ABSTRACT: The rapid development of the IT infrastructure and the increase in Internet usage aroun... more ABSTRACT: The rapid development of the IT infrastructure and the increase in Internet usage around the world has tremendously enhanced the ability to provide e-services for customers. Generally cost is considered as one of the major barriers to implement such ...
Cloud Computing technology is achieving a significant cost saving, business agility, and high sca... more Cloud Computing technology is achieving a significant cost saving, business agility, and high scalability. However, it is a relatively new technology and its successful implementation in the governmental organizations needs careful consideration due to data sensit ivity. Success -ful adoption of cloud-based solutions is the key for realizing the expected benefits of cloud computing technologies in the public agencies. The aim of this research is to develop a strategic framework to adopt cloud-based solutions in the public sector to improve e-government processes in developing countries. The purpose of the developed framework is to reduce the time and cost of the processes that contain interaction among governmental agencies and citizens through adopting cloud-based solutions. The framework was formulated based on the collected data analysis and the conclusions from experts' interviews. This study provides detailed guideli nes to a successful launch and implementation of cloud-based solutions for e-government initiatives in the public sector.
The graphical password strategy could really change how a typical user would insert their passwor... more The graphical password strategy could really change how a typical user would insert their password and how secure it could be, it still has its flaws and limitations. One of the limitations of a graphical password strategy is that it could be prone to shoulder surfing. Without having a password field just like an alphanumeric password would have, a graphical password could be physically observed and especially in public places and the attacker has a clear visual of the password being inserted for multiple times, they could easily crack the password which is quite a severe flaw. Another potential limitation of a graphical password strategy is that it is prone to guessing as well. Same as an alphanumeric password, if the user only registered a short and predictable password, the chances of it being prone to guessing would increase. To overcome these potential limitations, a shoulder surfing resistant technique could be implemented such as including multiple mouse cursors when the user...
International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering
This research is conducted on theoretical model on the strategies of learning vocabulary employed... more This research is conducted on theoretical model on the strategies of learning vocabulary employed on Saudi school Malaysia targeting secondary students. Thus, this research aims to measure students’ motivation, language learning environment attitudes and beliefs on the light of the previous related literature especially the challenges reported in previous models and theories. A quantitative method was followed in this research. As for the main tool of data collection, a questionnaire was distributed among 105 students. The data obtained from the questionnaire was analyzed using AMOSSEM. In particular, the SEM was used for the independent variables which were dependent in a subsequent dependent relationship. It was found out that SSM students do face challenges in terms of vocabulary learning in the different stages of their learning. Regardless of the challenges students face, the current research found out that the majority of them involved in this research understand the importanc...
International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering
recently, a rapidly increasing type of education that is mostly adopted by higher education in de... more recently, a rapidly increasing type of education that is mostly adopted by higher education in developed countries is known as E-learning. The aim of the research was to evaluating students’ satisfaction of e-Learning. In the current research, both the theory of technology acceptance model (TAM) and the method of employed structural equation modelling (SEM) with Smart PLS were used to examine the process of students' adoption. It has been found that the learning satisfaction was positively influenced by the perceived ease of use (PEOU), perceived usefulness (PU) and intention to use (IU) as witnessed among university students. Significant and positive perceptions towards e-learning and intend to practice it by university students in Malaysia have been observed by this research.
(IJACSA) International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, 2019
Graduation certificates issued by universities and other educational institutions are one of the ... more Graduation certificates issued by universities and other educational institutions are one of the most important documents for a graduate. It is a proof of graduate's qualifications and can be used to advance forward in one's career and life. However, due to advances in software, printing and photocopying technologies, forgery of those certificates is made easy and as good as the original, making them difficult to detect. Several universities and educational institutions as well as businesses started to dedicate resources for verifying certificates however that is usually a tedious and quite costly process and there isn't a clear model that can be adopted by those institutions that could minimize cost and speed up the process. There are many techniques proposed for paper based document verification and this paper analyzes and expatiate the issues on those techniques. Most of the verification techniques require change in the process of certificate generation either by chan...
