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Arab preschoolers, interactive media and early literacy development
Laila Shoukry, Christian Sturm, and Galal H. Galal-Edeen
[abstract not available]
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Cognitive multiple access using soft sensing and secondary channel state information
Ahmed K. Sultan, Amr A. El-Sherif, and Karim G. Seddik
[abstract not available]
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Highly efficient design methodology for very large scale coupled microcavities
Mohamed A. Swillam, Osman S. Ahmed, Mohamed H. Bakr, and Xun Li
[abstract not available]
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Changing migration policies in Hong Kong: An efficacy analysis
Akm Ahsan Ullah
[no abstract provided]
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On-line Arabic handwritten personal names recognition system based on HMM
Sherif Abdelazeem and Hesham M. Eraqi
[abstract not available]
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Worst-case test vectors of sequential ASiCS exposed to total dose
Ahmed A. Abou-Auf, Mostafa M. Abdel-Aziz, Hamzah A. Abdel-Aziz, and Amr G. Wassal
[abstract not available]
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Effects of wafer-level packaging on millimetre-wave antennas
H. F. Abutarboush, H. H. Tawfik, E. A. Soliman, M. O. Sallam, and A. Shamim
[abstract not available]
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On-line Arabic handwriting recognition system based on HMM
Hany Ahmed and Sherif Abdel Azeem
[abstract not available]
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A comparative benchmarking of the FFT on Fermi and evergreen GPUs
Mohamed F. Ahmed and Omar Haridy
[abstract not available]
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Ghabbour Group ERP Deployment: Learning From Past Technology Failures
Mahmoud Sami Akabawi
Ghabbour group “GB Auto,” an Egyptian auto trading and manufacturing establishment, has gone through two ERP successive implementations within the past 12 years. The newer implementation has experienced several impediments. The executives and the Board of Directors at the group have thoroughly and aggressively examined the status of the IS services provided by this ERP system and assessed their impact on the quality of decision making at all levels of management. The driver for this was to secure all the necessary platforms and management tools for enabling growth and improving efficiency and effectiveness of the company’s business operation and resources. The extent of lack of control and effective utilization of the use of resources in the group has been cited by the top management in many interviews. Following its public offering and registration in the CASE and CMA, GB Auto was legally demanded to provide annual and quarterly audit reports of its varied LOBs’ performance. The existing information management infrastructure was not providing such agile services. The trajectory of implementations of integrated Enterprise Information Systems at the group was reviewed in this case study and was duly investigated to assess the effectiveness and appropriateness in servicing those purposes and increasing the company’s competitive advantage.
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Implementing Business Intelligence in the Dynamic Beverages Sales and Distribution Environment
Mahmoud Sami Akabawi and Heba Hodeeb
To compete successfully in today’s retail business arena, senior management are often demanding fast and responsive Information Systems that enable the company not only to manage its operations but to provide on-the-fly performance measurement through a variety of tools. Use of (ERP) systems have been slow in responding to these needs, despite the wealth of the internally generated business databases and reports as a consequence of functional integration. The specific nature and demands by those senior management staff require the congregation of many external data elements and use data mining techniques to provide fast discovery of performance slippages or changes in the business environment. Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence (BI) applications, evolved during the past few decades, have been implemented to respond to these needs. In this case write-up, we present how the ERP system was utilized as the backbone for use by BI tools and systems to provide Sales and Marketing units in a transnational company subsidiary in Egypt to actively respond to the demands for agile information services. The Egypt subsidiary is the HQ of the African region’s operations of several franchises and distributers of the company products, in addition to operating a beverage concentrate manufacturing plant in Egypt, which services the entire region’s beverage products needs.
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Ghabbour group ERP deployment: Learning from past technology failures
M. S. Akabawi
Ghabbour group "GB Auto," an Egyptian auto trading and manufacturing establishment, has gone through two ERP successive implementations within the past 12 years. The newer implementation has experienced several impediments. The executives and the Board of Directors at the group have thoroughly and aggressively examined the status of the IS services provided by this ERP system and assessed their impact on the quality of decision making at all levels of management. The driver for this was to secure all the necessary platforms and management tools for enabling growth and improving efficiency and effectiveness of the company's business operation and resources. The extent of lack of control and effective utilization of the use of resources in the group has been cited by the top management in many interviews. Following its public offering and registration in the CASE and CMA, GB Auto was legally demanded to provide annual and quarterly audit reports of its varied LOBs' performance. The existing information management infrastructure was not providing such agile services. The trajectory of implementations of integrated Enterprise Information Systems at the group was reviewed in this case study and was duly investigated to assess the effectiveness and appropriateness in servicing those purposes and increasing the company's competitive advantage. © 2011, IGI Global.
