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    • Understanding Patterns of Social Support and Their Relationship to an ART Adherence Intervention Among Adults in Rural Southwestern Uganda 

      Atukunda, Esther Cathyln; Musiimenta, Angella; Musinguzi, Nicholas (open access at Springerlink.com, 2006-09-26)
      Abstract SMS is a widely used technology globally and may also improve ART adherence, yet SMS notifications to social supporters following real-time detection of missed doses showed no clear benefit in a recent pilot ...

    • Types and priorities of multi-agent system interactions 

      Ngobye, Martin; Groot, Wouter T. de; Weide, Theo P. van der (Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems, 2010-06-30)
      Multi-Agent Systems may be classified as containing No Direct Interactions, Simple Interactions or Complex, Conditional Interactions between agents. This paper argues and illustrates that models with simple interactions, ...

    • An Empirical Study of the Evolution of Eclipse Third-party Plug-ins 

      Businge, John; Serebrenik, Alexander; Brand, Mark van den (International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution (IWPSE), 2010-09)
      Since the inception of Lehman's software evolution laws in the early 1970s, they have attracted significant attention from the research community. However, to our knowledge, no study of applicability of these laws on the ...

    • A Studio Based Approach to Enhancing Decision Making in Sme Start-Up 

      Ejiri, Annabella Habinka; Nabukenya, Josephine; Sol, Henk G. (In 7th International Conference On Computing and ICT Research, 2011)
      The start-up phase plays an important role in the success and survival of many enterprises, which greatly depends on adequate and timely services for decision making. However, deciding to startup a mining Small and Medium ...

    • An Approach for Agent-Based Modeling Using AiC+ 

      Ngobye, Martin; Kanagwa, Benjamin; WEIDE, THEO VAN DER; Groot, Wouter T. DE (International Journal of Computing and ICT Research., 2011-12)
      In this paper, we present AiC+, an extension of the AiC framework designed for the explanation of human actions especially in the environmental field. We use first order logics to describe the semantics used to explain the ...

    • Survival of Eclipse Third-party Plug-ins 

      Businge, John; Serebrenik, Alexander; Brand, Mark van den (International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM), 2012)
      Today numerous software systems are being developed on top of frameworks. In this study, we analyzed the survival of 467 Eclipse third-party plug-ins altogether having 1,447 versions. We classify these plug-ins into two ...

    • Evaluating the Adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHR) in Referral Hospitals, Uganda 

      Moreen, Banshanga; Ejiri, Annabella Habinka (International Journal of Scientific Knowledge Computing and Information Technology, 2012)
      Electronic health record is a response that covers the need of all engaged parties including patients, doctors, clinical staff, insurance companies, health care providers and policy makers by providing timely information. ...

    • Decision Enhancement Services for Small and Medium Enterprise Start-ups in Uganda 

      Ejiri, Annabella Habinka; Sol, Henk G. (45th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2012)
      While start-up firms create a substantial economic impact on most economies, the failure rate of start-up firms seems to remain high due to inadequate agile decision services. Deciding to start-up mining Small and Medium ...

    • Candidate Base Stations a Security Solution For Compromised Base Stations In Wireless Sensor Networks 

      Nabaasa, Evarist; Lin, Yaping (College of Computer and Communication, Hunan University, P. R. China, 2013)
      Wireless sensor networks heavily rely on base stations for data processing and routing within the network itself and the outside world. Considerably less attention has been put on the security of base stations in comparison ...

    • Scheduling and optimization of traffic lights on a T junction using a wireless sensor network 

      Nabaasa, Evarist; Bulega, E. Tonny (International Journal of Scientific Knowledge Computing and Information Technology, 2013)
      This paper provides an overview of how to schedule and optimize traffic lights using Intelligent Transport Systems. In this work we present the scheduling and optimization algorithms that we developed and how we tested ...

