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Majority of the techniques that have been used for pattern discovery from Web Usage Data (WUD) are clustering methods. In e-commerce applications, clustering methods can be used for the purpose of generating marketing strategies, product offerings, personalization and Web site adaptation. A novel Partitional based approach for dynamically grouping Web users based on their Web access patterns using...
The development of cyber society has fostered the emergence of e-commerce, which is active with business and private transactions. Nevertheless, it also emboldened malicious activities that damage users' profit in the society. Among these activities, Distributed Denial of Services (DDoS), which imposes an excessive workload on network entities such as hosts, is one of the most devastating form of...
Although current electronic commerce (e-commerce) technology plays an important role in today's economy, it is still not full-fledged for the lack of enough security and flexibility. We propose eTNet, a smart card network architecture for electronic transactions, which fills up the gap and further extends our previous work, the eTRON architecture. The eTNet framework is made up of an overlay network...
Using a qualitative approach, this study examines e-Commerce adoption in the Saudi tourism industry. The research concerns factors that impact of tourism firms moving their sales online. The study's findings suggest a relationship between the competency of Saudi's ICT supporting industry, and the level of e-Commerce integration in the tourism industry. Further, assumptions of global e-Commerce regarding...
By analyzing the online information environment and its impact on online consumer behavior, the paper explores the consumer's information cognize process, analyzes the factors such as perceive risk, value and trust which influence purchasing deciding behavior in e-business. The paper puts forward the conception of information preference and the frame of online consumer behavior based on the information...
Aiming at better understanding the functioning mechanism of factors affecting consumers to adopt e-commerce, the paper adopted empirical methods such as questionnaire investigation, regression analysis, and cluster analysis, provided a quantitative analysis. Based on an analysis of the overall data, the degree of affecting on adopting motives was obtained. Consequently, firms can make effective decisions...
The ease of Internet trading has lured relatively inexperienced investors into the financial markets. We study the impact of the influx of these uninformed traders in a dynamic setting. Our results show that these strategic uninformed online traders who adopt feedback strategies do not outperform noise traders and feedback trading does not affect market volatility. An insider's equilibrium strategy...
Portals are the central point of communication, customer services and commerce through networks. Most service provider portals don't have these facilities as the investors are focusing on experience rather than modern technologies. Portals are continuous projects and need updates time to time with new technologies and human expertise. The objective of this paper is to propose a complete service delivery...
The selling and buying of digital products via Internet not only saves business cost and time, but also makes it possible for us to control the usage of media remotely by the interaction between the client and server. The digital content is encrypted and packed with the client controller program into an all-in-one package. When the client opens the package, controller program starts to run, accessing...
Online price comparison agents (shopbots) allow consumers to instantaneously receive price and other information from many online retailers. Contrary to conventional wisdom, our empirical study of the book and computer hardware categories reveals that consumers are visiting more online retailer web sites after using shopbots. This finding suggests that after searching for an item through a shopbot...
The rapid growth of e-Commerce amongst private sectors and Internet usage amongst citizens has vastly stimulated e-Government initiatives from many countries. The Thailand e-Government initiative is based on the government's long-term strategic policy that aims to reform and overhaul the Thai bureaucracy. This study attempted to identify the e-Excise success factors by employing the IS success model...
Enterprises must provide secure services for their customers in e-commerce. There are some threats that should consider in this area. Providing secure services is so extensive and difficult, using the appropriate models can facilitate implementing. Here we try to introduce a two level model which outlines managerial and technical requirements of this issue, that includes security standards and protocols...
Although extremely popular, electronic commerce transactions often lack information that has traditionally served to ensure trust and credibility among exchange partners. The capacity of digital media to aggregate information and connect individuals to one another, however, offers new potential for determining information quality and credibility. To understand people's perceptions of the credibility...
The internet and technological advancements have revolutionized the way in which business and commerce is conducted nowadays. A lot has changed since the traditional over the counter form of trade to the electronic form of trade. The latter in which data is transferred electronically. E-businesses are beginning to examine the benefits of using Web 2.0, especially in the form of social networking sites,...
E-commerce transactions in the present market play an increasingly large proportion, and apparel consumption in the e-era has great business opportunities, to make in-depth study of apparel network marketing is necessary. Compared to the traditional marketing model, apparel network marketing has an advantage in the operating cost, convenience, interactivity, etc., but there are many deficiencies:...
Autonomous management of a multi-tier Internet service involves two critical and challenging tasks, one understanding its dynamic behavior when subjected to dynamic workload and second adaptive management of its resources to achieve performance guarantees. In this paper, we propose a statistical machine learning based approach to achieve session slowdown guarantees of a multi-tier Internet service...
As e-commerce sales continue to grow, the associated online fraud remains an attractive source of revenue for fraudsters. These fraudulent activities impose a considerable financial loss to merchants, making online fraud detection a necessity. The problem of fraud detection is concerned with not only capturing the fraudulent activities, but also capturing them as quickly as possible. This timeliness...
E-procurement has been recognized as an element of Business-to-Business (B2B) E-commerce. In B2B organizations have inter firm acquisition of goods and services over the internet. This paper focuses the current and future readiness level of E-procurement among organizations in Malaysia. A survey questionnaire was administered to collect data from 46 organizations. The general finding shows that Malaysian...
In a faceless business transaction such as in e-commerce, trust plays a major influence on a customer's decision making behavior. Trust on e-commerce is very much dependent on the information obtained from the vendors' websites. From our own personal experiences with e-commerce websites, it is not unusual to find some essential information missing. In this paper, we present to the readers our findings...
With the high development of Internet, e-commerce websites now routinely have to work with log datasets which are up to a few terabytes in size. How to remove messy data timely with low cost and find out useful information is a problem we have to face. The mining process involves several steps from pre-processing the raw data to establishing the final models. In this paper we describe our method to...
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