Summary: As competition across the globe continues to intensify at a rapid pace, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are required to adapt effective tools to improve their competitiveness. The experiences of the large sized companies reveal that the alignment between the business and IT strategies in the organization will effectively enhance t

Summary: In 2013, out of the 1.7 million students that sat for Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) in Nigeria, less than five hundred thousand (29.4%) can have a placement in the Nigeria Institutions of Higher Learning. Perhaps, people are thinking of an alternative to the conventional university programs which accommodates less

Summary: There is an enormous competition among major telecommunication service providers in Kuwait. Competition among service providers in limited population of Kuwait is a matter of survival of those companies to retain their customer base and remain in telecom business. Not only this, but to sustain competitive edge over each other. Kuwaitâ

Summary: This thesis examines one of the important aspects of the relationship between knowledge management and innovation - the influence of the people. From the literature review, it is discovered that most studies examined the relationship between knowledge management (KM) and innovation at an organizational or administrative level. This st

Summary: Representing, analysing and modelling natural and artificially-existing systems into complex networks provides a useful insight into understanding the behaviour of these networks in detail and predicting their future. Such networks share the common property that their vertex connectivity follows a scale-free behaviour due to their evo

Summary: Genetic information encoding in deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and DNA manipulation techniques contributes to the advancement of computing technology; namely DNA computing. However, the research in the counterpart of automata in formal language theory which is grammars, of Watson-Crick automata that is one of DNA computing models, has ye

Summary: A Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANETs) is a network comprising mobile nodes formed without the support of any centralized physical infrastructures. MANETs become a significant communication technology in modern life due to their flexibility. Scalability is of central concern among researcher community and an issue that has crucial impact on

Summary: Recent studies have shown the possibilities of computers to understand, analyze and respond to human emotions through speech, facial expressions and neuro-physiological interface. Although emotion plays an important role in human communication, health and brain development, it only provides immediate responses contingent on the situat

Summary: Stream ciphers are commonly used to provide confidentiality for a wide range of frame based applications such as mobile devices or embedded systems. For these applications, stream ciphers are preferred for encryption due to the simplicity of their implementation, efficiency and high throughput. However, practical attacks have been dis

Summary: High quality metadata represents the goodness of the records in the digital repository and make the records easily accessible to the users. Metadata quality is an important determinant to enhance the functionality of the resources in the digital repository. There is a growing awareness on the essential role of metadata quality for suc