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    • Relationship between information systems development paradigms and methods 

      Nabende, Peter; Ahimbisibwe, Benjamin; Lubega, Jude T. (2009)
      There are well established paradigms for information systems development but the methods used for Information Systems Development (ISD) have not been tied to most of these paradigms. Researchers have attempted to document ...

    • The role of academia in fostering private sector competitiveness in ICT development 

      Wanyama, Tom; Baryamureeba, Venansius (Fountain publishers kampala, 2007)
      This paper presents the prerequisite to producing computing graduates who have the skills required to fostering private sector competitiveness in information and communications technology development. Furthermore, the paper ...

    • Security analysis of an agent-mediated book trading application 

      Ssekibuule, Richard; Quenum, Jose Ghislain (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 ...

    • Security analysis of remote e-voting 

      Ssekibuule, Richard (Fountain Publishers Kampala, 2007)
      In this paper, we analyze security considerations for a remote Internet voting system based on the system architecture of remote Internet voting. We examine whether it is feasible to successfully carry out remote ...

    • Service Oriented Telecom Architectures for Enabling Innovative Mobile Services 

      Mekuria, F (Fountain Publishers Kampala, 2008)
      Future networks are characterized by convergence at different technological and service levels. Convergence of fixed and mobile network is a trend that is used to develop service oriented communication networks. This paper ...

    • A simulation modelling-based investigation of the impact of IT infrastructure on business process reengineering 

      Baguma, Innocent; Ssewanyana, Joseph K (Fountain Publishers kampala, 2008)
      The literature on business process reengineering (BPR) has promoted business process reengineering as an essential element in helping organizations to achieve their goals.The literature has further claimed that Information ...

    • Social distancing in indigenous health-seeking knowledge for epidemic control used in Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak 

      Ntege, Jerome (Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA), 2019)
      In 2007 an epidemic broke out in Bundibugyo, natives quickly created barriers and boundaries based on their ethnic differences and village locations in the mountain ridges deterring the movement and mixing of infected ...

    • A socio-economic analysis of forest foods consumption in Hoima and Masindi Districts of Uganda. 

      Banana, Abwoli Y.; Turiho-Habwe, G. P. (African Crop Science Society, 1997)
      Millions of households in the developing world depend on food from forests to supplement their diets especially as emergency food supplies during drought, famine and war periods. Forest foods, therefore, make a critical ...

    • Standards-based B2B e-Commerce Adoption 

      Niwe, Moses (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. ...

    • The status of software usability in Uganda 

      Tushabe, Florence; Baryamureeba, Venansius; Bagyenda, Paul; Ogwang, Cyprian; Jehopio, Peter (Fountain Publishers Kampala, 2008)
      This research investigates the current software usability practices in developing countries, particularly in Uganda. It documents the contemporary user needs, attitudes and challenges that are being experienced in ...

    • Subscriber mobility modeling in wireless networks 

      Wanyama, Tom (Fountain Publishers Kampala, 2007)
      In this paper, a simplified model for user mobility behavior for wireless networks is developed. The model takes into account speed and direction of motion, the two major characteristics of user mobility. A user mobility ...

    • Tertiary ICT Education in the East African Community(EAC) 

      Anthony, Rodrigues J; Muliaro, Wafula J (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 ...

    • Towards a model for implementing local e-government in Uganda 

      Nabafu, Robinah; Maiga, Gilbert (2011)
      The need to implement local e-government for improved service delivery is well documented and various models have been proposed for this important task. However, existing models are known to be suited for implementing ...

    • Towards a reusable ontology framework for biological information integration 

      Maiga, Gilbert; Ddembe, Williams (2007)
      Reusable knowledge structures are becoming increasingly important in the task of information integration. In biological and clinical research where vast amounts of data being generated and need to be shared, the task of ...

    • Towards a website evaluation framework for Universities: case study Makerere University 

      Niyitegeka, Michael (Fountain Publishers Kampala, 2007)
      To what extent do organisational websites contribute to the business value? The development of an organisational website should be guided by the objectives/core functions of the organisation. Websites are tools that are ...

    • Towards compositional support for a heterogeneous repository of software components 

      Lumala, Agnes F. N.; Mugisa, Ezra K. (Fountain Publishers Kampala, 2007)
      Composition of Software Components is a key activity in a component-based software development lifecycle. In this paper we highlight the importance of having development environments for component composition. Currently, ...

    • Towards domain independent named entity recognition 

      Kitoogo, Fredrick Edward; Baryamureeba, Venansius; De Pauw, Guy (Fountain Publishers Kampala, 2008)
      Named entity recognition is a preprocessing tool to many natural language processing tasks, such as text summarization, speech translation, and document categorization. Many systems for named entity recognition have been ...

    • Towards human language technologies for under-resourced languages 

      Muhirwe, Jackson (Fountain Publishers Kampala, 2007)
      Of the over 6000 languages in the world, only a few have the resources for developing human language technologies. Human language technologies are readily available for most languages of the developed nations. ...

    • Translating transliterations 

      Tiedemann, Jörg; Nabende, Peter (Fountain Publishers, Kampala, 2009)
      Translating new entity names is important for improving performance in Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications such as Machine Translation (MT) and Cross Language Information Retrieval (CLIR). Usually, transliteration ...

    • Uganda's visual environment: development and change 

      Kyeyune, George (Triangle Arts Trust, 2002)
      The article looks at the ways in which external factors were a necessary currency for the emergency of new local modernism in visual arts, and at the means by which local resources were used in development in a wider context ...