The study set out to affirm that Traditional Public Administration existed in pre-colonial Africa, specifically Nigeria. These administrative systems performed all the functions are currently being executed by modern public systems, such as designing best strategies for efficient delivery and attainment of goods. case-study approach was adopted, which old Oyo, Benin, Kanem Borno, Oron Kingdom a...

Information technology infrastructure is a critical element in modern day communication. Businesses, organizations, individuals, governments and other social services all rely on global IT infrastructure for reliable and timely communication. At the heart of this infrastructure are numerous hardware and software components, and the performance of each individual element contributes to the overa...

The management of experiences from projects is an important issue for modern software organizations. In this paper we describe our initiative for experience management (EM) called COIN based on case-based reasoning technology. We present several examples of application from data mining and text mining to enhance our system at Fraunhofer IESE. Our goals are, on one hand, to discover new knowledg...

Many aspects of dependability have been explored extensively in the context of individual software components. Modern software systems, however, are composed from multiple components and complex subsystems. Often these components have not been designed to operate together. Increasingly these components are legacy code or even applications that can operate alone as well as in concert, and they m...