SAICSIT 2011 Programme 3-5 October 2011

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Annual Conference of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists

SAICSIT 2011

 

Knowledge, Innovation and Leadership in a Diverse, Multidisciplinary Environment

 

 

The Pavilion Conference Centre

Cape Town, South Africa

3-5 October 2011

 

MONDAY 3 OCTOBER 2011

 

08:30

Masters and Doctoral Symposium

15:00

Early Registration

17:30

Cocktail reception

TUESDAY 4 OCTOBER 2011

 

09:00

Welcome, Irwin Brown, Pavilion

 

09:15

Keynote Address: Danny Naidoo (Global Head of Innovation, Old Mutual Group), Pavilion

 

10:15

Track 1, Pavilion, Chair: Gruner

Track 2, 5+7, Chair: Bankole

Track 3, Millenium, Chair: Keet

 

Towards a framework for the adoption of Business Intelligence in public sector organisations: the case of South Africa; Kaashief Hartley and Lisa Seymour

Business Process Management Adoption: A Case Study of a South African Supermarket Retailer; Lisa F Seymour and Wesley Grisdale

The Influence of Gender and Age on Choosing Computing Courses at South African Universities; Patricia Alexander, Marthie Schoeman, Estelle De Kock, Bennett Alexander and Roxi Piderit

Investigating the Extent to which Students Share Tacit Knowledge Using Mobile Phones in Group Projects; Chiedza Khumbula and Michael Kyobe

Evaluating Web Conferencing Tool Effectiveness; Andrew Twine and Irwin Brown

Using Information Visualization to Support Web Service Discovery; Simone Beets and Janet Wesson

11:15

Tea/Coffee

 

11:30

Track 1, Pavilion, Chair: Hart

Track 2, 5+7, Chair: von Solms

Track 3, Millenium, Chair: Kourie

 

Barrel Menu: A New Mobile Phone Menu for Feature Rich Devices; Greg Foster and Terence Foxcroft

The conversion from PowerPoint (PPT) to compressed Scalable Vector Graphics (SVGZ); Jean-Pierre Joubert, Jean Greyling and Charmain Cilliers

The Impact of Sensor Fusion on Tilt Interaction in a Mobile Map-Based Application;Bradley van Tonder and Janet Wesson

Static Typing with Value Space-based Subtyping; Alexander Paar and Stefan Gruner

Providing Media Download Services in African Taxis; Graeme Smith and Gary Marsden

Indexing and Weighting of Multilingual and Mixed Documents;Mohammed Mustafa, Izzedin Osman and Hussein Suleman

Panel Discussion:

What industry wants from academic research

 

Panelists:

    Paulo Ferreira, Samsung

    Jenny McKinnell, CITI

    Judith Bishop, Microsoft Research
Gert-Jan van Rooyen, University of Stellenbosch

13:00

Lunch

 

14:00

Track 1, Pavilion, Chair: Seymour

Track 2, 5+7, Chair: van Niekerk

Track 3, Millenium, Chair: van der Poll

14:00

Contextual Factors Influencing Strategic Information Systems Plan Implementation; Nancy Brown and Irwin Brown

Successful ICT Service Delivery: Enablers, Inhibitors and Hygiene Factors - A Service Provider Perspective; Eureka Sewchurran and Irwin Brown

Issues of Adoption: Have E-Learning Management Systems Fulfilled their Potential in Developing Countries?; Grace Ssekakubo, Hussein Suleman and Gary Marsden

The Effect of Construction Heuristics on the Performance of a Genetic Algorithm for the School Timetabling Problem; Rushil Raghavjee and Nelishia Pillay

Evaluating Software Specifications by Comparison; Cyrille Dongmo and John Andrew van der Poll

Rough Subsumption Reasoning with rOWL;  Maria Keet

 

15:00

Keynote Address: Nikolai Tillmann (Principal Research Software Development Engineer, Microsoft Research) Future of Software Engineering on Mobile Devices, Pavilion

 

16:00

Tea/Coffee

 

16:15

SAICSIT AGM, Pavilion

 

18:00

Conference Banquet

 

 

WEDNESDAY 5 OCTOBER 2011

 

09:00

Keynote Address: Kweku-Muata Osei-Bryson (Virginia Commonweath University) So that We may Feed from Our Own Gardens: Research Agendas for Development, Pavilion

 

