Evaluating Health Information Systems for Developing Countries using Simulation (2008)
Sharpey-Schafer, Kieran, Suleman, Hussein
Digitization and networked computing in the healthcare sector have resulted in electronic patient records that are stored, managed and shared among different healthcare providers. In Developing...
X-Switch: A Secure, Multi-User, Language-Independent Web Application Server (2008)
Nyirenda, Mayumbo, Suleman, Hussein
The need for user interactivity has led to the creation of many technologies for Web applications. These Web applications are usually installed on and accessed through a Web application server....
A lightweight Web interface to Grid scheduling systems (2008)
Parker, Christopher, Suleman, Hussein
Grid computing is often out of reach for the very scientists who need these resources because of the complexity of popular middleware suites. Some effort has gone into abstracting away these...
Automatic Marking with Sakai (2008)
Large student numbers often drive teaching staff to consider greater degrees of automation of assessment activities. In introductory Computer Science classes - where submitted programs need to...
Abdalla, Hisham, Suleman, Hussein
In cross-language information retrieval (CLIR), queries in a source language are used to retrieve relevant documents in a target language. Dictionary-based translation is a traditional approach used...
A Scavenger Grid for Intranet Indexing (2008)
Nakashole, Ndapandula, Suleman, Hussein
Digital library services, such as searching and browsing, are increasingly needed in more restricted environments than the public Web. This paper proposes a scavenger Grid of idle desktop...
Enhancing Usability of Open Source Digital Repository Software (2008)
Körber, Nils, Suleman, Hussein
Usability of the installation and configuration of digital repository software is a key factor for the implementation of digital repositories. Many universities, laboratories and companies want to...
Current Approaches in Arabic IR: A Survey (2008)
Mustafa, Mohammed, AbdAlla, Hisham, Suleman, Hussein
Arabic information retrieval is a popular area of research. This paper presents the current state-of-the-art in Arabic Information Retreival (IR) approaches. Moreover, it provides general guidance...
Lightweight component-based scalability (2008)
Suleman, Hussein, Parker, Christopher, Omar, Muammar
Digital libraries and information management systems are increasingly being developed according to component models with well-defined APIs and often with Web-accessible interfaces. In parallel with...
Usability of Digital Repository Software: A Study of DSpace Installation and Configuration (2008)
Körber, Nils, Suleman, Hussein
Abstract. Usability of the installation and configuration of digital repository software is a key factor for the implementation of digital repositories. Many universities, laboratories and companies...
Dynamic Role Allocation for Small Search Engine Clusters (2007)
Nakashole, Ndapandula, Suleman, Hussein, Pedzai, Calvin
Search engines facilitate efficient discovery of information in large information environments such as the Web. As the amount of information rapidly increases, search engines require greater...
Digital Libraries Without Databases: The Bleek and Lloyd Collection (2007)
Digital library systems are frequently defined with a focus on data collections, traditionally implemented as databases. However, when preservation and widespread access are most critical, some...
in-Browser Digital Library Services (2007)
Service models for digital libraries have looked into how services may be decomposed into modules and components for greater flexiblity. These models are, however, mostly aimed at server-side...
Managing Digital Library Components (2007)
Digital library systems based on components can provide advantages such as extensibility and flexibility, but at the cost of increased complexity. High-level tools can be used to manage this...
An Approach to Better System Resource Utilization for Search Engine Clusters (2006)
Nakashole, Ndapandula, Pedzai, Calvin, Suleman, Hussein
Better system resource utilization for search engine clusters can result in significant benefits. By allocating cluster machines to the job that requires the most computational power, indexing and...
Component-based Digital Library Scalability using Cluster Computing (2006)
Omar, Muammar Zamir, Suleman, Hussein
Most institutions make use of digital library systems (DL) to deal with the information they use. DL systems allow them to provide information management services, including the ability to search...
Parallelising Harvesting (2006)
Metadata harvesting has become a common technique to transfer a stream of data from one metadata repository or digital library system to another. As collections of metadata, and their associated...
Customising Interfaces to Service-Oriented Digital Library Systems (2006)
Suleman, Hussein, Feng, Kevin, Marsden, Gary
Digital library systems that once were mostly monolithic in construction are slowly making the transition to component-based models. However, it is not clear how best to design or construct the user...
A Flexible Approach to Web Component Packaging (2006)
Suleman, Hussein, Mhlongo, Siyabonga
Web-based applications are rapidly making the transition to service oriented architectures, but this breaking up of single monolithic applications into multiple cooperating components creates...
Reflections on Three Years of Archiving Research Output (2006)
While "Open Access" and "institutional repositories" have received some attention in South Africa in recent years, very few tertiary institutions and departments have made a commitment to opening up...
A component assembly approach to digital library systems (2005)
Eyambe, Linda, Suleman, Hussein
With the advent of the Internet came the promise of global information access. In keeping with this promise, Digital Libraries (DLs) began to emerge across the world as a method of providing...
Designing a Universal Web Application Server (2005)
Maunder, Andrew, Van Rooyen, Reinhardt, Suleman, Hussein
Modern Web server systems typically consist of a single Web server instance capable of utilising various backend technologies. For security reasons this Web server instance is run as the unprivileged...
An Evaluation of the QTI E-Learning Standard in Resource-Limited Environments (2005)
Omar, Muammar, Dalwai, Afzal, Suleman, Hussein
Early Learning Management Systems (LMSes) were often criticised for their lack of interoperability. This situation is now being addressed by a cohesive standardisation effort in the form of IEEE-LOM,...
