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A maiden edition of AUSTECH 2015 International Conference Book of Abstracts
(African University of Science and Technology, 2016-02-20)
Simplified models for multi-criteria decision analysis under uncertainty
(2010)
When facilitating decisions in which some performance evaluations are uncertain, a decision must be taken about how this uncertainty is to be modelled. This involves, in part, choosing an uncertainty format {a way of ...
Software Support for Podcasting Mobile Lecture Content for Education in Sub-Sahara African Universities
(2013-11)
Podcasting is fast gaining traction in developing regions as a means to augment classroom instruction. Commercial podcasting tools such as Apple’s Leopard Server, Tele-task and OpenEya, despite being successfully used in ...
Designing Ummeli a case for mediated design, a participatory approach to designing interactive systems for semi-literate users
(2013)
This dissertation documents a journey into the design of Ummeli with a community of semi‐literate job seekers in Khayelitsha, Cape Town whose primary access to the internet was through their mobile phones. Working closely ...
Firewall information and security visualization : improving the usage and adoption of modern network firewalls by novice users
(2007)
The increasing number of people having access to computers and the Internet and the numerous services provided by the Internet - e.g., Internet banking, online shopping, eBay, email - emphasizes the need for computer ...
Model driven communication protocol engineering and simulation based performance analysis using UML 2.0
(2004)
The automated functional and performance analysis of communication systems specified with some Formal Description Technique has long been the goal of telecommunication engineers. In the past SDL and Petri nets have been ...
The subjective response of people living with HIV to illness narratives in VR
(2004)
This dissertation reports on the results on an exploratory investigation into the potential efficacy of VR as both a support mechanism to people living with HIV I AIDS, as well its capabilities as an emotive medium. Two ...
Customisable abstract representation layer for digital libraries
(2006)
The user interface is a very important component in a piece of software as it is the layer which allows user interaction with the underlying functionality. Within the domain of digital libraries modification to the interface ...
A digital library component assembly environment
(2005)
Digital libraries (DLs), originally termed electronic libraries, are the result of the meshing of two communities: library professionals, including librarians and publishers, and computer scientists, including their poster ...
Analyzing storage system workloads
(2006)
Analysis of storage system workloads is important for a number of reasons. The analysis might be performed to understand the usage patterns of existing storage systems. It is very important for the architects to understand ...