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A Comprehensive Study and Development of Unified Mobile-Based Admission System for GCC Universities Adwan, Ehab Juma; Al-Aradi, Yunes; Essa, Muneera; Malabari, Hadeel
Journal of Computing Theories and Applications Vol. 1 No. 2 (2023): JCTA 1(2) 2023
Publisher : Universitas Dian Nuswantoro

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.62411/jcta.9793

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The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region has experienced tremendous growth in the higher education sector with many public but internationally recognized universities, colleges, and programs. Annually, within and outside of the GCC zone, high school students and guardians undergo repeatable and time-consuming experiences for inhomogeneous university, college, and program admission and tracking processes. This research project aims to provide a unified management tool to manage the admission and tracking process to multiple accredited GCC universities, colleges, and programs through one unified central mobile-based application. The research project aimed to achieve two objectives: exploring the GCC university admission process phenomena and developing and evaluating a unified mobile-based university admission application (denoted by HEIM) for higher education institutes' mobile applications. An Agile-SDLC methodology was employed, entailing two phases; the Exploratory phase to the phenomena of the university admission process and the development and evaluation phase of the potential mobile application. The 1st phase was based on an interview with the Ministry of Education (MOE), employing SLR and CA techniques for articles and mobile applications collection and analysis, and 1st questionnaire to collect user requirements. The 2nd phase employed several design techniques, including DFD, ERD, etc., a 2nd questionnaire to collect system requirements and coding by .NET MAUI, C#, and XAML, and a 3rd questionnaire to evaluate the usability of HEIM based on Nielsen heuristics at which the empirical findings revealed 97.7% of usability.
A GCC Artificial Food Additives Management based Mobile Application Development Adwan, Ehab Juma; Adwan, Jana; Alwedaei, Entesar; Mohsen, Maryam
Journal of Computing Theories and Applications Vol. 1 No. 3 (2024): JCTA 1(3) 2024
Publisher : Universitas Dian Nuswantoro

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.62411/jcta.9843

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Artificial food additives pose significant health risks to Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) citizens despite regional authorities' extensive medical, legislative, and technological efforts. Literature highlights the detrimental impacts of these additives, including malnutrition, digestive disorders, respiratory problems, skin issues, hives, nausea, diarrhea, shortness of breath, allergic reactions, high blood pressure, and tumors. The research project at hand aims at becoming the first official and comprehensive mobile application of its own in the GCC region that manages the calculation and demonstration of an up-to-date health and legal knowledge base of the impacts of artificial additives, enhances the awareness, automatically recognizes the artificial additives, and provides alternative solutions, for both android and IOS mobile platforms. This research project introduces "Weqaya," a pioneering mobile application designed to manage, educate, and raise awareness about the effects of artificial additives. Weqaya provides real-time health and legal information, identifies additives, and suggests alternative solutions for Android and iOS platforms. The project employs an Agile-based SDLC model to explore, develop, and evaluate the food additive phenomena in Weqaya. The application's usability evaluation scores a promising 95.21%, indicating its potential utility for GCC health ministries, dietitians, academics, researchers, and food producers in enhancing knowledge and promoting non-artificial food options.
A Mobile App Development for E-Waste ‎Management in Bahrain (Athar)‎‎ Adwan, Ehab Juma; Mohamed, Noor; Bureshaid, Hayat; Mohamed, Batool
Journal of Computing Theories and Applications Vol. 2 No. 2 (2024): JCTA 2(2) 2024
Publisher : Universitas Dian Nuswantoro

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.62411/jcta.10930

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Bahrain still suffers from electronic solid waste annually due to ineffective waste ‎disposal management. Compared to other Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, Bahrain ‎generates the largest waste quantity per person, approximately 1.2 to 1.8 ‎million tons of hazardous waste annually. Therefore, the present research article aims to manage the e-waste discarding mitigation by arranging the waste collection, ‎presenting it for sale/purchase/donation (C2C, C2B, B2G), and organizing the waste recycling ‎process. Derived from this aim, the article explores the e-waste ‎phenomena and proposes the development of an e-waste mobile application named “Athar”. ‎ The significance of “Athar” lies in firstly, enabling citizens to live in a ‎clean environment with limited diseases. Secondly, assisting the ‎Ministry of Tourism attract more tourists. ‎ The research article embraces a seven-phased Agile-based SDLC method to analyze, design, implement, test, and evaluate Athar through the utilization of several research techniques, including questionnaires to collect user and system requirements, other techniques such as data flow diagrams, entity relationship diagram, ‎database schema, etc. for the system design, ‎OutSystems programming language to implement the mobile app, and one questionnaire based on ‎Nielsen heuristics for usability evaluation. Findings demonstrate the adequacy of the Athar application with an outstanding usability score of 89.1%.
Cloud Computing Adoption in the Financial Banking Sector- A Systematic Literature Review (2011-2021) Adwan, Ehab Juma; Alsaeed, Bader Ali
International Journal of Advanced Science Computing and Engineering Vol. 4 No. 1 (2022)
Publisher : SOTVI

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (389.997 KB) | DOI: 10.62527/ijasce.4.1.73

