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Leadership Antecedents Of Informal Knowledge Acquisition And Dissemination, Siu Loon Hoe, Steve Mcshane

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Knowledge management is emerging as one of the leading influences on an organisation’s survival and competitive advantage (Blumentritt & Johnston 1999). Knowledge management is concerned with the effective acquisition, sharing, storage and utilisation of knowledge (Huber 1991; Saffady 1998). Corporate leaders are increasingly aware of the notion that an organisation’s long-term survival depends on its ability to generate new knowledge and continuously learn from the environment. The importance of a superior organisational learning capability as a source of competitive advantage is a common refrain among both managers and scholars (e.g. Kohli & Jaworski 1990; Nonaka 1991; Quinn 1992; Slater & …

Development And Characterization Of Methodology And Technology For The Alignment Of Fmri Time Series, Carlo Ciulla

Dissertations

This dissertation has developed, implemented and tested a novel computer based system (AUTOALIGN) that incorporates an algorithm for the alignment of functional Magnetic Resonance Image (fMRI) time series. The algorithm assumes the human brain to be a rigid body and computes a head coordinate system on the basis of three reference points that lie on the directions correspondent to two of the eigenvectors of inertia of the volume, at the intersections with the head boundary. The eigenvectors are found weighting the inertia components with the voxel's intensity values assumed as mass. The three reference points are found in the same …

Collaborative Problem Solving And Program Development Model, Joanna Defranco-Tommarello

Dissertations

A model to enhance collaborative problem solving and program development is presented. The collaborative model is a detailed cognitive model that takes into consideration the cognitive and social activities that occur during collaborative problem solving and program development. The cognitive activities required for collaborative problem solving and program development are identified and integrated into a six-stage model. An extensive literature review in the associated fields is presented to show the need for the model described in this dissertation. In addition, a comprehensive study of tools to support collaboration during problem solving and program development was also performed as well as …

Filling Preposition-Based Templates To Capture Information From Medical Abstracts, Gondy Leroy, Hsinchun Chen

CGU Faculty Publications and Research

Due to the recent explosion of information in the biomedical field, it is hard for a single researcher to review the complex network involving genes, proteins, and interactions. We are currently building GeneScene, a toolkit that will assist researchers in reviewing existing literature, and report on the first phase in our development effort: extracting the relevant information from medical abstracts. We are developing a medical parser that extracts information, fills basic prepositional-based templates, and combines the templates to capture the underlying sentence logic. We tested our parser on 50 unseen abstracts and found that it extracted 246 templates with a …

Pricing And Product Mix Optimization In Freight Transportation, Michael F. Gorman

MIS/OM/DS Faculty Publications

We propose improved pricing and market mix can improve the profitability of the freight transportation provider through the reduction of equipment repositioning costs. We hypothesize that because of complexities surrounding pricing and equipment repositioning costing, existing pricing strategies in freight transportation fail to fully consider these costs. We test this hypothesis in an applied setting in which Monte Carlo simulation captures the stochasticity of market conditions inherent in the problem. We use a heuristic to improve the nondifferentiable, discontinuous objective function.

Our results from test cases show with high confidence that current prices are not optimal, as indicated by a …

Community Banking In The E-Business Era, Peter Southard, Keng Siau

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

This paper reviews how existing and potential uses of Internet technology can generate a competitive advantage for rural community banks. To do so, it offers a framework for analyzing Internet technology investment decisions. Organizations in this segment of the banking industry are often more removed from centers of technology and have traditionally been more conservative in their approaches to information technology (among other things). Banking Associations have developed in the U.S., such as the Independent Bankers Association, to try and help community banks coordinate marketing, legislative, and other issues that they have in common. The use of Internet technology can …

Electronic Library Information System (Elis), Sooi Ping Cheah

Student Works (2000-2009)

Electronic Library Information System (ELIS) is a computer-based (automation) library system for a secondary school. ELIS consists of a number of smaller systems called subsystems. The modules are acquisition, which enable the System Administrator and Librarians to do ordering and receiving operations: cataloging which enable the creation of a bibliographic database; online cataloging (OPAC) which enables information to be retrieved from the database; circulation which manages the borrowing, returning, renewing, reserving, fine for missing of items· bulletin & feedback which enable the patron to input the feedback regarding the service provided by ELIS and to view the most current bulletin …