10:00

Track 1, Pavilion, Chair: Leonard

Track 2, 5+7, Chair: Kekwaletswe

Track 3, Millenium, Chair: Singh

 

Does Chomsky Complexity Affect Genetic Programming Computational Requirements?; Clayton Burger and Mathys Cornelius du Plessis

The Influence of Gender and Internet Experience on the Acceptability of Smell as Interaction Modality; Ray Shih and Pieter Blignaut

Activity analysis of a knowledge management system - Raymond Kekwaletswe

The Dualism of the Information Technology Project in organisations;Motshidisi Letseka

Domain Specific Languages Contextualized;Michael Hendrik Matthee and Stephen Levitt

Towards the Formalisation of Object-Oriented Methodologies;Ayodele Adeola Adesina-Ojo, John Andrew van der Poll and Lucas M. Venter

Enhancing Identification Mechanisms in UML Class Diagrams with Meaningful Keys;C. Maria Keet

Design Principles for Contactile Computing;Philip Machanick

A Phonetic Approach to Handling Spelling Variations in Medieval Documents;Mushtaq Ahmad, Nazim Rahman and Stefan Gruner

An evaluation of a low-cost 3-dimensional gestural interface: Wii3D;João Lourenço and Hannah Thinyane

11:00

Tea/Coffee

 

11:15

Track 1, Pavilion, Chair: Jansen van Vuuren

Track 2, 5+7, Chair: Kroeze

Track 3, Millenium, Chair: Calitz

 

Panel Discussion:

Is the raising of cyber security awareness amongst citizens an integral part of Cyberwarfare or only a national imperative to protect the citizen from economic or other losses?

 

Panelists:
Jackie Phahlamohlaka (CSIR, South Africa)
Marthie Grobler (CSIR, South Africa)
Zama Dlamini (CSIR, South Africa)
Rossouw von Solms (Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa)
Brig Gen L. Yam ( University of Stellenbosch)
Jannie Zaaiman (University of Venda)

A Grounded Theory Research Investigation Into The Importance Of Social Relationships And Networks Within Corporate Information Systems Projects;Awie Leonard

Engineering RESTful semantic services on the fly;Jabu Mtsweni, Elmarie Biermann and Laurette Pretorius

Detecting Non-Stereoscopic to Stereoscopic Image Splicing with the use of Disparity Maps;Mark-Anthony Fouché and Martin Olivier

Understanding Culturally Distant End-Users Through Intermediary-Derived Personas;Fritz Meissner and Edwin Blake

Using mass video notification methods to assist Deaf people;Ryno Taswald Lioyd Hoorn and Isabella Venter

Investigation into BATMANd-0.3.2 Protocol Performance in an Indoor Mesh Potato Testbed;Edmundo Chissungo, Edwin Blake and Hanh Le

A Phonetic Approach to Handling Spelling Variations in Medieval Documents;Mushtaq Ahmad, Nazim Rahman and Stefan Gruner

An evaluation of a low-cost 3-dimensional gestural interface: Wii3D;João Lourenço and Hannah Thinyane

Mobile Phones and Digital Divide in East African Countries;Lucas Mimbi, Michael Kyobe and Felix Bankole

Empowerment of rural farmers through information sharing using inexpensive technologies;Marie Louise Iraba and Isabella

Adoption of Green IS in South Africa – an exploratory study;Chris Petzer, Carolyn Jane Dunton McGibbon and Irwin Brown

The RHINO Platform – Charging Towards Innovation and Skills Development in Software Defined Radio;Simon Winberg, Alan Langman and Simon Scott

Empirical comparison of four classifier fusion strategies for positive-versus-negative ensembles;Patricia E.N. Lutu

Proposed Stages of a Rural ICT Comprehensive Evaluation Framework in ICT for Rural Development Projects;Caroline Pade-Khene and David Sewry

12:45

Lunch

 

13:45

Track 1, Pavilion, Chair: McGibbon

Track 2, 5+7, Chair: TBA

Track 3, Millenium, Chair: Lutu

 

Day Labour Mobile Electronic Data Capture and Browsing System; Christopher Chepken, Edwin Blake and Gary Marsden

Efficiency Measurements in IVR Systems for Oral Users: Consequences of Differences in Educational Levels; Tembalethu Jama Ndwe, Etienne Barnard, Renee Koen and Bryan McAlister

