School of Computing and Informatics Technology (CIT): Recent submissions
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Assessing implementation of blended learning in constrained low bandwidth environment
(Fountain Publishers, Kampala, 2008)In order to meet the exponentially growing demand of higher education, implementation of e-learning is an ideal choice for the universities. And the introduction of the concept of blended learning model is a natural start ... -
Web Accessibility in Uganda :A study of Webmaster Perceptions
(Fountain publishers kampala, 2007)Despite the fact that the proportion of people with disabilities in society has been increasing, many websites have remained inaccessible to them. In Uganda, a study on government agency websites established that 100% of ... -
Suitability of auger drill sampling for the measurement of moisture content gradient in kiln-dried South African grown Eucalyptus grandis poles
(Springer-Verlag, 2009-02)Moisture content (MC) gradient at the time of preservation plays a pivotal role in determining the success of the preservation process. The South African pole drying industry relies on auger drill sampling to determine ... -
Implementation of e-learnin in higher education institutions in low bandwidth environment: a blended learning approach
(Fountain Publishers Kampala, 2007)Higher Education around the world is becoming networked and fundamental changes are taking place in Higher Education Institutions. There is no geographical isolation at the university or college level. When Higher Education ... -
Assessing appropriate ICT with ARIS case in Mozambique
(Fountain Publishers, Kampala, 2009)ICT projects in developing countries need to integrate requirements of the local context in order to be successful. Appropriate Technology (AT) has been applied in many domains to deliver technological solutions that are ... -
The Deployment of an e-commerce platform and related rrojects in a rural area in South Africa
(Fountain Publishers Kampala, 2007)In our paper we describe the development and deployment of an eCommerce platform in Dwesa, a rural area in the former homeland of Transkei in South Africa. The system is designed to promote tourism and advertise local ... -
Bootstrapping Machine Translation for the Language Pair English – Kiswahili
(Fountain Publishers Kampala, 2008)In recent years, research in Machine Translation has greatly benefited from the increasing availability of parallel corpora. Processing the same text in two different languages yields useful information on how words and ... -
Standards-based B2B e-Commerce Adoption
(FountainPublishersKampala, 2007)This study presents the preliminary findings from an explorative study of Industry Data Exchange Association (IDEA) concerning challenges, benefits and problems in adoption of standard based business-to-business e-commerce. ... -
Re-visiting decentralization and its role in delivering success
(2013-07-12)INTRODUCTION: At the Millennium Summit in September 2000, the largest gathering of world leaders in history adopted the UN Millennium Declaration, committing their nations to a new global partnership to reduce extreme ... -
Application of grid computing for on line learning resources
(Fountain Publishers, Kampala, 2009)There is a big difference in education sector between first world and developing world. This difference is based on digital learning resources and computing power. Unfortunately, all of these resources are geographically ... -
From the ground up : User involvement in the development of an information iystem for use in HIV voluntary counselling and testing
(Fountain Publishers Kampala, 2009)This research investigates end-user involvement in the development of a simple HIV Voluntary Counselling and Testing (VCT) data collection instrument and associated spreadsheet. The research involved end-user participation ... -
Career Guidance Using Expert System Approach
(Fountain Publishers Kampala, 2008)The lack of quality career guidance in African high schools, caused by shortage of human and time resources that the process demands, has led to the choice of unsuitable careers resulting in widespread poor performance at ... -
Tertiary ICT Education in the East African Community(EAC)
(Fountain Publishe Kampala, 2008)The liberalization of education has fostered an unprecedented demand especially at the tertiary level. In several deliberations, human capital ultimately emerges as the decisive factor governing the success of any endeavor ... -
Analysis of free haven anonymous storage and publication system
(Fountain publishers, Kampala, 2007)In this paper we evaluate the design of a distributed anonymous storage and publication system that is meant to resist even attacks of most powerful adversaries like the government. We present a discussion of whether the ... -
Non-traditional tree species used in the furniture industry in Masaka District, Central Uganda
(National Agricultural Research Organisation, 2006)Increased demand for timber in Uganda has caused scarcity of the earlier "well-known" and commonly used tree species in the furniture industry, leading to a shift to non-traditional tree species. A study was therefore ... -
Security analysis of an agent-mediated book trading application
(Fountain Publishers Kampala, 2009)This paper presents a security analysis of an agent mediated application in an open distributed environment. We use a case study of a book trading application that we implemented using Agent scape and JADE agent ... -
Nesting biology of equatorial Afrotropical stingless bees (Apidae; Meliponini) in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda
(IBRA, 2007-09)An inter-specific nesting biology of highly eusocial stingless bees (meliponini) was studied in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, south-western Uganda. Fieldwork was guided by Batwa Pygmies who are the local indigenous ... -
(Inter)net neutrality: your voice matters
(Fountain Publishers Kampala, 2009)The growing use of the Internet coupled with the rapid growth in applications’ bandwidth requirements are pushing network owners (ISP) to a point where they can no longer treat all Internet content, sites, and platforms ... -
Computational resource optimization in Ugandan tertiary institutions
(Fountain Publishers Kampala, 2007)Insufficient computational power, caused by limited budgets is a big challenge to high quality research and education in developing countries. Some institutions suffer severe shortages while others enjoy comparatively ... -
Decision support in the operating theatre – usability aspects
(Fountain Publishers Kampala, 2009)Anesthesiology deals with such a complex social system that it can spawn over an infinite number of states. Diagnesia, a prototype built to offer decision support to anesthetists continuously estimates the likelihood and ...