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Pembangunan Sistem Carian Maklumat Islam Menggunakan Kaedah Pengekstrakan Kandungan Web

Web mengandungi banyak maklumat, yang tersedia dalam dokumen yang tidak terstruktur. Banyaknya kuantiti maklumat yang tersedia pada web telah menimbulkan masalah kepada pengguna untuk mendapatkan laman web yang diperlukan, seperti laman web Islam. Untuk membantu pengguna menemui sumber web yang relevan, kandungan dokumen web perlu distrukturkan terlebih dahulu. Oleh kerana perisian pengekstrakan maklumat boleh menukarkan dokumen web kepada bentuk pangkalan data berstruktur, maka kaedah ini digunakan untuk mendapatkan keseluruhan maklumat yang relevan yang terkandung dalam dokumen web Islam. Kajian ini adalah untuk membangunkan sistem pengekstrakan kandungan Web bagi menyokong pembangunan sistem carian maklumat Islam yang berasaskan web kearah memenuhi keperluan pengguna untuk mendapatkan maklumat tentang Islam secara lebih tepat dan efektif. Kaedah pengekstrakan maklumat dipilih bagi tujuan mengumpul dan mengintegrasikan sumber web Islam ke dalam pangkalan data secara lebih cepat dan efisien. Proses pengekstrakan sumber maklumat web merangkumi proses pembuangan tag, kata henti, dan perkataan yang tidak bermakna. Sistem pengekstrakan kandungan Web membolehkan penstrukturan dan penyimpanan ke dalam pangkalan data maklumat yang terkandung dalam dokumen web, seperti : URL, tajuk, meta tag dan kandungan perkataan daripada ‘body’ suatu dokumen HTML, berdasarkan pattern yang telah ditakrifkan dalam aturcara sistem melalui aplikasi teknik Regular Expression. Ini diperlukan untuk pembangunan sistem carian maklumat Islam yang membenarkan pencarian dengan menggunakan kaedah carian perkataan/frasa pengguna dan direktori/pautan sehingga memudahkan capaian terhadap maklumat Islam yang terdapat dalam talian secara tepat dan spesifik.

Kata Kunci : Pengesktrakan maklumat web, meta tag, maklumat Islam

An investigation of the ICT challenges and practices of Malaysian Smart School Teachers

Teacher professional development is essential to improve and develop new instructional practices to enhance student learning. Such professional development is not complete without incorporating technology in teaching and learning. This paper reports on some initial interviews carried out on a group of teachers from five selected Smart schools in the Klang Valley on their ICT challenges and practices. The findings cover aspects on ICT facilities, their support and training, challenges and concerns. The findings reveal that the five schools are generally well-equipped as far as ICT facilities are concerned. However, the teachers require more support in the form of reduction in work load and physical and emotional support in order to participate more fully in an ICT-driven curriculum. Initial support by the Malaysian Ministry of Education in the form of basic training has proven to be not too effective. Thus, it is proposed that the support offered should be in the form of an interactive model that it will provide the “climate’ that will propel changes that lead to changes in mindsets, school management and physical conditions.

BLOG AS A LEARNING-AID

For the purpose of this study, the authors had prepared a blog for the subject of Web Programming. This blog is a place where the lecturer posts the syllabus, lecture notes, presentations slides, lab manual, assignments, discussions, code samples and also announcements. The students are required to visit the blog to download the notes and to participate in the discussions. This study is to investigate the students’ experience of using blog as a learning tool. It is a quantitative survey to find out whether the students having a good or bad experience in using the blog. The authors also would like to know the students’ experience in using the blog; flexibility, content presentation or arrangement, communication, experience through blog, update medium, navigation and overall experience.

Keywords: blogging for education, blog, online learning, educational technology.

IS EU DICTATING INDIA TO CHANGE DATA PROTECTION LAWS: AN OUTSOURCING PERSPECTIVE

Abstract

Outsourcing arrangements often involve personal information includes sensitive information, such as financial data, medical data, payroll and benefits information, social security numbers and purchasing histories. The objective of this article is to look at why the European Union pressured to India goes for a separate legislation for data protection. Under pressure from the business processing industry in India, as well as from the European Union and other nations, it is but a matter of time before India adopts a slate of laws that address the issue of data protection. In doing so, first, the scope of protection offered by the European Directive on E-commerce and the European Data Protection Directive are examined and distinguished and then the article proceeds to explain why it is inappropriate for India to accommodate data protection provisions into a legislation meant for facilitating e-commerce transactions by specifically examining the recently proposed amendments to the IT Act. The aim of this article is to explore how far the information, details and data of individuals and organisations are protected under the laws of India. At last, this paper recommends that India should adopt a system of specialized courts, named ‘Cyber Infringement Court’ to address matters related to cyber infringement, including data privacy for keeping the flows of the wave of outsourcing to India from European Union.

The Use Of Mobile Phone And PDA Among Students In Private Higher Education Institution

Abstract

Mobile phone relatively connected to society and also students’ daily life. The applications and features in hand phone can boost up and develop the concept of m-learning. This paper looks at the readiness and the pattern of the mobile phone usage for learning purposes among students in private higher education institution. 1460 students from International Islamic University College were selected randomly as a respondent. The paper conclude that majority of the students are holding the device. Most of them are utilising the basic applications in the hand phone such as camera, ring tones, MP3, Instant Messaging, radio, call register, games and Bluetooth.  They are less number of students using wireless application such as TV, e-mail, internet, infrared and recording. Exchanging the information through MMS and SMS is the most frequent application that been used by the respondents but not for the learning purposes.

R-Transformer – Java Code Transformation by Reducing Line of Code

Abstract

Transformer is intentionally developed to make transformation of code to be more readable, simple towards reducing computation time at the compilation level. The RL-Transformer (Reduce Code Line of Transformer) mostly focuses to novice programmers in which write the program for merely obtaining the output without taking into account the good structure of program. Thus, The RL-Transformer is able to transform a Java code by reducing the lines of code, and the result is significantly contribute to ease of read the program codes and time performance. This project scope is to simplify the code statements that involvement of the primitive data types, string and while statement with abide by the Java language conditions. The RL-Transformer has been tested and successfully achieved the objectives. In this paper, we presenting the analysis on java programming language and testing by using RL-Transformer. We used 20 program samples and a complete code, and then we report the empirical finding by showing the robustness of the transformer and efficiency of time usage at compile part respectively. However, there are several improvement that can be done since it is the first version of development, so that some refinements and enhancements need to be considered as a future work.

Keywords: Readability, simplicity, code transformation, software engineering, programming language

National Conference of Knowledge Integration in ICT

National Conference of Knowledge Integration in ICT

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Call for Papers – MyJICT Volume 1

Selangor International Islamic University College

MyJICT, Malaysian Journal of Information and Communication Technology, is devoted to diseminate high quality refereed articles in the field of ICT. It is an anually published journal, and also will be available online for free.

We would like to invite all the researches, academicians, and ICT professionals throughout Malaysia to contribute to our first ICT journal.

Papers are accepted throughout the year (due to the approval of the reviewer). However for the first issue publication, the due date for the full paper is October, 1st 2009.

Please do not hesitate to contact us at;

MyJICT

Faculty of Information & Science Technology,
Kolej Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Selangor (KUIS),
Bandar Seri Putra,
43600 Bangi,
Selangor, Malaysia.
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