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

Summary: Mobile and smartphone adoption is expanding and growing rapidly and millions of mobile applications are available at online stores. Mobile applications nowadays are not developed to only serve the entertainment sector, but also targeting safety and time critical domains such as payment systems, m-government, and military to mention a

Summary: In today`s world that continuously processes data, offline or online, data is accumulating every day, which create difficulties for the existing data processing, such as classification to catch up. The more the data means, the more it requires time for processing, and may cause data overfitting, and this will conflict with today`s lif

Summary: Cloud computing has emerged as a new paradigm for hosting and delivering computing resources over the Internet. This research proposed a cross-cloud communication framework (C3F) for enabling communication among clouds with minimal management burden. Further, it enabled the borrowing and lending of resources among clouds whenever requ

Summary: Securing data and networks in information technology (IT) is a very important defense issue against breaching or hacking by cyber-attacks to have IT business continuity. Because of using technology in GEs, all IT infrastructures are under risk. It is a demand task to design protection methods, which defend and reduce the affect off cy

Summary: Nearly eighty percent of the world`s Muslim populations are non-native speakers of Arabic; according to Pew Research Centre, this constitutes almost one billion people. Muslims consider the Qur’an as the divine revelation, compiled in a book which was recited and preserved in the original Arabic language. According to Islamic ruling

Summary: This thesis work proposes a unique framework for generating quadruped animation of various locomotion gaits and patterns using a dual layer of hybrid mathematical model. Animation has become an integral part of everyday entertainment industry from games, movies, television to scientific research and development. Creating animation of

Summary: The study of the factors that determine the Open Access Journals (OAJs) usage behaviour is very important in order to enhance provision of quality services by information professionals, researchers and public at large. OAJs form a virtual platform for knowledge sharing, free accessibility and dissemination of research findings. Throug

Summary: Audience Response System (ARS) has been identified as a probable and innovative solution to fix problems related to conventional education practices, which come as a result of the isolation and lack of interaction and engagement that exist in traditional classes. Previous research has shown that ARS improves interactive learning a