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The purpose of this study was to explore the important factors that influence users’ continuance usage behavior toward mobile online group-buying. Based on the characteristics of the mobile Internet, an extension of the UTAUT model is introduced to verify the proposed hypotheses. The structural equation modeling method is used to analyze the empirical data which come from universities in China. The...
The increasing use of internet and mobile devices has also facilitated tourists to select various tourism destinations. This study analyzes the factors that influence consumer purchase intention toward online travel packages available on e-marketplace websites. Data collection was conducted via a survey with 441 respondents who were members of online travel communities/forums; the results were processed...
As the key to both offline and online business, consumers' trust to retailers always influences their purchase decision. In recent years, based on the traditional business, more and more click and mortar companies spring up. But could consumers' trust transfer from offline to online channel? And how? Extant researches lack deep exploration for these questions. In this study, introducing perceived...
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...
We propose a method for regulating wireless access points (APs) that is based on mechanisms of biological development and evolution. The purpose of the proposed regulation is to simultaneously achieve power savings in the APs and achieve reliable connection services through the APs better, which is shown to be a trade-off relationship in this study. The regulation target is the cycle time at which...
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,...
Virtual connections in packet switched networks is increasing faster, in particular over the Internet, using MPLS and GMPLS evolution has produced a significant amount of studies on traffic engineering protocols, especially with regard to the different ways to provide quality of service over connections. This article presents a model to characterize the reliability of these types of networks, in computing...
With the development of economic and information technology, more and more people use mobile phone to surf the internet. The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors of mobile phone data flow service adoption. The Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) is used as a theoretical framework, and survey data are collected from 537 Chinese nationals. The results from structural...
With rapid development of internet, more and more consumers choose to shop from different channels, such as offline channel and online channel. Some consumers prefer shopping through offline channel because they want to experience the products' quality in person, while other consumers would like to shop online because they care more about the efficiency of shopping. There are several factors that...
Modeling based approach is described for analyzing and evaluating Internet server system reliability and availability in this paper. In the given model the states are defined by the different kinds of failures of the server system. The Markov model evaluates the probability of jumping from one known state into the next logical state. The probabilities between transitions of the states are a function...
The purpose of this study is to find the trust level of Indonesian internet users towards B2C e-commerce system in Indonesia. Five antecedents of consumer trust will be analyzed to find the implication of consumer trust to consumer's attitude and willingness to buy. This study uses research model used in similar study that have been conducted in U.S., Singapore, and China. Structural equation modeling...
Personalization that uses information technology to tailor content and products/services to the preferences and tastes of individual customers has become a useful function in online relationship marketing. Many techniques have been developed, and research on personalized services has increased substantially in recent years. The objective of this research is to propose a relationship-building perspective...
The increasing development of health social networks (HSN) in recent years has led the fast growing of user-generated contents. People tend to interact and share health information in social networks. However, the trustworthiness of information is the major concern in shared health information in social networks. Viral rumor-spreading that can happen quite rapidly in social media can cause damages...
As audiovisual communications services become the dominant traffic source in the Future Internet, their stable coexistence and their fairness towards background traffic is an active research topic. The Internet implements flow multiplexing in a decentralized fashion via congestion control. Audiovisual media streams, however, are classified as inelastic traffic flows that do not allow rate control...
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...
As a representative of virtual community, online social networks get rapid development, and become the “light spot” of the internet industry. Although online social networks gain rapid development, few researchers pay attention to the disciplinary of online social networks. In order to study the factors that influence the behavior intention of social networking users, a theoretical framework based...
In the digital era, using information technology to search valuable information is one of the important skills. Taipei City Government set up Easy Teaching Web of Taipei, integrates scattered knowledge in the field of education and human resources, and build a knowledge-sharing platform for teachers. However, it is still important to understand how to improve the usage of Easy Teaching Web of Taipei...
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 influencing factors on the C2C online bids can be divided in product level and seller level in this paper. We explore the relations between the cross-level using the HLM. The results show that the price and description will respectively have a major impact on the CSS and the CSS between different sellers also have significant differences. The Feedback score and the Positive feedback of sellers...
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...
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