Dhanapal Durai Dominic

Quality Evaluation of E-government Website Using Web Diagnostic Tools: Asian Case

In recent years, many people have devoted their efforts to the issue of quality of Web site. The concept of quality is consisting of many criteria: quality of service perspective, a user perspective, a content perspective or indeed a usability perspective. Because of its possible instant worldwide audience a Website’s quality and reliability are crucial. The very special nature of the Web applications and Websites pose unique software testing challenges. Webmasters, Web applications developers, and Website quality assurance managers need tools and methods that can match up to the new needs. This research conducts some tests to measure the quality of e government web site of five Asian countries via web diagnostic tools online. The result of this study confirmed that the E-government websites of Asian are neglecting performance and quality criteria.

Website accessibility performance evaluation in Malaysia

Website accessibility is one of the most important issues in improving internet usage. Website accessibility is defined as the ability of the website to serve user with disabilities, especially blind people in accessing the internet. Nowadays, a variety of websites accessibility test tools are provided on-line.

A comparative study of univariate forecasting methods for predicting tuberculosis incidence on human

The negative impact of zoonosis has stimulated study into a prediction system that able to estimate the future number of zoonosis, especially in human being. Zoonosis refers to any infectious disease that is able to be transmitted from animals to humans. This empirical paper compares three univariate methods for zoonosis forecasting up to one year. Regression analysis, decomposition, and Holt-Winters were selected as the simple and quick techniques for this purpose. The methods were compared using a time series of monthly number for tuberculosis incidence in human. Different error measures were used to determine the best model among them. It was found that the Holt-Winters method produced better prediction than the rest of the methods with MAPE was 6.301 and Theil U value was 0.037.

A Unified Framework for Business Process Intelligence

Enterprises are striving to cut down their cost and the same time maintains an expectable level of quality in service delivery to keep the competitive edge. Integral to that is an analysis of business processes in order to identify inefficiencies in the design as well as execution of processes. Subsequently, based on the analysis improvement actions are taken. The techniques to identify inefficiencies in process are categorized into two types, a priori (pre-execution) analysis and posterior (post-execution) analysis. This study focuses on posterior analysis, in which the data produced as a result of process execution are used to identify inefficiencies such as execution delay, and resource utilization. The aim of study is to analyze the existing work on business process improvement and build a unified framework for business process intelligence.

Network anomaly detection approach based on frequent pattern mining technique

With the tremendous growth of shopping, banking, and other business transactions over computers network in the last two decades, The number of potential cyber-attacks by intruders has increased. Therefore the efforts are continually required in order to improve the effectiveness of detecting the network intruders. In this paper, a new network anomaly detection approach, which is based on outlier detection scheme, is presented. The frequent patterns are exploited for modeling the normal behavior of the traffic data and for calculating the deviation of the current traffic data points. The experimental results on KDD99 data set demonstrate the effectiveness of the propose approach in comparison with existing methods.

A study of SME private healthcare personnel acceptance of Clinic Information System in Malaysia

This study identifies factors determining intention to use clinic information system among small and medium enterprise private healthcare personnel in Malaysia. A hybrid model was developed and drew upon two intention-based theories of information technology IT adoption; the technology acceptance model and the theory of planned behaviour. This study focuses on examining the technology acceptance in three different contexts: individual, technological and implementation and have been extended to include some exogenous variables, which then tested using structural equation modelling approach. Results indicate that attitude, computer anxiety and perceived behavioural control directly impact personnel intention to use IT. In addition, perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, facilitating conditions and computer self-efficacy were found to have strong indirect impact on behavioural intention through the mediator of attitude. The proposed model was able to explain a high proportion of the behavioural intention variance of private healthcare personnel.

Human skin detection using defined skin region

Skin detection has been widely used in image processing application. Several skin detection methods have been introduced including defined skin region. Overall, skin detection has been challenged by the fact that skin appearance in the image can be affected by many factors including ethnicity thus reducing its accuracy.

A Proposed Framework Using Exploratory Testing to Improve Software Quality in SME’s

In the field of IT, the software industry recognizes the value of the small and medium software (SME’s) enterprises in contributing valuable products and services to the economy. In SME’s the quality of the software is increasingly become a concerned subject. The suitable use of testing standards was not written for the development organizations having less than 25 employees. Currently, most of the SME’s do not follow any standards and do not adopt any well-structured testing methods. In this research paper, the challenges faced by the SME’s towards software testing in order to produce quality products are being addressed. Various testing processes and other factors associated with software quality are analyzed and discussed in the literature review to identify the research gaps in the existing approach. In this research paper, a new framework has been proposed using Exploratory Testing that has not been used in the context of SME’s which aims to improve software quality.

Need for information security policies compliance: A perspective in Higher Education Institutions

Organizations profoundly rely on contemporary information systems as they store essential business and resources data. Security of these information systems is critically handled by applying both technical and behavioral controls. However, security culture in certain organizations such as Higher Education Institutions (HEI) is questionable due to the lax attitude of employees towards the institutional resources. This research intends to examine the effect of institutional governance (IG) factors security awareness programs, establishment of security policies and periodic monitoring in enhancing the protection motivation among employees. It is believed that employees motivated, through various sources of information, towards the protection of resources intend to comply with organizational Information Security Policies (ISP) documented to disseminate the roles and responsibilities of employees. The two relevant theories i.e. Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) and Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) are integrated for this research. The effect of IG and negative experience, as external sources of information, is investigated on the integrated theories. Relevant hypotheses are formulated in the proposed hybrid research model. To pilot test the survey questionnaire, data collection was done among the employees within the HEI of Malaysia. Results were derived using IBM SPSS 23. Pilot study shows reliable measurement scales, suitable for final data collection and analysis to validate the research model.

The Associating Factors and Outcomes of Green Supply Chain Management Implementation – From the Technological and Non-technological Perspectives

The ISO 140001 manufacturing firms in Malaysia are contributing towards the problems in regards to environment sustainability as result of significant amount of energy and waste being generated. ISO 14001 is essentially a certification for the best practices been adopted for environmental management. Despite being certified with environmental related accreditation, the implementation of green practices in the scope of supply chain among the firms are inadequate. With the above challenges, the study on Green Supply Chain Management (Green SCM) in relation to eco-friendly information technology solution will be investigated. The study will establish the driving factors and performance outcomes associated with the implementation of Green SCM. The significant relationships between the constructs explains the inputs which are represented with a TOE Framework. The measurement of the theoretical framework yields that Green SCM positively influences both the environmental and technological performance outcomes of the respective firms. As part of the practical implication, the study contributes towards a guideline for firms intending to adopt green practices.