Publishers CorporationCanadian Journal on Data Information and Knowledge Engineering
Vol. 1 No. 1, April 2010
Title: ICT in Higher Education – A Study
Authors: A.R.Nadira Banu Kamal and A Thahira Banu
Pages: 1-12
Abstract—Information is growing at an exponential rate and in a variety of formats, especially the digital media. The present age is called as “Era of Information Technology”. IT represents a significant factor in the rapidly changing relationship between user and information. It is well recognized that Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has immense plausible potential for the structural growth of a country. The new information and communication technologies of Internet and multimedia have revolutionized the field of education. Communication is the basic to all communication between teacher and student, between institution and government and between peers...
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Title: Website Accessibility: Why is it is not taught in the Business Curriculum?
Authors: Loreen Powell
Pages: 13-20
Abstract—With small businesses fighting to stay alive in the distressed economy as well as the tremendous amount of competition between business online, why is that businesses websites are not accessible? It is also estimated that over 85% of brick and mortar businesses also sell via the web. The goal of this research was to study the Northeast Pennsylvania (NEPA) business’s websites and university’s business curriculum for accessibility. An accessibility analysis on 298 popular businesses was conducted. The results revealed only 97.9% of the businesses were not fully accessible. Further more, a review of 9 NEPA business colleges, schools, or universities curriculum was evaluated for components dealing with website accessibility. The results revealed that only one college taught website accessibility within the business curriculum. This paper suggests that in order to be competitive in the workforce, businesses need their future workers (students) to learn about web accessibility.
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Title: Data mining with self-organising map techniques for modelling complex ecosystems
Authors: Subana Shanmuganathan, Monte Cassim, William Claster, Yuzuru Isoda, Maryati Mohamed, Alona Linatoc
Pages: 21-29
Abstract—Data mining applications based on Kohonen’s self-organising map (SOM) techniques to resolving real world problems have been successful in many disciplines, one among them is ecological informatics. The details of a few SOM applications to modelling complex natural habitats, such as coastal (inter and subtidal), forest and freshwater population dynamics within an ecosystem framework are initially outlined. Consequently, a potential SOM application to modelling Sabah’s (and similar i.e., Mahua) tropical rain forest biodiversity regeneration is elaborated upon. The initial results of the approach to analysing forest data collected from Mahua show potential for modelling the complex forest plant biodiversity degeneration....
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Title: The Effect of Information Systems on Enterprise Transformation and Organizational Behavior
Authors: Osman Taylan
Pages: 30-39
Abstract—Organizational change and transformation concerns all human, social, and cultural alignment factors which involves business processes, with significant implications to the organization’s management model, and its management style, structure and culture. Organizations have an impact on the establishment of information systems through the decisions made by managers and employees. The relations between organization components are provided by information systems which are difficult to identify and quantify. In this study, the effect of a modern Information system on enterprise transformation was investigated. The approach is that when a new Information System (IS) is constructed, the organization has to be redesigned and reengineered. Since an IS is a socio-technical entity, it requires arrangements of both technical and social elements of the organization. From technical point of view, ISs are seen as engineered artifacts expected to do exactly what they are designed for. Likewise, organizations are seen as information processing systems, exchanging and handling information based on certain rules. Therefore, a new IS involves more than fitting a new hardware and software in an organization which includes changes and redesign in jobs, improvement of skills, and changes in the way of management of enterprises.
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