UCTI - Working Paper Series

UCTI Working Paper Series

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  • Working Papers Directory
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    Introduction

    Welcome to the Asia Pacific University College of Technology & Innovation (UCTI) Working Paper Series.

    UCTI was established at the invitation of the Malaysian Ministry of Higher Education and is part of the APIIT Education group which includes the Asia Pacific Institute of Information Technology (APIIT).

    UCTI and APIIT both offer degrees and Masters degrees in which IT and technology generally are embedded. Our courses are designed to provide rigorous academic and vocational development leading to employable graduates.

    This Working Paper Series has been established to enable the ideas of our staff, students and partners to be disseminated more widely.

    If you have any comments or thoughts about the papers please email the author directly. If you have any proposals for a contributing paper please see the notes for authors.

    The objectives and scope of the series are given below but the topics can be very wide ranging.

    Please also let us know if you feel we should send the email alert to anyone else you know.

    Objectives of the series

    To produce a series of scholarly papers that will:

    • Encourage and provide opportunities for academic staff to write papers and receive comments on them
    • Develop new knowledge/applications for use in teaching areas
    • Raise the research profile
    • Promote UCTI and APIIT to:
      • Prospective employers
      • Prospective students
      • University partners
      • Employers
      • Schools and colleges
      • Other Universities in Malaysia

    Scope of the series

    Contributors

    The scope of contributors includes:

    1. Academic Staff (Research active, Masters/PhD candidates)
    2. Special Interest Groups
    3. Students (collaboration with staff/Masters/FYP)
    4. Research and technical staff
    5. Collaborative contributions from University partners

     

    Topics

    The scope of topics to be covered is potentially very broad but the following indicates the main Sectors and Topic combinations.

    Sectors Topics
    • Education
    • Business
    • Computing and IT
    • Technology
    • Engineering
    • Description and analysis of best practice
    • Application of theories and techniques
    • Case histories
    • Reporting technical and/or social research

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    Notes for authors wishing to contribute

    The UCTI Editorial Board invites the submission of articles for consideration with a view to publication in the UCTI Working Paper Series. In general the most acceptable length for articles is 12-15 pages. Articles should be accompanied by a short précis of approximately 75 words and a list of identified keywords.

    The submission of an article is taken to imply that

    • it contains original, unpublished work
    • it is not being submitted for publication elsewhere
    • the authors are fully authorised to submit the material for publication

    The UCTI Editorial Board is happy to discuss drafts and proposed contributions with authors. Contributions should follow the Formatting Guide as closely as possible

     

    Electronic Submission of Contributions

    Authors should send the final version of the contribution electronically to the editor attaching the authors' names, article title, a 75 word précis and a list of identified keywords.

    The submission should be formatted in accordance to the Formatting Guide and submitted in word format.

    Style

    The language of the working paper series is English. Authors are urged to write as clearly as possible, with emphasis on what they judge to be of greatest importance and interest, with, where possible, clearly stated theoretical implications. Experimental results should be presented in sufficient detail for replication to be possible. Displays and controls should be fully described and may be illustrated. Statistical tests need not be given in full but papers concerned with mathematical, logical, and programming issues should be written up fully.

    Presentation

    Manuscripts should be typed in single spacing, preferably in A4 format (21 cm×30 cm), with a wide margin of 1.25 cm (left and right) and 1cm (top and bottom). The pages should be numbered.

    Abstract

    All papers should be preceded by a brief abstract (of about 200 words).

    Figures and Tables

    Figures should be numbered consecutively throughout the paper Figure dimensions should not exceed 6 - 8 cm as a convenient final width for simple graphs. Tables similarly should be numbered consecutively.

    References

    References must follow the Harvard Name convention. References in the text should give the surname of the author and the year of publication in parentheses, for example Seddon (2006) or (Seddon 2006) followed by a, b ... when two or more references to work by the same author(s) are given for the same year. At the end of the text the references should be listed in alphabetical order of authors' names and in chronological order for each author. Titles of papers and the names of periodicals should be given in full, with initial and final page numbers. The publisher and town of publication should be given for books. Examples of reference citation are identified in the Referencing Guide.

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    How to request to be put on the mailing list

    Please let us know if you wish to receive email alerts when new issues of the Working Paper Series are released. To do this email Dr Andy Seddon (andy@apiit.edu.my) who will arrange for you to be added to the circulation list.

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