Browsing School of Computing and Informatics Technology (CIT) Collection by Type
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Assessment of records management practices at All Saints Cathedral, Kampala
(Makerere University, 2022-03)A study was carried out to assess records management practices at All Saints Cathedral, Kampala. The objectives of the study were; To establish the existing church records at ASCK; to find out how church records are managed ... -
Assessment of the working of Local Government Information and Communication System (LOGICS) in Eastern Uganda: a case study of Jinja and Bugiri Districts
(Makerere University, 2011-11)The aim of this study was to assess the working of the Local Government Information and Communication System (LOGICS) in Eastern Uganda, with Jinja and Bugiri districts as the case study. The objectives of the study were: ... -
Association rule mining using evolutionary computing
(Makerere University, 2012-11)In this thesis we address the Association Rule Mining (ARM) problem of the Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) processes. ARM is computationally very expensive due to the exponential growth of the number of rules ... -
Automated diagnosis of malaria in thick blood smear films: deep neural network approach
(Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, 2022-02-28)Malaria, a mosquito-borne life-threatening disease, is one of the major health hazards in Sub-Saharan Africa. The potency of the disease is exacerbated by delayed and inaccurate diagnosis using the standard microscopy ... -
Automated diagnosis of malaria with scale invariant feature transforms and cascades of boosted classiers.
(Makerere University, 2012-09)In recent years, many research have been devoted to the exploration of techniques of malaria diagnosis; however, few have devoted time to automated diagnosis using computer vision techniques. In fact, no attempts have been ... -
Auxiliary cluster head protocol for mobile wireless sensor networks.
(Makerere University, 2023-11-05)The design focus of routing protocols has shifted from static nodes to mobile nodes with capability of sensing several types of events. As such the routing protocols that are deployed with these sensors should put into ... -
A blockchain-based ecosystem framework for data sharing in the Airport Operations Domain
(Makerere University, 2022-12)Modern organisations use software systems to automate their business processes. However, these organisations co-exist with others in their respective business ecosys- tem which may exist in a particular domain. In a business ... -
Characterization of practices and measurements in software start-ups in an emerging ecosystem
(Makerere University, 2022-04)Software start-ups support the development of innovative products and services. They can support the transformation of industrial sectors in terms of new technologies and ways of working, and they can promote the sustainable ... -
Comparative analysis of the coverage of the New Vision and the Daily Monitor on rural poverty alleviation in Uganda from 1st January, 2007 to 31st December, 2009
(Makerere University, 2013)Aim: The purpose of this study was to assess the treatment accorded to the coverage of rural poverty alleviation in Uganda in both the New Vision and the Daily Monitor newspapers which are the most widely circulated daily ... -
Computational assessment of the validity of elections
(Makarere University, 2018-09-07)In the concluded presidential elections of 2016, the opposition claimed that there was voter bribery, harassment of opposition candidates, un-equal media coverage, late delivery of voting materials in opposition strongholds, ... -
A Computational Fusion Of Distributed Ledger And Smart Card Technologies For Medical Information Access Control
(Makerere University, 2023)Privacy is considered a human right and freedom that must be enjoyed by everyone. This extends to information including medical records where the lack of Access control has enabled organizations or stakeholders to manage ... -
Cooperative relay for preemptive transmission in underlay cognitive radio networks
(Makerere University, 2018)Transmission in underlay cognitive radio networks under the interference power constraint to primary receiver nodes have previously been analyzed under non preemptive cooperation, with SUs having non preemptive cooperation ... -
Critical parameters for adoption of Software Capability Maturity Model in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
(Makerere University, 2012-07)Controlling and improving the processes used to develop software has been proposed as a primary remedy to the problems of schedule, over budget and non conformity to requirements in software development (Kurniawati et al ... -
A cyber security architecture for improving remote laboratories security: a case of Makerere University ILabs
(Makerere University, 2023-01-09)Online/remote laboratories play a very crucial role in offering practical experiments to engineering classes as a solution to offset the limitations and burdens of traditional physical laboratories. However, being online ... -
A Decision Support Framework for monitoring drought in Uganda
(Makerere University, 2021-05-19)Drought is one of the most dangerous natural hazards that has affected most of the world’s regions and large populations. In this study, both quantitative and qualitative approaches for monitoring drought based on ... -
A decision support model for estimating above-ground carbon stock changes in Mabira forest reserve
(Makerere University, 2018-12-31)Forests are major contributors to the carbon cycle, sustainable forest management is key for stabilising carbon emissions, global warming and climate change. Mabira forest is one of the tropical high forests in Uganda but ... -
Decision support system for predicting Typhoid disease occurrence based on environmental factors
(Makerere University, 2019-09)Environmental factors like temperature, rainfall and humidity are assumed to play an important role in the incidence of typhoid fever. According to (Wang, 2012), climatic variables such as, rainfall, vapour pressure and ... -
A deep learning approach for breast cancer diagnosis in ultrasound images
(Makerere University, 2022-09-20)Breast cancer is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among women in Sub-Saharan Africa. However, the most popular breast lesion screening modality, ultrasound, yields noisy images prone to subjective radiological ... -
Deep learning model for the detection of universal plug and play (UPNP) based attacks in UPNP devices
(Makerere University, 2021-02)The Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol is used by several devices to discover and advertise services to other devices in order to establish connections for data sharing transparently. Its simplicity and zero-configuration ... -
Deploying and utilizing learning objects on mobile phones
(2010-11)An increasing desire to port learning on mobile phones (m-learning) exists. However, there is limited understanding on how to pedagogically obtain access to and use learning objects on mobile phones. The limited understanding ...