    • Eclipse API usage: the good and the bad 

      Businge, John; Serebrenik, Alexander; Brand, Mark G. J. van den (Software Quality Journal, 2013-10-01)
      Today, when constructing software systems, many developers build their systems on top of frameworks. Eclipse is such a framework that has been in existence for over a decade. Like many other evolving software systems, the ...

    • Evaluation of Multiple Enrollment for Fingerprint Recognition. 

      Kaggwa, Fred; Ngubiri, John; Tushabe, Florence (Global Summit on Computer & Information Technology, 2014)
      Abstract— Fusion of multiple impressions resulting from multiple fingerprint enrollments is one of the ways often used to improve fingerprint recognition performance. In this research, we perform an evaluation of the ...

    • The Submarine Cable Connection: What should it means for Rural Africa? 

      Obbo, Aggrey (2014-09-02)
      This paper focuses on the implication of the Indian Ocean Submarine Cable Connection at East African coast to Africa's economies. It looks at the current Wide Area Networks (WAN) technologies. With the connection of the ...

    • Secure and Efficient Mobile Personal Health Data Sharing in Resource Constrained Environments 

      Ssembatya, Richard; Kayem, Anne V.D.M. (In 2015 IEEE 29th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops, 2015)
      Personal health record (PHR) systems are widely used in the developed world, but little has been done to explore the utility of these PHR systems in the developing world. A key reason for this is that many developing world ...

    • Implementation of electronic medical records requires more than new software:Lessons on integrating and managing health technologies from Mbarara,Uganda 

      Madore, Amy; Rosenberg, Julie; Muyindike, Winnie R; Bangsberg, David R; Bwana, Mwebesa B; Martin, Jeffrey N; Kanyesigye, Michael; Weintraub, Rebecca (In Healthcare, 2015)
      Implementation lessons: • Technology alone does not necessarily lead to improvement in health service delivery, in contrast to the common assumption that advanced technology goes hand in hand with progress. • Implementation ...

    • A Survey on Algorithms for Limited Resources Optimization and Utilization by Games on Smartphones 

      Natumanya, Deorah; Nabaasa, Evarist; Mugonza, Robert (International Journal of Computer Applications, 2016)
      Smartphones have been characterized by their limited computational resources such as battery life, processor performance and storage capacity. The above mentioned limitations can be overcome by utilizing mobile ...

    • Towards University Semester and Examinations Regulations Model Verification 

      Katushabe, Calorine; Nabaasa, Evarist; Nyanzi, Abubaker (International Journal of Computer Applications, 2016)
      This paper reviewed the Mbarara University of Science and Technology semester and examinations regulations handbook and diagrammatically identified a number of flaws in the model. The next phase of this research is to ...

    • Tools, Architectures and Techniques for Monitoring Energy Efficiency in Computer Networks: State of the Art Survey 

      Businge, John; Mugonza, Robert; Mwavu, Rogers (International Journal of Computer Applications, 2016)
      Energy efficiency in data center networks is increasingly becoming a gold standard for implementers. Energy costs are becoming high while performance is highly demanded. And while efforts are directed to the design of ...

    • Combined Feature Level and Score Level Fusion Gabor Filter-Based Multiple Enrollment Fingerprint Recognition 

      Kaggwa, Fred; Ngubiri, John; Tushabe, Florence (International conference on Signal Processing, Communication, Power and Embedded System, 2016)
      Minutiae-based fingerprint matching methods suffer difficulty in automatically extracting all minutiae points due to failure to detect the complete ridge structures of a fingerprint, as well as describing all the local ...

    • Factors Influencing the Adoption of Mobile Health in Uganda Health Facilities: A Case Study of Mobile Tracking System in Kayunga 

      Nanyombi, Asiinah; Ejiri, Annabella Habinka (American Scientific Research Journal for Engineering, Technology, and Sciences (ASRJETS), 2016)
      Mobile Tracking system (mTrac) is an mHealth systems in Uganda was implemented in all government owned health facilities, with an aim of providing information on epidemic disease out breaks and drug stock outs of essential ...