Author:Henrico, S; Coetzee, S; Cooper, Antony K; Rautenbach, VDate:Oct 2020Geospatial information and technologies are widely used in South Africa, initially mostly with proprietary software but today, mature, open source alternatives such as QGIS are available. We wanted to find out if and why South African users ...Read more
Author:Gerber, A; Molefe, Onkgopotse M; Van der Merwe, ADate:Oct 2010There are several sources that indicate a remarkable increase in the adoption of open source software (OSS) into the technology infrastructure of organizations. In fact, the number of medium to large organizations without some OSS installations, ...Read more
Author:Coetzee, L; Pistorius, MDate:Feb 2006The National Accessibility Portal (NAP), is a five-year research and development project aimed at addressing some of the marginalisation issues of people with disabilities. One of the core areas that NAP is striving to address is the critical ...Read more
Author:Mofolo, M; Lysko, Albert ADate:23 Nov 2015The use of smart antennas in wireless networks requires real-time synchronization of the beamforming and the transmission/receive processes for the host devices that are equipped with such antennas. This paper presents an approach for integrating ...Read more
Author:Smith, Andrew C; Mkhize, Cyprian B; Mahlobo, Boitumelo T; Isaac, Sherrin JDate:Dec 2021Presented is an information system architecture based on open source platforms to support the successful management of a micro grid. The paper justifies the use of open source platforms in the micro grid context. Also given are the benefits ...Read more
Author:Swart, I; Irwin, B; Grobler, MDate:Mar 2015A proliferation of cyber security strategies have recently been published around the world with as many as thirty five strategies documented since 2009. These published strategies indicate the growing need to obtain a clear view of a country’s ...Read more
Author:Namoshe, M; Tlale, NS; Kumile, CMDate:Jul 2008Open source software simulators play a major role in robotics design and research as platforms for developing, testing and improving architectures, concepts and algorithms for cooperative/multi-robot systems. Simulation environment enables ...Read more
Author:Botha, Natasha; Inglis, HDate:Sep 2018The modeling and simulation of composite materials requires the incorporation of anisotropic material models, as well as appropriate failure criteria or damage models. This was normally done by developing in-house codes or writing additional ...Read more
Author:Henrico, S; Coetzee, S; Cooper, Antony KDate:Oct 2021The benefits of free and open-source software for geographical information systems, such as QGIS, are appreciated by many all over the world. However, QGIS adoption in South Africa is not primarily influenced by the benefits attributed to ...Read more
Author:Louw, Johannes A; Schlunz, Georg I; Van der Walt, W; De Wet, Febe; Pretorius, LDate:Sep 2013This paper describes the speect text-to-speech system entry for the Blizzard Challenge 2013. The techniques applied for the tasks of the challenge are described as well as the implementation details for the alignment of the audio books and ...Read more
Author:De Vries, NJ; Badenhorst, J; Davel, MH; Barnard, E; De Waal, ADate:Aug 2011Building transcribed speech corpora for under-resourced languages plays a pivotal role in developing speech technologies for such languages. The authors have developed an open-source tool for devices running the Android operating system to ...Read more