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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 …

Medtextus: An Ontology-Enhanced Medical Portal, Gondy Leroy, Hsinchun Chen

CGU Faculty Publications and Research

In this paper we describe MedTextus, an online medical search portal with dynamic search and browse tools. To search for information, MedTextus lets users request synonyms and related terms specifically tailored to their query. A mapping algorithm dynamically builds the query context based on the UMLS ontology and then selects thesaurus terms that fit this context. Users can add these terms to their query and meta-search five medical databases. To facilitate browsing, the search results can be reviewed as a list of documents per database, as a set of folders into which all the documents are automatically categorized based on …

Success Factors Of Information Technology Project Implementation : A Case Study Of A Manufacturing Company, Poh Chee Fong

Student Works (2000-2009)

project implementation. System and facilities test shall be carried out in actual user environment and be innovative when developing a new IT project i.e. shall not just copy the functions of previous system to new system. Everybody shall be innovative to fully utilize the advantages of information technology

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 …

Using Real Options Analysis For Evaluating Uncertain Investments In Information Technology: Insights From The Icis 2001 Debate, Paul P. Tallon, Robert J. Kauffman, Henry C. Lucas, Andrew B. Whinston, Kevin Zhu

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Business and information systems (IS) executives continue to grapple with issues of risk and uncertainty in evaluating investments in information technology (IT). Despite the use of net present value (NPV) and other investment appraisal techniques, executives are often forced to rely on instinct when finalizing IT investment decisions. Recognizing the shortcomings of NPV, real options analysis has been suggested as an alternative approach, one that considers the risks associated with an investment while recognizing the ability of corporations to defer an investment until a later period or to make a partial investment instead. Responding to a growing interest in real …

An Exploratory Study Of Internet Data Centres In Malaysia, Huai Peng Loh, Siew Hwa Tan

Student Works (2000-2009)

The explosion of Internet in Malaysia has spurred the growth of Internet Data Centres - a combination of Internet Service Providers, Information Technology Vendor Community and Telecommunication Service Providers providing co­location and managed services. These Internet Data Centres are targeting any organisations which have an internet strategy and which plan to outsource their IT infrastructures. This report aims to shed a light on the Malaysian Internet Data Centres, which are mainly concentrated in the Klang Valley. Readers will be able to gain insight into the target markets, infrastructure owned and services offered by the Internet Data Centres concerned. The report …

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 …

Learning From Linux, Sourav Mukherji

IIMB Management Review

Conventional wisdom on knowledge management deems organisations as essential vehicles for collaborative knowledge creation but here the entire process of knowledge creation takes place outside the boundary of any formal hierarchical organisation, creating a paradox for knowledge management. An attempt is made here to analyse the Linux development process to help resolve this paradox, and in the process, provide some insights Award Winning Student Essay Learning from Linux for organisational knowledge management.

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 …

Developing An Environmental Management System A Practical Guidebook For Agricultural Businesses, Lucy Taylor

Natural resources published reports

An environmental management system is a tool that many businesses use to improve their environmental performance. Having an environmental management system enables a business to identify and improve management of their significant environmental impacts.

Environmental management systems work to minimise environmental impacts by following a standard 'plan-do-check-improve' management framework. This framework focuses on identifying significant environmental impacts, setting performance targets, establishing means of achieving targets and maintaining sufficient records to show that targets have been reached. Environmental management systems can assist agricultural businesses in:

* improving resource management

* building public confidence in the environmental management of agriculture

* increasing …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

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. …

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 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 …

Office Equipment Inventory System, Meng Hai Teh

Student Works (2000-2009)

This report was based on the final year project as a partial requirement for the degree of information technology. It’s describing the office equipment inventory system that will be developing. This report contains 4 chapters which are introduction of the project, literature review, methodology and system analysis and system design. Office equipment inventory system is a sub system of the e-Faculty project. e-Faculty project is a project that will bring faculty science computer and information technology to the electronic era. The objective of e-Faculty is to bring faculty become an electronic effective faculty. The purpose of develop the office equipment …

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 Akademik, Megat Hod Puteri Norhuda

Student Works (2000-2009)

Sistem yang dibangunkan adalah sistem maklumat akademik secara elektronik. Dalam membangunkan Sistem Maklumat Akademik (SMA) beberapa aspek perlu diberi perhatian. Ini kerana ia melibatkan beberapa peringkat kerja seperti pemilihan sistem, merekabentuk, pembangunan , pengujian dan sebagainya. Pada permulaannya, segala maklumat tentang sistem yang sedia ada didapatkan. Ini dengan melakukan pencarian dan penyelidikan melalui internet, sistem yang sedang digunakan, dokumen , pendapat penyelia, dan temuramah dan soal selidik yang dibuat, Kaedah yang betul digunakan bagi memastikan maklumat dapat disalurkan dengan cara yang betul. Melalui model air terjun digunakan kerana ia merupakan satu model yang berisiko rendah apabila membangunkan sistem yang dapat …

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.