{"title":"Adoption of web based collaboration tools in the enterprise: Challenges and opportunities","authors":"Ginika C. Onyechi, G. Abeysinghe","doi":"10.1109/CTIT.2009.5423111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTIT.2009.5423111","url":null,"abstract":"Many organisations nowadays are constantly seeking ways to improve their competitive edge and remain profitable. Organisations use new technology as a strategic tool which help create new ways of satisfying customer needs and working practices. Developments in internet technologies have led to the growing dependence on web-based technologies and more recently, collaboration software platforms. In spite of the vast amount of literature which describes the benefits organisations may reap through the use of these technologies, there is also skepticism regarding the adoption of these tools. This paper takes a critical look at the adoption of collaboration tools, focusing on social media, in the enterprise especially looking at the reason for skepticism in adopting these tools. Through surveys carried out amongst users of social media and case studies, the research looks at the value adding capabilities of social media in business, the challenges and opportunities, and adoption issues.","PeriodicalId":288593,"journal":{"name":"2009 International Conference on the Current Trends in Information Technology (CTIT)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126970319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A framework for integrating usability evaluations methods: The Mawhiba web portal case study","authors":"A. Al-Wabil, Hend Suliman Al-Khalifa","doi":"10.1109/CTIT.2009.5423128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTIT.2009.5423128","url":null,"abstract":"Different usability evaluation methods (UEMs) are often combined to assess the compliance of interactive systems with usability standards and guidelines. In practice, combinations of UEMs have been applied in a rather ad hoc manner resulting in inadequate analyses of rich usability data sets. While the potential offered by recent advances in technologies such as eye tracking for usability is recognized, and the challenges of evaluating complex web systems such as portals which involve different interaction styles are highlighted, the issue of effectively integrating multiple UEMs to make sense of observations has emerged. This paper presents a framework developed for effectively integrating UEMs in usability evaluations by matching the methods' capabilities and limitations with a classification of usability problems. The framework is applied to evaluating the usability of the Mawhiba web portal with target user populations which demonstrates how better coverage of usability issues can be achieved.","PeriodicalId":288593,"journal":{"name":"2009 International Conference on the Current Trends in Information Technology (CTIT)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114713272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hend Suliman Al-Khalifa, M. Al-Yahya, Alia Bahanshal, Iman Al-Odah
{"title":"SemQ: A proposed framework for representing semantic opposition in the Holy Quran using Semantic Web technologies","authors":"Hend Suliman Al-Khalifa, M. Al-Yahya, Alia Bahanshal, Iman Al-Odah","doi":"10.1109/CTIT.2009.5423145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTIT.2009.5423145","url":null,"abstract":"The Holy Quran exhibits the powerful rhetorical techniques of classical Arabic; one of these techniques is the use of semantic opposition. Semantic opposition as a sub-field of structural linguistics, studies the relation between words based on a set of properties or features. In order to automatically identify semantic opposition terms in the Holy Quran, Semantic Web techniques (i.e. ontologies) can be used to represent semantic opposition. This paper presents a work-in-progress project for building a framework for recognizing and identifying semantic opposition terms using Natural Language processing armed with domain ontologies.","PeriodicalId":288593,"journal":{"name":"2009 International Conference on the Current Trends in Information Technology (CTIT)","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131424999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social networks as a service in modern enterprises","authors":"Z. Maamar, Y. Badr","doi":"10.1109/CTIT.2009.5423135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTIT.2009.5423135","url":null,"abstract":"The power of social networks stems from their ability to capture real-world phenomena such as collaboration, competition, and partnerships. Social networks provide means for enterprises to capture and expose many informal connections between their stakeholders. In this paper, we discuss how social networks could sustain growth and unfold business opportunities in modern enterprises. Furthermore, we study various types of social networks and investigate metrics that measure their value-added to enterprises. In response to business-oriented social network requirements, we propose a multi-tenant architecture to develop Social-Networks-as-a-Service (SNaaS) and allow efficient use of server resources while reducing maintenance costs and providing a high degree of customization to support each enterprise's requirements.","PeriodicalId":288593,"journal":{"name":"2009 International Conference on the Current Trends in Information Technology (CTIT)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131171096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modeling and analysis of two-component cluster system","authors":"T. Lwin, T. Thein","doi":"10.1109/CTIT.2009.5423130","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTIT.2009.5423130","url":null,"abstract":"Businesses today are becoming increasingly dependent on information technology (IT) to meet business-critical demands. The more available a computer system is, the more value it can provide to its users. In many cases high availability (HA) requirement becomes as critical as high performance. Cluster computing has been attracting more and more attention from both the industrial and the academic world for its enormous computing power and scalability. High availability features need to be included to ensure that cluster computing environments can provide continuous services. In order to validate and compare the different techniques, it is often necessary to build models of the system. A typical availability modeling method is based on analytical formalisms such as fault tree, Markov chains, Stochastic Petri Net, etc. In this paper we describe (1) a two-component cluster configuration, and (2) an availability model of that system using Markov modeling techniques.","PeriodicalId":288593,"journal":{"name":"2009 International Conference on the Current Trends in Information Technology (CTIT)","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133226764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Fitsilis, V. Gerogiannis, Leonidas G. Anthopoulos, A. Kameas
