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Collaborative Networks and Digital Transformation, 2019

Production processes are nowadays fragmented across different companies and organized in global c... more Production processes are nowadays fragmented across different companies and organized in global collaborative networks. This is the result of the first wave of globalization that, among the various factors, was enabled by the diffusion of Internet-based Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) at the beginning of the years 2000. The recent wave of new technologies possibly leading to the fourth industrial revolutionthe so-called Industry 4.0is further multiplying opportunities. Accessing global customers opens great opportunities for organizations, including small and medium enterprises (SMEs), but it requires the ability to adapt to different requirements and conditions, volatile demand patterns and fast-changing technologies. Regardless of the industrial sector, the processes used in an organization must be compliant to rules, standards, laws and regulations. Non-compliance subjects enterprises to litigation and financial fines. Thus, compliance verification is a major concern, not only to keep pace with changing regulations but also to address the rising concerns of security, product and service quality and data privacy. The software, in particular process automation, used must be designed accordingly. In relation to process management, we propose a new way to pro-actively check the compliance of current running business processes using Descriptive Logic and Linear Temporal Logic to describe the constraints related to data. Related algorithms are presented to detect the potential violations.

2021 IST-Africa Conference (IST-Africa), 2021

The outbreak of COVID-19 disrupted traditional ways of life, business models and economic activit... more The outbreak of COVID-19 disrupted traditional ways of life, business models and economic activities creating a new normal. Unprecedented impact has been experienced with some businesses shutting down, others struggling while some have established a level of resilience. The agriculture sector is heavily reliant on external services for supply of inputs, advisory services, financial support, community support and markets. The national economy lock-down had a huge impact as revealed in the findings. Based on the impact and gathered interventions, the paper proposes a resilience framework that advocates for adoption and integration of innovations, science and technology (IST) in resilient strategies to support farmers build resilience in the face of current or future adversaries. The study was quantitative in nature investigating the impact of COVID-19 pandemic period on farmers in the Teso region of eastern Uganda. The assessment was based on farm aspects such as labour, production, e...

2013 IST-Africa Conference & Exhibition, 2013

Purpose - This paper aims to investigate the application of business process reengineering (BPR) ... more Purpose - This paper aims to investigate the application of business process reengineering (BPR) methodologies to election management more so for underdeveloped countries. The paper assess the extent of application against the limiting factors and proposes a customized BPR methodology that can facilitate electoral process reengineering given the nature and structure of electoral practices in such countries. Design/methodology/approach - a critical review of various BPR methodologies was done with a view to determine their suitability to effective and efficient electoral process reengineering. The design was achieved following the Design Science approach based on key methodology variables authenticated by field findings. Questionnaires and interview guides were used to collect data. Findings - The review and findings revealed that the existing methodologies bear challenges and limitations that affect their direct application to electoral process reengineering. Therefore, the design o...

Existing and emerging e-learning technologies are having intense, immediate, and disruptive trans... more Existing and emerging e-learning technologies are having intense, immediate, and disruptive transformations on education systems (Archer, Garrison & Anderson, 2008). The rise of e-learning technologies in all sectors of education is responsible for the accelerated global competition (Daniel, 2000), increase in the quality of learning experiences (Garrison, 2002), removal of situational barriers and cost effectiveness. This paper is intended to make an assessment of e-learning adoption and utilization in Ugandan institutions of higher learning. A comprehensive literature review on e-learning adoption and utilization in institutions of higher learning was conducted which facilitated an understanding of the challenges and opportunities of the technology. The study adopted a cross sectional qualitative research method to select out the institutions to study. Questionnaires were used to collect data and the findings were authenticated by literature. The Unified theory of acceptance and u...

