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The vision of cyber-physical systems (CPSs) considered the Internet as the future communication network for such systems. A challenge with this regard is to provide high communication reliability, especially, for CPSs applications in critical infrastructures. Examples include smart grid applications with reliability requirements between 99–99.9999% [2]. Even though the Internet is a cost effective...
This research aimed to analyze the impact of the competence, work ethic, professionalism and motivation of people (lecturer and staff) on their performance. The data taken from questionnaires to 317 respondents and interviewed the 12 respondents. Data were analyzed using multiple regression analysis. The results showed that the Competence, Work Ethics, Professionalism and Motivation on the lecturer...
The Internet is simply a series of worldwide computer networks linked together, communicating almost instantly by using various access technologies. It is playing a major role in many areas of our lives, such as communication, entertainment and information which is supported by newer innovations and technology evolvement. While the broadband Internet penetration rate is encouraging in many countries,...
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...
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...
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...
High schools have rapidly adapted computers in their administration, management and academy. School management uses papers and computers as tools to store the administrative and management data. However computers are not used to analyze data and output information. Therefore, e-School Management System (e-SMS) is developed to facilitate teaching and administration staffs to manage school activities...
This study aims to analyze the influence of trust, concern and risks perception toward the intentions of customers to conduct e-commerce transaction. In order to see the influence of these factors, we construct an online questionnaire and distribute it to various sites and forums using quota sampling methods. We obtained 101 valid data and analyzed them by using Spearman's rho correlation analysis...
Consulting to the achievement of customer loyalty in real world, we put customer E-Loyalty as the object of study, from the perspectives of customer perceived value, product value, switching costs, website technology and e-trust to explore the influencing factors of customer E-Loyalty to B2C retail website, with a view to benefit the development of B2C retail sites. We got data through questionnaires...
This paper addresses the challenge of assessing and modeling Quality of Experience (QoE) for online video services that are based on TCP-streaming. We present a dedicated QoE model for You Tube that takes into account the key influence factors (such as stalling events caused by network bottlenecks) that shape quality perception of this service. As second contribution, we propose a generic subjective...
For the foreseeable future, sponsored search appears to be the principal revenue source for web search engines. However, user acceptance of the sponsored link is not high. Based on the technology acceptance model (TAM), this paper designs the acceptance model of sponsored link to explore factors influencing user acceptance of the sponsored link. Surveys with college students and white collar (n=162)...
In the digital era, using information technology to search valuable information is one of the important skills. Taipei City Government set up Easy Teaching Web of Taipei, integrates scattered knowledge in the field of education and human resources, and build a knowledge-sharing platform for teachers. However, it is still important to understand how to improve the usage of Easy Teaching Web of Taipei...
On the basis of extant literature, we built a conceptual model of the relationship among Perceived Quality, Perceived Value, Satisfaction, Sense of Belonging and Usage, and proposed some hypotheses about the influencing factors of continued system usage in SNS. To test the hypotheses, we designed a questionnaire, and conducted a survey in Xidian University. We used SPSS13.0 to analyze the collected...
Abstract-Consumer trust has been more and more recognized as an important factor for a successful e-commerce vendor. Based on the previous research, this paper developed an extended model for analyzing the main attributes of trust of the users in China. A survey regarding the trust of e-commerce users is conducted to empirically test the model. The result shows the perceived reputation and size; the...
The objective of this study is web-sites, and the purpose of which is to revalidate End-User Computing Satisfaction (EUCS) instrument to measure user's satisfaction with web-sites. This study is especially important given that the increased significance of the web-sites and its uniqueness in computing application field. A total of 38 persons participated in the survey via e-mail. Fit indices analysis...
The virtual brand community (VBC) is a new brand phenomenon in Internet times. Drawing on social identity theory and the concept of the sense of community, this paper explores how the VBC impacts on consumer-based brand equity (CBBE) under the mediating effects of consumer participation, and puts forward some suggestions about building the VBC to enhance the CBBE.
The influencing factors on the C2C online bids can be divided in product level and seller level in this paper. We explore the relations between the cross-level using the HLM. The results show that the price and description will respectively have a major impact on the CSS and the CSS between different sellers also have significant differences. The Feedback score and the Positive feedback of sellers...
Serving citizens through an integrated e-Health system requires an understanding of the behaviour of the population as well as the factors that influence their acceptance and usage of technology, such as technology design and sociocultural factors. This has been called e-Health acceptance. The research reported in this paper employed the well established Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) to empirically...
Based on Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) predecessors have studied the impact of Internet word-of-mouth on consumer's first selection. However, what is its impact on consumer's quadratic selection? This research, taking the baking industry as a carrier, analyzes the relationship among the credibility of electronic word-of-mouth, trust, perceived risk, attraction and the intention to use. The result...
How will information from online banks influence the choice of customers? This research uses information processing theory, WOM theory, perceived risk theory and trust theory, in order to find the flow of information from online banks to customers, and the relationships among those issues. Moreover, online banks in Mainland China are the targets of this research.
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