{"title":"An ethical code of conduct for the non-proliferation of biological agents among Malaysian businesses","authors":"M. A. Abdul Majid, Nor Anita Abdullah","doi":"10.1109/ISTMET.2015.7359045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISTMET.2015.7359045","url":null,"abstract":"Currently, export control monitoring of the proliferation of biological agents in Malaysia falls within the ambit of the Strategic Trade Act 2010 (STA 2010), a law drafted by Malaysia's Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI). At the same time, businesses in Malaysia have not gone so far as to initiate an ethical code of conduct to prevent biological agents from being proliferated for bioterrorism. Beneficence provides the ethical foundation for these relevant businesses to prevent bioterrorism. For that reason, this study has the objective of exploring best practices that can be turned into an ethical code of conduct for commercial culture collection businesses in Malaysia, guiding them to prevent biological agents from being proliferated for bioterrorism. The methodology for this study is qualitative based on primary sources such as legislations and international organizational documents as well as secondary sources - all of which are collated and examined through a content analysis. The results of this study indicate lessons learned from the nuclear industry that ought to be incorporated in the envisioned ethical code of conduct such as sharing illicit request information of biological agents among all parties, detection methods, reasons for refusal, personal particulars of requesters, and conducting transactions among peers that adhere to the non-proliferation of biological agents. The Business Ethic Institute of Malaysia (BEIM) and MITI can introduce, create awareness of, and draft a model ethical code of conduct for the non-proliferation of biological agents to guide commercial culture collection businesses in Malaysia.","PeriodicalId":302732,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Symposium on Technology Management and Emerging Technologies (ISTMET)","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130783374","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":"Barriers to Advanced Manufacturing Technology in small-medium enterprises (SMEs) in Malaysia","authors":"F. Chan, R. Yusuff, N. Zulkifli","doi":"10.1109/ISTMET.2015.7359069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISTMET.2015.7359069","url":null,"abstract":"Manufacturing companies strive to be competitive through the use of Advanced Manufacturing Technologies (AMT). AMT implementation is not simple with many barriers to its success, especially for smaller companies. These issues limit the access of small medium enterprises (SMEs) to the full benefits of the technology. This study is aimed to identify the barriers to successful AMT implementation in SMEs before improvement steps can be taken. A survey on the barriers was conducted on manufacturing SMEs in the Klang Valley region of Malaysia. From the results, a list of barriers was obtained and its severity ranked. The results showed that the lack of appropriate or proper training as the most severe barrier. The results may assist SMEs in understanding the state of Malaysian SMEs in implementing AMT and could serve as a guide to strategize solutions to overcome the barriers.","PeriodicalId":302732,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Symposium on Technology Management and Emerging Technologies (ISTMET)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130509834","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}
Abu Bakar Sedek Abdul Jamak, A. Shamim, Z. Ghazali
{"title":"Impact of customer citizenship behavior on corporate brand experience","authors":"Abu Bakar Sedek Abdul Jamak, A. Shamim, Z. Ghazali","doi":"10.1109/ISTMET.2015.7359027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISTMET.2015.7359027","url":null,"abstract":"The aim this paper is to investigate the impact of customer citizenship behavior on corporate brand experience in hypermarkets. The data were collected from 711 respondents of four hypermarkets located in five different states of Malaysia. Covariance-Based Structural Equation Modeling was used for the data analysis. Three dimensions of customer citizenship behavior namely helping behavior, feedback and tolerance were regressed on corporate brand experience. Findings reveal that customers' helping behavior and tolerance behavior has positive impact on corporate brand experience while customers' feedback has insignificant impact on corporate brand experience. This research is unique in its investigation as corporate brand experience as consequence of customer citizenship behavior has not been investigated in the past literature.","PeriodicalId":302732,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Symposium on Technology Management and Emerging Technologies (ISTMET)","volume":"312 10","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133847057","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":"Work readiness, career self-efficacy and career exploration: A correlation analysis","authors":"Bilal Iftikhar Makki, R. Salleh, Haryanni Harun","doi":"10.1109/ISTMET.2015.7359072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISTMET.2015.7359072","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of