Cloud computing (CC) is a recently developed computing paradigm that can be utilized to deliver everything-as-a-service to various businesses. In higher education institutions (HEIs), CC is rapidly ...being deployed and becoming an integral part of institution experience. CC adoption in HEIs is accompanied by numerous scientific contributions that address the topic from different perspectives. A systematic review of these heterogeneous contributions, which provide a coherent taxonomy, can be considered interesting for HEIs to identify opportunities to use CC in its own context. Therefore, this systematic literature review aims to analyze existing research on adopting and using CC in HEIs, review background research to develop a coherent taxonomy and provide a landscape for future research on CC in HEIs. The outcomes of this paper include a coherent taxonomy and an overview of the basic characteristics of this emerging field in terms of motivation and barriers of adopting CC in HEIs, existing individual and organizational theoretical models to understand the future requirements for extensively adopting and using CC in HEIs, and factors that influence the adoption of CC in HEIs at individual and organizational levels. Considerable information is available in relation to adopting and using CC in HEIs. This review will enhance this information by offering an in-depth analysis of the existing data to bridge any gap and expand on existing literature.
The progress and evolution of technology have been rapidly transforming various aspects of our society and daily lives, including colleges and campuses into smarter environments compared to the past. ...Despite the numerous advantages offered by cutting-edge technologies, such as IoT-based smart campuses, academic research on their implementation suffers from a significant lack of comprehensive information necessary to deliver efficient smart campus solutions. Therefore, the focus of this study is to investigate the significance of IoT-based smart campus adoption from 14 proposed hypotheses. The researchers collected data from stakeholders affiliated with universities in Iraq, resulting in a dataset of 442 observations. To analyze the data, a two-stage approach was employed, consisting of structural equation modeling (SEM) and reevaluated with the artificial neural networks (ANN) method. The findings provide evidence supporting the significance of various constructs. In particular, the model demonstrates satisfactory predictive relevance, indicating its effectiveness in making accurate predictions or forecasts. The ANN analysis suggests that the model has predictive capabilities. Moreover, the study findings support the importance of perceived usefulness in technology-specific factors, facilitating conditions, and propagation in organizational-specific factors, government support, social influence, and external pressure in environmental-specific factors, as well as privacy concerns, self-efficacy, satisfaction, and domain-specific knowledge in end-user-specific factors. Four hypotheses related to perceived ease of use, service collaboration, habit, and innovativeness were rejected. Notably, the study identifies propagation as the most significant predictor in the ANN analysis. The conclusions of this study can be beneficial for university administrators, manufacturers, and policymakers in understanding the essential components of smart campuses to enhance the adoption and maximize the effectiveness of smart solutions.
In today's era dominated by social media, crisis communication has become increasingly complex in the evolving landscape of crisis management, shaped by globalization and technological advancements. ...The pivotal role of social media in facilitating information seeking and sharing during crises underscores the need to identify factors that enhance resilience in crisis communication. As a result, the study presented herein delves into the intricate interplay between information-seeking, information-sharing, and social media usage factors, examining their influence on resilience within the context of crisis management. Utilizing the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP), the research creates a comprehensive hierarchical model of these factors and elucidates their priorities through expert pair-wise comparisons. The results reveal that information-seeking factors dominate the ranking, highlighting the paramount importance of understanding how individuals seek and engage with information during crises. Specifically, the findings suggest that factors such as media choice, crisis type, and trust play pivotal roles in resilience building during crisis situations. In the realm of information sharing, the study underscores the significance of factors like sentiment, authority, and relevance in shaping the resonance and effectiveness of shared content. Moreover, the analysis unveils the outcomes of social media usage factors, spotlighting elements such as media exposure, uncertainty, and involvement, and showcasing their role in driving individuals' engagement with crisis-related content on social platforms. By leveraging the AHP methodology, this research unravels the priorities of factors that underpin the efficacy of Social Media Crisis Communication (SMCC). Accordingly, it underscores the potential of AHP as an invaluable tool for navigating the intricate landscape of SMCC literature, offering fresh perspectives and empirical insights. Embracing the prioritized factors unveiled in this analysis, crisis managers and communicators can tailor their strategies to better align with the dynamics of social media and enhance resilience-building efforts in an ever-evolving crisis landscape.
