Papers by Rose Alinda Alias
Asian Social Science, 2018
The increasing women participation in the upper management level has been a comprehensive researc... more The increasing women participation in the upper management level has been a comprehensive research study for women and career studies. Although only a few of them have had successfully broken the glass ceiling, they still have to struggle to keep up with the opposite gender. The purpose of the research study is to review past research studies on the glass ceiling syndrome, tiara syndrome, imposter syndrome, and queen bee barrier syndromes that commonly occur in women’s career progression and understand how it affects women’s career success. This paper reports the results of a literature review on four barrier syndromes in 45 combinations of research paper, books, magazine, thesis and discussion paper. Women need to have skills and ability in order to be leaders of upper management. The result of the study could provide a better understanding of the barriers that effects the women leaders in becoming successful. Thus, this research is conducted to gather and review the literature on ...
Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science, 2015
Quantity and quality of research publication productivity are the main areas of concern for the s... more Quantity and quality of research publication productivity are the main areas of concern for the scientific community. The way of accountability of research performance evaluation has been changing with the advent of new metrics. The research performance evaluation clearly emphasizes on peer review approach. This approach possesses a central position in making an economic decision and monitoring of research and development programs of Higher Education Institutions. The combined use of various indicators is consistently recommended for Research Performance Evaluation (RPE). The study empirically examines and evaluates the feasibility of new RPE development by applying the h and h-type indices along with traditional metrics for the case of Malaysian Engineering Research at the meso level. This study helps in understanding the application of h and h-type indices and establishes that these indices are helpful in supporting and monitoring RPE and can be used along with traditional activit...
Information Development, 2016
Various new performance evaluation indices for impact have been proposed and studied in various c... more Various new performance evaluation indices for impact have been proposed and studied in various contexts. This study carried out a quantitative evaluation of the case of Malaysian engineering researchers at the micro level using a scientometric approach. In order to understand the behavior of new developments, a comparative performance evaluation is carried out of h-index, a set of h-type indices along with publication and citation metrics. Findings are compared with earlier major studies. We looked for institutional h-index and researchers’ h-index scores and did not find any relationship. Exploratory Factor Analysis is employed to examine the valid categorization and to study the underlying dimensions of the studied metrics and indices. The inter-correlation among h-index, its variants, and traditional metrics is probed in detail. The h, q and g-indices along with publication and citation hold the position on ‘quantity of the productive core’, while the R index showed equal loadin...
Scientometrics, 2016
The literature considers a journal’s h-index as a compared measure, however the relation between ... more The literature considers a journal’s h-index as a compared measure, however the relation between institutional level h-index (IHI) and journal related indices (JRI) has not been explored in previous studies at meso-level research assessment. This study applies the scientometric approach to meso-level data to examine the association, functional relationship and correlation analysis to evaluate the reliability of IHI with respect to JRI. For this purpose, data from the Web of Science, journal citation report and time cited features were used. The unit of analysis was Malaysian engineering research with a wider time span of 10 year’s data (2001–2010) and a larger set of journals (1381). We explored the inter-correlation of IHI with a set of eight JRI and applied principle component analysis, regression analysis, and correlation. At the institutional level, the component analysis and functional relationship of the cumulative impact factor and 5 years IF yielded a more strong association with IHI. Cumulative impact factor is a strong predictor for IHI followed by cumulative 5 years impact factor. Correlation matrix results show that average impact factor (AIF) is correlated with immediacy index and Eigenfactor only. AIF and median impact factor (MIF) have no correlation with each other and IHI is correlated with all indices except AIF and MIF. This study puts forward a better understanding in considering new impact indices at meso level for performance evaluation purpose.
2019 IEEE Conference on Big Data and Analytics (ICBDA)
This article presents the experimental work of comparing the performances of two machine learning... more This article presents the experimental work of comparing the performances of two machine learning approaches, namely Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering and K-means Clustering on Mobile Augmented Reality Usability datasets. The datasets comprises of 2 separate categories of data, namely performance and self-reported, which are completely different in nature, techniques and affiliated biases. This research will first present the background and related literature before presenting initial findings of identified problems and objectives. This paper will the present in detail the proposed methodology before presenting the evidences and discussion of comparing this two widely used machine learning approach on usability data.
