Zahid Ullah

King Abdulaziz University · Department of Information Systems

As tomatoes are the most consumed vegetable in the world, production should be increased to fulfill the vast demand for this vegetable. Global warming, climate changes, and other significant factors, including pests, badly affect tomato plants and cause various diseases that ultimately affect the production of this vegetable. Several strategies and...

Recently, many works have been carried out to find effective ways that can allow for plausibly effective interactions of social intelligent agents (SIAs) in unpredictable environments in a reasonable time. Behavior trees (BTs) allow for knowledge to be modeled as a graph representation and provide a way for SIAs to effectively interact with the rec...

With the rise of the Internet and social media, information has become available at our fingertips. However, on the dark side, these advancements have opened doors for fraudsters. Online recruitment fraud (ORF) is one of the problems created by these modern technologies, as hundreds of thousands of applicants are victimized every year globally. Fra...

In numerous perilous cases, a quick medical decision is needed for the early detection of chronic diseases to avoid austere consequences that may be fatal. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a prevalent disease that presents a variety of challenges, including soaring costs for intervention, urgency, and, more importantly, difficulty in early detection...

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a chronic and common form of dementia that mainly affects elderly individuals. The disease is dangerous because it causes damage to brain cells and tissues before the symptoms appear, and there is no medicinal or surgical treatment available yet for AD. AD causes loss of memory and functionality control in multiple degre...

Diabetes is a chronic disease that can cause several forms of chronic damage to the human body, including heart problems, kidney failure, depression, eye damage, and nerve damage. There are several risk factors involved in causing this disease, with some of the most common being obesity, age, insulin resistance, and hypertension. Therefore, early d...

Currently, digital transformation has occurred in most countries in the world to varying degrees, but digitizing business processes are complex in terms of understanding the various aspects of manual documentation. The use of digital devices and intelligent systems is vital in the digital transformation of manual documentation from hardcopy to digi...

Electronic learning management systems provide live environments for students and faculty members to connect with their institutional online portals and perform educational activities virtually. Although modern technologies proactively support these online sessions, students’ active participation remains a challenge that has been discussed in previ...

Background The use of artificial intelligence has revolutionized every area of life such as business and trade, social and electronic media, education and learning, manufacturing industries, medicine and sciences, and every other sector. The new reforms and advanced technologies of artificial intelligence have enabled data analysts to transmute raw...

BACKGROUND The use of artificial intelligence (AI) has revolutionized every area of life such as business and trade, social and electronic media, education and learning, manufacturing industries, medical and sciences, and every other sector. The new reforms and advanced technologies of AI have enabled data analysts to transmute raw data generated b...

Previous research on computer programming advocates that most computer science students, especially novices, lack programming competencies. The reasons given for this inadequacy is that most students lack the background knowledge, first experience of programming, and a new environment of writing programs in a syntax specific language, and so forth....

Information and communication technology (ICT) projects for organizational development deal with market challenges, information handling, and the integration of multiple information systems (IS) in an organization. This research investigates how ICT projects (IS systems, etc.) affect the strategic, social, and human development in an organization....

In the present era of Big Data, with continuously increasing amounts of user-generated content, it is becoming a challenge to understand the relation between the content that is available on the Web and the users who are generating that content. Researchers have come up with many ways to understand today's Web better. One of the recently introduced...

Assessment of students in computer programming is a challenge for instructors, especially at the introductory programming level, where the number of student enrollment is typically high. Therefore, this study presents a novel approach to assessing students’ competency in programming using Bloom’s taxonomy. The novelty of the presented approach is b...

Computer programming is always of high concern for students in introductory programming courses. High rates of failure occur every semester due to lack of adequate skills in programming. No student can become a programmer overnight because such learning requires proper guidance as well as consistent practice with the programming exercises. The role...

Scalability in hardware and/or software is an important factor for enhancing the performance of running processes as well as the throughput of the system of business organizations. This paper explores the need for scalability and issues related to extending the resources in order to ensure an improved and scaled-up Customer Relationship Management...

Achieving high competitive advantage through Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has never been easy without proper management and appropriate utilization of ICT resources. Therefore, the statistics suggested that ICT project failures are very common in the organization due to several reasons; it fails to deliver the required objective...

Innovation in the field of information and communication technology (ICT) requires organizations to make prompt investments in providing customers with updated resources. Rapid growth in the field of ICT increases the responsibility of decision-makers in terms of whether to invest or not. This research aims to support such decision making by provid...

The fanatical evolution of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) boost organization enthusiasm to invest more for adopting innovative Information Technology (IT) solutions that are perceived to facilitate their business model. Researchers proposed several methods, tried to make more understanding on calculating return from ICT investment....

Integration and replacing of the legacy system is a challenging task in medium and large organizations to automate business processes and functions across the enterprise. The process of integration and replacing of legacy systems has been initiated and observed in many medium and large organizations with successful Enterprise Resource Planning ERP...

Dirty data is actually the inconsistent information that has no meaning in the system or misleading, incorrect, erroneous formatting, and disorganized data that has been collected by mistake. Dirty data is generating due to the authorization of many people to input their information to the system. It has a high negative impact on business value whi...

Dirty data refers to the inconsistent information that has no meaning in the system. It is collecting almost by mistakes and from undefined sources. In this paper we defined some techniques to fix the problem when detect the dirty data before it results in the business value. Moreover we described the internal collaboration and integration of organ...