this paper is to investigate the interrelationship between work readiness, career-self-efficacy and career exploration among final year engineering graduates in Malaysia. Data were collected from 325 respondents with a response rate of 45%. Pearson correlation analysis was performed to answer the research question. The results indicate a positive significant relationship between work readiness skills, career self-efficacy and career exploration among engineering graduates in Malaysia. The findings of this paper strengthen our argument that acquiring adequate work readiness skills, foster graduates' beliefs in their capabilities and competencies, will lead them toward effective exploration of career choices. Managerial and research implications are discussed.","PeriodicalId":302732,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Symposium on Technology Management and Emerging Technologies (ISTMET)","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116810385","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":"Relationship between stock market of UK and MENA: Wavelet transform and MS-VECM model","authors":"Amel Abdoullah Ahmed Dghais, M. Ismail","doi":"10.1109/ISTMET.2015.7359048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISTMET.2015.7359048","url":null,"abstract":"This study explores a newly developed technique; combining wavelet filtering and Markov-Switching Vector Error Correction model (MS-VECM), to investigate the dynamic relationship among financial time series. Wavelet filter has been used to annihilate noise data in monthly data set of the UK stock market and four stock markets of Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region namely, Egypt, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, and Istanbul using the stock prices data from May1, 2001 to December 30, 2011. The series generated by the discrete wavelet transform is then analyzed to determine the long-term and short-term relationships between the stock markets by using a cointegration test and a MS-VECM. The comparison between the proposed and traditional models demonstrates that the former dominates the latter in performance and fitting the financial stock market series. The cointegration test affirms the existence of long-term relationship between the studied series. The proposed model also shows the existence of a short-term relationship between stock market in UK and all other stock markets except that of Saudi Arabia. In additional, the DWTMS-VECM manages to capture a satisfactory timing of the crises period that had affected those stock markets and provides positive information on the relationships among these stock markets.","PeriodicalId":302732,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Symposium on Technology Management and Emerging Technologies (ISTMET)","volume":"424 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116141406","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}
T. Ahmad, Herleeyandi Markoni, W. Wibisono, M. I. Royyana
{"title":"Transforming minutiae for protecting fingerprint data","authors":"T. Ahmad, Herleeyandi Markoni, W. Wibisono, M. I. Royyana","doi":"10.1109/ISTMET.2015.7359031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISTMET.2015.7359031","url":null,"abstract":"Fingerprint is one of popular biometric identifiers for authenticating users. Its permanence characteristic has made it reliable to use. Therefore, fingerprint data should be protected and not be disclosed to unauthorized parties. Neverthelless, its instability scanning result has made conventional cryptographic algorithms do not work. In this paper, we propose an algorithm for protecting fingerprint data by transforming it before being stored in a database. Once it has been transformed, it is hard to reconstruct its original data. In the authentication process, the fingerprint is also transformed in the same way as its registration. So, the original data have never been revealed. The experimental result, which is done by using a public database, shows that the error rate caused by the transformation is relatively low.","PeriodicalId":302732,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Symposium on Technology Management and Emerging Technologies (ISTMET)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126032755","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":"Processability study of Natural Hydroxyapatite and SS316L via metal injection molding","authors":"M. Ibrahim, N. Mustafa, A. M. Amin, R. Asmawi","doi":"10.1109/ISTMET.2015.7359054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISTMET.2015.7359054","url":null,"abstract":"Metal Injection Molding (MIM) process is capable to produces varieties of intricate shape and complex geometry parts in large quantity components at low cost of processing. There are four Major steps in MIM process which is includes of mixing fine metal powders with plastic binder to form a feedstock, injection molding of the green part, extracting the binder, and finally sintering. Thus this paper are concentrate on investigate the processability of Natural Hydroxyapatite and Stainless Steel (SS316L) mixture with an established binder formulation as a feedstock in MIM. The Natural Hydroxyapatite (NHAP) was produced from waste Tilapia Fish Bones. While, Polyethylene (PE) and Palm stearin (PS) acted