E-Docspros : Exploring Texpros Into E-Business Era, Zhenfu Cheng

Dissertations

Document processing is a critical element of office automation. TEXPROS (TEXt PROcessing System) is a knowledge-based system designed to manage personal documents. However, as the Internet and e-Business changed the way offices operate, there is a need to re-envision document processing, storage, retrieval, and sharing. In the current environment, people must be able to access documents remotely and to share those documents with others. e-DOCPROS (e-DOCument PROcessing System) is a new document processing system that takes advantage of many of TEXPROS's structures but adapts the system to this new environment. The new system is built to serve e-businesses, takes advantage …

Waqs : A Web-Based Approximate Query System, George Jyh-Shian Chang

Dissertations

The Web is often viewed as a gigantic database holding vast stores of information and provides ubiquitous accessibility to end-users. Since its inception, the Internet has experienced explosive growth both in the number of users and the amount of content available on it. However, searching for information on the Web has become increasingly difficult. Although query languages have long been part of database management systems, the standard query language being the Structural Query Language is not suitable for the Web content retrieval.

In this dissertation, a new technique for document retrieval on the Web is presented. This technique is designed …

Augmenting Applications With Hyper Media, Functionality And Meta-Information, Roberto Galnares

Dissertations

The Dynamic Hypermedia Engine (DHE) enhances analytical applications by adding relationships, semantics and other metadata to the application's output and user interface. DHE also provides additional hypermedia navigational, structural and annotation functionality. These features allow application developers and users to add guided tours, personal links and sharable annotations, among other features, into applications. DHE runs as a middleware between the application user interface and its business logic and processes, in a n-tier architecture, supporting the extra functionalities without altering the original systems by means of application wrappers.

DHE automatically generates links at run-time for each of those elements having relationships …

Knowledge-Based Document Retrieval With Application To Texpros, Fang Sheng

Dissertations

Document retrieval in an information system is most often accomplished through keyword search. The common technique behind keyword search is indexing. The major drawback of such a search technique is its lack of effectiveness and accuracy. It is very common in a typical keyword search over the Internet to identify hundreds or even thousands of records as the potentially desired records. However, often few of them are relevant to users' interests.

This dissertation presents knowledge-based document retrieval architecture with application to TEXPROS. The architecture is based on a dual document model that consists of a document type hierarchy and, a …

Decision Making Based On Quantitative And Qualitative Evaluations, Rohan A. Pandit

Theses

This study emphasizes mainly on the influence of evaluations, both qualitative and quantitative, on decision making for many occasions that occur in business and technically oriented settings. Decisions made with a certain fuzzy as wen as technical behavior are structured by means of computer-assisted decision-making tools. Decision support tools assist decision makers in making crucial decisions. For instance the tool that has been designed for the purpose of this research will be used for selecting capital-intensive products. It is also intended to prove that with the help of decision support systems decision makers could make decisions by reducing fuzzy decision …

A More Efficient Document Retrieval Method For Texpros, Yin Dong

Dissertations

Document processing is a critical element of office automation. Through document classification, extraction and filing, documents are automatically placed into a knowledge base according to certain rules. Document retrieval is a process to get a document back according to a user's requirements and to show the results to the user. Hence, a good user-interface and an efficient retrieval algorithm become core parts of document retrieval.

Unlike previous browsers that have been proposed for this purpose, this dissertation develops a new browser that has a user interface with more tools, and one that has a more efficient retrieval algorithm that can …

Visualizing Staff Information System (Vsis), Mook Lan Wong

Student Works (2000-2009)

The Visualizing Staff Information System also known as VSIS is a system to keep track the personal record of the staff in a company and with effective visual displays which concerned with exploring data and information to gain insight and understanding of the data. The software development tool used are Visual Basic 6.0, Seagate Crystal Report 7.0 and Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 is used as a database management system. Prototype model is conducted in the system development. Before an interview was conducted, a set of interview questions were prepared and sent to the respective company. Global Soft Manufacturing was one …

