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Digital systems have been rapidly evolving within highly dynamic and unstructured environments, where the lack of a central authority forces entities to interact with each other through collaboration and negotiation. Digital agents often use Trust models in order to compute the level of trustworthiness of the partner they want to collaborate with. Unfortunately, due to the evolution speed of open...
This paper proposes a novel method on Chinese low-frequency word similarity computation. It adopts a combinational strategy to compute word similarity, which exploits dictionary Hownet and constructed corpus retrieved from Internet. It has 3 steps: (1) If both of two words exist in Hownet, the similarity between them is computed based on Hownet. (2) If either of two words a and b doesn't exist in...
Intention is a mental state and a driving force of human behaviors, which associates with other psychological phenomena, such as belief, desire, and goal. Understanding intention's characteristics and working mechanism has caught the attentions from several disciplines, such as philosophy, psychology, computer science. Although the relationship was proven formally, there always exist some risks of...
In e-commerce, loyal customers are considered extremely valuable. However, little attention has been given in the literature to understand customer loyalty and its antecedents especially in e-commerce settings. The present study empirically investigates the impacts of service quality, customer satisfaction on customer loyalty in a B2C e-commerce context. Factor analysis and structural equation modeling...
Technology acceptance research has tended to focus on extrinsic motivation based on sole theoretical paradigm. Building upon and integrating the key findings of four closely related theoretical paradigms (the technology acceptance model, the theory of planned behavior, innovation diffusion theory, and the flow theory), we developed and test a more comprehensive and unified model in the context of...
The paper reports on the application of Problem Oriented Engineering (POE) to the design of a highly innovative post-graduate research programme for the Open University, UK, a world leader in supported distance higher education. The new programme, to be launched in October 2009, is a part-time Master of Philosophy (MPhil) to be delivered entirely at a distance, supported by a blend of synchronous,...
In order to solve the unsteadiness of business process caused by the constantly changing requirements in the Web circumstances, we propose in this paper an automatic configuration method for business process based on rules, with teaching management in colleges as research background. We first define the basic activities of each process and their mutual relations. When it is run-time, business process...
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