Browsing School of Computing and Informatics Technology (CIT) by Issue Date "2008"
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Agro-meteorological knowledge management system for small scale farmers
(Fountain Publishers, Kampala, 2008)A lot has been done in the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in business yet very little in solving agricultural problems in developing countries. The problem addressed in this paper is the integration ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Co-allocation with communication considerations in multi-cluster systems
(2008)Processor co-allocation can be of performance benefit. This is because breaking jobs into components reduces overall cluster fragmentation. However, the slower inter-cluster communication links increase job execution times. ... -
Collaborative Filtering: A Comparison of Graph-Based Semi-Supervised Learning Methods and Memory-Based Methods
(Fountain Publishers Kampala, 2008)Collaborative filtering is a method of making predictions about the interests of a user based on interest similarity to other users and consequently recommending the predicted items. There is a widespread use of collaborative ... -
Data security lapses in developed societies: public and private sector cases
(Fountain Publishers Kampala, 2008)The loss of twenty five million (25) child-benefit records was disclosed on 20th November 2007 to the House of Commons. The scale of the security lapse at the Treasury’s tax agency, affected almost half the British population. ... -
Delay-optimized path in peer-to-peer networks
(Fountain Publishers kampala, 2008)Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks are popular in sharing multimedia resources such as video, audio and images. Its popularity has attracted very many users thus increasing data streaming along a congested path. The increased ... -
Dynamic Resource Allocation: A Comparison of First Price Sealed Bid and Vickrey Auctions
(Fountain Publishers Kampala, 2008)Resource allocation involves assigning the resources to the resource users. Where the resources and the resource users do not change with time, the resource allocation problem can be solved as a scheduling problem. Where ... -
Electronic information access and utilization by Makerere University students in Uganda
(Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, 2008)Objectives – The objectives of this study were to establish the level of computer utilization skills of Makerere University (Uganda) Library and Information Science (LIS) students; to determine the use of electronic ... -
Exploring the implementation of blended learning in a developing country:a case study of Uganda
(Fountain Publishers Kampala, 2008)This paper explores on how the blended learning method has been implemented in the developing country such as Uganda. Many higher education institutions in Uganda have acquired a new form of learning using technology that ... -
Financial management and budgeting strategies for LIS programmes : Uganda's experience
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2008)Purpose – With the dwindling state funding to support higher education, Universities have been forced to initiate many private programmes to not only generate income for the Universities but also to respond to the high ... -
A flexible approach for user evaluation of biomedical ontologies
(Fountain Publishers kampala, 2008)There has been an emergence of various ontologies describing data from either clinical or biological domains. Associated with this has been the development of integration systems, attempting to combine such biomedical ... -
Game theoretic multi-agent systems scheduler for parallel machines
(Fountain Publishers, Kampala., 2008)This paper considers the scheduling of n independent jobs on m non-identical machines using the ideas from game theory and multi-agent systems. The values of n and m are fixed at 30 and 6 respectively giving a schedule ... -
Generalized association rule mining using genetic algorithms.
(Fountain Publisher Kampala, 2008)We formulate a general Association rule mining model for extracting useful information from very large databases. An interactive Association rule mining system is designed using a combination of genetic algorithms and a ... -
A generic E-Learning framework : a case study Faculty of Computing and Information Technology (CIT) Makerere University
(Fountain Publishers kampala, 2008)Advancement in Information Technology (IT) has led to better facilities and services for learning within educational organizations. Many higher educational institutions of learning have adopted technology in their learning ... -
Geometrical spatial integration model for geo-information management
(Fountain Publishers, Kampala, 2008)Geospatial information systems provide avenues to fulfill users’ quest for both absolute and relative locations of features/objects. To achieve this, the users need to have access to different geospatial data sets from ... -
Globalization challenges of medical education library services in Uganda
(IFLA, 2008)The paper focuses on globalization from the perspective of “information access, transfer, exchange and use”. With the advancement in information and communication technology (ICT), information now flows more easily and ... -
ICT-enabled Services: a critical analysis of the opportunities and challenges in Uganda
(Fountain Publishers Kampala, 2008)In this paper we analyze the potential for ICT enabled services by Ugandan firms to both clients within Uganda and outside Uganda. We highlight the opportunities and challenges of providing ICT-enabled services by Ugandan ...