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  • 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 ...
  • Citation measures for supporting scholarly impact in Community Informatics research 
    Van Biljon, Judy; Naudé, Filistéa; Lotriet, Hugo (CIRN, 2016-11-02)
    The global political environment place research institutions under increasing pressure to provide quantitative evidence of the scholarly impact of the research. Measuring impact in Community Informatics research in terms ...
  • Citizen Science: The Ring to Rule Them All? 
    Van Biljon, Judy; Van der Merwe, Ronell (Academic Conferences and Publishing International Limited, 2018)
    There are many uncertainties about the future of e-Learning, but one thing is certain: e-Learning will be more data-driven in the future. The automation of data capturing, analysis and presentation, together with economic ...
  • A classification of partitioning rules for information system design 
    Mende, J. (Computer Society of South Africa (on behalf of SAICSIT), 1988)
    In designing a computer-based information system one can partition the transformation process in many alternative ways. To find the optimal partition, a designer needs explicit rules which predict the most successful ...
  • A cloud business intelligence security evaluation framework for small and medium enterprises 
    Moyo, Moses (2021-09-28)
    Cloud business intelligence has practical importance in data management and decision-making, but the adoption and use among South African small and medium enterprises remain relatively low compared to large business ...
  • Co-operating to learn using JAD techniques 
    Thomas, TA (South African Computer Society (SAICSIT), 1999)
    The role of the Information Systems' (IS) developer is changing. IS developers are required to be able to work with users and get a common understanding with them. In order to achieve this, the developers must have not ...
  • COBIE: an integrated COBOL environment 
    Pillay, N (1996)
    Development software is one of the courses that first year students studying towards a Diploma in Financial Studies enrol for. This course contains an appreciable amount of RMCOBOL programming. Past experience is indicative ...

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