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Rethinking opportunistic routing using space syntax
Amr Aljarhi, Hend Arafa, Khaled A. Harras, and Sherif G. Aly
[abstract not available]
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Testing of first and second order delta-sigma converters for catastrophic faults
M. H. Amin, M. B. Abdelhalim, and H. H. Amer
[abstract not available]
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Experimental implementation of a cantilevered piezoelectric energy harvester with a dynamic magnifier
M. Arafa, W. Akl, A. Aladwani, O. Aldraihem, and A. Baz
[abstract not available]
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Cooperative web caching of dynamic web content
Mohamed R. Atassi, Sherif G. Aly, and Amr El-Kadi
[abstract not available]
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Mona El Fadly: Spinning Off the Supply Chain
Ali Awni and Menna Kamel
This case examines a business in the food catering industry and demonstrates the importance of supply chain practices even to an entrepreneur’s small business. The business is legally registered as ‘El Yosr Food Corner’ and has been operating in Egypt since 1997. It provides standardized as well as customized home-made oriental dishes at competitive prices. By 2009, the surge in the growth of the business had strained the company’s operational capabilities in various ways. Furthermore, the business had encountered a number of hitches as a result of inefficiencies in supply chain management. Menna Reda, El Yosr’s consultant, was called in to advise the enterprise owner and managing director, Mona El Fadly, of the proper course of action to address these challenges.
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KOHLER®: Forecasting For Project-Based Market
Ali Awni and Mohamed Nada
A newly appointed Middle East regional marketing manager for a major sanitary ware producer is exploring options to improve sales forecasts. The old forecasting method, which was based on historical sales from distributors’ retail stores, performed very poorly. Regional sales were driven mainly by large construction projects in the Gulf countries. A new approach that explicitly considers the status of each project and the stock-keeping units (SKUs) demanded shows promise.
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Recognition of segmented online Arabic handwritten characters of the ADAB database
Sherif Abdel Azeem and Hany Ahmed
[abstract not available]
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Arabic handwriting recognition using concavity features and classifier fusion
Sherif Abdel Azeem and Maha El Meseery
[abstract not available]
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Olives: The Taste of Lebanon with a ‘Twist’
Aliaa Bassiouny and Manar K. El-Batrawy
Case setting is inside Olives, which despite its success in creating its brand name and capturing a significant number of customers, is facing challenges regarding its future expansion and financing alternatives. The case examines an example of a successful entrepreneur in Egypt and the key drivers to his/her success, the process through which he/she goes and the strategic decisions of timing and financing future expansion. The protagonist is Olives’ CEO Mr. Ayman Shaikhun, who has proven to be a successful entrepreneur that managed to grow and success in the unstable political and economic environment of Egypt. The case follows through the history of Olives and the owner, presenting the start-up and growth of Olives. It then moves on to outline the operations and financial standing of the business over the period of 2010-2014, where despite the Egyptian revolution and the instability of the country, the business managed to overcome the obstacles ahead of its sustainability.
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Blending Information and Communication Technology (ICT) with an Accounting System: The Case of the Egyptian International Motors Company (EIM)
Khaled Dahawy and Khaled Samaha
Improving our understanding of the accounting information system development in a specific Egyptian context, this case aims to investigate the development of a redesigned automated accounting system in a privately owned Egyptian company that was planning material changes in its accounting systems and organizational structure through integrating ICT systems. In other words, this case attempts to explore the company’s strategic decisions regarding computerized accounting information system implementation choices, problems met during the implementation process, and the actions taken to takeover these problems to gain the potential accounting system redesign benefits. Tracking the automated accounting system redesign highlights some implementation success key factors and emphasizes that obtaining top management commitment to the process of an automated accounting system implementation is a prerequisite for success.
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Turbulence and heat transfer measurements in an inclined large scale film cooling array - Part I, velocity and turbulence measurements
Lamyaa A. El-Gabry, Douglas R. Thurman, Philip E. Poinsatte, and James D. Heidmann
[abstract not available]
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