More than 9.5 million people die in the developing world unnecessarily each year due not to a lack of medicine but due to poor information management. It is proposed that the IS Discipline could contribute to resolving ...

The assessment of COBIT process maturity levels for each COBIT process is fraught with many problems regarding the objectivity of the end result. This paper attempts to align the generic aspects of the COBIT 4.1 process ...

In many image processing applications, the structures conveyed in the image contour can often be described by a set of connected ellipses. Previous fitting methods to align the connected ellipse structure with a contour, ...

The wide adoption of Web Services and the availability of web APIs are transforming the web into a programmatic environment for developing innovative web applications that combine information from various sources to provide ...

The paradigm of "access, anytime. anywhere" has been critiqued within the mobile HCI literature as a broad assumption that simplifies understandings of actual work practice and as an example of rhetoric that allows ...

Audiovisual streaming has been extensively used in synchronous virtual classroom applications. Until recently, content-based processing has rarely being used in real-time streaming. We present in this paper, an ...

JavaMath is free software oriented toward integrating existing compute engines, such as Maple or GAP, into Internet accessible mathematical services. The architecture of the API is described and its use explained .

H5N1 avian influenza outbreak detection is a significant issue for early warning of epidemics. This paper proposes domain knowledge-based joint one class classification model for avian influenza outbreak. Instead of focusing ...

In this article, theories of human judgement and decision making are reviewed and their use by library and information science researchers examined. A different perspective on judgement and decision making is offered by ...