Portals are the central point of communication, customer services and commerce through networks. Most service provider portals don't have these facilities as the investors are focusing on experience rather than modern technologies. Portals are continuous projects and need updates time to time with new technologies and human expertise. The objective...

Portals provide an aggregated and personalized view of information through a large application integrating information, people, and processes across organizational boundaries. As such, portals can significantly impact organizations, completely changing how they work and operate. In addition, many critical success factors can affect portals at any s...

Portals are the gateways that integrate the information from different sources in a single window and provide itto the end users. Portal implementation is a very intricate job as it requires a significant amount of resources andknowledge to invest. However portals have the ability to improve the status and ranking of an enterprise to thebest of the...

Portals are the gateways that integrate the information from different sources on a single window and provide it to the end users. Portal implementation is a very intricate job as it requires a significant amount of resources and knowledge to invest. Portals have the ability to improve the status and ranking of an enterprise to the best of the cust...

Software testing has emerged as an integral component in the software development life cycle. No software can be considered complete unless the testing has been done. Different software testing strategies have emerged over time, that somehow focus on the different levels of the software in order to identify that the software, under consideration is...

This paper presents the relative stability based on different currencies. Various currencies have been studied, graphs are plotted with reference to dates on a yearly basis and patterns of the same are analyzed. The stability of currency has been determined by using Apriori-algorithm technique. This algorithm developed is deployed to manoeuvre a co...

-The existence and orientation of risks in a software development life cycle is a fundamental truth despite the effort that we incur in eliminating them. Having known that, risks can be reduced but can’t be eliminated completely; gives strength yields the thinking to focus on the avoidance and mitigation in software development. The mitigation and...

Software engineering has attracted the recent focus of academia and researchers by providing them means of effective software development. The effective risk management has also played a vital role is making the software development practices more reliable and organized. Ample consideration is being given to the software risk analysis and that has...

Software development has emerged as a disciplined discipline and the use of process models to develop the software has increased over time. Although the software industry is blessed with quite a few tool driven approaches, and the usage of technology is increasing yet the amount of risks faced by the software development life cycle have also increa...

Rapid changes in the Internet technology can urge significant challenges in the business of any organization. Portals have the potential to develop the performance of any organization in terms of productivity and business process efficiency. However, implementing portals can make a negative significant change to the organization. Portal implementat...

This paper focuses on the comparison of suitable Methodologies that can help identifying the risk factors more appropriately. For this purpose a comparative study between the available techniques, namely Experience & Knowledge (EK), Questionnaire (Q) and Direct Communication (DC) has been made based on the survey that has been conducted on more tha...

This paper focuses on the comparison of suitable methodologies that can help identifying the risk factors more appropriately. For this purpose a comparative study between the available techniques, namely Experience & Knowledge (EK), Questionnaire (Q) and Direct Communication (DC) has been made based on the survey that has been conducted on more tha...

Customers always play a key role for the establishment or mean of crisis for any organization. In this paper, we applied data mining techniques on MADAR data for the perfection and development of the organization as well as making their customers more and more satisfied and contented. In the presented model we specially kept customers on the top an...

Analysis on customer relationship is reaching more practical and motivating success factor for the growth of every company, in the same way, discovery of unseen information is also supporting for the successful expansion in an organization. A customer and a company are essential to each other and their good relationship and understanding will take...

Whenever millions of data is being stored in database regularly, data mining is responsible to discover the hidden knowledge, rules and patterns from it. Data mining is going to be involved in every organization for extracting extra information which are not visible for everyone. Organizations always planning to get useful information from it. Thou...

Customer relationship management (CRM) has become one of the leading business strategies in the new millennium. Companies have invested or are planning to invest huge amounts to implement CRM strategies, tools and infrastructure in order to attract and retain profitable customers in today's increasingly competitive markets. For that, they are recom...

Evaluating the performance of any organization is an essential part for overcoming their weaknesses. Customer is always on prior for finding and assessing the company's performance. They are always respectable for every organization. In this paper we first examine the Customer Relationship Management (CRM), especially customer behaviour and custome...

Microfinance business is a prevailing business in third world countries and proves beneficial to improve economies of the country. In our paper we conceived and designed some algorithms by using data mining techniques to have general micro currency exchange businesses for a developing country. Our algorithm process two years historical records of c...

Over the last decade, the number of customer is growing, numerous organizations face the problem of integrating and processing the data. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is a way to integrate the data and processes of an organization into one single system. Different EPR tools are used to solve this problem and make ease the customer access to th...

This paper presents the stability of currency that is more stable with respect to other currencies. Various currencies are studied and graphs are plotted with reference to dates on a yearly basis and analyze its patterns. The stability of a currency was determined by using Apriori-algorithm. This algorithm maneuver in continues manner unless the de...

In today"s business portal is very important for information sharing and service delivery in every enterprise. Portal has the potential to develop the performance of an organization in terms of productivity and business process efficiency. Portal is never ended project and need modification time to time as for the business requirements. However imp...

Local and global collaboration in term of people and resources are working together in a professional way to have more benefits for an organization in the success of ES projects. ES projects involve many factors in order for an organization to benefit from the system. ES training is one of the important factors in the ES projects. Beside a comprehe...