Majority of architecture, engineering and construction projects spent a considerable time collect... more Majority of architecture, engineering and construction projects spent a considerable time collecting and analysing related information throughout the execution of each single project activity. The flow of these related information among project activities is usually more frequent than the work flow itself. Therefore, collaboration is vital to project success and considered as one of the causal success factors in project management and development. Teams with high levels of collaboration and coordination have been shown to be more effective. There is a global realisation of how important to implement and integrate IT in the construction process in order to reduce cost and achieve more efficient projects. On the other hand, the ineffective use of IT in managing information exacerbates the amount of rework that occurs during many construction projects.
A modeling of animal diseases through using artificial neural network, 2018
This paper studied the implementation of Artificial Neural Network (ANN) where it well-known rece... more This paper studied the implementation of Artificial Neural Network (ANN) where it well-known recently in veterinary disease research field in Malaysia. The parameter identification under consideration is types of animal disease, types of species and location s of disease based on the Geographical Information System (GIS) data set. There are many types of animal diseases that affect farm animals in Ma-laysia. In this research, the method of multilayer perceptron neural network is used as main model since it is an effective s olving method in predicting the future of veterinary disease. ANN has ability to visual animal diseases involving the computational model. The model is to present the relationship between causes of the species and location and consequence of animal disease without emphasizing the process , considering the initial and boundary condition and considering the nature of the relations. The data collection of animal disease is considered as a large sparse data set. Ther...
International Journal of Advanced Trends in Computer Science and Engineering, 2020
Cloud technology has been widely adopted across the world in manufacturing as well as service sec... more Cloud technology has been widely adopted across the world in manufacturing as well as service sector. However, adoption of cloud in the Malaysian hospitality industry is limited due to the lack of investment in information technology (IT) and lack of understanding pertaining to the actions that are required to be taken for adoption of cloud in hospitality organization. The inability of the Malaysian hospitality firms to catch up with the technological learning curve of multinational hospitality chains have increased the gap between the competitiveness and subjected the Malaysian hospitality industry to lose potential customers to the multinational hotels. The inability of the Malaysia based hotels to attract the guests reduces the contribution that the industry can make towards enhancement of the economy. Therefore, the Malaysian Tourism Transformation Plan (MTTP) has been conceptualized by the Malaysian government. The objectives of MTTP lies in attracting 36 million tourists from ...
Cloud Computing technology is achieving a significant cost saving, business agility, and high sca... more Cloud Computing technology is achieving a significant cost saving, business agility, and high scalability. However, it is a relatively new technology and its successful implementation in the governmental organizations needs careful consideration due to data sensitivity. Successful adoption of cloud-based solutions is the key for realizing the huge expected benefits of cloud computing technologies in the public agencies. The aim of this research is to develop a strategic framework to adopt cloud-based solutions in the public sector to improve e-government processes in Iraq. The purpose of the developed framework is to reduce the time and cost of the processes that contain interaction among governmental agencies and citizens through adopting cloud-based solutions. The framework was formulated based on the collected data analysis and the conclusions from experts interviews. This study provides detailed guidelines to a successful launch and implementation of cloud-based solutions for e-...
International Journal of Information and Education Technology
This research aims to develop guidelines on designing Distance Learning (DL) courses through Mood... more This research aims to develop guidelines on designing Distance Learning (DL) courses through Moodle system to enhance student’s satisfaction and academic achievements in online learning environments. This research consists of two main phases; phase one aims to develop a DL course based on ADDIE course design strategy via Moodle system; phase two was the interview part, wherein a qualitative approach was employed to give an inclusive insight into this matter. Ten participants were interviewed. The interview group consists of two, three, and four participants in each group. Based on the interview results the researcher noted that student autonomy or self-educating is the key point for the students to overcome the challenges during the DL experience. The interviewees commented that this experience had improved their satisfaction in several ways. In conclusion, this experience provided them with a platform where they can be more active and collaborative in their own learning process.
