FICS Theses and Dissertations

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Theses and dissertations by graduate students from the Faculty of Information and Communication Studies.

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    Community Nutrition Information System of Barangay San Andres, Cainta, Rizal
    ( 2026) Malubay, Roel Pillas
    Barangay San Andres operates various health center satellites in Cainta, Rizal, which use a manual system for child nutrition record management across the satellite centers. The manual process causes data inconsistencies, leading to redundant record encoding and other errors, such as duplicate, incomplete, and outdated entries. The manual approach is also inefficient for searching and retrieving information, especially when individuals move between satellite centers or when records are lost due to damage or destruction of physical documentation. From this analysis of existing issues, a Community Nutrition Information System (CNIS), a progress web application, was created to aid in the efficient management of nutritional status monitoring. The CNIS was developed using PHP and a MySQL database and included functions such as nutritional profiling, record management, and food and supplement recommendations. Evaluations were carried out using the ISO/IEC 25010 software quality model, in which participants, including barangay health workers, parents, and IT/IS professionals, completed Likert-scale questionnaires to evaluate the software. Results indicated that the indicators considered “strongly agree” were followed by general favorable ratings of “agree.” Performance, load, and security testing further demonstrated efficient resource utilization, stable operation with up to 50 concurrent users, and protection against common web vulnerabilities. Overall, the CNIS is efficient, reliable, and suitable for deployment to enhance the accuracy, efficiency, and security of community nutrition records in the said barangay.
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    CADENCE: An AI-Powered Operations Platform for Greenrock Agrifarms SG Trading Inc.
    ( 2026) Sevilla, Vincent Carlo R.
    GreenRock Agrifarms SG Trading Inc. currently operates on a file based system to track sales and inventory. Staff spend hours manually preparing reports that may lead to operational incidents due to the risk of human errors during data processing. This project aims to design, develop, and build CADENCE, an AI-powered operations platform that will provide insights on poultry operations like inventory and sales. The solution will run on AWS, will be integrated with Claude AI for operational insights, display dashboard KPIs, improve data entry & processing accuracy, and allow immediate reports generation. Ultimately, allowing GreenRock executives and shareholders to make data driven tactical and strategic plans.
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    Subtrack: A Subscription Management and Analytics System for International School Manila
    ( 2026) Legaspi, Jefferson P.
    This capstone project presents the design and development of SubTrack: A Subscription Management and Analytics System for International School Manila (ISM). The system addresses inefficiencies in managing over one hundred educational and operational applications used by more than 2,000 students and 600 faculty and staff. Existing subscription management processes at ISM involve multiple offices, including the EdTech Coordinators, IT Office, Purchasing Office, and, when required, the Legal Office, all operating through independent and largely manual workflows. This fragmented approach results in redundant requests, delayed renewals, limited visibility, and increased financial and compliance risks. SubTrack was developed to centralize and automate the subscription management lifecycle. The system features a consolidated database, multi-office workflow automation, and analytics capabilities for budget forecasting and utilization tracking. It also includes a conditional legal review module to support contract validation and data privacy compliance for high-value or sensitive subscriptions. The platform was built using ASP.NET Core Web API for the backend, Razor Pages with Bootstrap for the frontend, and Microsoft SQL Server as the primary database, with deployment on Azure App Services to ensure scalability and reliability. The system was evaluated through technical testing, simulated workflows, and automated security assessment to verify functionality, workflow correctness, and system integrity. These validation approaches confirmed that SubTrack effectively supports end-to-end subscription management processes within a controlled and non-human testing environment. Through SubTrack, ISM is provided with a unified platform for monitoring, approving, and analyzing subscription usage and expenditures. The system enhances operational efficiency, improves transparency across departments, and supports data- driven decision-making, contributing to the institution’s broader digital transformation initiatives in educational technology management.
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    Verifiable Academic Records for ISM (VERACISM) : A Permanent, Decentralized, Blockchain-Backed Storage for Immutable Reports
    ( 2026) Escotido, Paolo F.
    International School Manila (ISM) has extensive collection of Academic and Administrative Reports that are crucial for accreditation, audits and external verification, and the authenticity and integrity of these reports is critical. Currently, no cryptographic bindings exist between the reports and their metadata in centralized storage systems, which can be modified without being detected, and which have no IT-independent audit trails or slow verification. This project suggests a hybrid platform called VERACISM (Verifiable Academic Records for ISM) that will allow to attach finalized reports to decentralized content-addressed storage while maintaining identity, access control, and operational monitoring within the governance of ISM. Reports are created with the existing ISM applications are uploaded via api integreation. In VERACISM,scanned files were validated using ClamAV and YARA, and by MIME type and file size, then hashed with SHA-256, and written to IPFS with Filecoin-backed deals, using Lighthouse. The file is given a unique Content Identifier (CID) and is stored with report metadata and immutable audit events in MSSQL under strict RBAC/ABAC rules. Both a web-based console and a public verification portal enable tenant and integrator administration and provide both internal and external parties with the ability to verify report integrity via CIDs or QR codes, with an optional option of cross-checking storage evidence in public explorers. The project is implemented using a DevSecOps lifecycle approach which includes secure design, automated checks of security and scheduled VAPT, following the OWASP Top 10 risks. Planned evaluation integrates task-based user testing for administrator, tenant offices, integrators and verifiers, structured security testing and defined acceptance criteria. VERACISM will help enhance the record governance of ISM, lower verification overhead, and offer a pattern for storing academic records in a tamper-proof fashion.
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    Banning Single-Use Plastics and Compliance Intentions in a Public Market in Davao City
    ( 2026) Del Mundo, Glaizza Mae C.
    This study examined the factors influencing public market vendors' compliance intentions toward the proposed Single-Use Plastics (SUP) ban in Davao City using Ajzen's Theory of Planned Behavior. A quantitative correlational design was employed involving 276 vendors selected through simple random sampling. A researcher-made questionnaire was used, and data were analyzed using mode and Pearson's correlation coefficient. The findings showed that attitude, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control were all positively associated with compliance intention, with perceived behavioral control emerging as the strongest predictor. The findings highlight the importance of understanding compliance within the unique socio-cultural context of Davao City. The results suggest that vendors’ intention to comply is not solely driven by environmental awareness or social pressure, but also by a long-standing culture of discipline, civic responsibility, and respect for local ordinances.