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 ...

Group activities are important for students in order to develop the skills they will need for working with other people when they get into industry. The Internet offers an exciting environment for students to practise these ...

Information is a very valuable resource and must be protected against harmful attacks from inside as well as outside the organization. As a resource, information is the lifeline of many organizations and is therefore vital ...

With the advent of the lnformation Age and global connectivity, the ethical use of Information and Communication Technologies (/CI) has become essential. As the drive towards the establishment of a so-called IT profession ...

Computer scientists and information technologists are morally obliged to study the social impact of their technologies. They must also consider the results of the non-positivistic · approaches that are generally avoided ...

Organisations today face many issues that are complex and ill structured. The complexity of these issues does not lend themselves to structuring and formulation by quantitative models, or simple intuitive problem solving. ...

This paper presents preliminary work on the segmentation of Computed Tomography data using a model-based approach. Conventional image processing of CT data is aimed at the production of simple iso-surfaces far surgical ...

The RAMpage memory hierarchy is an alternative to the traditional division between cache and main memory: main memory is moved up a level and DRAM is used as a paging device. Earlier RAMpage work has shown that the RAMpage ...

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 ...

"OPC" is an important new specification designed to solve interoperability problems in the process control environment. It is based on Microsoft's Component Object Model (COM). The paper surveys and describes the OPC ...