as a binder system. NHAP/SS316L mixture was successfully injected and established as an appropriate feedstock in MIM. The green strength of ejected part was determined. The maximum force that could attach is 48.1719 N and the maximum stress equal to 6.02Mpa.","PeriodicalId":302732,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Symposium on Technology Management and Emerging Technologies (ISTMET)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130687241","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":"Modelling educational games through multi-domain framework in light of game play","authors":"Mifrah Ahmad, Lukman bin AB Rahim, N. Arshad","doi":"10.1109/ISTMET.2015.7359063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISTMET.2015.7359063","url":null,"abstract":"Game-based learning systems have been proven to provide a highly positive influence with learning industry over the past decade. The challenge occurs when the game developers have to model and develop an effective educational game to understand the depth and relationships between game play (rules and regulations), game environment, learning theories, and the learner's achievement to achieve the objective of subject content embedded in the educational game. Modelling in terms of software engineering for educational games can provide a wider aspect for the game developers. Thus, the authors have proposed a multi-domain framework with extracted implicit relationships through a systematic literature review. These relationships are verified through qualitative interviews with eight (8) game-based learning experts to validate the relationships. This paper presents eleven (11) implicit relationships based on game play domain and discusses their relevancy with game environment, learning theories, and subject-matter (learners, teachers) by applying interpretive hermeneutic approach of qualitative study. Consequently, this paper concludes eleven (11) explicit relationships for game developers to reflect upon during the modelling and developing process of educational games.","PeriodicalId":302732,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Symposium on Technology Management and Emerging Technologies (ISTMET)","volume":"247 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134177990","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 proposed conceptual framework of programmer's creativity","authors":"Aamir Amin, M. Rehman, S. Basri, M. Hassan","doi":"10.1109/ISTMET.2015.7359011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISTMET.2015.7359011","url":null,"abstract":"Research on software engineering was extensive in the last few decades. However, creativity research in software engineering, particularly in different phases of software development, is scarce. Consequently, through extensive literature review and two theories (Componential Theory of Creativity and Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB)) this paper proposes a theoretical framework. The framework theoretically establishes the nature of the impact of three individual factors, namely personality traits, knowledge collection behavior and creativity intention; and one contextual factor, namely software engineering occupational stress, on programmers' creativity. The study will initiate the academic pursuit of understanding creativity in software engineering phases, other than requirement engineering. At the same time, it is aimed to guide the researchers and practitioners to better understand creativity of programmer and to take appropriate measures to enhance her creativity.","PeriodicalId":302732,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Symposium on Technology Management and Emerging Technologies (ISTMET)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130221032","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":"Synchronization of chaos in multiple three-dimensional chaotic maps and its application in cryptography","authors":"Nalin Chhibber, G. Patra","doi":"10.1109/ISTMET.2015.7359058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISTMET.2015.7359058","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, extensive studies have been done in the theory of chaos in different fields of physics, mathematics, engineering, biology, chemistry, economics and atmospheric sciences. Since the beginning of last decade, the use of continuous as well as discrete dynamical systems has been quite popular to develop cryptosystems. In this paper, we intend to propose a new encryption algorithm based on synchronization of chaos in multiple dynamical systems and demonstrate its use in cryptography. The idea is to use block ciphers to encrypt data using separate chaotic maps for each portion of plain-text. Sender and receiver systems are synchronized and are used to generate secret keys. These secret keys can be considered as pseudo-random and applied individually to each block. Such a coupled, chaos-based approach makes the process of key-prediction practically impossible and provides protection against common statistical attacks.","PeriodicalId":302732,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Symposium on Technology Management and Emerging Technologies (ISTMET)","volume":"140 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127506091","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}