Sistem Electronic Theses Postgraduate, Abdul Majid Mariana

Student Works (2000-2009)

The technology improvement nowdays, has been supported a system development with the existence of various software forms. The competitive exists to fill up the user needs together with the development of information technology in this century. A software which will be developed is appropiate with a current development and user needs that always wishing for the innovation and also to reduce the usage of time. This research report will explain the phases of the system development, from the earlier research to the implementation process and test made. This system is call "Electronic Theses_PostGraduate". The main objective of this Electronic Theses …

Student Management System, Sandrasecra Thevagi

Student Works (2000-2009)

Overall, it can be said that this project is really important for the administration of students in the school. This system in general requires the retrieval, analysis and reporting of student’s records. Other than that, this system also enables the teachers to tap into the students information system without the hassle of going through student’s manually written records. The manually written record is very hard to locate and it is very time consuming and tedious procedure to be contemplated. Student management system is really a feasible tool since it boast the usage of electronic database. It is a system that …

Sistem Inventori Kolej Kediaman Tun Ahmad Zaidi, Ali Ayuniza

Student Works (2000-2009)

Latihan ilmiah merupakan kursus yang ditawarkan kepada pelajar Sarjana Muda Teknologi Maklumat Universiti Malaya bagi Tahap Akhir sebagai syarat utama fakulti. Kursus ini meliputi pembangunan sistem komputer yang ditawarkan oleh pensyarah-pensyarah fakulti. Bagi latihan ini, pembangunan Sistem Inventori Kolej Kediaman (SIKK) telah dipilih dan ia tertumpu kepada Kolej Kediaman Tun Ahmad Zaidi (Kolej 10) Universiti Malaya. Kursus ini terbahagi kepada Latihan llmiah 1 dan Latihan Ilmiah 2 yang masing-masing ditawarkan pada semester I dan semester 2. Kedua-dua kursus ini adalah saling berkait, dan wajib diambil untuk memenuhi syarat latihan ilmiah. Projek ini ditawarkan oleh Puan Nor Edzan Che Nasir di …

Sistem Pendaftaran Kursus Melalui Web, Osman Aziz

Student Works (2000-2009)

Pendaftaran kursus merupakan suatu proses yang penting dan kritikal dalam institusi pengajian. Ini kerana jika terdapat sebarang kesilapan atau ralat dalam proses ini akan mengakibatkan timbulnya beberapa masalah kepada pihak universiti dan juga pelajar hasil susulan daripada kesilapan tersebut. Dari itu, proses yang mudah egisen dan memerlukan masa yang sedikit perlukan dibangunkan dalam mengatasi kesulitan proses ini. Sistem pendaftaran kursus yang sedia ada di Universiti Malaya ketika ini menggunakan manual dan “on-line.

Webzakat (Sistem Pengiraan Zakat Berasaskan Web), Zainal Abidin Azniah

Student Works (2000-2009)

WebZakat merupakan sistem pengiraan zakat berasaskan web. Tujuan pembangunan sistem ini ialah untuk memudahkan pengguna mengira jumlah zakat yang wajib dibayarnya, lengkap dengan contoh pengiraan dan penjelasan dari Al-Quran, hadis Rasulullah s.a. w dan pendapat para ulamak, selain memberi kemudahan kepada pengguna untuk membuat rujukan berkenaan zakat. WebZakat dibahagikan kepada dua modul utama, iaitu modul pengguna dan modul pentadbir. Modul pengguna mempunyai fungsi rujukan, pengiraan dan pertanyaan manakala modul pentadbir adalah untuk tujuan penyelenggaraan WebZakat rnembolehkan pengguna menggunakan kalkulator zakat yang meliputi lapan jenis zakat harta. Selain itu, pengguna juga boleh menghantar sebarang pertanyaan kepada pihak perujuk yang dicadangkan dengan …

Sistem Maklumat Pelajar, Phaik Im Ooi

Student Works (2000-2009)

