Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractA Methodological Framework for Software Safety in Safety Critical Computer SystemsP. V. Srinivas Acharyulu, P. SeetharamaiahSoftware safety must deal with the principles of safety management, safety engineering and software engineering for developing safety-critical computer systems, with the target of making the system safe, risk-free and fail-safe in addition to provide a clarified differentaition for assessing and evaluating the risk, with the principles of software risk management. Problem statement: Prevailing software quality models, standards were not … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 8, Issue 9 · 16 Aug 2012 · 7,655 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractManaging Process Hazards in Lab-Scale Pilot Plant for Safe OperationHanida Abdul Aziz, Azmi Mohd Shariff, Mohd Rafizie RoslanIn spite of the OSHA Laboratory and Hazards Communication Standards, incidents which result in injuries and property loss continue to occur in the research and teaching locations. Application of Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) of OSHA Process Safety Management (PSM) to laboratory pilot plant operations has the potential to further reduce risk associated with this location. However, a major challenge is … …American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Vol. 5, Issue 1 · 26 May 2012 · 9,766 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractSchedule Planning for Repairing Power Supply SystemKuo-Wei Lin, Chein-Jen KangProblem statement: Taiwan is located in the tropical ocean areas. The strong typhoon in summer often causes the collapse of electric transmission towers and results in power outages that seriously affect people’s lives and industrial production. Approach: In light of this situation, this study aims to employ project management techniques of Theory of Constraints (TOC) to develop a practical TOC … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 9, Issue 6 · 24 Mar 2012 · 7,172 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractQuality Business Service Provider in Community EnterpriseChalard Chantarasombat, Tantawan SingkeawProblem statement: The development of community enterprises focuses on the development of service providers for commercial industries and community enterprises and it is necessary to create and extend the development according to the changing global conditions. The department of industrial promotion and industry promotion center region 5, Khon Kaen must create and develop the quality of service providers in community … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 8, Issue 2 · 13 Mar 2012 · 8,317 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractThe Role of Information Systems in Implementing Total Quality ManagementAhmad Zakaria Siam, Khalid Alkhateeb, Sami Al-WaqqadProblem statement: The aim of this study is to identify the extent to which Information Technology (IT) has been used to support TQM in order to identify the role of IT in implementing Total Quality Management (TQM). The primary emphasis of this study was on how IT provides help and supports in TQM processes rather than on TQM performance. This … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 9, Issue 5 · 1 Mar 2012 · 8,849 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractInformation Technology Role in Reducing E-Banking Services Risk in Jordanian Banking SectorBadi S. AL-Rawashdeh, Aymen M. Abu-Errub, Ahmad Y. Areiqat, Mohammad DbbaghiehProblem statement: This study aims to highlight the role of information technology in reducing risk of electronic banking services in the Jordanian banking sector. The study was conducted on three banks as a sample representative of the Jordanian banking sector. Approach: Data collection was through conducting personal interviews with the operations managers in the three banks (HBTF, JC Bank and … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 8, Issue 3 · 16 Jan 2012 · 7,200 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractFramework for Managing the Very Large Scale Integration Design ProcessSabah Al-Fedaghi, Eman Al-DwaisanProblem statement: The VLSI design cycle was described in terms of successive states and substages; it starts with system specification and ends with packaging. At the next descriptive level, currently known methodologies (e.g., flowchart based, object-oriented based) lack a global conceptual representation suitable for managing the VLSI design process. Technical details were intermixed with tool-dependent and implementation issues such as … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 9, Issue 2 · 13 Dec 2011 · 7,491 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractRole of Information Technology Infrastructure Library in Data WarehousesTariq Rahim Soomro, Hasan Yousef WahbaProblem statement: The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is most widely used de-facto- standard, consists of set of concepts and practices for Information Technology Service Management (ITSM), IT development and IT operations. Approach: Where as a Data Warehouse (DW) is a relational database used for the purpose of query and analysis to generate complex reports for enterprises. Results: This study … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 8, Issue 12 · 2 Nov 2011 · 7,769 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractTowards an Integrated Intrusion Detection Monitoring in High Speed NetworksHassen SallayProblem statement: Security Management has become a critical aspect for large scale distributed systems. Particularly, recent Distributed Intrusion Detection Systems (DIDS) schemes in High Speed Networks (HSN) have raised new serious management problems and challenges. Increasing the effectiveness of IDS monitoring is primordial to satisfy the restrictive constraints in such large multi-domains environment for narrow context of HSN. Approach: We … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 7, Issue 7 · 30 Jun 2011 · 6,560 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractMultilingual Database Management System: A Performance EvaluationNurul Husna Mohd Saad, Hamidah IbrahimProblem statement: The use of English as well as Arabic language is increasingly evident in the aspects of international business and finance. Therefore, this study explored the management of multilingual data in multilingual system in order to be able to cater two or more different speakers of Internet users. Approach: The proposed method is divided into two ends: The front-end … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 7, Issue 7 · 28 Jun 2011 · 7,407 accessesView PDFCite