Foreword
Abstract
By the grace of Allah, it is a great pleasure to introduce this issue of: The International Journal on Islamic Applications in Computer Science and Technology.
The success and the welcome of this Journal by researchers from many countries, gave us great encouragement for continuing issuing in the due time.
This Journal is aimed at publishing original research papers in the field of Islamic Applications in computer science and technology. This field is catching a momentum in the recent years. As a Journal interested in this field, it is the first International Journal of its specific field. As research is growing in this field, we hope that this Journal will be a platform for researchers working in the field to publish their research.
This issue contains three papers. The first one is entitled: Electronic Banking: Opportunities and Future Challenges of Islamic Economy in Indonesia. Electronic banking is one example of the ease of finance activities in the digital economy. This activity makes the efficiency and effectiveness of time on the sidelines of work activities that consume attention and extra energy, however, in reality, not all the people convenience and helped by using electronic banking applications. Technology facilitates Islamic Banking by using the Syariah E-Banking application. This Syariah Banking Application is a banking service that combines information systems and technology to support banking activities without having to visit a bank office. Electronic banking applications include phone banking, mobile banking and internet banking. The method of this research is quantitative with 108 respondents, with several statistical tests. The result is the electronic banking expected to be a vehicle in improving public services, funds or and new technologies that are expected to have an opportunity to provide prime, fast and affordable Islamic economy services to all levels of society.
The second paper is entitled: Ontology Based Knowledge Representation for Prayer Complications. This research proposed an ontology based knowledge representation for Prayer Complications using ontology constructs such as concepts, properties, constraints, rules (SWRL). This ontology will answer the user’s complex queries according to Prayer Complications using SPARQL query language and enable the access of knowledge to everyone at any time. In this research, as a first step, the ontology is developed according to Hanafi School, however the conceptualization in ontology is general enough to modify it according to other schools of Fiqh. Finally, the application has been developed to understand the benefits of the proposed research.
