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Cyber-attacks have become an increasingly prevalent component in conflict and competition in national and international affairs. Many conceptual frameworks describing cyber-warfare are based on the Cold-War era concept of strategic deterrence. These strategies assume symmetry amongst the actors in a cyber-based conflict, and therefore have limitations when placed in a cyber-warfare context. These...
One of the most pressing challenges of healthcare innovation today is the lack of technology adoption. Research that improves our ability to understand, predict, and advance technology adoption in health care needs to be based on well-tested theories. With the interest to conduct high quality research in health technology adoption in future, this study reviews the theories used in this context to...
This paper investigated the antecedents and influence factors of Macao residents' acceptance intention of Sport Easy Program. Using data obtained from 459 interviewers, regression analysis revealed that acquaintance, convenience, facilities, and athletics habit have positive impacts on the acceptance intention, while gender, age, and education have different moderating effects on these relationships...
Urban spatial development is driven by economic, social political, environmental forces. In the meantime, strategic spatial planning becomes more holistic in scope, more strategic and scenario-oriented in content and more interactive and collaborative in nature. In this article, the features and evolving view of strategic spatial planning is described and the application of information support system...
Service delivery and customer satisfaction are strongly related items for a correct commercial management platform. Technical aspects targeting this issue relate to QoS parameters that can be handled by the platform, at least partially. Subjective psychological issues and human cognitive aspects are typically unconsidered aspects and they directly determine the Quality of Experience (QoE). These factors...
IT Service Management (ITSM) is the set of processes that allow planning, organizing, directing and controlling the provisioning of IT services. Among the concerns of ITSM, namely within the service level management process, are the requirements for services availability, performance, accuracy, capacity and security, which are specified in terms of service-level agreements (SLA). SLA definition and...
This paper proposes an integrated conceptual model for analyzing user adoption behaviors towards mobile marketing platforms from a two-sided market perspective. Both the consumer side and the merchant side are modeled based on extending classical theories with newly introduced factors reflecting cross network effects, and the two sides are integrated in the overall model which reveals the dynamic...
With the latest advances in information and communication technologies, learners can now engage in continuous and rich learning-sessions that characterize today's digital learning ecosystems. In these ecosystems, learning resources are pervasive and dynamic. A key challenge is to develop a scalable learning system that addresses the inherent complexity of learning sessions and cater for the specific...
With the good customer foundation and increasing revenue, m-commerce is on the growing development stage. Although there are many literatures about the factors affecting customer intention in internet-based e-commerce contexts, it is necessary to do an empirical validation in m-commerce contexts. Factors of trust and social influence integrated to TAM were used in the conceptual model. Empirical data...
The small- and medium enterprise (SME) in China contributed over 60% of GDP in 2008, mainly in manufacturing industries. The world factory was named on behalf of these Chinese SMEs. China remains the world's fastest-growing major economy. Times Magazine has asked the question, “Who deserves the credit?” The ten of millions of workers who have left their homes, and often their families, to find work...
Mobile data services (MDS) have been attracting increasing scholarly attention in recent years. In this paper, a cross-disciplinary model, established with established critical factors derived from traditional information systems models and the means-end chain approach, is used to explore what affects customers' willingness to pay for MDS. In addition, the hybrid framework highlights the multiple...
Information sharing is of vital importance in cross-organizational collaboration. It can help achieve many important public benefits. From the integrated view of technology system and trust, this paper analyzes the influential factors of e-government information sharing. Derived from the DeLone&McLean model and technology acceptance model (TAM), information quality, information use, perceived...
Successful development and implementation of information systems and technologies (IS/IT) is a critical concern in IS/IT research. Many studies have been conducted to identify factors that influence the `successful' IS/IT, and the success of IS/IT were measured via a variety of constructs and variables, such as usage rates, satisfaction of users, cost savings, etc. A decade ago, through a literature...
Service process is a crucial concept deserving careful and ever-upgrading observations. Information diffusion hence the mediating function of ICT inside service process also requires being revisited with a fresh methodology. Cooperatively adopting the psychologically inclined D/S and C/T model, the paper develops a framework of analyzing ICT's mediating role in the whole service life cycle extending...
The last few years have seen a massive push towards collaborative working methods in the humanities. Many large and small eHumanities Digital Ecosystems (DEs) have sprung into existence. The big challenge ahead is now to see how these subsystems can begin to merge into one larger eHumanities DE while still maintaining their individual characters and strengths. Starting out from a presentation of TextGrid...
Successful diffusion of information technology is the key point for IT firms to gain competitive advantages. Compared with other types of technology, most of information technology is characterized by significant network externalities, coherent cross-product interaction and high knowledge barriers. As the main impetus underlying diffusion modeling methods, the Bass model provides a general framework...
Technology innovations have shaped the IT Industry since its inception. Adoption of a particular innovation is often a key survival factor: "fast followers" learn from others, monetize an innovation, and almost always make abnormal profits. Thus, the important question for IT professionals is, "How can I evaluate an emerging trend for its investment worthiness?" To answer this...
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