Periodica Polytechnica Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2020
The goal of compression techniques is to reducing the size of data and decreasing the communicati... more The goal of compression techniques is to reducing the size of data and decreasing the communication cost while transferring data. Fractal based coding technique is widely used to compress images files which provides high compression ratio and good image quality. However, like a compression technique, it is still limited because of the difference of the human perceptions between audio and image files, the long time for searching the best possible domain blocks and many comparisons in the encoding process. For those reasons, Fractal Coding had not broadly studied on audio data. Few years ago, Fractal Coding has been extended to apply on the audio data. In this paper, the application of the Fractal Coding on different types of audio files is investigated. Moreover, the effect of block length on the audio quality and compression performance are highlighted since block length is considered the main factor in the Fractal Coding algorithm. A GTZAN dataset is adopted in the evaluation and t...
International Journal of Information and Education Technology, 2021
This research aims to develop guidelines on designing Distance Learning (DL) courses through Mood... more This research aims to develop guidelines on designing Distance Learning (DL) courses through Moodle system to enhance student's satisfaction and academic achievements in online learning environments. This research consists of two main phases; phase one aims to develop a DL course based on ADDIE course design strategy via Moodle system; phase two was the interview part, wherein a qualitative approach was employed to give an inclusive insight into this matter. Ten participants were interviewed. The interview group consists of two, three, and four participants in each group. Based on the interview results the researcher noted that student autonomy or self-educating is the key point for the students to overcome the challenges during the DL experience. The interviewees commented that this experience had improved their satisfaction in several ways. In conclusion, this experience provided them with a platform where they can be more active and collaborative in their own learning process.
Majority of Architecture, Engineering and construction projects spent a considerable time collect... more Majority of Architecture, Engineering and construction projects spent a considerable time collecting and analysing related information throughout the execution of each single project activity. The flow of these related information among project activities is usually more frequent than the work flow itself. Therefore, collaboration is vital to project success and considered as one of the causal success factors in project management and development. Teams with high levels of collaboration and coordination have been shown to be more effective. There is a global reliazation of how important to implement and integrate IT in the construction process in odrer to reduce cost and achive more efficient projects. In the other hand, the ineffective use of IT in managing information exacerbates the amount of rework that occurs during many constrcution projects.
International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms
Majority of Architecture, Engineering and construction projects spent a considerable time collect... more Majority of Architecture, Engineering and construction projects spent a considerable time collecting and analysing related information throughout the execution of each single project activity. The flow of these related information among project activities is usually more frequent than the work flow itself. Therefore, collaboration is vital to project success and considered as one of the causal success factors in project management and development. Teams with high levels of collaboration and coordination have been shown to be more effective. There is a global reliazation of how important to implement and integrate IT in the construction process in odrer to reduce cost and achive more efficient projects. In the other hand, the ineffective use of IT in managing information exacerbates the amount of rework that occurs during many constrcution projects.
The aim of this research was to reduce the dissimilarities in the literature regarding the use of... more The aim of this research was to reduce the dissimilarities in the literature regarding the use of social media platforms (SMPs) for training and its impact on students' satisfaction and academic performance in higher education institutions. The main method of data collection for Communication Theory (CT) was a questionnaire survey. This research hypothesizes that CT applied to social media platforms for learning will affect online communication, motives to communicate, communication self-efficacy and attitude towards usethat in turn improve students' satisfaction and students' academic performance. The data collection questionnaire was conducted with 309 students familiar with social media platforms. Quantitative structural equation modeling was employed to analyze the results. A significant relationship was found between online communication, motives to communicate, communication self-efficacy and attitude towards usefeatures with TC for utilizing social media platforms...
ABSTRACT: The rapid development of the IT infrastructure and the increase in Internet usage aroun... more ABSTRACT: The rapid development of the IT infrastructure and the increase in Internet usage around the world has tremendously enhanced the ability to provide e-services for customers. Generally cost is considered as one of the major barriers to implement such ...
Cloud Computing technology is achieving a significant cost saving, business agility, and high sca... more Cloud Computing technology is achieving a significant cost saving, business agility, and high scalability. However, it is a relatively new technology and its successful implementation in the governmental organizations needs careful consideration due to data sensit ivity. Success -ful adoption of cloud-based solutions is the key for realizing the expected benefits of cloud computing technologies in the public agencies. The aim of this research is to develop a strategic framework to adopt cloud-based solutions in the public sector to improve e-government processes in developing countries. The purpose of the developed framework is to reduce the time and cost of the processes that contain interaction among governmental agencies and citizens through adopting cloud-based solutions. The framework was formulated based on the collected data analysis and the conclusions from experts' interviews. This study provides detailed guideli nes to a successful launch and implementation of cloud-based solutions for e-government initiatives in the public sector.
