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Cloud computing is rapidly becoming the platform used by government agencies for delivering their services. However, for various reasons, cloud computing is still not widely adopted in Saudi Arabia. Therefore, this paper seeks to propose a cloud decision value model for public organizations in Saudi Arabia. This model will attempt to factor in public organizations' business attributes, financial attributes,...
The characteristics of a value-based quality system as part of the state of the art of Government Information Technology (GoIT), are a challenge for those who study these topics and propose the existence of a systematic and comprehensive mechanisms for quality assessment. In order to identify and classify the existing of empirical studies in the field of a value-based quality assessment for GoIT,...
After going through the stages of research on computer technology application in agriculture and on agricultural data information and simulated model, the development of foreign agricultural informationalization has accessed into technology industrialization period showing the trend of a multi-net interconnection, virtualization, integration, engineering technology. According to national conditions,...
The purpose of this study was to explore the Civil Servants' use of the E-learning system of publics sectors continuance intention in Taiwan. It was to discuss the current use of E-learning for continuance intention behavior of the Civil Servants and impact on performance E-learning factor. Through the process of literature review, this study attempts to develop an integrated model based on the A...
ICT seems well understood as a tool and an infrastructure for delivering information and services for the society and for allowing communications through interactions among the service users -mostly, the digital society. Using ICT for ensuring better life requires far more than good infrastructure, ICT know-how and the various techniques and tools in place. If ICT has to address the real problems...
The main trends concerning the traditional channels of participation are reduced voting turnout, reduced participation in political parties, stable participation in associations and increased citizen contact. The influence of ICT based form of communication on the relations between the authorities and the citizens are heavily influenced by the role of the citizens designed by the authorities. If the...
Although use of information technology (IT) is common in classrooms, some teachers are resistant to new technologies as supportive teaching tools. This study proposes a causal model for investigating teacher acceptance of technology. Policy recommendations for school administrators and government agencies are also presented in this article. This study received 258 effective replies from teachers at...
A critical infrastructure (CI) consists of those physical and information technology facilities, networks, services and assets which, if disrupted or destroyed, have a serious impact on the health, safety, security or economic well-being of citizens or the effective functioning of governments. Nowadays, the operation controls of these infrastructures have been computerized and have gradually become...
With the rapid growth of the Internet and database technologies in recent years, question answering systems (QAS) have emerged as important applications. As most evaluation models focus on system-centered evaluation, user-centered evaluation has attracted little attention. Although many QAS have been implemented, little work has been done on the development of a user-centered evaluation for QAS. User-centered...
Like RM-ODP [1], enterprise architecture (or EA for short) has its own perspectives as a basic construct for its architecture definition to represent areas of concern. In this paper, difference between RM-ODP and one concrete example EA, and applicability of Use of UML for ODP system specifications [2] (or UML4ODP in short) standard to the example EA, are discussed. Several additional diagrams that...
Compliance management (CM) is the management process that an organization implements to ensure organizational compliance with relevant requirements and expectations. Compliance auditing (CA) is a child-process of CM where compliance rules and policies are individually checked against the organization to determine the level of compliance achieved by the organization. In this paper, we arrange organizational...
Healthcare is one of the major growth areas in developed economies, but demand outstrips supply nevertheless. This paper discusses the research opportunities afforded in health informatics and computing, and in particular the activities of the Centre for Health Informatics and Computing (CHIC) at Brunel University. The "Soft Information Systems and Technologies Methodology" (SISTeM), simulation...
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