Information Extraction from Heterogeneous WWW Resources

The information available on the WWW is growing very fast. However, a fundamental problem with the information on the WWW is its lack of structure making its exploitation very difficult. As a result, the desired information is getting more difficult to retrieve and extract. To overcome this problem many tools and techniques are being developed and used for locating the web pages of interest and extracting the desired information from these pages. In this paper we present the first prototype of an Information Extraction (IE) system that attempts to extract information on different Computer Science related courses offered by British Universities

SERVICE-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE INTIATIVES WITH INFORMATION QUALITY: EXPLORING THE ISSUES

The implementation of service-oriented architecture (SOA) initiatives can help a business to leverage technology and to make it more agile and flexible to respond to rapidly changing requirements. However, enterprises cannot fully exploit its benefits, if bad information is delivered that is worthless to customers, suppliers and partners. In this context, there is a need for quality information management to build reliable SOA-based systems from the beginning. Organisations - whether engaged in work-in-progress or at the beginning of SOA initiatives - need to ensure every business process works correctly and according to business needs and requirements, by considering information quality in their initial plans. This paper reports case study research undertaken in seven organisations via semi-structured interviews. It highlights a number of information quality related issues that they encountered during implementation of their SOA initiatives, provides the reasons behind these issues and suggests possible guidelines. Consequently, dimensions of information quality associated with the issues are determined for the organisations? future reference for quality SOA initiatives

Individual student key performance using mobile web apps based on knowledge profile and cumulative grade point average

This study investigated the performance of individual students toward the knowledge profile and cumulative grade point average or known as CGPA. The proposal of this paper involves two major components. The first component is investigating the individual student performance based on the knowledge profile and CGPA. The performance of students from cohort 2017 for the program Bachelor of Electrical Engineering (BEKG) courses in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM) was used as the dataset. The case study separates into various groups (excellent, honors and pass). Secondly, the study proposed a responsive web application leveraging a Google Visualization Feature to self-check individual academic performance. The goal of this app is to assist users in evaluating individual student performance and assist management in planning for continual quality improvement using the web and mobile apps. The marketing segments include students, academics, university, and school administration for analysis and evaluate the individual student’s performance

Destination-Oriented Route in Integrated LRT Web-Based System for Tourism

Light Rail Transit (LRT) Monorail and RapidKL are one of the major public transportations in Kuala Lumpur (KL), Malaysia and by traveling in LRT is said to be the most convenient public transport. In LRT RapidKL, there are three train-lines; Kelana Jaya Line, Ampang Line and Sri Petaling Line. This paper addresses the problem of selecting nearest destination station to a given places of interest such as shopping places, historical places and interesting places which may involve at least two LRT lines and need of interchange station. Thus, the traveler may face difficulty when they choosing incorrect station especially on different LRT lines which lead to time consuming and high cost. Producing web-based system for Internet applications in tourism has become wide spread and within this paper, the development of web-based application where destination-oriented routes need to be dynamically generated by determining the nearest station according to the specified places. In addition, this system provides detail information on interchange station (if any), estimated time arrive, total fares and operating hours

Driving The Business Service-Oriented Architecture Enabled Initiative

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) continues to gain interest and deliver its business value as so many organisations are force to integrate increasingly diverse legacy systems and complex application environments. Organisations are moving towards implementing SOA initiative to become business SOA-enabled for reducing complexity and increasing business agility. Driving the initiative of SOA into business requires a set of requirements in order to successfully implement SOA. These requirements are four fundamentals of SOA initiative with associated seven elements of SOA which have been discovered via thoroughly literature analysis. A model therefore is proposed for businesses to understand how to implement and run SOA to actually achieving benefits from their SOA initiative

A Mobile Application Architecture for Measuring Shaft Misalignment

Shaft alignment task is one of the important issues in manufacturing maintenance particularly to personnel who daily facing misalignment problem. The importance increase as shaft alignment needs high accuracy and precise measurement will reduces bearing and seal damage, minimizes energy loss, and reduces production downtime. Thus, in this paper we present an architecture in developing mobile application for shaft alignment that could saves the user the arduous task of using dial gauges. The aim is to solve engineering maintenance problem that runs on a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) and brings the solution straight to the user’s fingertips. This would shorten processing time, provide reliable and better accuracy analysis and as a medium for data sharing thus increase communication level within a manufacturing plant

Key Challenges Of Development Process Of Building Web-based Business Applications

World Wide Web benefits people by disseminating information limitless for various reasons. Web-based business applications as platform used greatly for communication between people and businesses. Thus, web developers facing some challenges throughout web-based business applications development include its processes to conform business excel. This paper examine the results of a research exercise involving comprehensive literature studies and other relevant information analysis, which aims to discover the key challenges during the development of web-based business applications. Such key challenges may consider important for web developers to building better web-based business applications

Modelling the Quality Aspects of Internet Commerce with Customers’ Shopping Experiences

The growth of the World Wide Web gave birth to online businesses and with rapid changes in web technologies, Internet commerce is expected to grow. Despite the growth, many online businesses have failed. Thus, the quality aspects in developing Internet commerce application are very important issues to the success of customers experience initiatives. This review paper analyses the relevant literature on the aspects of quality in Internet commerce in relation to customers' behaviour. The analysis results reveal that the key aspects of quality are system quality, information quality and service quality which have strong effect on customers' behaviour - trust, satisfaction and loyalty. The importance of quality in Internet commerce needs to be valued and accepted in order to mature and improve the electronic service online for customers

Vendor-Integrated Learning Model in ICT Education

Higher learning institutions around the world are aware that ICT is one of the most constantly changing industries. Learning in this field promises an exciting future by keeping up with technology in which constantly learning new things and developing new skills in various specialisations. Each specialisation is designed for a wide range of job opportunities in the fields of Information Technology, Multimedia and Communication. In view of that, we construct a Vendor-Integrated Learning Model (VILM) in efforts to bridge the knowledge gap between technology and skill sets in today’s competitive job markets. VILM emphasis is on the educational process, which put into practice in Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM) especially in Faculty of Information and Communication Technology (FTMK). There are three major learning elements namely Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Specialisation, Teaching and Learning Approach and Vendor-Based Certification that aims to provide our students with the knowledge, skills and attitude required to contribute towards and play major roles in a knowledge-based economy. The aim of constructing the model is to integrate the three learning elements to produce highly competent graduates

Engineering the Quality in Internet Application for Commerce

With the proliferation of the Internet, Internet applications are being widely deployed commercially and users are increasingly interacting with them especially for buying and selling activities. For many years, these Internet commerce applications have been successfully adopted in businesses to better serve their online customers. It is therefore very important to identify quality factors that are critical to the success of Internet commerce applications for satisfying customers and businesses. This research aims to contribute to the understanding of quality involved in deploying Internet commerce application. The findings of this study would be useful to business users and web developers as it provides guidance to improve the quality of their Internet commerce. The importance of quality in the Internet applications for commerce needs to be accepted in order to increase business performance