Browser-based Software for Technology Transfer; Judith Bishop

Using N-grams to Identify Mathematical Topcis in MXit Lingo;Laurie Butgereit and Reinhardt A Botha

A Sketch-Based Articulated Figure Animation Tool; Timothy Matthews and Dieter Vogts

ICT Career Track Awareness amongst ICT Graduates;Andre Calitz, Jean Greyling and Margaret Cullen

A Domain-Specific Language for URDAD Based Requirements Elicitation;Fritz Solms, Craig Edwards, Alexander Paar and Stefan Gruner

The Accreditation of ICT Degree Programs in South Africa;Andre Calitz, Jean Greyling and Margaret Cullen

15:15

Conference Closing and Plenary Session, Pavilion

 
         

Programme Committee

  1. Gary Marsden, University of Cape Town
  2. Audrey Mbogho, University of Cape Town
  3. Alemayehu Molla, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
  4. Mohamed Mosbah, Institut Polytechnique de Bordeaux
  5. Ernest Ngassam, SAP Research CEC
  6. Martin Olivier, University of Pretoria
  7. Phillipe Palanque, Université Toulouse III
  8. Shaun Pather, Cape Peninsula University of Technology
  9. Jackie Phahlamohlaka, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, DPSS
  10. Nelishia Pillay, University of KwaZulu-Natal
  11. Laurette Pretorius, University of South Africa
  12. Karen Renaud, University of Glasgow
  13. Ingrid Rewitzky, Stellenbosch University
  14. Anthony Rodrigues, Bondo University College, Kenya
  15. Ian Sanders, University of the Witwatersrand
  16. Kosheek Sewchurran, University of Cape Town
  17. Farid Shirazi, Ryerson University, Canada
  18. Paula Alexandra Silva, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
  19. Daniel Sinnig, Concordia University, Canada
  20. Derek Smith, University of Cape Town
  21. Hussein Suleman, University of Cape Town
  22. Hannah Thinyane, Rhodes University
  23. Mamello Thinyane, University of Fort Hare
  24. Anwar Vahed, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Meraka Institute
  25. Jean-paul Van Belle, University of Cape Town
  26. Judy van Biljon, University of South Africa
  27. Alta van der Merwe, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Meraka Institute
  28. McDonald van der Merwe, University of South Africa
  29. Etienne van der Poel, University of South Africa
  30. Andre van der Poll, University of South Africa
  31. Darelle van Greunen, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
  32. Rossouw van Solms, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
  33. Terence van Zyl, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Meraka Institute
  34. Hein Venter, University of Pretoria
  35. Lucas Venter, North-West University
  36. Isabella Venter, University of the Western Cape
  37. Herna Viktor, University of Ottawa
  38. Janet Wesson, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
  39. Quentin Williams, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Meraka Institute
  40.  
  41. Trish Alexander, University of Pretoria
  42. Shaun Bangay, Rhodes University
  43. Lynette Barnard, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
  44. Sonia Berman, University of Cape Town
  45. Regina Bernhaupt, Université Toulouse III
  46. Felix Bollou, American University of Nigeria
  47. Reinhardt Botha, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
  48. Karen Bradshaw, Rhodes University
  49. André Calitz, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
  50. Wallace Chigona, University of Cape Town
  51. Charmain Cilliers, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
  52. Retha de la Harpe, Cape Peninsula University of Technology
  53. Carina de Villiers, University of Pretoria
  54. Ruth de Villiers, University of South Africa
  55. Lizette de Wet, University of the Free State
  56. Nomusa Dlodlo, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Meraka Institute
  57. Lucas Dreyer, Barone, Budge & Dominick (Pty) Ltd
  58. Zoltán Fazekas, Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungary
  59. Peter Forbrig, University of Rostock
  60. Steven Furnell, Plymouth University
  61. Nestor Garay-Vitoria, Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
  62. Helene Gelderblom, University of South Africa
  63. George Ghinea, Brunel University
  64. Jeán Greyling, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
  65. Stefan Gruner, University of Pretoria
  66. Michael Hart, University of Cape Town
  67. Marlien Herselman, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Meraka Institute  
  68. Tony Hooper, Victoria University of Wellington
  69. Barry Irwin, Rhodes University
  70. Chris Johnson, Glasgow University
  71. Fourie Joubert, University of Pretoria
  72. Anne Kayem, University of Cape Town
  73. George Konidaris, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  74. Jan Kroeze, University of South Africa
  75. Neels Kruger, University of Pretoria
  76. Michelle Kuttel, University of Cape Town
  77. Michael Kyobe, University of Cape Town
  78. Awie Leonard, University of Pretoria
  79. Stephen Levitt, University of the Witwatersrand
  80. Hugo Lotriet, University of Pretoria
  81. Jude Lubegga, Makerere University, Uganda
  82. Philip Machanick, Rhodes University