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, 2018

Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 2019

Compliance to regulatory requirements is key to successful collaborative business process executi... more Compliance to regulatory requirements is key to successful collaborative business process execution. The review of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) brought to the fore the need to comply with data privacy. Access control and authorization mechanisms in workflow management systems based on roles, tasks, and attributes do not sufficiently address the current complex and dynamic privacy requirements in collaborative business process environments due to diverse policies. This paper proposes process driven authorization as an alternative approach to data access control and authorization where access is granted based on a legitimate need to accomplish a task in the business process. Due to vast sources of regulations, a mechanism to derive and validate a composite set of constraints free of conflicts and contradictions is presented. An extended workflow tree language is also presented to support constraint modeling. An industry case pick and pack process is used for illustration.

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, 2019

This paper presents a new method for autonomous computer aided process planning (A-CAPP) in intel... more This paper presents a new method for autonomous computer aided process planning (A-CAPP) in intelligent manufacturing system, in which the related input and output of the system are discussed on the basis of comparative analysis of traditional CAPP. The crucial functional components of the A-CAPP system, such as event scheduling management, manufacturing process planning, operation process/step planning, numerical control machining program planning, process simulation and evaluation, are introduced; and the methods of process knowledge management, including process feature knowledge, manufacturing resource knowledge and process method knowledge, are discussed as well. A-CAPP applied for intelligent manufacturing system can effectively support the production line reconstruction dynamically; shorten the time of production line configuration modification in accordance with customers' requirement change or market requirement fluctuation, and further more to balance the production lines load.

Collaboration in a Data-Rich World, 2017

Industry 4.0 is a key strategic trend of the economy. Virtual factories are key building blocks f... more Industry 4.0 is a key strategic trend of the economy. Virtual factories are key building blocks for Industry 4.0 where product design processes, manufacturing processes and general collaborative business processes across factories and enterprises are integrated. In the context of EU H2020 FIRST (vF Interoperation suppoRting buSiness innovaTion) project, end users of vFs are not experts in business process modelling to guarantee correct collaborative business processes for realizing execution. To enable automatic execution of business processes, verification is an important step at the business process design stage to avoid errors at runtime. Research in business process model verification has yielded a plethora of approaches in form of languages and tools that are based on Petri nets family and temporal logic. However, no report specifically targets and presents a comparative assessment of these approaches based on criteria as one we propose. In this paper we present an assessment of the most common verification approaches based on their expressibility, flexibility, suitability and complexity. We also look at how big data impacts the business process verification approach in a data-rich world.

Fourth International Congress on Information and Communication Technology, 2020

Asian Journal of Computer Science and Information Technology, 2015

The objective of the paper is to investigates the impact of global financial crisis on exports fr... more The objective of the paper is to investigates the impact of global financial crisis on exports from India to the country of origin of Great Recession of 2007-2009 i.e., United States employing Gravity Model for the period 1985 to 2010.The paper also analysis the trade relationship between the two countries during the crises period through the dummy variable approach. Data has been collected from Bloomberg, NIC, CEPII, FRED, St. Louis fed's database and World Bank. The results obtained from OLS regression procedure reveals the influence of deteriorating economic and financial conditions in United States on the export demand from India during crisis period. Further, while the stage of economic development of both countries concomitant with population of US only was found to have an encouraging role towards India's exports to US, the population of India was unearthed to have a regressive disposition in the equation. The distance between the two countries has been found to play a regressive role in the trade relationship of two countries. Crises window 2007-09 is showing a negative impact but insignificant impact it turns out to be significant at 13%.

2014 IST-Africa Conference Proceedings, 2014

This paper presents the role of science, technology and innovation in the informal sector (Jua Ka... more This paper presents the role of science, technology and innovation in the informal sector (Jua Kalis) in Uganda. Due to a lack of capital, increased taxes, lack of or insufficient skills, low or no education and training, limited access to technology and poor infrastructure among others have led to the influx of Jua Kalis. There is therefore a need to encourage and promote Jua Kalis (informal Sector) works using different models of technology promotion in Uganda. The paper also highlights the benefits and opportunities in the informal sector that should be appreciated by the Government.