Browsing Research Articles (Informatics) by Issue Date

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  • Handling diversity in group work in the information systems class 
    Thomas, T.; De Villiers, Carina (Computer Society of South Africa, 2000-11)
    Tertiary institutions in South Africa are faced with dealing with diversity in all its forms in our classrooms. Information Systems, Information Technology and Computer Science students need to learn to work with people ...
  • The hof'al in Biblical Hebrew : simple passives, single passives and double passives-and reflexives? 
    Kroeze, J.H. (Jan Hendrik) (Department of Ancient Studies at the University of Stellenbosch, 2002)
    Some hof'al verbs may be semantically related as simple passives to non-causative transitive active qal or hif'il verbs of the same root. If the hif'il is the causative of the qal or nif'al, the hof'al is a causative ...
  • A conceptual framework for managing relationships between all participants during IT service and support activities 
    Leonard, A.C. (Awie) (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2002)
    Since the early days of computing, IT professionals have been struggling with their end users (customers) to such an extent that end users became sceptic about the quality of service and support IT professionals can ...
  • The semantic functions of embedded constructions in Biblical Hebrew 
    Kroeze, J.H. (Jan Hendrik) (Department of Ancient Studies at the University of Stellenbosch., 2003-07)
    In traditional grammars on the syntax of Biblical Hebrew one often finds sections which describe the various types of clauses, for example, circumstantial, causal, conditional, concessive, comparative, temporal, final and ...
  • Towards a multidimensional linguistic database of Biblical Hebrew 
    Kroeze, J.H. (Jan Hendrik) (Department of Ancient Studies at the University of Stellenbosch, 2004)
    Biblical Hebrew clauses can be and have been studied from many different angles. Over the past forty years much of this knowledge has been captured in various computer software systems and databases. Having all these ...
  • Differentiating between data-mining and text-mining terminology 
    Kroeze, J.H. (Jan Hendrik); Matthee, Machdel C.; Bothma, T.J.D. (Theodorus Jan Daniel) (Department of Knowledge and Information Management, University of Johannesburg, 2004-12)
    When a new discipline emerges, it usually takes some time and a great deal of academic discussion before concepts and terms become standardized. Text mining is one such new discipline. In a groundbreaking article, Untangling ...
  • Principles and strategies for the effective management of knowledge 
    Kruger, Cornelius Johannes; Snyman, M.M.M. (Maria Magdalena Margaretha); Snyman, Retha (Unisa Press, 2005)
    In the latter part of the nineties, Davenport (1998) emphasised that although many companies were beginning to feel that knowledge was their most valued asset, only a few had actively begun to manage knowledge efficiently ...
  • Sacred space in cyberspace : an African perspective 
    Phahlamohlaka, L.J. (Letlibe Jacob); Kroeze, J.H. (Jan Hendrik); Phahlamohlaka, Jackie (Unisa Press, 2005-11)
    Although information can currently be regarded as a vehicle of mainly western civilisation and culture, Africans should not merely accept it as such, because that would imply subjugation to anew, techno-cultural colonialism. ...
  • Widening the digital divide : a study on the possible impact of the Convergence Bill of 2003 on the South African cybereconomy 
    Da Silva, E.M.; Kruger, Cornelius Johannes (Juta, 2005-12)
    Business does not exist in a vacuum. The external environment is either conducive to or stifles business growth. Van Rooyen (2004: 399) points out that 'E-business has important implications for South Africa as an emerging ...
  • A comparative study of sample selection methods for classification 
    Lutu, Patricia Elizabeth Nalwoga; Engelbrecht, Andries P. (Computer Society of South Africa, 2006-06)
    Sampling of large datasets for data mining is important for at least two reasons. The processing of large amounts of data results in increased computational complexity. The cost of this additional complexity may not be ...
  • Cognitive mapping : a process to support strategic planning in an academic department 
    Johnson, Roy D.; Lipp, Astrid (Springer, 2007)
    Cognitive mapping has been used to support strategic planning in business. However, the process has seldom been utilized to support strategic planning in nonprofit public organizations, where many reporting lines are less ...
  • A computer-assisted exploration of the semantic role frameworks in Genesis 1:1-2:3 
    Kroeze, J.H. (Jan Hendrik) (Department of Ancient Studies at the University of Stellenbosch, 2007)
    This article focuses on the extraction and exploration of semantic role frameworks via a visual basic 6 program from an xml data cube containing linguistic data of the Hebrew text of Genesis 1:1-2:3. The semantic roles in ...
  • Knowledge management in a multicultural environment : a South African perspective 
    King, Nadene; Kruger, Cornelius Johannes; Pretorius, Jaco (Emerald, 2007)
    PURPOSE – Numerous authors contend that there are dissimilarities in the way people, especially those from different cultural backgrounds, interpret or accept knowledge sharing. Ribiere and Sitar argue that, as a result ...
  • The status quo of enterprise architecture implementation in South African financial services companies 
    Matthee, Machdel C.; Tobin, Peter K.J.; Van der Merwe, P. (Association for Professional Managers in South Africa, 2007-03)
    This article presents the findings of research that was conducted amongst Enterprise Architecture (EA) practitioners in the South African financial services sector. Due to the duration and cost implications of EA projects, ...
  • Generalizations from an interpretive study : the case of a South African community-based health information system 
    Byrne, Elaine; Sahay, Sundeep (Computer Society of South Africa, 2007-06)
    This paper explores the making of generalizations from interpretive research by examining the process of developing a community-based information system (IS) in a rural area in South Africa. Lee and Baskerville’s [1] ...
  • Transformation in IS education : whose concepts should be changing? 
    Byrne, Elaine; Lotriet, H.H. (Hugo H.) (Computer Society of South Africa, 2007-06)
    By its very nature education aims to change learners’ knowledge and this inevitably has an impact on the learners’ world views. This paper explores the dilemmas facing Information Systems (IS) educators with respect to ...
  • Guidelines for assessing the knowledge management maturity of organizations 
    Kruger, Cornelius Johannes; Snyman, M.M.M. (Maria Magdalena Margaretha) (Department of Knowledge and Information Management, University of Johannesburg, 2007-09)
    In a recent article Kruger and Snyman hypothesized that progressions in knowledge management maturity (from a strategic perspective) are directly related to an increased ability to speed up the strategic cycle of imitation, ...
  • Perceived usefulness, service quality and loyalty incentives : effects on electronic service continuance 
    Naidoo, Rennie; Leonard, A.C. (Awie) (Association for Professional Managers in South Africa, 2007-09)
    This paper examines the interrelationships between perceived usefulness, service quality and loyalty incentives on e-service continuance. The Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) was adapted from the information systems (IS) ...
  • Guidelines for identifying risk vulnerabilities associated with ICT sourcing 
    Cachia, A.; Kruger, Cornelius Johannes (Association for Professional Managers in South Africa, 2007-12)
    As organizations broaden their organizational boundaries with sourcing practices, it is imperative to identify risk vulnerabilities from a wider perspective than before. Specifically, organizations that make substantial ...
  • The so-called nominative uses of 'et : a semantic solution 
    Kroeze, J.H. (Jan Hendrik) (Unisa Press, 2008)
    The particle 'et is most often used to mark definite direct objects. It can also be used to mark other verbal extensions, and therefore it has been called an object marker or nota accusativi. This, however, does not ...