School of Computing and informatics: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Open Source ERP Adoption-Use and Organisational Performance of Deposit-Taking Saccos in Kenya
(International Journal of Information Technology, 2019)The cost and benefits of an ERP system are arguably the reason why Deposit-Taking SACCOs are opting for adoption-use of open source ERP in an effort to achieve organisation performance. Technology adoption is only important ... -
Ownership concentration and financial performance of listed firms in Kenya: An econometric analysis using panel data
(European Scientific Journal, 2013)In this study, we use panel methodology comprising 53 firms listed at the Nairobi Securities Exchange to establish the effect of ownership concentration on financial performance of these firms for the period 2007 to 2011. ... -
Implications of service quality on customer loyalty in the banking sector. A survey of Banks in Homabay county, Kenya
(Centre for Promoting Ideas, USA, 2012)Marketing management research has advocated for the establishment of the determinants of customer loyalty to improve customer retention and performance. However, studies on the direct relationship between these determinants ... -
Effect of recruitment and selection of employees on the performance of small and medium enterprises in Kisumu municipality, Kenya
(International Journal of Human Resource Studie, 2012)The study investigated the effect recruitment and election on the performance of SMEs in Kisumu Municipality, Kenya. Kenya has 1.6 million SMEs, constituting 96% of business enterprises, employing 75% of the labour force ... -
A Framework for secure mobile cloud computing in effective electronic learning
(International Journal of Innovative Research and Advanced Studies, 2018)In the last few years, most universities have adopted E-Learning as a new approach to teaching and learning. However, the explosive growth and usage of mobile applications and the emergence of mobile cloud computing concept ... -
CYBER THREATS AND CYBER SECURITY IN THE KENYAN BUSINESS CONTEXT
(GSJ, 2019-09)Cyber security is basically the process of ensuring the safety of cyberspace from known and unknown threats. The International Telecommunication Union states that cyber security is the collective application of strategies, ...