Faculty of Computing - RESEARCH

The Faculty of Computing, being a component of BiT, adheres to the research policies and guidelines established by BiT. BiT outlines research guidelines for staff-led projects. Eligible applicants include full-time BiT staff, expatriates with valid contracts, and researchers with proven outputs like publications or patents. Proposals must align with BiT’s research themes and involve at least two researchers (six for mega projects). Each researcher can participate in only one project as a PI or Co-PI.

Proposals are first reviewed at the faculty level, then by SRGS through a multi-step evaluation. Public presentations are required. Funding is released in two phases—50% upfront and 50% after progress reporting. Final reports and summaries are due within a month of project completion and must be presented at seminars.

Failure to comply with reporting or plagiarism rules can lead to penalties, including fund reimbursement and suspension. Research outputs are jointly owned by BiT and the researcher, while equipment stays with BiT. Researchers are expected to publish, present, or apply their work practically.

 

Access Research forms and formats here 

Refer to the Research Policy Guideline here 

Research Facility Under the BiT Research Directorate

 

The lists below include publications from both local and international publishers.

YearResearcher(s)Publication
2025SERTSE ABEBE AND H. TWINOMURINZIContextualizing Design: Aligning Digital Sharing Economy Platforms with Local SMEs’ Sharing Practices in Resource-Constrained Countries," South African Journal of Computer Science, vol 37,no.1, 2025.
2021DEBAS SHNSHAWHossana Twinomurinzi,”Innovating with government digital platforms in low-income countries: the dynamic capabilities of Woredas in Ethiopia”,Journal of Science and Technology Policy Management,2021.DOI:10.1108/JSTPM-05-2020-0081
SEFFI GEBEYEHU & HOSSANA TWINOMURINZIOptimizing government resources through collaborative consumption in resource‐constrained countries: The need for creative thinking skills”,Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries, 2021. DOI:10.1002/isd2.12192
SESHAW D. & TWINOMURINZI H.The Moderating Effect of Gender on Adopting Digital Government Innovations in Ethiopia. In Proceedings of the 1st Virtual Conference on Implications of Information and Digital Technologies for Development, 2021 (pp. 734–751)
2020BIRHANU B., TEWODROS H., MILLION M., MARCOS L. GEBEYEHU B. & DIDIER S.Amharic OCR: An End-to-End Learning”, applied sciences, 2020. DOI: 10.3390/app10031117
ALEMU KUMILACHEW &  TAMIR ANTENEH.Design and Evaluation of Intelligent Commodity Market Information Monitoring System for Rural Farmers and Traders in Ethiopia”, African Journal of Library, Archives and Information Science, 2020. DOI
TAMIR ANTENEH, & ALEMU KUMILACHEWInvestigating optimal feature selection method to improve the performance of Amharic text document classification”, African Journal of Library, Archives and Information Science, 2020. DOI
BELETE BEZABEH & ABRHAM DEBASUThe effects of multiple layers feed-forward neural network transfer function in digital based Ethiopian soil classification and moisture prediction”, International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2020. DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v10i4.pp4073-4079
ESUBALEW ALEMNEH, SIDIMOHAMMED SENOUCI & MOHAMED AYOUB MESSOUSAn Energy-Efficient fuzzy logic-based Adaptive Beaconing Rate Management for Predestrian Safety. Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal, Volume 69, November 2020, 101285, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmcj.2020.101285
SENSHAW D.Twinomurinzi, H. (2020). Designing for digital government innovation in resource constrained countries: The case of Woredas in Ethiopia. In: Hofmann S., Müller O., Rossi M. (eds), Designing for Digital Transformation. Co-Creating Services with Citizens and Industry. DESRIST 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12388. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64823-7_5
SENSHAW D.Twinomurinzi, H. (2020). The influence of public service experience on adopting digital government innovations in Ethiopia. In: Sharma S.K., Dwivedi Y.K., Metri B., Rana N.P. (eds), Re-imagining Diffusion and Adoption of Information Technology and Systems: A Continuing Conversation. TDIT 2020. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 618. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64861-9_50
SERTSE ABEBE, AYALEW AND TWINOMURINZIIdentifying Business Services from Small and Micro Enterprises Collaboration: The Activity-Based Service Identification Framework (ASIF), International Journal of Process Management and Benchmarking, vol. 1, no. 1, 2022, doi: 10.1504/ijpmb.2022.10050446.
2019GEBEYEHU B., GEREMESKEL B. & HAILU B.Architecture and optimization of data mining modeling for visualization of knowledge extraction: Patient safety care”, Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences, 2019. DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.jksuci.2019.12.001
ESUBALEW A., PHILIPPE B. & TESFA T.

A two-way trust management system for fog computing”, Future Generation Computer Systems, 2020. DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2019.12.045

A two-way trust management system for fog computing”, Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems,  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2019.12.045, 2019.

ESUBALEW A. &  SIDIMOHAMMED S.Ensuring Safety of Vulnerable Road Users using their smartphones and fogging: Challenges and Solutions”, IEEE ComSoc AHSN TC Newsletter, 2019
ESUBALEW A., SIDIMOHAMMED S & PHILIPPE B.An Energy Efficient Smartphone Sensors’ Data Fusion for High Rate Position Sampling Demands, IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC2019), 11-14 January 2019, Las Vegas, USA
MEBIRATU B., TESFA T. & HAILU B.Research paper on “Internet of Things Technology for Agriculture in Ethiopia: A Review”, 2nd International Conference, Information communication for development for Africa, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, May 28–30, 2019. ISBN 978-3-030-26630-1 (eBook), https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26630-1
MEBIRAHT B. & RAJA S.Research paper on “Performance Analysis of Homomorphic Cryptosystem on Data Security in Cloud Computing”10th International Conference on Computing, Communication and Networking Technologies (ICCCNT), 2019. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document /8944837  ,DOI: 10.1109/ICCCNT 45670.2019.8944837
SERTSE ABEBE AND TWINOMURINZIA Widening Digital Platform Gap: A Systematic Review of the Sharing Economy for Small and Micro Enterprises," 2019 IEEE AFRICON, Accra, Ghana, 2019, pp. 1-12, doi: 10.1109/AFRICON46755.2019.9133765.
LIYEW .C, AYALEW AND SERTSE ABEBEThe impact of technology platform change on the information seeking behavior of academicians in amhara. International Journal of Library and Information Services, 8(2), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.4018/ijlis.2019070105