Sistem Maklumat Pelajar merupakan satu sistem yang digunakan untuk menyimpan semua maklumat pelajar mahasiswa dan mahasiswi yang berdaftar dari permulaan kemasukan sehingga ke tempoh tamat pengajian di Fakulti Sains Komputer dan Teknologi Maklumat (FSKTM). Sistem ini bertujuan memudahkan pentadbir menjalankan kerja pendaftaran dan pengemaskinian maklumat pelajar. Sistem ini juga membantu pensyarah membuat penilaian terhadap seseorang mahasiswa atau mahasiswi dengan membekalkan maklumat lengkap kepada pensyarah berkenaan. Sistem yang dijalankan adalah secara talian terus iaitu hanya pentadbir, pensyarah dan golongan tertentu sahaja dibenarkan memasuki ke dalam pangkalan data melalui antaramuka pengguna. Kerja pengesahan pengguna akan dijalankan untuk memastikan hanya pengguna yang sah …

Sistem Kewangan Sekolah Menengah, Kajian Kes Di Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Tengku Ampuan Jemaah Pelabuhan Klang, Ya'acob Nor Akhma

Student Works (2000-2009)

Pada masa ini banyak sekolah-sekolah di negara maju telah mengaplikasikan teknologi maklumat di dalam pentadbiran dan pengajaran di sekolah mereka. Penggunaan komputer dalam pendidikan tidak dapat dinafikan lagi kepentingannya. Kini kegunaan komputer lebih efektif lagi. Sistem Kewangan Sekolah Menengah dibangunkan adalah untuk memudahkan pengurusan kewangan di sekolah di mana ianya lebih mudah, cepat dan selamat. Selain itu, ianya juga dapat mengatasi masalah yang dihadapi di dalam sistem manual yang digunakan sebelum ini. Model air terjun telah digunakan dengan pendekatan sebagai prototaip dipilih dalam membangunkan sistem ini. Ini bertujuan bagi langkah bagi mengenalpasti masalah yang timbul semasa membangunkan sistem ini nanti. …

Sistem Pengurusan Salun Kecantikan, Shaharin Nor Afiza

Student Works (2000-2009)

Pada hari ini, kemajuan teknologi maklumat semakin berkembang pesat di kalangan organisasi yang menggunakan sistem berkomputer untuk melicinkan lagi kerja yang dilakukan setiap hari. Sistem Maklumat Pengurusan Salun Kecantikan ini diperkenalkan bagi memudahkan kerja penyimpanan dan pengurusan maklumat di salun-salun kecantikan, supaya kerja yang dilakukan berjalan dengan lancar.Laporan ini bertujuan memberikan penerangan serta gambaran tentang projek yang dijalankan ini. Diharap sistem ini mampu memberikan manfaat dan alternatif kepada salun-salun kecantikan di Malaysia.

Advisory System On How To Start Small Computer Business, Amran Ahmad Mawardi

Student Works (2000-2009)

‘Computer Business Advisory System’ merupakan satu sistem berasaskan web di mana ia membantu pengguna dalam pemilihan pernigaan, maklumat pernigaan dan mengetahui perkara-perkara asas berkaitan perniagaan. Kertas cadangan projek ini memperkenalkan projek dan sistem yang akan dibangunkan dan penerangan-penerangan mengenai segala keperluan yang diperlukan dalam membangunkan projek dan ‘Computer Business Advisory System’ ini. Ia terdiri daripada lima bab iaitu pengenalan, kajian literasi, metodologi, analisis sistem dan rekabentuk sistem. Metodologi pembangunan sistem yang digunakan untuk membangunkan Computer Business Advisory System ini ialah Macromedia Dreamweaver dan Active Serve Pages. Di bahagian analisis sistem, gambarajah aliran data digunakan sebagai rekabentuk logikal. Rekabentuk logikal membantu …

Sistem Jadual Peepriksaan On-Line, Abd Aziz Mohd Naharuddin

Student Works (2000-2009)

Sistem jadual peperiksaan secara atas talian adalah satu sistem yang menyampaikan maklumat peperiksaan kepada para pelajar berasaskan web. Sistem ini menyediakan satu cara alternative kepada para pelajar yang selama ini hanya boleh mendapatkan maklumat peperiksaan di papan kenyataan fakulti masing-masing atau di tempat-tempat tertentu. Selain dari itu, sebarang masalah yang dihadapi oleh para pelajar berhubung jadual peperiksaan boleh diadukan di dalam sistem ini kepada pihak pentadbir di mana ianya akan memberikan maklum balas yang cepat dan boleh melakukan tindakan yang lebih awal. Manakala para pensyarah pula boleh membuat tempahan tempat di dewan peperiksaan untuk mengadakan peperiksaan tertentu melalui sistem ini. …