 

Panel Discussion Abstracts

 

Panel Discussion:

What industry wants from academic research

 

Panelists:
Derrick Kourie, University of Pretoria [Panel Chair]

    Paulo Ferreira, Samsung

    Jenny McKinnell, CITI

    Judith Bishop, Microsoft Research
Gert-Jan van Rooyen, University of Stellenbosch

 

Abstract:

In many countries, and South Africa is no exception, there are examples of industry and academia working together more closely than in the past. Examples in SA are the SAP Research Centre and the recent Samsung Mobile Innovation Lab at UCT. Unlike previous discussions, which have focused on the output quality of graduates and the nature of the curriculum, this panel will explore what it is that industry hopes to get from research connections and how it hopes to achieve its goals and leverage the results.

 

 

Panel Discussion:

Is the raising of cyber security awareness amongst citizens an integral part of Cyberwarfare or only a national imperative to protect the citizen from economic or other losses?

 

Panelists:
Joey Jansen Van Vuuren (CSIR, South Africa) [Panel Chair]
Jackie Phahlamohlaka (CSIR, South Africa)
Marthie Grobler (CSIR, South Africa)
Zama Dlamini (CSIR, South Africa)
Rossouw von Solms (Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa )
Brig Gen L. Yam ( University of Stellenbosch)
Jannie Zaaiman (University of Venda)

 

Abstract:

Cyberwarfare refers to politically motivated hacking to conduct sabotage and espionage.  Cyberwarfare has been defined by government security expert Richard A. Clarke, in his book Cyber War (May 2010), as "actions by a nation-state to penetrate another nation's computers or networks for the purposes of causing damage or disruption."[4]. But what about actions by informed citizens with malicious intent, or actions by third parties using cyber resources of unsuspecting users? How will the actions of a nation-state in cyberspace be distinguished from the actions of Individual citizens?

With the importance that information plays in the everyday environment, cyber security plays a key role in the maintenance of national security; which is defined as that part of government policy which has as its objectives the protection of a nation’s vital national interests against existing or potential adversaries.  In this regard, cyber security refers to the protection of information and information systems from unauthorised access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification or destruction.

Daved, CISSP of Naval Warfare Command, indicates that recent activities in cyberspace have moved the battlefield to the average citizen’s home as it was observed that attackers can take over and compromise a brand new computer in 30 seconds after connecting to the internet [1].  Compromised PC’s of unsuspecting citizens could be used for launching cyber warfare type attacks on the rest of the world. This in turn could pose a national security threat to any nation. The exponential increase in Internet broadband access in RSA  and the rest of Africa could result in an increase in security threats that will also take the battlefield to the home of the average citizen in rural South Africa, and indeed to the home of any average African citizen. It is important therefore that citizens are made aware of the multiplicity of threats associated with their cyberspace citizenship.

Against this background the question arises whether the raising of cyber security awareness amongst citizens is an integral part of Cyber warfare or only a national imperative to protect the citizen from economic or other losses.

Modern society created both a direct and indirect dependence on information technology, with a strong reliance on immediacy, access and connections [3].  This, combined with the fact that there is a large portion of the South African population that has not had regular and sustained exposure to technology and broadband internet access, expose local communities to cyber threats.

Presently the low broadband penetration in Africa limits the chances of Africa being used to launch cyber attacks to other countries.  However, the current increase in broadband access throughout Africa may potentially increase the cyber related vulnerabilities drastically.  As a result, a compromise of the integrity, confidentiality, authenticity or availability of the technological systems could have dramatic consequences regardless of whether it is a temporary interruption of connectivity, or a longer-term disruption caused by a cyber attack [2]. 

The CSIR is currently conducting an awareness raising research and development project with a view to preparing sectors of society to become better cyber citizens. Other institutions, such as the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University have similar initiatives. Could it be argued that these initiatives form an integral part of cyber warfare, seeing that the battlefield could actually become the home of an average citizen?