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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,...
Website quality evaluation is an important research task. Evolution and a growing set of available methods are observed. The article presents the authors' evaluation methodology of the quality of websites named PEQUAL. The formal foundation of the proposed methodology is the broadening of the classical EQUAL method with aspects of preference modelling and evaluation aggregation used in Multi-Criteria...
In many shopping sites such as Amazon.com it is possible to view and write reviews of items (products and content). Reviews of items including stories, such as novels, movies, and comics, include reviewers' opinions. Often, these reviews also include descriptions of the story. In some cases, these descriptions may spoil later reader's or viewer's enjoyment and excitement. Hereinafter, we call these...
Smart devices equipped with multiple network interfaces are becoming commonplace. Nevertheless, even though multiple interfaces can be used to connect to the Internet, their capabilities have not been fully utilized yet because the default TCP/IP stack supports only a single interface for communication. This situation is now changing due to the emergence of multipath protocols on different network...
The Islamic websites play an important role in disseminating Islamic knowledge and information about Islamic ruling. Their number and the content they provide is continuously increasing which require in-depth investigations in content evaluation automation. In this paper, we are proposing the use of conceptual reasoning for detecting inconsistencies in case of Fatwas evaluation. Inconsistencies are...
The paper proposes a method for providing reliable Interest packet delivery in CCN. In window-based flow control mechanism for CCN, Interest packet is very informative. Loss of Interest packets due to congestion in the network pays a heavy price. We propose an ACK-based mechanism to recover the lost Interest packets as quickly as possible. Using actual implementation, we have been able to show how...
The evolution of the Internet has triggered a significant activity exploring new architectures among which the concept of Information-Centric-Networks (ICN) has emerged. Considering the various ICN solutions, Content-Centric Networking (CCN) is the one that received most attention. The design of CCN is progressing albeit many important issues still deserve a careful analysis and design. In this paper,...
The Web technology particularly has made significant changes in the way health care is traditionally practiced. Studies showed that the Web is capable of delivering effective, efficient, interactive and tailored content to users. Considering the extensive access range and capabilities of this advanced technology, researchers in health behavior have used the technology to develop and deliver interactive...
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Solutions for a smart environment are in the focus of many research initiatives in Europe. In this paper we present work carried out in the FI-PPP project FINSENY (Future Internet for Smart Energy). ICT Solutions often face the challenge of requirements not covered by current technology and they must avoid restricting themselves to domain specific solutions...
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...
In multi-agent recommender systems, agents are able to generate recommendations according to the preferences of the customer. However, in some domains, specific knowledge is required in order to compose a recommendation and this knowledge may be not available for the agent. In these cases, agents need to communicate with other agents in the community searching for the specific information to complete...
The need for evolution, change and constant communication are the forces that drive the advancement of the modern telecommunications. All IP networks with centralized management are reality. TCP is the most important and most used protocol in the todays wired and wireless communication. If we want to improve the throughput of the network then we have to improve the transport protocol, to optimize...
As the rapid development of Internet, the statistical survey methods are deeply under the influence. Internet survey methods based on the Internet are drawing increasing attention by their particular advantages. This paper has succeeded in discussing the theory of the survey error analysis. According to the own attributes of Internet, we discuss the error origin and the countermeasure analysis of...
This paper investigates the quality ranking of current Islamic websites using nine (9) website features (i.e. navigation, interactivity, legitimacy, objectivity, authority, relevancy, attractiveness, credibility, and reliability) in order to find the highest and lowest quality scores for individual websites based on their design & content feature. A heuristic evaluation method using single-user...
Based on 287 samples collected from four universities, as well as three virtual communities of online shops in China, the author analyzed the impacts of review system on online shopping intention. A model reflecting characteristics of e-commerce based on TAM was created. Four features of review system (Quality, Quantity, Accuracy, and Interactive) were chose as independent variables, while Usefulness,...
The various applications of the Internet in language education are of enormous value particularly in foreign language settings where L2 exposure is limited to classroom instruction. The present study has been an attempt to investigate the applicability of online instruction in improving the writing ability of Iranian EFL learners. In so doing, two classes of 20 EFL learners studying airline ticketing...
Although the purchasing power is not high, the psychological characteristics of university students, who are the main of online shopping, is worth studying. the feature of Students is that pursuiting individuality, autonomy and convenience.We found that, compared to the average consumer, college students have broaden vision, information-rich and high cultural level. They can contact firstly, understand...
Online consumers are inherently assuming high level of transaction uncertainty since the consequence of the transaction cannot be perfectly predicted. This research explores how two kinds of seller-provided transaction information acquired by utilizing different IT artifacts affect the online consumers' transaction uncertainty. We also further investigate, when the target online sellers hold different...
Excessively complex web site features will increase consumer transaction costs, it is important to reveal the impact of different functions on improving the design of site structure, reducing transaction costs and increasing consumerspsila purchase intention. This paper adopts the method of factor analysis and factor sorting to study the influencing factors on Chinese consumerspsila purchase intention...
Although the topic of e-business (EB) measurement belongs to one of research priorities in EB, we are short of a measurement framework for EB benchmarking in firms, especially lacking studies on important indicators explained by the actual state of EB in enterprises. Based on an indicator system, an empirical study is made to optimize the indicator system. First, a theoretical framework is presented,...
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