Conference Programme

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REGISTRATION

 

MONDAY, 1 October 2007

TUESDAY, 2 October 2007

WEDNESDAY, 3 October 2007
30 September
16:00 - 18:00
 M & D Symposium
08:30 - 15:30
 SAICSIT Conference
08:40 - 16:55		 SAICSIT Conference
08:30 - 12:20
1 October
08:00 - 08:30
15:00 - 16:00
 Sunset Cruise
16:30 (Leave Hotel)
22:30 (Back at Hotel)		 AGM
17:00
2 October
16:30 - 17:00 		Gala Dinner
19:00 - late

MONDAY, 1 OCTOBER 2007


M & D Symposium

SESSION A
SESSION B
08:30-08:40 General Opening and Welcome
08:40-08:55 Addressing Bandwidth Limitation in a Developing Country
[Mongezi Ngindana and Hussein Suleman]		 08:40-08:55 The impact of Culture on Design for e-Government in South-Africa
[Alexandros Yeratziotis and Darelle van Greuenen]
08:55-09:15 A Model for Information Security Strategic and Tactical Management
[Shaun Posthumus and Rossouw von Solms		 08:55-09:15 Towards Measuring the Strategic impact of Government Call Centres
[Tshepo Gaadingwa and Reinhardt Botha]
09:15-09:20
09:20-09:40 A Model for Eye Gaze Interaction in a Direct Manipulation Development Environment
[Martin van Tonder, Charmain Cilliers and Jean Greyling]		 09:20-09:40 Towards a Model for Enhanced Presence Handling in IM (submitted title: Knock Knock; I'm not here!)
[Rudi Victor, Andrew Rutherford and Reinhardt Botha]
09:40-10:00 The use of Meta-Knowledge for enhanced Classifier Combination
[Fredrick Edward Kitoogo and Venansius Baryamureeba]		 09:40-10:00 The Adaptation of an Intelligent User Interface Model for Contact Centres
[Akash Singh and Janet Wesson]
10:00-10:05
10:05-10:25 An Interactive Prototype for Visualising Novice Programmer Behaviour
[Baxolile Mabinya, Charmain Cilliers and Jean Greyling]		 10:05-10:25 Towards a Model for Multi-Channel Feedback in Contact Centers
[Gaolathe Seelo and Reinhardt A. Botha]
10:25-10:45 Migrating to a Real-Time Distributed Parallel Simulator Architecture -- An Update.
[Bernardt Duvenhage]		 10:25-10:45 On the Need for Reputation in P3P
[Emmanuel Adigun, Wesley Brandi, Martin Olivier and Jan Eloff]
10:45-11:05 TEA
11:05-11:25 Incorporating Mobile Technology Into the Showroom Sales Environment
[Michael Willemse and Reinhardt Botha]		 11:05-11:25 Towards a Model for Adaptive User Interfaces for Mobile Visualisation
[Bradley Paul van Tonder and Janet Wesson]
11:25-11:45 Alphabet Soup Anyone? Looking at Information Security Management from multiple perspectives
[Steve Domingues and Reinhardt Botha]		 11:25-11:45 A Natural Language Interface Model for Contact Center Operations
[Gopal Ravi Sankar, Jean Greyling and Dieter Vogts]
11:45-11:50
11:50-12:10 From An Intrusion Detection to A Privacy Enhancing Smart Card
[Alexander Maciej Rossudowski, Hein Venter and Jan Eloff]		 11:50-12:10 A Comparative Study Between Qualitative Weight Sum and Analytic Hierarchy Process Methodologies
[Camilius Sanga, I.M. Venter and J.I. Agbinya]
12:10-12:30 A Framework towards Effective Control in Information Security Governance
[Melanie Viljoen and Rossouw Von Solms]		 12:10-12:30 Automatic Continuous Speech Recognition for Limited Vocabulary in Xitsonga
[Khomotso Athalia Madike, Hendrik Oosthuizen and Jonas Manamela]
12:30-12:35
12:35-12:55 An Adaptive User Interface for Contact Centres
[Bronwin Anastasia Jason and Andre Calitz]		 12:35-12:55 Location Sensitivity of a Voronoi-based Sensor Deployment and Reconfiguration Algorithm
[Gareth Nicholls, Derrick Kourie, Tinus Strauss and Roelf van den Heever]
12:55-14:00 LUNCH
14:00-14:15 Development of a model for the Evaluation of the Impact of Rural ICT Projects on Poverty Alleviation in Rural Areas of Developing Countries: An Exploration of Rural Communities in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
[Caroline Pade and Dave Sewry]		 14:00-14:15 Factors and guidelines to consider for M-Learning User Interface design
[Adelin Kantore and Darelle Van Greunen]
14:15-14:30 Towards bridging the digital divide using New ICTs for People with Special needs in Kenya: “Strategies, Challenges and Opportunities from a national perspective.”
[Walter Wanyama]		 14:15-14:30 Challenges perceived by retail sector regarding the adoption of radio frequency identification (RFID)
[Haidi Liu and Chris Upfold]
14:30-14:35 14:30-14:50 Corporate and IT Governance in Local Municipalities – Towards a Best Practice
[Emile Kaselowski and Rossouw von Solms]
14:35-14:50 An Investigation of Service Management Implementation in the Information and Communication Technology Sector
[Robert Benyon]
14:50-15:10 An Overview of Security Issues in a Converged IEEE 802.11 & 16 Wireless Network
[Tonderai Muchenje and H.N. Muyingi]		 14:50-15:10 Information Systems Development Paradigms
[Daan le Roux]
15:10-15:30 Plenary
 

TUESDAY, 2 OCTOBER 2007

08:40
 Welcome
08:50 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Sujeet Senoi
Strategies for Securing Interconnected Critical Infrastructure Networks.

