Summary: The trend of cloud computing has accelerated business model evolution for delivering information technology services. In the transition from traditional IT to cloud-based services, Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) seems to have experienced substantial difficulties and hurdles in realising cloud benefits, which in turn lead to improving

Summary: Information technology (IT) outsourcing continues to receive favorable acceptance to maximize organization's benefits. There has been much interest in understanding the relationships between service receiver and service provider, and the perceived quality of services rendered by service providers towards attaining success. There a

Summary: Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) are regarded as the backbone of the growth of the world economy. They had recently experienced rapid growth and improved their business activities in terms of customer numbers and revenue expansion when they began using e-commerce in their business. Although there is a growing interest in e-co

Summary: Although the Internet is benefiting the young generation especially teenagers in many ways, such as doing homework or assignment, gaining knowledge, online shopping, etc., gradually they are experiencing more online risks. This is happening all over the world, including in a developing country like Bangladesh. Realising this problem,

Summary: Visual surveillance networks are installed in many sensitive places in the present world. The London Underground and London Heathrow Airport have more than 5000 cameras for the purposes of physical security, for example. Human security officers are required to continuously stare at large numbers of monitors simultaneously, and for len

Summary: High Performance Computing (HPC) is the de-facto platform for deploying real-time applications due to the collaboration of large-scale resources operating in cross-administrative domains. HPC resource scheduling and allocation is a crucial issue in achieving efficient utilization of available resources, especially when resource-intens

Summary: Business Intelligence (BI) is computer-based application utilized to assemble, provide access to and analyze data and information about an enterprise in order to formulate better informed business decisions. Currently, organizations’ are spending billions of dollars on BI projects but their failure rate is high. Many researchers tri

Summary: The tremendous growth of data generated daily has made the science of data compression an important and renewable field. It has become the first way to reduce the volume of data to optimize the use of storage units and accelerate the process of transferring data across various types of networks, chiefly the World Wide Web, thus reduci

Summary: Disasters whether natural or human-made, leave a lasting impact on human lives and require mitigation measures. In the past, millions of human beings lost their lives and properties in disasters. Information and Communication Technology provides many solutions. The issue of so far developed DMSs is their inefficiency in semantics that

Summary: Nowadays, the need to employ a new technology to update, support education and enhance studying in general but specifically the Holy Quran is of great necessity. One of these new technologies that is often used is mind maps (mind mapping) as it has been used for decades in schools and colleges for note taking and learning. Even though