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.
There has been considerable interest in the scientific community in the nature of the future power system. Having distributed resources, energy storage, and plug-and-play capability makes the future power system analogous to a computer network and some refer to this future power system as the “energy internet”. Ironically, concerns of the future power system, such as reliability, survivability, availability,...
In this paper we address the issue of gathering the “informed consent” of an end user in the Internet of Things. We start by evaluating the legal importance and some of the problems linked with this notion of informed consent in the specific context of the Internet of Things. From this assessment we propose an approach based on a semi-autonomous, rule based agent that centralize all authorization...
The Communities vary from country to country. There are civil societies and rural communities, which also differ in terms of geography climate and economy. This shows that the use of social networks vary from region to region depending on the demographics of the communities. So, in this paper, we researched the most important problems of the Social Network, as well as the risk which is based on the...
Rapid growth in the field of ICT helps in basic aspects of mankind like-agriculture, education, healthcare etc. However, the moderate technical growth of ICT applications is confined to the community of a limited number of people, who live in digital pockets. The illiterate people like - farmer, shopkeeper etc. are unable to take the advantages of the ICT revolution. According to the UNESCO report,...
Online communities are computer mediated, self-organizing, open networks where people voluntarily communicate and share knowledge. Knowledge sharing in online communities requires exerting time and effort and hence community members need motivation to contribute in these communities. Prior research identified numerous incentives that can motivate knowledge sharing in online communities such as self-efficacy...
One of the most recent advancements in the use of internet for customer-level business management is the ability to track individual customers' activities, approach them proactively, provide customized offerings and manage customer lifecycles. Moving from managing the community to managing its individual members is the common denominator in many related developments. Customer co-created contents,...
With the keen competition in C2C e-marketplaces, C2C online shopping platform providers are finding ways to keep and maintain customer relationship. In this study, a research model that examines the role of customer engagement in customer loyalty to C2C online shopping platforms is proposed and empirically tested with 385 customers who have used Taobao to perform online shopping. The results provide...
The use of social media technologies and platforms for health communications has grown dramatically over the past decade. Health consumers such as patients and caregivers join virtual health communities and exchange social support with other users on these websites. Communicating personal health information (PHI) in public discussions is a part of these support exchange activities. Despite the benefits...
The lack of a competent design theory to shape information system security policy and implementation has exacerbated an already troubling lack of security. Information systems remain insecure and therefore untrustworthy even after more than half a century of technological evolution. The issues grow ever more severe as the volume of data grows exponentially and the cloud emerges as a preferred repository...
The dynamic and tremendous evolution of information and communication technologies (ICTs) has provided unique opportunities for citizen participation in democratic decision making processes. Such opportunities have been widely noted, in recent years, in processes like Participatory Budgeting (PB). From the originating practices of PB in Brazil, experiences of PB around the world have been uniquely...
This study applies network analysis to domestic human trafficking activity in online environments to identify trafficking circuits. Numerous websites host online classifieds, discussion forums, review sites, and social media related to sex trafficking. Trafficked persons are systematically moved to various locations throughout the U.S. based on demand, and traffickers use online classified sites to...
Generally, social network contains a social structure between individuals who are connected by a set of social relationships, such as family, friendship, co-working and colleague etc. Our paper suggests an approach for visualizing the social network elements including users and relationships as well as the community that contains groups of users and contents. For this, we designed and implemented...
Application of network classification can be seen in many domains. These varies from preserving the quality of network to analyzing personal characteristics of network users. However current methods applied for network data classification does not meet the expectations. This is because networks are dynamic which are prone to rapid changes, while methods used for the classification has been either...
This study seeks to explore new ways in which firms are involving customers in the development of new products, using on-line tools. These internet enabled methods allow companies to ‘design with’ their customers. Based on literature, this paper explores different ways in which firms can ‘design with’ their customer and introduces a conceptual matrix to position these alternative strategies. Three...
This paper examines tweets and blogs posted by Japanese otaku immediately following the Great East Japan Earthquake. It elucidates on their state of mind and their activities for the period of about 30 days following it. In these days just after the earthquake, they entered into a mutual understanding that they must try to maintain their usual lifestyle. However, in this particular crisis situation,...
To develop the rural community and to mitigate the burden of unemployment in Bangladesh, ensuring students participation to run the Information center at micro level could bring a positive change throughout the country. Youth participation could be ensured through the school based information center (SIC). This paper aims at illustrating possible ways through which the facilities of a telecenter can...
Large unstructured photo collections from Internet usually have distinguishable keyword tagging associated with the images. Photos from tourist and heritage sites can be described with detailed and part-wise annotations resulting in an improved automatic search and enhanced photo browsing experience. Manually annotating a large community photo collection is a costly and redundant process as similar...
The need of improving the education quality is insparable from the strategic role of teachers. One potential solution to develop the teachers quality is the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs). In this paper, we propose a Digital Learning — Lesson Study (DL-LS) that is an implementation of Lesson Study — a teacher learning method through the study of teaching and learning process...
Digital inclusion policies also known as policies for democratization of information and communication technology are focused on helping important popular sectors access technology and build skills. We are interested that organized communities make beneficial use of digital content to solve their problems, to create networks, to produce and disseminate content, to develop their projects, to interact...
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.