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The Internet of Things (IoT) is captivating the society because of its potential to rapidly transform businesses and people's lives. It is widely believed that IoT will also transform the industrial automation business in terms of improved productivity, less cost, flexibility, and increased revenues. Hence, there are some challenges that needs to be addressed when IoT is introduced to the industrial...
Energy interconnection (EI) is a logical consequence when ideas of open source and distributed scheme from the information field are introduced into the energy field. EI is essentially a typical cyber-physical system. This paper studies the new capabilities in sensing, computation, communication and control by analyzing its characteristics and demand. Firstly, we analyze the system architecture of...
Trust plays an important role in helping social network user make appropriate decision from abundant social information about products. A variety of social review information (e.g. ratings, voting and tags) emerge with the huge number of products on the Web. How they are utilized for searching and finding appropriate item is investigated. In this paper we propose a user credibility calculation method,...
This paper aims to study factors influencing trust and purchase intention on the Internet, develop model of trust and purchase intention by empirical data, and analyze path of antecedents influencing purchase intention. This study identifies the factors proposed in the existing social commerce constructs: recommendation and referrals, rating and reviews, forums and communities, together with three...
The rapid growth of Internet users becomes an opportunity for e-commerce company to develop its business. However, there are challenges which e-commerce company have to face. Indonesia, despite having a significant growth of its Internet users, only 27% of its Internet users who have already used online shopping. The participation of Indonesian society can be enforced by providing social interaction...
In the context of swift development of P2P e-commerce, it is critical to defending both customers and sellers from being victimized by probable deception stemming from uncertainties, vagueness and ambiguities that characterize the interactions amongst unfamiliar dealers. Accordingly, credit standing concerning each business partaker plays a decisive part in preventing fraud in P2P transactions and...
Current research indicates that a novelty, exciting and engaging shopping experience can positively affect consumer buying behavior. Identifying factors that influence the consumer behavior on use a virtual world for shopping will help retailers to create and maintain a presence in a virtual world, while positive impacting purchases and returns intentions. Therefore, the objectives of this study are...
Using AS-level Internet topology maps to determine accurate AS-level paths is essential for network diagnosis, performance optimization, reliability improvement, resiliency enforcement and topology-aware application development. One significant drawback that we have observed in many studies is simplifying the AS-level topology map of the Internet to an undirected graph, and then using the hop distance...
Young users, particularly students, can accessvarious sources of information nowadays. However, theynormally lack of experiences to assess the information credibility. This study is aimed at exploring students' choices of informationsources, gathering their points of view about the informationcharacteristics and information verification approaches, andcomparing these perceptions/ intention to their...
Social networking has become the main online platform not only to Generation Y cohorts, but also to other Internet user groups including Generation X and Baby Boomers. This not only affecting the way Internet users conducts their daily life; it also affects marketers (online and offline) in terms of their marketing practices. Especially to online marketers, this should be seen as a huge opportunity...
Online ordering meals is in recent years with the development of network technology, a new form of dining. Although the online ordering system has entered people's lives, but are not mature enough, still has great room for development. Therefore study how to marketing online ordering system is a very necessary research. In this article, from the marketing to analysis the online order meals system...
This paper, utilizing correlation analysis and path analysis methods, researches the impact path of negative Internet word related to the mouth on brand equity and quality through cognitive trust concept by regarding universal consumers as study principal body. This research aims to further promote the IWOM research system in China. The empirical conclusions unveil some relationship: (1) the cognitive...
To study Internet's routing behavior on the granularity of Autonomous Systems (ASes), one needs to understand inter-domain routing policy. Routing policy changes over time, and may cause route oscillation, network congestion, and other problems. However, there are few works on routing policy changes and their impact on BGP's routing behaviors. In this paper, we model inter-domain routing policy as...
The purpose of this paper is testing expectation confirmation model (ECM) in Iranian online shopping context, and identify poverty of ECM in explanation of Iranian online shopping and also know which factor in this model is more significant in online shopping content intention from customer perspective. The current study is an online survey of internet shopping in Iran with respect to structural equation...
Muslim consumers are believed to be more concerned whether the current e-commerce processes are mixed with un-Islamic elements such as, riba (interest), gharar (uncertainty), and Maisir (gambling). To clarify the misconception, it is suggested that an assurance be given by a reputable Islamic religious authority to the effect that Internet seller complies with an Islamic law (Shariah) - compliant...
Studies have consistently found information technology (IT) enhances the business operation and performance, but the adoption of IT among micro-enterprises for business growth is still considerably poor. The factors that influence the micro-enterprises to actively embrace IT that include social networking sites and whether the adoption has led to stronger business performance have become the major...
The purpose of this study is to find the trust level of Indonesian internet users towards B2C e-commerce system in Indonesia. Five antecedents of consumer trust will be analyzed to find the implication of consumer trust to consumer's attitude and willingness to buy. This study uses research model used in similar study that have been conducted in U.S., Singapore, and China. Structural equation modeling...
Base on the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT), the purpose of this study was to examine the influencing factors of the adoption of the financial services of Internet Bank. The proposed research model was validated with 371 respondents from nine domestic banks' customers in Taiwan. The findings of this study revealed that the prominent antecedents include Performance Expectancy,...
Leased line and business trunk are basic enterprise communication infrastructures, which can facilitate reliable, secure and yet cost effective communication methods between office locations. With the expension of mobile industry, scale of the fixed line business has been declining in developed countries. This is a good business opportunity for mobile operators to provide mobile enterprise services...
The ramping up of services in recent decades, coupled with technological development, has supported the emergence of virtual markets and stable with continued growth potential in Latin America and with high potential for developing the strategy of the organizations that can exploit this new opportunity. This study is an initial measurement of perceived service quality of internet shoppers, a scale...
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