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In the context of swift development of P2P e-commerce, it is critical to defending both customers and sellers from being victimized by probable deception stemming from uncertainties, vagueness and ambiguities that characterize the interactions amongst unfamiliar dealers. Accordingly, credit standing concerning each business partaker plays a decisive part in preventing fraud in P2P transactions and...
Social networking has become the main online platform not only to Generation Y cohorts, but also to other Internet user groups including Generation X and Baby Boomers. This not only affecting the way Internet users conducts their daily life; it also affects marketers (online and offline) in terms of their marketing practices. Especially to online marketers, this should be seen as a huge opportunity...
The Islamic websites play an important role in disseminating Islamic knowledge and information about Islamic ruling. Their number and the content they provide is continuously increasing which require in-depth investigations in content evaluation automation. In this paper, we are proposing the use of conceptual reasoning for detecting inconsistencies in case of Fatwas evaluation. Inconsistencies are...
Traditional Relation Extraction (RE) trains individual extractors for pre-defined relations. Open Relation Extraction (ORE) can eschew domain-specific training data, tackle an unbounded number of relations, and scale up to massive and heterogeneous corpus such as the web. However, It is difficult to process micro log texts: the genre is noisy, utterances are very short, and texts have little context...
Video traffic, which represents an increasing fraction of the Internet traffic, requires end-to-end quality of service (QoS) guarantees for inter-domain routing. However, providing such guarantees remains a challenge essentially because it requires a strong and fair cooperation among the different network operators or Autonomous Systems (ASes), crossed by the traffic. Having a single AS on the path...
Many aspects of our electricity systems are rapidly changing, including the ability to locally generate power with renewable energy sources and integrate local storage. Key factors that led to our current grid architecture may no longer hold in the near future. A new approach to power distribution within buildings is Local Power Distribution (LPD). In LPD individual devices are organized into nanogrids...
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,...
The purpose of this study is to explore Thai online customers' repurchase intention towards clothing. This study integrated Delone and Mclean's e-commerce success model to predict customers' repurchase intention to purchase clothing on the Internet. The data was collected using convenience sampling method with a survey of the customers in Thailand who had experienced purchasing clothing online. The...
Typical sensor networks are formed by low-end, battery operated devices, which rely on low-energy communication technologies, such as Bluetooth, Zigbee and ANT+, due to their energy efficiency. On the other hand, sensor networks increasingly need to be connected to the Internet, which implies adaptations of the TCP/IP stack to fit such wireless technologies. These adaptations bring additional complexity...
Dataflow network is a concise well-understood and well-matching approach for building applications in Internet of Things (IoT) world, where a task of obtaining meaningful results in time strongly depends on efficiency of orchestration of dataflows. Processing units transform incoming signals into intermediate data suitable for further processing and analysis by using certain rules, which are further...
According to Construal Level Theory (CLT), an event such as the online purchase of a product is psychologically distant when online consumers are unable to touch and verify real products prior to purchase. Therefore, this article provides an empirical study on the psychological distance (temporal distance, social distance, spatial distance) among the major B2C online retailers in China by comparing...
Base on the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT), the purpose of this study was to examine the influencing factors of the adoption of the financial services of Internet Bank. The proposed research model was validated with 371 respondents from nine domestic banks' customers in Taiwan. The findings of this study revealed that the prominent antecedents include Performance Expectancy,...
The Internet of Things network is an application-driven network, being rapidly deployed across the world. It is expected to become a mega-scale network (connect billions of devices), and heterogeneous in terms of its sub-networks as well as enabling technologies. The data traffic communicated over this network is expected to be highly variable. It ranges from being the parameters being monitored about...
Current consumer-level mobile Internet applications involve many potential sources of dissatisfaction. Studying these sources is necessary, especially for newer application areas such as mobile interaction with the real world. This study combined previous studies to form a categorization framework of dissatisfaction sources and gathered qualitative data using critical incident technique and overall...
Advances in technology have attracted more e-banking users in an e-Commerce context. Measuring service quality enhances delivering superior services to achieve competitive advantages. Studies on Internet service quality provide an adequate framework for measuring web site interactivity. However, no consensus exists to date regarding electronic service quality dimensions. Antecedents of service quality...
Are trust and satisfaction important in consumers' electronic commerce acceptance procedure? What are the antecedents of trust and satisfaction in this context? How do trust and satisfaction affect the Internet consumer's purchasing decision? To answer these questions, we develop a theoretical framework describing the trust-satisfaction based decision-making process a consumer uses when making a purchase...
The aim of this paper is to provide a theoretical framework to analyze obstacles, challenges, and incentives which lead non-professional developers to design websites and produce information that are accessible to people with disabilities, and to describe the development of a reliable and validated instrument designed to test it. Results show that intrinsic motivation, self-efficacy, influence of...
Virtual Communities for Innovations (VCI) are becoming increasingly popular as platforms for firms to engage customers in generating new ideas. While several studies have explored the various motivations of user participation in VCI, the relationship between the motivations and the outcome of interest - the quality of the ideas - has not been explored. Scholars and practitioners have a strong interest...
This research coalesces three different approaches to consumer''s adoption of new technology-based service into an integrative model. We use the basic framework of TAM and supplement technology readiness and perceived risk to the model to better address the consumer adoption context. The model is tested with data from 343 web surveys regarding RFID credit card adoption. Results show that technology...
The Internet, Web 2.0 and Social Networking technologies are enabling citizens to actively participate in “citizen science” projects by contributing data to scientific programs. However, the limited expertise of contributors can lead to poor quality or misleading data being submitted. Subsequently, the scientific community often perceive citizen science data as not worthy of being used in serious...
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