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Positive and Negative Impacts of Facebook on University Students:
Sri Lankan Perspective
-- Thuseethan S and Kuhanesan S
The impact of Facebook on university students and on their academic activities can either be good or bad. This paper provides a preliminary analysis of the positive and negative impact of Facebook on university students. Though Facebook is helpful in several ways, a closer look at the real impact of Facebook reveals that it affects university students’ academic performance. With the help of a survey conducted among more than 250 students of different universities in Sri Lanka, this papers takes a close look at how Facebook impacts university students’ academic performance. © 2014 IUP. All Rights Reserved.
An ERP Selection Framework for Construction
Industry Based on FAHP
--Saeed Rouhani, Mohammad A Shahhosseini and Bahar Rouhi
Success of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementation greatly depends on selecting a system which is most aligned with companies’ requirements. Therefore, nowadays, choosing a right ERP has been weighed with serious concerns. As a broad example: Construction contractor companies are enterprises which could greatly benefit by ERP systems if the system has been chosen carefully and applied effectively. However, initial steps of ERP selection, such as ‘Requirements Recognition’ and ‘Criteria Definition’ as well as choosing a right supplier is a real challenge for the above-mentioned companies. The significance of this study is to provide a thorough survey in ERP selection as possible for the intended companies. A descriptive survey method was applied to evaluate the importance of criteria. Effective criteria in this selection were the outcome of studying relevant cases and issues. To compare the criteria and defining their priorities, two questionnaires were provided. The first one was distributed among 14 experts at management level in construction industry and were requested to compare criteria, whereas for the second questionnaire, 6 qualified IT users were selected and asked to compare alternatives. The targeted population for working on the questionnaires was selected by the outcome of census method. Finally, using the Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchical Process, the most appropriate package to meet construction companies’ requirements was selected. © 2014 IUP. All Rights Reserved.
Web Services Monitoring:
A Life Cycle Process
--Navinderjit Kaur Kahlon, Kuljit Kaur and Sukhleen Bindra Narang
Service-oriented architecture has emerged as a major software development paradigm. It helps in developing web applications to run on heterogeneous and distributed platforms. However, the basic building blocks of such applications, known as web services, are loosely coupled entities, which are dynamically discovered. In fact, web services are described, published, advertised, discovered and invoked over the Internet. Due to this dynamism, the future behavior cannot be foreseen. A failure or downtime of one web service could cause the failure of a complete application. Therefore, it is important to monitor web services during all activities so that an anomalous situation can be detected as soon as it occurs. This paper presents the monitoring solutions implemented during various phases of a web service’s life cycle. © 2014 IUP. All Rights Reserved.
Emergence of Business Process Reengineering:
A Literature Review
--Apeksha Hooda
The paper aims at presenting a comprehensive discussion on Business Process Reengineering (BPR) and its implementation in public sector so as to provide conceptual knowledge of BPR. Since BPR is the tool for change, it is important to construct a base regarding the need for change and why firms should go for change. Therefore, this paper has presented a review of BPR, its strategies and pitfalls, along with how BPR in public sector is different from private sector and what all problems are faced in public sector when BPR is implemented. In addition to this, the case of how a BPR can be undertaken in public sector, viz., power sector, is also covered. © 2014 IUP. All Rights Reserved.
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