The Infona portal uses cookies, i.e. strings of text saved by a browser on the user's device. The portal can access those files and use them to remember the user's data, such as their chosen settings (screen view, interface language, etc.), or their login data. By using the Infona portal the user accepts automatic saving and using this information for portal operation purposes. More information on the subject can be found in the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. By closing this window the user confirms that they have read the information on cookie usage, and they accept the privacy policy and the way cookies are used by the portal. You can change the cookie settings in your browser.
To ensure the delivery of high quality and robust service-oriented applications, testing of web services composition has received much attention. These services have become more and more complex, where they have to cope with strict requirements of business processes and their dynamic evolution, and interactions among different companies. In this context, the analysis and testing of such services demands...
Despite the rapid growth of social commerce, there is only a limited understanding of how social media technologies, marketers and customers can interact to achieve business initiatives and opportunities. This study develops an integrative formative model outlining key qualities and dimensions of social commerce and their interactions. The model was validated with a field survey of 1250 social commerce...
This study examines 341 tertiary teachers' pro-industry professional cognition and its influencing factors to serve as a school reference for adjust industry 4.0. The results show that teachers' industry experience has a significant direct effect on tertiary teachers' pro-industry professional cognition, and "teaching innovation self-efficacy has a significant effect on pro-industry professional...
Business processes play a significant role in financial audits. They are carried out by auditors who require diverse information for this purpose. Process mining techniques offer new opportunities to exploit data from ERP systems to generate reliable process models very effectively and efficiently. Traditional process models are only suited to provide information on a single process. This study illustrates...
A high percentage of newly-constructed commercial office buildings experience energy consumption that exceeds specifications and system failures after being put into use. This problem is even worse for older buildings. We present a new approach, ‘predictive building energy optimization’, which uses machine learning (ML) and automated online evaluation of historical and real-time building data to improve...
One often finds that multiple values of the same entity reside in a database. While all of these values were once correct, most of them may have become stale and inaccurate. Worse still, the values often do not carry reliable timestamps. With this comes the need for studying data currency, to identify the current value of an entity in a database and to answer queries with the current values, in the...
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is increasingly being used and has been successfully applied to various areas, such as retail, pharmaceutical and pet tracking. Despite its obvious popularity, RFID data reliability is always the problem which should be addressed. In this paper, a data cleaning technique based on time and location is proposed to improve RFID reading's reliability. For temporal...
This paper reports on ongoing work on SWAT, a new toolkit for security workflow analysis. SWAT provides a platform for the realization and testing of well-founded methods to detect information leaks in workflows, both for the workflow certification and for audit based upon the execution traces. Besides presenting the SWAT's functionality and high-level architecture, an example illustrates its operation.
Business process management are increasingly important and being used in business, and offers effective and efficient operations. Business process modelling is a way of representing an organisation to enable its analysis and improvement. Business metadata is very helpful for businessperson, and also can act as a communication tool between them and technical IT people. STA (Source-Transaction-Agent)...
With previous literature that supports the importance of CSR in consumer behavior, this study is aimed to examine its role on store loyalty. In addition, shopping orientations has also been investigated as the antecedent of CSR and also store loyalty. Data were collected through self-administered questionnaire based on quota sampling of the population. Using structural equation modeling, the study...
While the importance of tourist loyalty has been recognized by academic researchers for at least four decades, adequate tourist loyalty models have not been developed or validated. This study presents a tourist loyalty model of tourism mobile commerce and explores the relationship of service quality, tourist satisfaction, tourist trust and tourist loyalty. The structural model was tested on a sample...
It compiles the competency questionnaires of the domestic city commercial banks management, 261 valid questionnaires are analyzed through the use of exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis. The result shows that the management competency model of domestic city commercial banks has three-dimensional structure, respectively is internal quality, relationship management and management...
From the perspective of users, the current paper mainly studied users' acceptance behavior for mobile commerce based on Customer Perceived Value (CPV) and Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). In this article the research model was established and the empirical analysis was carried out with the selected interviewers. Research found out that all the factors of CPV, except Perceived Ease of Use, have remarkable...
Applications are increasingly composed of remote services provided by independent parties. This distributed ownership makes it problematic to measure and control quality of service indicators. Management activities must become an integral part of the system's development process, from requirements elicitation, where users identify the quality dimensions of interest, to the implementation, where the...
California Independent System Operator Corporation (CAISO) is a not-for-profit public benefit corporation in charge of managing the electricity flow along California's open-market wholesale power grid. Recently, the CAISO implemented the nodal LMP electricity market based on full network model and upgraded its infrastructure with new state of the art technology. The implementation of new electricity...
This text follows the study idea of Resource-Based View, believes that internal resource enterprises possesses will exert an influence on competitive advantage of enterprises. At the same time, this article adds consideration to external environment, then establishes the study mode. This article empirically tests the hypotheses using the structural equation model, based on surveyed data collected...
Social networking sites (SNSs) (e.g., Facebook) are increasingly used in people's daily life and business worlds. With SNSs, people's social networks are expanded by connecting to others with shared interests or values based on other users' self-disclosed personal information. Business organizations can mine the personal information embedded in SNSs to identify potential customers to generate revenues...
Due to the dynamic nature, such as runtime composition and evaluation, it is critical for an SOA system to integrate its data, which concerns security, reliability, and integrity of data as it is routed in the system. To solve the data integration problem in current business systems, a dynamic data integration model based on SOA is proposed. This model which is dynamic and application oriented extends...
Founded in 1970, ERCOT is an independent, not-for-profit organization responsible for overseeing the reliable and safe transmission of electricity over Texas' main electricity power grid. ERCOT is one of 10 electricity reliability regions in North America operating under the reliability and safety standards set by the North American Electricity Reliability Corporation (NERC). As the independent system...
Layering is a concept widely used in computer and software modeling. Many modern information systems are designed and built using a layered model where the function of each layer is specified and well defined. In this paper we will be discussing the layer whose responsibilities include data extraction, manipulation and provision of data to the rest of the application. Common design problems that designers...
Set the date range to filter the displayed results. You can set a starting date, ending date or both. You can enter the dates manually or choose them from the calendar.