The graphical password strategy could really change how a typical user would insert their passwor... more The graphical password strategy could really change how a typical user would insert their password and how secure it could be, it still has its flaws and limitations. One of the limitations of a graphical password strategy is that it could be prone to shoulder surfing. Without having a password field just like an alphanumeric password would have, a graphical password could be physically observed and especially in public places and the attacker has a clear visual of the password being inserted for multiple times, they could easily crack the password which is quite a severe flaw. Another potential limitation of a graphical password strategy is that it is prone to guessing as well. Same as an alphanumeric password, if the user only registered a short and predictable password, the chances of it being prone to guessing would increase. To overcome these potential limitations, a shoulder surfing resistant technique could be implemented such as including multiple mouse cursors when the user...
International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering
This research is conducted on theoretical model on the strategies of learning vocabulary employed... more This research is conducted on theoretical model on the strategies of learning vocabulary employed on Saudi school Malaysia targeting secondary students. Thus, this research aims to measure students’ motivation, language learning environment attitudes and beliefs on the light of the previous related literature especially the challenges reported in previous models and theories. A quantitative method was followed in this research. As for the main tool of data collection, a questionnaire was distributed among 105 students. The data obtained from the questionnaire was analyzed using AMOSSEM. In particular, the SEM was used for the independent variables which were dependent in a subsequent dependent relationship. It was found out that SSM students do face challenges in terms of vocabulary learning in the different stages of their learning. Regardless of the challenges students face, the current research found out that the majority of them involved in this research understand the importanc...
International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering
recently, a rapidly increasing type of education that is mostly adopted by higher education in de... more recently, a rapidly increasing type of education that is mostly adopted by higher education in developed countries is known as E-learning. The aim of the research was to evaluating students’ satisfaction of e-Learning. In the current research, both the theory of technology acceptance model (TAM) and the method of employed structural equation modelling (SEM) with Smart PLS were used to examine the process of students' adoption. It has been found that the learning satisfaction was positively influenced by the perceived ease of use (PEOU), perceived usefulness (PU) and intention to use (IU) as witnessed among university students. Significant and positive perceptions towards e-learning and intend to practice it by university students in Malaysia have been observed by this research.
(IJACSA) International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, 2019
Graduation certificates issued by universities and other educational institutions are one of the ... more Graduation certificates issued by universities and other educational institutions are one of the most important documents for a graduate. It is a proof of graduate's qualifications and can be used to advance forward in one's career and life. However, due to advances in software, printing and photocopying technologies, forgery of those certificates is made easy and as good as the original, making them difficult to detect. Several universities and educational institutions as well as businesses started to dedicate resources for verifying certificates however that is usually a tedious and quite costly process and there isn't a clear model that can be adopted by those institutions that could minimize cost and speed up the process. There are many techniques proposed for paper based document verification and this paper analyzes and expatiate the issues on those techniques. Most of the verification techniques require change in the process of certificate generation either by chan...
Majority of architecture, engineering and construction projects spent a considerable time collect... more Majority of architecture, engineering and construction projects spent a considerable time collecting and analysing related information throughout the execution of each single project activity. The flow of these related information among project activities is usually more frequent than the work flow itself. Therefore, collaboration is vital to project success and considered as one of the causal success factors in project management and development. Teams with high levels of collaboration and coordination have been shown to be more effective. There is a global realisation of how important to implement and integrate IT in the construction process in order to reduce cost and achieve more efficient projects. On the other hand, the ineffective use of IT in managing information exacerbates the amount of rework that occurs during many construction projects.
