Model-driven development has been considered to be the hope of improving software productivity significantly. However, it has not been achieved even after many years of research and application. Models are only and still ...

Self-heating can have a detrimental effect on the performance and reliability of high power microwave devices. In this work, the thermal performance of the gallium arsenide (GaAs) Gunn diode was studied. Infrared (IR) ...

Recent research estimates that 70 to 90 per cent of IT projects fail to achieve the anticipated outcome. An analysis of relevant studies in Chapter 1 reveals numerous symptoms (project risks) that may explain why IT ...

IT systems are attacked using computers and networks to facilitate their crimes and hide their identities, creating new challenges for corporate security investigations. There are two main types of attacker: insiders and ...

This thesis investigates the nature of ‘the self’ modern yoga practitioners cultivate. This ontological question is further divided into three sub-questions to find the answer stepby- step. They are: (1) How yoga practice ...

Enterprises can be empowered to live up to the potential of becoming dynamic, agile and real-time. Service orientation is emerging from the amalgamation of a number of key business, technology and cultural developments. ...

This thesis undertakes to provide an architecture and understanding of the incorporation of trust into the paradigm of mobile multi-agent systems. Trust deliberation is a soft security approach to the problem of mobile ...

This thesis focuses on an Agent-Based Service-Oriented approach to evolving legacy system into a Pervasive Computing environment. The methodology consists of multiple phases: using reverse engineering techniques to comprehend ...

The State of Kuwait has one of the largest per capita consumption in the world, reaching 13061kWh in 2006 (Kuwait MEW, 2007). The power sector in Kuwait is not commercially viable, due to the current under-pricing policy ...