Integrated Student Management Information System, Subramaniam Melissa Malathy

Student Works (2000-2009)

ISMIS is a an integrated system designed to provide students information in order to facilitate schools administration, decision-making and monitoring of students' development in curricular and co-curriculum activities. Specially for teachers and school administrators, the purpose of this project is to develop a student information system that contains the information of the students in a school and provide a system that will enable the retrieval of these information that include students' personal particulars, academic and non-academic achievements as well as performance records and all other items pertaining to student matters. The development of ISMIS is divided into three sections, which …

Avillion Village Resort Online System, Zainal Rashid Zainorhuda

Student Works (2000-2009)

Information Technology (IT) has a very significant influence in expanding organization’s capabilities particularly to meet the challenges from the borderless environment and global marketing capability. The IT needs in an organization therefore need to be identified that would have an edge and bigger influence in the creation of new culture of working, identify and creation of new business model. This Avillion Village Resort online system will be developed to provide an easy and convenience way for all users to gather information and doing online reservation. This system will allow users to access information just by clicking the mouse to have …

Laman Web E-Dagang Sistem Tempahan Dalam Talian (Stdt), Wan Abdul Majid Wan Amirah

Student Works (2000-2009)

Sistem Tempahan Dalam Talian (STDT) ialah sebuah sistem berasaskan web yang dibangunkan dengan objektif untuk melaksaakan keperluan pembelian produk dalam talian melalui internet. Objektif sistem adalah untuk membolehkan pengguna yang melayari internet membuat tempahan produk pada satu masa supaya ianya ringkas dan mudah serta tidak perlu menggunakan banyak boring. Aplikasi-aplikasi yang dapat dilakukan oleh sistem ini ialah menerima tempahan daripada pengguna, menghapuskan atau menambah produk dan memaparkan jumlah harga kesemua tempahan yang dibuat. Sistem yang akan dibangunkan ini menggunakan Active Server Pages, Visual InterDev 6.0, Internet Explorer 4.0, Personal Web Server dan Microsoft Access 2000 pada platform Windows 98. Dibangunkan …

Financial Information System (Fis), Chien Wee Kuan

Student Works (2000-2009)

Financial Information System for the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology (FCSIT-FIS) is a clien/server system introduced as a sub-system in the e-Faculty project. Its main purpose is to create a paperless, web-based system by providing on-line functions that allow users to access to FCSIT financial information. The main functions of FCSIT-FIS are: on-line spending request, financial information retrieval and account maintenance. FCSIT -FIS will be developing using ASP technology, VBScript, JavaScript and HTML language. Microsoft SQL Server will be use as the database server of the system.

Agent For Exam Processing, Foh Peng Chong

Student Works (2000-2009)

Exam Processing System is a necessity to every Institution of higher learning and universities, due to the amount of students taking exams every year, the blooming of information technology era and achieving the paperless environment goal. It has been implemented to handle student's records or more widely recognized as the Student Information System (SIS). However, based on the current system, it can only keep records and do very little with it, which requires the administrators more time to generate the summary manually. Agent for Exam Processing is proposed to overcome these shortcomings. The Agent for Exam Processing is an intelligent …

Knowledge Discovery In Biological Databases : A Neural Network Approach, Qicheng Ma

Dissertations

Knowledge discovery, in databases, also known as data mining, is aimed to find significant information from a set of data. The knowledge to be mined from the dataset may refer to patterns, association rules, classification and clustering rules, and so forth. In this dissertation, we present a neural network approach to finding knowledge in biological databases. Specifically, we propose new methods to process biological sequences in two case studies: the classification of protein sequences and the prediction of E. Coli promoters in DNA sequences. Our proposed methods, based oil neural network architectures combine techniques ranging from Bayesian inference, coding theory, …