IMA Seminar Series 2010 / 2011

The immunostaining techniques can be dated from 1940s. It uses the antibodies against the species. It is a general term of IHC (Immunohistochemistry) to stain the tissue sections. IHC has been explored to be a crucial tool for predictive marker testing to determine the positive and negative patients. The limitations of this technique are highly relied on the experience of hand making of the slide and the eye interpretation of the result. Pathologists have been using the computer assisted method for more than 30 years and have proved it superior to the manually detection of many kinds of markers. The aim of this project is building an auxiliary tool to help the pathologist to do the diagnosis. 10/05/2011, 12.00-2pm, Room C60 Noor Azizah KS Mohamadali: Modelling Student’s Perception on Factors Influence Acceptance of Research Related Software using Multi-criteria Decision Analysis Techniques (MCDA) – A case study Most decision making problem requires the consideration of several conflicting objectives. The term multiple criteria analysis (MCDA) technique describes various methods developed for aiding decision makers in reaching better decision. Among many, user acceptance of software technology is one of the complex problems which involve various factors and should be evaluated. Evaluation contributes towards understanding those factors that may contribute successful adoption of software technology. MCDA techniques provide means to assign weights between these various evaluation factors. In my previous talk, I have presented proposed framework to help evaluate user acceptance of the technology and also have discussed various MCDA techniques and its applications in real world decision making problems. To advance our study and knowledge, we conducted a case study on student’s perception of factor influence their acceptance of research related software with two objectives in mind. First objective is to test if it is possible to model our proposed evaluation framework using MCDA techniques in a context of research related software. Second objectives, is to compare classical AHP technique, Fuzzy AHP technique and normal average weight technique in terms of the weights it provides and subsequently we could assign the ranking between the factors. In this talk, I will present the results of this case study. Julie Greensmith: Making Affective Effective Af-fect |əˈfekt| (verb): to pretend to have or to feel, from the Middle English “to influence”.