Browsing Conference Publications by Author "Vahed, Anwar"

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Cyberinfrastructure for international competitiveness

Author: Sithole, Happy M ; Staphorst, L ; Vahed, Anwar Date: Oct 2015 Cyberinfrastructure is a combination of massive processing capability, high-speed connectivity, massive storage facilities and highly skilled personnel. Leading nations have invested significantly in these facilities and closely aligned them ... Read more
Earth observation scientific workflows in a distributed computing environment

Author: Van Zyl, TL ; McFerren, G ; Vahed, Anwar Date: Sep 2011 Geospatially Enabled Scientific Workflows offer a promising paradigm to facilitate researchers, in the earth observation domain, with many aspects of the scientific process. One such aspect is that of access to distributed earth observation ... Read more
EO2HEAVEN: mitigating environmental health risks

Author: Le Roux, Wouter J ; Du Preez, M ; De Klerk, L ; Hohls, D ; McFerren, G ; Vahed, Anwar ; Van der Merwe, Martina R ; Van Zyl, T Date: 2013 EO2HEAVEN has the primary objective to contribute to a better understanding of the complex relationships between environmental changes and their impact on human health. To achieve this, the project followed a multidisciplinary and user-driven ... Read more
Factors that contribute significantly to Scrum adoption

Author: Hanslo, Ridewaan ; Mnkandla, E ; Vahed, Anwar Date: Sep 2019 Scrum is the most adopted Agile methodology. The research conducted on Scrum adoption is mainly qualitative and there is therefore a need for a quantitative study on Scrum adoption challenges. The primary objective of this paper is to present ... Read more
Harnessing cyber-infrastructure for local scale climate change research in Africa

Author: Vahed, Anwar ; Engelbrecht, F ; Simonis, I ; Naidoo, M ; Sibolla, B ; Van Zyl, T ; McFerren, G Date: May 2012 Climate change poses a major threat to environmental sustainability. Africa in particular, is vulnerable with projected worsening food security, increased threats to public health, increased stress on surface water resources and a general ... Read more
Integrated risk management in South Africa: between technological features and organisational reality

Author: Simonis, I ; Vahed, Anwar ; Moodley, D Date: 2009 Despite many international and local initiatives on disaster risk management and advances in scientific knowledge, the social and economic impact of natural disasters in emerging and developing countries is still increasing. Various activities ... Read more
IT infrastructure enabling open access for flood risk preparedness in South Africa

Author: Van Zyl, TL ; Parbhoo, C ; Moodley, D ; Cwela, B ; Umuhoza, D ; Shabangu, P ; Vahed, Anwar Date: May 2009 The paper focuses on the information technology infrastructure required for the evaluation and monitoring of risk relating to floods in South Africa. It may be argued that in the context of developing countries, flood preparedness is more ... Read more
Theoretical multi-tier trust framework for the geospatial domain

Author: Umuhoza, D ; Agbinya, JI ; Vahed, Anwar Date: 2010 Sensory data also known as Geospatial data is collected in-situ or remotely by different types of sensors from different geographic locations, by different agencies and over a period of time. A vast amount of data is processed via web services. ... Read more
Using SensorML to describe scientific workflows in distributed web service environments

Author: Van Zyl, TL ; Vahed, Anwar ; Mcferren, GA ; Shabangu, P ; Cwele, B Date: Jul 2009 Scientific Workflows provides a technology that facilitates researchers by allowing them to capture in a machine processable manner the method relating to some research. This increases both provenance and repeatability of the research and ... Read more
Using SensorML to describe scientific workflows in distributed web service environments

Author: Van Zyl, TL ; Vahed, Anwar ; Mcferren, GA ; Shabangu, P ; Cwele, B Date: Jul 2009 Scientific Workflows provides a technology that facilitates researchers by allowing them to capture in a machine processable manner the method relating to some research. This increases both provenance and repeatability of the research and ... Read more
A web-based dissemination platform for climate-change risk and vulnerability

Author: Sibolla, B ; Vahed, Anwar ; Engelbrecht, F ; Naidoo, M ; Mtsetfwa, M ; Simonis, I Date: Oct 2012 Climate change poses a major threat to environmental sustainability. In Africa, sectors which face projected vulnerability include, food security, public health and water resources. A general increase in extreme weather events is also predicted ... Read more

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