{"title":"Using social network analysis for software project management","authors":"P. Fitsilis, V. Gerogiannis, Leonidas G. Anthopoulos, A. Kameas","doi":"10.1109/CTIT.2009.5423144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTIT.2009.5423144","url":null,"abstract":"Software projects are complex endeavors where the application of processes, knowledge, skills and tools is necessary, in order to increase the probability of successful completion. Traditionally software projects are analyzed controlled and monitored by controlling project scope, time, cost and quality. In this paper we present how social network analysis can be used in order to improve software project control. The presented model is based on meta-networks where basic project entities are combined for representing communication, collaboration, and knowledge. The analysis of the model is illustrated with sample data extracted from three software projects.","PeriodicalId":288593,"journal":{"name":"2009 International Conference on the Current Trends in Information Technology (CTIT)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116824163","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"User focused database summarization approach","authors":"A. Triki, Y. Pollet, M. Ben ahmed","doi":"10.1109/CTIT.2009.5423131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTIT.2009.5423131","url":null,"abstract":"Mining information from very large databases poses numerous challenges. In fact, systems that can mine such voluminous databases are increasingly desirable. In this context, we propose a generic approach of database summarization that takes into account the user's interest topic. Innovation in our work consists in the generation of a set of database summaries having different levels of granularity in order to satisfy the user's expectations.","PeriodicalId":288593,"journal":{"name":"2009 International Conference on the Current Trends in Information Technology (CTIT)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129290103","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spectrum sensing performance evaluation of Bi-threshold detector in Rayleigh and Rician fading environments","authors":"Z. Azmat, A. Loan, Kashif Ashraf, U. Farooq","doi":"10.1109/CTIT.2009.5423118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTIT.2009.5423118","url":null,"abstract":"With recent advances in wireless applications like multimedia applications & rich web services, spectrum scarcity is increasing with every passing day. The scarcity of spectrum is not due to its rareness; it is mainly due to its inefficient utilization. Cognitive radio is a promising solution to this problem. It is, ideally, an intelligent radio which senses the spectrum and opportunistically transmits if the sensed band happens to be idle. Spectrum sensing by far is the issue of paramount importance in cognitive radio realm. Many schemes have been proposed for spectrum sensing, but still there is a lot of room for efficient algorithms. One of the demerits of the past research work on spectrum sensing is that if some algorithm decreases the number of sensing bits to the central receiver then the sensing performance is also degraded simultaneously. This study mainly focuses on comparing the performance of a censoring method to decrease the bandwidth of control channel in Rayleigh and Rician fading channels.","PeriodicalId":288593,"journal":{"name":"2009 International Conference on the Current Trends in Information Technology (CTIT)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132084940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Enhancing human-computer-interaction in collaborative virtual environment","authors":"N. Nassiri, N. Powell, D. Moore","doi":"10.1109/CTIT.2009.5423147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTIT.2009.5423147","url":null,"abstract":"Collaborative virtual environments (CVEs) are recently getting more popularity as mediums for conducting virtual interactions. Little is known, however, about the difficulties the CVE users experience during interactions in these environments and the means to make such interactions more productive. To begin to address this, we first, review the results of several CVE researchers about personal space (i.e. preferred interpersonal distance) and personal space invasion anxiety level. Second, we propose an interaction model to relief the CVE users form the feeling of anxiety by protecting their personal space from invasion, and thus enhancing the quality of these interactions in the CVEs.","PeriodicalId":288593,"journal":{"name":"2009 International Conference on the Current Trends in Information Technology (CTIT)","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115234753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ethical values and practices for cyber society","authors":"A. S. Poonia, A. Bhardwaj, G. S. Dangayach","doi":"10.1109/CTIT.2009.5423148","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTIT.2009.5423148","url":null,"abstract":"With the exponential growth of computers inhabiting the earth with many millions of miles of optical fiber, wire and air waves, link people, their computers and the vast array of information handling devices together, we can say that we are living in cyber era. Our society is truly an information society, our time an information age. The question arises is whether the kind of society being created is the one we want. As we know that each and everything in the world has its own pros and cons, so has the Cyber system. At the one end cyber system provides incomparable opportunities to communicate and learn and at the other end some individuals or community exploit its power for criminal purposes. This exploitation can be minimized by implementing some ethical values and practices to those individuals or community, which in turn can be called as cyber ethics.","PeriodicalId":288593,"journal":{"name":"2009 International Conference on the Current Trends in Information Technology (CTIT)","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116752857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}