Summary: Information seeking behaviour (ISB) studies is one area in library and information science that has over the years attracted the attention of information professionals, resulting in several studies being carried out with a view to understand why people seek information, how they seek it, and the problems encountered. While an enormous

Summary: The main purpose of the study was to identify and analyze published articles on information seeking behavior in the literature of health sciences bibliometrically. The study spans the period from 1967-2009. Twelve thousand (12,000) published papers on information seeking behavior in health sciences were identified and recognized as th

Summary: In an online trading problem, an online player (trader/investor) wants to trade an asset in hand with a desired asset with the goal of maximizing the profit by the end of a trading period. Online trading algorithms are classified as non-pre-emptive and pre-emptive algorithms. Non-pre-emptive algorithms (also known as Reservation Price

Summary: This research investigated the Quality of the Undergraduate Curriculum of Library and Information Science Departments in Nigerian Universities. The curriculum is considered as a backbone to the training of LIS professionals in the country, particularly, in this rapidly changing LIS environment. The main objectives of the research were

Summary: Knowledge sharing is essential in the implementation of any knowledge management initiative. The real sharing required is between the employees and their co-workers. The actual success depends on individuals’ willingness to encourage and share their organisational knowledge through internal organisational social exchanges. The proce

Summary: Academic libraries as major components of higher education provide significant support to institutional goals. Many of the library services in this digital age have tended towards users self-exploration of the resources unaided. With the geometrical growth in information resources, cataloguers’ task of bibliographic control for effi

Summary: Although, stemming improves the effectiveness of information retrieval of language, it has some limitations and shortcomings. Among the main problems are that it can reduce unrelated words to the same stem as well as fall short to reduce related words to a common stem. In addition, most stemmers such as light stemming are of heuristic

Summary: The supply chain is very important to the economic activities of a country because it directly involve in the delivery of services and products to the consumers. The supply chains are made up of complex network of nodes in which it rely on specialized functionalities of the relevant nodes in the network to generate the required servic

Summary: The holy Qur`an and Hadith are the two fundamental resources of the legislation and law in Muslim community. Including the Islamic books, these resources can be used as the sole authoritative source of knowledge and wisdom. Besides, they stand out as the source of a large collection of analysis and interpretation texts, which could pr

Summary: 3D maps in mobile devices for navigation aid have been created to overcome the weaknesses of conventional 2D maps which require users to interpret its various symbols and legends. Now it has become possible to render large and detailed 3D map of cities in mobile devices at interactive rates over 5fps (frame rate per second) to 30fps.