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The search for Trendsetters in social networks turned to be a complex research topic that has gained much attention. The work here presented uses big data analytics to find who better spreads the word in a social network and is innovative in their choices. The analysis on the Yelp platform can be divided in three parts: first, we justify the use of Tips frequency as a variable to profile business...
The propose of this research was to classify the English as a foreign language (EFL) learners based on their performance on the reading test. Three levels of reading comprehension are customarily defined: (1) Factual level or Reading the lines, (2) Interpretive level or Reading between the lines, and (3) Evaluative level or Reading beyond the lines. Further analyzing and synthesizing factors underlying...
To support the whole business process compliance lifecycle, one also needs to monitor the actual processes and not just check their design. Recently, many approaches have been proposed that utilize a broad range of constraint languages and techniques to realize compliance monitoring solutions. Due to this diversity, the comparison of existing approaches is difficult and consequently hampers the evaluation...
Provenance is a key metadata for assessing electronic documents trustworthiness. It gives an indicator on the reliability and the quality of the document content. Most of the applications exchanging and processing documents on the web or in clouds become provenance aware and provides heterogeneous, decentralized and not interoperable provenance data. Most of provenance management systems are either...
Past research had demonstrated that congruence between store image and self-image is positively related to consumer behaviour such as patronage, store choice, store preference, and also store loyalty. With the concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR), specifically, the green environment having gained a legitimate place in retail strategy, the need to understand the function of this concept...
The significance of expectation disconfirmation has been widely recognized in the field of service recovery by both managers and researchers. However, there are limited studies of the driving mechanisms of expectation disconfirmation in e-service recovery. This paper empirically explores the moderating roles of some situational factors such as perceived risk, shopping experience and education on the...
This study examines five ascendants (such as reputation, interaction, disposition to trust, uncertainty avoidance and subjective norm) of perceived risk and trust on initiator, explores the influence of perceived risk upon trust on initiator, and tests the impacts of trust on initiator and perceived risk upon intention of attending online group buying. The empirical result indicates that there are...
Different classes of information system stakeholders depend on different values to be successful. Understanding stakeholders' value dependencies is critical for developing software intensive systems. However, there is no universal one-size-fits-all stakeholder/ value metric that can be applied for a given system. This paper presents an analysis of major classes of stakeholders' value priorities using...
This paper addresses why users accept the e-commerce website and how user's two important beliefs PU and PEOU are affected by the Website quality. In this study, we also introduce perceived playfulness as a new factor that reflects the user's intrinsic belief in user acceptance of e-commerce Website. A survey of 356 users was conducted to test our model. Information quality of e-commerce website is...
Project-based learning, a constructivist teaching method, is gaining in popularity in language classrooms. This paper explores the influence of project-based learning on the deep approach of learning among language learners. Through an empirical study combining qualitative and quantitative research methods, it is revealed that project-based learning has a positive effect on the deep motivation and...
When providing software in terms of web services, software developing organizations are faced with the challenge of identifying services that maximize the profit by fitting the requirements of as many customers as possible. They do not only have to know which features are required but also what the right functional range of a service is in order to optimize the service demand. In this paper, we present...
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