Naila Amir
(Lecturer)
Department of Management Information System and Computer Science (MIS & CS)
Institute of Business Administration (IBA)

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Current Research Interests:   Data Provenance including Data survivability, Data Cleansing and Data quality and how IBA’s Alumni community can benefit from Data Provenance by implementing Alumni Research System at IBA.

 

Research on Data Provenance
In daily business, documents are very often based on other documents and most of the content remains the same. Hundreds of rather new documents often refer to a few core documents. These associations can be made visible by maintaining provenance information. Furthermore the ease, with which one can copy and transform data on the Web, has made it increasingly difficult to determine the origins of a piece of data. We use the term data provenance to refer to the process of tracing and recording the origins of data and its movement between databases. Provenance is now an acute issue in scientific databases where it is central to the validation of data. This research will describe an approach of validating documents that may be used in any organization so as to confirm that they have complete provenance information.

Alumni Research
This is a survey-based research, which will assess the effectiveness of MBA-MIS Program offered by IBA, and will also measure the acceptance of its students by the industry. The input will be taken from the IBA alumni who were enrolled in the MBA-MIS program in different years.

It will try to ascertain that the MBA-MIS offered at IBA is preferred by the students, is readily accepted, contributing well towards the profession and is well equipped with appropriate resources. It will also try to gauge that the admission policy at IBA is effective in attracting most appropriate talent into the program.