Summary: Instructors’ use of learning management systems in higher education institutions is a central concern for researchers, academicians, and practitioners. Although learning management systems are emerging as a useful tool for facilitating teaching and learning activities, the number of users is not increasing as fast as expected. In th

Summary: After 9/11, security and safety become one of the main concerns of governments around the world. Automatic accurate individual identification and authentication systems are becoming more critical in day-to-day activities like money transactions, access control, travel, medical services, and numerous others. The most prominent individu

Summary: Skyline queries attempts to return the superior data items from a database which are not being dominated by any other data items. In some real-world databases where data might not be complete, i.e. data items often have missing values in one or more dimensions, applying skyline algorithms designed for complete data is inappropriate du

Summary: There has been a great interest in manipulating and controlling quantum systems, since Shor proposed an efficient quantum algorithm for factorizing integers into the product of prime numbers by demonstrating that quantum computer can perform interesting computations much faster than any classical computer. Since then different algorit

Summary: Generally, Test First is a programming practice that needs a developer to design test cases at the beginning of a project that will lead to the failure of those test cases. The process then continues with the development of the production code which is written to match the test cases designed. This research is an empirical research th

Summary: Social networks are in the midst of a boom in terms of connecting and linking people. People are more active in this medium as compared to other mediums of communication, such as telephonic conversations or personal meetings. Conferring an estimate, Facebook holds 900,000,000 active users every month, while Twitter has 310,000,000 mon

Summary: The fundamental advantage of WSN is the ability to deploy them in an ad hoc manner. The clustering phenomenon plays an important role in the organization of the Wireless Sensor Network (WSN), as well as dramatically affects network performance. For this reason, there has been a considerable amount of researches into ways of creating t

Summary: In the last few decades, the issue of institutional repositories (IRs) has attracted the attention of academic libraries around the world, particularly among Islamic university libraries in Indonesia. They believe that IRs can be a strategic tool that contribute to improve the performance of professional tasks of lecturers as well as

Summary: The effectiveness of an organization in achieving its objectives is depending on a proper management of knowledge towards its managerial aspects. However, current studies have shown that an insufficient managerial skill among librarians has contributed to the reduction of job performance. Consequently, the reduction of job performance

Summary: Marketing of library services provides more opportunities for a better relationship and engagement between the libraries and user community. Studies had established that the implementation of marketing strategies is to ensure and enhance the awareness and utilisation of library resources and services by the users. However, a few of th