Summary: Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) contain small low power nodes (sensors) that can be deployed and embedded in a certain area and have the ability to provide monitoring and interacting with the physical environment. Deploying and embedding such nodes in the physical environment provides the visibility of pervasive computing. In pervasiv

Summary: The purposes of this study are to investigate the effectiveness of e-government implementation in Saudi Arabia, explore the underlying factors for the efficient performance of e-government portals, address the gaps and problems that have emerged in e-government portals, examine the impact of the problems found in e-government plan and

Summary: Email spam has been an ongoing internet security attack. It has matured in different forms of attack such as text-based spam, URL-based spam and image-based spam. By making use of image spam, spammers managed to bypass the defence system of most anti-spam solutions. Here, the images display text messages to the end-users but the anti-

Summary: Steganography is the science of hiding a secret message in cover media, without any perceptual distortion of the cover media. Using steganography, information can be hidden in the carrier items such as images, videos, sounds files, text files, while performing data transmission. In image steganography field, it is a major concern of t

Summary: Muslims all over the world are dealing daily with Arabic language to perform their prayers. ALLAH (SWT) swear in the holy Qura`n of saving the Qura`n until the judgment day. Although, keeping the Qura`n safe is saving Arabic language as well. However, Muslims should serve Arabic language to remain safe either from using it or by doing

Summary: Electronic Tax Filing or e-filing system has been regarded as one of the important e-government initiatives to optimize the tax returns for a country. Indonesian government has put huge investment on the development of e-filing system and infrastructure, yet the rate of adoption is still low. Directorate General of Taxation (DJP) as e

Summary: Automatic Text Summarization (ATS) is a complicated task of computer generating summary of document(s), which is smaller in size while preserving its information content. Since ATS appears to be a good candidate to address the information overload problem, it has gained a quantifiable attention recently. This thesis mainly attempts an

Summary: Many complex systems in the form of evolving networked structures are omnipresent in various domain of life such as social, biological, ecological, technological, communications, transportations and in many others. These networks are very large and complex due to huge number of nodes and links. The advancements in technology and high

Summary: Organisations wishing to improve the value, contribution and alignment of IT investments must first improve the way they govern IT activities, processes and mechanisms by which decisions are made. Extant research has been carried out on IT governance and its effectiveness but not with a focus of organisations from an emerging country

Summary: There are many examples of complex systems in the world from different domains of life. For instance, the World Wide Web, electric power grids, scientific collaboration networks, social network of friendships, and network of diseases such as HIV/AIDS. These systems can be better analyzed by converting them into complex networks. Mostl