Hybrid journal (It can contain Open Access articles) ISSN (Print) 2042-3217 - ISSN (Online) 2042-3225 Published by Inderscience Publishers[439 journals]
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Authors:Deborah Natumanya, Evarist Nabaasa Pages: 95 - 108 Abstract: Assessment is core to teaching institutions; students are subjected to formal assessments to determine the skills and knowledge acquired from a subject. Modes of assessment used include paper-based, electronic and oral, which are either used for continuous or final examinations. A quantitative study was carried out to understand the usage and security of these modes of assessment so as to determine that which is more secure and acceptable by lecturers. Results obtained from the study show that much as paper based is the commonly used mode of assessment, it still faces challenges which can be eliminated with electronic assessment once the free e-hand marking, ability to examine essay questions and e-submission of answer scripts components are incorporated in e-assessment. From the study, 93% of lecturers prefer e-examinations because of their advantages while 7% insist that paper based and oral examinations are easier to use due to technological hardships of e-examinations. Keywords: university examinations; modes of examinations; e-examinations; usage and security Citation: International Journal of Information Technology, Communications and Convergence, Vol. 4, No. 2 (2023) pp. 95 - 108 PubDate: 2023-08-11T23:20:50-05:00 DOI: 10.1504/IJITCC.2023.132827 Issue No:Vol. 4, No. 2 (2023)
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Authors:Deborah Natumanya, Evarist Nabaasa Pages: 109 - 123 Abstract: The study presents an account of ICT policy convergence in India. It emphasises the increasing importance of policy convergence in facilitating technology-led growth. The study aims to unravel how the ICT policy convergence has fared, especially in wake of the ICT convergence in India. While the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India regulates telecom and a few aspects of the broadcasting sector, the IT sector largely remains unregulated. The ICT policy convergence has taken a back seat and continues to exist in India largely in a label form. The study adopts a qualitative case study and uses the policy process perspective as a conceptual framework. The time taken for the ICT policy reforms to catch up with technological changes is considerably long. The ICT convergence may help better understand various challenges, conflicts, and policy gaps and for synergising efforts made to address them. Keywords: information communication technology; ICT; policy convergence; Telecom Regulatory Authority of India; TRAI; policy process; regulatory governance; India Citation: International Journal of Information Technology, Communications and Convergence, Vol. 4, No. 2 (2023) pp. 109 - 123 PubDate: 2023-08-11T23:20:50-05:00 DOI: 10.1504/IJITCC.2023.132833 Issue No:Vol. 4, No. 2 (2023)
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Authors:Fitehalew Ashagrie Demilew, Yaregal Tadesse Tessema, Gezahegn Mulusew Delele, Habtamu Asmare Sendeku Pages: 124 - 140 Abstract: Document analysis involves different step by step processes which are image acquisition, preprocessing, segmentation feature extraction, and classification. The process of historical document recognition is much harder than the default handwritten document recognition systems. In historical document recognition, the documents are highly degraded. In Ethiopia, a large number of historical documents can be found in monasteries, libraries, and museums which are written in Amharic languages. Documents that is as old as 1,000 years can be found in Ethiopia written in Amharic and Ge'ez languages. This paper intends on developing a document recognition system for the historical handwritten Amharic documents by mainly focusing on the preprocessing phases. A dataset is prepared which compromises the 230 Amharic alphabets and the dataset's frequency varies from 190-320 images per class. A total of 44,000 isolated characters is collected and split into training, testing, and validation set with the ratio of 7:2:1 respectively. Keywords: historical document recognition; Ethiopic document recognition; degraded document recognition; segmentation; pre-processing; deep learning Citation: International Journal of Information Technology, Communications and Convergence, Vol. 4, No. 2 (2023) pp. 124 - 140 PubDate: 2023-08-11T23:20:50-05:00 DOI: 10.1504/IJITCC.2023.132844 Issue No:Vol. 4, No. 2 (2023)
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Authors:Fitehalew Ashagrie Demilew, Gezahegn Mulusew Delele Pages: 141 - 152 Abstract: Paper currency recognition is one of the most challenging applications of pattern recognition. An automatic banknote recognition can be helpful in different aspects such as fraud detection and in automating services. The Ethiopian Government has introduced a new Ethiopian banknote denomination recently. Therefore, a recognition mechanism that can effectively identify the newly introduced banknotes should be proposed. The main challenges of banknote recognition are identifying fake and fraudulent banknotes. The paper proposes a deep learning-based banknote recognition system for the newly introduced Ethiopian banknotes. We have collected more than 5,000 images for the preparation of the dataset and each image has been resized into a size of 256*128. The dataset is divided into three sets with a ratio of 7:2:1 for training, testing and validation sets respectively. We have obtained an accuracy of 99.4% with a model loss of 0.01349 for the newly introduced Ethiopian banknotes. Keywords: convolutional neural network; CNN; deep learning; Ethiopian banknote recognition; pre-processing Citation: International Journal of Information Technology, Communications and Convergence, Vol. 4, No. 2 (2023) pp. 141 - 152 PubDate: 2023-08-11T23:20:50-05:00 DOI: 10.1504/IJITCC.2023.132845 Issue No:Vol. 4, No. 2 (2023)
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Authors:Rabah Mazouzi, Hien Tran, Patrice Darmon Pages: 153 - 166 Abstract: In this paper, we propose a new method for automatic ontology enrichment. The content of the considered ontology in this work is a set of computer science skills, used to score and rank profiles according to their curriculum vitae (CV). Starting from an initial ontology, defined manually by experts, named entities are extracted from CVs, then, by using the <i>TF-IDF</i> method we determine which words are more likely representative of skills of a given area of expertise. Obtained words are then inserted in the corresponding area of expertise branch of the ontology. The enrichment is controlled by a heuristic based on an entropy-like quantity that measures the profiles ranking disorder, caused by the new word insertion, assuming that such disorder is correlated with the amount of noise in the ontology. The obtained experimental results confirmed that the entropy-like quantity can be used to control the automatic enrichment of the ontology. Keywords: ontology enrichment; text mining; entropy; natural language processing; NLP; fuzzy ontology; documents matching Citation: International Journal of Information Technology, Communications and Convergence, Vol. 4, No. 2 (2023) pp. 153 - 166 PubDate: 2023-08-11T23:20:50-05:00 DOI: 10.1504/IJITCC.2023.132846 Issue No:Vol. 4, No. 2 (2023)
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Authors:Emmanuel Adu-Mensah, Gamel O. Wiredu Pages: 167 - 201 Abstract: This study seeks to propose a model for explaining mobile money subscriber satisfaction in terms of user perception of interoperability system performance (ISP). The proposed model, an adaptation of the expectation-disconfirmation theory, helps in explaining the causality between subscriber satisfaction and ISP perception by establishing the antecedents of subscriber satisfaction in the interoperability system context. Through a survey and structural equation modelling, the study revealed that there is a positive relationship between: perception and expectation, expectation and ISP, ISP and disconfirmation, ISP and satisfaction, disconfirmation and subscriber satisfaction, and perception and disconfirmation. There is a positive but weak relationship between perception and satisfaction; and there are inverse relationships between subscriber perception and system performance and between expectation and disconfirmation. Keywords: mobile money; interoperability; subscriber satisfaction; perception; expectation disconfirmation Citation: International Journal of Information Technology, Communications and Convergence, Vol. 4, No. 2 (2023) pp. 167 - 201 PubDate: 2023-08-11T23:20:50-05:00 DOI: 10.1504/IJITCC.2023.132847 Issue No:Vol. 4, No. 2 (2023)
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