Analysis and Evaluation of Service Oriented Architectures for Digital Libraries (2005)
The Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) that underlies the Web Services paradigm of computing is widely regarded as the future of distributed computing. The applicability of such an architecture for...
Flexing Digital Library Systems (2005)
Suleman, Hussein, Feng, Fu-Yao, Mhlongo, Siyabonga, Omar, Muammar
Digital library systems with monolithic architectures are rapidly facing extinction as the discipline adopts new practices in software engineering, such as component-based architectures and Web...
Design Architecture: An Introduction and Overview (2005)
Fox, Edward A., Suleman, Hussein, Gaur, Ramesh C., Madalli, Devika P.
Digital libraries evolved in response to the need to manage the vast quantities of electronic information that we produce, collect, and consume. Architects of such systems have adopted a variety of...
Integration of publishing and personal document management into Windows (2004)
Mukunyandela, Kumoyo, Ramike, Lefa, Suleman, Hussein
Document Management is the initial stage of most electronic publishing endeavours. Individuals need to organise documents in such a way that they can be retrieved and accessed on demand, shared...
A Digital Library Component Assembly Environment (2004)
Eyambe, Linda, Suleman, Hussein
With the advent of the Internet came the promise of global information access. In keeping with this promise, Digital Libraries (DLs) began to emerge across the world as a method of providing...
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) (2004)
Fox, Edward A., McMillan, Gail, Suleman, Hussein, Goncalves, Marcos A., Luo, Ming
This chapter describes the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD, see www.ndltd.org), as an example of digital library practice. It builds upon discussion in earlier chapters...
Applying SOAP to OAI-PMH (2004)
Sergio, Congia, Gaylord, Michael, Merchant, Bhavik, Suleman, Hussein
The Web Services paradigm for distributed computing promises to provide a breakthrough in interoperability by defining standardised mechanisms for inter-process communication. The SOAP standard, in...
Analysis and Evaluation of Service-Oriented Architectures for Digital Libraries (2004)
The Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) that underlies the Web Services paradigm of computing is widely regarded as the future of distributed computing. The applicability of such an architecture for...
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (2004)
Suleman, Hussein, Atkins, Anthony, Goncalves, Marcos A., France, Robert K., Fox, Edward A., Chachra, Vinod, ...
PeerDoc - Peer Group Citation and Document Management (2003)
Tshivhengwa, Phathutshedzo, Mhlongo, Siyabonga, Mafike, Senate S, Suleman, Hussein
Researchers are usually overloaded with a lot of research papers and material that they have to efficiently organised to allow fast and efficient access. Over and above this, the process that these...
Dynamic Online Communities: DynaMail (2003)
Manojlovic, Aleksandar, Slade, Ryan, Suleman, Hussein
DynaMail is a Mailing List Manager which automatically creates mailing lists based on user attributes and a history of their message interactions. A DynaMail Mailing List Manager creates dynamic...
BLOX: Visual Digital Library Building (2003)
Moore, DG, Emslie, Stephen, Suleman, Hussein
This paper describes a visual system which was created for connecting and configuring OAI/ODL digital library components. The feasibility of this approach was shown and results were encouraging.
Metadata Editing by Schema (2003)
Metadata creation and editing is a reasonably well-understood task which involves creating forms, checking the input data and generating appropriate storage formats. XML has largely become the...
New Directions in Digital Library Componentisation (2003)
Suleman, Hussein, Eyambe, Linda, Luo, Ming, Fox, Edward A.
The Open Digital Library project was created as an experimental framework to investigate component architectures for digital libraries. Its primary objectives were to determine if a model based on...
Leveraging OAI Harvesting to Disseminate Theses (2003)
Suleman, Hussein, Fox, Edward A.
NDLTD, the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations, supports and encourages the production and archiving of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs). While many current NDLTD member...
Design and Implementation of Networked Digital Libraries: Best Practices (2003)
Suleman, Hussein, Fox, Edward A., Madalli, Devika
This paper introduces the concept of Networked Digital Libraries (NDLs). Discusses the important components of NDLs. Also presents case studies of a few NDLs. Summarizes the best practices for design...
Building Digital Libraries from Simple Building Blocks (2003)
Suleman, Hussein, Fox, Edward, Kelapure, Rohit, Krowne, Aaron, Luo, Ming
Metadata harvesting has been established by the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) as a viable mechanism for connecting a provider of data to a purveyor of services. The Open Digital Library (ODL) model...
Digital Libraries (DLs) are software systems specifically designed to assist users in information seeking activities. Stemming from the intersection of library sciences and computer networking,...
Digital Libraries (DLs) are software systems specifically designed to assist users in information seeking activities. Stemming from the intersection of library sciences and computer networking,...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2002.
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2002.
Enforcing Interoperability with the Open Archives Initiative Repository Explorer (2001)
The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) is an organization dedicated to solving problems of digital library interoperability by defining simple protocols, most recently for the exchange of metadata. The...
The Open Archives Initiative: Realizing Simple and Effective Digital Library Interoperability (2001)
The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) is dedicated to solving problems of digital library interoperability. Its focus has been on defining simple protocols, most recently for the exchange of metadata...
Building Quality into a Digital Library (2000)
Hussein Suleman, Edward A. Fox, Marc Abrams
The Web Characterization Repository contains a collection of internet log files used by researchers to analyze and improve on the architecture of the Web. This repository improves on prior...