Proceedings of the 2007 annual research conference of the South African institute of computer scientists and information technologists on IT research in developing countries

Abstract

The South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information technologists (SAICSIT) has, over the past number of years, developed into a highly acclaimed and respected forum for exchanging and sharing knowledge. The annual SAICSIT conference has gained recognition not only in South Africa, but also internationally. At this year's conference, much like previous years, we strived to provide an opportunity for academics in Computer Science, Information Systems and information Technology to review, present and discuss research in their fields. We also actively tried to enlarge the international participation in the conference, specifically as far as the programme committee was concerned. We would like to thank the international reviewers for their effort. We trust that the Programme Committee will remain involved in the conference and will advertise the work and opportunities provided by the SAICSIT conference in their fields of influence. This year's conference is broken into two parts: a main conference of which this is the proceedings, as well as a post-graduate Research Symposium aimed at supporting young researchers from a capacity building perspective. The main conference received 61 submissions of which 23 were accepted for presentation at the conference, resulting in a 38% acceptance rate. All papers were subjected to a peer-review process with each paper receiving a minimum of three reviews from the international programme. We have no doubt that the process yielded papers of high quality and would like to thank the reviewers for their efforts in this regards