Postgraduate Symposium Programme

Updated: 25 September

MONDAY, 6 OCTOBER 2008

SESSION A: Main
SESSION B: Board Room
08:30 General Opening and Welcome [in Main Venue]
08:50 Service contract design for governance in service oriented architectures
[Jacqui Chetty and Marijke Coetzee]
08:50 Indexing file attributes with the master/slave index
[Konstantin Koll]
09:10 Digital forensic investigation report
[Rut Laubscher and Jan Eloff]
09:10 Improving Arabic-English Cross-language Information Retrieval by Exploiting Web Structure
[Hisham Abdalla and Hussein Suleman]
09:30 Break
09:35 The impact of Quality Assurance on software defects
[Wesley Nitsckie and Marlon Parker]
09:35 Language-Aware Multilingual Information Retrieval
[Mohammed Mustafa and Hussein Suleman]
09:55 An Ontology for Information Systems Development Methodologies
[Willie C Shawa, Nehemiah Mavetera and Magda Huisman]
09:55 Adaptive Interfaces for Mobile Preference-Based Searching
[Ryan Hill and Janet Wesson]
10:15 TEA
10:45 An Investigation of Social Computing in an Educational Context
[Lara Schlenkrich and Dave Sewry]
10:45 Finger Based Tracking for Mobile Phones
[Simon Kerr]
11:05 Community Information Systems in South Africa[Ntombovuyo Wayi and Magda Huisman] 11:05 Voter Verifiable M-Voting
[Maina Olembo and Joseph Sevilla]
11:25 Break
11:30 A Critical Evaluation of User Interfaces in SOA based IP Provisioning Systems
[Emile Senga, Andre Calitz and Jean Greyling]
11:30 Distributed Parallel Simulation: Good Design Principles vs. Efficient Implementation on Tomorrow's Computers
[Bernardt Duvenhage and Derrick Kourie]
11:50 Customer Profiles using a Service-Oriented Architecture
[Felix Ntawanga, Andre Calitz and Lynette Barnard]
11:50 Investigation of a sustainable model specifically for the connectivity needs of rural communities in Southern Africa
[Peter Dorrington, Kevin Rafferty and Greg Foster]
12:10 A Model for the Adaptation of User Interfaces
[Bronwin Jason and André Calitz]
12:10 Practical Issues in Grounded Theory Method Research
[Nehemiah Mavetera and Jan Kroeze]
12:30 LUNCH
13:30 Towards a Generic Service Interaction Model
[Gaolathe Seelo and Reinhardt A. Botha]
13:30 Ontologies for Provision of HIV/Aids Information Using Telephony Infrastructure
[Mathe Maema, Alfredo Terzoli and Lorenzo Dalvit]
13:50 Towards a Technology-centric Model for Coordinating Short-term Capacity Building Initiatives in the South African Local Government
[Godwin Thomas and Reinhardt Botha ]
13:50 Work in Progress : Investigation and design of a prototype cell phone enabled surveillance system of zoonotic disease outbreaks
[Amon Magadza, Greg Foster and Hannah Slay]
14:10 User Interface Framework to Support Business Process Agility
[Job Mashapa]
14:10 Plenary [in Main venue]


Postgraduate Posters

Dimensions of Poster: A1, preferably laminated
Posters will be displayed for the duration of the Postgraduate Research Symposium and SAICSIT 2008.

 

Important Dates

26 September 2008
Final date for Registration

6 October 2008
Postgraduate Symposium
Grand Challenges Workshop

7-8 October 2008
SAICSIT Conference