected that mobile applications will change the way business is conducted and ...
  • Challenges in postgraduate research : how Doctorates come off the rails 
    Lubbe, Sam; Worrall, Les; Klopper, Rembrandt (2005)
    Worldwide the completion rate for doctorates ranges from poor to abysmal. The responsibility for this must be shared by candidates, supervisors and the institutions to which they belong. In particular, postgraduate ...
  • A Change and Constancy Research and Management Framework for IT-related Organisational Change 
    Howard, Grant Royd (2018)
    In Africa, and globally, organisations and Information Technology (IT) are pervasive and, hence, impact and influence millions of African livelihoods every day. Thus, facilitating successful IT and organisational structuring ...
  • Changes in entry-level university students' attitudes to computers from 1985 to 1997 
    Clarke, MC; Finnie, GR (South African Computer Society (SAICSIT), 1998)
    A modified version of Lee's instrument for measuring attitudes to computers was administered to two groups of first-year university students separated by a period of twelve years. Factor analysis was applied to these two ...
  • Changing Career Choice Factors as the Economic Environment Changes 
    Twinomurinzi, Hossana; Alexander, P.M (2012)
    This paper reports on a longitudinal study carried out amongst students at one South African university over three years. The research identifies changes in perceptions regarding the factors that these students consider ...
  • Chapter 5: Achieving a Security Culture 
    Da Veiga, Adele (IGI Global, Cybersecurity Education for Awareness and Compliance, 2019-02)
    A security culture can be a competitive advantage when employees uphold strong values for the protection of information and exhibit behavior that is in compliance with policies, thereby introducing minimal incidents and ...
  • Characteristics of high-performing information systems project managers and project teams 
    Smith, DC (1998)
    Projects, and their success, are vital if organisations are to produce new products and services. The key players in IS projects are the project manager and the project team. This paper discussed ongoing research of two ...
  • Charting the Path towards Effective Knowledge Visualisations 
    Renaud, Karen; Van Biljon, Judy (ACM, 2017-09)
    Knowledge visualisation is enjoying increasing attention from researchers and organisations, due to its potential for expediting knowledge transfers. Despite the availability of many information visualisation guidelines, ...
  • 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 ...
  • Church technological growth and sustainability: insight from system dynamics 
    Matobobo, Courage (2022-10-28)
    Religious organisations that have realised the importance of ICTs are increasingly adopting and using various technologies to spread evangelism while seeking to grow membership. Currently, a few studies evaluating the ...
  • CID3: an extension of ID3 for attributes with ordered domains 
    Cloete, I; Theron, H (South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists, 1991)
    Quinlan's ID3 is a popular and efficient algorithm for inducing decision trees from concept examples, where the examples are presented as vectors of attribute-value pairs. If some attributes have integer or real domains ...
  • The CILT multi-agent learning system 
    Viktor, HL (South African Computer Society (SAICSIT), 1999)
    A multi-agent learning system consists of two or more learners or learning agents that co-exist in a learning environment. The learners have the ability to learn together, thus utilizing one another's strengths and ...
  • Circumscriptive reasoning 
    Halland, Kenneth John (1994-08)
    We show how the non-monotonic nature of common-sense reasoning can be formalised by circumscription. Various forms of circumscription are discussed. A new form of circumscription, namely naive circumscription, is introduced ...

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