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02
Feb
2010

Conceptual Framework for the Adoption of Islamic Retail Banking Services in Malaysia

Journal of Electronic Banking Systems
The aim of this study is to identify factors that influence the adoption of Islamic retail banking services among the banking consumers in Malaysia, specifically in the urban and sub urban regions of Malaysia. Islamic banking has evolved as a new reality in the international…
08
Jan
2010

ERP Training and Evaluation: ERP Life-Cycle Approach to End-Users’ Characterization and Competency Building in the Context of an Oil & Gas Company

IBIMA Business Review
This paper highlights the criticality of the ‘End-Users’ factor to the success or failure of the ERP venture. This descriptive case highlights the ineffectiveness of the current approaches to ERP end-users’ “training and competency building”, that are commonly applied in ERP implementations. We propose as…
31
Dec
2009

What is knowledge and how it can be evaluated?

Communications of the IBIMA
In this paper, we present a conceptual model for knowledge evaluation. After a literature review, over various definitions on knowledge, we first extracted the main plausible features of knowledge both its nature and meaning. The main features are amount of information, verification of information and…
30
Dec
2009

Fuzzy Knowledge Base System for Fault Tracing of Marine Diesel Engine

Communications of the IBIMA
Marine diesel engine provides the prime mover for the majority of ship propulsion systems and as such plays a fundamental role in ship operational and economy. Ship owners and operators focuses to the development of improved method of analysis, operation, fault condition diagnosis, performance monitoring,…
26
Dec
2009

An Exploration of Individual Student Perceptions of Mastery of Knowledge in an Online Collaborative Context

Communications of the IBIMA
  Technology-supported learning environments no longer need to conform to the traditional classroom environment where information is uniformly disseminated. Instead, the application of technologies means that learners can participate actively in their own knowledge acquisition process. Over the years teaching and learning practices have moved…
25
Dec
2009

Software projects’ most important activities of quality management: A Delphi study

Communications of the IBIMA
Quality management is a very important contributor for the success of software project management. In quality management area we can find multiple activities to carry out, however organizations cannot always execute all those tasks and many times it is indispensable to make choices about what…
17
Dec
2009

An Ontology Based Formalism for the Arabic Language Using Verbs and their Derivatives

Communications of the IBIMA
Developing a strong and complete lexicon is essential for many Natural Language Processing (NLP) related applications such as Information Retrieval, Question Answering Systems, Natural Language Generation and Machine Translation. Such lexicon should be supported by a strong theoretical framework and implemented using tools that will…
15
Dec
2009

A Rule Based Persons Names Arabic Extraction System

Communications of the IBIMA
Named Entity Extraction is a very new in Arabic Natural Language processing although it has reached maturity for some other languages such as English and French. In this paper, we describe the development and implementation of a person name named entity recognition system for the…
13
Dec
2009

Privatization In Closed And Open Mixed Oligopolies

Communications of the IBIMA
This paper is the first to collect and organize the many past theoretical results on the predicted welfare effects of privatization in mixed oligopolies. Our review of past models demonstrates that the most critical elements in predicting the influence of privatization in mixed oligopoly are…
10
Dec
2009

Mining Student Evolution Using Associative Classification and Clustering

Communications of the IBIMA
Associative classification (AC) is a branch in data mining that utilises association rule discovery methods in classification problems.This paper idea aims to discuss and evaluate a modeling approach for student evolution. It is developed as a component of an adaptive achievement system. At the beginning…