• Implication in three-valued logics of partial information 

  Britz, K (2001)

  In formal logic, both semantic entailment and the conditional connective are used to formalize the intuitive notion of implication. The former is defined in the meta-language of the logic, and the latter in the language ...
• Finite-state computational morphology - treatment of the Zulu noun 

  Pretorius, L; Bosch, SE (2001)

  Morphological analysis is a basic enabling application for further kinds of natural lan guage processing, including part-of-speech tagging, parsing, translation and other high-level applications. Automated morphological ...
• The development of a user classification model for a multi-cultural society 

  Streicher, M; Wesson, JL; Calitz, A (2001)

  During the last ten years, a number of computerised testing systems have been developed without considering the users' level of computer proficiency. Students at the University of Port Elizabeth come from a diverse background, ...
• Effectively exploiting server log information for large scale web sites 

  Wong, B; Marsden, G (2001)

  With the continuing growth of the Internet, an increasing number of organisations are incorporating the Web into their business activities. The appeal of a site to users in terms of both attractiveness and usability ...
• A pattern architecture: using patterns to define an overall systems architecture 

  Van Zyl, J; Walker, AJ (2001)

  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 specification of a multi-level marketing business 

  Van der Poll, JA; Kotze, P (2001)

  A formal specification of a multi-level marketing (MLM} business is presented. Specifying a MLM business boils down to specifying properties of and operations on mathematical forests and trees. The usefulness of the ...
• Lessons learnt from an action research project running groupwork activities on the Internet: lecturers' experiences 

  Thomas, TA; Brown, S (2001)

  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 ...
• The effect of colour, luminance, contrast, icons, forgiveness and closure on ATM interface efficiency 

  Stander, A; Van Zee, P; Wang, Y-J (2001)

  Automatic teller machines (ATM) are an intermediate stage in the progression of banking technology. This intermediate stage is expected to remain until user perceptions of electronic banking have improved. ATM transaction ...
• Information security development trends 

  Von Solms, E; Eloff, JHP (2001)

  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 ...
• Creating high performance IS teams 

  Smith, DC; Becker, M; Burns-Howell, J; Kyriakides, J (2001)

  The use of teams within organisations is becoming more prevalent as teams have been identified as an efficient work unit of human capital. This research identified 17 team effectiveness characteristics and, using a sample ...
• Towards teaching computer ethics 

  De Ridder, C; Pretorius, L; Barnard, A (2001)

  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 ...
• JavaCloak - considering the limitations of proxies for facilitating Java runtime specialisation 

  Renaud, K (2001)

  This paper discusses issues pertaining to mechanisms which can be used to change the behaviour of Java classes at runtime. The proxy mechanism will be compared to and contrasted with other standard approaches to this ...
• Managing the operational implications of Information Systems 

  Potgieter, BC (2001)

  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 ...
• Hierarchical level of detail optimization for constant frame rate rendering of radiosity scenes 

  Nirenstein, S; Blake, E; Winberg, S; Mason, A (2001)

  The predictive hierarchical level of detail optimization algorithm of Mason and Blake is experimentally evaluated in the form of a practical application to hierarchical radiosity. In a novel approach the recursively ...
• The influence of facilitation in a group decision support systems environment 

  Nepal, T; Petkov, D (2001)

  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. ...
• The use of technology to support group decision-making in South Africa 

  Nash, JM; Gwilt, D; Ludwig, A; Shaw, K (2001)

  This research provides some qualitative insights into the prevalence and use of technologies to support decision-making in South Africa. The paper focuses on two hypotheses: firstly, that decision support technology is not ...
• Model-based segmentation of CT images 

  Marte, O-C; Marais, P (2001)

  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 ...
• Ubiquitous computing and cellular handset interfaces - are menus the best way forward? 

  Marsden, G; Jones, M (2001)

  Embedded interactive computer systems, such as those found in cellular handsets, can be hard to use. The combination of small form factor - limited input and output potential - and an increasing feature set, result in ...
• Further cache and TLB investigation of the RAMpage memory hierarchy 

  Machanick, P; Patel, Z (2001)

  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 ...
• 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 ...

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