SESSION A
SESSION B
Chair: Chair:
09:55 A Hybrid Approach to Automatic Programming for the Object-Oriented Programming Paradigm
[Pillay, Nelishia; Chalmers, Caryl]		 Supporting CS1 with a Program Beacon Recognition Tool
[Leppan, Ronald; Cilliers, Charmain; Taljaard, Marinda ]
10:30 TEA
Chair: Chair:
10:50 Utilizing Fuzzy Logic and Neural Networks for Effective, Preventative Intrusion Detection in a Wireless Environment
[von Solms, Rossouw; Goss, Rob; Botha, Martin]		 Peepholes With No Strings Attached: Using Image Processing as Input in Camera-phones
[Marsden, Gary; Ah Kun, Leo; Lee, Ken]
11:20
11:25 SQL's revoke with a View on Privacy
[van Staden, Wynand; Olivier, Martin]		 A Model to Assess the Benefit Value of Knowledge Management in an IT Service Provider Environment
[Pottas, Dalenca; Govender, Surendren]
11:55
12:00 Evolving Pushdown Automata
[Pillay, Nelishia; Naidoo, Amashini]		 Generic Process Model Structures: Towards a Standard Notation for Abstract Representations
[Kotze, Paula; van der Merwe, Alta; Gerber, Aurona]
12:35 LUNCH

13:30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
David Ives (Microsoft)
Delivering Innovation in IT industry and addressing the Skills Gap locally.

SESSION A
SESSION B
Chair: Chair:
14:15 Examining the Influence of Demographic Factors on Internet Users’ Information Privacy Concerns
[Brown, Irwin; Zukowski, Tomasz]		 Providing a Holistic Perspective to Evaluating e-Service Quality in Web-Based Systems: a Multi-Stakeholder Approach
[Pather, Shaun; Nomdoe, Herschel]
14:50 COFFEE
Chair: Chair:
15:10 Modelling the Factors that Influence Mobile Phone Adoption
[Kotze, Paula; van Biljon, Judy]		 An ontology-based, multi-modal platform for the inclusion of marginalised rural communities into the knowledge society
[Thinyane, Mamello; Dalvit, Lorenzo; Mapi, Thandeka; Terzoli, Alfredo; Clayton, Peter]
15:40
15:45 A Comparative Study of Two Usability Evaluation Methods Using a Web-Based E-Learning Application
[Ssemugabi, Samuel; De Villiers, Ruth]		 Identity and Access Management for the Distribution of Social Grants in South Africa
[Flowerday, Stephen; Ranga, Gideon]
16:15
16:20 Assessment of a Framework to Compare Software Development Methodologies
[Gruner, Stefan; Klopper, Riaan; Kourie, Derrick G.]		 Criteria Used in Selecting Effective Requirements Elicitation Procedures
[van der Merwe, Alta; Kotze, Paula]
16:55
17:00 AGM
 

WEDNESDAY, 3 OCTOBER 2007
08:30
 Housekeeping
08:35 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Dr Andrew Basden
Understanding the whole story that is information technology.

SESSION A
SESSION B
Chair: Chair:
09:40 Constraint-Based Conversion of Fiction Text to Time-Based Graphical Representation
[Glass, Kevin; Bangay, Shaun]		 Knowing You, Knowing Who and Knowing What Counts: A Virtual Conversation
[Woh, S.T.F. and Eslaf, A.I]
10:15 TEA
Chair: Chair:
10:35 Dynamic Role Allocation for Small Search Engine Clusters
[Nakashole, Ndapandula; Suleman, Hussein; Pedzai, Calvin]		 Agile Software Development: A Contemporary Philosophical Perspective
[Northover, Mandy; Northover, Alan; Gruner, Stefan; Kourie, Derrick; Boake, Andrew]
11:05
11:10 Design Principles for a Virtual Multiprocessor
[Machanick, Philip]		 KernTune: Self-tuning Linux Kernel Performance Using Support Vector Machines
[Yi, Long; Connan, James]
11:40
11:45 Simulating adversarial interactions between intruders and system administrators using OODA-RR
[Grant, Tim; Venter, Hein; Eloff, Jan]		 A probabilistic movement model for shortest path formation in virtual ant-like agents
[Chibaya, Colin; Bangay, Shaun]
12:20 LUNCH

Important Dates

21 September 2007:
Final date for registration

1 October 2007:
M&D symposium

2-3 October
SAICSIT