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The delay/disruption-tolerant network (DTN) was proposed as an end-to-end networking architecture for file delivery service in a stressed communication environment. A typical application of DTN technology is for reliable data delivery in deep-space vehicle communications. The main protocol of DTN, i.e., bundle protocol (BP), utilizes a store-and-forward mechanism and a custody transfer option for...
Website quality evaluation is an important research task. Evolution and a growing set of available methods are observed. The article presents the authors' evaluation methodology of the quality of websites named PEQUAL. The formal foundation of the proposed methodology is the broadening of the classical EQUAL method with aspects of preference modelling and evaluation aggregation used in Multi-Criteria...
In sight of the rapid revolutions of the information and wireless-transformation and telecommunication technologies since 2000s, most of people used to utilize the diversified computer, communication, consumer (3C) electronic devices, such as notebook, tablet PC and so on, to not only simultaneously surf and download the comprehensively public information and knowledge but also immediately share and...
In this paper, perceived value is used as an intermediate variable to test the impact of Electronic Word-of-Mouth (eWOM) on the tourists' decision-making of online travel booking. It builds a conceptual model and carries out empirical research, on the basis of sample investigation, analyzes data by applying the structural equation. The research conclusion shows that the quality and credibility of...
E-commerce gives customers the access to a vast quantity of products but, at the same time increases in a significant way the volume of information they need to deal in a buying decision process. Aggregators of information offer comparison shopping solutions to reduce the consumers' cognitive efforts overload by adding Decision Support Systems to aid consumers with their purchase decisions. Obviously,...
Interactive online learning environment with audiovisual multimedia has improved significantly in increasing learning effectiveness. However, for hearing-impaired students who have difficulties in internet multimedia systems associated with audio and visual information require further design to overcome their limitation. To this end, the present study develops an interactive online learning environment...
The purpose of this paper is testing expectation confirmation model (ECM) in Iranian online shopping context, and identify poverty of ECM in explanation of Iranian online shopping and also know which factor in this model is more significant in online shopping content intention from customer perspective. The current study is an online survey of internet shopping in Iran with respect to structural equation...
A framework is presented to model Internet of Things and analysis its running quality based on MDA, and an automatic solution is provided through a set of software tools. Firstly, modeling is executed to the instance of an Internet of things; then transforming the MARTE model to the related automaton models is done, based on the manual mapping rule from MARTE meta-model to related automaton meta-model;...
The ramping up of services in recent decades, coupled with technological development, has supported the emergence of virtual markets and stable with continued growth potential in Latin America and with high potential for developing the strategy of the organizations that can exploit this new opportunity. This study is an initial measurement of perceived service quality of internet shoppers, a scale...
An analytical model for multihomed BGP networks is developed which calculates the probabilities of all network states assuming independent link failures. Contrary to previous models, the focus is not only on network reliability in terms of maintaining connectivity, but rather on the network's Quality of Service (QoS) and its ability to meet a certain Service Level Agreement (SLA). Therefore, reliability...
This paper explores and analysis the influence of e-Health technology design on intention to use m-Health informatics, from users' perceptions, viewpoint, and experience.
From the perspective of trust theory, this essay established a model of inexperienced consumers' window shopping behavior in China context. The results indicate that most Chinese inexperienced consumers only do window shopping, at least partly, because they perceived low trust during e-shopping which induce them to stop more involving. The study also proved that uncertainty is negatively related to...
This paper takes a survey to the college students, and analyzes the impact imposed by variables of purchase intention and the inter-relationship among variables such as perceived value, perceived risk and perceived usefulness. The empirical results show that perceived value is the main factor affecting purchase intention, perceived risk has no direct impact on purchase intention, and perceived usefulness...
This study investigates information cascades in knowledge sharing behavior in virtual communities. A research framework based on the social cognitive theory is developed to identify factors that would influence information cascades in knowledge sharing behavior in virtual communities. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) is employed to test the hypotheses empirically. A survey involving a total of 213...
The technology acceptance model (TAM) proposes that perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use can predict that whether an information technology will be accepted and used by people. In this research, we were trying to find out dominant factors which could be predictors to the usage of privacy setting tools on Social Networking Sites (SNS) based on TAM. We used a modified TAM to take usefulness...
Serving citizens through an integrated e-Health system requires an understanding of the behaviour of the population as well as the factors that influence their acceptance and usage of technology, such as technology design and sociocultural factors. This has been called e-Health acceptance. The research reported in this paper employed the well established Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) to empirically...
Despite an increasing amount of initiatives and policy priorities remain in Bangladesh for ICT development and establishing an e-based society by 2021, lower level of internet penetration made the whole initiatives inconclusive although there are enormous potentials. This study attempts to examine individuals' intention and actual internet usage behaviour applying an extended version of technology...
Internet has played a pivotal role in transforming banking services into e-services. While several studies have examined the effective measurement of e-banking service quality, their lack of a holistic view has hindered accumulation of past knowledge. To address this issue, this study first reviews and summarizes the methodology, service quality dimensions, suggestions and limitations of seven e-banking...
With the recent introduction of Spot Instances in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), users can bid for resources and thus control the balance of reliability versus monetary costs. A critical challenge is to determine bid prices that minimize monetary costs for a user while meeting Service Level Agreement (SLA) constraints (for example, sufficient resource availability to complete a computation...
Outward Bound, as a kind of activity tourism, has gradually being accepted by tourists to strengthen the team spirit and improve individual quality. Satisfaction measurement of Outward Bound tourists is a hot issue for the academic at present, however, the original target of Outward Bound tourism has still not focused in the long term, whether it is achieved or not. This study aims to study the relationship...
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