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Most international trading transactions having as an aim the commodity flow, involve the financial flows that close the money-commodity/money cycle. In other words, the manufacturer who spends money amounts in order to manufacture and turn to good account certain products, cashes their equivalent value as…

Search is one of the most challenging and interesting problems in information retrieval system.  Many studies have been published related to this problem.  To date, web searcher is facing with information overload phenomena.  Information overload is a situation where too much information, therefore user need…

Research indicates that information technology (IT) governance is attracting enormous attention from practitioners and academics. This is fueled by the growing importance of IT governance in the delivery of IT compliance and in its ability to create value for businesses.  IT compliance minimizes risk while…

This study was an exploratory investigation of the practice of the enterprise architecture (EA) in private and public enterprises in Malaysia. The Zachman Framework was used to evaluate the practice of EA in these enterprises. Ten enterprises from public and private sector participated in the…

This paper reports on the application of knowledge Management (KM)in the context of South Africa. The study focused on six success areas that affect successful KM initiatives: culture, learning, support, business strategy, top management support, and technology as enabler. The research was conducted over a…

3G services represents an evolution in telecommunication industry. However, 3G services has not received great adoption rate as expected despite of various benefits provided by this service. This study aims to investigate the factors affecting the intention to adopt 3G services among the university students…

The high cost of attracting new customers on the Internet and the relative difficulty in retaining them make customers’ loyalty an essential asset for many banks. Since online transactions involve many uncertainties for the customer and most of the Internet banking offers the same product…

This paper describes the development of a computer-aided learning package, NihonGo that teaches Japanese Language in an easy way. It comprises eight main modules — Lessons, Exercises, Quizzes, Writing, Games, Dictionary, Karaoke and Maintenance. It is a bilingual system that allows the users a choice…

One of the primary characteristics of policing of the next century will be the proliferation of technology as an important component of law enforcement. The successful law enforcer or policeman of the future will be marked by an ability to incorporate and directly apply a…

In this paper we introduce the concept of COPnets. A COPnet refers to a network of security systems (agents) that cooperate to form a collaborative defence system. COPnets give answer to the growing complexity and sophistication of attacks, like DDOS and other botnets. In a…