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Social Networking Sites (SNSs) are pervasive phenomena in today's society. With greater connectivity and interactivity enabled through emerging technologies, SNSs provide communication platforms for individuals to bridge spatial and temporal differences when making friends, sharing experiences, socializing with others and much more. This study therefore endeavors to shed light on this growing trend...
With Web 2.0 increased user participation in diverse e-communities results in prevalence of information, including emotional information. We examined the influence of negative emotion in an online brand community, MyStarbuckIdea.com developed to collect diverse customer ideas for firm's innovation, with the purpose to investigate how such emotion affects customer innovation activities in the community...
As business applications such as highly integrated Enterprise Resource Planning systems (ERP) become more complex, system-integrated business simulation games are vital for educating tomorrow's white collar work force. Especially for small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) cloud-based business applications are a serious alternative. The Education as a Service (EaaS) approach gets more and more into...
The Information Systems (IS) discipline has so far focused largely on Utilitarian aspects rather than the Hedonic. The reason might lie in the computing disciplines' origins in disciplines that emphasize hard science, efficiency, and utility [44]. Although there are "Hedonic Information Systems", they have been developed primarily for non-business use of computing such as those for entertainment,...
Neurophysiological tools are receiving increased attention in the field of information systems and by organizations to provide new modes of interaction with computers and more insights into the minds of end-users and customers. Academics and members of private industry are leading the charge with new research streams and systems development efforts, but what do our future contributors to society think...
Understanding the factors that influence the continuance in usage of smartphones in globally distributed teams is extremely helpful because most organizations are encouraging employees to use smartphones or bring your own device for self-advancement, job promotion, job security, performance, effectiveness, productivity, and service quality. To date, to the best of our knowledge, there are no published...
This minitrack's purpose is to draw researchers' attention to Innovation, Design, and Development of ICT Enabled Services for both Consumers and Enterprises. It provides a discussion forum for researchers interested in fostering a service-based approach to these areas as well as an opportunity to present and debate both design and theory-based solutions to the problems facing industry in the deployment...
The final report of the World Commission on the Environment and Development, also known as the Brundtl and Report, defines sustainable development as" development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs". Subsequent international efforts such as the Rio de Janeiro Conference in 1992, the publication of Agenda 21,...
In recent years, we have observed a rising interest in studying the effects of Web 2.0 technologies on student learning. We learned that human behavior can be influenced by personal and environmental factors as in Bandura's concept of "reciprocal causation." For business statistics students, we implemented online discussions to extend student involvement beyond the walls of the classroom...
There are variety of tourism products and services, However tourism information is lack of consistency, not updated, and may not suitable to each traveler. As a result, the provided information. Moreover, each travel plan creates many complications such as travel route, travel planning, time and resting place. All of these factors cause the complication of traveling, even for the traveler who has...
Online reviews greatly impact consumers' purchasing decisions. A slight difference in a business' rating on a review website can significantly change the company's bottom line in some cases. By the same token, review websites are often targeted by spammers with fraudulent reviews, either to exaggerate the positive features of a business itself or to defame a competitor with negative ratings/comments...
In this paper we present a new architecture for the Cloud Integrator platform that extends it in two directions. The first one aimed at improving the way of an application can be defined by a developer. Instead of dealing with the burden of defining applications only by specifying semantic workflows in terms of activities expressed as a tuple <task, object>, a developer can rely on the definition...
The changing university environment have meant a substantial rise in the rate of commercialization of university-based technologies. This paper presents a theoretical analysis of technology transfer process as perceived by different stakeholders in the innovation lifecycle. Data is collected using semi-structured interviews with inventors, technology transfer personnel, patent attorneys, consultants...
This paper aims to address the knowledge gap in regards to the potential intermediary role tertiary institutions can play in developing generic design thinking/design led innovation capabilities in non-designers. Specifically, it investigates the value derived from the contribution of postgraduate design students as facilitators/educators for undergraduate non-design student cohorts. It examines a...
WS-BPEL processes ought to be adaptable even at run-time so as to adapt to the changing environments and requirements. It is cost-ineffective and time-consuming to restart a running WS-BPEL instance from scratch after the WS-BPEL process is changed. Instead, a WS-BPEL instance had better be transferred to the updated process. Current approaches to validity checking of instance migration are too conservative...
We introduce a whole view of current status of requirements engineering based on REBOK (Requirements Engineering Body Of Knowledge) and its practical use with case studies.
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