An Integrated UUM Web-Based Electronic Ticketing Service for Express Bus Service Provider

Conventional bus ticketing transactions without IT supported are not cost-effective nowadays. With the evolution and emergence of Internet technology, there comes a new way of ticketing transaction - electronic ticketing. Internet provides this type of ticketing services available online 24-hour, day and night and anywhere as long as the ticket is still available. UUM is seen to have the ability to occupy this electronic ticketing service to its students. An integrated UUM web based electronic ticketing (UUMET) system was developed to support this idea. The UUMET system is specially designed to UUM student to enable them to make express bus ticket purchase without having to travel to the ticket counter. This project focused only to the development of a prototype for the UUMET system that support the electronic ticket buying transaction to the student of UUM. UUMET system comprises of a database that is built using MySQL database application software Apache server as the web server, and PHP as its application server. The methodology used is object -oriented system development using the Unified Modeling Language - the Unified Approach. The development of the UUMET prototype system applied all phases of the system development life cycle model namely analysis, design, prototyping and testing of the prototype system. The UUMET prototype system is tested using the scenario-based testing applying the concept of black-box strategy in a non-real life environmental

The Use of Biometric Technology for Effective Personnel Management System in Organization

Although the concept of attendance systems has been carried over the years, in recent times the forms of its application has changed. Companies being aware of the importance of personnel attendance to overcome the problems raised from manual attendance systems have started to take advantage of biometric systems. Particularly, fingerprint and facial recognition are the two most used forms for biometric identification, since it is considered as the most reliable and secure method in terms of its uniqueness. Because manual attendance systems are timeconsuming and ineffective, companies review their control mechanisms for personnel attendance to integrate new technologies in their operations. This article proposes a new generation technological structure used to get effective results in personnel attendance systems. There are plenty of personnel attendance control systems in the market both for multinational companies or small companies. However, the number of web-based form of these systems is limited. Web-based personnel attendance control systems is quickly becoming one of the fastest growing technologies that enables instant data flow and reporting. According to the literature reviewed, more and more companies in Turkey have benefited over the time from web-based personnel attendance control systems. Nevertheless, there are not enough researches about it. The aim of this article is to design and implement a web-based attendance system for personnel in an organization by using biometric system (fingerprints and facial recognition combining with RFID card and password authentication) and support managers to make effective and efficient decision-making process. The proposed system has been implemented by following the steps of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). In the process of software development, a waterfall model was chosen that was used in many software projects and that composed of analysis, design, coding, test, version and maintenance phases. Since it is a linear sequential, progress is seen as flowing steadily downward (like a waterfall) through the phases of software implementation. Even though the waterfall approach is the earliest approach, it is still most widely known for software development. This research is expected to help managers in educational institutions in terms of effective personnel management, especially for institutions that have large number of employees. In addition, the developed system can also help educational institutions for adopting their personnel attendance system to new technologies. It was also known that private organizations use this kind of systems. However, educational institutions can also take advantage of biometric data in the web-based personnel management system.     Keywords: personnel attendance control system, personnel management, biometric systems, fingerprints and facial recognitio

A mobile application to assist Non - Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in effective mornitoring and evaluation of projects in Kenya

Thesis Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Science in Mobile Telecommunication and Innovation (MSc. MTI) at Strathmore UniversityNon-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) are constantly in the process of reviewing ways in which monitoring and evaluation can achieve greater consistency and effectiveness in judging the impact of a project as well as getting recommendations on how future interventions can be improved. Developing a reporting, monitoring and evaluation system is therefore a requirement due to the growing pressure for improving performance. This is also one of the requirements by the NGOs and donors to check on the effective use of the donor funds, impact and benefits brought by the projects. This dissertation seeks to examine the challenges faced by Kenyan community based NGOs, in tracking the performance of projects. It also establishes the extent to which technology is used in reporting, monitoring and evaluation of projects by NGOs. The design, development and testing of the functionalities in the capacity building mobile application to assist NGOs in effective reporting, monitoring and evaluation of projects is presented. The target population for this dissertation was 10 NGOs in Kenya who are well established. Purposive and snowball sampling was used to select a sample of 30 respondents from the 10 NGOs selected. Data was collected using face to face and phone interviews and analysed using cross case analysis to facilitate the development of capacity building mobile application. The study adopted feature driven development methodology for system modelling and development. This model describes specific, short phases of tasks which are accomplished separately. A mobile and web application was developed to assist NGOs in reporting, monitoring an evaluation of projects. The final prototype was tested to check if the requirements were met. Testing and validation was also conducted by both the developer and potential users of the application to ensure the code developed was workable

