The health sector continues to report that about three quarters of Health Information Systems (HIS) are considered not to have reached the goals of their implementation. This aim of this study is therefore to identify barriers ...

There are numerous arguments for the usefulness of paper prototyping. It allows the identification and prevention of design problems and usability issues before work begins on an electronic proof of concept (EPOC). It ...

Both the research literature and commercial practice is increasingly acknowledging that Web systems development has unique characteristics, primarily reflecting specific elements of the systems being developed. One of ...

The nature of Web system development is significantly different from conventional software development. Amongst other factors, there is substantial uncertainty in both clients' understanding of their needs and developers' ...

Avatars are a commonly used mechanism for representing the player within the world of a game. The avatar forms the main point of interaction between the player and the game, and thus the avatar is an important game design ...

Text detection and recognition for images in multimedia messaging service is a very important task. Since Chinese characters are composed of four kinds of strokes, i.e., horizontal line, top-down vertical line, left-downward ...

Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) has proven to be a valuable analysis tool with a wide range of applications, however the crucial question, choosing an appropriate number of dimensions for LSI, is still unsolved. In this ...

Mining the differences between contrasting groups is an important and challenging task in real world applications such as medical research, social network analysis and link discovery. Yet another important issue that ...

Abstract: This paper compares the CORE rankings of computing conferences and journals to the frequency of citation of those journals and conferences in the Australasian Computer Science Conference (ACSC) 2006, 2007 and ...