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Scholarly research works on the adoption of Cloud Computing (CC) have recently emerged with the technology’s importance for organizations at a fast pace. Despite the numerous advantages of CC adoption for financial institutions (FI) in terms of storage cost mitigation, computation higher increase, and information access higher access rates from any place, Banking’s CC adoption executives and practitioners are badly seeking to obtain trustworthy recipes of how to utilize CC adoption frameworks to transform banks operations to cloud. In this vein and based on a systematic literature review (SLR) method, we conducted a review of 370 empirical studies from 2011 to 2021, downsized the studies to 27 directly relevant papers to reveal 14 frameworks, methods, models, or strategies of CC adoption in Banking sectors in 14 countries, and compared the findings across studies in terms of the utilized frameworks, methods, models, or strategies.
Development and Evaluation of a Cloud Computing Adoption Framework (CCAFF) for Retail Banks in Bahrain Adwan, Ehab Juma; Alsaeed, Bader Ali
International Journal of Advanced Science Computing and Engineering Vol. 4 No. 2 (2022)
Publisher : SOTVI

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (374.765 KB) | DOI: 10.62527/ijasce.4.2.85

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The Information Technology era supports the adoption of Cloud Computing (CC) on a large scale in many business fields, at which the Financial Institutions (i.e., Banking sector) is not an exception. Several gaps were found during an attempted literature reviewing. While several CC methods, strategies, or frameworks have been proposed or utilized for CC adoption in many economic sectors including the Financial institutes (FI)- Banking, it is still a relatively new initiative in many other countries including Bahrain. While Enterprise Architecture (EA) is claimed to be a leading information and business management discipline to develop an architecture that guides the transformation to CC adoption of an enterprise from a baseline state to a target state. However, there is an evident lack of scholarly articles on the development of CC adoption frameworks from EA perspective. Also, it was found that scholarly articles in the evaluation of CC adoption framework are scarce. To address those gaps, this paper aims at developing and evaluating a CCAFF for the CC adoption in Bahraini Banks by adapting a tailored version of the Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) and embedding a tailored version of an enterprise cloud adoption strategy (ECAS) and then evaluating the CCAFF based on several criterions. A six phased Design Science Research Methodology (DSRM) is employed to design the research report, guide, and develop the CCAFF, while the exploratory nature of the research necessitates the employment of a holistic single Case Study strategy for an FI-01 bank, based on semi structured interviews and document analysis data collection techniques. Alongside, the data was analyzed using pattern matching technique. For the CCAFF evaluation, Delphi technique was employed at which seven experts in two rounded panels contribute to the evaluation findings based on six criterions. The evaluation findings demonstrated promising results in terms of ease of use (86.4%), usefulness (84.6%), decision making support (86.6%), comprehensiveness (85.8%), time efficiency (84.8%), and usage intention (84.8%).
IT Maturity Model Design and Evaluation for Sustainable Smart Cities Assessment Adwan, Ehab Juma
Journal of Information Systems Engineering and Business Intelligence Vol. 11 No. 2 (2025): June
Publisher : Universitas Airlangga

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.20473/jisebi.11.2.279-292

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Background: The Economic Vision for sustainable smart cities (SSC) necessitates a continuous monitoring tool that assesses the long-term planning progress of ‎the Economic ‎maturity level (ML) which is dependent on the Maturity Models (MM) of the Enabling Technology/ICT capabilities as its analyzes, measures the maturity levels (ML) of Smart Cities (SCs), and assesses the Economic ML of the SSCs. Recent MM have several shortcomings such that they are: 1) undedicated and overlapping the SC domains, 2) missing details of SC cases, 3) applying indicators ‎from ambiguous databases, 4) unable to identify SC baseline, 5) lacking easiness, usefulness, decision support, comprehensiveness, ‎timeliness, and usage intention, and/or 6) not targeting the Economic dimension of SSC.  Objective: Aiming at monitoring the long-term planning progress of ‎the SSC’s Economic ‎maturity level (ML), this study ‎‎developed and evaluated an Enterprise Architectural (EA) MM tool (BSSC-ML) that is capable to continuously assess the SC’s transition from ‎‎AS-IS (SC) to TO-BE (SSC’s Economic MLs) by ‎analyzing the Enabling Technology/ICT capabilities, 2) measuring the MLs of Enabling Technology/ICT capabilities based on 20 formulated ‎indicators, and 3) ‎assessing the MLs of Economic SSC based on 30 formulated KPIs.  Methods: The Design Science ‎Research ‎methodology (DSRM) ‎orchestrated the development of BSSC-ML at which design, implementation, data collection & ‎analysis, ‎validation, ‎and evaluation were ‎‎performed by utilizing semi-structured ‎interviews were conducted ‎with 7 officials of the ‎Information & eGovernment Authority (iGA), while the ‎web content analysis and Delphi methods respectively were employed to ‎analyze the ‎official portals while preserving the validation quality and ‎‎to evaluate the model.  Results: The findings revealed 50.3% ML score w.r.t 116 Business services and ‎‎3 sets of 260 Technology/ICT capabilities, 3rd ML score w.r.t Economic ‎SSC, and ‎‎‎88.123%‎ w.r.t evaluation’s acceptance rate.  Conclusion: The study described the development process of BSSC-ML for SSC’ Economic MLs assessment at which the evaluation scores proved its effectiveness as a monitoring too for local and global SCs.  Keywords: Technology/ICT Maturity Model, Smart City, Enterprise Architecture‎, Design and Evaluation, Economic Sustainability