Incorporating Agile with MDA Case Study: Online Polling System

Nowadays agile software development is used in greater extend but for small organizations only, whereas MDA is suitable for large organizations but yet not standardized. In this paper the pros and cons of Model Driven Architecture (MDA) and Extreme programming have been discussed. As both of them have some limitations and cannot be used in both large scale and small scale organizations a new architecture has been proposed. In this model it is tried to opt the advantages and important values to overcome the limitations of both the software development procedures. In support to the proposed architecture the implementation of it on Online Polling System has been discussed and all the phases of software development have been explained.Comment: 14 pages,1 Figure,1 Tabl

A Practical Environment to Apply Model-Driven Web Engineering

The application of a model-driven paradigm in the development of Web Systems has yielded very good research results. Several research groups are defining metamodels, transformations, and tools which offer a suitable environment, known as model-driven Web engineering (MDWE). However, there are very few practical experiences in real Web system developments using real development teams. This chapter presents a practical environment of MDWE based on the use of NDT (navigational development techniques) and Java Web systems, and it provides a practical evaluation of its application within a real project: specialized Diraya.Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia TIN2007-67843-C06-03Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia TIN2007-30391-

A Practical Example for Model-Driven Web Requirements

The number of approaches for Web environments has grown very fast in the last years: HDM, OOHDM, and WSDM were among the first, and now a large number can be found in the literature. With the definition of MDA (Model- Driven Architecture) and the acceptance of MDE (Model-Driven Engineering) techniques in this environment, some groups are working in the use of metamodels and transformations to make their approaches more powerful. UWE (UMLBased Web Engineering) or OOWS (Object-Oriented Web Solutions) are only some examples. However, there are few real experiences with Web Engineering in the enterprise environment, and very few real applications of metamodels and MDE techniques. In this chapter the practical experience of a Web Engineering approach, NDT, in a big project developed in Andalusia is presented. Besides, it shows the usability of metamodels in real environments

A Model-Driven Approach for Business Process Management

The Business Process Management is a common mechanism recommended by a high number of standards for the management of companies and organizations. In software companies this practice is every day more accepted and companies have to assume it, if they want to be competitive. However, the effective definition of these processes and mainly their maintenance and execution are not always easy tasks. This paper presents an approach based on the Model-Driven paradigm for Business Process Management in software companies. This solution offers a suitable mechanism that was implemented successfully in different companies with a tool case named NDTQ-Framework.Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia TIN2010-20057-C03-02Junta de Andalucía TIC-578

A quality management based on the Quality Model life cycle

Managing quality is a hard and expensive task that involves the execution and control of processes and techniques. For a good quality management, it is important to know the current state and the objective to be achieved. It is essential to take into account with a Quality Model that specifies the purposes of managing quality. QuEF (Quality Evaluation Framework) is a framework to manage quality in MDWE (Model-driven Web Engineering). This paper suggests managing quality but pointing out the Quality Model life cycle. The purpose is to converge toward a quality continuous improvement by means of reducing effort and time.Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación TIN2010-20057-C03-02Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación TIN 2010-12312-EJunta de Andalucía TIC-578

Applying model-driven paradigm: CALIPSOneo experience

Model-Driven Engineering paradigm is being used by the research community in the last years, obtaining suitable results. However, there are few practical experiences in the enterprise field. This paper presents the use of this paradigm in an aeronautical PLM project named CALIPSOneo currently under development in Airbus. In this context, NDT methodology was adapted as methodology in order to be used by the development team. The paper presents this process and the results that we are getting from the project. Besides, some relevant learned lessons from the trenches are concluded.Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación TIN2010-20057-C03-02Junta de Andalucía TIC-578