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  • Automated network management using artificial intelligence 
    Watzenboeck, M (1996)
    Automating network management is regarded as a prerequisite for further plant automation. Artificial intelligence techniques, such as case based reasoning, topological reasoning and automated learning enable automated ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • A comparison of transaction management schemes in multidatabase systems 
    Renaud, K; Kotze, P (1996)
    In many applications today multiple pre-existing database systems are integrated into a single multiple database system called a multidatabase system. There are various characteristics of these systems which distinguish ...
  • Computer-based applications for engineering education 
    Hansen, AC; Lyne, PWL (1996)
    There is a rapidly growing awareness in the world of the need to modify the educational process at all levels of human development. In South Africa the situation is made worse by a substantial backlog in education. ...
  • A cultural perspective on IT/End user relationships ( A description of Research in Progress) 
    Leonard, AC (1996)
    An IT/end user relationship is described as intriguing and complex and is based on a physical and abstract dimension. These two dimensions enable one to fully describe the holistic nature of such a relationship and encapsulate ...
  • The design and usage of a new Southern African Information Systems textbook 
    Erwin, GJ; Blewett, CN (1996)
    Changes in South African society have brought about changes in the background of student audiences and these have stimulated a review of the areas of governance, syllabus, curriculum, teaching methods and research in ...
  • Efficient state-exploration 
    Geldenhuys, J (1996)
    The exploration of states is an important element of many problems. Many problems share properties which allow the formulation of general strategies for state exploration. This article examines these strategies with reference ...
  • Examination timetabling 
    Parkinson, E; Warren, PR (1996)
    We investigate the performance of simulated annealing and tabu search, two new general problem solving heuristics, on an examination timetabling problem. These two techniques are described here and issues arising from ...
  • The feasibility problem in the simplex algorithm 
    Scott, TG; Hattingh, JM; Steyn, T (1996)
    The simplex method is one way of solving a linear programming problem (LP-problem). The simplex method needs a basic feasible solution to start the solution process. This requires an available non-singular basis. Normally ...
  • Feature extraction in neural networks: an application in handwritten character recognition 
    Moodley, D; Ram, V (1996)
    This paper examines and provides an overview of feature extraction techniques that are currently used in neural networks for image recognition. These include moment invariants, Zemike moments, Fourier descriptor techniques, ...
  • A framework for executing multiple computational intelligent programs 
    Viktor, HL; Cloete, I (1996)
    Computational intelligent programs are capable of discovering interesting relationships contained in "raw" data. These programs, including artificial neural networks, set covering algorithms and decision trees, have been ...
  • Generating compilers from formal semantics 
    Venter, H (1996)
    Given a complete, formal description of the semantics of a programming language, it should be possible to generate a compiler for the language using an automated process. This is highly desirable, since it reduces the work ...
  • The Independent Online: a case study of Internet publishing 
    Morris, A (1996)
    The independent online is the Internet service of Independent Newspapers, South Africa's largest newspaper group. This paper is a case study of the events of the past year, including the lessons, successes and failures ...
  • Industry-academic-government cooperation to boost technological innovation and people development in South Africa 
    Van der Walt, TJ (1996)
    Cooperation between industry, academia and government is increasingly viewed to be of key importance for economies to be globally competitive. In a world where research and technology development, and the diffusion and ...
  • Information security management: the second generation 
    Von Solms, R (1996)
    Information security has moved a long way from the early days when physical security, together with a set of backups, fonned the backbone of a company's security controls. Today, infonnation security is all about policies, ...
  • Information systems outsourcing and organisational structure 
    Hart, ML; Vavatzanidis, K (1996)
    A decision of increasing importance to many organisations is whether to use internal or outside resources, assistance and expertise to address information technology and information systems requirements. This decision may ...
  • The IS workers, they are a-changin' 
    Smith, D (1996)
    As changes in Information Technology and organisations move into the sophisticated areas of client/server computing and open, integrated architectures, the IS professional needs to develop an increasing range of skills and ...
  • Lessons learnt from using C++ the object-oriented approach to software development 
    Mazhindu_Shumba, R (1996)
    This paper presents the lessons learned from using the C++ programming language and an object-oriented design methodology for the development of a prototype analysis tool for inheritance relationships in object-oriented ...
  • Low-cost medical records system: a model 
    Diani, OA; Seipone, T (1996)
    A low-cost microcomputer-based online system has been developed for the basic In-patient Medical Records functions of a General Hospital. Its basic functions are: to access patient data, register and admit a patient, enter ...

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