2019 Fourth International Conference on Informatics and Computing (ICIC)
Information security has become a significant problem for the use of information technology, espe... more Information security has become a significant problem for the use of information technology, especially for universities that have a lot of data. Information security policy is one solution to ensure data security. However, compliance is a classic problem in information security that face by an organization when applied policy. Effect of users who do not comply with information security policies both from internal and external. Research on this subject was surveyed to find out the leadership perspective on compliance with information security policies and to explore the university's need to evaluate user compliance. This research was conducted in a survey using a closed-ended questionnaire given to manager level of the university. The data processed with descriptive statistics. This research founded management realized the importance of compliance with information security policies to reduce information security incidents. Universities need appropriate model to evaluate information security policy compliance. This understanding will help improve predictions of the impact of complying with information security policies.
The purpose of this paper is to discuss both the methodology and the finding on how Soft Systems ... more The purpose of this paper is to discuss both the methodology and the finding on how Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) is used as a basis for formulating KMS strategy in four case studies conducted within Malaysian Public Institution of Higher Education (PIHE) context. The concept of SSM was used to integrate two streams of cultural analysis and logic-based analysis to understand the ill-structured problem situation in the context. Throughout the analysis Multiple Perspectives (MP) Theory by Mitroff and Linstone (1993) is employed to differentiate between the Technical Perspective, Organizational Perspective and Personal Perspective of the formulation of KMS strategy in the context. This approach presents a holistic view of formulating KMS strategy by combining both technical and non-technical issues including business processes and human activities within an organization. The processes reflect upon the objective to answer the two main research questions; (a) How to formulate a holistic...
Communications in Computer and Information Science, 2017
The tsunami of data and information brings with it challenges in decision making to organisations... more The tsunami of data and information brings with it challenges in decision making to organisations especially so to the government sector. Decision making is vital in ensuring effective service delivery to constituents. Nowadays, Big Data Analytics (BDA) tools and software are readily available but what is lacking are the skills and competency of the personnel to handle and manage these data. The Government of Malaysia requires its IT officers to assume a more important role to extract data and turn into valuable information which is beneficial to operations and planning. However initial findings revealed that these IT officers are lacking in data scientist skills. Therefore, there is a need to propose a guideline on the direction towards acquirement of these skills to become data scientists. This paper presents the findings conducted recently via experts' views using the Delphi technique, regarding data scientist skills required by the Government IT officers. The findings revealed 46 in-service skill sets which are deemed mandatory for IT officers to have, of which the top seven being analysis, data visualisation, data modelling, decision making, ethics, communication and basic database knowledge and skills. This data is helpful towards building a Data Scientist Competency Development Roadmap for the next five years as a stop gap measure before data scientists graduates are churned from universities.
2017 IEEE Conference on e-Learning, e-Management and e-Services (IC3e), 2017
This article is part of this research group's work on a larger scale project prioritization o... more This article is part of this research group's work on a larger scale project prioritization of usability data in Mobile Augmented Reality learning (MAR-learning) environment. The work specifically focuses on pre-processing analysis on the early stages of experiment involving an MAR-learning application build to improve students interview skills in English language. The article will first highlight the related works leading to this project and problems encountered while scrutinizing current works on MAR-learning usability basing on gender biases. A methodology is then proposed with 3 important phases where this paper will only highlight the pre-processing stage of the third phase before presentation and discussion on the results. This paper will end with future works related to this project in the nearest future research undertakings.
Journal of theoretical and applied information technology, 2016
Higher Education Institution (HEI) have embarked on the new style of decision-making with the aim... more Higher Education Institution (HEI) have embarked on the new style of decision-making with the aim to enhance the speed and reliability of decision-making capabilities. One of the hardest challenges in implementing Business Intelligence (BI) is the organization’s readiness towards adopting and implementing BI systems. Currently, few published studies have examined BI readiness in HEI environment. Seeing this challenge, this study aims to contribute in determining the BI readiness factors in HEI specifically in the deployment strategies. Through inductive attention to BI in HEI environment, three broad factors have been identified: a) Organizational – that concerning on business strategies, process and structure, b) Technology – involves the BI system and knowledge for managing including the sources and c) Social – the culture within organization that may influence decision-making and its processes. This paper also makes recommendations for future research.