A modeling of animal diseases through using artificial neural network, 2018
This paper studied the implementation of Artificial Neural Network (ANN) where it well-known rece... more This paper studied the implementation of Artificial Neural Network (ANN) where it well-known recently in veterinary disease research field in Malaysia. The parameter identification under consideration is types of animal disease, types of species and location s of disease based on the Geographical Information System (GIS) data set. There are many types of animal diseases that affect farm animals in Ma-laysia. In this research, the method of multilayer perceptron neural network is used as main model since it is an effective s olving method in predicting the future of veterinary disease. ANN has ability to visual animal diseases involving the computational model. The model is to present the relationship between causes of the species and location and consequence of animal disease without emphasizing the process , considering the initial and boundary condition and considering the nature of the relations. The data collection of animal disease is considered as a large sparse data set. Ther...
International Journal of Advanced Trends in Computer Science and Engineering, 2020
Cloud technology has been widely adopted across the world in manufacturing as well as service sec... more Cloud technology has been widely adopted across the world in manufacturing as well as service sector. However, adoption of cloud in the Malaysian hospitality industry is limited due to the lack of investment in information technology (IT) and lack of understanding pertaining to the actions that are required to be taken for adoption of cloud in hospitality organization. The inability of the Malaysian hospitality firms to catch up with the technological learning curve of multinational hospitality chains have increased the gap between the competitiveness and subjected the Malaysian hospitality industry to lose potential customers to the multinational hotels. The inability of the Malaysia based hotels to attract the guests reduces the contribution that the industry can make towards enhancement of the economy. Therefore, the Malaysian Tourism Transformation Plan (MTTP) has been conceptualized by the Malaysian government. The objectives of MTTP lies in attracting 36 million tourists from ...
Cloud Computing technology is achieving a significant cost saving, business agility, and high sca... more Cloud Computing technology is achieving a significant cost saving, business agility, and high scalability. However, it is a relatively new technology and its successful implementation in the governmental organizations needs careful consideration due to data sensitivity. Successful adoption of cloud-based solutions is the key for realizing the huge expected benefits of cloud computing technologies in the public agencies. The aim of this research is to develop a strategic framework to adopt cloud-based solutions in the public sector to improve e-government processes in Iraq. The purpose of the developed framework is to reduce the time and cost of the processes that contain interaction among governmental agencies and citizens through adopting cloud-based solutions. The framework was formulated based on the collected data analysis and the conclusions from experts interviews. This study provides detailed guidelines to a successful launch and implementation of cloud-based solutions for e-...
International Journal of Information and Education Technology
This research aims to develop guidelines on designing Distance Learning (DL) courses through Mood... more This research aims to develop guidelines on designing Distance Learning (DL) courses through Moodle system to enhance student’s satisfaction and academic achievements in online learning environments. This research consists of two main phases; phase one aims to develop a DL course based on ADDIE course design strategy via Moodle system; phase two was the interview part, wherein a qualitative approach was employed to give an inclusive insight into this matter. Ten participants were interviewed. The interview group consists of two, three, and four participants in each group. Based on the interview results the researcher noted that student autonomy or self-educating is the key point for the students to overcome the challenges during the DL experience. The interviewees commented that this experience had improved their satisfaction in several ways. In conclusion, this experience provided them with a platform where they can be more active and collaborative in their own learning process.
Periodica Polytechnica Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2020
The goal of compression techniques is to reducing the size of data and decreasing the communicati... more The goal of compression techniques is to reducing the size of data and decreasing the communication cost while transferring data. Fractal based coding technique is widely used to compress images files which provides high compression ratio and good image quality. However, like a compression technique, it is still limited because of the difference of the human perceptions between audio and image files, the long time for searching the best possible domain blocks and many comparisons in the encoding process. For those reasons, Fractal Coding had not broadly studied on audio data. Few years ago, Fractal Coding has been extended to apply on the audio data. In this paper, the application of the Fractal Coding on different types of audio files is investigated. Moreover, the effect of block length on the audio quality and compression performance are highlighted since block length is considered the main factor in the Fractal Coding algorithm. A GTZAN dataset is adopted in the evaluation and t...
