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Participation by the citizens in core activities of governance, social, cultural and political issues is seen as an indicator of the development of any state. The access to internet has provided an important tool for the participation of people in developing countries like India, China and Brazil. The use of internet has created an upsurge in the economic sphere of the country. Its use is no more...
To support efficient business data analytics, having a good computer data structure to store and access business data is a top priority. KStore is a data structure proposed by Jane Campbell Mazzagatti based on the Phaneron of C. S. Peirce. KStore is designed and developed as a storage engine to support business intelligence data storage, queries and analysis. The generation and data access of KStore...
The world is facing a lot of issues related to cyber crime. The technology has developed and it should be used for a constructive purpose. But the technology is being used for destructive purpose and hence we can see a lot of cyber crime victims. As per the data collected in the past years the cyber crime in the globe has increased to a great extent and the persons committing the crime are using technology...
Consumer's reviews provided with the product descriptions play a great role in the popularity of E-commerce Web sites. In order to gain confidence in the products a large number of On-line customers spend a lot of time in analyzing different textual reviews. However, there are various products, which have thousands of user's generated reviews. Mining this enormous online reviews and tuning these abundant...
TRIZ is an emerging theory which deals with innovative solutions to the problems challenging the industry. Though originally developed for machine designing purposes to remove the contradictions arising in the designing, TRIZ has found its feet in other areas as well. The underlying principle of the theory-"patterns of technical evolution are repeated across industries and sciences", makes...
ICT is no longer simply be a supporting tool, but as an integral part of the business itself, a strategic role. As well as for the education area, higher education institution (HEI) is one-of that use fairly large of the ICT solution. Since there is a positive correlation between ICT usage and economic growth potential, arising new issues to the environment. There is an urge to balance between the...
Micro-reviews are a considered as a source of review content in the social media. In this work, we study the micro-reviews, and use them to solve the problem of review selection. We introduce a novel formulation of review selection, to ensure efficiency and increase the coverage, which leads to novel coverage problems. The mechanism for helping the users with comprehensive set of reviews which satisfies...
The aim of this mini track is to provide an opportunity for researchers to share and discuss their work related to ICTs adoption, use and diffusion within society including households, organizations and social communities around the world. By undertaking this research academics, industry and government agencies will learn of how ICTs are being utilised by various societies and what measures are being...
Human-computer negotiation plays an important role in dynamic trading online, especially in B2C e-commerce. Further scientific investigations about designing the software agent that can deal with the human's random and inconsistent offer is in need, which is crucially useful for the online merchants to achieve better trading outcomes and save vast trading cost. The lack of such studies has decelerated...
This paper reviews quantitative literature that addresses the questions of what explains why people buy virtual goods. The study reviews independent and dependent variables, path coefficients, used methodologies, theoretical backgrounds as well as types of services covered in the relevant literature. The goal of the paper is both to provide an overview to the literature and to investigate reasons...
The research on human-computer Interaction (HCI) mode is mainly to improve the quality of interaction between user and computer. Due to differences in many aspects, such as physiology, experience and ability, most current interactive systems cannot meet the needs of elderly users. Based on existing theories and models, the paper combines the analysis results of sampling data, gives consideration to...
Increasingly software can be considered to be critical, due to the business or other functionality which it supports. Upgrades or changes to such software are expensive and risky, primarily because the software has not been designed and built for ease of change. Expertise, tools and methodologies which support the design and implementation of software systems that evolve without risk (of failure or...
the enforcement of the smart city operation requires a manageable infrastructure. The operating system (OS) installed in a computer controls every task the computer carries out and manages system resources. Similarly, i-stack, the smart city OS architecture designed by INESA, deems to support city-big-data-oriented cloud-based applications which governs and interacts with relevant city information...
Currently, to running a business is highly competitive. In marketing, seeking of information about customer needs is an important one. The sale planning is, to setting up strategies to conduct revenue from the sale of goods or services. The problems of sale planning may arise when there is changed in demands or price of goods. The proposed decision support system model for sale planning, is based...
Online review fraud has evolved in sophistication by launching intelligent campaigns where a group of coordinated participants work together to deliver deceptive reviews for the designated targets. Such collusive fraud is considered much harder to defend against as these campaign participants are capable of evading detection by shaping their behaviors collectively so as not to appear suspicious. The...
The purpose of this study is to explore the need for digital forensic investigations at universities in South Africa and to determine if a university is forensically ready to conduct effective digital forensic investigations. For this research paper, the University of Cape Town is used as a case study. The research explores the existing digital forensic investigation process at the university and...
Cloud computing is an attractive business model offering cost-efficiency and business agility. Recently, the trend is that small and large businesses are moving their services to cloud environments. The quality of service is always negotiated between the cloud users and the cloud providers and documented in the service level agreement (SLA). Yet assuring -- or even measuring -- the quality of the...
The growing use of Location Based Social Networks especially in recent years provides large amount of data transactions. These data transactions attract many data mining researchers to infer various information from them. In this paper, a geographic business prediction technique is proposed, which infers business usage by exploiting data published about venues in Location Based Social Networks. The...
With the recent emergence and popularity of e-business, and the increasing complications of our modern day IT infrastructure, companies have been minimizing their IT infrastructure and making much more investments into cost and personnel in order to ensure ongoing and stable services. This is being done to cope with our modern day rapidly changing business environment. However, in spite of much effort...
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