School of Computing and informatics: Recent submissions
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The Performance of South African and Kenyan Universities on the World Wide Web: a Web Link Analysis
(Cybermetrics: International Journal of Scientometrics, Informetrics and Bibliometrics, 2007)The study used Link Analysis to compare Kenyan and South African universities according to several Web-based indicators, some of which include the number of pages, and the number of in and out-links. The authors examined ... -
IEEE EMBS Fellows List Correction
(IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY, 1999)The list of 1999 IEEE Fellows who are EMBS members was incorrect in the January/February issue (vol. 18, no. 1, p. 14). The confirmed list of newly elected Fellows follows. The IEEE Fellow Committee and its staff extend ... -
Effectiveness of Security Controls On Electronic Health Records
(IJSTR, 2017)Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems enhance efficiency and effectiveness in handling patients ‘information in healthcare. This study focused on the EHR security by initially establishing the nature of threats affecting ... -
E-Government Security: Information Security Management Model for Public Administration in Kenya
(Strathmore University, 2010)nformation security in e-government in public administration in Kenya has not been adequately addressed. In order to develop an Information Security Management Model for Public Administration in Kenya, a questionnaire was ... -
An Enhanced Model For Adoption Of Local Softwares: A Case Of Kenya
(CARI Journals, 2017)Purpose: This study attempted to explain how adoption of local software development is affected by the individual, technological, environmental and organizational determinants in Kenya. Methodology:In this framework, ... -
The Effect of Integrating Mobile Technology in Micro Finance Institutions. Case of Small and Micro-Enterprise Program (SMEP) In Kisumu County
(IOSR Journal of Business and Management, 2014)Recognizing the potential that M-banking holds in strengthening the socioeconomic position of those currently lacking access to banking, especially the rural poor, Safaricom in Kenya and the two leading mobile operators ... -
Assessment of school information system utilization and factors that affect use in Kenyan secondary schools
(University of Nairobi, 2011)This paper describes a study on the utilization of School Information Systems (SIS) in secondary schools in Kenya. It begins by describing the structure of the Education system in Kenya, ICT in educational management and ... -
MAS Architectural Model for Dialog Systems with Advancing Conversations
(International Journal of Scientific Research, 2018-11)Recent handcrafts on dialog manager in task-oriented dialog systems (TODS) offer great promises on handling conversations. However, most tend to be shortsighted in handling advancing conversations. Modelling the future ... -
A Domains Approach to Remote Access Logical Vulnerabilities Classification
(2019)Remote access facilitates collaboration and the creation of a seamless work environment. This technology enables employees to access the latest versions of data and resources from different locations other than the ... -
Shortcomings of Ultrasonic Obstacle Detection for Vehicle Driver Assistance and Profiling
(Int. J. Inf. Technol. Comput. Sci, 2019)Obstacle detection is a challenging problem that has attracted much attention recently, especially in the context of research in self-driving car technologies. A number of obstacle detection technologies exist. Ultrasound ... -
A Domains Approach to Remote Access Logical Vulnerabilities Classification
(MECS: http://www.mecspress.org/ijcnis/ijcnis-v11-n11/IJCNIS-V11-N11-5.pdf., 2019)Remote access facilitates collaboration and the creation of a seamless work environment. This technology enables employees to access the latest versions of data and resources from different locations other than the ... -
Smart-bot Technology: Conversational Agents Role in Maternal Healthcare Support
(2019 IST-Africa Week Conference (IST-Africa), 2019)There is a need for a system that respond to various queries in real-time, to advice and inform expectant mothers during their pregnancy. Several smart services have been deployed, bundled with health information systems, ... -
Checkpointing as a Counter to Security Issues in Cloud Computing Infrastructure
(2019 IEEE AFRICON, 2019)The world is experiencing a paradigm shift towards intelligent agents in form of machine learning for modeling any given task or process. Human vehicle drivers are agents that operate under stochastic environments, full ... -
Detecting Everyday Scenarios in Narrative Texts
(Universitat des Saarlandes, 2019)Script knowledge consists of detailed information on everyday activities. Such information is often taken for granted in text and needs to be inferred by readers. Therefore, script knowledge is a central component to ... -
Script acquisition: a crowdsourcing and text mining approach
(Saarländische Universitäts-und Landesbibliothek, 2020)According to Grice's (1975) theory of pragmatics, people tend to omit basic information when participating in a conversation (or writing a narrative) under the assumption that left out details are already known or can be ... -
Acquiring Relational Patterns from Wikipedia: A Case Study
(Proc. of the 5th Language and Technology Conference, 2011)This paper proposes the automatic acquisition of binary relational patterns (i.e. portions of text expressing a relation between two entities) from Wikipedia. There are a few advantages behind the use of Wikipedia: (i) ... -
A crowdsourced database of event sequence descriptions for the acquisition of high-quality script knowledge
(Universität des Saarlandes, 2016)Scripts are standardized event sequences describing typical everyday activities, which play an important role in the computational modeling of cognitive abilities (in particular for natural language processing). We present ... -
Inducing script structure from crowdsourced event descriptions via semi-supervised clustering
(Universitat des Saarlandes, 2017)We present a semi-supervised clustering approach to induce script structure from crowdsourced descriptions of event sequences by grouping event descriptions into paraphrase sets (representing event types) and inducing ... -
Effect of corporate governance on liquidity due to nonperforming asset portfolios in the banking sector: a case of commercial banks in Kenya
(www. ijern. com, 2017)It’s argued that corporate governance can be linked to liquidity due to non performing asset portfolios (NPAs) in commercial banks in Kenya but this has not been determined empirically. Information is lacking on effect of ... -
An analysis of the effect of performance contracting on supply chain performance of public universities in Kenya
(The Strategic Journal of Business & Change Management, 2019)Kenya Government has been implementing performance contracting in the public sector agencies with an overall goal of improve service delivery to the public. This is a performance improvement tool that assists in setting ...