Journal of theoretical and applied information technology, 2016
Previous study indicates the user’s degree of Web 2.0 usage is positively associated with his or ... more Previous study indicates the user’s degree of Web 2.0 usage is positively associated with his or her behavior. However, there is a paucity in examining the effect of Web 2.0 usage especially on innovative work behavior among academia in research universities, even though it is imperative to be identified due to its demanding research nature. Web 2.0 is technologically driven and designed to allow people to communicate, share information and create online communities. Meanwhile, innovative work behavior refers to the creativity and involvement in bringing changes and new ideas in duties or in solving problems especially among academia in research universities which has become the focus of this study. Innovative work behavior consists of idea generation, idea promotion, and idea realization. Therefore, this study aims to identify the effect of Web 2.0 usage on innovative work behavior among academia in research universities. In our endeavor to this matter, we view the issue from a pos...
Innovative work behavior is crucial to fulfill the demands for a lecturer's research activities e... more Innovative work behavior is crucial to fulfill the demands for a lecturer's research activities especially at research universities. Prior literature indicated that psychological empowerment is an important predictor for innovative work behavior. Meanwhile, Web 2.0 is an indispensable tool for innovation among lecturers to facilitate their research activities. Thus, social cognitive theory was used to support the conceptual framework in identifying the mediating role of Web 2.0 usage in the effect of psychological empowerment on innovative work behavior. This study utilized quantitative approach using questionnaire as a tool to gather data from 393 lecturers of five research universities in Malaysia. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was used to analyze the direct and mediation effects of the variables in the conceptual framework. Web 2.0 usage was identified as the mediator for the effect of psychological empowerment on the realization of new ideas in innovative work behavior, specifically for the dimensions of meaning, competence and self-determination. Based on the results of the study, use of Web 2.0 is important among lecturers to enhance innovative work behavior.
IEEE Access, 2021
Expert finding systems try to alleviate the information overload problem and recommend experts wh... more Expert finding systems try to alleviate the information overload problem and recommend experts who can satisfy users' needs. They support researchers to find research collaborators automatically. The main challenge of current expert finding systems is that they retrieve experts based on the content of their documents but ignore the human interaction perspective. The human interaction perspective comprises the factors that influence collaborator selection decisions in real life. This study aimed to develop a collaborator selection model for expert finding systems in research universities. This model includes human capital, social capital, and cultural capital factors that influence collaborator selection. The researchers integrated the Scientific and Technical Human Capital (STHC) model and Social Capital Theory to determine these factors. The authors conducted a survey comprising 349 researchers from Malaysian research universities to validate the research hypotheses. A partial least squares structural equation model (PLS-SEM) was employed to analyze all the survey data. The empirical results revealed that the significant factors that influence collaborator selection in the research universities context were cognitive accessibility, reliability, relevance, commitment, physical accessibility, cultural experiences, complementary skills, and research experience. Surprisingly, the results revealed that network ties, relational accessibility, and reputation were insignificant factors for collaborator selection. This study proposed a research model for collaborator selection in the research universities context and provided several recommendations for the policymakers and practitioners. The model will help to provide sufficient criteria to select academic research collaborator in universities and can be used by expert finding systems designers, researchers, collaborators, and universities. INDEX TERMS Expert finding systems, research collaboration, collaborator selection, scientific and technical human capital, social capital.
IEEE Access, 2020
This paper funded by Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) under the University Research grant numb... more This paper funded by Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) under the University Research grant number (Q.J130000.2528.18H56).