International Journal of Information and Education Technology, 2021
This research aims to develop guidelines on designing Distance Learning (DL) courses through Mood... more This research aims to develop guidelines on designing Distance Learning (DL) courses through Moodle system to enhance student's satisfaction and academic achievements in online learning environments. This research consists of two main phases; phase one aims to develop a DL course based on ADDIE course design strategy via Moodle system; phase two was the interview part, wherein a qualitative approach was employed to give an inclusive insight into this matter. Ten participants were interviewed. The interview group consists of two, three, and four participants in each group. Based on the interview results the researcher noted that student autonomy or self-educating is the key point for the students to overcome the challenges during the DL experience. The interviewees commented that this experience had improved their satisfaction in several ways. In conclusion, this experience provided them with a platform where they can be more active and collaborative in their own learning process.
Majority of Architecture, Engineering and construction projects spent a considerable time collect... more Majority of Architecture, Engineering and construction projects spent a considerable time collecting and analysing related information throughout the execution of each single project activity. The flow of these related information among project activities is usually more frequent than the work flow itself. Therefore, collaboration is vital to project success and considered as one of the causal success factors in project management and development. Teams with high levels of collaboration and coordination have been shown to be more effective. There is a global reliazation of how important to implement and integrate IT in the construction process in odrer to reduce cost and achive more efficient projects. In the other hand, the ineffective use of IT in managing information exacerbates the amount of rework that occurs during many constrcution projects.
International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms
Majority of Architecture, Engineering and construction projects spent a considerable time collect... more Majority of Architecture, Engineering and construction projects spent a considerable time collecting and analysing related information throughout the execution of each single project activity. The flow of these related information among project activities is usually more frequent than the work flow itself. Therefore, collaboration is vital to project success and considered as one of the causal success factors in project management and development. Teams with high levels of collaboration and coordination have been shown to be more effective. There is a global reliazation of how important to implement and integrate IT in the construction process in odrer to reduce cost and achive more efficient projects. In the other hand, the ineffective use of IT in managing information exacerbates the amount of rework that occurs during many constrcution projects.
The aim of this research was to reduce the dissimilarities in the literature regarding the use of... more The aim of this research was to reduce the dissimilarities in the literature regarding the use of social media platforms (SMPs) for training and its impact on students' satisfaction and academic performance in higher education institutions. The main method of data collection for Communication Theory (CT) was a questionnaire survey. This research hypothesizes that CT applied to social media platforms for learning will affect online communication, motives to communicate, communication self-efficacy and attitude towards usethat in turn improve students' satisfaction and students' academic performance. The data collection questionnaire was conducted with 309 students familiar with social media platforms. Quantitative structural equation modeling was employed to analyze the results. A significant relationship was found between online communication, motives to communicate, communication self-efficacy and attitude towards usefeatures with TC for utilizing social media platforms...
The growth of the Internet introduced new ways on how customers receive services and how companie... more The growth of the Internet introduced new ways on how customers receive services and how companies run their operations. In the current days internet connection and relevant services that it provides are essential for the majority of people. One of those services or industries is ecommerce. E Commerce involves transferring a large amount of sensitive data such as private customer's information or financial information. As a result it attracts cybercriminals who are willing to breach into the system and steal the data. The number of cyberattacks increases along with the ecommerce growth and therefore it raises the concern in the secureness of databases of the ecommerce platform. Organizations must ensure the secureness of the data as it contains private information of customers, working staff and transaction records. The data breach not only significantly damages the company's profits but also it will sabotage the clients' trust to the platform. In order to solve this problem, enhance data security and protect valuable data, a blockchain database management system is proposed. The proposed system addresses the issue by introducing blockchain nodes concept into the database and inheriting data secureness of distributed peer to peer connection.
With mobile and wireless technology and smart devices being more advanced by the day, it would be... more With mobile and wireless technology and smart devices being more advanced by the day, it would be hard to imagine a day without the all capable smartphone. With mobile data plans, it allows the use of smart devices to its fullest potential without being anchored by a cable. As mobile data plans become more abundant in the market, it is hard for some people to find a mobile data plan that can satisfy the customers' needs at all times. Customers are also constantly shown new plans that may or may not be better than their existing plan causing customers to switch at a moments notice. Research shows that a customers satisfaction is tied to the services provided by the Internet Service Providers. Therefore, this research proposal is conducted to create a mobile plan that can be tailored to the customers needs at anywhere and anytime. This research will show that this proposed system is feasible and will benefit the customer as well as the provider.
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