There is, as yet, no single formal definition for the object-oriented approach. The object-oriented paradigm is described in terms of the concepts accentuated by the approach, namely classes, objects, methods, messages and ...
Financial industry and manufacturing are the main customers in migrating existing
applications into client server environments. This paper helps in identifying the candidates
for migration and suggests a method for ...
The research is conducted in the area of Software Engineering, with emphasis on the design phase of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). The object-oriented paradigm is the point of departure. The investigation deals ...
Many information strategists today agree that the Object-Oriented Technology (OOT) has particular requirements that should not be omitted from a traditional Information Technology (IT) strategy. An Object-Oriented Strategy ...
Case Based Reasoning is an Artificial Intelligence technique that utilises the concept of
reasoning from a stored knowledge base reflecting prior experience. It offers a number of
advantages, such as learning and validation ...
Research in the field of Group Decision Support Systems (GDSS) has focused on the following main issues: the Task (task complexity, clarity and rationality); the Individual (the profile of individual group members); the ...
We propose a mathematical model of a database with incomplete information, which we call the N-system. Basically speaking, such a system stores information concerning properties of some objects. The information may be ...
Decision Support Systems(DSS) have been dealing so far predominantly with semistructured problems for which existed well established Operations Research techniques. Most of them were originally oriented towards supporting ...
The subject of IT outsourcing has received a growing attention recently both by
practitioners and researchers. There are a number of critical decisions to be made by a
company embarking on outsourcing. These include a ...
Data mining is the process of extracting informative patterns from data stored in a database or data warehouse. Decision tree induction algorithms, from the area of machine learning are well suited for building classification ...
This paper attempts to address the need and justification for a Computer Skills Requirements Model for Zimbabwe as well as the findings and plans following the recently completed Zimbabwe Computer Industry Manpower Survey. ...
The project success depends to a large degree on communication and coordination among team members. But project management systems and models do not support cooperative group work. Their basic philosophy is rather hierarchical ...
South African networking history started in the mid 1980's. Within less than ten years, the
country became the 15-th fastest growing network within the lnternet community. Today, the South African network offers a variety ...
Parallel execution is the most powerful method of speeding up numerical analysis. However, numerical complexity increases much faster than the problem size. For this reason the computational effort required for the analysis ...
Mathematica has proven itself to be a suitable platform on which to develop prototype
Genetic Programming applications. However, due to the sheer complexity of genetic
programming calculations, non-trivial problems cannot ...
This research addresses the problem of partial edge visibility. This problem stems from work done in the ray guarding of configurations of adjacent rectangles [7]. In ray guarding these configurations it is necessary to ...
Our investigation on the impact of partitioning the search space of the classical 0- 1 Knapsack Problem through the inclusion of equality constraints on the knapsack's cardinality, has given rise to the study we undertook ...
The notion of patterns has been used in many different disciplines, and the software industry is no exception. There are many books written, academic research done and practical examples available of where patterns have ...
The real-time services offered by modern high speed networks are complex enough to
prompt a new look at how these services should be paid for. In this article, it is motivated that paying for the use of guaranteed services ...
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 ...