A report on the implementation and evaluation of an intelligent learning system; the multimedia geography tutor and game software titled Lainos World was localized into English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Russian and Simplified Chinese. Thereafter, multilingual online surveys were setup to which High school students were globally invited via mails to schools, targeted adverts and recr...

Context: The publication of the milestone textbook on design patterns by the ‘Gang of Four’ (GoF ) in 1995, introduced a set of 23 design patterns that are largely concerned with improving the practices and products of software development. However, there has been no comprehensive assessment of the effectiveness of design patterns, nor is there any evidence about any claims and factors that are...

Software piracy has been a serious problem for decades and continues to cost software industry some billions of dollars each year. In this study we examine the Normative and Informational Social Influences that affect an individual’s decision to buy or use pirated software. Based upon previous research about ethical decision making in software adoption, and consumer susceptibility to social inf...

Software piracy has been a serious problem for decades and continues to cost software industry some billions of dollars each year. In this study we examine the Normative and Informational Social Influences that affect an individual’s decision to buy or use pirated software. Based upon previous research about ethical decision making in software adoption, and consumer susceptibility to social inf...

today, the internet is the significant tool of online shopping in all around the world. online transaction systems make shopper possible to make payment for services or products utilizing the internet. the current paper purpose is to focus on the elements that can affect online repurchase intentions. in the current paper we utilized survey questionnaire to gather 102 in malaysia from those that...

background: the internet is a phenomena that changes human, specially the younger generation’s, life in the 21st century. online communication is a common way of interacting among adolescents who experience feelings of social anxiety. the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between social anxiety and online communication in adolescents. methods: three hundred and thirty studen...

The richness in knowledge has changed access methods for all stake holders in retrieving key knowledge and relevant information. This paper presents a study of three open source digital library management software used to assimilate and disseminate information to world audience. The methodology followed involves online survey and study of related software documentation and associated technical ...

The Network Time Protocol creates a network of hosts on the Internet that synchronize time. This paper describes the methods and results of a survey of the NTP network conducted by a “spider” that queried all findable NTP hosts on the Internet. This survey estimates the NTP network contains at least 175,000 hosts. An analysis of the survey data collects network size, timing, and topology inform...