Fertilizer Information System for Banana Plantation Shuen, Yu Shin; Arbaiy, Nureize; Yah Jusoh, Yusmadi
JOIV : international journal on informatics visualization Online,
11/2017, Letnik:
1, Številka:
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A banana is a nutritious fruit which contains good vitamins and nutrient for body. Banana tree requires suitable mean temperature and mean rainfall to grow up. Additionally, healthy soil improves ...crops growth due to sufficient nutrients. Farmers use fertilizer to improve soil nutrient and increase yield productions. Thus, a proper field management and fertilization is important to ensure banana plants to produce high quality of yield. Improper manage fertilizer will cause impact on the environment and affect the banana plantation. Therefore, fertilizer information system for banana plantation is developed to support farmers to manage information for banana farm in an effective way. Prototype model is employed to assist development of the system. PHP programming language is used to develop this system and MySQL as a system database. This system contains five modules which are registration and login module, manage banana plantation information module, fertilizer formulation management module, fertilizer information management module and report module. It is expected that the system will help farmers to manage and monitor the fertilizing task in the farm efficiently.
Blockchain has garnered the most attention as the most important new technology that supports recent digital transactions via e-government. The most critical challenge for public e-government systems ...is reducing bureaucracy and increasing the efficiency and performance of administrative processes in these systems since blockchain technology can play a role in a decentralized environment and execute a high level of security transactions and transparency. So, the main objectives of this work are to survey different proposed models for e-government system architecture based on blockchain technology implementation and how these models are validated. This work studies and analyzes some research trends focused on blockchain and the future of e-governance for connecting citizens and smart cities, such as Using Blockchain in the Notarial Office (NO), using blockchain technology in the management of police complaints, exploring blockchain-enabled end-to-end security e-voting, using blockchain and smart contract technology for trusted and safe property registration and record management, and using a blockchain-enabled Vehicle Certification (BVC) framework. Finally, this work has proven that the issue of transforming governments from the traditional system to electronic governments based on blockchain technology has become an inevitable matter of time.
The field of cloud-based electronic government (CBEG) is still expanding. Some conflicting results have been published regarding the factors influencing the adoption of CBEG. The paper aims to ...review the literature and understand the status of CBEG and the factors behind its adoption. Specific keywords related to the topic were used to extract articles from reliable databases. An extensive review was done on a total of 41 articles published between 2016 and August 2022. The findings showed that there has been an increase in the number of articles related to CBEG, specifically in the public sector. The review also showed that the quantitative approach outperformed other approaches. The Technology Organization Environment (TOE) framework and Diffusion of Innovation (DOI) were used in the majority of the reviewed papers. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was applied intensively in the reviewed papers. The most important factors for CBEG adoption are top-level management support, security, compatibility, relative advantage, complexity, and privacy. Future studies are recommended to expand the scope of inclusion criteria, conduct more empirical studies on CBEG, and deploy mediators and moderators. Empirically, combining more theories can explain more about the adoption of CBEG. The findings help decision-makers better understand the predictors of the successful adoption of CBEG.
This paper aims in analysing the application of Social Media to enhance the Knowledge Integra-tion (KI) by proposed of KI model for Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) by using Rasch Model Application. ...An initial conceptual model has been constructed based on TOE framework (Tech-nology, Organization, Environment) which is including KI, Social Media, SMEs, Environment, and Service Quality Factors.
Increasing volumes of data are rapidly being produced by researchers with the advancement of digital technologies. In order to manage these data, a suitable research data repository infrastructure is ...needed by the higher learning institutions. Apart from storing the data, these data repository need to support the research data life-cycle that include the tasks of data creation, processing, analysis, preservation, access and reuse. The objective of this research is to deeply investigate the influencing factors fordata repository infrastructure in managing research data. A systematic literature review is conducted to perform the investigation where research papers are searched over three electronic journal databases. Selected papers are then analysed and a quality assessment has been conducted to identify the relevant infrastructure for research data repository. As a result, we identified the important components of research data repository infrastructure development.
User Perceived Quality Model for Web-Based System Assessment Ahmad Ibrahim, Siti Rohana; Yahaya, Jamaiah; Deraman, Aziz ...
International journal on advanced science, engineering and information technology,
10/2018, Letnik:
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