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End User As Application Developer For Decision Support, Shah Jahan Miah Aug 2009

End User As Application Developer For Decision Support, Shah Jahan Miah

Dr Shah Jahan Miah

This paper discusses a new generation end-user centred information service view, for developing decision support applications. The tailorable solution allows specific applications to be designed by end-users, where integrity is assured by the architecture’s control in knowledge-based systems. In the development approach, the end-users at different level engage in interaction for secondary application creation. This initiative reinforces a shift from the traditional IS development process to a new provision where end-users can actively participate for a secondary application design. A secondary application design can be seen as a secondary activity for tailoring applications by the end users so that it …


Service Oriented Architecture, William Osei-Poku Jun 2009

Service Oriented Architecture, William Osei-Poku

William Osei-Poku

No abstract provided.


Transformation, William Osei-Poku Jun 2009

Transformation, William Osei-Poku

William Osei-Poku

No abstract provided.


Open Library, William Osei-Poku Apr 2009

Open Library, William Osei-Poku

William Osei-Poku

No abstract provided.


Mind Map, William Osei-Poku Apr 2009

Mind Map, William Osei-Poku

William Osei-Poku

No abstract provided.


Encoded Archival Description, William Osei-Poku Apr 2009

Encoded Archival Description, William Osei-Poku

William Osei-Poku

No abstract provided.


Blogger, William Osei-Poku Jan 2009

Blogger, William Osei-Poku

William Osei-Poku

No abstract provided.


A Methodology To Allow Rural Extension Professionals To Build (With Don Kerr And John Gammack), Shah Jahan Miah Jan 2009

A Methodology To Allow Rural Extension Professionals To Build (With Don Kerr And John Gammack), Shah Jahan Miah

Dr Shah Jahan Miah

Expert systems (ES) development technology has been used to build rural business applications in the past but these have usually been developed using traditional expert systems shells. This paper introduces a new architecture for the development of a design environment where the domain experts can build a knowledge base for target-specific ES for rural business operators. The system allows rural business operators to use their own knowledge in building their own, target-specific ES for tailored development to their own specific requirements. At this stage, this reusable design environment caters for the Australian dairy industry but in the long run we …


Ore: A Framework To Measure Organizational Risk During Information Systems Evolution, Aditya Agrawal, Gavin Finnie, Padmanabhan Krishnan Jan 2009

Ore: A Framework To Measure Organizational Risk During Information Systems Evolution, Aditya Agrawal, Gavin Finnie, Padmanabhan Krishnan

Padmanabhan Krishnan

Information systems (IS) change initiatives often represent the single largest investment (and therefore risk) for large corporations, yet there exist few management frameworks in the literature to help decision makers measure organizational risk in a balanced manner during this organization-wide change process. The ORE framework has been developed as a design science artifact based on the Leavitt diamond paradigm as a multi-criteria, relative risk, condition consequence, management decision framework enabling decision makers to calculate and compare risk evolution at fixed points of the change cycle and make structured and balanced risk mitigation decisions. In this chapter the principles, architecture and …


Deriving Causal Explanation From Qualitative Model Reasoning, Rukaini Abdullah Jan 2009

Deriving Causal Explanation From Qualitative Model Reasoning, Rukaini Abdullah

Rukaini Abdullah

This paper discusses a qualitative simulator QRiOM that uses Qualitative Reasoning (QR) technique, and a process-based ontology to model, simulate and explain the behaviour of selected organic reactions. Learning organic reactions requires the application of domain knowledge at intuitive level, which is difficult to be programmed using traditional approach. The main objective of QRiOM is to help learners gain a better understanding of the fundamental organic reaction concepts, and to improve their conceptual comprehension on the subject by analyzing the multiple forms of explanation generated by the software. This paper focuses on the generation of explanation based on causal theories …


Assisting Novice Researchers In Utilizing The Web As A Platform For Research: Semantic Approach, Maizatul Akmar Ismail Jan 2009

Assisting Novice Researchers In Utilizing The Web As A Platform For Research: Semantic Approach, Maizatul Akmar Ismail

Maizatul Akmar Ismail

The access to internet has tremendously changed the way of information dissemination. The emergence of digital libraries and institutional repositories provides endless supplies of knowledge. Scholars in particular, make use of research output in the form of conference proceedings, journal and theses as references and guideline in generating new knowledge for the use of future generations. Novice researchers are the form of scholars which always drown in the ocean of information. This scholarly content resides on several heterogeneous databases that need to be integrated. Support in the early stage of study is crucial for novice researchers as it will give …