2016 4th International Conference on User Science and Engineering (i-USEr), 2016
Transition of technology has led to the transformation from human physical strength to the cognit... more Transition of technology has led to the transformation from human physical strength to the cognitive thinking capability. In fact drastic changes in the technology have changed the research analysis from technical orientation to cognitive analysis. To date, the goal of this study is to design a User Interface (UI) which provides information for the user, to interpret and act upon effectively. In this study, close participation from the experts in the field of manufacturing industries are essential as their real time experiences in handling the system maintenance will be used as an input in developing UI prototype. Three instrumentation engineers from the manufacturing industries involved in this study, as to gather issues and problems in system maintenance by using Cognitive Task Analysis (CTA) method. In addition, system maintenance failure archived data were also analysed, to investigate the real time system maintenance problems. In order to help system users to be prepared on any possible obstacles during system maintenance, the input from the real time system maintenance problems were used to map up with the development of UI prototype. From the participatory CTA analysis, three common tasks that need to be considered in the UI prototype were cable, sensor and driver failures. Failure signal alarms were displayed on the UI prototype and solutions to overcome the system failure were also included in the UI prototype design. It is hope that by incorporating the real scenarios of the cognitive tasks in the development of the UI prototype will help users to enhance their tasks, and at the same time to increase the ease of use of the UI system at workplace.
Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 2016
The Malaysian English Language Teaching (ELT) of English as a Second Language (ESL) has been a lo... more The Malaysian English Language Teaching (ELT) of English as a Second Language (ESL) has been a long debated topic from implementation of methodologies, strategies and models to the tools used to deliver English education to Malaysian learners. This paper highlights the two emerging tools namely Mobile Learning (M-learning) and Mobile Augmented Reality Learning (MAR-learning) in ELT. The aim of this study is to conduct a comparative study verifying if MAR-learning is significantly more motivating and satisfying than M-learning in ELT. This paper will first present the current trends in both technologies, followed by the development of the first MAR-learning prototype before being evaluated comparatively with the current existing M-learning application. The last section of this paper will highlight the results of the study in compliance with the generated hypotheses.
People, Knowledge and Technology: What have we Learnt so Far? - Proceedings of the First iKMS International Conference on Knowledge Management, 2004
... Divisions: Computer Science and Information System. ID Code: 16146. Deposited By: Ms Zalinda ... more ... Divisions: Computer Science and Information System. ID Code: 16146. Deposited By: Ms Zalinda Shuratman. Deposited On: 31 Oct 2011 22:35. Last Modified: 31 Oct 2011 22:35. Repository Staff Only: item control page. EPrints ...
This paper reviews articles on knowledge management (KM) research published in journals within th... more This paper reviews articles on knowledge management (KM) research published in journals within the disciplines of Information Systems (IS), Computer Science (CS), Information Technology (IT), Business & Management, and Sociology.Multiple Perspectives Theory (Mitroff and Linstone, 1993) was used as a theoretical framework to classify KM research into three perspectives, namely technical, organizational and personal perspectives.The multiple perspective classification of KM research is then used to analyze articles which discuss research issues related to KM.The review found that the most dominant perspective adopted mainly by researchers is the organizational (O) perspective.The O perspective is adopted mainly by researchers within the social science, and business & management disciplines.KM articles within the O perspective mainly discuss the organization’s capability to manage knowledge as a resource for competitive advantage.The technical (T) perspective of KM research is mainly a...
This study applies scientometric approach to meso level data. The objective was to evaluate Insti... more This study applies scientometric approach to meso level data. The objective was to evaluate Institutional level hindex’s (IHI) reliability with respect to other Journal Related Indices (JRI). Most of the studies in the literature considered journal’s h-index as contrasted measure. Nevertheless, there has been no study that explores the relation between IHI and institutional level JRI. To get further evidence, we have explored the inter-correlation of IHI with a set of JRI. For this purpose data from Web of Science, Journal Citation Report and time cited features were used. Our unit of analysis was Malaysian engineering research with a wider time span of 10 year's data (2001-2010) and a larger set of journals (1381 journals). Previous studies are are used for comparative analysis. This paper puts forward a better understanding to considering new impact indices at meso level for evaluation purpose. Conference Topic University policy and institutional rankings, Science policy and r...
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